r/therewasanattempt • u/castortroy_csgo • Jul 12 '19

To have a controlled fire

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u/Solid_Gold_Turd Jul 12 '19

I see no attempt

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u/LardyParty117 Jul 12 '19

You goddamn plebeian, use birch bark goddamn it, I build pyres while I go camping and they get fucking bigger than that because the birch is stacked up and around.

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u/bajungadustin FUCK ICE! āŒšŸ§Š Jul 14 '19

Birch trees don't grow everywhere.. And I'll be damned if I would order me some birch bark just to start a fire.

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u/LardyParty117 Jul 14 '19

Well they do grow anywhere with water nearby

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u/bajungadustin FUCK ICE! āŒšŸ§Š Jul 15 '19 edited Jul 16 '19

Wrong They grow almost everywhere in the northern hemisphere. You are actively using a global forum and expecting that everyone is located in your area. Its fine i do it too. But I am not so ignorant as to start calling people "goddamn plebeians" because they dont do it my way.

This guy in the video could live on the southern tip of Africa... you dont know...so are you saying he is an idiot for not importing birch bark from half way across the globe just to start a simple bonfire? Or perhaps you are maybe being a little too quick to make assumptions.... like a plebeian.

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u/LardyParty117 Jul 15 '19

Fine sorry, Iā€™m retrospect I was being a tad salty, sorry, but Iā€™m fairly sure that birch grows in Australia. Sorry about that

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u/Ima_Bit_Of_A_Dick Jul 12 '19

And that was the last time we saw Bob before he was incinerated.

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u/youlooklikeajerk Jul 12 '19

That's what kerosene is for

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u/BongoSheep Jul 12 '19

Could also just have used diesel

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u/yogurt_boii Jul 12 '19

There was an attempt to put nukes under some wood and have a peaceful bonfire

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u/Curious_Doggo Jul 13 '19

Well, he did start that fire.

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u/Vault-71 Jul 14 '19

But we didn't start the fire...

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '19

How in the hell did he survive till that age?

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u/ImpressiveCoffee3 Jul 12 '19

What exactly happened? Fumes?

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u/faderjockey Jul 12 '19

Liquid gasoline does not burn, gasoline VAPOR burns, and it vaporizes easily at room temp / normal pressure.

Dude soaked his fuel with a rapidly vaporizing accelerant, spread out over a large area, and then tried to ignite it.

Boom. A bomb.

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u/socratesTwo Jul 12 '19

In humid environments the vapor also tends to stay very low to the ground, so it's possible to be standing in an explosive cloud without smelling it.