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[–] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, you can. Probably shouldn't though.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A lit cigarette is incapable of igniting gas or its vapours, the danger comes from igniting the cigarette.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    alt-text

    Zoolander gas fight gif

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    fyi you can put alt text on an image by putting it between the square brackets

    ![alt text here](url here)

    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.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Smoking next to a gas pump is one thing… lighting the cigarette is another.

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Whose going to stop me? The smoke police?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How does one filter fire out?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I assume they meant the vapors from the gasoline, not from the cigarette.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    They try anything to prevent me from propelling myself over the Antarctic ice wall.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fun fact, #1 cause of gas station fires is static electricity, most likely from people sliding into their cloth seats while waiting for gas to pump. This is why some states don't have the tabs that keep the pump going.

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  • [+] -19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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