Darwinism in action

A 20 year-old man and a 17 year-old girl, both Star Wars fans, are
critically in hospital after their light sabre game went wrong. The pair
are believed to have filled fluorescent light tubes with petrol, and
ignited them, to recreate the light sabres. The tubes exploded, setting
them both alight.

Today's Times.

You couldn't make this up.

 

How do you open a fluorescent tube without causing it to shatter?
Do you believe everything you read in the tabloids?

 

You can drill a hole into a bulb without it shattering you know,
carefully and with a diamond tipped tool.

 

It's in more than just the 'tabloids' [1]


[1] of all the papers I read, I think classing the Times as a tabloid is
pushing it just a tad - very few tits for one thing and the entire newspaper
isn't dominated by football.

 

It still has Murdoch values of accuracy and bias, however.

That's not just the Times though. BBC is the same. In fact whenever I
read a story on a subject I know something about, I'm surprised how many
innacuracies there are and how much bias / spin is put on things. It
makes one wonder how prevalent that situation is and if _all_ news has
the same standards.

Tiff

 

Perhaps a Dremel or one of those miniature blowlamps, or just hit
enough tubes with bricks until one doesn't break all the way down.
Must visit the shed to experiment.

Is the video on the internet yet?

 

The brick one would be the most fun, but I don't think the tubes would
hold any petrol after. Trust me, a diamond tipped tool goes through a
bulb without shattering it, but be sure to use a slow speed, and wrap a
sock around the bulb just in case.

Heh..

 

More to the point, it _is_ a tabloid format. The style and content has
nothing to do with it.

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Ace wrote:
[The Times]

When The Times and The Independent went tabloid, I remember hearing
something on the radio about the fact that papers would have to be
referred to as "red top" and "non-red-top", although where that
left the Daily Mail was never mentioned.

 

The Independant too? So that just leaves the Telegraph and the
Grauniad now? Very sad.

And the express, presumably.
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and the Beeb


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4575291.stm

Quite

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In the gutter, where is always was.

 

In a 24-carat, diamond-studded, dipped-in-Swiss-chocolate and gift-wrapped
hypocrisy class of its own. "Ooooooh, isn't porn/teenage pregnancy/this
latest film/cruelty to animals/screen violence/hooliganism simply ghastly,
and here are 8 pages of photographs to show you just how terrible it really
is." Whenever I discover that someone I know reads [well, of course, buys]
the Mail their opinions on anything are thenceforward [1] to be disregarded.

[1] According to Google, this is the first appearance of the word in UKRM.

 

You can cut glass sheet with a pair of stout scissors, if you know how.

But of course. I see police recovered a video from the scene of the
accident. Personally speaking, I can't wait.

<Taps fingers>

 

TOG@toil scribbled:

When its hot enough? (having just viewed a glass blowing factory for
the first time ever I was suprised at just how malleable hot glass is)

 

Diamond saw, or blow torch.
TBH one of those little wheel glass cutter jobs would probably do nicely as
well.
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In

Maybe they just took the little metal cap off the end and poured the petrol
in there?

Or is that too simple?

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If you're going to pedantic, you're right.

Apparently people want smaller newspapers if the (reported) increase in
sales was anything to go by.

As a commuter on a busy train, I have to say I find the small format much
more pleasant both for me and those around me.

 

The thing I don't understand is why they thought lit petrol in a flourescent
tube would look anything like a light sabre.

 

In

They're the kind of people who try to build light sabres out of flourescent
tubes.

"Thought" isn't an issue here.

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