David Gerard11 years ago i told my stepdaughter she probably shouldn't put 45 candles on a cake
as her mother's daughter, her response was entirely predictable
Comrade elronxenu@davidgerard Teach them binary. Problem solved.
Lotus@davidgerard Happy birthday!
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@davidgerard
So 56 then? Wow. So many!
So 56 then? Wow. So many!
adb@davidgerard If you plant all the candles closer together you can get one big inferno going up.
It really helps to have a microtorch (for leftpondian values of torch) to quickly ignite all the candles before the heat drives you back.
Another family favourite is building a log cabin or sometimes a palisade of chocolate fingers around the top of the cake and getting that partially melted.
@davidgerard @Arkady We have a cattle prod, does that count?
At one point however the younger offspring were toasting bread to varying degrees of doneness to determine if there was a setting at which it was still damp enough to pass a spark but dry enough to catch fire, and sadly determined it wasn't powerful enough for those curves to meet.
The Eldest was especially disappointed because he'd given the prod to us his parents for Christmas in hope we'd use it to keep those two in line.