As part of our fire training for working offshore we are usually shown the effects of a BLEVE explosion using one of those small camping gas cylinders that everyone seems to keep under their stairs. … (View Post)

Yep. The only thing you have to watch out for is freezing of the valves. People (the general public I mean) don't seem to have a handle on how rapid changes in pressure can cause really really c… (View Post)

De-penising was a standard part of being Hung, Drawn and Quartered. For Kinabalu'a sake I won't go into more detail but it was a pretty formulaic, if grizzly, way of executing someone (View Post)

Sorry (genuinely). I find this stuff fascinating - not so much the detail but all the legal stuff around it. Most people just don't realise how tenuous and unstable most English governance was p… (View Post)

But many of those on here advocating a living wage instead of benefits are not of the left. And some of us pay substantially more than the minimum wage already. This is not about minimum and maximum … (View Post)