Richtee Posted July 3, 2008 Posted July 3, 2008 You blow your nose and realize what a great binder snot is. 1
Swede Posted July 3, 2008 Posted July 3, 2008 ...When you learn to identify tree species (for charcoal) when before it was "just a pretty tree." You're an OLD pyro when... You save your Metamucil canisters because they are excellent HDPE, perfect for chems. ... every piece of window screen or kitchen strainer you see is handled, and mentally analyzed to see if it would make a good shop sieve. ... the "plumbing" aisle at Home Depot or Lowe's is secretly "the pyro aisle" in your mind. ... You save every plastic spoon you find, and load your McDonald's bag with about 8 of them, even though you already have 10,000 of them, and you know you don't need any more. ... When every single thing you find at a hardware store falls into one of four categories: Fuel, Oxidizer, Binder, Pyro Tools. If it's not one of those, it's ignored.
mormanman Posted July 3, 2008 Posted July 3, 2008 When you go to a fast food restaurant you take as many condiment cups as you can fit in you pocket without people noticing.
frogy Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Hahahahaha mormanman... Those make great lift cups for festival balls. Swede, I have an insane amount of spoons You know your a pyro when, ever time the paper towel rolls run out, you squeeze and pull the cardboard tube in random directions, checking if you somehow accidentally received a strong, magical tube that would work for 6lb. rockets.
Frozentech Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 You know you're a pyro when.... You train your dog to not fear fireworks. I just finished working on my new pup... a 6 month old labrador/staffordshire mix named Lucy. It took 2 hot dogs and 1 pack of Black Cat firecrackers, with a bite of hotdog immediately after each report. After just a few minutes she associates *BANG* with good times All those old ladies who complain about the effect of fireworks on their fearful dogs.... they are just transferring their own fear onto the poor animals.
BPinthemorning Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 I'm just agreeing with you. I have it like down to an art lol.
justanotherpyro Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 My dog just starts shaking when she smells me walk through the door after I have been testing and during the fourth she usually gets stuck under the bed.
oskarchem Posted July 6, 2008 Posted July 6, 2008 My dog is somhow intuitive, whenever he sees me with a lighter/butane torch or dressed in my lab coat he just runs the hell out of my way
_DB_ Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 Your 3 gig porn folder is over shadowed by the 11 gig pyro folder....when your pyro folder has the same effect on you as your porn folder.
BPinthemorning Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 Or when it has a greater effect than the porn folder... jk.
_DB_ Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 There's got to be some obscure pyro porn out there somewhere. If not I will create it.
Sylar Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 Curious as I may be, some things aren't meant to be mixed. Like icecream and pizza, great seperate, but I can't imagine a pizza straight out of the oven with a few scoops of icecream on top tasting good. Unless you're a hot chick masturbating with a bottle rocket, spare our eyes!
Richtee Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 Unless you're a hot chick masturbating with a bottle rocket, spare our eyes! What about some 'UGE nipples with wheels??
mormanman Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 I am very aroused... BP, calm down. None of that please.
justanotherpyro Posted July 9, 2008 Posted July 9, 2008 The thread has "Sure signs of a one-track mind" I'm not so sure its correct. At any rate. You know you're a pyro when the A.D.D. kicks in and....hey look a bunny rabbit!
Niter Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 You know you're a pyro kid when your mother confronts her teenage son with a small ziplock baggie of white powder and asks: "This won't explode will it?" (happened to me 20 years ago, still funny though) You know you're a pyro when you watch a fireworks show, bend over to tie your shoelaces and your friends immediately duck and cover assuming you saw a shell come down You know you're a pyro when you get gay jokes at work because of the glitter in your hair. You know you're a pyro when you buy big bottle rockets and balance them on your finger to judge their quality. You know you're a pyro when you spot your neighbor setting up a mortar tube in the street, you barge in on the situation, remove a pavement tile and bury the tube. You know you're a pyro when one modest piece of yours gives ten times the fulfillment a big box of commercial fireworks would. You know you're a pyro when you know the Bali Bombing was done with Sodium chlorate flashpowder You know you're a pyro when 25 years on fireworks can make you just as thrilled as they did when you were a kid. When an alarming hiss is followed by a billowing cloud of smoke and an enthusiastic "YES!"... the neighbors might know you're a pyro.
frogy Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 Haha Niter... Those ones are very true... I once went in to work with Aluminum powder smeared on my face without realizing it... You know your a pyro when, your neighbors who spent $1000 on 1.4 fireworks each, stop to see you light 3 shells and a salute cake, and you get a round of applause.... hahahaha One of my Veline shells failed (I spilled the shell while putting the halves together, but still used the same boosted burst + more booster ) because I put about 10 grams of Flash in for booster, yet it was one of the "favorites".... PS: I'm glad I'm a full member, and not a half a member.
Boomer Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 ... you know when while you're asleep and have a bad dream, you jump in real world, hitting the wall or your wife? Personally I have two of these nightmares, either I jump because I got an electric shock or because something detonated in my hands/in front of my face. I remember a certain drive in a bus, holding an open bottle of beer in my lap, and falling asleep (sitting backwards to hide it from the driver). When the device of my dreams exploded into my face, I jumped so hard the bottle hit the roof. I was wide awake so fast I managed to catch it when it came down, but it turned into a fountain anyway, spraying the woman sitting opposite. It was so embarrassing...But probably the first explosion in a dream world that managed to hit someone in reality, if only with beer not steel fragments.
flying fish Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 - When you can come up with a 2 page response to a pyrotechnics question in 10 minutes but can't come up with a 100 word response to a damn Philosophy question in 2 days. As you can see, I am a bit frustrated with my homework, hehe....
Frozentech Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 ... you know when while you're asleep and have a bad dream, you jump in real world, hitting the wall or your wife? Personally I have two of these nightmares, either I jump because I got an electric shock or because something detonated in my hands/in front of my face. That's kind of funny. I've had a pyro nightmare a few times myself. Usually involves some catastrophic mortar accident. In the dreams I had, I was handlighting 10 inch shells and one didn't lift, I turned to run and in the dream, it went off just as I had my back to it, well, the nightmare part... a star hit me so hard it burned into my lungs, and I could feel it burning inside me, etc... The dream got worse since the doctors said I was being poisoned by barium from the star. Then I would wake up, wondering if I should avoid green stars. 1
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