Thread: Urban Myths. Number 1

I think you'll agree though the guy who drops the fag on his knob will almost certainly f*ck up BIG style........

[QUOTE=Denzil] If you drop a red hot cigarette between your legs when I'm there, I might hear you yelp - but I won't have to put up and endless diatribe of what Tracy's new boyfriend who only got out of borstal last week finks of big bruvver innit and the new burger king ain't bad and is be'er than the chip shop. QUOTE] Denzil, you crack me up

Quote: Originally Posted by Joystick But not as bad as dropping a red hot cigarette between your legs....the point I'm making is that there are lots of other destractions that are just accepted??? No, true. But relatively few people drop red hot cigarettes between their legs - the streets are littered with zombies oblivious to everything around them as they concentrate on their phone calls. If you drop a red hot cigarette between your...

Quote: Originally Posted by Joystick I'm sure you'll agree Odie that it's the amperage in this case that is likely to cause the spark, which is what I was driving at It read as though it was purely the Amperage that would cause any fire, which we know isn't entirely true, but those with less technical knowledge would assume to be the case. Demandcurve's point about refineries not being allowed mobiles yet having...

Hmmm. You still not allowed to take your moby onto the refinery but they run humongous electrical compressors.

Quote: Originally Posted by Odie - the power systems for the compressors will most probably be intrinsically safe for use in such and environment, whereas a mobile phone won't be. True. One of the things the company I work for does is operate oil tankers and any devices used on deck have to be intrinsically safe. In many cases this just unvolves having battery connections soldered and not clipped on (like the 9V ones) so if dropped...

Boiling an egg WTF none of us would be able to see to find a fecking egg if this were true all our eyes would be well fried by now due to the proximity of the modern mobile phone to ear arrangement we all use. RF damage is usually caused to wet bits first - eyes being paricurlary vunerabale due to the liquid in them.

Quote: Originally Posted by Denzil Well, your wife has. That's a point and the milkman doesn't even have a bloody phone.

Quote: Originally Posted by Redryder I can report, after a recent research session at a local pub on a very similar topic, that while lit matches and cigarette lighters will ignite farts, mobile phones most definitely won't, even when ringing ( ) or making calls. I don't imagine petrol would be much different. Redryder. Let me see if I understand this? You made a phonecall of someone farting to see if the phone would ignite the gas?...

Quote: Originally Posted by demandcurve Phones send a high energy pulse which is in the right range to ignite petrol vapour. Sorry, but they don't and it isn't. Mobile phones transmit a peak power of only 2W and due to the pulsed nature of the signals the average power is 1/4W or less, depending on the distance to the base station. There's nothing special about the frequency of mobiles (and what frequency anyway, there are...