I really should know better.
I was helping a friend of mine clear some brush from his land, including a stand of bamboo. We had piled a load of brush in a clear area and had a merry little fire going onto which we threw the shrubs and branches and whatnot that we had cut down. Then we threw on a load of green bamboo with the rest of the branches.

Did you know that those chambers inside bamboo are actually pretty airtight? Did you know that putting it into a fire while green would result in steam pressure building up inside those chambers until they burst? Did you know that a large piece of bamboo can produce explosions sufficient to hurl chunks of fire in all directions so that you have to simultaneously dodge and try to put out a dozen small fires that have suddenly sprung up all around you?

Well, I fucking do now.
( Wanderer, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 13:47, 3 replies)

This
should win. Like an oasis among a sea of internet liez. Brill.
(mersault, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 15:41, closed)

This is fantastic
I know what I'm doing this weekend now :-D
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 15:59, closed)

bamboo bombs we used to call them.

bastard stuff.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 24 Sep 2010, 18:28, closed)