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[–]LSU_Tiger 64 points65 points ago

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Spraying whatever is in that can in yours eyes would hurt badly enough.

Now imaging spraying whatever is in that can WHILE IT IS ON FIRE into your eyes.

I don't even.....

[–][deleted] 44 points45 points ago

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It might hurt less, actually, since much of the substance that actually stings is burned off...?

I may be completely wrong.

[–]MrBradd 136 points137 points ago

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I think you forgot about the Fire.

[–][deleted] 30 points31 points ago

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The fire isn't burning your face, it's burning the product. As long as the flame isn't sustained, you should be fine.

[–]tymmbee 31 points32 points ago

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Makes sense to me! Brb, going to try it now.

[–]foomp 14 points15 points ago

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What happened?

[–]manueljs 36 points37 points ago

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RIP tymmbee!

[–]motophiliac 2 points3 points ago

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And his cat. We'll miss you, tymbbles :(

[–]GrouchyMcSurly 37 points38 points ago

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Natural selection.

[–]Zeppelanoid 22 points23 points ago

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It went okay.

[–]anachronic 5 points6 points ago

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I've done similar things when I was a young pyro with lighting little pools of lighter fluid in the palm of my hand.

As long as you blow it out after a few seconds, it doesn't even feel hot.

Sustained fire is what does damage. A micro-second burst of lit hairspray (or whatever this kid had) probably didn't even scar him or do any damage as long as he kept his eyes closed and don't inhale it or anything

[–]GuffinMopes -1 points0 points ago

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Yeah it probably didn't even leave scars. Don't be a pussy!

[–]elmanchosdiablos 2 points3 points ago

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I saw a guy get his eyelashes singed by a spraycan flame and he had some irritation in the eye for a while afterward. My guess is the flame dried out his eyeball.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Sounds delicious

[–]unclerummy 0 points1 point ago

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Yeah - when you bite into it the aqueous humor squirts out and more than makes up for the dried out surface.

[–]ThaddyG 0 points1 point ago

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I love it when the retina is still runny, gives me something to dip my toast in.

[–]Recoil42 5 points6 points ago

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In this instance, the fire mostly likely wouldn't be in contact with his face long enough to actually heat it to any dangerous level.

I have to agree, in this case it probably hurt less.

[–]nickx37 11 points12 points ago

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At most it would singe an eyelash or eyebrow. I had a gas grill that wouldn't light, so I decided to close the lid, let it run 30 seconds open the lid and light it. I had no eyelashes left, and it was a hell of a ball of flames. No skin burn or anything, its not nearly hot enough or long enough contact to do damage.

[–]noughtagroos 19 points20 points ago

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Don't extrapolate from the fact that you got very lucky. ER doctors see lots of less fortunate people who made poor choices with their gas grills.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points ago

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Well they're not gonna see the fortunate ones are they?

[–]noughtagroos 0 points1 point ago

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Not unless they keep tempting fate ...

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[–]johnq-pubic 1 point2 points ago

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What is the purpose of Cattle Clipping ?

[–]Tack122 0 points1 point ago

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It is pretty much a haircut, it helps reduce illness and parasites too.

[–]norsurfit 1 point2 points ago

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I'm no scientist, but I think the fire is the hurty part....

[–]lukeatron 1 point2 points ago

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You're line of thinking is legitimate but you're failing to account for the fact that it's still burning off when it hits his face. Fire stings too.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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"Your line of thinking..."

Sorry, pet peeve.

I understand fire hurts, but only if it's burning your skin. The fire is burning the product, not your skin, at this point.

That's why you can put a shot of alcohol on your arm and light it on fire. No hurty. Just don't keep the flame going for more than a quarter second.

[–]lukeatron 5 points6 points ago

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Well, if you want to get needlessly pendantic about it, the part that hurts is the destruction of your tissues. Fire has two ways of bringing that about, chemical change by oxidative reaction (i.e. the fire is consuming your tissues as fuel) and mechanical damage from the heat. Your tissues are chocked full of water and need to get quite hot before the fire will consume them (at normal atmospheric concentrations of oxygen). If you ever get a burn of that type, it's going to be a terrible, terrible burn and will only happen after significant damage of the second type.

The second type is mostly the result of water boiling and exploding the tiny vessels that contain it, e.g skin cells. This is highly dependent on the temperature of the fire. Your alcohol example works because the alcohol burns at a relatively low temperature. It takes a second or two for it to put out enough heat to cause damage, even when it's on the surface of your skin. If you used a higher energy fuel, gasoline for instance, there would still be a delay but due to the much hotter flame temperature, it's going to be a lot shorter. With enough heat, your skin cells act like popcorn kernels.

So all that said, depending on the fuel source (whatever was in the can), it easily could have burned the shit out of his face in that short period, especially delicate tissues like skin on your eyeballs.

[–]fokov 0 points1 point ago

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...and I just read that Beavis and Butthead are required to have a come back...

[–]monkeiboi 22 points23 points ago

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It's a trailer for an upcoming foreign movie trilogy.

"The Boy with the rub on dragon tattoo"

"The boy who shouldn't have played with fire."

"The boy that kicked the hornet's nest...four times."

[–]ImpenetrableTaco 56 points57 points ago

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Boy-genius strikes again!

[–]eternalkerri 20 points21 points ago

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and thats why Dr. Venture kept clones of Hank and Dean around.

[–]theswedishshaft 1 point2 points ago

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But now I guess they'll never see the Quickening.

[–]onse 7 points8 points ago

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Well that was clearly going to go wrong, it's as obviously stupid as this gem.

[–]The_Egg_Man 4 points5 points ago

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No stop drop and roll?

[–]marshal_mellow 2 points3 points ago

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What the fuck? What liquid is that? Is anyone dumb enough to do that with gasoline? And I speak as a man whos lit himself on fire with zippo fluid a number of times.

[–]mark445 1 point2 points ago

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I actually quite enjoyed watching that.

[–]kcb2 39 points40 points ago

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Natural selection at work...

[–]POTUS 16 points17 points ago

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Unfortunately I do not think he has eliminated himself from the pool of available breeding partners.

[–]smithdorm 16 points17 points ago

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Practice makes perfect.

[–]mr_jellyneck 6 points7 points ago

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Not having eyebrows and eyelashes will make getting laid significantly more difficult though.

[–]Zeppelanoid 5 points6 points ago

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Stan Sitwell agrees with you.

[–]mr_jellyneck 1 point2 points ago

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I hope that guy carries a spare bowl of candy beans.

[–]anachronic 1 point2 points ago

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In fact, he's probably made himself even more desirable to some other equally brilliant teenage girl.

[–]dallashigh 1 point2 points ago

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I don't think he was ever in that pool.

[–]spcjns -1 points0 points ago

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not yet, but he's well on his way

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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i'm sure he'll be a Darwin Award winner one day.

[–]IcedZ 12 points13 points ago

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... says idiot girl

[–]ftc08 0 points1 point ago

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Ya know, they might be assholes, but the eugenics movement might have been on to something.

[–]neuromonkey 4 points5 points ago*

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Wow. I'm having a crap day, but at least I haven't shot my self in the face with flaming propellant. Yet.

Once, while very fucked up on several things, I decided that it'd be clever, while wearing a motorcycle helmet, to squirt lighter fluid onto the top of my head and light it on fire. Lighter fluid, you'll be shocked and amazed to learn, has a very low surface tension, and it flowed quite readily to the bottom of the helmet. When I managed to eject the engulfed helmet from my head, I was treated to the sight of a roomfull of absolutely astounded faces and astonished silence. Finally someone said, "You face was on fire!" And we all had a good laugh. Me, without eyebrows.

I probably won't be doing that again!

[–]defproc 1 point2 points ago

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The phrase "your face was on fire" is guaranteed to bring joy to any situation.

[–]neuromonkey 0 points1 point ago

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And so it did. And so it did.

As Tiny Tim then said, "God bless us, every one!"

[–]lmnoPoop 3 points4 points ago

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Maybe he was trying to extinguish the lighter with a nice cool spray of mist

[–]moolcool 4 points5 points ago

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Why was he videotaping this?!

[–]unclerummy 1 point2 points ago

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So when he's telling his buddies about it later, he can overcome their silly "nobody's that stupid" objections.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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As someone who's literally had something similar happen (though, not as stupidly my fault). He's going to enjoy the burns on his face, lack of eyebrows, eyelashes, etc. Had to do an overnight in the hospital and keep burn cream on my face for a few days. Took a while, but the eyelashes and eyebrows grew back.

[–]anachronic 0 points1 point ago

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I had a friend that attempted to take a flaming shot of everclear (i know, really dumb idea, but in her defense, she thought it was sambuca, which i guess made it seem safer to her at the moment). Anyway, she managed to get half of the shot on her face and it stayed on fire. It was burning for like 4-5 seconds before I noticed her standing there in shock with blue flame all over her chin and was able to grab her and put the flames out.

Her skin was all fucked up for a couple weeks, needed burn creme, etc... but thankfully there wasn't any permanent scarring or anything because we got her treated quickly and correctly.

I'm no doctor, but from what I've heard, burn severity & scarring is usually very dependent on length of exposure and how quickly you can get treatment.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I was in high school when mine happened. 4am I get a ball of fire in my face. Your immediate response is "okay, that sucked, but I'm fine"

Five minutes later your face is on fire. I washed it in cold water and thought I'd be fine. Then I saw the burned hair. I ran to the freezer and got a bag of ice for my face. It kept getting worse, and worse and worse and worse until I had to beg my parents to take me to the emergency room.

The nurse told me if I hadn't have kept ice on my face for a while I would've ended up with permanent scars.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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surely my friends will respect me after this

[–]SLDeviant 7 points8 points ago

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Why?

[–]philosoraptocopter 1 point2 points ago

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Have you never seen an axe commercial? then clearly you have never been gleefully raped by 14,000 supermodels.

[–]tkilgore -4 points-3 points ago

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If you wear axe you are an asshole, 100% of the time this rings true. If you like the way axe smells on a guy, you are a douchette and also an asshole. This is also true 100% of the time.

[–]philosoraptocopter 1 point2 points ago

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Exception: if you wear Ax and are under 14, you are temporarily excused.

[–]tkilgore 2 points3 points ago

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Right, kids aren't assholes because they're kids. I'll even give you a pass up to like 16 or 17, because high school can be a confusing place where one might make the mistake of wearing axe. But I can't excuse it any further.

[–]el_diablo5711 13 points14 points ago

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That flash of light is what a potato looks Luke

[–]Odusei 20 points21 points ago

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What?

[–]Petrarch1603 7 points8 points ago

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Maybe he's referring to that AMA a few days ago of a guy who got blasted in the face point blank by a potato cannon.

[–]svullenballe 2 points3 points ago

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I thought it was a Star wars reference.

[–]Odusei 0 points1 point ago

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So he meant to say, "That flash of light is what a potato looks like?" Because that's what I'm coming up with, and it doesn't make a whole lot more sense.

[–]philosoraptocopter 0 points1 point ago

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USE THE FORCE LUKE

-Obi Wan interrupts everyone

[–]Limitedcomments 1 point2 points ago

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You have opened my eyes to a world new meaning, you articulate bastard you.

[–]el_diablo5711 0 points1 point ago

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err.. autocorrect on phone. Apologies, sirs and madames.

[–]CrazyEddie041 2 points3 points ago

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... and that's the story of how I got a potato lodged in my eye socket.

[–]RubyBlye 3 points4 points ago

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Obviously practicing for his future Darwin Award.

[–]reefab 1 point2 points ago

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I showed that gif to a friend and she actually got ANGRY at how stupid this guy is.

[–]frubie 1 point2 points ago

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sadly, he'll probably become president

[–]Peskie 1 point2 points ago

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Stupid is as stupid does!

[–]GSpotAssassin 1 point2 points ago

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Did he really just flamethrower himself in the face?

Darwin is somewhere, nodding and smirking.

[–]themantiss 1 point2 points ago

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This would hurt a little.

I had a bad experience with facey burney a while ago... Cap blew off the radiator in the car and I took the whole thing full force to the face. Entire face peeled off over the next few days, much pain. Wasn't too bad after that though, scars are still fading after nearly 18 months...

Weird part was that there was no immediate pain, just panic when I touched my face and part of my face stuck to my fingers... umm fuuuck what the SHIT HOLY SHIT OOOOH DEAR

[–]TuneRaider 6 points7 points ago

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MY EYES! THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!!!

[–]thetoastmonster 6 points7 points ago

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No, wait, the goggles would provide eye protection! Get this man some goggles!

[–]fokov 0 points1 point ago

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To the googles!

[–]TheJulie 7 points8 points ago

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Protip: try wearing them next time.

[–]robhue 8 points9 points ago

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Protip: burn your eyes out, never need goggles again!

[–]JimSFV 1 point2 points ago

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Upvotes for excellent Simpsons reference.

[–]defproc 1 point2 points ago

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And upvote for instantly solving a TOMT I hadn't even posted.

[–]jim258kelly 0 points1 point ago

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Excellent example of "two points make a line".

[–]Poromenos 1 point2 points ago

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Not really, otherwise you'd never be able to spray a can or fire a weapon without hurting yourself.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Dumbass! Now he looks like Whoopi Goldberg.

[–]nemetroid 0 points1 point ago

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Isn't this the same kid as in that gif where a guy puts stick glue on his pants and lights it on fire, followed by his friend stomping it out?

[–]rgraves22 0 points1 point ago

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Thinning of the gene pool I guess

[–]notnamed 0 points1 point ago

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Set fire to the face on fire!

[–]GSGReddits 0 points1 point ago

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Retina Burns are apparently the "In" thing these days.

[–]LunarMeow 0 points1 point ago

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Looks like a miniature rocket just launched off his face.

[–]BeShirtHappy -1 points0 points ago

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His momma is so proud.

[–]pocketboy -1 points0 points ago

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That's one way to remove your eyebrows. No eyebrows is so hot right now.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

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On the brighter side, we have a nominee for Darwin Award.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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A bit preemptive, eh?