You know you're a Pyro when...

[mormanman]

You know you're a pyro when you have 2,113 pounds of powdered paint in your workshop

LOL . Mumbles lol. Thats funny.

 

... when you cough and people say,"Smokers cough." And you say,"no its charcoal."

 

That one wasn't that good but I can't just say " thats funny."

[RUUUUUN]

You know your a pyro when everyone at the dinner table screams and jump because you just sneezed a huge black(or silverish) bannana slug onto your napkin.

[50AE]

You know you're a pyro when you prefer to make your own fireworks instead of buying ready ones.

 

You know you're a pyro when you pick cardboard tubes from waste containers.

[oskarchem]

... When if you ever see a cake looking like show somwhere, you always ask the peolple if once it is used if you could take it.

[marks265]

When you just can't seem to throw anything away!

[jacob]

Wow mark, if it were me i'd either A, organize that stuff or B, move it outside and throw a match in it.

[marks265]

Both, I am gonna do a spring burn PDQ. I got the idea because I was putting a shelf up in the corner. Then had the idea for this post. It was the same amount of work to stage the mess as well as pick it up! If anyone is doing this in real life I'd say they have issues!

[hst45]

...When your password at work is KClO4

...When the people at work wonder why your fingers are yellow (HE restircted )

...When your wife refers to your favorite hobby as "getting black crap all over my kitchen."

[Apollofrost]

... you've ever vaporized a can of Coors light.

... your housemates refer to you as "The Pyro."

... you can't think of youtube without laughing.

[mormanman]

When you have an account on apc

when take wood scraps from woodshop

when you spend more time in your shed than in your house

when you can only count to nine on you fingers (just kidding)

[justanotherpyro]

....when black snot is a regular occurrence

....when your parents or wife don't question you anymore when you ask for something from the store that makes no sense like

a bag of charcoal and you dont have a BBQ

a box of citric acid food preservative when you know nothing about canning

a bag of generic crappy tasting puffed rice

....if you look like a grease monkey without even working on the car ( hip hip huray for Carbon grinding day)

....when you go through great lengths to properly "cook" wood

....when the camera has more pictures and videos of fireworks than people

[oskarchem]

...When you see Isopril alcohol and immidiatly you think about fireworks.

...When you cleaning lady spends a lot of time in your bathroom cleaning the "black crap"

[h0lx]

..when your mother regularly complains about the sink she just cleaned, which is now tainted again.

[ST1DinOH]

-when you are single, living alone, with a 2 bedroom apartment...one for my bed, one for my pyro.

 

-when people invite you to thier parties/weddings/funerals on the off chance you may bring fireworks.

 

-when you "favorites" folder on your web browser is 4 pages long and full of nothing but pyro links.

 

-when the "pyro" section of your phone book on your cell phone is longer than the rest of it combined.

 

-when you lump all music you hear into three categories...non-fireworks music, fireworks music, and finale music.

 

-when you always have in your trunk a 24 shot fiberglass rack, some fast visco, zip ties, and 2 shell kits...just in case

[50AE]

...when you try to light stuff up when you have a lighter and you're bored.

 

...when your parents start to argue with you if they've watched a report about a firework accident on the TV news.

 

...when you don't want nobody to touch your pyro stuff or light your homemade fireworks, you always want to light them yourself.

 

..when your mother regularly complains about the sink she just cleaned, which is now tainted again.

 

....when the camera has more pictures and videos of fireworks than people

true

[smomi]

...when you're friend invites you to a party and says: "my wife made a huge cake" and u answer: " how many shots?"

[justanotherpyro]

...when you're friend invites you to a party and says: "my wife made a huge cake" and u answer: " how many shots?"

Hahah i like that one.

 

...when the fourth of July comes before Christmas as your favorite holiday.

[psyco_1322]

...when you decide to come up with some bad ass stuff 3 days before a major event. And make the deadline.

 

... when you cough and people say,"Smokers cough." And you say,"no its sulfur dioxide."

 

...when your parents buy extra fire insurance on numerous things around the yard.

 

...when you decide that buying fireworks on the 4th is a waste of money.

 

...when your meat and coffee grinders have never been used for their intended purposes.

 

...when you buy Wal Mart out of stump remover.

 

...when your friend asks you if you have any hand sanitizer and you pick up your can of acetone and tell him your fresh out of isopropanol.

 

...when the card you use in your MP3 has more pics and vids than music.

 

...when you know your gonna reply to this thread before your done reading the first page.

 

...when you can come up for good jokes in this catagory.

 

...when it pisses you off to see shitty 1.3g shells.

 

...when you carry a lighter everday no matter where you go and your not even a smoker. Just in case the need arises.

 

...when you must empty your 512Mb SD card at the end of every day of the PGI convention. Then decide its not enough so you sacrifice a hour of rocket building time to go buy a 2Gb one.

 

...when the hot glue doesnt turn cold fast enough.

 

...when you spend most of your time in woodshop making case formers, and most of your time in your CNC machine class programing spindle deminsions. Then have the two classes back to back.

 

...volunteer to clean up peoples lawns after ice storms only if they have willow trees.

 

...when you burn through fuse faster than the fuse burns.

 

...when your on the FBIs watch list, and are banned from flying.

 

...when your making some NC and your girlfriend comes in and says "Ive had enough and its either her or your fireworks". You turn around and go back to stirring your nitration bath.

 

...when your chem supply has medicinal uses and visa versa. Not all legal either.

 

...when you go by psyco, intentionally spelling it wrong, just as a warning to others.

 

...when you have created a private line for your creations. then incorporate it with your user name so people can make the connection.

 

...when people talk about sparkler bombs and you hope in the back of your mind that they catch some of the flying wires.

 

...when there is more oxidiser dust collected on things in your room than dirt.

 

...when you move to a small town with no law inforcement.

 

...when your pyro jokes totally pwn the ones in the '76 Pyro magazine.

 

...when you can check the box in a life expectancey test that says Pyrotechnition -50 years.

 

...when you tell your teacher you rolled a tube out of your homework. Then the titanium ate it!

 

...when you have about every size of dowel rod they sell.

 

...when you have a shirt that says 75:15:10

 

...when sulfur, acetone, and alcohols dont really seem to smell that bad.

 

...when you buy bulk amounts of creamer and dont even drink coffee.

 

...when you demand paper bags when buying groceries.

 

...when there is a whole in the ozone over your house.

 

...when you can tell a days worth of stories with the scares on only your non-dominant hand.

 

...when some one asks what your making and you just answer "You wouldnt understand even if I explained it to you".

 

...when you carry a needle and magnifying glass to count mesh size just incase you spot a screen in the store.

 

...when entertaining people isnt really that hard.

 

 

 

Ill come up with more. We should send these all to "76 Pyro so they will have some jokes that dont sound retarded.

[Mumbles]

...

 

...when you can come up for good jokes in this catagory.

 

...

 

 

Well that narrows people from this thread down quite a bit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These arn't really jokes, more things that have actually happened

 

 

 

Right clicking on the firework/chem folder freezes your computer due to it's size.

 

You're no longer afraid to admit you manufacture pyrotechnics

 

You say that your marriage proposal will involve fireworks, and people no longer think it's for the sentiment

 

Your 3 gig porn folder is over shadowed by the 11 gig pyro folder.

 

Can't decide whether the cheap SS pots on sale will be a beer boiling kettle, or star roller..........so you get two

 

Advise people not to put uncovered groceries in your trunk.

 

Have a sudden desire to beat people with a steel pipe for the stupid jokes in this thead (I'm not an angry person, am I?)

[psyco_1322]

As long as that pipe's not a good 3" mortor than you can do that.

[Apollofrost]

the door to your garage says "Caution, science in progress."

[hst45]

When your computer password at work is the CAS number for potassium perchlorate.

 

When you can't pass by a dumpster with a cardboard tube in it.

 

When you make excuses at work for why you have bright yellow spots on your fingernails.

 

When "D-1" is a formula, not a classroom in your High School.

 

When you think that "blackhead" is good aluminum, not a zit.

[marks265]

When your brother drives by and sees the grill smoking and then asks what kind of steaks did I make today. The reply was "OH, a little bit of willow and some grape vine" The look on his face was worth a thousand anyway.

[BPinthemorning]

"Caution, science in progress." is a good one, but mine says "stand back, I'm trying science!"

[Apollofrost]

...when the local law enforcement uses your work pants to train their dogs.