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LawBeefaroni wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:
o-/ I want to be an Airborne Ranger /-o

I want to live in Airborne housing
Fake ID and out carousing...

You get a letter of appreciation for your efforts. And extra gold star for making it especially apropos of the situation, rather than just "in the general vicinity" of the topic.

LawBeefaroni wrote:

dbt1949 wrote:I thought you were supposed to throw flour on a grease fire. How come I ended up getting a combination grease flour fire?

No! Flour dust is highly flammable and if you "throw" it on the fire you could end up with a giant cloud of fire.

Youtube "flour fire" or "flour explosion". But don't get any wise ideas.


Salt or a wet towel are better. A fire blanket is best.

wiki says you're lucky you didn't explode.

So not only does things like floor and grain dust light on fire easily, it will often explode.

Did you try throwing gasoline on it? That is equally effective, I hear.

Liquid gasoline is not flammable. Of course, throwing it on a fire is going to aerosolize it, which does make it flammable. It works better if you can put the fire into a standing container of gasoline, but that just might cause more issues.

Isgrimnur wrote:Liquid gasoline is not flammable

Excellent. I'll start using it to extinguish fires right away.

GreenGoo wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:Liquid gasoline is not flammable

Excellent. I'll start using it to extinguish fires right away.

That won't work. Fires are actually extremely flammable.

If you want me to buy shit at your store, why do you not have anything in stock? If I was planning on shopping online, I would have stayed in my PJs. Grrrr....

wonderpug wrote:

GreenGoo wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:Liquid gasoline is not flammable

Excellent. I'll start using it to extinguish fires right away.

That won't work. Fires are actually extremely flammable.

I think you mean inflammable.

What a country!

LawBeefaroni wrote:

dbt1949 wrote:I thought you were supposed to throw flour on a grease fire. How come I ended up getting a combination grease flour fire?

No! Flour dust is highly flammable and if you "throw" it on the fire you could end up with a giant cloud of fire.

Youtube "flour fire" or "flour explosion". But don't get any wise ideas.


Salt or a wet towel are better. A fire blanket is best.

If the grease fire is in a pot/pan, putting a metal lid/cover on it would the be obvious first move. A wet towel might not be a great option, since you can easily up fanning the fire rather than cutting off the oxygen supply.

If you need to "throw" something on it and don't have a handy kitchen-appropriate fire extinguisher, you could go with baking soda, if you have a lot of it on hand.

Or sand.

The big problem with grease fires is causing them to spread by splashing the grease. Water will do that (including wet towels.)

When I say "wet towel" I mean a towel that has been wetted and quickly rung out. Not something meant to get water on the fire but to smother it. Granted, in a panic if you throw it at the grease fire you could easily spread it.

Sand is probably good but who has sand in their kitchen?

Once when I was young our stove caught on fire after my mom cleaned it (some grease buildup apparently got pushed to the pilot light). We didn't have a fire extinguisher (not sure they were invented yet); I went to 3 different stores and cleaned them out of baking soda.

LawBeefaroni wrote:Sand is probably good but who has sand in their kitchen?

I got a ton of dirt outside my kitchen door. It's more clay than sand though.

Jeff V wrote:Once when I was young our stove caught on fire after my mom cleaned it (some grease buildup apparently got pushed to the pilot light). We didn't have a fire extinguisher (not sure they were invented yet); I went to 3 different stores and cleaned them out of baking soda.

So was the house still standing when you got back from the stores?

Actually the little pit below the burner caught on fire. And the burner was red hot.
And If you put enough flour on it they do go out.
This time.

LawBeefaroni wrote: Sand is probably good but who has sand in their kitchen?

Sand is best, but any dry dirt would work. In an emergency? Lots of people have flower pots.

Blackhawk wrote:

LawBeefaroni wrote: Sand is probably good but who has sand in their kitchen?

Sand is best, but any dry dirt would work. In an emergency? Lots of people have flower pots.

Which is likely to contain potting soil. Which is...you guessed it...[in]flammable.

I guess just keep your flowers watered and you'll be OK.

LawBeefaroni wrote:

Blackhawk wrote:

LawBeefaroni wrote: Sand is probably good but who has sand in their kitchen?

Sand is best, but any dry dirt would work. In an emergency? Lots of people have flower pots.

Which is likely to contain potting soil. Which is...you guessed it...[in]flammable.

I guess just keep your flowers watered and you'll be OK.

But then you can become a smithee

http://www.hurstwic.org/history/article ... g_iron.htm

LordMortis wrote:

LawBeefaroni wrote:

Blackhawk wrote:

LawBeefaroni wrote: Sand is probably good but who has sand in their kitchen?

Sand is best, but any dry dirt would work. In an emergency? Lots of people have flower pots.

Which is likely to contain potting soil. Which is...you guessed it...[in]flammable.

I guess just keep your flowers watered and you'll be OK.

But then you can become a smithee

http://www.hurstwic.org/history/article ... g_iron.htm

God, I love Iceland.

Damn that WW OO game. I keep referring to scooping assets out of someone's trust and estate! You are IN MY BRAIN!

Luckily, people just think I'm hungry for ice cream.

Thank you Microsoft for automatically updating my computer and deleting some of my programs without asking. It was very thoughtful of you.

dbt1949 wrote:Thank you Microsoft for automatically updating my computer and deleting some of my programs without asking. It was very thoughtful of you.

I just got that too and had the same reaction. I found my shortcuts still found the programs and they still work. They were under a Windows.old file.

I cant delete that damn windows.old dir after windows updated from 8.1 to 10 on my wife's laptop. Its taking up 25 gig!

I wish people IRL had an ignore button.

Daehawk wrote:I cant delete that damn windows.old dir after windows updated from 8.1 to 10 on my wife's laptop. Its taking up 25 gig!

It is allegedly supposed to delete itself after a month but I don't see that being the case, at least not on my upgraded PC. Here are the official instructions on how to remove it:

1. In the search box on the taskbar, type Settings, then select it from the list of results.
2. Select System > Storage > This PC and then scroll down the list and select Temporary files.
3. Under Previous version of Windows, select Delete previous versions and then select Delete.

Under my non-Admin account that option is disabled but assuming I would be able to as Admin. 17.6GB for me.

It's 30 gigs for me - thanks for the instructions!

Thanks from me too. 17.6G for me. Took over 10 minutes to delete.

Re:Grease Fire

I have seen my mother put one out at home on the stove with less than a box of baking soda. Granted it had just started and my mother reacted like a seasoned pro. None the less it was put out and no damage done to anything other than the pot. That pot is also still in use and server as a reminder as to what can happen.

At the chicken chain that Arcanis and I worked at we were told to use flour if there was a fire. We also had a trash can full of flour on hand so we could get the fire extinguished before the fuel/air mixture was correct. There was only one time we actually tried and the fire was on the burner controls behind a metal plate so we were unable to get to it so store was evacuated, gas turned off, fire alarm pulled and fire department called.

Thank you Windows. Another update and another game that won't play. I'm sorry to disappoint you tho. After uninstalling and reinstalling it I got Sid Meiers Civilization Beyond Earth to work again. It was only 4.4G.

I haven't had any problems at all with Windows updates breaking games. Do you have an odd hardware configuration or something?

I swear it isn't me.

http://news.yahoo.com/gamer-sues-bethes ... 19576.html

Blackhawk wrote:I haven't had any problems at all with Windows updates breaking games. Do you have an odd hardware configuration or something?

Nope. I pretty much leave everything on default. Second time something like this has happened recently.

dbt1949 wrote:

Blackhawk wrote:I haven't had any problems at all with Windows updates breaking games. Do you have an odd hardware configuration or something?

Nope. I pretty much leave everything on default. Second time something like this has happened recently.

I think you just need to kick the goat so that it pulls the generator crank faster.

And that's not counting the switchover from 8.1 to 10 and now Chaos Gate doesn't work anymore.

I'm impressed you ever had Chaos Gate running. It didn't run on the OS it was developed on.

Thank you, tapatalk. Thank you for spoiling Star Wars for me. Scrolling past doesn't help if my eye lands on one of the first two lines of the spoiler thread you so helpfully choose to display. Probably my fault, but damn am I irked.

I paid extra for over night shipping from Amazon.
I don't expect a refund on my shipping unless I contact them.

WarPig wrote:Thank you, tapatalk. Thank you for spoiling Star Wars for me. Scrolling past doesn't help if my eye lands on one of the first two lines of the spoiler thread you so helpfully choose to display. Probably my fault, but damn am I irked.

Me | Settings | Compact Discussion Card Mode.

WarPig wrote:Thank you, tapatalk. Thank you for spoiling Star Wars for me. Scrolling past doesn't help if my eye lands on one of the first two lines of the spoiler thread you so helpfully choose to display. Probably my fault, but damn am I irked.

I just checked, and those two lines were from someone's draft of a fanfiction story. It wasn't regarding the movie.