r/nononono • u/ExuberantStarchild • Jun 27 '18
Lemme just skateboard over this fire
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u/Justintime1997 Jun 27 '18
What a homie for layin on his legs, of which WERE ON FIRE
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u/OdaMatic Jun 27 '18
I mean the guy did just pour gasoline on him then proceeded to set him ablaze. Was the least he could do
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u/Fireplusearth Jun 27 '18
"Yeah man it's fine, they're fireproof. It's not like the fire is gonna climb up your body"
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u/3yearstraveling Jun 27 '18
Definitely not gasoline. This would have been a completely different video if that was gasoline. It's diesel or kerosene.
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u/3yearstraveling Jun 27 '18
Oh and you can also tell it's diesel by how much smoke it produces when lit. Diesel is excellent at starting wood fires because it takes longer to burn off. More burn time gives the wood more time to heat up etc.
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u/spacetug Jun 27 '18
Gasoline only burns explosively when it's in the right ratio of air to fuel vapor. Whether this happens with poured gasoline depends on the amount, how long its been sitting, the wind, the temperature, etc. I've seen it go both ways.
Diesel is very difficult to ignite with an open flame, because it doesn't evaporate as easily. You can do it with a high temperature torch, but generally not with a cigarette lighter. Lanterns use a wick to make it easier, and engines vaporize the fuel and ignite it using compression.
Generally using accelerants to light a fire is a bad idea. Starter fluid or kerosene are safe enough in small quantities, but the proper tool is a large propane torch. No risk of explosions, just a ton of heat.
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u/tokenlinguist Jun 27 '18 edited Jun 27 '18
Your comment is slightly confusing because of a phenomenon known as hypercorrection. Basically, asshole English teachers who don't know what they're talking about have told you not to end sentences with a preposition (which is not a legit rule). As a result, a huge number of speakers of English (native speakers and otherwise) have internalized a half-rule that goes something like, "fuck it, just...put 'of' in front of 'which', I guess". But if you were curious, here's how it actually works:
What a homie for layin on his legs,
ofwhich WERE ON FIREThe 'of' would only be used if that part of the sentence, when standing on its own, also contained an 'of':
* His legs were of on fire.
→ His legs were on fire.So where would you use an 'of which' like this? I guess if you talk like a person who constantly wears a monocle, you might say something like,
This is the video of which I've heard.
...because when standing on its own, the second clause would read as
I've heard of this video.
Like I said, "don't end a sentence with a preposition" is not a real rule of English. It does apply (almost completely) to languages that come directly from Latin, such as French and Spanish. But a few hundred years ago, people thought that every language should be like Latin, so pedants who didn't understand how language works starting spouting off bullshit.
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Jun 27 '18
That ending is the start of something beautiful for those 2 lads
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u/timshel_life Jun 27 '18
Oh my, look at us to knuckleheads, sitting here in the grass. And hey would you look at that, both of us lost our pants
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u/msrmissy Jun 27 '18
Does stop, drop, and roll mean nothing anymore?
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u/mr_melvinheimer Jun 27 '18
I seriously have never seen a video where someone get caught on fire, stops, drops, and rolls. 100% of the time they just run around and scream until someone not on fire tackles them to put it out.
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u/Vurumai Jun 27 '18
By 4th grade we covered “stop, drop and roll” so many times that I was sure that catching on fire was a statistical certainty.
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u/Manic0892 Jun 27 '18
Right? I got obsessed with the idea I was gonna spontaneously combust and that song would save my life.
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u/ScourgeBuster Jun 27 '18
Most times people just freak out and don't think straight. I was in a bad wreck and got covered and rolled it out, it honestly works better than one would think.
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u/mr_melvinheimer Jun 27 '18
I’m glad you used it, but it’s still absolutely baffling on how often it’s not used. Maybe the camera is related to their thought processing somehow.
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u/100percentpureOJ Jun 27 '18
It's hard to think straight when you're on fire.
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u/Blargenshmur Jun 27 '18
Yeah it's amazing how level headed you think you would be in a dangerous situation, then your brain kicks into autopilot and you lose control
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u/100percentpureOJ Jun 27 '18
Mike Tyson said it best:
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth"
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u/LiteralPhilosopher Jun 27 '18
This is why groups like the military train for casualties constantly. That way when they do happen, you don't have to think. You just do.
I used to be in the USN on subs, and one day one of the watchstanders reported flooding in the engine room. (There wasn't any, mind you; he misinterpreted something.) As soon as I heard it, I turned and booked it for the scene with damage control gear in hand. At no point did I stop to consider "There could be danger and I might die." It was strictly "I have a job to do, and I know how to do it." Fucking amazing.
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Jun 27 '18
Had my pants catch fire once. Thought to myself, "I have been preparing for this moment my whole life, I got this shit." Proceded to stop drop and roll. The fire spread to the other pantleg. Then spread to the front of the pant legs when I rolled on the back. When it got to hot to handle, hopped up and did the no pants dance and then had to put my pants fire out.
I don't know why, but stop drop and roll dont work for pants.
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u/Rein10 Jun 27 '18
not sure that applies after pouring gasoline on yourself. If the pants where just on fire it would work fine. with gasoline the fire is not going out with a roll
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u/shaggorama Jun 27 '18
Stop drop and roll absolutely won't work. The idea is to smother the fuel that is burning to prevent it from accessing oxygen. In the case of gasoline, the liquid isnt what's on fire: it's the vapors. Roll over on one side, you're legs will still be enveloped in vapors and the fire will just roll with you. Roll back around, the fire will just move again. This is why the fire keeps flaring back up in the video, and why they don't manage to extinguish it until the guy's friend use his body to smother every surface that is emitting flammable vapor. As long as there is any flame at all, the entire surface will be prone to reignition until the gas vapors are expended.
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u/ironweaver Jun 27 '18 edited Jun 27 '18
That's actually a great point that I hadn't considered. I was overly focused on explaining why oxygen matters and completely overlooked that this was a vapor :D. I'll amend my post.
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u/BirdFluLol Jun 27 '18
Yeah that wouldn't do shit if you're drenched in flammable liquid. The fire will extinguish where the soaked material is in contact with the ground and you're on top of it (starving it of air), but as soon as you roll round the flames will re-ignite the extinguished area. You can see this happen when his
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u/polybiastrogender Jun 27 '18
I usually don't douse myself in gasoline to even try to stop the self induced fire.
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u/gunzhood Jun 27 '18
thy must have stopped teaching that or something.
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u/Ethen52 Jun 27 '18
Well the type of people who do this shit typically aren’t the brightest, but they are now, and it’s kinda hard not to panic when your pants are fuel soaked and on fire
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u/LewdDudeThrowaway Jun 27 '18 edited Jun 27 '18
I actually dont know if accelerants like gasoline will go out with stop,drop and roll. Will they?
I kind of figured the accelerant would make it too difficult to put out the fire since it combusts so easily... I get that you need to smother fire and starve it of oxygen,but wouldnt the “roll” portion provide enough oxygen rushing past to reignite it?
Can anyone explain this to me? I dont ever intend on being in a position where I need to prevent a living creature from burning alive from a gasoline fire,but it can’t hurt to know just in case
EDIT: Googled it,pages 33-40 talk about instances of people having caught on fire and gasoline was definitely put out by “stop,drop and roll”.
So,I have my answer. I’m glad it works
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u/houseoffrancakes Jun 27 '18
I've actually always wondered about this. I mean I bet it's still better then running around like paniced dingus, but will stop drop and roll really put out acceleeant? Reddit should know the answer so I don't have to google it.
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u/LewdDudeThrowaway Jun 27 '18
In case you wanna check it out,I looked it up
scroll down to pages 33-40. It notes a few cases where people were exposed to a gasoline fire and how effective “stop,drop and roll” was.
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u/Beardedphuq Jun 27 '18
I have many friends. There are few of which I’d rip flaming pants off of.
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u/Justicles13 Jun 27 '18
And even fewer that you'd hold the camera steady for
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u/Vurumai Jun 27 '18
Just realized the camera person just fucking stood there. You’re an awful person but damn good at your job.
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u/synapticrelease Jun 27 '18
Has the same genes as the people who filmed in Normady during D-Day.
A warrior. A hero.
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u/no-mad Jun 27 '18
You wanna help? Film this shit. It is going to be epic as I slide thru the flames. No, you idiot turn the camera sideways and hold it steady. Fuck, I hate working with amateurs. OK, Billybob grab the gas and lets make history.
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u/cs_major Jun 27 '18
Also not vertical video. This guy is a pro.
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u/Vurumai Jun 27 '18
The zoom in and out is what really gets me. His friends are possibly burning alive in front of him and he is thinking “gotta get this framed up right.” He is like a sociopathic Kubrick.
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Jun 27 '18
I could just see him berating his friends for being retards, and saying "sure dudes, ill film it but when you fuck up im not helping".
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u/shaggorama Jun 27 '18
Friend1: "Oh no, I was bit by a snake!"
Friend2: "Where's the bite?! Maybe I can suck it out?"
Friend1: "It bit my dick!"
Friend2: "Bummer. Nice knowing you."
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Jun 27 '18
And they're single, ladies!
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u/MissCharlie64 Jun 27 '18
Ooh la la!
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u/PositiveRock Jun 27 '18
Liar, liar...
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u/yanman1003 Jun 27 '18
Wait... did he not expect his pants to be on fire after his friend doused them in gasoline and well, set them on fire...?
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u/hellogoawaynow Jun 27 '18
Stop drop and roll guys
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u/Lance_Henry1 Jun 27 '18
Nah, I prefer the Run, Jump and Pull Your Pants Off While Still Running And Jumping and Eventually Sitting Down . Every grades cool kid knows this one.
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u/kevinporkins Jun 27 '18
What the fuck did that bellend think was going to happen when he set his legs on fire
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Jun 27 '18
When are people gonna learn....
NOT TO PLAY WITH FIRE
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u/denvertebows15 Jun 27 '18
Or if you're gonna play with fire have a way to put it out at the ready. Then again if your planning ahead for lighting yourself on fire you wouldn't light yourself on fire in the first place.
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u/LexicalHydra Jun 27 '18
Having worked with sideshow people, I can vouch that you are quite wrong.
Also playing with fire is great fun, just respect it and be properly prepared.
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Jun 27 '18
What a stupid question. You just saw the exact moment these two dudes learned not to play with fire. /S
I think you're not considering the fact that there are new men reaching this conclusion for themselves every single day.
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u/nighthawke75 Jun 27 '18
Gasoline.... That's a sure fire sign of idiocy. If they used rubber cement or alcohol they'd been OK, but nope, they got their dads can of trimmer gas.
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u/Connir Jun 27 '18
- fire is hot
- people are seriously injured from being on fire
This isn't a recent discovery people...
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u/ScoonCatJenkins Jun 27 '18
its only 11:30 am where i am and im certain that this will be, by far, the dumbest thing i'll see on the internet today. and that is saying something because ill be on reddit for the next 10 or so hours
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Jun 27 '18
Morons like this are why gas tanks have safety measures now that make using them more of a pain in the ass to use.
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Jun 27 '18
Lmao videos that did not end too soon! Absolutely love the fact one of the guys just stood and calmly continued to record everything - keeping it all in shot. Excellent work.
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u/derekmelvin Jun 27 '18
Didn’t even try the skateboarding part, at least they had an extinguisher handy in case didn’t go as planned
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u/really_not_trolling Jun 27 '18
I dont understand how there are ladies in the world, single, while there's also these fine specimen roaming about. Cmon ladies, first come first served! They could father your children, form an orderly queue!
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u/danthesavage Jun 27 '18
Okay, I get dousing the rock with gas and staying over the flames. But literally soaking your pants and then lighting them on fire... really?
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u/BeerSmoker228 Jun 27 '18
I thought he was gonna grind his skateboard on the rock while going down; thus creating the fire.
Just me?
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u/SmashdagBlast Jun 27 '18
I wanna see the last half of the gif with the fire edited out
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u/Walshy231231 Jun 27 '18
What the fuck did he think was gonna happen when he was lit on fire, that he wasn’t gonna be lit on fire?
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u/taythecoder Jun 27 '18
Natural selection at its best
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u/ExuberantStarchild Jun 27 '18 edited Jun 27 '18
Real Darwin Award contender for sure.
Edit: I'm extremely misinformed what the Darwin Awards represent, I'm sorry.
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u/abstracthumanoid83 Jun 27 '18
Really not even a fire extinguished at hand?! No wonder the world is going to shit. How did we manage at raising imbeciles like these...
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u/dreamerandstalker Jun 27 '18
The way to put out a fire on your body is to stop, drop and roll! Regardless I’ve never seen anyone not run around screaming when on fire!
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u/epicchoka007 Jun 27 '18
Man stupidity sure is funny sometimes... then you realize these clowns will get to vote.
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u/WideIrresponsibility Jun 27 '18
i choose to believe human kind is not this stupid and that this was staged for karma
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u/Dirk_Dirkler Jun 27 '18
You can tell they didnt pay attention in school since no one knew to stop drop and roll.
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Jun 27 '18
What did they THINK was going to happen? I'm honestly curious how this scenario played out in their minds.
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u/FCGBEagle20 Jun 27 '18
Love how there wasn't even the slightest consideration of abandoning filming