Stupidest thing you've done with fire.

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As teenagers, my husband and I once put a PLASTIC katana into a fire to "temper" it.

I caught my beard on fire doing drugs last night, I was drunk and already high.

it would be neat to know what burnt hair smells like?

In grade three or four in school we made experiments with matches and I had to hold it when it already burnt but my group wasn't ready and and the little flame started to approach my fingers so I let fall. On the wooden table. Fortunately my teacher was fast enough to pour water on it but to this day I didn't use matches.

Back in the days when I did drugs I used to use a lighter. Sometimes I'd forget to buy a lighter (which was often, actually) so I had to improvise. I'd turn on the electric stove, touch a paper towel or napkin to the glowing burner, and use the ignited paper in lieu of my lighter. Sometimes, though, I'd underestimate the strength of the paper. It'd burst into flames so quickly that I had to drop what was left of it or get my fingers burned. A few times I did burn the linoleum in the kitchen. I could have easily just burned down the house.

Moral of story: don't do drugs. Drugs are bad.

I can't even really guess at how many times I've nearly blown myself up. Fire staffing is my obsession lately, having picked up pyromania as an art form from my raver & skateboarder friends. We're pretty cautious about it since the mountains here make for some dry weather. I'll probably stop short of naptha at least.

Stupidest thing? Lol probably the hairspray flamethrower one. It works fine though - yes the flame can get back to the nozzle but beyond there it would have no oxygen source. Outside of the usual nonsense I should just be boring & say cigarettes. Done with those.

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As a kid, I once set my dad's golf magazines on fire. He got really furious with me, adding that I could have set the whole house on fire.

I was somewhat of a pyro when I was a kid. I used to carry around matches wherever I went.

Probably the stupidest thing I did occurred when I was about 10. Two of the neighborhood boys and I went around the neighborhood, after the 4th of July, collecting used fire crackers (ones that had already “blown up”). We found a bunch of them. We extracted the “left over” gun powder. We gathered a rather big pile of it. I was “volunteered” to light it. There was a big flash. I ended up with 2nd degree burns on my right hand.

I was 9, bored, and home alone.

Spraying (flammable) perfume directly at the candle's flame. I didn't expect the whole thing to happen. The flame blended with the perfume's spray like a flame thrower instead of putting it out because I didn't knew perfumes are flammable that time...
Which ended up burning some few parts of my house's curtain. My mom didn't noticed a thing until the whole curtain got replaced.

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