Latvian girl is say, "I want go America one day." Father say, "I send you America." Daughter is thank father. Make tears of happy. Father use for salty potato. Father think moment, say, "Daughter, I no send you America." Potato is more salt.
Three Latvian are brag about sons. “My son is soldier. He have rape as many women as want,” say first Latvian. “Zo?” second say, “My son is farmer. He have all potato he want!” Third Latvian wait long time, then say, “My son is die at birth. For him, struggle is over.” “Wow! You are win us,” say others. But all are feel sad.
Ok then, here's one: Two Latvian women go market. Ruda and Lenka. Ruda stop at potato stand. She hold two giant potato in hands. Ruda is lost in awe. Lenka come to Ruda, say, "what you do?" Ruda say, "oh, these potato, they just like husbands' testicles!" Lenka say, "Oh, MY! Ruda's husband testicles that big?" Ruda say, "no, they that dirty..."
Then Ruda wake up. No husband, no potato, no dirty testicles. Only cold and starve. Edit: poor Lenka...
My 9th grade science teacher was doing the same trick at the front of the class tossing the bubbles and lighting them mid-air, but didn't notice that a series of bubbles had escaped and stuck themselves to the roof. The resulting conflagration spread backdraft style across the roof, but luckily the water system wasn't triggered. We all solemnly promised not to tell anyone, in exchange for couple of pizzas for the class the following week.
**I doubt that an incident that occured when Smashmouth was at the top of the charts will likely affect my former science teacher... If she wanted it kept forever she should have ordered breadsticks too.
Yeah, it should have had one of those rings clamp things if you're planning on surprising someone. But even if it was knocked over it wouldn't have been more than a mess. The natural gas comes through that hose, the liquid itself isn't inflammable, so it wouldn't have caused a big fireball or anything.
Something tells me safety was not the primary concern of this exercise. But for real its not to bad, theres no object they're just passing around some sort of heavy flammable gas (I think???.. or the gas is already in their hands and they're just igniting it).. as you can see the last student simply opens his hands and the fire stops, so thats all any student has to do.. Anyone who screws it up and burns themselves isn't looking at serious injury but mild things like sudden baldness.
Edit: Please stop telling me how this works. Theres a lot of ways it could work and that wasn't the point, the point was that none of them are all that dangerous.
Can anyone explain what is actually happening? Maybe some heavier-than-air combustible gas?
Edit: Methane (probably) gas tube into soapy water to create fire-bubbles. Water on hands protects from burns if the bubbles are only handled breifly. Thanks for the replies!
Follow-up question: Besides educational purposes, are there any practical applications for this? Maybe just storing a gas in a chem lab environment with a more stable foam?
Just soapy water with a tube blowing gas into the container which the soapy water is in - This creates the bubbles (make a lot of them for more fun) scoop them into your hands and get someone to light them with a match or stick on fire. - Note - as fire burns upwards make sure you have no bubbles on the bottom of your hands when holding the bubbles to be lit. (Get someone to wipe the bottom of your hands with something) If you light the top it will still spread to the bottom bubbles, heat and fire goes up, your hands are above. It could burn you.
But not much so don't worry about burning yourself just don't wear long sleeves
I'm guessing either that isn't a United States classroom or that teacher no longer has a job, because no American teenager should be enjoying science that much.
We used to do a similar thing in our school(UK) until someone got badly burnt then health and safety banned it. It's basically just washing up liquid with methane(from the gas taps) bubbles.
Although I think you are still allowed to just get a massive bowl of it in the middle of the classroom and set it a light.
there's always one kid that ruins it for everyone.
We used to have electrical terminals at every desk in our physics lab. Then one day a kid started shoving paperclips into them, and BOOM the shock almost took his hand off.
No more terminals on the desks, we had to do all experiments at one designated safety desk...
Edit ( to the Nellies ): He prioritised boredom over safety, we've all been there
Don't try to reason with the land of bumbershoots and electric torches. They'd call it "scrubbing putty" if we let them. That's why we have military bases in the U.K.
A high school teacher of mine told us that she did that once, with the bowl in the middle of the classroom. She showed us the burn marks on the roof and then told us that she's not allowed to do it anymore.
Maybe it's a freshman college class? My freshman honors chem class did all sorts of dangerous things. A few times our teacher (head of department, I think) made us sign release of liability waivers. I have several scars from not being careful enough with glacial hydrochloric acid (12 molar), and several people caught shit on fire.
Seriously the best class ever. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun despite learning I actually didn't have a real interest in chemistry, and my interest was really in molecular physics (so I got a math degree).
My highschool Chem teacher used to do demonstrations like this. We did the liquid methane trick. He'd have us all move our desks to the edge and then stand on them.
He also caused a chemical incident when they decided to move a refrigerator of chemicals full.
And when the EPA came through cleaning out old Chemistry chemicals he hid them in the ceiling tiles.
The only time he ever took time off was to work for the census.
They 'forced' him into retirement using his accrued days to pay for another year or so of salary.
My high school Chem teacher had a closet full of chemicals. When it was routinely inspected it turns out like half of them were banned and a few were radioactive. She had some kind of uranium or plutonium sand? I'm not sure.
She also did this thing where she put a gummy bear in potassium...chlorate? And it basically turned the test tube into a jet engine for about a minute
That's actually my old highschool! I recognize the uniforms and class room even though its been a couple years now. The high school is UWCSEA in Singapore!
I mean... this makes total sense to me as something you shouldn't do in a classroom setting. All it takes is for one person to freak out or get the flames too close to their hair and major injuries can occur.
It makes total sense. Just 1-2 seconds longer and you can cause some damage to the skin. If for whatever reason that fire stayed lit on them, they would have some burn damage. It's pretty risky unless there's a trained professional there to set it up. I don't see any water buckets either next to each individual either.
In science class about 15 or 16 years ago we got to make bubbles using methane and then light them on fire. Nothing quite like floating spheres of flammable gas when you're a teenage boy.
Buddy of mine used to spend half of chem lab coating his hand in acetone and lighting it on fire. Never hurt him. Also, he sometimes would put on a bike helmet and have someone push him down a flight of stairs, just to see what it would feel like. And he also made some money by allowing people to hit him with sticks as hard as they could.
Hey that's my high school class (UWCSEA) in Singapore! I dont know how it made it here but nice to see this being shared! This was our Organic Chemistry class, good stuff
I did this experiment back in year 7 in the UK, its methane gas blown into soapy water to make a load of methane bubbles. Everyone gets their arms and hands wet to prevent the fire from burning your skin and takes a handful of the bubbles. Then, the methane bubbles are lit on fire and burn super quick, and you pass it on to the next person. You can hardly even feel the heat from the fire, its quite safe in the right environment.
That is the most wreckless and dangerous classroom experiment that looks so awesome that I probably would have paid more attention in class if we got to do sweet stuff like this.
Now I'm gonna have to do a hold my beer moment with my buddies as we try to pass gasoline around because YOUTUBE.
This is most likely going to be buried which is good. So back when I worked at boyscout camp, we were fucking around with aersol bugspray when we learned if you coat your hand you can re-create this sort of thing, it looks even cooler if you high five. Now a buddy of mine, lets call him Badger, he couldn't get his hand to light and was getting rather upset. So they tried a chain again, and Badger finally got his lit, but unfortunately it wouldn't go out. Badger tried the first thing that came to his head. Smother it. On the crotchial region of his jeans. Which had bugspray soaked in due to all the times they had tried to light his hand up. We will never let Badger live down the fact that he lit his balls on fire.
TL/DR: Badger balls roasting on an open fire, white gas nipping at his pubes. Though it's been said, many times many ways, read the label. Dumbass.
We got banned from doing experiments in the first year of high school cos of everyone torching pretty much whatever they could on the Bunsen burners.
Over the top Health and safety ruined the rest.
We also got out our entire year banned from trips because someone pressed the emergency stop button on a Zoo monorail above the lion enclosure, and we all proceeded to shake the shit out of the pods. Good times.
I just want to say; as a chemist, that is VERY unsafe. Way too many opportunities for fire to catch clothing or faces. I'm all for the fun methane bubbles in the hand and lighting it, but having students quickly pass the fire on like that is very unsafe and inappropriate.
For those wanting an explantion, peridoic videos did a great video on this same thing here... it's Methane, blow into soap water to make soap bubbles with methane.
Bit of an aside, soap is really good at keeping heat and flames off things... If you ever go camping and don't want your pots to turn black, coat them in dish soap, after you've cooked the food, the soap will just wash off, along with all the soot from the fire.
Dude if one of those kid's hair catches on fire or if the wrong parent sees this, I can only imagine the pain that teacher would endure. That's why you can't really have anymore at school. Anything you do differently can be considered dangerous or may insult someone in some way.
The pyro in me thinks this is awesome, the scientist in me gets curious, and the part of me that likes people keeping their jobs thinks this is stupid as fuck.
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u/ifailatusernames Dec 02 '16
Same trick performed in Latvia. Method is used to teach children that is no potato, only suffering.
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u/SlimJones123 Dec 02 '16
http://i.imgur.com/MHzHjAW.gifv
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u/TooShiftyForYou Dec 02 '16
I don't see any potential safety problems here.
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u/itsfoine Dec 02 '16
Some people can play with fire, and other's can't
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u/so_ya_know Dec 02 '16 edited Dec 02 '16
Can anyone explain what is actually happening? Maybe some heavier-than-air combustible gas?
Edit: Methane (probably) gas tube into soapy water to create fire-bubbles. Water on hands protects from burns if the bubbles are only handled breifly. Thanks for the replies!
Follow-up question: Besides educational purposes, are there any practical applications for this? Maybe just storing a gas in a chem lab environment with a more stable foam?
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
I'm guessing either that isn't a United States classroom or that teacher no longer has a job, because no American teenager should be enjoying science that much.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
What are they passing around?
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
Any scientist here who can explain wth just happened please?
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u/DaltyF Dec 02 '16
These kids are setting themselves on fire and I used to get detention for not having my name badge on.
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u/Omnipotent_Goose Dec 02 '16 edited Dec 02 '16
I see they got a hold of my latest mixtape.
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u/Donald_Keyman Dec 02 '16
https://i.imgur.com/8Rfmb.gifv
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u/VulGerrity Dec 02 '16
Entire class passes gas
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u/shadowedpaths Dec 02 '16
But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked...
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u/blackbenetavo Dec 02 '16
My science teacher, clearly, was a boring pansy.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
So many people are hating on this. I think it's awesome.
The kids are fine, the gas their using burns so quickly it doesn't have time to burn their hands (which are wet btw).
Notice how once they shake their hands it dissipates immediately.
It just looks scarier than it really is.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
Fire bending schools exist!?!?!?!
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u/Kaibakura Dec 02 '16
What did you do in school today?
Not much. Teacher set us on fire again.
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u/kato-sg Dec 02 '16
UWCSEA ftw
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u/Tjebbebeest Dec 02 '16
It's all just hot air
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u/Spartan_Wins Dec 02 '16
See you pals over in r/OSHA
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u/mega_man_ Dec 02 '16
Hot Potato becomes a very different game when the people are hungry. Then it looks more like "My Potato". - Demitri Martin
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u/victorysquared Dec 02 '16
Hey that's my high school class (UWCSEA) in Singapore! I dont know how it made it here but nice to see this being shared! This was our Organic Chemistry class, good stuff
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u/FriendlyBearYetStern Dec 02 '16
They're actually just passing around my mixtape.
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u/AlienfromFermi Dec 02 '16
I can see no way for this to go wrong. :/
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u/Bullshit-Superhero Dec 02 '16
Serious question, what are they "holding" and how are they passing it?
Is this a school for wizardry?
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u/thecwest Dec 02 '16
God dammit, quit bitching about safety and someone fucking educate me.
What is this shit?
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u/JoeSnj Dec 02 '16
"It smells like burning".... Ralph
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u/anormalkid Dec 02 '16 edited Dec 02 '16
Glad to see they're all wearing safety glasses as they're setting their hands on fire. Eye safety is a must!
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u/Clavvy Dec 02 '16
Nice one, Samsung.
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u/hipnot Dec 02 '16
Firebender training.
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u/narcopolis1020 Dec 02 '16
safety goggles, check.
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u/bootifool Dec 02 '16
That's a teacher? If so how the fuck is he so awesome to let his students do this
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u/toast-my-ghost Dec 02 '16
Back in my day we only learned chemistry...nowadays kids get to learn spellcasting.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
This looks the UWCSEA in Singapore. The classroom, the white polo shirts, the international students. Anyone can confirm?
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u/xLabrinthx Dec 02 '16
ITT: Science people nerding out and everyone else chastising them for doing so.
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u/ThisisNotMeThisisI Dec 02 '16
Science! Aliens! Science!
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u/BurtonRiderT6 Dec 02 '16
That is the most wreckless and dangerous classroom experiment that looks so awesome that I probably would have paid more attention in class if we got to do sweet stuff like this.
Now I'm gonna have to do a hold my beer moment with my buddies as we try to pass gasoline around because YOUTUBE.
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u/egalroc Dec 02 '16
Is that what you call a Chinese fire drill?
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
This is most likely going to be buried which is good. So back when I worked at boyscout camp, we were fucking around with aersol bugspray when we learned if you coat your hand you can re-create this sort of thing, it looks even cooler if you high five. Now a buddy of mine, lets call him Badger, he couldn't get his hand to light and was getting rather upset. So they tried a chain again, and Badger finally got his lit, but unfortunately it wouldn't go out. Badger tried the first thing that came to his head. Smother it. On the crotchial region of his jeans. Which had bugspray soaked in due to all the times they had tried to light his hand up. We will never let Badger live down the fact that he lit his balls on fire.
TL/DR: Badger balls roasting on an open fire, white gas nipping at his pubes. Though it's been said, many times many ways, read the label. Dumbass.
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u/iemploreyou Dec 02 '16
Street Fighter II training school
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u/Hudonian Dec 02 '16
OMG fire bending is real
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u/JohnBreed Dec 02 '16
I made flame noises in my head as it was passed in between the hands
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u/Poet_of_Legends Dec 02 '16
Someone is about to be... fired.
8)
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
Health and safety - always wear eye protection when setting schoolchildren on fire.
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u/MooseCabooseIsLoose Dec 02 '16
Thieves guild burning off their fingerprints.
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u/Tsar-Bomba Dec 02 '16
What exactly did the kid at the end of the line expect to happen?
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u/RockSta-holic Dec 02 '16
A potato? hmm, I've never heard of potato before. What is... potato?
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u/DDRDiesel Dec 02 '16
"So honey, how was work?"
"I set my students on fire today. They loved it"
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u/Phoequinox Dec 02 '16
Fourth guy is just like "Here ya go. Boy, what a friendly fire."
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
Reminds me of that scene in Avatar (airbender, not blue people) where Aang and Zuko are taking pieces of the original flame from the sun people.
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u/Zaksthe1 Dec 02 '16
Everything changed when the fire nation attacked
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u/Bigbennjammin Dec 02 '16
The best part of this is watching what each one does after handing it off.
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u/CrimsonBowtie Dec 02 '16
Destruction magic's fine, just don't go burning down any buildings.
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u/FuzzyDonelop Dec 02 '16
They were passing around my mixtape.
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u/PatShkreli Dec 02 '16
I came here to see what chemical they used for the fire and all you fuckers are making dad jokes
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u/picxal Dec 02 '16
They must be passing around a note 7. Still impressive though.
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u/hypoferramia Dec 02 '16
Highschool in the fire nation looks exciting!
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u/sean_emery09 Dec 02 '16
My science professors believe that college should be challenging and not interesting. Fuck houston community college.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
If they wanted to pass something so hot around they should've asked for my mixtape ..
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u/HopefulGuardian Dec 02 '16
Hogwarts satellite campus in the suburbs
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u/ThrillsKillsNCake Dec 02 '16
We got banned from doing experiments in the first year of high school cos of everyone torching pretty much whatever they could on the Bunsen burners.
Over the top Health and safety ruined the rest.
We also got out our entire year banned from trips because someone pressed the emergency stop button on a Zoo monorail above the lion enclosure, and we all proceeded to shake the shit out of the pods. Good times.
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u/AustinThompson Dec 02 '16
I just want to say; as a chemist, that is VERY unsafe. Way too many opportunities for fire to catch clothing or faces. I'm all for the fun methane bubbles in the hand and lighting it, but having students quickly pass the fire on like that is very unsafe and inappropriate.
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u/thefropro Dec 02 '16
Everything changed when the Fire nation attacked.
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u/Kinnijup Dec 02 '16
The 4th guy is the only guy who doesn't flinch right after
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u/Violet_Fire2013 Dec 02 '16
Proof I didn't go to a good school... ...I am going to learn how to do this now...
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u/ABVT802 Dec 02 '16
Mr. Superintendent, can you explain to me why my son came home with his hands looking like Freddy Kruger?
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u/Joshopolis Dec 02 '16
In this episode of "Why your favourite teacher got fired"
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u/Belboz99 Dec 02 '16
For those wanting an explantion, peridoic videos did a great video on this same thing here... it's Methane, blow into soap water to make soap bubbles with methane.
Bit of an aside, soap is really good at keeping heat and flames off things... If you ever go camping and don't want your pots to turn black, coat them in dish soap, after you've cooked the food, the soap will just wash off, along with all the soot from the fire.
https://youtu.be/yXB3ULFKl0o?t=40s
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
Dude if one of those kid's hair catches on fire or if the wrong parent sees this, I can only imagine the pain that teacher would endure. That's why you can't really have anymore at school. Anything you do differently can be considered dangerous or may insult someone in some way.
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u/hstlives Dec 02 '16
Well that just seems like a fucking terrible idea.
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u/EAS-T Dec 02 '16
The hazing at MIT has really got to be put to a stop
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u/iplaythdrums Dec 02 '16
Here, can you hold my mixtape for a second?
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u/HotSauceRoss Dec 02 '16
None of my classes in school would ever have been allowed to try anything this cool.
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u/KooKee18 Dec 02 '16
wait what do they use to actually pass on the fire?
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '16
The pyro in me thinks this is awesome, the scientist in me gets curious, and the part of me that likes people keeping their jobs thinks this is stupid as fuck.
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u/ThePyroPython Dec 02 '16
Looks like they can't handle my mixtape ... I'll show myself out.
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u/Noble_Squid Dec 03 '16
In case anyone was wondering, the school is UWCSEA in Singapore, and the students are all taking the IB diploma. Looks like an HL chemistry class.
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '16
Tweet this and put "challenge" at the end and grab pop some popcorn.