Have you ever tried setting fire to bamboo?
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Changing a lamp safely
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It's got a good air vent built in, I would have thought it would burn well.
And indeed it does.
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from grass
not quite the same as what was being used for that scaffolding
I'm not saying you can't set fire to it, but mature bamboo is very dense and difficult to set fire to
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Is it not hollow?
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Yeah - just like steel scaffolding poles
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It does burn and there is a danger of explosion from the air trapped in each of the chambers... Bamboo is not a hollow straw but a stack of sealed cylinders.
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But unlike steel, a good draught of air through the middle should aid combustion.
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If you're working on a building site in India or Bangladesh, bamboo catching fire is so far down the list of health and safety issues that its not even off the starting blocks
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More like a little pop.
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They undercut our prices because they don't waste money on health and safety.
We need to ban the word "issue". People are overusing it. It's now a generic term that could mean almost anything. When I were a lad, an issue was one of a series of magazines. Instead of "health and safety issue", try saying "it's sharp", "it's explosive", or "it's slippery".
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Were you a midshipman back then? Or a powder monkey?
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It wasn't that long ago we didn't have health and safety madness. I'm 37.
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Hmmm, 37, that doesn't get us back to Nelson. So no lash, press gang, or weevils in the biscuit then.
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And no springs either.
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Hear hear.
We no longer have problems to be solved we have an issues.
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No, it's stacked sealed cylinders not a tube.
Have none of you lot disected a bit of bamboo garden cane?
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I've never thought of a reason why I would want to do that.
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In my garden in Indonesia, I have bamboo wide enough to make pint pots from
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In message , Tim Streater writes
He was talking about his IQ, not his age
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In her first job, my daughter was told she wasn't allowed to say 'problem'. She had to say 'issue'!
Barmy...