New stupid - fire challange

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Back in my day people didn't make fun of dangerous stuff like fire.



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Nah...we all knew people that did stupid stuff. We even did stupid stuff. However, few records exist to prove it.

 

No, it’s got more of a fillet smell to it. Like a quality beef, for sure. Unless it’s someone like Oprah, then it’s more of a pork odór.

 

I remember pouring a small amount of methylated spirits in the back of my hand and lighting it, it would normally burn off before your hand got hot.

 

Anyone remember putting your finger through the flame on a candle? It is amazing how little heat there is near the base of a candle flame.

Disclaimers: Don't hold it there, just pass it through. I am not responsible if you are dumb enough to try this and get burned.

 

Growing up, pinching out candles was the norm.

 

I know I've told this once before but I loved burning that nylon, plastic type rope as a kid. It'd drop flaming magma drops off it that made an awesome "zip" sound. One time a drop landed right on my knuckle, I was either 10 or 11. Hurt quite a bit, but then I went to peel off the "plastic" drop and it took the skin right with it. The bone of my knuckle was quite visible. I still have the scar, quite noticeable when you look at it.

 

Oh no, I wasn't that smart. Short version, gasoline on a hot motorcycle engine and maybe a spark, whooooosh. I did the moon walk, the worm and invented krunking.

Second time (yeap) tank split, dumped race fuel on a hot engine, saw what was happening and remembered the fun from the first time and got away with (relatively) minor burns.

 

I remember the outrage at Beavis and Butthead over Beavis screaming "Fire!" a lot, and the resulting episode with them working at a fast food joint so we could hear Beavis screaming "FRier, FRier!"

 

That was one of the things my brothers and my mini army men were exposed to. BB and pellet guns too.

 

and REAL M-80s and Cherry Bombs, not the emasculated things they sell these days.

 

It's really a shitty prospect. In the olden days a good majority of the idiots walking the Earth today would not have ever even been born. Marriage and parenting for everyone is only a somewhat recent phenomena. Couple that with a much more abundant food supply and more advanced healthcare and you have shit tons of less than fit people (physically, mentally, etc) making up so much of the population.


At least it makes for good internet memes and Youtube footage I suppose...

 

I remember when our chemistry teacher told us acetone would just burn itself out...more than one person was squirted and set on fire that day.

 

We blew more shit up than even I can remember. And the tin can cannons and lighter fluid....we had that shit down to a science.

 

Do you remember bangsite cannons?

 

I think my oldest brother had one but I was very young and as I started my pyro stage in life don't recall messing with it or it even being around anymore. My mom probably got rid of it lol!! I remember her not wanting a Black Sabbath album brought into the house so I had to hide it and only play it on the down-low.

 

Have you ever heard of "long pig"?

 

We still have an original working one that was my fathers when he was a kid. The powder is still available.

Edit - looks like you can still buy them: https://www.bigbangcannons.com/

 

But was it intentional?

 

They are a good bit more spendy than they were in the 60s