When I was young and dumb, I really tried to ignite gasoline with lit cigarettes, and it seemed impossible. The results would have been the same with water.
I’m sure it’s possible in just the right conditions, but it doesn’t seem easy.
Surprisingly not as dangerous as you’d think, ignition point of gasoline is higher than the typical cigarette. Not safe by any means, but under normal conditions a cigarette will not ignite gasoline vapors
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fyi you can put alt text on an image by putting it between the square brackets
Might not be a great option for long and detailed alt texts describing all the text in a comic, but for something simple like this it’s much more convenient for people with screen readers.
It was a freak gasoline fight accident
They tried to tell me you can’t drink bleach, but Trump showed me they were all fucking liars! And here I am now, recovered easily from the 5G that melted my throat!
o7 True Patriot
I mean, you can. Probably shouldn’t though.
Same counts for smoking in general.
You can do it but only once
Really depends on several factors. Such as ambient air temp, temp in the underground tanks, wind, precipitation, fuel where it isn’t supposed to be…
You can do it more than once but you flip a coin every time on whether you’re gonna do a Johnny Blaze cosplay.
Realistically, what are the odds of something going wrong unless you light up a cig while peeking right inside the fuel tank? Last year I’ve been taking smoke breaks at the gas stations every week near the pump with the crew working there, because I had to attend stuff in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, and wait around for potentially up to an hour with the gas station being the only inhabited place around. Still living and breathing, and I honestly don’t see how it could’ve turn badly. Yeah, I know, vapors and stuff, yadda-yadda, but those can only be in high enough concentrations to be dangerous maybe, at worst, within a hand’s reach of a tank or a nozzle? Otherwise, the station would have much worse problems than smokers.
A lit cigarette is incapable of igniting gas or its vapours, the danger comes from igniting the cigarette.
And people have gone up because of static electricity.
An electrical spark and a heat source provide different ignition methods.
The wokeist DEI Marxists are trying to silence my voice, but it is your constitutional right to be able to blow up a gas station, as long as there’s people that aren’t exactly like you in there.
Listen, we’re not supposed to get the context of this. We’re on the left. We’re supposed to argue the validity and logic if we can or cannot smoke next to the pump. Literal interpretations only please.
You one a’ dem liberalz? Go to hell, commie
Whose going to stop me? The smoke police?
The giant ball of engulfing fire coming out of the gas tank and pump handle might have a persuasive argument.
The workers at my local gas station go outside of the shop to smoke. I once asked them if that wasn’t dangerous and they said they have a ventilation system that pushes the vapors out the other way and that it’s fine to smoke here (it’s still disallowed as per house rules but they don’t really care)
How does one filter fire out?
I assume they meant the vapors from the gasoline, not from the cigarette.
The cigarettes literally can’t set gasoline on fire (in realistic conditions)
Smokers, being simple salt of the earth folks, rarely ask themselves if maybe the problem is how they lit the cigarette.
So that Hollywood trope of using a gasoline trail as a make-shift fuse and lighting it by dropping a cigarette on it is a construct of fiction?
Edit: Damn, you’re right
Ohhhhhhh
With a mesh screen.
They try anything to prevent me from propelling myself over the Antarctic ice wall.
You definitely can. I regularly do. If that upsets you, good.
If that upsets you, good.
classic smoker
On the one hand we don’t mind because we want you to die, and on the other we hope you don’t take anyone innocent with you.
Suicide is painless
prove it
The pain is passing, but suicide often sends shockwaves through your family, friends, local community. The family members of a person who commits suicide are 2.58x more likely to commit suicide, themselves.
I’m not saying it’s “never justified”, but I’d think long & hard about it. Extremely old age, geriatric issues can really suck. But so does causing pain, suffering to others.
Nah they’ll be fine, self termination is a human right.
One might say “it brings on many changes.”
