Offtopic: how bad is the smoke from smoldering electronics?

Kinja'd!!! "D" (danjee)
06/04/2015 at 17:32 • Filed to: offtopic

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University apartment tried to kill me in my final days here (knew the day would come). I was taking a shower when the lightbulb started to flicker a bunch, then eventually began to run extremely dim. Looked up again and some smoke was coming it. Shut off the light, rinsed off and hightailed out of there, although not before I caught a caught a couple nosefuls.

On a scale from “yes” to “yes,” how bad is this shit for me? Tried to google but I just got a bunch of stuff about vapes lol

Edit: not worried, just curious


DISCUSSION (20)


Kinja'd!!! Cherry_man1 > D
06/04/2015 at 17:33

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Depends on the electronics


Kinja'd!!! D > Cherry_man1
06/04/2015 at 17:35

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old-ass lightbulb


Kinja'd!!! Cherry_man1 > D
06/04/2015 at 17:36

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Don’t worry about it.


Kinja'd!!! crowmolly > D
06/04/2015 at 17:36

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Meh? I think meh.

Not a big deal. Probably more dangerous to light a BBQ grill.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > D
06/04/2015 at 17:38

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I’ve done so much worse than that. So much, and not always semi-on-purpose.


Kinja'd!!! crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/04/2015 at 17:39

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I was thinking about how many of us on here breathe in sheilding gas relatively routinely.


Kinja'd!!! D > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/04/2015 at 17:42

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Gotcha. Yeah not worried about it, just curious—it’s a whole world of stuff I know very little about


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly
06/04/2015 at 17:42

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Zinc, now that’s a nasty motherfucker.


Kinja'd!!! StoneCold > D
06/04/2015 at 17:47

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Is your snot black/grey? If not, you’re probably okay. I’ve done some soldering, usually poorly ventilated, and have turned out okay so far.

PSA: Worst thing I’ve ever breathed in was hard drive powder when it shatters. That shit burns. All the way down.

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Kinja'd!!! D > StoneCold
06/04/2015 at 17:53

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God no. The consensus seems to be that I’ll live at least til tomorrow


Kinja'd!!! StoneCold > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/04/2015 at 18:02

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Lost a family friend who was welding galvanized. Nothing to fuck with indeed.


Kinja'd!!! Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > D
06/04/2015 at 18:05

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You should be fine. You have at least another week to live...

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Kinja'd!!! GhostZ > D
06/04/2015 at 18:52

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I am always amazed by the breadth of topic that Oppo has.


Kinja'd!!! D > GhostZ
06/04/2015 at 19:12

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Safety First


Kinja'd!!! Sneaky Pete > D
06/04/2015 at 19:13

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Your shower sounds British


Kinja'd!!! Levitas > StoneCold
06/04/2015 at 19:20

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Aren’t the platters that shatter some form of glass? Which really does sound painful.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly
06/05/2015 at 11:00

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Replying here since he probably won’t see it - I think “Oliphant Chuckerbutty”/”O.C. the Tork Dork” or whatever dismissed you on his monkey post, unless Kinja is just being Kinja. You went straight from being visible to “pending approval”. If so, he needs to be taught that the dismiss button is not a toy, though I’m not sure how one does that. I’m pretty sure there’s something in the user guide on that - point being that it goes against etiquette to dismiss without cause.

I wouldn’t have remarked and would have put it down to just Kinja if it weren’t for the fact I’ve gotten some weird vibes off the dude, and flagrant neurotic dismissal seems to be one of the warning signs of an impending SuperKiwiZorro type batshit flakeout.


Kinja'd!!! crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/05/2015 at 11:09

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I saw part of your reply to the other thread; it’s no big deal. I figured I was way over the line in terms of bad taste anyway. Was a gamble post to begin with.

I couldn’t read everything you wrote though, only a sentence or two.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > crowmolly
06/05/2015 at 11:26

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I wasn’t sure what you’d posted, so I didn’t know if it was worth dismissing. Then I got kinja’d, apparently. Or mod-edited, though that may be less likely. I have no idea. None. The irony is, I only saw that your post had a video on it on re-seeing it in dismissed guise - when I first saw it go up, it was just the phrase “NSFW”, so I assumed it to be a joke about monkey whoring in general being inappropriate. KINJAAAAA!


Kinja'd!!! crowmolly > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/05/2015 at 11:33

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Your replies aren’t showing up here so I can only read a sentence or two. Dunno why.

Anyway, it was a clip from Silence of the Lambs where Buffalo Bill is smearing make up on his face. If you’ve seen the movie, you know which one.

I’m sure it was over the line, looking at it now.