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My thrift store lighter is green
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I don't think the green flame is the most interesting thing in this image....
We’re just going to ignore the baby-eating tiger
Maybe if we ignore it it’ll go away
It doesn’t work with dingos..
I had an Australian friend who bought a Dodge Durango.
I never left that alone. “A Durango ate your baby?” That must have annoyed him something fierce, I was too busy laughing.
The sad thing is that poor lady was telling the truth. Aboriginals supported her claims but they were dismissed. She was convicted of murder but years later those were over turned when the truth came to light. We've spent decades making fun of a lady who literally had her baby killed and eaten by wild dingos
Didn't they find bits of the baby's clothing where dingo ate or am I imagining it?
Don't recall the details but it was something like that, yes.
Just had a Google. They found her matinee jacket by chance after a British tourist fell to his death and they spent 8 days searching for him. This was 6 years after Azaria's death and her mother, Lindy, had served 3 years of a sentence for murder. What the prosecution proposed happened was preposterous.
Yeah, in the den or whatever
They did - a piece of a jacket or some top I think
Did they make a lighter about it?
I wouldn't be surprised. There was plenty of merch and obviously it made it to Seinfeld. Even had a board game. I'm sure there's a lighter out there. Imagine becoming a worldwide joke and falsely imprisoned for murdering your child when you were telling the truth about a pack of wild animals killing and eating your baby
Didn’t Seth Green have a band call named after it?
I believe it was his fake band on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
His character's band in Buffy, yeah.
I used to be way more into cars as a hobby and would attend car shows etc. Dingo is/was a common nickname for the Durango.
I never got that part, is it a reference to something.
In Australia in 1980 a baby was taken and eaten by a pack of Dingos. The parent's story wasn't believed, and the mother was sentenced to prison for murder. It became an international story and the parents were widely mocked. A few years later someone found the baby's clothing near a dingo lair, which ended up exonerating the parents and validating their story.
Weird how they didn't look for the baby in the first place. Must have been easier on the cops to not have to have to do their job.
Cops are bastards over here too
Yeah. In Australia, a woman named Lindy Chamberlain was camping and, well, a dingo ate her baby. She cried out in a way that people found darkly funny, and it became a meme. The woman was initially not believed and was convicted for killing her baby, and her marriage fell apart. Later, they found the baby's clothing which proved her innocence.
You know that's a true story? Lady lost a kid. You're about to cross some fuckin' lines.
You know that's a true story? Lady lost a kid. You bout to cross some fuckin lines.
She went to jail because they thought she lied about the story then they found evidence the baby was eaten by a dingo. It's a roller-coaster story.
And (iirc) the indigenous people (or maybe the park rangers?) in the area even let the investigators know that this is not even something that is unheard of.
I think she went to jail while the baby's father was acquitted. I cant remember but the story was crazy... I'm going to look it up again.
The case is weirdly related to the Satanic Panic. The authorities claimed she sacrificed her baby because she was a Seventh Day Adventist. Despite the fact that Adventists are kinda like "spicy protestants," the public believed the allegations. Then, years later, her baby's tattered and bloody clothes were found inside a dingo den.
One of the most frustrating parts of that case was the authorities being adamant that a dingo would not be strong enough to carry away a child. Aboriginals in the area insisted that it was not only possible, but that it was known to happen.
It would be like police in North America insisting that a coyote couldn't possibly steal a baby or toddler, therefore a Pentecostal must have gone on a camping trip to sacrifice her child to the devil. It's ludicrous and that poor woman must have felt like she was going insane.
It would be like police in North America insisting that a coyote couldn't possibly steal a baby or toddler, therefore a Pentecostal must have gone on a camping trip to sacrifice her child to the devil. It's ludicrous and that poor woman must have felt like she was going insane.
American police let Jeffrey Dahmer's victim go back with him even though he was naked and delirious with a hole in his head. It's not that far-fetched.
It's been awhile since I heard this story, didnt the father fail a polygraph test or something and that was used against the mother and because she wasn't sad enough or too sad people believed she was lying?
There's video of a fucking fox trying to eat a baby on the second floor of this English couple's flat! It got inside by an open window on a lower floor and was making its way to the crib. Wildest thing I've ever seen in suburbia! I wouldn't put it past any animal hungry enough.
It was the aboriginals, and they were ignored because they were aboriginals. If it was a white park ranger, the authorities might have looked into it.
"Roller coaster story" implies highs and lows. It was all lows. Dead baby. Falsely accused parents. Global mockery. Divorce. Three years in prison. The whole thing was an unending nightmare for these people.
Very aware.
I quoted RDJ in Tropic Thunder.
Ah, ok. It's kinda an old reference, I only knew about it be cause of Seinfeld.
Brilliant
Wouldn’t even be the worst thing I’ve heard on this site tho tbh lol
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I read your first sentence like five times and have no clue what it's supposed to mean.
Also my comment is a Tropic Thunder quote.
Sure it does turn your head away for 5 minutes and poof! Both the dingo and baby are gone.
Just like Epstein list
I see you share my check engine light philosophy.
Shit, that wasn't a microdose. It's still here.
I think the only difference between a normal tiger and a baby eating tiger is opportunity.
Or a hungry baby
More strange is I recognized that baby, it's taken from The Family Values Tour 1999 album cover, a big tour back then with bands like Limp Bizkit and Korn.
What a good set of tours, too. And the price was like $10 for lawn. What good times.
You see a baby eating tiger. I see a baby pooping out a tiger.
I hate it when my poop tiger comes out breach.
well that's probably the most unique sentence I'll read today
Weird, I see a tiger vomiting out a baby
"oomph, shouldn't have had that second burrito"
It’s an ad for the Life of Pi Prequel
π0: Parker Rising
Tigers eat meat. Babies are meat based life forms. I see nothing wrong here.
Eating…is that what it’s doing?
No eating, just stalking
We're just going to ignore the weird fingers?
Im 100% certain that if OP posted this image with the title "my thrift store lighter has a tiger and baby on it" the top comment would be
I don't think the baby and tiger is the most interesting thing in this image....
Wait a week and someone will repost this with that title and we’ll see.
remember to keep an eye out, then you can nail them for not posting OC
And then YOU can be the top upvote!
Good album title actually
You’re right, but the flame is mildly interesting though.
However, the baby dragging tiger, is interesting as fuck.
Yeah it's not everyday you see a thumb ring.
Copper will do that, though, personally, I find the picture on the lighter to fit this sub better than the colour of the flame
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Well this is mildly interesting while I would consider the picture to be quite interesting ;)
Runs on tiger blood
…and baby oil.
Charlie Sheen and Diddy? Talk about a nightmare blunt rotation.
imagine being the coke dealer for that party, could put your kids through college
Not the kid on the lighter.
Somebody is getting the end all sloppy and it sure as hell ain't me.
that means witches are nearby, you're going to need salt and hawthorn berry
Wine and fancy chocolates also go a long way, I find.
I find a baby-eating tiger is easily the most effective deterrent
It was White Claws for me & my witch friends
We named the bat that we saw flying around our campfire but the next day none of us could remember what the name was
#aintnolawswhenyouredrinkinclaws
Or cinnamon sticks and bay leaves
Baby you've got a wassail going
Okay I have some questions
Okay so first
Did you or did you not notice the tiger eating the baby on the lighter?
Did you form an opinion of the tiger's intent?
Ask away! I am very qualified.
That's the baby from the cover of the 1999 Family Values Tour
Hey Man, Nice Catch.
What a nice catch, man
Oh, good pull. I think that explains more than anything that’s been said already.
Hilarious because the second I saw the image I thought “shit this is bringing me back to the late 90s so hard right now” I figured it was just because colored lighter flames were all the rage back then, but I wonder if it’s because I recognized the baby, as I was all about the family values tour.
Imagine not being able to see system of a down on that tour because fucking limp bizkit had a problem with them.
That green flame is the least interesting thing about that light. What the shit is with that graphic?
Copper filament. There's also red
There's also purple.
Some older lighters from the 80s were filled with farts.
I'm pretty sure I had that exact lighter and played a cryng baby sound when opened
The longer you look at this photo, the more things you are appalled at lol
Everyone talking about the tiger eating a baby and yet the very first things I noticed were the hair and dirty fingernails
What is that image LMAO
There's a lot to unpack here.
God I want that lighter.
OP, clean your fingernails.
But they accent the thumb ring so well
Right away
Hey, bud...Quick sidebar?
Thumb ring. Guys, THUMB RING. Bruh
Wow I didn't even notice, I was blinded by the baby eating tiger
I’ve spent the last minute trying to make “baby eating tiger” fit into the same musical space as the word “light”
Doesnt burning copper produce toxic gas? I believe using this to smoke a bowl would be a bad idea.
It builds character
And tumors
Which we name 'character'
Not really. There is copper poisoning, but that is a danger you have far more when e.g. drinking something acidic from a copper bowl than when burning it (you also need to burn quite a bit of copper and inhale the smoke for a long time to get your copper levels fucked enough through this way). The biggest danger from burning is actually the fact that tons of copper products still have lead in them (though in very small amounts generally), as that really helps with stuff like machining/cutting the copper. And lead in any quantity is a big danger, especially when in an airborne form which means it can easily get inside your body.
Now, the copper oxides created when burning something are harmful, but basically on the level of any airborne burn product, because your lungs aren't meant to have anything else than air in them. For example when smoking a bowl the burn products that come from that (even in a non-copper pipe) are more harmful than the copper oxides.
Love how no one is talking about the photoshopped picture of the baby being eaten by a tiger on the front. 10/10
I'm more focused on the baby getting eaten by a tiger
i just love this so much
I have another question
I remember in the year 2000 when these were so hip.
The lighter isn't green. The flame is.
That tiger and baby crying has me cracking tf up for some reason
The picture 🤣🤣
Copper
GREEN! FLAME!
OP, clean and trim your goddamn fingernails. All that thumb ring is doing is highlighting your nasty nails.
This means you're a Jedi consular
That's some Game Of Thrones shit for sure. The picture on the lighter is just an added redneck bonus.
What in the human brain is like “baby eating tiger trinket? Art.”
new sick ass panther just unlocked: tiger eating baby
My dad says butane’s a bastard gas.
why is there a tiger eating a baby LMFAO
Miss Lippy's car is green.
This lighter would have you drowning in chicks at art school
Copper Insert. You can probably get different ones for different colored flames. Similar to the Hacksmith Torch.
You def can. Idk how it works exactly, but I remember going to a fair once as a kid and one stall had a bunch of lighters that all had different colors. Iirc there was blue, green, red, and orange. They were pretty cheap, but I thought they were so freakin cool as a kid.
Different metals give off different colors as they burn, did a fun experiment in chemistry class about it once. I'm no chemist, but it has to do with their atomic structure when transitioning to different energy levels
I was watching a video of a rocket engine test a bit ago. Rocket engines are designed to have either a slight excess of fuel or oxygen in their combustion, and so different designs get referred to as fuel-rich or oxygen-rich
Anyway, about halfway through the engine test the exhaust suddenly turned bright green, and the commentator goes “whoops, looks like we’ve got an engine-rich design here”
Engine-rich fuel mix is my favorite euphemism for a catastrophic disassembly.
Space tech has all the best euphemisms!
My fave is "lithobraking".
Oh it landed, it was just going too fast.
Not necessarily. One of the mars rovers had lithobraking built in to its actual design (used giant airbags and bounced a bit).
In fact most of the Mars Rovers used airbags, Spirit, Opportunity and Pathfinder (not a rover but it carried Sojourner) all used airbags because it's a simple and effective design. The only reason Curiosity and Perseverance didn't is because they were too heavy.
I'm more fond of its showboating cousin, Ablative Lithobraking
and "rapid dissassembly", just bring a box!
Lithobraking, what is that one? Crashing?
Yes. The lithosphere is the crunchy outer bit of the Earth, so lithobraking is using the Earth's surface to slow your spacecraft.
Nah that's engine rich exhaust, engine rich fuel is when your tanks fall apart and the engines eat something they shouldn't. One of the N1s crashed after an engine ate a loose bolt.
Fun story, one of the Space Shuttles was nearly lost when a small gold pin was ejected into the engine nozzle and caused quite a bit of damage on its way out. Probably some of the most exotic of combustion products.
Gold doesn’t form compounds readily. I’m guessing it would melt, probably vaporize, and recondense into fine droplets of elemental gold as it cooled.
This is assuming a typical modern fuel. If you used some of the terrifying rocket fuels people experimented with in years gone by, the gold could form fluorides, maybe chlorides or other halides.
Correct. The fuel for the Space Shuttle Main Engines was liquid hydrogen + oxygen.
Your second paragraph gave me flashbacks to reading about the fuel the Me-163 used. Seriously horrifying shit.
Have you read John
C.D. Clarke’s history of rocket fuel, titled Ignition!?No, but I actually saw a comment with a quote from it the other day. Seemed really interesting, I added it to my list.
Was the quote about chlorine trifluoride? I've read that quote over and over, and I cannot get over how succintly and humorously he described just how terrifying it is.
ETA For those curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride section: uses, subsection: military applications (it's the block quote)
For not being a chemist, you gave a damn good explanation. You must be the 1 in 72 students in lecture hall paying attention.
I was decent at chemistry until I wasn't (orgo) and changed majors lol, but that was like a decade ago. Certain things really stuck, my favorite little nugget of info from chem that stuck was learning about the way soap works through having 2 different polarities letting it stick to oil and water. Just don't ask me to balance any equations.
Damn. My boi has polarity and energy levels down?! You've already got more chemistry down than 60% of the students who took my gen chem final last quarter.
That sounds like a very easy gen chem final. I just had an exam in general chemistry and it was like learning 300 reactions with catalysts and knowing how different spectroscopy detectors work. We had like 80% failure rate.
That sounds unreasonable. General chemistry--even the one chemistry majors take--isn't about that. If you're at the general chemistry level, there isn't even anything remotely beneficial about memorizing reactions and catalysts beyond just the basic types.
We did have to memorize the different spectroscopy tools, learn to identify the data they generate by sight, and explain the operating principles...but there aren't really that many.
...Plus, if a final consistently has an 80% fail rate, it means that the course is ineffective. Hell, statistically any class that has an 80% fail rate means there's something wrong and it's almost certainly not because the students are just lazy.
Also 10 years ago but I passed intro Chem at uni with a 95. Now I build vans, can't help but think chemistry may have been more rewarding lol.
I have a BS, MS, and 4 years of doctoral research and I am on month 10 of trying to find a job in my field. So IMO it's not.
Soap is literally magic.
Then how come soap is banned at Magic the Gathering tournaments?
Soap works by magnets. You can't explain that.
I topped off my hand soap dispenser with same brand, different scent soap and it separated. I shook the shit outta it but I can only get to halfway proper consistency
Fuck soap
Separation can occur for a lot of reasons in a product but generally it's a sign of chemical instability.
The formula may not have been followed well or perhaps one of the chemicals they used is expired and not working as intended.
All id say is toss it and switch brands or something, quality control missed big time there.
There's so many flashy ways to present this particular piece of information, it's one of those things that seems to be general common knowledge for the most part these days.
It's hard to not pay attention when you walk in to your chemistry lecture and the professor has a bunch of different colored fire just hanging out up front.
Something like that yeh. It's how fireworks get their colours too. Copper is green, indium is indigo, lithium is red, magnesium is white. And more I'm sure
Luckily the flame test Wikipedia article has a handy list of elements and their responding flame colour.
This is how they make fireworks
But what if i feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind?
My bad, I meant about how they implement the color change via inserts. I know that diff chems burn different colors, there's even purple and bright yellow, and probably a handful of others tbh, but I think those use more toxic chems, so they aren't usually used. I could be wrong about the toxicity, but I do know different chems burn different colours. First time I ever watched anything like it was when my dad was fixing a pipe. I was sweeping up the floor while he worked, then he called out to me to show me the green flame his torch got from getting too close to the copper pipe he was fixing. Blew my mind lol
Edit: appreciate you explaining it, regardless :)
In brief, regarding the color differences: Each element has a unique electron structure, including the gaps between electron energy levels. The electrons falling down these gaps is what causes the colors, and the unique gaps (or unique combinations of gaps) lead to the unique colors for each element.
I had a chemistry teacher in high school that had some of the picnic-looking mustard/ketchup bottles filled with powder that contained different types of metals as a demonstration of this. He lit up a bunsen burner at the start of one class and sprayed small amounts of each powder into the flame. The result, of course, was killer and I have remembered this fact ever since.
In fact, I was that guy around the campfire that could tell you why the beer box had green flames emanating from parts of it since there was copper in some of the inks. Super cool science.
That's true!
Their colour can be used to identify unknown ions and even to quantify them via AAS!
They used to make like dust you would sprinkle in campfires. That would change the colors too. I don't think they still do at least where I live
Yeah! I remember that stuff! I think my younger brother had something similar once, but it was a compressed brick that you'd toss in the fire and it would change the fire's colors as it burned. I do remember finding some of that flash powder stuff at a campground shop as a kid, but my dad said it was too dangerous and we most likely shouldn't breath the smokey chemicals either. There's probably a good reason they're not around anymore lol
They are around. See above for some examples from Amazon.
Glad to see it's on Amazon, well-known bastion of safe products
https://www.amazon.com/fire-color-changing-packets-fire-pit/dp/B019HVTUGM
https://www.amazon.com/Mystical-Fire-Campfire-Fireplace-Colorant/dp/B07FB2RCNN
You can also get a piece of copper pipe and a piece of vinyl waterhose and put it inside. Then put that in a fire, it makes the flames change color and it lasts a pretty good amount of time. And as long as you don't intentionally make a furnace or something, you can keep re-using the pipe and just add a new piece of hose each time you make a fire.
I have a bunch of that stuff.
I use it to amaze my friends when they're on mushrooms.
There are also color changing lighters depending on how long u keep em on they'll go through 2 or 3 colors
I also remember a lighter with a rotating section that let you switch between several colors of torch flame and a regular lighter flame.
How long do they contain color?
Had a blue one, not too long. Couple months at most after its just a normal lighter. You can see a small ball on a wire above the flame which eventually disappears
That's not bad, assuming you were using it every day.
Putting aside for a second that the cigarette being lit is ALSO toxic and bad for you... that sounds toxic and bad for you.
Are they basically longer burning versions of the pellets you throw in campfires to turn them colors? My kid loves those
Should OP be worried about getting toxic chemicals on his cigarette?
I had one with red lithium flame.
Nothing better than lighting up a cigarette with a lithium or strontium flame 😵