Metro

The Metro is a fine newspaper. It’s exactly the length of a train journey and rarely becomes taxing enough to use up all your brainpower before you reach work.

Yesterday it had an article on antibubbles. Apparently antibubbles are just like regular bubbles except they sink instead of floating to the surface like regular bubbles do.

An antibubble is a bubble of liquid inside the same liquid, separated by a thin film of air. The Metro outlined a method for creating antibubbles at home. All you need is a bowl of water and some washing up liquid.

Create a bowl of soapy water using this equipment and scoop some out with a jug. Slowly pour the liquid back into the bowl. Increase the pouring speed until you read that magic speed (Roughly 88 miles per hour) when antibubbles form.

You should see bubbles forming below the surface and sinking to the bottom where they burst and look like a jellyfish.

Did they heck.

Someone at the Metro is laughing at me today. “Ho ho ho, I wonder how many people actually tried that antibubble thing. Ha ha ha – twats.”

At least the paper redeemed itself slightly this morning by dedicating a quantity of its letters page to the debate ‘What is better? Ninjas or Pirates’

Rightly, pirates were winning the debate.

Add comment December 23rd, 2003