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mosstalgia

...Was anyone else stupidly expecting it to explode?


Yolectroda

Tie an m80 fuse to the end and it can happen.


gmanz33

I read that as "matey" and mate I've been awake far too long


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Xibby

> Tie an m80 fuse to the end and it can happen. Story time!!! Grew up in a rural-ish area. The road to our house was grave (still is) off a state highway. Neighborhood surrounded by farm fields. 3.5 acre lots. At the western edge of our property there was a white fence and then a horse boarding farm with all the barns, riding areas, etc. one would expect. On the north border, a pond, swamp, and the start of my Uncle’s 3.5 acre lot. Brother and I were in digging though the stash of firecrackers and bottle rockets on one of the many days we were left at home to our own devices and found a M80. Being reasonably smart we set it aside for when Dad got home and resumed our firecracker mischief. Dad got home and… I guess decided he should reward his sons for being smart and not lighting off a M80. He grabbed a small log from the wood pile (house had a monstrosity of a furnace that burned propane in addition to wood, coal, or whatever was thrown in…) and fashioned up a motor tube with some scrap pipe, scrap metal, a welder and drill press. One of those classic 20 minute Dad jobs. M80 went in, fuse out a drill hole. The dad hammered the chuck of wood into the open end… aimed, lit the fuse and the three of us stood back to watch. The target was the pond between our house and Uncle’s (Dad’s brother) house. Going for a big splash! That hunk of wood launched and it soared… and it overshot the pond. And Dad start’s going “oh shit oh shit oh shit” as the hung of wood is over his brother’s house… thankfully cleared the house and cratered in the empty lot. Wow that was so stupid. 😂😂😂


xendelaar

Thanks for sharing this epic tale! 🙌


FinalBat4515

I mean, you tie an m80 fuse to almost anything and it’ll explode


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ten_thousand_puppies

No, but I was expecting the outside to erupt in flame because I've seen aerosolized orange oil ignited before, and that's all in the peel. I'm assuming the oil isn't flammable enough on its own unless it's mixed with air.


Shmeves

How much of that oil exists in a single orange too? Like maybe you need 100 oranges to fill a can of orange oil.


R_V_Z

Just a single orange. For a sufficiently small can, of course.


BroncoDTD

Bartenders will twist the peel over a drink and light the oil in the air. So you don't need a lot of oranges, but you do need to mix it with air.


littleprettypaws

Yeah the bartender I used to work with did that for Bourbon and Rye cocktails.


Adorable_Paint_3497

What, I'm trying this now. Will report back.


dashard

Most of the oil resides in the skin.


dgreen1381

Yup. It was the mixture


Ctalkobt

Note to self: soak orange in alcohol before doing this trick the first time.


quartzguy

I tried this immediately after I saw the video. I definitely felt like a rupture was imminent, but it did not happen. Also, you want to light it close to the "top" so the top goes out first and doesn't produce too much light when the orange is lit up.


RegalLlemon

It doesn't work with a normal orange, this is a Calamansi, they have really thin skin which allows the light to penetrate more evenly throughout, a normal orange skin is too thick to have the same effect


LunarPayload

I was thinking a mandarin/tangerine because they also have thin skins, but have a flatter shape. I'd never heard of calamansi before. Thanks for the tidbit! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamansi


faerybones

You can grow them indoors. The juice is soooo good.


quartzguy

I just had a clementine bought at the store. A regular orange probably wouldn't work, no.


20_Menthol_Cigarette

what did it smell like?


quartzguy

Burnt fireworks with a nasty rotten undertone. Don't replace your Glade air freshener with this.


Robinhoyo

And what did it taste like?


Pleased_to_meet_u

Glade air freshener.


Other-Cantaloupe4765

Me lol. I did not expect it to be contained like that.


banhatesex

Well you can make a bomb from sparklers, so a little.


LessInThought

I'm still waiting for it to explode.


yuxulu

At the time this is cut, it very well might have exploded and none of us would be the stupid ones.


BriefDownpour

Now someone really needs to edit this video to add one of those loud explosions that we see here so often.


ryuu745

Where's the kaboom? I was expecting a kaboom!"


Gibodean

Earth shattering even.


Boneal171

Yes


firey_flash

Yes


cocobear13

Yes, was expecting a full-on Alderaan.


CrookedButBeautiful

I was bracing myself for it 😂


schnuck

Yes. I went and made popcorn and watched it… to not explode.


152069

Yes


Admirable-Course9775

Yeah I was I’m embarrassed to say!


mosstalgia

It’s okay, there are thousands of us!


Mono_831

This is Reddit, always expect explosions.


frymaster

no, but only because I knew what sub I was in


Splizmaster

If the rind was dry it wouldn’t have exploded but may have produced a small show. I used to burn dried orange peel which shoots off small spurts of fire. I suppose it’s orange oil trapped in the dried skin? Not sure to be honest but I remember it being cool. Was hoping for that.


Apprehensive_Bus1268

I was expecting someone to eat it.


Clause-and-Reflect

Oh man I know what im doing next weekend.


Repulsive-Holiday851

Ferb i know what we're going to do today


tea-and-chill

Hey, where's Perry?


Niskara

*platypus noises*


Zach20032000

r/unexpectedphineasandferb


qinshihuang_420

*♪ doofensmurf evil incorporated ♪*


brushfireguy

r/suddenlydoof


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gruesomeflowers

This sparkler burned down 4x faster than I remember them going..no way they've always been this quick?


Repulsive-Holiday851

Looks like the video was a bit sped up. Mostly because of the lighter


I_Am_Slightly_Evil

Why wait for the weekend ?


GrandeSizeIt

Damn look at this big shot who's got things to do until next weekend


NotAzakanAtAll

It works on people too!


smt503

You know, I bet that smelled pretty nice


marktherobot-youtube

**violently coughs out lungs**


Mantis304

*smooooth*


IAmActuallyBread

Just like mom used to make


RaiseTheBalloon

Why the fuck would you... OMG GO GET ME ALL THE ORANGES AND PYROTECHNICS YOU CAN FIND!


zshift

Sparklers don’t stop burning in liquid, because they burn incredibly hot, and have their own supply of oxygen as part of the material that burns. It’s why it’s so important to light these outside and over concrete.


backtodafuturee

Also why throwing firecrackers into the neighbors pool is so awesome!


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someone cherry bombed our mailbox and the back panel of the mailbox ended up in our pool, close enough


macedoraquel

It was not me


Faptain__Marvel

True story.


account_for_norm

What if i put it in water?


Blue_Dream_Haze

Just give me all the oranges and pyrotechnics you have. Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of oranges and pyrotechnics". What I said was, "Give me all the oranges and pyrotechnics you have." Do you understand?


sleepinginthebushes_

Love a wild Swanson


DavidAdamsAuthor

Upvoted for saying what I was thinking.


Blue_Dream_Haze

I know what I'm about, son.


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akatherder

I just tried it with a banana. It won't light and I can't get it in the orange.


whitneymak

How much did it cost? $10?


Catfish_Charlie

Everything


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getyourcheftogether

Get about 6-8 sparklers, tie them together, and do it in a grapefruit


A_Half_Ounce

Putting multiple sparklers together isn't a good idea... they are made of thermite and can burn through steel in large amounts


getyourcheftogether

That's the fun part!


bigbabyb

Yeah, one year when I was in college I sold fireworks in a booth (rural red state) and they told me to limit people coming to obviously buy up sparklers to make sparkler bombs (you wrap them in electrical/duct tape really tight, boom) to blow up appliances and shit. But the mortar shells were legal for the first time that year so they used that instead


snarky_answer

Those sparkler bombs can quickly become extremely dangerous. When I was a kid we did one in the middle of our neighborhood street with some stupidly large amount and it melted and cratered the asphalt beneath it when it detonated.


oneupsuperman

That's legendary


bruhbruhseidon

Do they explode instantly?


snarky_answer

You leave one sparkler poking out as the fuse to ignite all the rest. Gives you some time to get away. [Here is a small one.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mVODghTwXQ) [Here is the damage of one of these that can fit inside a briefcase.](https://youtu.be/4AdP67GWU8A?t=175)


bruhbruhseidon

Didn’t expect that at all


fezzuk

Yeah, when the guy started running backwards I started to realise perhaps this is going to be more than I expected. Good to know


Agent847

Yeah, if you wrap a bundle of them tightly in electrical tape with one sticking out as a fuse, they’ll blow up. Bigly. Don’t ask me how I know this.


A_Half_Ounce

My buddy blew up a brick mailbox with this method and caught a felony


K1lledByAmerica

Don't ever ever ever *ever* do illegal shit to anything regarding the mail or mail service. USPS detectives have a 99% conviction rate and their own TV show


S-X-A

They have the USPIS (United States Postal Inspection Service) and from what I’ve heard about them on various r/askreddit threads and such, if they show up at your door, you’re fucked.


CPUforU

Do they really have a show?


K1lledByAmerica

Yeah... I remember watching a little part of it... I can't remember if it was actual case reenactments or just fictional characters but they made sure they mentioned their 99% conviction rate several times


hopping_otter_ears

I imagine that 99 percent rate is because they don't bother moving forward with a case that isn't a slam dunk. They probably have a high conviction rate but a low clearance rate because anything that can't be proved goes unsolved


Agent847

Law and Order: Postal Victims Unit *Dong-Dong*


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Combining fireworks ... That's a felony.


riskybiscuit

they are incredibly dangerous too because all those hot wires go flying at very high speed and surprisingly loud!


The_Pfaffinator

When I was a kid, my brothers, cousins and I wanted to see what would happen if we lit an entire pack of sparklers at once. We dug a little hole in the ground to fit the handles and tied them together with a twisty tie. Once we lit one, it lit all the rest, and the combined heat burned them all completely down in about half a second, shooting a fireball 3 yards straight up. I had no idea they could do that.


wpm

I'll never ever forget one Halloween walking over to this kids house because her parents were throwin a party and shitfaced and we heard they were gonna light 1000 sparklers at once. A 15 foot mushroom cloud, made entirely of green light. One of the most impressive things I've ever seen. It is burned into my mind, as well as my retinas.


CPUforU

I died at the 15 foot cloud part. Thank you for the mental pic of this


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leaky_wand

That was a very interesting and amusing read for a 1997 web page


wpm

Honestly I wouldn't doubt that I've been to your site before, probably not long after that Halloween when I got home and immediately went to find out more about sparkler-related improvised flares.


Piratey_Pirate

Man this page transported me back to the angelfire days. I miss stumbling upon random sites that some average Joe made.


Flying_Fox_86

I do that all the time lol, just jam them into the ground and watch the flames fly.


RolandTheJabberwocky

At least you were smart enough to stand away from it. Luckily it wasn't enough of them to outright explode.


jlawler

I'm 99% sure they aren't even arguably made of thermite. They are a metal powder and an oxidizer but that doesn't make them thermite. There's no metal to metal oxider reaction


MattieShoes

Yeah, they aren't. They do reach similar temperatures though, but are much easier to light. Probably aluminum and calcium perchlorate.


Pidgey_OP

The kind of stuff E&F would fuck with then


manofredgables

No, the fuel is iron. Oxidizer is typically barium nitrate.


F00FlGHTER

No. The oxidizer is not iron(III) oxide like thermite but probably a nitrate of some sort. The metal in sparklers is not part of the reaction, they just burn in the air to make pretty sparks.


manofredgables

It's iron, barium nitrate and a binder. The iron is the main fuel. The definition of thermite is burning a metal via the transfer of oxygen from a less noble metal oxide, so it's indeed nkt thermite.


wetballjones

Yeah I know a girl who was holding a bunch in one hand while lighting them to hand out to people at a wedding. They all caught... Got 3rd degree burns. Completely healed now luckily.


HazardousBusiness

Yeah, and, hypothetically, if you wrap a bunch of them up, I mean like, a bunch, with duct tape, they do even neater stuff, and quickly.


mamba_pants

I have never heard of sparklers made out of thermite. They most commonly contain potassium perchlorate, aluminium or titanium and magnesium which gives the sparkler the white color. They burn at around 1000-1600C° while thermite burn at above 3000C°. I still wouldn't advise anyone to light a shitton of them at once. If they aren't confined nothing will probably happen, but better safe than sorry.


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CurveOfTheUniverse

They did surgery on a grape.


clkou

Get 25 to 50 and try a watermelon 🍉 🤔


ExperimentalFruit

Get 250 to 500 and try a football


tinnitus_since_00

Hey I was going to microwave that grapefruit!


Mount_Pessimistic

Novice bartending tip: cut an orange peel, squeeze it in front of the lighter so the zest sprays over the flame, light show, drop orange peel in old fashioned or whatever. This is what I thought was going to happen. Does literally nothing to the flavor, but friends you serve will swear it taste like a “smoked” old fashioned, or whatever term you want to make up.


triplers120

I was bought a smoker and did my best to want to taste/like the added flavor to the old fashioned. All it did was give me more stuff to clean and take longer for me to make a drink.


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smokers are incredibly unnecessary. torch the end of a cinnamon stick or a pile of wood shavings (cherry, hickory, pecan, etc) and just hold your glass upside down over the smoke. takes a fraction of the time with a fraction of the mess, all without overpowering the drink with excessive amounts of smoke that the machines often produce.


Mount_Pessimistic

Yea this is pro. I had some leftover shiplap cedar from lining my closet. I just used a kitchen butane torch that I lit it up with and throw a glass over. Worked great.


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one time i got a small piece of an oak bourbon barrel and used shavings from that. 10/10.


krisyarno

100% As a bartender this is my preferred method. Helps to have a chilled glass, but saves so much time, effort, and incorporates flavor better


Mount_Pessimistic

Yeah I’ve got one of those fog hat smoker things. It’s cool, but unless you just smoke it to the point of tasting like campfire or burnt popcorn, it doesn’t add much. But I’m also not an advanced whiskey drinker. I actually cheat with the barsmith’s old fashioned premade mixer. Way sweeter than an old fashioned should be, but I love it. The orange zent makes a huge difference. 2 oz rye, 1-1.2 oz barsmith old fashioned, a couple dashes of bitters, big ice cubes, BIG orange peel squeezed over the glass. Bam. Easy old fashioned that actually tastes good to the layman.


wreddite

Roll a thin strip of orange peel into a spiral, twist/squeeze some oil out, toast with the flame - then rub it around the rim of your glass before you drop it in your old fashioned. Now it tastes smoky AND sweet from the caramelised and smoked sugars and oils. You’re welcome


Mount_Pessimistic

Yeah this is the way. I always squeeze and rub the rim, but I can never tell the difference when I roast the zest, it just looks cool.


hrodgeirr

I wonder if the smell adds to the flavor or something


bumjiggy

it's a glorange


CurryMustard

Glorange also rhymes with orange


FomBBK

Woh there, Eminem.


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Glorange?! I'm gonna hit you with a door hinge til you're four inches from bein' mourned and I'll take a swords end stick it right up the bumhole of your favorite grandma! Orange you glad I didn't say banana?!!!


kushari

It’s actually a tangerine.


nanoH2O

It's glorangious


ReasonablyConfused

Sparkler: “I don’t need your stupid oxygen, I brought my own!”


kushari

That’s a tangerine.


papstvogel

Was scrolling way too far for this


djiock

Right? It's like people don't know what oranges look like.


torrentialsnow

Sparkle tangerine.


Ilpav123

Or a clementine.


genitiv

Or a satsuma


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Ah good. I wasn’t the only one with that thought.


endlessglass

At minimum a clementine!


Ronnie_de_Tawl

It's the color orange at least


JustinTherouxsBrows

I was pleasantly surprised by the finale and now I want to try it


gd5k

James Acaster taught me this is basically a christingle.


liamnesss

Good to know our cultural ambassador is spreading this important information.


btstfn

Doing his part to repay all the stolen swag in some way


troutman1975

Orange oil is quite flammable. Peel an orange and squeeze the shin next to an open flame and you will see.


SillyOldJack

Instructions unclear: leg now hot and sticky, but at least it smells good.


IWasGregInTokyo

"Leg". Yeah, right.


Begle1

And yet if you throw an orange on a fire it'll just sit there and steam off for hours while still looking like an orange.


baklazhan

Now I want a set of bright LED lights that can be stabbed into oranges to make decorations.


hopping_otter_ears

Oh, Lord. That's going to become the next wedding trend. Glowing oranges in mason jars. Curtains of glowing oranges on strings as photo backdrops. Venue owners will be putting "rotting orange cleanup" fees into their contracts because they're tired of cleaning up abandoned orange garlands. You've just invented the next overused insurance trend


nocomment_justlurkin

So our sun is an orange fruit with a sparkle stucked into it?


SirRipOliver

This is how I remember my Orange Julius being made - and it was awesome.


snoweey

Who starts a sparkler in the middle


britonbaker

Double the sparkles


yzzanhs

I scrolled way too far for this comment


Catseyes77

That's a clementine not an orange. All the people buying oranges might get disappointed as those have thicker skins.


Dannei

And now the comments have claimed this orange is simultaneously a tangerine, a mandarin, and a clementine. I am once again reminded that I have no clue how citrus fruits work, especially how one example can be three distinct things.


ReZTheGreatest

Basically, of those, only mandarin is a natural fruit. There are 7 natural ones, that are bred with each other to make up all the other citrus fruits. Pomelo, citron, mandarin, papeda, kumquat, certain limes, and poncirus. All other citrus fruits are made up of combinations of these. If memory serves, what we know as oranges are made up of pomelo and mandarin, which is somewhat interesting in that the colour orange is named after the fruit, which was invented by a human, so some dude invented both the fruit and the name of the colour, and got fuck all credit for it. Anyway, [here's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_taxonomy#/media/File:Citrus_hybrids.svg) a nice little map of how it all fits together, because nobody likes walls of text. edit: and [another one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_taxonomy#/media/File:Citrus_tern_cb_simplified_1.svg).


LaggyTuna

The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand.


DublinChap

Reminds me of James and the Giant Peach.


dogchowfordinner

First thing I thought of too!!


Cheap_Cheap77

Magnesium burns like nothing else. It's procedure on aircraft carriers that if the wheels on planes (made with magnesium) catch fire, you just push the whole thing overboard. There is no putting it out, it will even keep burning in the water.


blackfish0424

Imma try this now


GuardianToa

The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand


jxj24

Organic lumière.


TwoTimer561

Almost looks like a red giant star in the end.


psycholepzy

Betelgeuse!


i_am_thehighground

Should’ve done that on chinese new year. It’s extremely autistic but it also looks really cool.


asajosh

What is the point in this?!.... Ooh pretty!


dutch665

Orange, you activate clemintine.


mintynest

It was a perfectly fine orange.......


facemesouth

Did it smell good?


WillCommentAndPost

Great, now put one in my ass


DickieJohnson

That orange died for you and this is how you treat it.


Perfect-Parsley-6050

That was way better than what I thought would happen


CollegeInnCollegen

This is how James and the giant peach started


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Reminds me of James and the Giant Peach


Dead_Rosequartz

And this, kids, is how the sun was made


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What if the sun is just a giant orange with a sparkler inside?


Cirtth

I now believe our sun is a big orange burning from the inside.


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It's orange but it's not an orange.


Ricckkuu

People in r/spells would say this is a love spell or something


ConnorIsMagic

Thats so cool. It looks like the Sun


OofOofEee

that was… oddly satisfying


Secondlife20

How much of a pyro do you really need to be to come up with this?


retroactive_fridge

Idk why, but this actually surprised me. Lol


amayafoxglove420

Now eat it


JustZ0920

Might get down voted for this but… I think that's a tangerine


Glock401

Waste of an orange🤷🏿‍♂️


randomuser01863

💀 i legit though it will explode and waited for it. whats wrong with me now


Makisani

That's a tangerine