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Anything that makes you apply your hand to your face.
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COVID brought the dumbest of us out of the woodworks.
People filling garbage bags and grocery bags full of gasoline was not (just) a meme. I saw it firsthand.
Edit: Just remembering this wasn't during COVID. It was during the cyberattack on a pipeline or refinery or something.
Its open topped so its also evaporating AFAIK
And, perhaps best of all, it is precisely the vapors that are highly flammable. It is like a big open-air bomb. Thermobaric explosion incoming in 3...2...whooomp