I heard that when Lemuria were touring the UK they failed to understand the concept of an electric kettle and managed to melt one by putting it on a cooker. So there are still ways for your housemates to destroy the new kettle and the surrounding area.
A few years back a friend of mine was extremely drunk at a party. Out the back of the house there were these massive sheets of glass on the ground, they must have been at least ten foot long. So he decides that the most sensible thing to do at this juncture is to take his top off and go sliding along one on his back. He does so, and gets up grinning since it had been fun and nothing bad had happened. The he goes down it again, and this time he left an enormous swear of blood right along the glass. Everybody freaks out and they see he has an enormous gash in his back. He didn't notice because he was too drunk to feel pain. They took him to the hospital to get it stitched up, but not before he insisted on seeing it in the bathroom mirror and getting a polaroid of himself looking over his shoulder at the camera and giving a thumbs up for posterity.