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Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Have you considered evening classes as a mature student? I toyed with the idea.
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Drago
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- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
To be honest, I preferred art. Because I fancied the teacher.
My fifth year chemistry teacher was diabetic, and possibly had other medical issues, but I remember a short period when he went a little crazy and we were told it was down to a change in medication.
During that time his experiments all ended in explosions and fire - not the controlled kind. He once let the class smart arse take control and left him with unknown liquids and tried to make him drink them. He also lost his temper with one boy and made him stand on a stool holding a large battery in each hand - arms extended - until he was in tears.
I had to run to fetch the technician to calm things down more than once.
During that time his experiments all ended in explosions and fire - not the controlled kind. He once let the class smart arse take control and left him with unknown liquids and tried to make him drink them. He also lost his temper with one boy and made him stand on a stool holding a large battery in each hand - arms extended - until he was in tears.
I had to run to fetch the technician to calm things down more than once.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I'm liking the sound of this chap Sandra!
It sounds exciting, but as a 15 year old it was quite frightening, he was that unpredictable.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Whoops, got that the wrong way round, in my defence I left school 39yrs ago.
Bazzer
Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
- Location
- On the edge of reality
Main memory is of the gas taps in the middle of the table and unknown to me, another pupil thinking it funny to light one of the outlets to have a tiny flame. He pulled one of my books away from me and as my outstretched arm went to retrieve it and my hand was by the lit gas tape, he flicked the lever to full so that the back of my hand caught the flame. Very painful.
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
Nothing to do with chemistry per se, but the incident happened during a chemistry lesson.
I found science subjects extremely boring when I was at school. 1972 (I was 12 years old), it was the spring and England were playing a Test Match (cricket, that is, for the uneducated amongst you
) and I was listening to the live commentary on one of those small transistor radios hidden in the inside pocket of my blazer jacket, with a single earpiece to hear with.
We had a new teacher (a Mr. Paul, an Indian) who had asked me a question, apparently several times, but I was too engrossed in the cricket to notice. In the end, he came to my desk, pulled out the earpiece and asked me very loudly why I hadn't answered him. Without a moment's hesitation, I replied, in a very mumbled way, 'sorry sir, I didn't hear you because I'm deaf.'
My mates burst out laughing (cos I was giving them updates every now and then and knew what was going on) and he, despite being Indian, turned bright red with embarrassment. He apologised profusely over and over again and every time he saw me after that he was still offering apologies. Which meant, every chemistry lesson we had with him after that, I had to feign deafness.
I found science subjects extremely boring when I was at school. 1972 (I was 12 years old), it was the spring and England were playing a Test Match (cricket, that is, for the uneducated amongst you
) and I was listening to the live commentary on one of those small transistor radios hidden in the inside pocket of my blazer jacket, with a single earpiece to hear with.We had a new teacher (a Mr. Paul, an Indian) who had asked me a question, apparently several times, but I was too engrossed in the cricket to notice. In the end, he came to my desk, pulled out the earpiece and asked me very loudly why I hadn't answered him. Without a moment's hesitation, I replied, in a very mumbled way, 'sorry sir, I didn't hear you because I'm deaf.'
My mates burst out laughing (cos I was giving them updates every now and then and knew what was going on) and he, despite being Indian, turned bright red with embarrassment. He apologised profusely over and over again and every time he saw me after that he was still offering apologies. Which meant, every chemistry lesson we had with him after that, I had to feign deafness.
ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
It didn't take long to discover that the bunsen burners were attached to a source on the wall by a removable rubber tube. If you removed the rubber tube and turned the gas on and lit it the fame would reach halfway across the lab. It was briefly fun but the trip to the headmasters office took the edge off.
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All jolly amusing, until...
https://www.google.nl/amp/s/amp.the.../jun/19/experience-blindness-no-sense-of-time
https://www.google.nl/amp/s/amp.the.../jun/19/experience-blindness-no-sense-of-time
