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SaleNowOn writes "Rather than use expensive cgi techniques to make the light sabres glow for their home movie. This couple instead used fluorescent tubes filled with petrol.
Which they then set alight.
If they don't survive they must be Future Darwin Award winners. It makes me proud to be British." And me embarassed to be a Star Wars geek.
nothing to see here - move along
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/me force chokes
>If they don't survive they must be Future Darwin Award winners.
Oh that would be so cool. Finally, the Star Wars fandom community recognized by a mainstream award!
*crosses fingers*
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
someone had to do it.
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The force was strong with that petrol.
I feel bad for these guys and their injuries, but do people NOT know that you don't light glass tubes of gasoline on fire?
How did these guys make it this far into life?
And, lastly, where's the video?
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Mess with the force, and you're bound to get burned.
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I bet the mercury vapors in the fluorescent tubes scrambled their brains enough to convince them this was a good idea.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Now they won't need make-up for Anakin's "Burn" scene.
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I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
"Police say a third person present at the incident was questioned."
Who found the cops' lack of faith disturbing...
No doubt he was an elderly English gentleman, who had been encouraging our friends to try out their little experiment.
Reality has a liberal bias
the dumb is strong in these two...
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Wow. That has to be. The worst English.
I bet on the girl ...
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I guess the force just isn't that strong with them. :)
Of course it isn't. That's why you have to crack 'em.
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
> [...] And me embarassed to be a Star Wars geek.
You didn't need a fire accident for that.
OK, sure, I've had some fun with pyrotechnics. My father -- being a machinist -- had welding equipment, so he and I would fill balloons with mapp gas and oxygen and would shoot them with burning bolts from a home-made crossbow. Good times. Not to mention my blacksmith uncle who would, on the fourth of july, take a special anvil he'd hollowed out the bottom of and fill the hollow with gunpowder. You can imagine the fun. Again, good times.
But, come on. Fluorescent light tubes?! You would have to be some sort of catastrophically stupid person to not realize how fragile those tubes are. I mean, for christ's sake! Filling a fragile glass tube with a burning liquid and then hitting things with it! Oh my god. If you *have* to do this, and obviously, you do because it's cool and fun, at least put some thought behind the mechanics.
The only thing I can really think about all this is that, somewhere, modern culture isn't teaching people important, basic, rules about material properties.
On a side note, I previously associated this kind of behavior with my fellow Americans. We're a stupid, raucous bunch. I'm glad to open my arms to the UK, I welcome you to our stupid bosom. May you whittle your gene pool alongside us.
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That should justify cheap cracks.
Think of it as evolution in action.
Fortunately this would never happen in America, since they cannot get hold of Petrol ( which is unique to the UK ). Gasoline would not have the same effect. Thats why Petrol is so expensive in the UK :o)
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Hall of fame inductees!
This is worse than powering a powering a go-cart with a chainsaw (not a chainsaw engine, a chainsaw). Or any attempt to juggle objects meant to fell trees.
No, this couple gets a waiver straight into the Hall.
They deserve their own wing.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
Use the Extinguisher Luke...
--What's this sig thing all about then? Should I have one?
Why not just pack the tubes with radioactive material and heavy water? Or Radium and Zinc Sulfide for that retro-look Undark glow? (Risk doesn't seem to be a problem for them.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Are you forgetting that we are talking about 2 idiots who filled a glass tube with gasoline and ignited it? What part about that isn't funny?
I suppose the humor could be deminished if they were forced to do it, or were doing it to save someones life, or because it was how they fed their family, but these people DID IT FOR RECREATION!
If these 2 live, and produce offspring, I will lose all faith in evolution.
And I don't think a dude and a dudette deserve to die because they used an astonishingly-ill-designed fake lightsabre.
.. you might want to sit and think about it a little while.
.. I run!
Deserve has nothing to do with it. This is natures way of adding a little chlorine to the gene pool. People should realize anytime that someone says "Hey, this would be awesome!"
I'm from the southern US, and anytime I hear the words "Hey ya'll watch this!"
The Technomancer
"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."-
Apparently someone didn't read the talking points sent out in last week's media packet!
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Q. How many Star Wars fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. It depends on the number of light bulbs and the amount of gasoline on hand.
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Sorry, but I must have missed that penultimate scene in the final duel where Anakin switches his lightsaber for a fluorescent light bulb filled with flaming petrol.
You sly dog: you got me monologuing! - Syndrome
I'm from the southern US, and anytime I hear the words "Hey ya'll watch this!" .. I run!
That is the funniest thing I have read on slashdot for a LONG time!!! Most of my family is from the southern US, so I can openly laugh at this.
Is it commonly followed by a splash of chicken feathers, cool-whip, and weed-trimmer parts? Maybe that is just my family.
Probably on rotten.com.
(Doesn't the Darwin Award presuppose that one was in the gene pool in the first place?)
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A fool and his eyebrows are soon parted.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
More proof that violent movies cause violent behaviour! How many more lives need to be ruined by exploding glass tubes full of gas before we ban these movies forever?
I hope Lucas is ready to pay out the huge award the jury will provide since he is *obviously* responsible for putting this idea into impressionable young minds.
... at least if they can launch
the suit in America.
Well
Hey, do we have to throw nationalism into this? To be properly cynical one must realize something: a huge number of people, wherever they're from, are idiots.
(Where national generalizations come into place is what the rest do with the idiots. Yes, we in the USA, make them our leaders.)
Last year on the 4th of July we were driving back from the fireworks. My son was chewing on a glow stick in the car. I warned him that they could break but being a kid he didn't listen. As soon as we stop at home I hear this 'eeewwwww' from the back and when he got out both his mouth and shirt were glowing. That was a Kodak moment.
As soon as we stop at home I hear this 'eeewwwww' from the back and when he got out both his mouth and shirt were glowing. That was a Kodak moment.
Does your son now grow 10 times his size and smashes shit when he gets angry?
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
They did the lightsaber duel and Vader being burned in the same sequence!
A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.
Mr. T, I didn't know you read slashdot. Then again I show have know since you are not a fool but instead only pity them.
"Lead to Darwin Awards, the path of stupidity does."
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Ah yes the famous lastwords of a redneck. But how many know the last words of his friend?
Around here "hey Yall watch this" Is usually follwed by "aww heck I can do that"
LOL - I did this myself - I was in the Army at the time, and I was hanging glow sticks on a tree to setup a trail for the tanks to follow. I was nailing one to a tree, and had another in my mouth, managed to chomp down just a bit too hard. I was spitting red glowing goop for about 20 minutes. Lets just say I was the butt of many jokes that evening.
Did it look cool?
Did anyone get pictures?
And I don't think a dude and a dudette deserve to die because they used an astonishingly-ill-designed fake lightsabre.
Really. Well, call me callous, but I think you deserve to die for using the terms dude and especially dudette. Okay, maybe not die, but a good flogging is certainly in order...
Second sign of why you should ignore an overly-judgemental poster: Underwear is too tight to permit blood flow to the brain.
Third sign of why you should ignore an overly-judgemental poster: Making a big deal out of a really small incident.
I cant wait to read the news about how Star Wars fanboys killed themselves with a Tesla Coil, trying to re-enact Palpatine's lightning bolts shooting from his hands.
Dude, either you don't have children, or you are one of those parents whose children do no wrong. You know the type, no matter what the child does, it's not their fault. These are the kids that grow up, start a war, and then never admit they screwed up.
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Reminds me of my young tender years. One of my friends had parents that were at work during the day in the summer. His mother was a nurse. In their garage there were some (old-style) intravenous infusion jars (glass), the jar caps and plastic hoses, a 5-gallon can of gasoline for the lawnmower, and an ancient but still chugging air compressor. Put all these things together, and you have a pressurized glass jar of gasoline with a convenient squirter hose. A poor-kid's flamethrower. I'm amazed we didnt all burn up several times over.
I don't know what combination of alcohol and spare time brought that particular combination of things together, but I am certain that there is a story.
Don't share it.
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If only they had done this in the US.
They'd already be counting their settlement money from George Lucas.
Now she gets into arguments at family picnics because "the guy at the party store did too tell me there was such a thing"!
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The only catch is that Tritium cost $$$ for very small quantities.
I always buy it in bulk. It's way cheaper.
The other day I was talking to someone that couldn't tell me whether the end on what ended up being his ethernet cord was metal or plastic. Even after he told me he could see the wires inside [...]
Haven't ye ever heard a' transparent aluminum, laddie?
That said..
Obi-Wan: The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. Though it does not make you flame retardent , ask vader
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
The problem, of course, is that they used petrol, whatever the hell that is. They should have used good ol' American gasoline.
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In the same vein:
Northern Fairy Tales: "Once upon a time..." (Or, to keep this barely on topic, A long time ago...)
Southern Fairy Tales: "Y'all ain't gonna belive this sheit..."
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In the US they could sue the manufactuer for selling flammable petrol.
especially when they specifically ordered inflammable petrol and he gave them flammable stuff instead.
I decided to do something stupid as a kid (Imagine that, huh?)
I cracked open a couple of sticks and spread the inside all over my face and arms - so I would glow in the dark
It looked cool... but damn did it sting when it got in my eyes ;
He has a seventeen year old girl with him who is obviously none too bright and easily led, and what he wants to do with her is - have a lightsaber fight. The young people of today...
Naturally Niven waved it around and smashed it against an elevator door, putting an ugly chimp and spiderweb cracks in it.
So Jerry Pournelle was with him?
I have a bit of a litmus test for anything like this. How would I explain this if I woke up in the hospital? "Well, Timmy and I thought it would be a lovely idea if we put napalm in glass tubes and swung them merrily about! Cheerio! Bollocks! Knickers!"
It's saved me from many a stupid act.
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
[igniting Luke's saber]
Darth Vader: I see you have constructed a new lightsaber. Your skills are complete, indeed you are powerful as the Emperor has foreseen.
Luke Flamethrower: It's the new petrol powered model. Here, give it a shot.
*whoosh*
I called bullocks on needing weekly medical exams when using tritium.
...Sandra, is that you?
'If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.'
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