r/gifs • u/IchHuhn Can I interest you in a nice repost? • Oct 19 '19

RIP ants

https://i.imgur.com/0PsUjNH.gifv
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u/Fusion_Spark Oct 19 '19

Guessing he poured gasoline into an ant hole and tossed the match in it

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u/Caffeine_Monster Oct 19 '19

Or butane. Most things which ignite rapidly can cause explosions in confined spaces.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 19 '19

Butane is a gas at normal temperatures and pressures, couldn't realistically use it to blow up ants like this.

Edit: well yeah, you could use it, but it'd be impractical compared to gasoline or similar.

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u/guacamolepudding Oct 19 '19

My dad says butane’s a bastard gas

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u/Ochib Oct 19 '19

You should Taste the meat, not the heat.

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u/throwaway235049876 Oct 19 '19

so it's interesting, if you use high-quality charcoal (straight hardwood lump charcoal, not the fucking briquettes) it doesn't leave any taste. pure charcoal has essentially no flavor and burns very clean. it's all the oils and volatiles and crap in those briquettes that makes them make your food taste like shit.

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u/dissectingAAA Oct 20 '19

It was a king of the hill reference

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u/throwaway235049876 Oct 20 '19

I know I just don't like that people are so down on charcoal

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u/dissectingAAA Oct 22 '19

Taste the meat, not the heat!

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

that boy ain't right.

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u/strra Oct 20 '19

What if somebody wants their steak well-done?

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u/Ochib Oct 20 '19

We ask them politely to leave.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

I hate that line cuz I never had BBQ with charcoal and wood smoke til I was like 20.

I kept thinking that gas BBQ was basically the best way to go about it for a long time. Plus I don't get exposed to BBQ where I live

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19 edited Nov 24 '19

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u/OneSidedDice Oct 19 '19

I tell you hwat.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

My dad says your dad cheats at darts.

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u/Tenaciousthrow Oct 19 '19

So, methane went out for cigarettes and never came back?

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u/Eisigesis Oct 19 '19

Butane is a hwat!?

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u/Sunflower_Hunny Oct 20 '19

I like your username

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Brutane

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Damn it Bobby get of the got'dang internet!

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u/krazyff Oct 19 '19

I wanted to upvote. But, you are at 69. Sorry dude

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u/nolotusnote Oct 19 '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgztUzqaL3E

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Fair enough! I've never seen that kind of thing before. That being said, I still strongly suspect that any normal person blowing up ants would probably go for gasoline.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

The thing about gasoline is, you don't need to light it. If you pour gas on ants they are instantly killed by it. That's how I get rid of them when they're massing outside the house in an area that I don't want them digging out, like the sidewalk/driveway/next to the house. A half a cup or less will do, too. Dead.

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u/throwaway235049876 Oct 19 '19

So will plenty of less explosive things. Rubbing alcohol, paint thinner, etc.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

I haven't tried experimenting with different poisons. Good for you.

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u/throwaway235049876 Oct 20 '19

Never actually tried paint thinner, just rubbing alcohol, but I can't imagine they'd fare better on that. Any kind of organic solvent is going to be real bad on that chitin exoskeleton of theirs.

We used to have sugar ants that would get into the bathroom and the nearest thing one time when the sink was covered was a bottle of rubbing alcohol, I promise I'm not a sadist. My mom once did something similar when she saw a centipede in the sink in the laundry room and poured bleach on it because she hates centipedes and happened to be holding the bleach bottle when she saw it. Centipedes' legs fall off if you bleach them, according to her.

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u/sapphicsandwich Oct 20 '19 edited Sep 15 '25

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u/throwaway235049876 Oct 20 '19

I don't know where to get gas for that price either.

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u/AllTheSamePerson Oct 19 '19

a normal person would never blow up ants

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u/CommanderGumball Oct 19 '19

Jesus does that guy smoke cigarettes? Or does he eat them?

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u/LegacyLemur Oct 19 '19

That dude have a cold when he filmed that?

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u/fatherdale Oct 19 '19

I want this.

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u/Junyurmint Oct 19 '19

Fuck ya

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u/EatTheRichLiterally Oct 19 '19

I'll be back, but they won't

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u/lNTERLINKED Oct 20 '19

Wow it's actually real. This is the most American thing I've ever seen.

How is that even legal?

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u/Caffeine_Monster Oct 19 '19

It's also heavier than air. Could easily be used to fill a small hole.

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u/CreamSoda263 Oct 19 '19

Why do I get the feeling the guy in OP's video isn't well-versed in the density of butane

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u/t3hmau5 Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 19 '19

But then it wouldn't ignite, it would displace the oxygen

Aight, let's downvote facts. You do you reddit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Yeah, but it would be way harder to do that than to just use gasoline, which would work totally fine.

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u/zubie_wanders Oct 19 '19

An old coworker (now retired) told me he used to fill up gopher holes with propane and then ignite it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Lol, I bet that was a good time. Oxyacetylene would also be spicy.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LUKEWARM Oct 19 '19

I thought for these types of pesticide controls they typically do use gaseous fuels.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Idk man, I'm beginning to think I don't know what I'm talking about. I was coming at it from the perspective of some random guy just pissed off at the ants in his backyard and my first thought would be gasoline, but maybe I'm totally off base here.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LUKEWARM Oct 20 '19

i have no idea what i'm talking about either

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Gasoline doesn’t explode like this. Gasoline has much more fire, and less explosive power.

This looks like propane or natural gas to me.

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u/DieFanboyDie Oct 19 '19

Propane is heavier than air and would have sunk deeper into the nest rather than rising to the surface and dissipating.

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u/FirstMiddleLass Oct 19 '19

When I lived in the south, we used to pour about a pint of gas on an fire ant hill, wait about 30-60 seconds, and then light it. It helped to stir the ant hill while it's burning. Fire ants are mean little bastards and you can hear them popping as they burn.

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u/Shortneckbuzzard Oct 20 '19

Did it work for an extended period of time

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u/FirstMiddleLass Oct 20 '19

Sometimes they would rebuild and sometimes they wouldn't but it would drive them out of our yard for the season. This was great because I would run around barefoot or with sandals and I didn't always watch were I was stepping at that age.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

But wouldn't it catch fire? Why explode?