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» The best thing I've built
7ft Cake
As a structural engineer I have alot of good answers, like a film studio. But my crowning achievement is when I built a 7ft entirely edible cake.
It was a competition for the queens jubilee to build the tallest and most interesting cakes between 4 groups of engineers. 3 of which had full corporate backing, Arup (wobbly bridge fame) had bought cement mixers and had all the junior engineers on shifts for a week. Unfortuntely our team weren't as well resourced, we represented the Institution of Structural Engineers and were formed of myself, my mate and 2 random students who we met for the first time 2 days before the event. Our humble background didn't stop us though, armed with 100kg of chocolate and 30kg of Rice Crispies we moulded our cake to look like a giant cake stand with pillars and platforms. We fixed it together with melted chocolate and covered it with smaller cakes, winning the Most Beautiful Cake award!
Of our competition 2 of them collapsed, first Arups, due to over ambition then expedition engineering due to the rain!
So yes, 7ft, totally edible, no dowels, metal, wood or plastic. Chocolate and rice crispies are a very tasty building material.
the best picture on the net is on MSN.
news.uk.msn.com/diamond-jubilee/your-diamond-jubilee-pictures
To see arups collapse check out youtube.
youtu.be/xiLjBM3SEfI
p.s. the crowed took it all away, bunch of scavengers. Even the pieces from the ground!
(Sun 14th Oct 2012, 23:43, More)
7ft Cake
As a structural engineer I have alot of good answers, like a film studio. But my crowning achievement is when I built a 7ft entirely edible cake.
It was a competition for the queens jubilee to build the tallest and most interesting cakes between 4 groups of engineers. 3 of which had full corporate backing, Arup (wobbly bridge fame) had bought cement mixers and had all the junior engineers on shifts for a week. Unfortuntely our team weren't as well resourced, we represented the Institution of Structural Engineers and were formed of myself, my mate and 2 random students who we met for the first time 2 days before the event. Our humble background didn't stop us though, armed with 100kg of chocolate and 30kg of Rice Crispies we moulded our cake to look like a giant cake stand with pillars and platforms. We fixed it together with melted chocolate and covered it with smaller cakes, winning the Most Beautiful Cake award!
Of our competition 2 of them collapsed, first Arups, due to over ambition then expedition engineering due to the rain!
So yes, 7ft, totally edible, no dowels, metal, wood or plastic. Chocolate and rice crispies are a very tasty building material.
the best picture on the net is on MSN.
news.uk.msn.com/diamond-jubilee/your-diamond-jubilee-pictures
To see arups collapse check out youtube.
youtu.be/xiLjBM3SEfI
p.s. the crowed took it all away, bunch of scavengers. Even the pieces from the ground!
(Sun 14th Oct 2012, 23:43, More)
» Public Sex
As a pillow
Tragially I cannot claime this as my own, but its got to be shared.
I was at a party when the music stopped and the drinks ran out everyone fell asleep on the floor space was tight, my mate and his girlfriend started to get frisky and they did the dirty when everyone was asleep. Only in he morning with lights on did they realised the girlfriends brother's chest had been used as a pillow for their love making. Fortunately to this day he doesn't know.
(Thu 23rd Apr 2009, 14:02, More)
As a pillow
Tragially I cannot claime this as my own, but its got to be shared.
I was at a party when the music stopped and the drinks ran out everyone fell asleep on the floor space was tight, my mate and his girlfriend started to get frisky and they did the dirty when everyone was asleep. Only in he morning with lights on did they realised the girlfriends brother's chest had been used as a pillow for their love making. Fortunately to this day he doesn't know.
(Thu 23rd Apr 2009, 14:02, More)