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Reply 4740

Poc ar buile

crana

shut up!

youd probably then try and feed them to your girlfriend anyway

Yuck..! At least she isn't eating coal though.. :rolleyes:

Reply 4741

Camford

12

crana

they said they have portable heater things you can borrow.. apparently.

think id be allowed #to take mine anyway? its just a fan heater, its pretty new and stuff and it has a safety cut out whatsit

I had a fan heater for 2 days, but it was too noisy for my liking. :frown:

Are you sure over using heaters won't result in high electricity bills in Lent Term? As I am a CompSci, do I get a discount for using computers? (Electricity used by computer that is.)

Reply 4742

Unregistered

Camford

I had a fan heater for 2 days, but it was too noisy for my liking. :frown:

Are you sure over using heaters won't result in high electricity bills in Lent Term? As I am a CompSci, do I get a discount for using computers? (Electricity used by computer that is.)

if you r room has no heating it seems more than a little harsh to charge you extra :frown:

Reply 4743

Camford

12

crana

if you r room has no heating it seems more than a little harsh to charge you extra :frown:

I remember having something stuck in the old fire place...

Reply 4744

Unregistered

Camford

I remember having something stuck in the old fire place...

so THATs what textbook s are for!

Reply 4745

Camford

12

crana

so THATs what textbook s are for!

except you don't have fire in the old fire place anymore. Care about setting off the fire alarm?

Reply 4746

Unregistered

Camford

except you don't have fire in the old fire place anymore. Care about setting off the fire alarm?

i could probably assemble a crack team of engineers and physicists to disable it :wink:

Reply 4747

MadLy

Camford

except you don't have fire in the old fire place anymore. Care about setting off the fire alarm?

Well....I reckon it takes quite a bit to set them off.....simply because people can smoke in their rooms without setting it off! (Unless theres no open windows and it becomes a bit fog-like!)

In our fire places theres an electric heater, which does alrite when they go and turn off the central heating.....but it stinks like a toaster, or a dirty oven :wink:

Plus we have to pay for it, cos our electricity's not incl.

The other thing is a chimney?! My m8 had a vent lid (over the fire place)which didnt close properly, so every time it was windy, there was a constant, crazy banging noise.... :mad:

It got annoyin very soon :frown:

Reply 4748

Camford

12

crana

i could probably assemble a crack team of engineers and physicists to disable it :wink:

Would cling film wrapping set the thing off?

Reply 4749

MadLy

crana

i could probably assemble a crack team of engineers and physicists to disable it :wink:

QUESTION: how many of them does it take to change a battery?? :biggrin:

ANSWER:???

Reply 4750

Camford

12

MadLy

In our fire places theres an electric heater, which does alrite when they go and turn off the central heating.....but it stinks like a toaster, or a dirty oven :wink:

Plus we have to pay for it, cos our electricity's not incl.

That's what Pembroke got, well, what I got in Pembroke anyway. On my letter it said you have to pay electricity bills. So, presumably, I'll get a messive E bill in Lent term.. :mad:

Reply 4751

KHL

Camford

Would cling film wrapping set the thing off?

i have no idea, but here's a story for you...

people in my house were having a massive fryup for like 15 or 20 of us all together. a friend volunteered to make sweet and sour pork, which, incidentally, entails heavy duty deep frying.

guess what, in anticipation of triggering the fire alarm, the joker decided to put a SOCK over the smoke detector.

guess what happened :rolleyes:

hint: sainsbury's plastic shopping bags do wonders for covering such things. just don't let the porters/bedders see it. they go ballistic if they do.

Reply 4752

Camford

12

KHL

guess what, in anticipation of triggering the fire alarm, the joker decided to put a SOCK over the smoke detector.

guess what happened :rolleyes:

hint: sainsbury's plastic shopping bags do wonders for covering such things. just don't let the porters/bedders see it. they go ballistic if they do.

Ah... I'll remember to wash my socks regularly then... in that case.

Reply 4753

musicbloke

17

KHL

i have no idea, but here's a story for you...

people in my house were having a massive fryup for like 15 or 20 of us all together. a friend volunteered to make sweet and sour pork, which, incidentally, entails heavy duty deep frying.

guess what, in anticipation of triggering the fire alarm, the joker decided to put a SOCK over the smoke detector.

guess what happened :rolleyes:

hint: sainsbury's plastic shopping bags do wonders for covering such things. just don't let the porters/bedders see it. they go ballistic if they do.

In my school we always had fires going in the bins in the playground during winter to keep people warm. The teachers were unimpressed.

MB

Reply 4754

Camford

12

musicboy

In my school we always had fires going in the bins in the playground during winter to keep people warm. The teachers were unimpressed.

MB

My science teacher back in GCSE set off the alarms off twice for doing exciting chemistry experiment... well.. just dropping K into water. ( :eek:

I can't remember how you spell the name of K.)

Reply 4755

visesh

17

Camford

My science teacher back in GCSE set off the alarms off twice for doing exciting chemistry experiment... well.. just dropping K into water. ( :eek:

I can't remember how you spell the name of K.)

Potassium

Reply 4756

Helenia

20

Well, we managed to set off my friend's fire alarm with the smoke from birthday candles. They were relighting ones though, so every time she tried to blow them out, there was more smoke! The porters were ok though.

Reply 4757

Fluffstar

Helenia

Well, we managed to set off my friend's fire alarm with the smoke from birthday candles. They were relighting ones though, so every time she tried to blow them out, there was more smoke! The porters were ok though.

Just as an estimate - how often do the fire alarms go off? As in, everyone troop outside in the wind/dark/rain at 2am?

Reply 4758

The Albatross

12

Camford

My science teacher back in GCSE set off the alarms off twice for doing exciting chemistry experiment... well.. just dropping K into water. ( :eek:

I can't remember how you spell the name of K.)

my chemistry teacher never actually set the alarm off, but he was a bit of an explosives fanatic! the best one was when he got a big bowl of soapy water and bubbled hydrogen and oxygen into it, then threw a match in... woah it was loud! he also set a coffee tin bomb off on the tennis courts. apparantly him and his friend used to make bombs out af ammonium nitrate etc and blow them up in a disused quarry near his house...

Reply 4759

Helenia

20

Fluffstar

Just as an estimate - how often do the fire alarms go off? As in, everyone troop outside in the wind/dark/rain at 2am?

I had one night time alarm (about 11:30, so I was just getting ready for bed) and maybe 3 daytime ones in the year, though I may have been out of my room for other ones. They're a lot less regimented than at school, because you don't always know where everyone was and so on, you just have to get out until the porters come.

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