"geoff" wrote in message
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In message op.wnqgt6qsytk5n5@i7-940, Lieutenant Scott
writes
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:10:22 -0000, geoff wrote:

In message o.uk, Dave
Liquorice writes
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:35:40 +0000, geoff wrote:

I'm not saying you can't set fire to it, but mature bamboo is very
dense and difficult to set fire to

It does burn and there is a danger of explosion from the air trapped in
each of the chambers... Bamboo is not a hollow straw but a stack of
sealed cylinders.

If you're working on a building site in India or Bangladesh,

They undercut our prices because they don't waste money on health and
safety.

bamboo catching fire is so far down the list of health and safety issues
that
its not even off the starting blocks

We need to ban the word "issue".

The major issue that should have been banned was your father's ejaculate -
we would have been spared the crap you post

Abso-****ing-lutely. He's a stupid P.Hucker.