22/11/07
Your freezer could be a potential deathtrap -
Categories: 10/10 if you got the reference in the title. When defrosting a freezer (my new fridge-freezer arrives tomorrow - the first one I've ever bought from a shop - I feel all growed-up), particularly a severely frozen-over freezer, it's lots of fun to stab at the ice, making it break off like mini-polar icecaps. Don't get carried away though, like I did, and stab so hard at the back that you burst the compacted gas contained therein. It's dangerous. It contains ammonia, which is very painful when you get it in your eyes* - oh it burns and burns and burns. It can cause blindness. It's really bad. A sharp burst of this pent-up gas, in the face and possibly lungs, all because the Zanussi's being replaced by a Prestige 325. Hardly seems worth the risk to human life just to have cold beers.
*Luckily I had my glasses on. It pays to be a nerd.
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