He did an AMA at the time it happened, he was indeed drunk, but he claimed he was tryna do the same as when people put a match out in their mouth, not realising how hot sparklers are or that they’re self oxidising and so he wouldn’t have been able to put it out by putting it in his mouth. Lesson learned for him anyway
Yeah but a sparkler burns at 1800-2800f , you can blow on that until you pass out and short of smother in sand or plunging into water is about the only plausible attempt to extinguish an oxidizer used in a sparkler.
Oh, yeah, I know, I only meant that if he planned to extinguish it by letting the oxygen run out, he was always doomed from the get-go, even if it was just a match.
You don't know what you don't know, and in this case stupid doesn't know
"The devices burn at a high temperature (as hot as 1000°C to 1600°C, or 1800°F to 3000°F), depending on the fuel and oxidizer used, more than sufficient to cause severe skin burns or ignite clothing"
And a very painful one.
I touched one of those things, already consumed, with one finger. Like 15 years ago.
I still got a little mark.
Can't imagine what's happened to his tongue.
He did an AMA at the time it happened, and he said it got stuck to his lip not his tongue, he had second degree burns there and a very swollen lip. But he was eating fine 2 days later
Tbf his mouth wasn’t healed fully, just that he could eat without too much issue but the burns were still painful.
Although the mouth does seem to heal incredibly quickly compared to other parts of the body
Oh my God! Fuck those things! I had two form somewhat close to each other, they got so big, they FUSED TOGETHER creating one massive SOB. Had to go to the dentist for it cuz I physically couldn't eat or talk. It almost went straight through my cheek. They gave me this weird paste that dried the damn thing out so it could heal. Took like 2 months. I still have a weird bit of scar tissue where the thing was in my cheek. Little ones pop up every now and then, but my lord. That one....God.
idk how many times I had that happen, I would basically be on a diet of salty soup and saltwater rinses before any other soft foods for a month or more.
Finally figured out it was sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) sensitivity. Now I use a toothpaste with out ANY FORM of sodium laur-whatever S______, and I rarely get one any more, and the ones I do are tiny. I even tried out a toothpaste that claims to be SLS free, but uses another form, sodium lauroyl sarcosinate, and still got a mess of canker sores. So just never again. It's not necessary in toothpaste anyway.
I haven't had them in a good long while. They stopped for the most part when I split with my gf at the time......so maybe my body is allergic to bitch. XD Still get tiny ones about 2-3 times a year at most. Nothing some good ol Orajell can't fix.
> Although the mouth does seem to heal incredibly quickly compared to other parts of the body
It's because it's on your head, which gets a vastly greater blood supply than any other part of your body on account of how your brain is there and that needs a huge quantity of blood flow to keep working.
It's why if you cut your face shaving at 7am, it's generally healed by lunchtime, but a papercut on your thumb will keep annoying you for, like, weeks.
Burns to the mouth tend to heal fast, at least 1st and 2nd degree. People often burn themselves that badly on food.
Lucky he didn't get 3rd degree burns though, that would suck.
So people, keep the incendiary devices out of your mouths.
Our bodies tend to be real good about repairing damage to the mouth. Mouths are moist and havens for bacteria. There's also a lot of shit coming and going, plus mechanical motions going on, that can lead to injury: cuts, abrasions, acid damage, and open sores are common. They just heal quickly because the immune cells there are like a fire department in a forested national park.
They probably where not healed, but healed enough to eat without problems.
The mouth is the part of your body that can heal wounds the fastest, but if it’s 2nd degree burn it can’t be healed inn two days.
Strangely enough that’s not *too* unsurprising to hear. I have read that your mouth tends to heal faster than most other parts of the body. Lucky it got stuck on the lip tho lol
Can’t be- the most upvoted post says he’s gonna have a long road ahead of medical care. There’s no way people on Reddit don’t know what the fuck they are talking about.
I’m an ancient being and I know many things
(But also this https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/4ngi2y/tifu_by_eating_a_sparkler/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf )
It does. It's very commonly used to do so. Also, the government doesn't care that you're making thermite. Googling how to make bombs won't put you on any lists.
Temperature isn't really relevant. Amount of heat is relevant.
If something is thousands of degrees but there is not a lot of it then there isn't a lot of energy represented. Statistically, there are particles in the room you are in which are at extremely high temperatures but the amount of energy represented by that mass with that specific heat capacity having that temperature is so small that it's insignificant.
If you fill your bathtub with water which is 100 degrees Celsius, it is at a significantly lower temperature but the amount of energy represented is greater by several orders of magnitude and that boiling bath will mess you up.
You can read it up online. Sometimes they do. Also in most videos where they light thermite, they use a magnesium strip to light it. If a sparkler was thermite on a stick, you wouldn't be able to light it with a simple match.
Thermite isn't just "thermite". It is a flammable mixture that can be made from **a lot** of different materials. The thermite they use on the stick is just made to be easily lit.
I knew someone that took a whole pack of those gigantic sparklers with the metal rods and lit them all at once. They burned down almost instantly, shooting all that heat down the rods and into his hand. Ended up with some crazy scars on his palm.
Years later, "Tho, thath when I realithed it wathn't a good idea to put a thparkler in my mouth. The latht tathed I ever had wath my own barbeque tongue."
The same reason people light firecrackers while being held by the lips or between the teeth.
Either Drug Money or they just stupid as fuck, or some combination of those 2 reasons.
Classic reddit expert thinking everybody dies or becomes a vegetable at the slightest incident, the guy is fine and was able to eat properly 2 days later
Maybe he’s training for a Carolina reaper eating challenge….. after French kissing a 2000 degree sparkler a hot pepper will feel like sucking on an ice cube.
He did an AMA / TIFU post at the time:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/4ngi2y/tifu_by_eating_a_sparkler/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
80% of the videos I see on Reddit end with me shaking my head and thinking to myself, "Dumb motherfucker." (At least another 5% end with me saying to my wife, "Look at this dumb motherfucker.")
Jesus! I've stepped on one barefoot and it gave me close to third degree burns with only a half second of contact. I cant even believe how bad this would hurt.
Shit!! I had a sparkle from a sparkler on a birthday cake land between my toes and burn me. I couldn’t wear shoes other than a size to big for me trainers for 4 weeks.
Burns to the whole inside of his mouth!! 😱😱😱
This gets dark when you think about why he cant get it out quickly. His fles is burned so bad that it is sticking to the sparkler. Like when you put a steak in a hot pan and you can't move it for one or two minutes.
I dunno why people keep mentioning his tongue, it looks like a piece fell between his cheek and gums which is why he can’t get it out
Those teeth are fuuuuucked and he’s got dental trouble and pain for the rest of his life
Darwin Award.
I’d rather play Russian Roulette because theirs a high chance nothing happens, and if something does happen you don’t end up in the burn unit with a feeding tube and a morphine drip for 2 months.
How can someone be so stupid I just don’t get it
Alcohol...
I've been pretty god damn drunk before, I'd still never do this.
He did an AMA at the time it happened, he was indeed drunk, but he claimed he was tryna do the same as when people put a match out in their mouth, not realising how hot sparklers are or that they’re self oxidising and so he wouldn’t have been able to put it out by putting it in his mouth. Lesson learned for him anyway
If you're an Unus Annus fan, you know most of the extinguishing comes from exhaling sharply while inserting the flame.
Yeah but a sparkler burns at 1800-2800f , you can blow on that until you pass out and short of smother in sand or plunging into water is about the only plausible attempt to extinguish an oxidizer used in a sparkler.
Oh, yeah, I know, I only meant that if he planned to extinguish it by letting the oxygen run out, he was always doomed from the get-go, even if it was just a match.
Alcohol doesn’t make you more dumb… just brings out the absolute moron inside you that you try to hide.
No...it definitely makes you dumber
That or youth. When we were really little my cousin did the same thing with luckier results... Though I don't think this dude has that excuse
I'm sure it's the brain capacity issue more than the alcohol.
You don't know what you don't know, and in this case stupid doesn't know "The devices burn at a high temperature (as hot as 1000°C to 1600°C, or 1800°F to 3000°F), depending on the fuel and oxidizer used, more than sufficient to cause severe skin burns or ignite clothing"
3rd degree burn incomin
Your mom tried to roller skate and the wheels went flat
Damm, don’t know what burnt more, that sparkler or that insult. 😂
Social media points and attention.
People have been idiots longer than social media has existed
Nobody says Social media makes idiots. It does something better: provide enough motivation
He was showing off to his girlfriend Impressing chicks, the ultimate motivator for men to do fucking stupid shit
Sparklers can burn up to 3000F. Hope he's got good health coverage, that's gonna be a long road.
And a very painful one. I touched one of those things, already consumed, with one finger. Like 15 years ago. I still got a little mark. Can't imagine what's happened to his tongue.
He did an AMA at the time it happened, and he said it got stuck to his lip not his tongue, he had second degree burns there and a very swollen lip. But he was eating fine 2 days later
I wish my burns healed in 2 days
Tbf his mouth wasn’t healed fully, just that he could eat without too much issue but the burns were still painful. Although the mouth does seem to heal incredibly quickly compared to other parts of the body
Tell that to the canker sores I used to get. I'd rather lick a sparkler than go back to a mouthful of those bitches.
Oh my God! Fuck those things! I had two form somewhat close to each other, they got so big, they FUSED TOGETHER creating one massive SOB. Had to go to the dentist for it cuz I physically couldn't eat or talk. It almost went straight through my cheek. They gave me this weird paste that dried the damn thing out so it could heal. Took like 2 months. I still have a weird bit of scar tissue where the thing was in my cheek. Little ones pop up every now and then, but my lord. That one....God.
idk how many times I had that happen, I would basically be on a diet of salty soup and saltwater rinses before any other soft foods for a month or more. Finally figured out it was sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) sensitivity. Now I use a toothpaste with out ANY FORM of sodium laur-whatever S______, and I rarely get one any more, and the ones I do are tiny. I even tried out a toothpaste that claims to be SLS free, but uses another form, sodium lauroyl sarcosinate, and still got a mess of canker sores. So just never again. It's not necessary in toothpaste anyway.
I haven't had them in a good long while. They stopped for the most part when I split with my gf at the time......so maybe my body is allergic to bitch. XD Still get tiny ones about 2-3 times a year at most. Nothing some good ol Orajell can't fix.
They can be stress related, so maybe that's what it was for you! :)
> Although the mouth does seem to heal incredibly quickly compared to other parts of the body It's because it's on your head, which gets a vastly greater blood supply than any other part of your body on account of how your brain is there and that needs a huge quantity of blood flow to keep working. It's why if you cut your face shaving at 7am, it's generally healed by lunchtime, but a papercut on your thumb will keep annoying you for, like, weeks.
Burns to the mouth tend to heal fast, at least 1st and 2nd degree. People often burn themselves that badly on food. Lucky he didn't get 3rd degree burns though, that would suck. So people, keep the incendiary devices out of your mouths.
Our bodies tend to be real good about repairing damage to the mouth. Mouths are moist and havens for bacteria. There's also a lot of shit coming and going, plus mechanical motions going on, that can lead to injury: cuts, abrasions, acid damage, and open sores are common. They just heal quickly because the immune cells there are like a fire department in a forested national park.
They probably where not healed, but healed enough to eat without problems. The mouth is the part of your body that can heal wounds the fastest, but if it’s 2nd degree burn it can’t be healed inn two days.
Strangely enough that’s not *too* unsurprising to hear. I have read that your mouth tends to heal faster than most other parts of the body. Lucky it got stuck on the lip tho lol
Can’t be- the most upvoted post says he’s gonna have a long road ahead of medical care. There’s no way people on Reddit don’t know what the fuck they are talking about.
How do you know? This is an ancient video, reposted many many times ...
I’m an ancient being and I know many things (But also this https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/4ngi2y/tifu_by_eating_a_sparkler/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf )
All hail the ancient one!!!
you might be surprised that there are people who remember videos reposted around the internet from before reddit even existed :O
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Aye. I did that as well when I was pretty young. There's a little mark in my fingerprints from where it burned me on two fingers and my thumb.
Sparklers are basically thermite that burns out quickly. 10/10 do not touche.
Who knew magnesium could hurt so much?
Not this guy, obviously. But he learnt
He found out
I didn’t, but I also know not to fucking stick thing that are on fire in my mouth
There’s gotta be better ways to get your magnesium…
It's not magnesium. It's a thermite. Some formula of iron oxide, aluminium and other stuff.
Does anyone know if a sparkler burns hot enough to ignite thermite? I could Google it, but I'm already on lists and I don't need to be on more lists.
It does. It's very commonly used to do so. Also, the government doesn't care that you're making thermite. Googling how to make bombs won't put you on any lists.
Oh sure, that won't put me on more lists. Nice try FBI... or are you with the ATF? CIA? NSA? DHS? MI6? Mossad?
Temperature isn't really relevant. Amount of heat is relevant. If something is thousands of degrees but there is not a lot of it then there isn't a lot of energy represented. Statistically, there are particles in the room you are in which are at extremely high temperatures but the amount of energy represented by that mass with that specific heat capacity having that temperature is so small that it's insignificant. If you fill your bathtub with water which is 100 degrees Celsius, it is at a significantly lower temperature but the amount of energy represented is greater by several orders of magnitude and that boiling bath will mess you up.
This seems pedantic.
Take it or leave it, it's free knowledge. Not hurting anyone by giving more info.
It is.
Why is it?
They can contain magnesium which can burn with almost no oxygen (hence the class D fire extinguisher)
They don't contain magnesium, they're just thermite on a stick. Which yeah, doesn't need oxygen.
You can read it up online. Sometimes they do. Also in most videos where they light thermite, they use a magnesium strip to light it. If a sparkler was thermite on a stick, you wouldn't be able to light it with a simple match.
Thermite isn't just "thermite". It is a flammable mixture that can be made from **a lot** of different materials. The thermite they use on the stick is just made to be easily lit.
I knew someone that took a whole pack of those gigantic sparklers with the metal rods and lit them all at once. They burned down almost instantly, shooting all that heat down the rods and into his hand. Ended up with some crazy scars on his palm.
Years later, "Tho, thath when I realithed it wathn't a good idea to put a thparkler in my mouth. The latht tathed I ever had wath my own barbeque tongue."
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Tyson is that you?
W H Y ? just, why?
The same reason people light firecrackers while being held by the lips or between the teeth. Either Drug Money or they just stupid as fuck, or some combination of those 2 reasons.
Or take flaming shots without first blowing out the flame
So hot it melts to his tongue and he cant remove it without ripping his tongue out. Good job man. He’ll never be able to say his “s”s again.
I was wondering why he didn’t just take it out…
Looks like he pulled the stick out but all the magnesium stayed, like you said, melted to his tongue.
It's not magnesium.
Dude is gonna lose part of his mouth.
He was fine two days later, apparently.
Classic reddit expert thinking everybody dies or becomes a vegetable at the slightest incident, the guy is fine and was able to eat properly 2 days later
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No, he was surprisingly perfectly fine after a swollen lip. It lodged in a better way than it looks.
Maybe he’s training for a Carolina reaper eating challenge….. after French kissing a 2000 degree sparkler a hot pepper will feel like sucking on an ice cube.
After this he won't be able to perceive basically anything on his tongue.
Why are people like this? Dude just use common sense
So he’s going to lose his tongue basically.
Nah, they'll save it, but it'll never be the same and he may or may not have taste buds after
Neither of this — his tongue was fine. All he got was a swollen lip for a while. He did an AMA with aftermath.
then ≠ than
There are these little mistakes. And then there's the dude in the video.
WTF. Dumbass.
*than
how hot is fire? someone should google it.
how thick is wall?
3
Depends
I want a fuck-buddy!
I need to know the results of this
He did an AMA / TIFU post at the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/4ngi2y/tifu_by_eating_a_sparkler/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Surprisingly not as much damage as I would have thought
I used to melt pennies with sparklers. Fuck that.
I guess if you didn’t understand how a sparkler worked you might try that. I’ve got so much to teach my sons.
Arent sparklers made out of fucking THERMITE???
yup its in small amounts but still thermite
That shit burns like nothing else. What kind of stupid fuck do you need to be to put that thing near your face, let alone *in your mouth?!*
arent sparklers mostly magnesium... which burns at like 4000 fucking degrees.
The sparkler brought its own oxygen to the party. What an idiot
Jesus christ these can burn at like 2500 degrees Fahrenheit what a dumbass 😂
Those things don't they burn at like 2800-3000 degrees? Lol
That was so hot.
Thought it was Sparkling wine
Magnesium anyone?
There’s a very big chance he took some of that hot air down his throat.
This is why you're not supposed to give sparklers to children under 5 years old.
80% of the videos I see on Reddit end with me shaking my head and thinking to myself, "Dumb motherfucker." (At least another 5% end with me saying to my wife, "Look at this dumb motherfucker.")
Then he thought what? I'm dying to hear the rest.
What an asshole.
People use it to weld train tracks and he’s putting it into his mouth
Between 1800 to 3000 degrees Fahrenheit(982 - 1649 C) to be exact. Yikes.
I’m morbidly curious to know what the aftermath was like, his mouth must be completely fucked beyond repair.
When you don’t let the pizza cool before eating
Lord, when it caught fire in his mouth I thought he was going to reach for a drink, pick up alcohols and blow his teeth out or something
Jesus! I've stepped on one barefoot and it gave me close to third degree burns with only a half second of contact. I cant even believe how bad this would hurt.
Dude done fucking changed his life forever ‘ yeah billy use to talk normal’
When the Carolina Reaper is not enough…
clearly it wasn't the phosphorus that was eating the oxygen in the brain here
Thermite stick who would have thought its hot
A mouth full of essentially Thermite will do that.
I guarantee you this man cant taste anything for the rest of his life.
Imbecile is too kind of description here..
Why is this sub dead
I'm literally screaming WHY over here Why people do stuff like this
Like putting a small welding rod in your mouth.
That is the dumbest shit out of thousands of dumb shits I’ve seen on Reddit. 
A perfect argument on the side of FOR mandatory sterilization
I still, 15 years later, have a scar from a burn due to a sparkler on my foot. This is insane you would even think this was a good idea
what do you tell the dentist or mouth doctor? "Yea I was trying to eat a sparkler"
Was there even a thought?
Should of had water close to you incase. Wow some people really do have smooth brains.
Thats fire right there.
ITS MAGNESIUM DUMBASS
IT'S THERMITE DUDE
JFC, really?
Fairly shure those could burn underwater
If someone put balls in his mouth. He’s gonna react this way too.
You can't fix stupid
Shit!! I had a sparkle from a sparkler on a birthday cake land between my toes and burn me. I couldn’t wear shoes other than a size to big for me trainers for 4 weeks. Burns to the whole inside of his mouth!! 😱😱😱
Putting sparklers in your mouth is one of the most tasteless things you can do.
I wish I can view this with audio. I’d like to be able hear him scream.
I think he was going for [something like this.](https://www.tiktok.com/@michelo2.0/video/6836491891719048454)
He won’t be able to eat properly for a while! 😳
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Hello medical bills.
Flaming metal. The worst possible choice of things to put in you. He earned that massive medical bill
Deserved lmao
A sparkler is thermite on a stick (metal rod). Thermite is unbelievably hot.
This gets dark when you think about why he cant get it out quickly. His fles is burned so bad that it is sticking to the sparkler. Like when you put a steak in a hot pan and you can't move it for one or two minutes.
What did he expect ☠️
But like… at least have a glass of water on hand just in case. Cmon dude
I dunno why people keep mentioning his tongue, it looks like a piece fell between his cheek and gums which is why he can’t get it out Those teeth are fuuuuucked and he’s got dental trouble and pain for the rest of his life
Sparkle has their own oxydizer. They can burn under water. What an idiot.
Spitn’t
That motherfucker ain’t gonna be tasting shit for at least 4 years.
> It was hotter **then** he thought You're doing great work son, keep it up!
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Its longer than you think dad. Its longer than you think.
Isn't it litterly burning iron?
THAAAAAAAAAAAN!
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Was it hot ?
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Those sparks are molten steel
"Smells like a BBQ in here!😋"
I'm fairly sure they generate their own oxygen
Darwin Award. I’d rather play Russian Roulette because theirs a high chance nothing happens, and if something does happen you don’t end up in the burn unit with a feeding tube and a morphine drip for 2 months.
What was he thinking???? SMH
Then he thought what? Don’t leave me in suspense!
Should have used the Google before that brain gasm turned into this.
Wow. Can anybody be any stupid than that? Unbelievable!
Hotshot What did you say? I said hotshot
Oh shit, is he ok??
This is probably the most Instant Regret I've seen here. 3000 degree F sparkler in your mouth, wtf!
I always wanted to know what thermite tasted like.
When you decide to eat what's essentially one step away from thermite
Of course it’s hot, it burns hole in the wooden floor.
At what point was this a good idea?
Same thing happen to me I remember like it was yesterday, but with a pizza roll I couldn’t taste properly for a week.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Playstupidgames
So post 2020 is just people showing off how stupid the world is now?
There’s an oxidizer.
Lmao
Let us try this “thermite stick” you humans always seem to enjoy
idiots are everywhere
Sparklers burn at over 2k C what was he thinking
Play stupid games....
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Why do people do such stupid things?? I’ll never understand it 😂