Just a Joke.

From YouTube:
Guy fills a gas can in the back of his truck. Static electricity builds up and sparks causing the fire. Mr. Brilliant pulls the hose out of the gas can and sprays gas and fire all over his truck. Alexandria, La

Well, that's odd. Sounds like he has a case of the mooondays...

*fail. Too bad they didn't have this nifty gas station alarm... http://videosift.com/video/NO-SMOKING-at-the-Gas-Station

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>> ^geo321:

fail. Too bad they didn't have this nifty gas station alarm... http://videosift.com/video/NO-SMOKING-at-the-Gas-Station


Holy Crap!

i like how the movement detection software is freaking out

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Idiot? All I saw was a guy throwing a wicked trapezoid party at the ol' gas bar.

OMG you're right! The taxes are already included in the sale of that gas purchase! He is a statist!!!

He's lucky the wind was blowing in the direction it was.

...more of a static idiot, really.

I don't understand the title. Statist is someone who's political leanings are toward organized government, right? Did they OP mean Static?

>> ^artician:

I don't understand the title. Statist is someone who's political leanings are toward organized government, right? Did they OP mean Static?


It's a joke.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^artician:
I don't understand the title. Statist is someone who's political leanings are toward organized government, right? Did they OP mean Static?

It's a joke.


Maybe I'm being dense, but I don't get it either. Where's the joke in calling him a statist?

It's what is commonly called an inside joke,

Further defined as a joke that isn't funny to almost anyone.

>> ^Peroxide:

It's what is commonly called an inside joke,
Further defined as a joke that isn't funny to almost anyone.


If that is the case, I think the title is doing the video a disservice. It is a good video and quite frankly I am apprehensive about up voting it because I really just don't get what about it would even comically make the man "statist."

I would say that the "inside joke" would probably be best served in a comment, or even a profile/private message.

Is there a subtle Zoolander reference in the music..?

>> ^ponceleon:

>> ^Peroxide:
It's what is commonly called an inside joke,
Further defined as a joke that isn't funny to almost anyone.

If that is the case, I think the title is doing the video a disservice. It is a good video and quite frankly I am apprehensive about up voting it because I really just don't get what about it would even comically make the man "statist."
I would say that the "inside joke" would probably be best served in a comment, or even a profile/private message.


OK, if you have to explain a joke I guess it's a pretty shitty joke.

This is directed at @blankfist. His catch phrase being, "Statist Idiots."
I have, in the past, purposely misunderstood him to mean, "Static Idiots." I was looking for a video about static electricity and found this one wherein a man unwittingly sets off a conflagration with just a spark and immediately thought of blankfist and his tendency to sometimes go off (a tendency which I also see in myself). I'm confident that blankfist can take a joke (or, maybe, take a poke at me) and didn't think about others seeing this and being confused.

So @blankfist, should I change the title--and just drop the joke?

I think he got it.

When you want to come.

@gwiz665 Are you saying I'm Really, Really--Really, Ridiculously Good Looking?

Thank You.

Let's just say the guy is in a state of idiocy.

*music

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