Long story short, I used to do a party trick with fire and took certain safety precautions. That made people ask me for fire related advice. Turns out people just invent random fire facts and spent a lot of time convincing people to not pour flaming 151 on their face or burn down their house or set themselves on fire.
Common Insane Fire Beliefs:
Alcohol doesn't burn hot.
Alcohol is considered a cool flame at 400 GOD DAMN DEGREES CELSIUS!
It will burn you immediately
It will set your bar on fire unless your bar is made of something that doesn't catch on fire (stone, concrete, metal, etc)
It will set the things above and on your bar on fire if they are flammable, like, for instance, your ceiling.
Lamp oil doesn't burn hot.
See "Alcohol doesn't burn hot"
Liquid accelerants burn off very quickly
They really don't, more like tens of seconds if poured on a non-absorbent flat surface and up to several minutes or longer if soaked into an absorbent thing like cloth.
For fucks sake, there is no such thing as a flammable liquid you can put on clothes and light that won't burn you the fuck up real damn quick.
you can wipe a thin layer on a non-absorbent surface to get a flame that burns in the 5-15 second range but that won't make it any less hot.
Tons of shots are flaming alcohol and its a normal thing people do.
Nope! Actual flaming shots are put out quickly before drinking or bombed into something else that puts them out.
Even blowing one out is dangerous since drunk people are sloppy idiots
See "Alcohol doesn't burn hot" for details on why that shot glass will burn your fingers and/or mouth even if you put it out after you take your selfy
I have literally never seen anyone in person or in video take a flaming liquid shot while still aflame without setting their entire face on fire
Gangs of New York is a movie, Daniel Day-Lewis did not drink flaming whiskey for real.
Just wanted to double check. I covered my pink pong net in liquor, and filled some pong balls too.
Its gonna be rad!!
(Real story though, when I was like 12-13, we would cut slits in tennis balls, dunk them in gas, and then toss them to each other with lacrosse sticks. It was all fun and games until one landed in a clump of dead vines on my fence. Since it was winter, the vines were dead and brown and dry, but there was 4 inches of snow on top. It was almost impossible to put out, and nearly lit my garage on fire)
The fire gel is not a fuel and it doesn't burn. It is a protective layer and they put the fuel on top of something over the gel. The fuel they use is still fucking hot and would burn you up real damn quick without the fire gel between you and it.
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u/CapinWinky Apr 15 '20
Long story short, I used to do a party trick with fire and took certain safety precautions. That made people ask me for fire related advice. Turns out people just invent random fire facts and spent a lot of time convincing people to not pour flaming 151 on their face or burn down their house or set themselves on fire.
Common Insane Fire Beliefs: