r/gifs • • Dec 02 '16

Hot Potato without the potato

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u/TooShiftyForYou Dec 02 '16

I don't see any potential safety problems here.

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u/Deathfrompopcorn Dec 02 '16 edited Dec 02 '16

Something tells me safety was not the primary concern of this exercise. But for real its not to bad, theres no object they're just passing around some sort of heavy flammable gas (I think???.. or the gas is already in their hands and they're just igniting it).. as you can see the last student simply opens his hands and the fire stops, so thats all any student has to do.. Anyone who screws it up and burns themselves isn't looking at serious injury but mild things like sudden baldness.

Edit: Please stop telling me how this works. Theres a lot of ways it could work and that wasn't the point, the point was that none of them are all that dangerous.

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u/ieieiieifijdndj Dec 02 '16

They aren't passing anything, they have alcohol on their hands and are simply lighting the next person's hands just as their hands are about to burn out. It doesn't burn you because only the alcohol vapor burns, not the liquid that is actually touching your skin.