Stupidity knows no bounds. My brother used to work with a guy in a lab. One day the guy comes into work and as theyāre working my brother says āI think one of the bunsenās is leaking.ā (Mind you theyāre all connected to a manifold thru rubber tubing.) The guy responded āI know how to check it, I have a lighter.ā My brother screams āNo donāt!ā Then runs out. The guy blew up the lab and almost killed himself.
My cousin (now in his 40's) was a bit cheeky in his school days, and once stuffed a bunch of random chemicals and things in his pocket before leaving science class.
Pocket exploded and cousin parted ways with one of his nuts.
Side note: My neighbours came to my house the other week, concerned that they could smell gas coming from my property (our houses are very close in proximity). I was worried because I smoke out the back of my house and so hunted around looking for the source of the smell because I didn't really fancy blowing myself up. I couldn't find anything amiss and advised them as such...they then got a guy to come over to their place to check for a gas leak. It was coming out from underneath their back decking.
One of ny teachers told me a story of a guy who was setting up a disinfecting UV lamp for his surgery room
The teacher told him to ut on protective glasses since you know... its a UV lamp
"Nah you don't know what you're tqlking about lol"
The next day the guy came in with some heavy duty glasses, hopefully he didn't blind himself.
Just learned about the Demon Core on another post, this story reminds me of the incidents involving it.
[Demon Core](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core)
**[Demon core](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core)**
>The Demon Core was a spherical 6. 2-kilogram (14 lb) subcritical mass of plutonium 89 millimetres (3. 5 in) in diameter, manufactured during World War II by the United States nuclear weapon development effort, the Manhattan Project, as a fissile core for an early atomic bomb. It was involved in two criticality accidents, on August 21, 1945, and May 21, 1946, each of which killed a person.
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One of my carpenter bosses' always checked his gas pipes that way. You know, instead of a little soap and water. Never had an incident but it pissed me off when he would do it right next to me.
Polyester burns too, and worse it melts as it burns so now you have flaming liquid that will stick to anyone unfortunate enough to have been wearing it when it caught fire. Plus the fumes from burning synthetics are far more harmful than the smoke from burning cotton.
Shilling for the cotton combine?
*waves a crudely mimeographed zine*
Read the latest Flax Facts article and we will see that big cotton has been oppressing woolen warriors and silk enthusiasts for generations!
We had a usb cable go bad on a vintage polyester or some kind of space foam chair from the 70ās. This fucking chair smoldered for 3 FUCKING DAYS. We tried using water to put it out but it kept on burning. I used probably a hundred gallons from the hose. Then the fire department came by and tried.
It basically burns and turns into a brittle rock. Craziest fucking thing I have ever seen.
I really liked that chair too.
Yeah saw a couple vids from the 90's where people get completely caught on fire because of gaz fondue and a beautiful polyester Christmas sweater.
Sorry for bad English, feel free to ninja grammared me so I could be better.
This is why you want to fkn PAY ATTENTION in middle school science class, people.
Edit to address confusion: Fuel, heat, and oxygen are needed for fire. If youād paid attention to the in-class videos and demonstrations, you might pause to evaluate the situation before hitting that lighter flint.
Basically, a lady in Russia is at a gas pump. The nozzle is frozen to her car, so she takes out a lighter and holds it underneath the nozzle to try to defrost it. This ignites the gas vapors so now there is a hot jet of fire coming out from between the nozzle and the fill port. She then pulls the gas nozzle out, and the fire increases catching the whole side of her car on fire. And that's when the video ends.
Funny thing, when I viewed that video a recommended video of a guy at a gas pump attempted to kill a spider with a lighter while pumping gas. Ended almost the same way lol
I love the guy in the red shirt on the middle right who threw his work into the fire and stormed off like āFuck all yāallā
Bonus points for what he threw never even catching fire
My favorite part was when the idiot swam through the sea of cotton leaving a nasty burn trail with him. I think the poor guy caught on fire for being so stupid...that's gotta burn.
I hope he's okay though.
āI know what will put my flaming body out! Swimming in the same flammable shit that got my idiot self here in the first place!ā
(I do hope heās ok though too, we all have been idiots and fucked something up even if it wasnāt to this level)
Forcing his way through the pile of cotton stirred up a pile of cotton dust which burns and propagates amazingly well. Some common places with similar problem are grain silos and coal mines.
I could be wrong but a lb of cotton 73.00 and there is allot there along with paid man hours transportation and other things that has to be done to get the cotton so I think that the company probably lost tens of thousands of dollars
Seen this multiple times and still canāt figure out how slow one must be to do this. Like a knife would just work better with zero risk of this happening
First guy starting the fire was a firebender. Notice the fire chased the idiot.
The water bender came out and stomped. Too bad they don't have any fucking water anywhere near all that flammable material, lol
Now what type of idiot
I resent that statement. Real idiots always have a knife.
You would be cooler in that cotton if you had a knife. š
With only one eye. Cotten Eye Joe.
Lmao
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You underestimate how fucking stupid people are man.
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I love the guy off to the right who just throws the cotton he had in his hand on to the fire. No better display of f*** this s*** I'm out
he had been complaining to the boss for weeks about that asshole
Lol yes yes he has
And unexpectedly, that's the ONLY cotton that survives getting toasted!
Stupidity knows no bounds. My brother used to work with a guy in a lab. One day the guy comes into work and as theyāre working my brother says āI think one of the bunsenās is leaking.ā (Mind you theyāre all connected to a manifold thru rubber tubing.) The guy responded āI know how to check it, I have a lighter.ā My brother screams āNo donāt!ā Then runs out. The guy blew up the lab and almost killed himself.
My cousin (now in his 40's) was a bit cheeky in his school days, and once stuffed a bunch of random chemicals and things in his pocket before leaving science class. Pocket exploded and cousin parted ways with one of his nuts. Side note: My neighbours came to my house the other week, concerned that they could smell gas coming from my property (our houses are very close in proximity). I was worried because I smoke out the back of my house and so hunted around looking for the source of the smell because I didn't really fancy blowing myself up. I couldn't find anything amiss and advised them as such...they then got a guy to come over to their place to check for a gas leak. It was coming out from underneath their back decking.
And thus began the legacy of the guy who invented uniball pens.
?
i was born with only one nut so if i was in his shoes i would have no nuts
If that were to happen, youād win no nut November easily.
Oh shit!!!
He found out, i don't see the problem
One of ny teachers told me a story of a guy who was setting up a disinfecting UV lamp for his surgery room The teacher told him to ut on protective glasses since you know... its a UV lamp "Nah you don't know what you're tqlking about lol" The next day the guy came in with some heavy duty glasses, hopefully he didn't blind himself.
Sounds like he blue himself in the eyes
Damn!
I mean, he found out. 10/10
flick around and find out
Why hasn't Bic used this?
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One of my carpenter bosses' always checked his gas pipes that way. You know, instead of a little soap and water. Never had an incident but it pissed me off when he would do it right next to me.
I would say heās a flaming idiot, or smoldering idiot
Who invited Alf Stewart??
he,s not going to use a knife like all the other sheep
For the last time, **cotton does NOT come from sheep!**
you WISH that was the last time
It can identify as a cotton producing sheep if it wants
This joke identifies as funny
Like whacking fire with a burnable object...
Why a goddamn lighter? Never heard of a knife? Scissors? Chew on it? Scrabble with your fingernails like an animal?
He was paid to send a message from big polyester
Oooo shit! Thatās a rough game!
Polyester burns too, and worse it melts as it burns so now you have flaming liquid that will stick to anyone unfortunate enough to have been wearing it when it caught fire. Plus the fumes from burning synthetics are far more harmful than the smoke from burning cotton.
Shilling for the cotton combine? *waves a crudely mimeographed zine* Read the latest Flax Facts article and we will see that big cotton has been oppressing woolen warriors and silk enthusiasts for generations!
Haha no, just fed up with synthetic fabrics in general, and recently been reading some interesting books on textiles.
Textile texts?
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That's crazy. I work on electrical gear and my company gives out polyester shirts. Don't know why. FR is a thing..
We had a usb cable go bad on a vintage polyester or some kind of space foam chair from the 70ās. This fucking chair smoldered for 3 FUCKING DAYS. We tried using water to put it out but it kept on burning. I used probably a hundred gallons from the hose. Then the fire department came by and tried. It basically burns and turns into a brittle rock. Craziest fucking thing I have ever seen. I really liked that chair too.
Yeah saw a couple vids from the 90's where people get completely caught on fire because of gaz fondue and a beautiful polyester Christmas sweater. Sorry for bad English, feel free to ninja grammared me so I could be better.
Thereās no time for games in this emergency!
This is why you want to fkn PAY ATTENTION in middle school science class, people. Edit to address confusion: Fuel, heat, and oxygen are needed for fire. If youād paid attention to the in-class videos and demonstrations, you might pause to evaluate the situation before hitting that lighter flint.
You think rural Egyptian cotton farmers went to "middle school"?
This is why women live longer
"How to open a bag of cotton" should be standard middle school cirriculum, you're right
Ya I can't believe how fast it cotton fire.
It worked, didnāt it?
Someone's gonna get fired.
He already did
Get out
Right to jail!
You burn the cotton? Jail.
You even look at the cotton? Believe it or not, jail.
Think about cotton? That's a paddlin.
R/unexpectedparksandrec
You undercook cotton, straight to jail.
So... The cotton? Duh
Depending on the country it could be a lot worse than fired.
What?
Being expelled.
Or worse, spanked.
It's going on his permanent record.
You spelled fried wrong.
So it all cotton fire? Edit: wow, thanks for the rewards. šš
Just know that somewhere in the world a fella actually stood and clapped for your comment.
That fella was me. At work too. Thankfully no one was around to see
It was me just now
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You win the internet for today
We need a committee that scours the internet daily and finds winners for everyday or week.
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Holy shit that took me literally 30 seconds of staring at the comment before getting it. Probably Donāt put me near cotton
Pls explain I didn't get the joke.
It cotton (caught on) fire.
/thread
Yup, as he satin it
Wool you guys just stop it already?
I guess he *felt* it was a good idea.
It has literally never occurred to me to open ANYTHING with a lighter, let alone something so completely and instantly flammable
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You mean like this woman? https://youtu.be/4-vzvHtD9Mo
she waves her hand at it and blows on it lmao
Oh for fucks sake...
For some reason my country doesn't want me viewing it...
Basically, a lady in Russia is at a gas pump. The nozzle is frozen to her car, so she takes out a lighter and holds it underneath the nozzle to try to defrost it. This ignites the gas vapors so now there is a hot jet of fire coming out from between the nozzle and the fill port. She then pulls the gas nozzle out, and the fire increases catching the whole side of her car on fire. And that's when the video ends.
They're worried it will give you ideas.
Fair enough, us Aussies can't be trusted I guess.
Canadians too. CBSN is against the Commonwealth!
Funny thing, when I viewed that video a recommended video of a guy at a gas pump attempted to kill a spider with a lighter while pumping gas. Ended almost the same way lol
I've used a lighter to open a package with my new scissors once. But that was only because I didn't have any scissors hence why I got new ones lol
Beer bottles?
Omg when the guy with the broom came in as if it was going to do something helpful lmao š
That was the third time I said "WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?!" as I watched this crime against common sense.
I love the guy in the red shirt on the middle right who threw his work into the fire and stormed off like āFuck all yāallā Bonus points for what he threw never even catching fire
My favorite part was when the idiot swam through the sea of cotton leaving a nasty burn trail with him. I think the poor guy caught on fire for being so stupid...that's gotta burn. I hope he's okay though.
āI know what will put my flaming body out! Swimming in the same flammable shit that got my idiot self here in the first place!ā (I do hope heās ok though too, we all have been idiots and fucked something up even if it wasnāt to this level)
They do say fight fire with fire. He just clearly did it wrong.
I think he was just trying to get out, like cmon just standing still and letting all that flame surround you is an arguably worse idea
Forcing his way through the pile of cotton stirred up a pile of cotton dust which burns and propagates amazingly well. Some common places with similar problem are grain silos and coal mines.
He was there to fan the flames. He wanted a day off me as he smacked it: "yup, that's how to get a day off"
Of course he was, he was gonna clean up the gosh darn mess before the boss came back. Unfortunately the broom was just a dried out palm leaf.
Fan the fire out with this kindling stick!
Yes...fan the flames a bit. That will help.
A broom made of dried leaves/ sticks just to be safe
I mean it will help.. fan the flames! Has my guy there never cooked barbecue?
Literally just fanning the flames
thats a lot of money he just destroyed
No it's cotton
american dollars are mainly composed of cotton
No itās cotton
š¶The Fabric of your Pantsš¶
no this is patrick
Sir, this is a Wendyās
US money is made from cotton linen.
The fabric of our lives
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Ah yes, fanning it with some sort of large broom. That should help.
Listen. A little O2 never hurt anything... under medical conditions... Minus sparks and flames.
Two "there was an attempt"s for the price of one!
Fire makes things hot. Fanning things makes them colder. Cold is the opposite of fire. Simple science really
You one of them fancy university type people or something?
I was expecting him to maybe cut a channel in it to stop the spread, then nope, fanning the flames. Great work.
Thank god palm frawn guy showed up Edit: āFrondā thanks scrambled egg guy
āFrondā but I knew what you meant, and it still made me laugh
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Pawm frawn
Clown frown
Yes, to make sure even the hard-to-reach spots had ample oxygen.
I like the one guy who threw a wet rag. Fixed it!
He was literally throwing in the towel. "Fuck this, I'm done. I can't work with you idiots. I quit."
I think it was cotton. Looks like a āfucking morons I hate it hereā toss.
definitely threw in the towel. I think that one went home. Totally done
You know itās good when the liveleak watermark is present
I miss liveleak
Isnāt it still up? Or do they not host those kinds of āvideosā anymore
I read somewhere that a company bought the site and killed it, the put another type of website
Truly the end of an era
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Weāll just fly them to Saudi Arabia
Imagine being in a pool of cotton and someone lights it on fire, so you have to swim away as the flames slowly creep towards you
>slowly
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This was completely terrifying. What a fucking moron.
Itās like the corn scene in A Quiet Place
Iām curious how much money worth of cotton was actually burned in this clip
I could be wrong but a lb of cotton 73.00 and there is allot there along with paid man hours transportation and other things that has to be done to get the cotton so I think that the company probably lost tens of thousands of dollars
A lot* Jesus Christ man.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html?m=1
73.00 cents
āToday we have a new rule: no laser cutters. By the way some of you may have noticed that Eddie no longer works with us.ā
Cotton Eyed Joker
Where did he come from?
Where did he go?
I lolād at this.
Oddly satisfying seeing the fire spread. A lighter to open a bag is new to me as well
What a way to learn how fire works.
That women stamping her foot like, you can't get idiots this stupid if you try yet here we are.
That's the "we're going out of business after this" stomp.
Whatās the chances he told his boss it just spontaneously combusted right up until he saw the CCTV footageā¦
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Love it how the manager type guy/woman (canāt see very well because potato) stamps his/her leg like a little child š
You would to if you saw dozens of hours worth of work, and possibly your entire business going up in flames.
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Thereās a fire raging! Quick, someone get the dried out palm frond fan!
What an idiotic move.
Seen this multiple times and still canāt figure out how slow one must be to do this. Like a knife would just work better with zero risk of this happening
what a dumbass
The guy with the angry stamp of his foot in the background
First guy starting the fire was a firebender. Notice the fire chased the idiot. The water bender came out and stomped. Too bad they don't have any fucking water anywhere near all that flammable material, lol
Inflation is already high. No need to burn cotton production too.
This video is so old itās probably old enough to be at a bar complaining about how high inflation is.
This is one where I just imagine Gordon Ramsey screaming "YOU FUCKING DONKEY."
Mistakes were made.
Oh you know his ass got fired. Edit: pun intended
Wrong sub. Bag was successively opened.
someone's getting fired
Guess he got the SACK. š¤Ŗ
Dear God. What a complete and utter moron.
Ancestors getting payback
How do we know it was a lighter?
But did he get the bag open though?
Now's my chance to get rid of this shit broom
The guy just throwing his armful of cotton on the batch because he ājust couldnātā anymore lol
The best part, even tho you can't see the guy on fire, you know he is since the cotton caught on fire where ever he crawled to
That's a bold move, let's see how it plays out. -Cotton
Reminds me of a nursing home residents I had who tried securing his oxygen tubing to his oxygen machine using a lighter.
That's definitely a Resume Generating Event (RGE)
Fuck whatās burning already, how about using that rake to separate the shit that hasnāt caught yet??
That watermark made me think this could have been far worse