Country getting close to anarchy??

Most people in the uk don't make bombs
Many years ago whilst in school was in the library one day looking up how to make explosives, we found a recipe of sone sort, think it was salt peter..........whatever that is and a couple of other things.
A few days later mate turned up in school with 3 sticks of something looking like sticks of dynamite made out of rolled up sheets of A4.
He tried them out that night in the field at back of his house, said there was a big boom but in the days pre camera phones we only have his word for it.

Never underestimate young lads desire for mischief, I have lost touch with him over the years but I’m sure he’s made a decent member of society, last I heard he was an architect, I’d be very surprised if he’s ever done serious harm to anyone.
 

JP1

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It's interesting how a countries characteristics have shown up. The Americans have been madly queuing up to buy even more guns and ammo, where as the Brits have been queuing up to stock pile toilet rolls. :scratchhead:
And I heard today there's a run on butter in the States - the "thinking" is you can add water to butter to make milk ?
 
Many years ago whilst in school was in the library one day looking up how to make explosives, we found a recipe of sone sort, think it was salt peter..........whatever that is and a couple of other things.
A few days later mate turned up in school with 3 sticks of something looking like sticks of dynamite made out of rolled up sheets of A4.
He tried them out that night in the field at back of his house, said there was a big boom but in the days pre camera phones we only have his word for it.

Never underestimate young lads desire for mischief, I have lost touch with him over the years but I’m sure he’s made a decent member of society, last I heard he was an architect, I’d be very surprised if he’s ever done serious harm to anyone.
Blimey
 
Many years ago whilst in school was in the library one day looking up how to make explosives, we found a recipe of sone sort, think it was salt peter..........whatever that is and a couple of other things.
A few days later mate turned up in school with 3 sticks of something looking like sticks of dynamite made out of rolled up sheets of A4.
He tried them out that night in the field at back of his house, said there was a big boom but in the days pre camera phones we only have his word for it.

Never underestimate young lads desire for mischief, I have lost touch with him over the years but I’m sure he’s made a decent member of society, last I heard he was an architect, I’d be very surprised if he’s ever done serious harm to anyone.
We had an explosive craze at school when the farm boys started taking in strings of crow bangers. It started with individual bangers stuck in the brickwork and progressed to launching a rocket shaped projectile ("The Armour-dildo") into orbit from a launch pad down on the river bank.We had one banger merrily fizzing away in the wall when the school chaplain came to say hello, He was standing about 2 feet from it but thanks to divine intervention, the fuse went out.
In the end they decided to act and called the whole school in for a bollocking, making it clear that if there were any more explosions, some of us would be fired off the premises. There was a final hoorah, though, as on the last day, with dad's encouragement, we thought it would be a nice idea to take some strings and put them down the drain gratings to remind the live-in teachers of our passing.
Another lad used to go on Army cadet trips to Penhale or wherever, and spend his spare time dismantling the trip flares and pyrotechnics, which he brought back to school and laid out in the grounds.
 

Highland Mule

Member
Livestock Farmer
Many years ago whilst in school was in the library one day looking up how to make explosives, we found a recipe of sone sort, think it was salt peter..........whatever that is and a couple of other things.
A few days later mate turned up in school with 3 sticks of something looking like sticks of dynamite made out of rolled up sheets of A4.
He tried them out that night in the field at back of his house, said there was a big boom but in the days pre camera phones we only have his word for it.

Never underestimate young lads desire for mischief, I have lost touch with him over the years but I’m sure he’s made a decent member of society, last I heard he was an architect, I’d be very surprised if he’s ever done serious harm to anyone.

Potassium nitrate - used in bacon production I think. Gunpowder is a mixture of that, sulphur and carbon

Lets be honest - anyone with A-Level chemistry should be able to make a bomb.

General rule of thumb is that the cupboard under the kitchen sink contains enough to destroy the kitchen ;-)
 
When Auntie Mary died at the age of 102, the house clearers started to go through the garage and found all of uncle's Bomb Disposal equipment, samples and souvenirs, which had been sitting there untouched in the middle of Ringwood since long before uncle died in 1968. The RE had to come round and they shut the road while they removed it all. As they said, uncle wasn't so stupid as to leave anything live lying about, but they had to destroy it all to save being called out again at a later date. They were pretty good about leaving lots of interesting but safe mementos to hold on to, once the nasty looking stuff had been removed.
 

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