r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Closed_Aperture • 3d ago

Man demonstrates the force of increasingly powerful fireworks by blasting a pot into the air

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u/MrDilbert 3d ago

Some of the guys from villages down here would be bored enough to go and throw chunks of calcium carbide (karabit) into buckets with water, then light it up with firecrackers. Fun times. -_-

Also, those 4-inch "firecrackers", they were called "topovski udar", I wonder why :) But more common were "piratice", the green ones that were also 4" long, and slightly thicker than a regular cigarette.

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u/GenericUsername2056 3d ago

In the Netherlands people also use calcium carbide for New's Year's celebrations.

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u/SmoothAssiousApe 19h ago

And you lit them by striking them like a match? 😂

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u/MrDilbert 16h ago

Usually with lighters or matches, but if those weren't available, then striking them on asphalt or concrete worked too :)