>> ^PlayhousePals:

>> ^luxury_pie:
>> ^PlayhousePals:
>> ^Yogi:
>> ^PlayhousePals:
My dilemma? The privacy of my own home is a smoke free property. [Thank the stars for vaporizers!]

Inside...outside though? I'm sure your yard or something could work right?

Nope ... it's a large, busy apartment complex =o(

May I suggest the roof.

You may, but there is no roof access. PLUS the entire property is non smoking [one is relegated to go down by the lake or up by the street ... both city property]. There is a $185.00 fine and the possibility of eviction if caught.


Time to move.

>> ^luxury_pie:

>> ^PlayhousePals:
>> ^Yogi:
>> ^PlayhousePals:
My dilemma? The privacy of my own home is a smoke free property. [Thank the stars for vaporizers!]

Inside...outside though? I'm sure your yard or something could work right?

Nope ... it's a large, busy apartment complex =o(

May I suggest the roof.


You may, but there is no roof access. PLUS the entire property is non smoking [one is relegated to go down by the lake or up by the street ... both city property]. There is a $185.00 fine and the possibility of eviction if caught.

>> ^PlayhousePals:

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^PlayhousePals:
My dilemma? The privacy of my own home is a smoke free property. [Thank the stars for vaporizers!]

Inside...outside though? I'm sure your yard or something could work right?

Nope ... it's a large, busy apartment complex =o(


If you have a window, stick your head out when you exhale

The down side of this is that the more you do it, the more tolerant you'll become of wind blowing some back in

Subsequently making just moving towards to the window more acceptable, which will inevitably be replaced by blowing in that general direction

The upside is you get to wake up stoned due to all the residue of smoke on your walls, curtains etc.. that may reduce the care factor of breaching the lease. Then just before inspections, air fresheners become your friend

*whispers* but they can still smell it
*whispers softer* But you can blatantly lie. Innocent until proven guilty

>> ^PlayhousePals:

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^PlayhousePals:
My dilemma? The privacy of my own home is a smoke free property. [Thank the stars for vaporizers!]

Inside...outside though? I'm sure your yard or something could work right?

Nope ... it's a large, busy apartment complex =o(


May I suggest the roof.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^PlayhousePals:
My dilemma? The privacy of my own home is a smoke free property. [Thank the stars for vaporizers!]

Inside...outside though? I'm sure your yard or something could work right?


Nope ... it's a large, busy apartment complex =o(

>> ^PlayhousePals:

My dilemma? The privacy of my own home is a smoke free property. [Thank the stars for vaporizers!]


Inside...outside though? I'm sure your yard or something could work right?

Alice B Toklas Cup of Soup, is my recommendation.

>> ^PlayhousePals:

My dilemma? The privacy of my own home is a smoke free property. [Thank the stars for vaporizers!]

My dilemma? The privacy of my own home is a smoke free property. [Thank the stars for vaporizers!]

gasoline vapor + spark = spontaneous piston movement

I think ill stick to the "your hand will get vaporized" idea myself.

I did this for a chem experiment in high school. I was tasked with trying to identify and explain the different effects that can be produced, considering vapor loads, oxygen availability, air currents produced, etc. (I did a poor job there, but still got an A for demonstrating it) Besides 75% and 99% rubbing alcohol, my teacher gave me some pure ether to try as well. Ether produced a 12 foot jet for 15 seconds before flashing repeatedly and going out (the finally of the evening, I think it scared the teacher). My favorite effect was a ball of fire that would bounce up and down inside the jar, sometimes for minutes at a time. There was also a plane of fire that would slowly descend (seen in the video), rapid flashes (also in this video), small to large jets of flame from the mouth, and the least impressive was just a small flame at the mouth (this often triggered another effect eventually). Thinking back, my teacher was incredibly lucky it didn't explode because we had the entire class surrounding the bottle outside in the dark while I repeatedly fired it off using different fuels. What a lawsuit that would have been! Woo Hoo!

>> ^spoco2:

@MilkmanDan Saying that kids should be able to play with Mercury, even though it is shown to be a very dangerous substance (mostly via it evaporating and being inhaled, not through direct contact) seems a little naive.
What do you get out of it that makes it worth the pretty horrendous possible side effects? Sometimes 'big brother' isn't really that at all, just society at large realising some of the dangerous side effects of things.
My own experience with mercury? In grade six someone had a vial of it, and it got spilled all over the wood floor in our classroom. So little bits of mercury ended up falling in the cracks between floorboards. There were a bunch of us 11/12 year olds trying to fish balls of mercury out with pieces of paper. Not really safe at all. None of us suffered any ill effects that we know of, but why risk it?


I looked into it further on my own, and found out that as @GeeSussFreeK mentioned, elemental Mercury is actually rather safe, even compared to standard Chemistry lab-type things that we let kids handle or have access to. However, that information is often glossed over with blanket warnings about exposure to any sort of mercury, including the legitimately nasty compound forms like what can come from coal burning, etc. As you said, the main danger from the pure elemental form is vapor from evaporation, which seems to be manageable with any sort of proper ventilation or limited exposure time.

I wouldn't suggest that we just allow kids to play with the stuff at will unsupervised, but I think that some level of interaction with it (more than what is common now) can be safe, educational, and worth doing given proper safety practices and other restrictions. On the other hand, there isn't a whole lot to be gained, and there is a lot to lose -- albeit I think the chances of very serious accidents with it are very slim given proper precautions.

I kinda lament the fact that it is harder for schools to do anything even a tiny bit out of the everyday routine because they all have to have massive insurance policies to cover their asses in the event that some freak occurrence happens and they get sued. It is harder to have a woodshop; somebody might cut a finger off. Sports sometimes come under fire for injuries or even the occasional freak accidental death. The loss of those sorts of things makes me wonder if we've gone too far down the "Big Brother" road in some ways. Then again, I think most of that is due to our lawsuit and litigation-happy culture rather than Big Brother...

Anytime you see people working with mercury these days, they are decked out in full-on hazmat suits, masks, etc. My dad had a bottle of it, and we poured it into a plastic container and played around with it with our bare hands at least 2-3 times while I was growing up. We were careful with it, but not like to the extent that any modern video you see with it would show.

Big Brother / Public safety gone mad? Crazy / cavalier / irresponsible dad? Bit of both?

Messing around with it was fun, and I think other kids (or at least teens or young adults) should have that opportunity unless it really is as dangerous as all that. I seem to have managed to get by unscathed though.

--edit--
Information like this make it seem like a real bad idea to encourage people to handle mercury without gloves/mask/goggles. I know (and knew at the time) that the gas form was bad news, but I've heard enough anecdotes of people handling the liquid stuff in ways similar to my experiences with it that it seems like it could be done safely in a High School chemistry lab sort of environment -- even with brief bare-handed handling.

Then again, I remember a student in my chem class taking a big direct sniff of the vapor over a test tube of sulfuric acid when he was specifically told to waft it just to get a sense of it. That resulted in a profusely bloody nose. I suppose the worst-case scenarios with mercury are worse than that, and maybe the positives don't outweigh that even though it is an interesting case of a metal liquid at room temperature.

Really surprised that 1) they've held up so well and 2) they haven't been vandalized more. I'm sure some SW fan would love to have that moisture vaporator in his house.

Spit vaporizing sparkle-balls in your mouth?


>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Goddamn you Icelandic girls do it to me every time.