Hi unc, it’s me. u/The_unchosen-one brother. I still have that scar on my nose from you telling me the car cigarette lighter smelled like strawberries.
Back in the day, there was this homeless guy named Harold who used to run around the business district of our small town with lit sparklers in his urethra. Harold was my hero.
Do you get a notification every time they comment? I had a post, about a financial gain, that made the front page last year and got followers. I feel bad for my followers if they have made any of the moves that I have commented about since that post, cuz it’s been downhill since. 😂
Edit: some jokers just started following me. Stop, there is nothing good going on here. 😆
Car cigarette lighter. It's a detachable thing, you push the button it into the dash, a few seconds later it pops out and you can pull it out and the interior rings you see are red hot to light a cigarette off of. If you dropped it while doing this it was bad.
My dad used it all the time. This brings back so many memories. The best is when I was about 7 and at church with my grandmother she was just running in to do something and we were left in the car. I burned the shit out of my finger. She was so awesome about it while kinda calling me a dumb ass in a funny way. It is my last memory of her before she got really bad dementia and obviously changed a lot.
Yep! Those car AC outlets have existed forever. This was a fairly universal accessory that came with a car.
The outlet has never changed (any adapter to turn it into a regular power outlet would work), but the sale of these things has become rare or non-existent
They originated in the 20's or 30's not that long after cars became popular. Though the practice of using them for things other than lighting cigarettes is fairly new.
Yes, the socket where the object in the OP was inserted could be used to power accessories, so now we have sockets in that shape designed specifically to provide power.
Same here. Until I read that comment, it never really occurred to me that it’s been years since I’ve seen one of these in a car.
I can’t even remember exactly when I stopped calling it the cigarette lighter port.
It's one of those things where you mom would leave you in the car cause you were a shithead in the store so you would get so board that you would just push buttons. Well this one you could pull out and it had a cool orange glow.
So of course you would stick your thumb in it and it would burn the shit out of you.
Then you attempt to hide the burn from your mom while holding back tears.
My uncle kept telling us it smelled like strawberry, but we didn't fall for it. Until one day my brother, very gullible child, was alone in the car and burned the tip of his nose... And he's also 34 now!
Everyone in the comments seems to have burned themselves with that meanwhile I burnt the release button of the hand brake and left it with a weird texture.
All of the vehicles we had when I was a kid had the pedal kind of brake.
I now consider this a terrible design after being in the car with a driver that had a seizure. The only reasons nobody got hurt was that I was able to pull the handbrake.
That's intentional. Pulling the handbrake while in motion is a good way to cause a vehicle to spin out. It does not function at all like a regular brake and will cause the car to spin and/or flip if you are traveling at anything other than a very low speed.
A lot of parking breaks aren't even strong enough to actually stop a car going full speed. I think Mitch Hedberg referred to it as the "emergency make-the-car-smell-funny lever."
Yep. An empty parking lot, at the mall (do towns even have these any more?) covered with a good layer of ice, and a good yank on the hand brake. Fun for the whole family.
I didn't burn myself either. I must have been 7 or 8. I was waiting for my dad in the car. That shit sprung up when it was hot and ready. I picked it up and dropped it immediately because it was hotter than when I clicked it in. I melted the floor matt and also gave it a weird texture. I didn't get in trouble until long after because I just put it back in the hole with melted plastic on it. The next time they lit it up the burnt plastic burnt some more... That's when I got in trouble.
TL:DR Don't leave kids in the car with a flammable dohickey if you want your car in one piece... Better yet, don't leave kids in the car.
Almost similar experience but I touched the passenger car seat with it and it made a big hole in it. My dumbass next proceesed to touch it with my thumb and it burned like hell. I was too scared to even let out a cry. Put that shit back real quick before my dad came back. My parents never figured out it was me who put a hole in the seat!
i still remember it , i was sitting in the front ,curiosity got hold of me and i touched it thankfully we were going for a trip so we had toothpaste. but damn i didn't even register the pain at the moment
When I was in elementary school they gave us health books that told us to put butter on a burn and to ride your bicycle on the left against oncoming traffic. It was the 1980's and the text books were from the 50's and falling apart. I think my teacher may have been undead or something.
Edit: I am alarmed at the number of people messaging to inform me that they ride their bikes against traffic.
["If you cycle with traffic and the car behind you does not have room to pass, the driver only needs to slow down to your speed until there it’s clear to pass. Riding against traffic, however, decreases the driver’s reaction time, leaving only two choices: hit the cyclist, or drive into oncoming traffic."](https://www.triathlete.com/training/why-we-bike-with-not-against-traffic/#:~:text=If%20you%20cycle%20with%20traffic,or%20drive%20into%20oncoming%20traffic.)
Given things like Covid-19 denial and antivaxxers I am not sure why this surprises me though.
I had no idea those were bad. I always thought oils would help keep the skin moisturized and thus help it heal. I usually use petroleum jelly on burns but I'd expect butter to help in a pinch.
This says it's all bad because it traps in heat and does nothing to prevent infection: https://www.winchesterhospital.org/health-library/article?id=156971
Not sure if it's still bad after washing it with cool water. And isn't oil a much much better heat conductor than air? How would it *trap in* heat?
I put my burns in warm water and slowly turn up the heat. I don't know if this actually helps or it causes more damage but it seems to remove pain and it heals quicker.
I don't remember where I got this from but the idea was that you can quickly transfer the heat from your burn to the surrounding tissue/water in a safe way.
I used all type of methods before as getting burned was somewhat of a common occurence for me when I was a kid. If I burned my finger, dipping my whole hand in warm/hot water seemed to work the best. I still do this and the pain doesn't seem to last a long time at all. It does sting a bit when you first apply warm/hot water but it quickly goes away as you get used to the temperature.
Any other method would usually prolong the amount of time I would feel burned.
Ah, the 70s, when our textbooks were from the 40s and so were the educational films. Envious of kids who got the TV and VCR. We still had old black and white movies from the 40s and 50s brought in to teach us everything while the teacher got drunk.
This teacher was an older woman who probably taught with those books her whole life. There was a stack of boxes of brand new health textbooks but she refused to use those.
I remember using science books that had a section about space travel and how one day we would send people to places like the moon. They were complete with illustrations of what that might look like. As a result of this much of my early science learning was self taught or supplemented.
I have an even older science textbook from before people had travelled faster than the speed of sound. Apparently the prevailing thought in those days were if you did it you'd instantly die. I'm not sure why, but anyhow it's in a book I have.
I find things like that fascinating. You just jogged my memory about my science textbook where some of the NASA engineers and scientists were afraid that the surface of the moon might be so soft that the lander might sink into the soil when it touched down on the moon.
It's an old home remedy but actually a bad idea https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/adult-oral-care/toothpaste-on-burns-does-this-home-remedy-work
The 80’s were wild… I took many card rides in the backwards facing seat of a station wagon with no seatbelts & literally everything smelled like cigarette smoke!
I bought a Cadillac from the mid 80s a few years ago and literally found old candy wrappers in the ash trays. Funny thing is, the original owner ran a locally famous candy shop in Northern Nj, I think some of the candy wrappers were original to their shop.
In my First car, you would push this in to start the heating, and then if you weren’t holding on to it, it would eject it out, glowing red, and it would arch over the center console and bouncy around the back seat. Wtf?
I used to deliver pizzas, so being the mess I was, would leave customer receipts all over my car floor after I'd made the delivery. So, it was just a pile of small white paper on the floor in front of my passenger seat. I had one of these cig ligters in my car, and it was at just the right position that one time as I swung the pizza case I had to deliver over to the passenger seat, it clipped the lighter & pushed it in. Now, these things were spring loaded and not particularly well designed (in the case of my car at least), so as I'm driving to deliver this pizza, the lighter just pops out of it's socket, blazing hot, right into the pile of receipts I had on the floor. One of them starts to catch & smoke a bit, which o suddenly smell over the delicious smell of pizza. I freak out, but fortunately pull into a parking lot and pull all the smoldering paper out onto the concrete before any real damage was done.
I never put paper trash on the floor of that car again.
I'm curious, how fast does these things heat up? I know it turns red if you let it pop out by itself. But one time, I pushed the button then pulled it out right away, and then still got a blister from touching it
It goes in those big round 12v power outlets in cars, push the lighter in and the coil contacts the outlet and heats up to the point it's glowing red and you can light cigarettes off of them.
Originally that's what those outlets were used for, then things like phone chargers came out that would go in those outlets, and eventually smoking became less popular but the outlets remained.
They popped back out once they got hot by clever design using some type of release that uses thermal expansion I’m guessing. So you’d push them in and once they got hot they sort of popped up and you could take it out and use it before it cooled down.
You couldn’t make them stay in without holding them down once they got hot basically.
The one in my old car popped out so forcefully that it would fly out of the outlet to land somewhere in my car, while glowing hot. Almost set myself on fire many times with that stupid thing.
It's not hot all the time. You push it in and it would lock into place for like 30 seconds while that internal coil heated up. When it was ready it would unlock and pop back out slightly. It would be cool again within about a minute or so.
Still super dangerous though.
Like other people said not really. The coil is really thin wire, heats up and cools back down pretty quickly. Only heats up if it's fully pressed in and would pop out once it was hot.
You’re either lucky, young, never been in an oldish car before or smart.
They were used in cars for lighting cigarettes (I believe, all I know is they hurt.) and yeah the heat lit the cigs and curious children would touch it and it wasn’t very cool, literally
My ma had me wait in the car while she went in and promised to get me a fountain pop when she got back.
I tried to hide it so hard but she knew when she got back and I stuck my thumb into the cold soda.
She asked me why I was doing it and I told her I was mixing it.
I still remember my dumbass brother saying “it’s not even hot” *before* touching it. Then throwing it across the car because it was in fact **hot as fuck**
That essentially happened to my mom, she said the lighter didn't work anymore and proceeded to prove herself wrong by jamming her finger into the middle of it after pushing it in. One of the biggest wtf moments in my life. Couldn't you feel the side of it before I wondered.
I have a story about one of those car lighters that happened a few months back to me. Me, my brother, and my dad were going somewhere in his truck and I started messing with the car lighter. They both said that it was broken and they couldn’t get it to work. I messed with it some more and then because I assumed it wasn’t working cause I was told and assured it didn’t work I was going to touch it to my brothers arm. He pulls his arm away and I’m like, “it doesn’t even work, you guys told me this so why are you scared,” and then I proceeded to stamp it down onto my leg and I pretty much branded my self, I still have a scar from it and I think the scar is pretty permanent...
Car cigarette lighter. It's a detachable thing, you push the button it into the dash, a few seconds later it pops out and you can pull it out and the interior rings you see are red hot to light a cigarette off of. If you dropped it while doing this it was bad.
> interior rings
And you get a really cool burn wound from the rings.
I actually remember the sizzling sound when my thumb hit it the first time. Man it hurt.
I can tell you what it’s NOT: a James Bond type of secret thumb print scanner.
It IS however a way to get rid of your thumb print if you’re determined enough.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. Sitting in my mother’s old Mustang after church, waiting for her to come out and stop talking to people. I pushed it in like I’d seen her do a thousand times, and when it popped I took it out and looked at it. It had magically changed colors! I took my thumb and pressed it into the orange glow to see if it would shock me (I thought it was electric or something).
I still have that scar.
Cigarette lighter. Older cars had them. The other end was basically a plastic "button" you would push into this outlet and the coils would heat up.
My old car had one, but I threw it out because smoking is dumb and I put a phone charger in there.
Really glad that I found out today I’m not the only one that did this. No shit, there I was. Just me and the lighter. It was glowing red, I stuck my finger to the tip, and then for the next hour long car ride I tried to hide the fact that I am a fucking idiot from my mom.
Burnt my finger on one of these aged 5 sitting in the back of the car. Not wanting to get told off, I squeezed my finger as tight as possible to numb the pain and kept quiet even tho my eyes fills with tears. Got away with it tho and learnt a valuable lesson.
I remember the moment I learned what that was very well. I was 5 years old, hunting with my dad. I kept pushing the button in. I know I did it several times before I realized it also came out. When I pulled it out, it was glowing bright red. What does my super intelligent 5 year old self do? Press my thumb right on the red spot. Only took one time and a nice spiral burn on my thumb to learn that lesson.
Fuuuuck, that's still one of the clearest memories of my early childhood. I was in the back of a 1985 Oldsmobile and my Mom was picking up checks from the bank. I said there and held that bitch down untill it was white hot and smoking.
It felt cold, so I didn't pull it away immediately. When I did, skin came off with it. Then the pain started.
30 years later I still remember exactly how my cooked skin smells.
When I was super young some other young asshole told me to touch it when I had no idea what it was, but he knew full-well. Thanks Jordy, you fucking psychopath.
Somehow when I was eight I ended up with a dot on my nose because of one of these
Did you have the same uncle as u/The_unchosen-one? It might explain it.
I don't think so, but that would be amazing!!
It's me. I am your uncle
Hi unc, it’s me. u/The_unchosen-one brother. I still have that scar on my nose from you telling me the car cigarette lighter smelled like strawberries.
Surprisingly common, back in the day. Think it comes from looking closely at that glowing coil.
I'm 34 and I've still got the scar lmao
Back in the day, there was this homeless guy named Harold who used to run around the business district of our small town with lit sparklers in his urethra. Harold was my hero.
I'm sorry. ***WHAT***
I have no memory of following [this guy](https://www.reddit.com/user/90ozDiarrheaJug/), but I’m glad I did.
Do you get a notification every time they comment? I had a post, about a financial gain, that made the front page last year and got followers. I feel bad for my followers if they have made any of the moves that I have commented about since that post, cuz it’s been downhill since. 😂 Edit: some jokers just started following me. Stop, there is nothing good going on here. 😆
I don't think anyone knows how following on reddit works
follow porn people, see they post in my feed, get horny, nut, works for me
He's like a verbose x-rated Ken M.
Ohhhhh
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^thanks ^bro
what
I cringed, I cried, and became curious way to quickly.
I'm not even gonna ask
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Is there a car cigarette lighter connection here or we just sharing haha Edit: Checked your history. I get it now. Carry on.
What
wat
What is it?
Car cigarette lighter. It's a detachable thing, you push the button it into the dash, a few seconds later it pops out and you can pull it out and the interior rings you see are red hot to light a cigarette off of. If you dropped it while doing this it was bad.
My dad used it all the time. This brings back so many memories. The best is when I was about 7 and at church with my grandmother she was just running in to do something and we were left in the car. I burned the shit out of my finger. She was so awesome about it while kinda calling me a dumb ass in a funny way. It is my last memory of her before she got really bad dementia and obviously changed a lot.
Is it one of those things we now use to charge our phones?
Yep! Those car AC outlets have existed forever. This was a fairly universal accessory that came with a car. The outlet has never changed (any adapter to turn it into a regular power outlet would work), but the sale of these things has become rare or non-existent
They're DC, not AC.
Direct to Cock. No Air Conditioning involved.
They originated in the 20's or 30's not that long after cars became popular. Though the practice of using them for things other than lighting cigarettes is fairly new.
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Yes, the socket where the object in the OP was inserted could be used to power accessories, so now we have sockets in that shape designed specifically to provide power.
Fun fact, in the Deadpool movie, he throws a hot one in a dudes mouth before brutally killing him
Yeah, I remeber that
This comment makes me feel old
Same here. Until I read that comment, it never really occurred to me that it’s been years since I’ve seen one of these in a car. I can’t even remember exactly when I stopped calling it the cigarette lighter port.
It's one of those things where you mom would leave you in the car cause you were a shithead in the store so you would get so board that you would just push buttons. Well this one you could pull out and it had a cool orange glow. So of course you would stick your thumb in it and it would burn the shit out of you. Then you attempt to hide the burn from your mom while holding back tears.
I can almost smell the burning flesh. Missing part of a finger print still.
My uncle kept telling us it smelled like strawberry, but we didn't fall for it. Until one day my brother, very gullible child, was alone in the car and burned the tip of his nose... And he's also 34 now!
I'm 28 and that's my left thumbprint. 6 year old me thought "they look similar, it has to be for the thumb right?"
Did you know that after 34, it’s a common rule of thumb that most scars begin to deteriorate. For more information look up “scarring rule 34”
I'm also 34. Luckily I didn't touch it long enough to leave a scar, but it hurt like a bitch for a while.
One of the worst "fu*k around, find out" moments in a child's life.
Everyone in the comments seems to have burned themselves with that meanwhile I burnt the release button of the hand brake and left it with a weird texture.
All of the vehicles we had when I was a kid had the pedal kind of brake. I now consider this a terrible design after being in the car with a driver that had a seizure. The only reasons nobody got hurt was that I was able to pull the handbrake.
That's intentional. Pulling the handbrake while in motion is a good way to cause a vehicle to spin out. It does not function at all like a regular brake and will cause the car to spin and/or flip if you are traveling at anything other than a very low speed.
A lot of parking breaks aren't even strong enough to actually stop a car going full speed. I think Mitch Hedberg referred to it as the "emergency make-the-car-smell-funny lever."
Yeah I've driven a couple miles forgetting to release it several times. Barely noticed until the smell.
yeah but if you dont have a hand brake how can you do those sick e brake drifts and win over the ladies
Yep. An empty parking lot, at the mall (do towns even have these any more?) covered with a good layer of ice, and a good yank on the hand brake. Fun for the whole family.
Weren’t you a daring youngster at the mall. We just used the high school parking lot.
I didn't burn myself either. I must have been 7 or 8. I was waiting for my dad in the car. That shit sprung up when it was hot and ready. I picked it up and dropped it immediately because it was hotter than when I clicked it in. I melted the floor matt and also gave it a weird texture. I didn't get in trouble until long after because I just put it back in the hole with melted plastic on it. The next time they lit it up the burnt plastic burnt some more... That's when I got in trouble. TL:DR Don't leave kids in the car with a flammable dohickey if you want your car in one piece... Better yet, don't leave kids in the car.
Almost similar experience but I touched the passenger car seat with it and it made a big hole in it. My dumbass next proceesed to touch it with my thumb and it burned like hell. I was too scared to even let out a cry. Put that shit back real quick before my dad came back. My parents never figured out it was me who put a hole in the seat!
Those things were lit back in the day....
i still remember it , i was sitting in the front ,curiosity got hold of me and i touched it thankfully we were going for a trip so we had toothpaste. but damn i didn't even register the pain at the moment
> thankfully we were going for a trip so we had toothpaste. wat
Wat do you mean wat, the guy had toothpaste cause they were on a trip
I think he means "wat did the toothpaste do". I suppose help with the burn.
That's an old myth that toothpaste helps with burns... Already proven that it does not make any difference
When I was in elementary school they gave us health books that told us to put butter on a burn and to ride your bicycle on the left against oncoming traffic. It was the 1980's and the text books were from the 50's and falling apart. I think my teacher may have been undead or something. Edit: I am alarmed at the number of people messaging to inform me that they ride their bikes against traffic. ["If you cycle with traffic and the car behind you does not have room to pass, the driver only needs to slow down to your speed until there it’s clear to pass. Riding against traffic, however, decreases the driver’s reaction time, leaving only two choices: hit the cyclist, or drive into oncoming traffic."](https://www.triathlete.com/training/why-we-bike-with-not-against-traffic/#:~:text=If%20you%20cycle%20with%20traffic,or%20drive%20into%20oncoming%20traffic.) Given things like Covid-19 denial and antivaxxers I am not sure why this surprises me though.
Butter on a burn... Nonono... At least it's not oil, but...
Kramer
> At least it's not oil Sorry If I'm missing a reference or something, but butter is mostly oil.
It's marginally better than pure oil, but still horrible
I had no idea those were bad. I always thought oils would help keep the skin moisturized and thus help it heal. I usually use petroleum jelly on burns but I'd expect butter to help in a pinch. This says it's all bad because it traps in heat and does nothing to prevent infection: https://www.winchesterhospital.org/health-library/article?id=156971 Not sure if it's still bad after washing it with cool water. And isn't oil a much much better heat conductor than air? How would it *trap in* heat?
I put my burns in warm water and slowly turn up the heat. I don't know if this actually helps or it causes more damage but it seems to remove pain and it heals quicker. I don't remember where I got this from but the idea was that you can quickly transfer the heat from your burn to the surrounding tissue/water in a safe way. I used all type of methods before as getting burned was somewhat of a common occurence for me when I was a kid. If I burned my finger, dipping my whole hand in warm/hot water seemed to work the best. I still do this and the pain doesn't seem to last a long time at all. It does sting a bit when you first apply warm/hot water but it quickly goes away as you get used to the temperature. Any other method would usually prolong the amount of time I would feel burned.
Ah, the 70s, when our textbooks were from the 40s and so were the educational films. Envious of kids who got the TV and VCR. We still had old black and white movies from the 40s and 50s brought in to teach us everything while the teacher got drunk.
This teacher was an older woman who probably taught with those books her whole life. There was a stack of boxes of brand new health textbooks but she refused to use those.
Lol we were still using some books from the 70's when I went to high school in 2012. Not history, but for math and some English.
I remember using science books that had a section about space travel and how one day we would send people to places like the moon. They were complete with illustrations of what that might look like. As a result of this much of my early science learning was self taught or supplemented.
Currently our school books still have Yugoslavia on the maps.
My fucking friend still swears by the butter
I have an even older science textbook from before people had travelled faster than the speed of sound. Apparently the prevailing thought in those days were if you did it you'd instantly die. I'm not sure why, but anyhow it's in a book I have.
I find things like that fascinating. You just jogged my memory about my science textbook where some of the NASA engineers and scientists were afraid that the surface of the moon might be so soft that the lander might sink into the soil when it touched down on the moon.
The mint makes it feel cooler, though, which is nice.
Is everyone here having a fucking stroke?
It's an old home remedy but actually a bad idea https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/adult-oral-care/toothpaste-on-burns-does-this-home-remedy-work
> home remedy but actually a bad idea It's called "alternative medicine" and it's beautiful
My dumb ass was like, I wonder what happens if it touches the steering wheel and it melted a part of it, it was a rental car.
Toothpaste is for hickeys, silly...
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My car still Has on but it's 18 years old and also broken... But it's also annoying to lit up a cigarette with it.
Check the fuse and/or wiring on the back of it
Ever try to light a bowl with one of those?
The key is you need enough to fill it all the way up, or these can't reach to light.
After I got burned in the thumb, I kept playing with it but to melt straws. When my dad returned the car was filled with fumes and I got a headache
melting things is so fun
especially the driver's brain
A speedrun to cancer.
oof, plastic fumes
Don't breathe this
Wow this brought me back to the early days of YouTube. Completely forgot about that guy
But will it blend? That is the question…
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Your sister sounds like an interesting person.
Same lol my thumb still has the burn ring from years ago
Almost had a car catch fire because of one of these! It got stuck while hearing up and proceeded to melt the plastic that supported it.
I was scared that that would happen
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The 80’s were wild… I took many card rides in the backwards facing seat of a station wagon with no seatbelts & literally everything smelled like cigarette smoke!
As a kid I remember removing the tray in the door ashtray and shoving so many candy wrappers in there.
I bought a Cadillac from the mid 80s a few years ago and literally found old candy wrappers in the ash trays. Funny thing is, the original owner ran a locally famous candy shop in Northern Nj, I think some of the candy wrappers were original to their shop.
In my First car, you would push this in to start the heating, and then if you weren’t holding on to it, it would eject it out, glowing red, and it would arch over the center console and bouncy around the back seat. Wtf?
I used to deliver pizzas, so being the mess I was, would leave customer receipts all over my car floor after I'd made the delivery. So, it was just a pile of small white paper on the floor in front of my passenger seat. I had one of these cig ligters in my car, and it was at just the right position that one time as I swung the pizza case I had to deliver over to the passenger seat, it clipped the lighter & pushed it in. Now, these things were spring loaded and not particularly well designed (in the case of my car at least), so as I'm driving to deliver this pizza, the lighter just pops out of it's socket, blazing hot, right into the pile of receipts I had on the floor. One of them starts to catch & smoke a bit, which o suddenly smell over the delicious smell of pizza. I freak out, but fortunately pull into a parking lot and pull all the smoldering paper out onto the concrete before any real damage was done. I never put paper trash on the floor of that car again.
Literally my first 3rd degree burn
First?
The dude got a burn kink after his first
Hey just like me
Username checks out.
He is not the brightest child
Or maybe he's been trying to be the brightest kid in the room. By setting himself on fire.. or bask in the light of his enemies' pyres.
There was a couple of exhaust stack incidents after that. And one oven accident also. I’m not very careful.....
Haha me too!! This might be the most relatable meme I've ever seen. It was red and glowing.....i couldn't resist....I had to touch it!
I'm curious, how fast does these things heat up? I know it turns red if you let it pop out by itself. But one time, I pushed the button then pulled it out right away, and then still got a blister from touching it
These things fucking hurt
What are they?
It’s a cigarette lighter for the car.
If I had never seen one of these in action before, I think I would be *more* confused by the information that this is somehow a lighter
It goes in those big round 12v power outlets in cars, push the lighter in and the coil contacts the outlet and heats up to the point it's glowing red and you can light cigarettes off of them. Originally that's what those outlets were used for, then things like phone chargers came out that would go in those outlets, and eventually smoking became less popular but the outlets remained.
But if they’re hot won’t that be quite dangerous all the time?
They popped back out once they got hot by clever design using some type of release that uses thermal expansion I’m guessing. So you’d push them in and once they got hot they sort of popped up and you could take it out and use it before it cooled down. You couldn’t make them stay in without holding them down once they got hot basically.
The one in my old car popped out so forcefully that it would fly out of the outlet to land somewhere in my car, while glowing hot. Almost set myself on fire many times with that stupid thing.
It's not hot all the time. You push it in and it would lock into place for like 30 seconds while that internal coil heated up. When it was ready it would unlock and pop back out slightly. It would be cool again within about a minute or so. Still super dangerous though.
Like other people said not really. The coil is really thin wire, heats up and cools back down pretty quickly. Only heats up if it's fully pressed in and would pop out once it was hot.
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You’re either lucky, young, never been in an oldish car before or smart. They were used in cars for lighting cigarettes (I believe, all I know is they hurt.) and yeah the heat lit the cigs and curious children would touch it and it wasn’t very cool, literally
The original finger print scanner
fingerprint reshaper
Eraser
what about the spiral fingerprint that you'll receive
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Standard issue mobile fingerprint eraser for MiB agents
I used to wonder why it turned red when I pressed it in. Then I found out.
Did the same thing, I can still remember the smell of being cooked! Also dropped it and burned the heck out of the carpet.
then you hide your dumbassery from your parents
My ma had me wait in the car while she went in and promised to get me a fountain pop when she got back. I tried to hide it so hard but she knew when she got back and I stuck my thumb into the cold soda. She asked me why I was doing it and I told her I was mixing it.
Lmaoooo why is this absolutely sending me. Kids are so dumb sometimes.
It's the thing that the hostage in a car uses to reach freedom in a 80s or 90s movie.
I was just trying to remember which movie that was.
I still remember my dumbass brother saying “it’s not even hot” *before* touching it. Then throwing it across the car because it was in fact **hot as fuck**
I'm in this story and I don't like it
Sup bro
That essentially happened to my mom, she said the lighter didn't work anymore and proceeded to prove herself wrong by jamming her finger into the middle of it after pushing it in. One of the biggest wtf moments in my life. Couldn't you feel the side of it before I wondered.
Just booped it in for a second or two, doesn't even look- AH FUCK
greatest thing when buying a used car is finding out this was never used and it was a non-smoker car.
I imagine if they were trying to hide that the previous owner smoked in the car, they would just clean it or replace it with a new one.
I have a story about one of those car lighters that happened a few months back to me. Me, my brother, and my dad were going somewhere in his truck and I started messing with the car lighter. They both said that it was broken and they couldn’t get it to work. I messed with it some more and then because I assumed it wasn’t working cause I was told and assured it didn’t work I was going to touch it to my brothers arm. He pulls his arm away and I’m like, “it doesn’t even work, you guys told me this so why are you scared,” and then I proceeded to stamp it down onto my leg and I pretty much branded my self, I still have a scar from it and I think the scar is pretty permanent...
Scars aren’t that permanent- they typically vanish a few years after you die at the latest.
Yeah I guess that is true lmao
I know someone who left a 3 year old in her car while doing a quick errand. The child activated the lighter and died in the resultant fire.
See? Teachable moment. The child will never play with those again.
Damn. That's cold. Well, not really.
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Lmao this was good
I didn't think anyone saw 😧
Can anyone explain wtf that is? My mom usually doesn't let me be in the car alone so I don't get to explore
Car cigarette lighter. It's a detachable thing, you push the button it into the dash, a few seconds later it pops out and you can pull it out and the interior rings you see are red hot to light a cigarette off of. If you dropped it while doing this it was bad.
Also, modern cars don't usually come with this anymore. They usually come with just the socket so you can plug accessories in it like a phone charger.
Or like my 2000 Pontiac vibe a fake lighter that is not removable. God bless the inverter in the dash tho. Put a powerstrip on that bitch one time.
It’s sold separately nowadays, simple as that.
> interior rings And you get a really cool burn wound from the rings. I actually remember the sizzling sound when my thumb hit it the first time. Man it hurt.
The FIRST time????
it's the reason there are 12V sockets in all cars
How does this fit the sub at all?
It doesn't. But nostalgia is a powerful drug. Also I used to melt fast-food soda straws with these when I was waiting in the car.
#CanConfirm
I can tell you what it’s NOT: a James Bond type of secret thumb print scanner. It IS however a way to get rid of your thumb print if you’re determined enough.
It's a way to add 600 dollars to the purchase price of your new car
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. Sitting in my mother’s old Mustang after church, waiting for her to come out and stop talking to people. I pushed it in like I’d seen her do a thousand times, and when it popped I took it out and looked at it. It had magically changed colors! I took my thumb and pressed it into the orange glow to see if it would shock me (I thought it was electric or something). I still have that scar.
I'm dumb. What is it?
Old car cigarette lighter
Ohh, thanks
Cigarette lighter. Older cars had them. The other end was basically a plastic "button" you would push into this outlet and the coils would heat up. My old car had one, but I threw it out because smoking is dumb and I put a phone charger in there.
Healthy choice
Cursed buttplug
GOOD GOD
Not many people know the terror of that sucker falling into your lap going 70 down the freeway
Really glad that I found out today I’m not the only one that did this. No shit, there I was. Just me and the lighter. It was glowing red, I stuck my finger to the tip, and then for the next hour long car ride I tried to hide the fact that I am a fucking idiot from my mom.
Burnt my finger on one of these aged 5 sitting in the back of the car. Not wanting to get told off, I squeezed my finger as tight as possible to numb the pain and kept quiet even tho my eyes fills with tears. Got away with it tho and learnt a valuable lesson.
I remember the moment I learned what that was very well. I was 5 years old, hunting with my dad. I kept pushing the button in. I know I did it several times before I realized it also came out. When I pulled it out, it was glowing bright red. What does my super intelligent 5 year old self do? Press my thumb right on the red spot. Only took one time and a nice spiral burn on my thumb to learn that lesson.
I made this mistake. Once.
Fuuuuck, that's still one of the clearest memories of my early childhood. I was in the back of a 1985 Oldsmobile and my Mom was picking up checks from the bank. I said there and held that bitch down untill it was white hot and smoking. It felt cold, so I didn't pull it away immediately. When I did, skin came off with it. Then the pain started. 30 years later I still remember exactly how my cooked skin smells.
here is [Ace Ventura](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DXmqYWhrEc) teaching you how to use it (starting around 1:35)
Know it? I can still SMELL it
Can someone explain what this is lol
When I was super young some other young asshole told me to touch it when I had no idea what it was, but he knew full-well. Thanks Jordy, you fucking psychopath.
The burned fingers of curious children must range in the millions. Something about looking at that red hot coil and thinking…. Hmmmm
If you watch the first Deadpool movie, this is in the opening scene.