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Let's build forts!
2006-11-12, 3:05 PM #1
Anything to avoid doing homework, you know. 50 feet of coaxial cable, my bedsheets, and some other items such as a CRT monitor and LED Christmas lights for lighting, and voila, we have ourselves a fort:

[http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k133/kyle901/DSCF1679.jpg]

[http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k133/kyle901/DSCF1681.jpg]

[http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k133/kyle901/DSCF1682.jpg]

I watched Battlestar Galactica in here earlier; it was fun.
Stuff
2006-11-12, 3:12 PM #2
*standing ovation*

I do stupid crap to avoid homework too. Last night I soldered a usb-xbox controller cable that I don't even need.
2006-11-12, 3:30 PM #3
I did that ALL the time when I was a little kid.
2006-11-12, 3:57 PM #4
Needs a "No girls" sign.
Or for the more mature a "No fat chicks" sign.
2006-11-12, 3:58 PM #5
Originally posted by Axis:
I did that ALL the time when I was a little kid.


Same here. :)
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2006-11-12, 4:04 PM #6
*AWESOME IDEA!*
Make it completly dark and then at midnight play through System Shock 2!
2006-11-12, 4:09 PM #7
Originally posted by Tiberium_Empire:
Or for the more mature a "No fat chicks" sign.



Because you're obviously the best at giving advice to the more mature of us.


I loved making forts and stuff as a kid. Don't have the needed stuff at the moment, but if I ever make one I'll take pics >_>
"Jayne, this is something the Captain has to do for himself"

"N-No it's not!"

"Oh."
2006-11-12, 4:26 PM #8
Extra points to the first person to score with a chick in their fort. :P
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2006-11-12, 4:31 PM #9
THAT would be awesome.

Girl "What's THAT?"
Kyle "It's a fort."
Girl "..."
Kyle "..."
Girl "That is SO sexy."
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2006-11-12, 4:32 PM #10
Why am i in the same room?
Or am i just Omnipresent?
2006-11-12, 4:41 PM #11
Heh, I had a bunk bed when I was a kid and did that all the time.
"DON'T TASE ME BRO!" lol
2006-11-12, 4:44 PM #12
I did too.
Pissed Off?
2006-11-12, 6:04 PM #13
Easiest fort evar!

Step 1: Close Door.

Step 2: Turn Off Lights.

Step 3: Add Atmosphere.

Step 4: Profit!
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2006-11-12, 8:31 PM #14
The fun comes from the difficulty/awesomeness of building it.
2006-11-12, 8:40 PM #15
My favorite part had to be the enclosed feeling.

Weird I know.
"DON'T TASE ME BRO!" lol
2006-11-12, 8:49 PM #16
My friend and I made a fort out of his wierd couch a while ago. It was the perfect make-out cave. In fact, he was going to use it for that. (But those plans got ruined)
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2006-11-12, 8:54 PM #17
Originally posted by Axis:
The fun comes from the difficulty/awesomeness of building it.


I agree. I'm already drawing up plans for the next iteration; it's going to have a rigid roof support structure and a door along with all the amenities of the current fort. ooooh and my mini-fridge would fit nicely in there.

A mini-fridge AND a computer; if it had a bathroom I'd never have to leave!
Stuff
2006-11-12, 9:03 PM #18
Originally posted by SMOCK!:
My friend and I made a fort out of his wierd couch a while ago. It was the perfect make-out cave. In fact, he was going to use it for that. (But those plans got ruined)


Because the the girl was like "WTF? A make out fort? Bye, loser."?
Pissed Off?
2006-11-12, 9:04 PM #19
that's awesome. Damn, I just clean when I'm procrastinating. That's much cooler.
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2006-11-12, 9:35 PM #20
Originally posted by Avenger:
Because the the girl was like "WTF? A make out fort? Bye, loser."?

No, because smocc didn't feel right with it, as much as the other guy wanted to.
2006-11-12, 9:38 PM #21
I'm building a fort tomorrow
2006-11-12, 10:35 PM #22
You think thats good? My cousin and I, when we were about 10, built a fort with my grandma's furnature cusions, a coffee table, two chairs, and 3 sheets. We both had a place to lay, had a TV, a radio, and the best part, a FULLY FUNCTIONAL cushion 'duct' if you will, that routed AC from the vent into the fort. MMM innovation.
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2006-11-12, 11:13 PM #23
Originally posted by Avenger:
Because the the girl was like "WTF? A make out fort? Bye, loser."?
No, because something else came up that day and then when she did come over there were a bunch of people there.
Ban Jin!
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2006-11-13, 1:08 AM #24
So?! It's a FORT! You can't see inside, silly. :ninja:
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2006-11-13, 1:40 AM #25
Back when me and my brother were kids we also built these. Then one time our mom decided to help us, and the fort ended up filling almost all of one room, and it was practically a small enclosed labyrinth made of numerous pieces of various furniture items, blankets, sheets, cardboard... It had only one exist, numerous corridors, dead-ends... The only thing missing was a second story due to issues of structural integrity and safety (that was probably the price of having your mom involved in the process. After all, safety is not a word belonging to a kid's vocabulary...)
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2006-11-13, 4:52 AM #26
<3
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2006-11-13, 5:02 AM #27
The only forts I was ever bothered about buliding as a kid were made from bits of wood, metal sheets, trees and barb-wire if we could find it. They usually only lasted a few days as the older kids always nicked the wood for fires. Pity there was no razor wire around, it might have lasted longer then ;)
Mind you, we got enough cuts ourselfs with the barb-wire.
2006-11-13, 10:34 AM #28
Where the hell did you live?
2006-11-13, 11:12 AM #29
Bad news: the fort collapsed last night while I was sleeping in it due to me accidentally knocking out a support.

[http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k133/kyle901/DSCF1685.jpg]

Good news: now I can build version 2!
Stuff
2006-11-13, 11:15 AM #30
I hope you weren't hurt.
Sorry for the lousy German
2006-11-13, 11:17 AM #31
Not seriously; I got two broken ribs from the impact when the bedsheet fell on me but that's it other than minor bumps and scrapes.
Stuff
2006-11-13, 11:18 AM #32
Thank God for that!
Sorry for the lousy German
2006-11-13, 11:42 AM #33
You have a smalle bed :x
"Jayne, this is something the Captain has to do for himself"

"N-No it's not!"

"Oh."
2006-11-13, 12:18 PM #34
Kyle, do you still live in the U of T res?
COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY
2006-11-13, 12:49 PM #35
Yep, that I do. I like it here.
Stuff
2006-11-13, 12:51 PM #36
Are you in the building that overlooks Nathan Phillips Square and the ice rink?

Not that I'm coming to get you or anything, but some nights I play hockey there.
COUCHMAN IS BACK BABY
2006-11-13, 1:01 PM #37
89 Chestnut? No, that one is actually off campus. I'm a few blocks north of there.
Stuff
2006-11-13, 1:38 PM #38
Forts were fun. We used to take the cushions and pillows off the couches and set them up into a fort. Large boxes were also a good find. Nothing spectacular, but fun nonetheless.
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2006-11-13, 2:08 PM #39
Yeah, I also used sofa cushions. Then we'd jump on top of it, because it was nothing but padding. Of course, missing the cushion and hitting the metal support bar with your head isn't fun...
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2006-11-13, 2:42 PM #40
Oh yeah? Well one time, me and my friend accross the street went to some house that was being renovated and we made a fort out of cinder blocks and wire mesh. And we made a fence around it with orange "fence material" and planks with rusty nails sticking out of them. It was cool for the couple of minutes it lasted.
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