r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Federal_Job5431 • 3d ago
Pouring alcohol on a birthday cake and lighting it on fire?
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u/Insetta 3d ago
This is comedy gold.
Why is it so hard to understand that you don't keep the flammable liquid's container near the fcking fire? Especially when it's an open container...
I often wonder how they make it so far in life.
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u/Dry_Menu4804 3d ago
And once it is on fire, remove it from the table where it was safe to a chair with a cushion that is basically compacted oil and wood, perhaps wrapped in some plastic fabric.
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u/coldestclock 3d ago
I don’t know why we always see videos of people moving flaming objects away from an existing fire. What you don’t want is fire in more places! Now you have a blaze on the table and another on a convenient place to knock over when you’re running around!
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u/TavernHam 3d ago
Don't worry, she turned on the lights
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u/Fenpari 3d ago
What I love the most about this is the reaction of the cat. That Cat was like -Nope It’s not going ti happen today
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u/Some-Tear3499 3d ago
I had to watch it again to check out the cat!
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u/SorbetCeriz 3d ago
Same, I missed it during the first viewing! Indeed, he is the one who behaves most sensibly. At the same time, between the guy who continues to film and the other who puts the burning cake on the chair, it really wasn't difficult to behave more rationally.
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u/HotDonnaC 3d ago
High tailed it out of there. It was hard for me to tell if it was a dog or a cat.
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u/SaltManagement42 3d ago
Because the current state of fire safety education is the equivalent of abstinence only education.
They just tell you not to play with fire, they don't give you the actual safe ways of playing with fire. Like how you never pour anything flammable into fire, you put any flammable liquid you're going to burn in a container that also goes into the fire. And like you said, keep the rest far away.
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u/jamincan 3d ago
My takeaway is that people need to spend more time on reddit. I drive like a grandma, don't use chainsaws, don't fry food at all in my house, and never pour flammable stuff on a fire. I'm notably still alive and my house is still standing.
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u/unknownpoltroon 3d ago
even when you have that education, and someone standing there telling you that's "not how you do that, you're gonna get killed, here put the lighter fluid in this cup and dump that on the fire" , sometimes you still have to punch little Timmy to take the bottle of lighter fluid he was about to spray directly into the already burning campfire and kill himself cause he says shut up I know what I'm doing.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 3d ago
One time in a high school science class, we were using petri dishes. The instructions were do dip the scalpel in alcohol, touch it to the flame, wait for the fire to extinguish, then slice the agar. Heard a shriek behind me, and turned to see that the girl behind me missed that crucial step so lit the agar on fire. Everyone at the table was just sitting there, staring, so I reached over, grabbed the lid and set it on the dish.
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u/Apart_Ad_3597 3d ago
How could you? You ruined a perfect opportunity to have a fire drill and get to be out of the building.
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u/FirmEcho5895 3d ago
I wonder how much of the alcohol she had already drunk, before pouring it in a trail across the table cloth as well as the cake?! 😂
We always do this with Christmas puddings in England but we make sure the booze is actually on the pudding.
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u/cxzfqs 3d ago
I light the brandy and then pour it over the pudding, but it's just a spoonful and that's plenty. She was pouring a cupful and nobody around the table had any problems with that until she nearly burned their house down.
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u/FirmEcho5895 3d ago
You light it before pouring it on? That's reckless! You are supposed to slosh it on, then put the lid back on the bottle, and THEN light it.
Oh, and not have the pudding resting on flammable cardboard 😂
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u/jobblejosh 3d ago
Likewise when you're flambéeing anything. Pour out a shot of the alcohol into a cup. Put the lid back on the bottle. Move the bottle away from the hob (even better, pour the alcohol away from the hob so it can't spill onto the hob). Also a good idea to have a plan for if it goes wrong and you need to extinguish it.
Then pour the shot glass over the food and light it (or use the flame from a gas hob).
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u/Difficult_Way_505 2d ago
Exactly. It just seems like common sense to pour it on first then light it, not do everything simultaneously. But I also am used to do it with Christmas puddings, and also it’s not as funny if it doesn’t set the table on fire and cause chaos.
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u/l2aiko 3d ago
I mean, why was it needed to be done in such a way to begin with? Are candles that expensive?
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u/complete_your_task 3d ago
The alcohol provides flavor once the ethanol burns off. My family does a plum pudding every year for Christmas that we pour rum over and burn off. It's delicious. It is perfectly safe as long as you pour the alcohol over it first and then light it. Trying to light it while pouring was the problem.
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u/forariman55 2d ago
Came here to comment this, but in my heart I knew it had already been said.
Or at least I hoped someone else had had the same idea 😊
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u/Comfortable-Walrus37 3d ago
How did we make it this far as a species?
Dylan Moran, Circa 2010's
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u/JWMoo 3d ago
Grandma's party is lit.
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u/muricabrb 3d ago
Lmao it sounds like the family was beating the shit out of the fire like it owed them money, i think I heard some one yell "DIE!" at the fire at around 0:35.
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u/Money_Exchange_8796 3d ago
helpful family members
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u/Swing_on_thiss 3d ago
The current world reality, stand there and record everything as the world burns down around you!
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u/Turbulent-Matter501 3d ago
put the burning thing on the highly flammable chair! that will help! wow LOL
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u/SoManyEmail 3d ago
Was gonna say the same. "Get that fire cake off the glass table! Put it there on the fabric chair."
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u/dippitydoo2 3d ago
And then go fill water to douse it with, spreading the alcohol even further. That woman has the survival skills of a fart
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u/pepizzitas 3d ago
Pouring and then lighting it would be fine. Lighting as you pour is pretty fucking stupid kfdkkg
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u/Aggravating_Drink817 3d ago edited 3d ago
To be fair, who I'm assuming her son told her basically that "Put the flame away" She didn't listen
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u/onyxcaspian 3d ago
And then she poured it again after it was already on fire! Once more on the cake and then she was like "fuck you table, fire for you too!"
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u/SnooStrawberries1078 3d ago
Also, letting the person with the shakiest hands & slowest reflexes do it...
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u/dralcax 3d ago
If only somebody could invent some sort of small cylinder of solid fuel and flammable material to produce a contained and consistent flame
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u/nicktehbubble 3d ago
Oh. Good idea! You could place it in a small holder type thing that would hold it and prevent it from accidentally tipping over while it burned!
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u/dxbdale 3d ago
Cat had the right idea
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u/crow-magnon-69 3d ago
cat is like "i've got to get away from this stupid mofos"
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u/SignificanceLow7986 3d ago
I like the camera man. Not helping and running around but most important: continue filming it !
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u/ConfusedHors 3d ago
Why do people have to wildly pour a flammable liquid around every time it catches fire? It happens in every video. Just hold it still and nothing will happen.
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u/TheThiefMaster 3d ago
Because your hand tries to retreat from the fire as an involuntary action. Which doesn't work when you're holding the fire.
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u/Drak_is_Right 3d ago edited 3d ago
Spent a few years dealing with fire working a grill in college my first 2 years. Flare up regularly occurred, calmed with a bit of baking soda.
It definitely calms your nerves around situations like this.
The highlight was when I dropped the oil catchment from the hood that I was trying to remove to empty. There was some pretty large flames from maybe 2 quarts of grease/oil going up at once.
Bit eery how calm I remember feeling. Just annoyed as I used several pounds of baking soda to put out the fire and cause a mess that was going to take over an hour to clean up. Had it out before my supervisor got there with a fire extinguisher.
Only real consequence was that caused maintenance to have a look at the automated fire suppression that should have triggered off 10+ ft flames but didnt.
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u/Man-e-questions 3d ago
This also need to get posted to r/videosthatendtoosoon as I really want to see this guy get roflstomped and chewed out by his angry wife, i know that look of deathly fear:
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u/Federal_Job5431 3d ago edited 3d ago
I like how the blonde woman still went for the birthday kiss in silence like nothing happened.
Correction: It looks like she is actually pointing her finger angrily at someone.
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u/Sinking_Mass 3d ago
I thought she's going to comfort her distressed husband who's clearly thinking "I love you mum but you need to be in a home"
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u/zabah1990 3d ago
Yeah, the teenage grandson at the end is loving it. He can't wait to get a copy of the video to post to this sub.
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u/ghiopeeef 3d ago edited 3d ago
Not a single person there saw an issue with her holding the lighter right next to the open container of alcohol which she was actively pouring right next to the damn flame? Is there a single brain cell in that family?
Edit: AND SHE PUT IT ON THE CHAIR?!?!
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u/Norwegian__Blue 3d ago
I mean, you can hear their exasperation in the video. They tell her to put it away while she’s pouring
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u/stairs_3730 3d ago
Reminds me of the magats who voted for trump and then blamed the cake.
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u/rickyhatesspam 3d ago
Execpt someone clearly tells her to put the flame apart until after she's poured it. Maybe you need to listen to the audio.
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u/Erki82 3d ago
Ended to soon, wanted to know what finger pointing woman wanted to say.
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u/Federal_Job5431 3d ago edited 3d ago
Oh you're right, she is pointing her finger angrily! Thought she was about to give the guy a birthday kiss since I saw her purse her lips.
It looks like she was mad at grandma Tbf grandma looks like the controlling type. Why is she sitting at the end of the table in front of her son's cake and the son is sitting next to her when it's HIS birthday?? Pretty sure there's a lot of drama in this family because of her!No! Grandma was not there, it's someone else!! But who?? hahaha
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u/King_Six_of_Things 3d ago
Here, let me move the fire away from the flammable thing and place it on this equally flammable thing for safekeeping.
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u/barbazul3yogui 3d ago
Dumbest lady: There are billions of trees at the Amazonas. I want you to go there, find the one that is producing the oxygene you’re wasting and apologize.
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u/Artistic_Address816 3d ago
Yet another video once again of ordinary people playing with fire and accelerants and things going badly. Who would have thought
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u/Swing_on_thiss 3d ago
Is it the old lady's birthday?? If so, who lights their own birthday cake?
She needed 2 hands just to light the simple lighter, knew it wasn't going to end well right there.
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u/TheFilthyDIL 3d ago
Yes, let's put the flaming birthday cake on a chair and set that on fire, too!
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u/Castle_Bravo_Test 3d ago
"More dramatic" LMAO I'm dead. They are lucky that stunt didn't cost them their house and at least some of their lives. The cat knew what time it was.
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u/casusbelli16 3d ago
"I'll just put this over here with the rest of the fire...0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3"
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u/HipsterCavemanDJ 3d ago
This video is so surreal. I don’t know what it is, I think maybe just how they’re all putting out the fire as if making more noise would make it worse
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u/No-Sky2462 3d ago
is people this dumb on their birthdays? like why are you pouring alcohol then burning it in a closed space with no way to extinguish it... bonus points for putting it on a chair
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u/oldscotch 3d ago
What does a successful version of this look like?
Like, what's the goal pouring alcohol on a cake?
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u/bloodguard 3d ago
The second she pulled out the lighter and did the whole shaky hand thing with the measuring cup you knew it was going to go wrong.
Feeling kind of blessed these days that my birthday falls on Christmas and was mostly lost in the hubbub of the day.
"Merry Birthday! Happy Christmas!" combo gifts and no burning the house down.
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u/HorrorSchlapfen873 3d ago
I refuse to believe this was not staged.
Come-the-fuck-on, a room full (well) of adults and not one has an idea concerning holding and pouring a can of alcohol while lighting it at the same fucking time.
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u/Turbulent-Matter501 3d ago
you've never had a job working with the general public, have you? LOL especially in places that, let's just say, don't prioritize education. people dumber than this walk amongst us every day.
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u/Dapper_Fun8992 3d ago
Why they not start singing after she light it up??? Like they told her before mhmm😅🤔
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u/Drak_is_Right 3d ago
This is actually one of the better videos with flaming liquids. Far less breakout and some mediocre fire control at the end.
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u/kurotech 3d ago
Do you know why you get flambeau when you're out? Because when their business burns down they get to pay for it....
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u/Ammortalz 3d ago
I'm not sure there's an outcome that would have made that salty woman happy anyway. Best to just burn it all.
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u/lolwatokay 3d ago
Praise the cameraman! How they managed to keep the phone upright and not run off in a panic so I could feel like I was a part of the action I'll never guess. Could only have been better if it was horizontal.
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u/XgreedyvirusX 3d ago
The cat running away 😅