Thread: Burning your car down

Originally Posted by prelude

Funny that I stupidly had the same kinda problem recently. The missus has one of them fancy make up mirrors; flat on one side concave on the other so it magnifies. I used to to trim my beard on the kitchen table and left it there not really giving it any more thought. After all, the mirror was tipped up (so the magnifying part was tipped down) and let's be honest, it's been a wet and dismal winter here for months.
So the sun came out, very low in the sky and guess what? it burned a nice moon shaped hole in the varnish of the kitchen table.

Bugger. Not hot enough to cause a fire fortunately

-P

That'll teach you to put stuff away, when you've finished with it.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

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Today as a good Teach, I was marshalling the high jump at the school athletics carnival.

Clipboards with student lists in one hand, a pen in the other hand, all while calling names of the next students to jump.

I'd just had a new water bottle thrown to me from the Head of Sports as he passed by on the supplies quad bike and I held the new bottle under my arm while I did the administration.

Not thinking too much about anything other than trying to call the right students to jump, I get this itch on my stomach, give it a quick scratch and continue on as we were.

Itch comes back again very shortly after.....

Hows this for the cause of the itch, the water bottle under my arm had worked like a magnifying glass and focused the light onto my shirt which started to burn and melt, and so was starting to burn my skin!

I had never though to be careful with a waterbottle in the sun.

so, my top tip of the day! Don't leave water bottles in the sun in your car, such as on the front seat when you leave, just in case it magnifies the light and you burn the car down!

It reminded me of the crystal ball post above!

But But But, no no Mr Bee it ain't April 1, well not yet.

Wait, you ozzies get a 1st of april this year? The gub'ment has no money left here so it was probably cancelled :P

Cheers,
-P

Originally Posted by prelude

Wait, you ozzies get a 1st of april this year? The gub'ment has no money left here so it was probably cancelled :P

Cheers,
-P

Feels to me that every day is a fool's day...

Originally Posted by prelude

Wait, you ozzies get a 1st of april this year? The gub'ment has no money left here so it was probably cancelled :P

Cheers,
-P

With the miss management and dumb decisions that go on,do you think the Govt here has any more money than the mob over there?
I doubt it,although it probably comes down to how well they can fudge figures.