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  • bumblebeeeeeee

    or “how to light a cigarette by repeatedly bashing a steel rod with a mallet until really hot”

  • Brainspore

    Hey, good for him. A lot of smokers aren’t in good enough shape to do that kind of cardio.

  • soylent_plaid

    Sure, it sends a socially irresponsible message, but this video is about a guy who listens to Nine Inch Nails and lights his smokes by pounding an iron rod on an anvil.  If that’s not badass, I don’t know what is.

    • oasisob1

      NIN makes everything badass.

      • Frank W

        This is the badassest thing I saw today, with or without NIN.

  • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

    In before people denounce him for smoking… oh shit, too late.

    • kraut

      See, if it was a medical marijuana joint, boingboing would be supportive,,,

      • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

        Apples and oranges, but I hear ya.

        • ldobe

          What do you mean? Smoke of ANY kind is bad for the lungs, throat and circulatory system. It’s just medical cannabis has a much better tradeoff than tobacco

          • gregarious

             Also most people don’t smoke 20-40 joints per day.

          • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

            Then they’re doing it wrong.

  • http://profiles.google.com/spacewatcer Marios P.

    someone has to tell them that having a steady hand when shooting video is as essential as having a steady hand when just shooting.

    • Won Word

      They make these things called, um… Tripods and er, Monopods… that some say provide the necessary camera stability.

      Bupkis! I say. Back in my day, we used a rock. And if we didn’t have a rock, we used a cactus. But that really wasn’t a problem, because photography wasn’t invented yet. It was only when the wearing of onions on the belt fell out of favor did people turn to photography as a hobby…

  • Hugh Jorgan

    I thought that’s what the blowtorch was for.

    • Won Word

      Approves.

  • SomeGuyNamedMark

    Maybe he forgot that he is surrounded by forges

  • miasm

    “I got it.”
    Dude, you kinda got it.

  • Wreckrob8

    Works in the wind and rain, too.

  • Thomas Shellock

    The iron on iron seems to work as well as flint on steel.I see a backpack anvil on the horizon.

    • Paul Renault

      It’s the repeated reshaping of the rod (you DID notice he was rotating it a quarter turn every time he struck it, no?), which provides the friction that heats it up.

      • Thomas Shellock

        Nice that you have seen the process,would that you had seen the humor.

        • Paul Renault

          Sorry, I had just come from my Sarcasmaholics Anonymous meeting, so I was a little sarcasm-deaf.

          • Thomas Shellock

            I should have gone for irony.

  • Michael Holloway

    The Thor energy solution.

  • social_maladroit

    That’s one badass way to light a cigarette. But it’s gonna be a real pain to use that method when you’re at a rock concert and they play your favorite ballad. Just sayin’.