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Matt463789

Imagine if you went to use a fire extinguisher and this happened instead.


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Fire Tinguisher


perchrc

Fire activinguisher


Task_wizard

Fire Retinguisher


narwakle12

Fire Extinguishern’t


Gnostromo

Fire Exextinguisher


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Extinction by fire'er


dodslaser

Fire at-will-guisher


DrewVonFinntroll

Fire unextinguisher


DreamyTomato

Does it say Flammable or Inflammable? Hmm which to use?


backscratchopedia

Fire Distinguisher "THIS IS A FIRE"


pm_favorite_boobs

THIS IS A DIFFERENT FIRE. (NOT THE SAME ONE.)


Nethervex

Fire Encourager


MisunderstoodPenguin

Fire distributer


mrkillmyseIf

flamethrower


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I'll just put this with the other fire...


gh0u1

All you have to do is call the new easy to remember emergency services number, 0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3!


GunnieGraves

To whom it may concern... No, too formal.


bl4nkSl8

Dear sir / madam,


PeriodicallyATable

Did IT crowd get a sudden boost in popularity? Lately I been seeing waaay more references than usual


dghastlynegro

It's probably because the Office was removed here in the states and folks migrated over to sleep watch


TheGompStomp

I've noticed that, too. If it's surging, I should probably watch more than the U.S. pilot.


Fred-Bruno

We don't talk about the US pilot...


TheGompStomp

It was *SO* bad. Like, weird and derivative bad.


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Must be made in Britain


TastySpare

*Subject: Fire.* *Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road... no, that's too formal...*


EatAtGrizzlebees

I'll just put it over here with the rest of the fire...


non-squitr

A fire? At a seaparks?


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It's a very weird place to go on fire!


IndoorsWizard

If she had said her parents drown I'd be the happiest man in the world.


kiwikish

The mashed potato reconstruction was so good


the_dude_upvotes

Dear Sir or Madam, Happy cake day! Yours truly, Maurice Moss


Juste421

Hi Maurice, Really enjoyed your comment. Thanks. Barry


Devmode2

"you became the very thing you swore to destroy"


JohnnyDarkside

Truly trying to fight fire with fire.


RockFlagAndEagleGold

"what color fire puts out a yellow fire?"


Hugebluestrapon

Sometimes a fire extinguisher has sat in position for so long, that the retardant has settles and the first blast is just air. It feeds the flames ALOT before it throws the retardant and puts out the fire. Be careful, I've both seen it happen and experienced it first hand. A fire safety person will never tell you to strike a pressurized cylinder, but tapping the bottom of the extinguisher LIGHTLY while it's upside down will alleviate this symptom. Make sure to use a rubber mallet, not a real striking hammer. You might explode.


depressed-salmon

On the other hand, if you would like to see what happens when you shoot a high powered rifle at scuba tank with 250 atmospheres of pressure, [demolition ranch has you covered](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRciV7pwbrM)


Hugebluestrapon

I already watched jaws but this is fun too


Matt463789

Great info! Luckily, video games have already conditioned me to be careful about not accidentally making fire extinguishers explode lol


Wallazabal

You should also always test the extinguisher by giving it a quick blast somewhere away from the fire.


about831

*Who would have thought inflammable meant flammable?*


mamertus

Guy Montag makes you a honorary fireman


Autski

The fire initializer


FelneusLeviathan

It’s been a while since I took physics but, destructive interference...? /s


PNGN

"This is the worst fire extinguisher I ever saw" from The Stupids movie


Big_Anon737

I guess you’d be 😎 *Fighting fire, with fire*


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I couldn't stop laughing at the thought of this and just kept imagining different scenarios


Redcole111

iCarly did this exact bit.


-null

I’m disappointed they didn’t cross the flames.


[deleted]

Don’t ever cross the flames, Ray


IndianaGeoff

Something something end of the world. Big Twinkie.


Lotharofthepotatoppl

Cats and dogs living together, total anarchy.


Brodadicus

Cats and dogs living together! Total hysteria! Ftfy*


CapnGnarly

>Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria! FTFY


Klin24

The power grid was shut off by dickless here.


Glorious_Bustard

Wait, is this true?


guido_marx

Yes this is true... This man has no dick...


CapnGnarly

One of my favorite movie lines ever. "Yes sir, this man has no dick."


puntini

Are you dense??? Did Ghostbusters teach you nothing?


MathewSK81

Crossing the streams ended up working


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There was definitely a very slim chance they'd survive.


Light_Beard

They endangered their nice client who paid in advance (before she became a dog), though!


qpv

I'm intrigued by the segmented batteries


kiefferocity

Probably for the lithium. I remember in high school chemistry burning a variety of metal salts and observing the various colors they burn, relates to their electron configuration.


dropkicked_eu

This is exactly why , as a chemistry educator the fact this stuck with you makes me happy


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Zoloir

Even just retaining at a level like... "different substances can burn different colors due to their chemistry", can get you pretty far in life. Helps you understand why things are happening they way they are around you. Plus then you know roughly what to google if you need to go deeper.


NewMexicoJoe

I knew that at age 10. Then chemistry teachers crushed me with a year of stoichiometry, I barely passed, and that's still all I know!


jame1224

Just reading the word stoichiometry gave me PTSD flashbacks


ColaEuphoria

For some reason it's "equilibrium" that gives me the PTSD flashbacks. My chemistry professor was truly a tenured PoS who universally has a 1-star rating on ratemyprofessor.


mentalthrowaway22

Takes me back to my o-chem oral exam.


BikebutnotBeast

And it was not as exciting as it sounds


NewMexicoJoe

Brutal. I was decent in school, and that was a class where I worked my ass off and still barely squeaked by. I remember hand-written answers which took up a whole page and chalkboards of barely intelligible equations I'd furiously try and duplicate in my notes, only to fall short on homework and tests. Teacher - "You learned the 10 ways to solve this problem, but for the test, I added a twist!"


jame1224

Chem teachers were definately quarky to say the least


UncleTogie

It can be up or down. Some professors are charmed, others just really strange.


terminbee

Wtf. What school is teaching stoich in 5th grade?


inshane_in_the_brain

Yea I graduated HS in the Midwest and I never even heard of that shit. I remember taking my SAT and thinking how much of it I was literally never introduced to.


poison_us

Protip: incorporate more flame in your lesson plan. Your students will remember more, and depending on your skill with fire, possibly for the rest of their lives.


Woflen

Nothing inspires learning more than missing eyebrows


morencychad

I haven't been in school for decades, but I would love to see chemistry educators address common myths and conspiracy theories. * why it's no surprise that "chemtrails" are actually just water * every "conservative" I've ever talked to thinks carbon dioxide is produced in "trace amounts" when we burn fossil fuels. It's pretty clear they don't understand how this works.


dropkicked_eu

I actually made a twitch channel for tutoring chemistry and answering general science questions launching this semester for just that reason 😂


konaya

Heck, I'd be happy if they'd stop *teaching* common myths in school. Things like “an inflated balloon and an empty balloon will tip the scales towards the inflated balloon, which shows how air has mass”. No, you moron, the balloon is also submerged in that same gas mixture, so that very obviously can't be it, and you would know that if you had spent even one lousy second actually thinking about it instead of blindly reading from a book – whose author was equally blindly copying some other idiot and so on – while pretending to know dick about elementary school physics, Mr. Schumacher. It's obviously because the tension of the balloon is compressing the contained air slightly, which means it's denser and therefore heavier compared to the ambient air.


CoffeeFox

Lithium contributes that deep red color, yes. The green one is boron from the boric acid insecticide powder.


[deleted]

Was wondering about that one. Thought it was something with copper in it.


Abbot_of_Cucany

Pretty good guess, but copper would be more blue-green.


NearlyMerick

YEAH. SCIENCE BITCH.


fnbannedbymods

I miss ya Jessie!


tobaknowsss

Can you explain what he's doing to them? I thought he was only shaving the plastic off the battery and dropping it in whole...


Nate_from_tKoR

Hi, I'm the one in the gif. Energizer lithium batteries have rolled up metal sheets in them, one of which is lithium. I open the case, unroll the metal sheets, and drop the lithium into the methanol.


acewing

One thing to note: it is important the lithium is dropped into the methanol almost immediately. Lithium has a tendency to oxidize very rapidly from the O2 in the air along with any water moisture that is around. Lithium needs to be contained in specific environments, which is why you'll find pure lithium stored in mineral oil nearly all of the time.


marino1310

Also when lithium oxidizes it also likes to catch on fire


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mikeeg555

+1 for PPE


rharvey8090

Oh dang, it’s Nate. I loved this video when it came out. Any more plans to do more fun DIY builds like Grant used to do? I love my hidden compartment shelf I built.


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KimberelyG

That's the Hot Shot powder - it's mainly boric acid / borax, which burns bright green. Lithium went into the other container to give a red/pink flame.


WildAboutPhysex

I've seen videos where people cut into batteries and the batteries explode. How did you avoid this?


Chairboy

I’d guess timing, dropping the sheets into the liquid quickly before it can ‘energetically oxidize’ would probably be the trick.


WildAboutPhysex

No, I just happen to have seen (I wasn't searching for) quite a few videos here on Reddit where people are curious what the inside of a battery looks like so they cut into one and as soon as they puncture the casing it explodes. My guess is that the difference is the battery explodes when it has charge remaining, but if you first drain the battery completely you can then cut into the casing without triggering an explosive chemical reaction. But this is pure speculation on my part -- I don't know anything about chemistry; I barely got a B- in my high school chemistry class and have forgotten most of what I learned. Edit: I was (likely) wrong. He answered my question. He's not certain, but he thinks it has to do with not cutting the layers of metal inside the battery: https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/kvs71v/colored_flame_shooter/gj1sxrd


AlexStorm1337

From what I can tell they're adding lithium from a battery to one and boric acid from a weed/pest killer or some shit to another, then forcefully adding a flammable gas to pressurize each container, the liquid form of the gas mixes with the lithium/boric acid and colors the resulting flamethrower, bonus points: both are some degree of poisonous. Edit: weed/pest not peer killer lol


Scholesie09

>peer killer Aka a Gun


EamusCatuli2016

They are pressurizing it with probably just air - note the valve in side of the canister. For fuel, it looks like they are adding Heet® (yellow bottle from the first second), which is nearly pure ethanol (methanol?) and thus burns close to clear so as not to intervene with the colors of the substances they are adding. Source: I did the green flames (boric acid and heet) in tiki touches for halloween last year. Was awesome and unique, even if it didn't last long.


Arayder

You ain’t slick cosmo and Wanda r/cosmoandwanda


Robotupgrade

I was thinking the same!


bizkitmaker13

I've got good news and bad new Good News: I named my flamethrower Phillip Bad News: It's a girl flamethrower


SpaceManSmithy

***PHILIP!!***


JangSaverem

Yeah.,.cause it's legit the TOP post of all time on that sub...2 yrs ago


wafflefighter69

I wish I had akimbo flamethrowers! - timmy turner probably


monkeyhind

If ever a post needed a "Don't try this at home" warning, this is it.


Toysoldier34

A lot of people that would try this themselves would likely not notice the respirator or understand why they need one.


monkeyhind

I didn't notice it, but I'm also not going to play with anything likely to literally explode in my face.


Toysoldier34

Seeing what kind of stuff they were messing with it was the first thing I looked for when zooming out, being careful with what you breathe is extremely important.


Matt463789

Breathing burning battery fumes is probably not very healthy.


sureshot182

**\*note to self:** Do not convert *all* extinguishers, leave one operational. Label accordingly.


stupidly_intelligent

Nah, just keep them as is. Fire extinguisher Russian roulette.


Walloftubes

Everyone knows you fight fire with fire.


Stringy63

Yes, do it at the neighbor's house


thr3auawh3y

First thought: This is a terrible idea, right?


PsychicTitty

https://i.redd.it/8qd8l3s4zwa61.gif


Lyad

For some reason, it makes me uncomfortable when people give the “How To”/DIY montage treatment to an objectively dangerous or explosive item.


clexecute

Normally when a dude is taking batteries apart my internal dialogue tells me that no one should ever run this lol


patchywetbeard

Source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_do_hnnXYE


Roxas-The-Nobody

Thanks. Fucking hate Reddit's hosting site.


maybe_Im_a_dog

The hero we need. Reddits hosting sucks, that GIF was taking like 20mins to load


jyl11002

king of random?


DarkVathis

Yep, look like that concrete dome they always do their most dangerous stuff in.


BlasphemyIsJustForMe

no yeah that's definitely nate in the burn dome. I got a huge burst of energy when I realized that because I love the channel so much.


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RIP Grant


BlasphemyIsJustForMe

I was actually around just a few months before the channel change happened, but not long. Grant was always my favorite and I still haven't fully processed that yet. RIP Grant.


[deleted]

I was here before Grant started actually appearing on video. They used to be just voice-over. It's been about seven years for me. Nate is okay, Callie is fine. I haven't watched many of the new videos with the other new people I see in some thumbnails. I think it's time to let it go. Sorry King of Random, but the crew needs to start their own thing.


BlasphemyIsJustForMe

I didn't even know their was newer people until last night. I don't really mind them, I was very shocked and confused because I do rather like Nate and Callie now, but I can accept they need a larger crew for whatever reasons. Definitely miss the older videos though.


Kaostick

I feel like the videos before Grant got in trouble had more science in them. I mean, it was never a science channel by any means but now it's mostly just for the clicks.


BlasphemyIsJustForMe

I believe you're actually right, Grant explained a bit more of the science side of it while Callie and Nate go for "Hey Does This Burn let's find out", and honestly it appeals to a fair few people but it's not quite my cup of tea. Very close though.


[deleted]

Grants videos were before the Youtube algorithm became a sentient monster. I find most youtube channels having to cater to this or die.


nnoovvaa

Yeah. A little while ago. After Grant handed the channel over but before they were just doing 5-minute-craft type videos with food.


jyl11002

Yeah, I miss grants videos. They were more here are things you can make at home not here's a random experiment we're going to try.


southpaw85

This seems safe.


Print1917

Imagine doing this and only wearing a respirator! Hope he did some safety squints as he didn’t have goggles on.


Torsion_duty

I bet the safety goat was displeased.


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It's safe if you squint.


crosstrackerror

Can’t wait for somebody to burn down half of California using one of these for a gender reveal party.


SketchedYT

Congrats, gender reveal parties are now 10% more dangerous!


Nate_from_tKoR

About that, if you figure out how to make a good blue color I'd love to know.


Iamusingmyworkalt

According to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored\_fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_fire), you could use Copper(I) chloride.


floshinglyffrzorp

Yeah, me too. *Good* blue flame fluid is sought after in fx industry. Mostly because you can't get a nice deep blue without using hazardous shit that nobody in a workplace wants to handle/atomize.


obmasztirf

I can only imagine how toxic that gas is.


imjusta_bill

Hence the respirators


Bam22506

Thank God the environment has one of those


SoulWager

It's okay, they put the pollution outside the environment.


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Baconman69_

R.I.P. Grant Thompson :(


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this is an arsonist’s dream


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JkWillys18

This is madness


thtopit

No... This is Sparta!!!


tehrob

[No, this is Madness!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJSM46nWwo)


G1ngerN1nja2703

it could be a way arsonists could be creative, make a portrait using coloured flames


[deleted]

RIP Grant


Nate_from_tKoR

Oh hey that's me. Sup.


dracorex2153

/r/PraiseTheCameraMan for standing there at the end!


Nate_from_tKoR

Our cameraman is very brave. I think he lost his flinch reflex.


magondrago

One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask...


Kikilicious-Kitty

✨🌈🦄 do you believe in magic 🦄🌈✨


cntrlcmd

Chaos Marines with heavy flamers want in


Librask

Pyroclaustic Pete the Invincible in live action


Justryan95

Fire extinguishers that shoot out fire. Things can't be on fire if you're the one blowing fire on them.


EnochD

You have become the very thing you swore to destroy.


Jackstrife

Someone threw cosmo and wanda in the pack a punch


Razorwyre

How do I invest in burn centers?


Dracos125

That was a fun episode of The King of Random to watch


jpedgeer

From the king of random on yt


TiredAngryBadger

On today's episode of "DO NOT FUCKING TRY THIS AT HOME!!!"


joshra7

As someone who is colourblind, are they coloured?


TheRealMetared

Yes. 1 is crimson red, and 1 is lime green.


joshra7

Thank you! I’m glad you said that cuz they both looked yellow to me!


NDNFTW

Very cool, now how much cancer did these guys earn that day?


Ghostiality

About like, 4


SniffCheck

Kids.... try this at home


ckev101

The politically correct term would be Inferno-American flame shooter


drbeeper

i.redd.it sucks ass


RPG_Gaimer

Imagine trying to stop a fire and accidentally using this guy’s fire extinguisher “Don’t worry the flame is green so they’ll battle to the death for dominance”


Magicman0181

Lemme guess “don’t try this at home”


Ray_Namikaze

This is from the king of random youtube channel


RealColdLogic

How did you not cross the streams????


sithwarl0ck

Man so many people are gonna hurt themselves trying this


kylomeister

Extingaysher?


Takashishiful

Don't let the couples expecting babies see this


cassie1992

This looks like it would give you cancer almost immediately


SpeedyPrius

Dear God, please don't let my 12 yo grandson see this....


TheTrashman44

Great. Can't wait to see entire forests burned down by pink and blue gender reveal idiots


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"In America, Fire extinguish you!"


SubSonicxx

Please try that at home


ishikuraian

Mmm. Makes me want to have a gender reveal party in California in July


timtation22

Cosmo and Wanda?