Friday, February 21, 2014

We Am Amused

Jonah Goldberg of the left here; too sodding lazy for more than a cursory search for it, but we were highly amused by the moving (by which we mean telebision, not tugging at the heart strings) image of an anti-gummint protester in Kyiv heaving a Molotov cocktail w/ a far-from-tight wick; as he cocked his arm NFL-style to heave some justice some of the burning gas got on him, giving him a flaming collar. Quite a fashion statement, but not very practical.

Here's an example, although not the one we saw in motion. Therefore hoping it's not a common injury. Careful people!! You're playing w/ ...
Protesters throw Molotov cocktails at police in the centre of Kyiv on January 22, 2014. Source: AFP
Admit it, this looks like fun. It's mere property damage, & that only if you hit something.
First, of course, one must empty the wine bottle.

5 comments:

  1. Bonus points for "backfire".

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  2. Flaming rag wicks are SO nineteenth century. Chemical detonators are all the rage in the modern molotov.

    Also, too, doesn't appear they've added the requisite 10% liquid detergent as a thickening agent. Doods, get on the napalm bus - it ain't 1870 any more...

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  3. An act of The gods of fashion. Those fugly coats SHOULD be incinerated.

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  4. Outerwear Ed.:
    Those coats only for the slopes & elementary schoolers.

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