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Do you ever get the feeling something is gonna wrong, but you ignore it thinkung "Nah, it'll probably be ok" only to find later that you were right in the first place and everything has gone horribly wrong!
I was on an expedition with some mates across the Lake District and thought it would be cool to take along my pois for evening entertainment. Now obviously I cant lug a 5l bottle of paraffin around LD so I filled a large Kenco pot (about one litre) with added bonus that the opening is the same size as my poi heads - easy dipping.
Well you can probably imagine what went wrong! Didn't do it the first night cos we were camping right by a river and there were millions of midges (I hadnt noticed anything at this stage), so I was gonna do it the following night...yeah right! All the paraffin had leaked out of the pot (it did look water tight before) and drenched my sleeping bag, I was smelling quite inflammable the next morning as the entire camp site stuck to high heaven of fuel!
One good thing did rise from the ashes of my self-pity: on the last night I gathered everyones Meths together (cos we wouldn't be cooking anymore) which was about a pint and managed to put a show and found Meths is actually pretty good, I think it lit quicker and lasted longer the paraffin (or they could be about the same and I just imagined it)
But anyway, thats my story of woe, anyone else?
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!! 
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
I lost my favourite pencil once.
You silly person using a kenco jar!
Why would it be watertigh?
Its meant to hold coffee granules, which, by design, are solids.
So they wont be leaking out of the jar unless its a *really* hot day and everything melts.
veteran
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Location: Out, United Kingdom
A pencil?
The jar looked water-tight! It had a pad type thing in the lid that presses down on the rim.
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
Beautiful Intelligent Thoughtful Cute Happy!
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Location: Northampton, England
does not matter what it is the jar was designed for dry stuff and then you wonder why i call you silly!
I lost my sanity a long time ago!
I was gonna conquer the world but got distracted by something shiny!
veteran
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oh..................ok
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
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Written by: Me in another thread speaking to these two again
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veteran
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Still - its a pretty gay thing to have happen to you seeing as i had to sleep in the Lake District in a paraffin soaked sleeping bag for 2 nights! Plus it almost ruined my poi plans if it werent for all the excess meths.
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
Beautiful Intelligent Thoughtful Cute Happy!
269 posts
Location: Northampton, England
you really do have a thing about the word gay! homophobic?
and ucof i was mearly replying to a post we did not chat until now and that is what the section is called SOCIAL CHAT just incase you had not noticed
I was gonna conquer the world but got distracted by something shiny!
Insert Champagne Here
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Location: without class distinction, Australia
does anyone else read the title to this thread and think seedy....
nope?
No-one?
*hangs head in shame*
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
grumpy poorly froggy
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Location: Nuneaton, United Kingdom
only thing that comes close to your story is that all my parafin leaked in the bottom of my kitchen cupboard,(4lt) i came down stairs and the whole bottom floor smelled like a fricken garage
and it takes ages and ages to get the smell out too, there is still a slight smell today and this happend weeks and weeks ago, the tumble dryer makes it smell worse too. Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows
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Location: South Wales
rouge. 
um...hang on... pinkboot.. you may have just turned my entire arguement around...
Beautiful Intelligent Thoughtful Cute Happy!
269 posts
Location: Northampton, England
and how did i manage that? i was just replying to your little jibe above
I was gonna conquer the world but got distracted by something shiny!
veteran
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As far as I know, nothing gets smegging paraffin out; that exped was about 1/2 a year ago and my bag still stinks like an oil rig.
What do you mean seedy, rouge/UCOF? Just telling a story
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
Beautiful Intelligent Thoughtful Cute Happy!
269 posts
Location: Northampton, England
lol nice rags now then just think of what it did to your skin when you were sleeping in it! lol!
I was gonna conquer the world but got distracted by something shiny!
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Location: Out, United Kingdom
my skin was alright, its just you could smell me a mile away!
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
Beautiful Intelligent Thoughtful Cute Happy!
269 posts
Location: Northampton, England
lol maybe next time you'll learn to not put paraffin in coffee jars!
I was gonna conquer the world but got distracted by something shiny!
veteran
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Location: Out, United Kingdom
Well yes, that thought has passed through my mind a couple of times since that lovely experience
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
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Do i detect a hint of sarcasim? **Ahmet stands above the pot with a big wooden soon
** Henry Hill - 'One day the kids from the neighbourhood carried my mothers groceries all the way home, you know why? It was out of respect'...
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Hope all is well : )
veteran
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Sarcasm? Whats that?
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
Insert Champagne Here
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Location: without class distinction, Australia
I don't know.
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
veteran
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Location: Out, United Kingdom
I think my thread ran out of steam, other peeps were supposed to tell me there storys about thing that went wrong...never mind...[FB mopes off into the corner]
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
Beautiful Intelligent Thoughtful Cute Happy!
269 posts
Location: Northampton, England
Nah no sarcasm just common sense! lol
I was gonna conquer the world but got distracted by something shiny!
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Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
i too looked at the name of this thread and thought...hmm what the hell could this possibly be about, lol
it does put rude ideas into my headlol mayeb thats just me oh well
anyway.....the only thing thats ever gone wrong with me fire spinning was very recently in my back garden when i was using my old staff for some reason and a bit of wick ( i say a bit i mean a few inches) flew off when i was doing a burnoff it lit my clothes and hair on fire
quite enjoyable though
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Location: Out, United Kingdom
And how much of you whopping afro have you got left now?
AAARRRGGGHHH!!! My giant stick broke!!! In two!!! My stick broke in two!!!
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Location: good ol@ devon. cullompton to be precise
well done nate i will have to remember to laugh at you when i next see you!
anyway ive ben using a coffee pot for, well over 2 months and it has never leaked. however the official 4l parafin bottle did. how does that figure.
oh and back to the origonal, yea i had a bad feeling somthing was wrong, but couldn't figure what it was so i ignored it,. an hour later i went into the kitchen and found the light bulb was dripping water on to the floor... huuuummmmm i thought, thats not normal and surely not safe that being water and lecky and all and me standin in a puddle.
to cut the long story short, i went upstairs where i found that i had left a tap on when i had had a wash and the sink was overflowing and the bathroom was flooded and was running through the floor into the kitchen. well done me!
ive learned
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