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[Spehss _]

Welp.

>Was boiling some water for ramen on the stove while the parents were out.
>Smelled something like grease burning.
>Go to check the water in time to see a crap ton of greasy smoke rising from the burner.
>A small grease fire suddenly flares up around the burner.
>Take the small pot of water off the stove.
>Think about how to handle the situation.
>Turn burner off.
>Pour some water from the pot onto the grease fire.
>"Water douses fire right?"
>Grease fire explodes into a column of flame reaching up to the ceiling AS SOON AS THE WATER HITS IT.
>"SHIT I'M GOING TO BURN THE HOUSE DOWN WITH WATER"
>"SHIT I'M GOING TO DIE"
>"OH GOD"
>fire goes out.
>nothing died
>nothing caught fire
>no ramen made

Guess I'm not having any ramen today. Good thing I checked the water again before I got too immersed in games. I could've wound up starting a fire. I could've burned the house down. Still shaky from adrenaline. Jesus Christ how horrifying.

[timferius]

Welp.

>Was boiling some water for ramen on the stove while the parents were out.
>Smelled something like grease burning.
>Go to check the water in time to see a crap ton of greasy smoke rising from the burner.
>A small grease fire suddenly flares up around the burner.
>Take the small pot of water off the stove.
>Think about how to handle the situation.
>Turn burner off.
>Pour some water from the pot onto the grease fire.
>"Water douses fire right?"
>Grease fire explodes into a column of flame reaching up to the ceiling AS SOON AS THE WATER HITS IT.
>"SHIT I'M GOING TO BURN THE HOUSE DOWN WITH WATER"
>"SHIT I'M GOING TO DIE"
>"OH GOD"
>fire goes out.
>nothing died
>nothing caught fire
>no ramen made

Guess I'm not having any ramen today. Good thing I checked the water again before I got too immersed in games. I could've wound up starting a fire. I could've burned the house down. Still shaky from adrenaline. Jesus Christ how horrifying.

For future reference, you want to smother a grease fire. Put a pot lid or something over it if possible to starve it of oxygen. You can also pour baking soda on it apparently, though I've never tried. Just never for the love of all that is good and holy throw water on it! As you've learnt already.

[Loud Whispers]

How have you gone through N/A years of your life without any fire safety training?

Ah well, doesn't matter. And just in case no one can be asked to read the Egypt and the World and Libya megathread:

Iraq crisis: Isis jihadists 'seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile'
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[mastahcheese]

Oh man, I remember starting a grease fire, I tried to fry a hot dog while having no idea what I'm doing, and ended up heating the grease until it started to let off steam. (I assumed grease was supposed to boil like water Turns out it doesn't.)
Tried to put in hot dog -> huge fire that reached to the ceiling instantly.
I then grabbed the pot and dumped the whole thing in the sink, and the sink ended up actually warping slightly from the heat.

[GiglameshDespair]

...how did you people not know that you can't use water on a grease fire? >_<


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Iraq crisis: Isis jihadists 'seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile'
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Wait, what? Are you saying we left a huge stockpile of chemical weaponry just sitting around for years after we invaded over WMDs?

[Descan]

Iraq crisis: Isis jihadists 'seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile'
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Wait, what? Are you saying we left a huge stockpile of chemical weaponry just sitting around for years after we invaded over WMDs?

Yeah, but we knew about those already, so it's alright. I mean, Saddam used them on his own people in the 90s.

It's only the invisible atrocities and weapons that the Americans invade for. You do something blatant and obvious like gas your own citizens and you'll be fine.

[Loud Whispers]

Iraq crisis: Isis jihadists 'seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile'
PREPARE TO GO INNAMNTAINS

Wait, what? Are you saying we left a huge stockpile of chemical weaponry just sitting around for years after we invaded over WMDs?

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

[Bauglir]

Iraq crisis: Isis jihadists 'seize Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons stockpile'
PREPARE TO GO INNAMNTAINS

Wait, what? Are you saying we left a huge stockpile of chemical weaponry just sitting around for years after we invaded over WMDs?

In their defense, what I'm reading indicates that they were chemical weapons we knew about, were working on destroying, and were (and still are) considered unlikely to be very functional because of poor storage conditions. If all that's true, all I can really criticize them for is the sloth in getting the destruction part done, and I don't have a full list of their actual priorities over the last several years. Particularly on the US military's side, there's been a lot of civilian calls for speedy withdrawal. Given that, I'd expect that this sort of task was exactly the sort of thing that got handed over to local forces to minimize tasks that need doing before withdrawal, then got filed at the bottom of the priorities list for whatever reason.

I mean, it's still a clusterfuck, but it's one where I have to blame bureaucracy as an abstract concept more than anything else, if my impressions about it are accurate.

[Lord Shonus]

Chemical weapons are a nightmare to destroy without killing yourself doing it. With bioweapons, it's as simple matter of sterilization, while nukes can be rendered non-functional by removing the chemical explosives and damaging the fissile material (an implosion-type nuclear devices requires a very precise explosion compressing the core in a very precise way. If the core is damaged, it cannot explode) before seperating it. Nerve gasses and such are too toxic to eliminate by dilution, incineration is all too likely to simply spread the poison, which means that the only solutions are dumping (with obvious problems), or using light and chemical reactions to break down the agents, which takes considerable amounts of time. IIRC, most of the nations that signed the treaty banning them in the first place still have significant stockpiles simply because destroying them takes so long.

[penguinofhonor]

I say we just launch them into the sun.

[~Neri]

I say we just launch them into the sun.

I second this motion.

[Worldmaster27]

I say we just launch them into the sun.

I second this motion.

+1

[Helgoland]

Destroying chemical weapons is usually pretty straightforward - treating them with a strong base does the trick for most of them. The problem is their toxicity (duuh), so the destruction process becomes much more difficult than for an ordinary substance.

[Tawa]

What terrified me today?

A children's cartoon, of all things, which took a weird spin on a "zombie apocalypse" scenario and made it more disturbing than the living dead. Much more disturbing. This is the most unnerving children's cartoon I have seen in my life.

[Graknorke]

What terrified me today?

A children's cartoon, of all things, which took a weird spin on a "zombie apocalypse" scenario and made it more disturbing than the living dead. Much more disturbing. This is the most unnerving children's cartoon I have seen in my life.

What was it, out of curiosity? Something people here will have heard of or something that's generally obscure and weird?