quote: "a 20-year-old man and his 17-year-old female friend were filming a mock duel in homage to ... a light-saber clash between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker."
Don't really mind fools blowing themselves up, but they should force the guy to do it again with the correct genders, sheesh.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Hmmmm, has anyone heard from PsyLiam lately? Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
A few screams of pain, but that happens quite often. I've no idea what he gets up to. . .
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
quote:Two British Star Wars fans sustained critical injuries after constructing their own light sabers from fluorescent light tubes filled with liquid fuel.
WTF?!
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I suppose they couldn't find some Lava for one of them to burn in... (That is if they were trying to recreate the Obi Wan/Annakin duel)
Personally the end of The Phantom Menace had a better light sabre duel - I was disappointed with the Obi Wan/Annakin one. Too many up close shots etc. The duel in the Phantom Menace was much more fluid and artistic.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Well, the music in TMP for the duel was better, but the splicing between the (boring) "retake the castle" scenes kinds kills the momentum.
All the sabre stuff in ATOC sucked out loud.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Enough spoilers and movie discussion. There are threads for that elsewhere. I want to know who in the �uck would fill a fluorescent light tube with liquid fuel to try make a lightsaber? Why would you do that? Seriously, I'm asking. Is there a reason? Because that just sounds crazy-ass-crazy to me.
Now, taking said fuel-filled fluorescent tubes and banging them against each other is just plain stupid. I mean unless you've set your ambition towards winning a Darwin award or something.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I dont understand the fuel bit either- aside from self immolation, that is.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
According to a police spokeswoman, the police found glass tubes and accelerant when they got there. They probably thought the flames would stay inside of the tube, like a wierd lava lamp. They might not even need to hit them together - the petrol might have made the tubes explode in their faces! Eejits!
How dumb can they be! And as if to answer my question, they filmed the whole thing as well!
Apparently, they were both in critical condition last Tuesday, but that was the last time it was in the news. If anybody is near the Broomfield Hospital, in Chelmsford, why not pay them a visit. Ask for the specialist burns unit there.
I see a Darwin Award honourable mention comming up at the very least...
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
I'm fairly certain you have to actually succeed at sterilizing yourself before you're eligible to receive one of those.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Not quite. In order to recive a Darwin, you must remove yourself from the gene pool, either by death, or less often sterilisation, and this event must pertain to a number of rules.
The rules are (I think) 1-The applicant must be removed from the gene pool. 2-The applicant should display an outstanding lack of judgement during said event. 3-The applicant must be the cause of their removal from the gene pool. 4-The applicant must of sound mind. 5-The event must be real.
People, who's stupidity is so very impressive, but fail to fit into one of these categories may recive an honourable mention, as a sort of wooden spoon.
Check out the website ! Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
Who cares. two retards with NO FUCKING COMMON SENCE, get to enjoy their remainder lives, maimed.
i don't know who to pity more, the fools themselves or the system that will have carry the slack in terms medical bills they will likely never be capable of paying themselves because, depending on thier long term recover, may never be able to function fully like the rest of us...
our society doesn't exactly have open arms for the burned and maimed. you never turned away in shame or disgust when you see less fortunate folk? Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Just now, yes.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cartman: Just now, yes.
*snorts* yeah, we all do it, regretfully.
but still, i mean, the girl was 17 right? she's fucked, mediforically speaking, if her injuries were that bad...
*sighs helplessly*
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
When I had rehab on my hand after surgery, there were several seriously burned people that were going through the same (if far more extensive) processes.
After working next to them for so long, you lose that initial shock.
quote:I see a Darwin Award honourable mention comming up at the very least...
I forsee a frivolous lawsuit against the toy's manufacturer or Lucasfilm itself.
After all, there was no disclaimer telling them not to fill it up with petrol....
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
It would be the height of irony if they were hoooked up to respirators that make that Darth Vader sound.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Flourescent lights are neither toys nor (as far as I know) manufactured by any company owned by George Lucas.
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Flourescent lights are neither toys nor (as far as I know) manufactured by any company owned by George Lucas.
is there any news updates on their condition? or pics? Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Flourescent lights are neither toys nor (as far as I know) manufactured by any company owned by George Lucas.
Yet- slap a Ep. III logo on them and they'll be in every happy meal...
I thought they had modded the sabre toys somehow (as I've seen flurscent tubing added to them at csci fi shows and online for sale).
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: When I had rehab on my hand after surgery,
What happend to your hand? It wasn't friction burn was it? Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Ahhh...I expected Liam to take that particular lead.
On new years (just after midnight) a friend tossed me a bookbag with the Stephen King novel It inside it. The strap of the bag wrapped around my little finger annnnnd......severed all the tendons.
I had it rebuilt with the laser surgery (like, sci-fi fantastik!) and spend a year without the use of my right hand.
My writing is now very formal (like how an architect draws letters) from my having to re-learn how to write (I had to write for a while as though I was using a paintbrush).
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Wow - that sucks! Didn't know that - sorry to hear it. YOU MADE THOSE MODELS with ONE HAND!?!
If so - or limited use of your right hand - that's pretty good Jason.
Andrew
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
quote:I had it rebuilt with the laser surgery
Hmm, are you sure it wasn't teh laser surgery? There's a distinction.
quote:and spend a year without the use of my right hand
"...and for a while, the dead rested soundly in their graves, the pope regained some of his health and all was well with the world." (Revelations, act V - the mid west)
For posterity, some friends and I once burned down a little wooden model of a mansion, using sugar and salpetre. The blue-green flames were impressive, but after a while we noticed the damage to the lawn. At night, hell was to be payed.
(also, the fumes made us cough in a way you're probably not supposed to cough)
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Hmm, are you sure it wasn't teh laser surgery?"
Surely, that would be "lasar".
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I was not Evil back then: I was a "Nice Guy".
It was back when I was 24- before I built any models (I've only been doing that about four years).
Strangely, the incident marked the start of what would be the worst year of my life- everything actually went downhill from there.
My little finger will never be completely straight again, but it works fine and there's no pain so it's allright.
A whole year of not being able to draw, paint, write, sculpt or well, anything was very difficult though.
As was sleeping with sutures and stitches for a couple of months- I kept rolling over onto my hand and waking up screaming!
But it's all in the past and it contributed to the wonderful mosaic of strange experiences that is me today. Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
They should have gone here. Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
They should have just used the toy lightsabers, they probably wouldn't have been burt THAT MUCH!!!
If you'll excuse me I'm going to build my own FTL starship. Since I don't have any matter/anti-matter, I'm just gonna fill a glass tube with ass-loads of flammable chemicals and then drop a match in the mixture. Hopefully the resulting explosion would have enough power for me to jump to warp...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
You'll be FTL, straight to hell.
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
So let's see, that's 28 grams traveling at 1+ c (give or take a c), for about, what, 2000 miles? At what point below earth's surface does hell begin? Would there be a bang if a pea-sized object breaks the sound barrier when traveling through hot mud and dino turds?
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Does it make me a bad person that I want to see the video they were shooting?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Aargh! Too many jokes!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Y'know...this really should have been in the Flameboard! Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I hope the background music to the video was "Duel of the Fates".
Seriously, those. Did these people ever once change a flourescent light bulb? Just holding them one can realize these things are a slight bump away from shattering in evil candy.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I hope the music was Blue Oyster Cult's oldie "I'm burnin' for you".
But I'm not always charitable when people do dumb things.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I hope the music was something from Benny Hill.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Maybe it was Elmer Fudd singing "Come on baby wight my fi-uh"
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
quote:Originally posted by WizArtist II: Maybe it was Elmer Fudd singing "Come on baby wight my fi-uh"
/me blinks
when do i gte to get a funny tag line under my name?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Once you've posted another 592 times. Better get busy.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Plus, .....the initiation.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
And when you stop using IRC commands on a message board.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Only then....a true Flarite will you be.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Whois? Slapping around the face with a wet fish? A Flareite craves not these things.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
Why would anyone crave a slap in the face with a wet fish?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I've seen far stranger fetishes firsthand.
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
Yeah yeah, save it for the jury.
Siegfried:
quote:Seriously, those.
Did you refer to us in an indirect third person plural? Do you enter your favorite bar and greet your friends with "Hello, them guys!"?? Have I died and gone to heaven?
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
This is your idea of heaven? What did that ISA cult do to you, exactly? B)
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
They gave us a great display of street magic, with dice cups and everything. They even let me hold the bill. 4w3s0m3.
My idea of heaven had always been in there, though, inside the turnip. I just cleared away the rough edges.
Posted by Griffworks (Member # 1014) on :
quote:Originally posted by Captain Boh: Why would anyone crave a slap in the face with a wet fish?
You should try it. It's actually quite amazing. All your friends are doing it, so why not you?
Just beware the walrus....
Posted by TheWoozle (Member # 929) on :
Sigh.. I'm glad I just lurk here and dont' actually post.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
Yeah, once you post, you're lost.
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Good God (and or goddess etc)what has happened to us people... Once upon a time the line "I've seen far stranger fetishes firsthand." would have been a licence for a discussion touching on candle wax, nipples, spiked heels and gravestones - to name but a few!
I am ashamed...ashamed that we have all grown up into such apparently well rounded and sane individuals....*sigh*
Posted by tricky (Member # 1402) on :
Most people around here are as well rounded as a brick. I think since Ent was cancelled, we've lost some of the buzz. Maybe we should reopen the Defiant length discussion....
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by MaGiC: I am ashamed...ashamed that we have all grown up into such apparently well rounded and sane individuals....*sigh*
I'm wearing the Sailor Mars uniform and nipple clamps at the moment, if that helps any.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Not in any way.
I was knocked out during sex once...that was unusual.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I'm only wearing the Sailor Mars outfit because Liam said she was much hotter than Sailor Moon. Personally, I hate the way this thing is riding up on me.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
I ain't payin' you to complain.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
You ain't paying me at all, bub. This is strictly volunteer work, here.
Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :
That's not what the 7-11 backalley webcam says.
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