WhiteBlaze Pages 2024
A Complete Appalachian Trail Guidebook.
AVAILABLE NOW. $4 for interactive PDF(smartphone version)
Read more here WhiteBlaze Pages Store

Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 LastLast
Results 1 to 20 of 46

Thread: Privy question

  1. #1
    Registered User Panzer1's Avatar
    Join Date
    03-06-2005
    Location
    Bucks County, PA
    Age
    69
    Posts
    3,616
    Images
    11

    Default Privy question

    What would happen if you threw a lit match into a full privy???

    Panzer

  2. #2
    Registered User
    Join Date
    11-20-2002
    Location
    Damascus, Virginia
    Age
    65
    Posts
    31,349

    Default

    it would fall into the s**t and go out. what the frig do you think it would do?

  3. #3
    Registered User
    Join Date
    08-03-2007
    Location
    westminster, Maryland
    Age
    48
    Posts
    2,227
    Images
    58

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by L. Wolf View Post
    it would fall into the s**t and go out. what the frig do you think it would do?
    Maybe or it would go boom - making for a good show

  4. #4
    Registered User
    Join Date
    11-20-2002
    Location
    Damascus, Virginia
    Age
    65
    Posts
    31,349

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by wrongway_08 View Post
    Maybe or it would go boom - making for a good show
    why would it go boom

  5. #5
    Registered User
    Join Date
    12-17-2006
    Location
    Tennessee
    Age
    37
    Posts
    18

    Default

    perhaps the methane?

  6. #6

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Demortor View Post
    perhaps the methane?
    If it were a closed system maybe. Too much venting around the privvies to collect enough methane to ignite.

  7. #7
    Registered User Panzer1's Avatar
    Join Date
    03-06-2005
    Location
    Bucks County, PA
    Age
    69
    Posts
    3,616
    Images
    11

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by warraghiyagey View Post
    If it were a closed system maybe. Too much venting around the privvies to collect enough methane to ignite.
    How about if the venting was somehow all clogged up?

    Panzer

  8. #8

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Panzer1 View Post
    How about if the venting was somehow all clogged up?

    Panzer
    Ummmm. . .huh??

  9. #9
    Section Hiking Knucklehead Hooch's Avatar
    Join Date
    03-26-2007
    Location
    Charlotte, NC
    Age
    55
    Posts
    3,948
    Images
    17

    Default

    I don't think it'd do much, if anything. Even if the vent were to somehow clog, mysteriously or not, there's still this big hole at the top called the seat and I don't think enough methane would build up to make anything go boom.
    "If you play a Nicleback song backwards, you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forward, you'll hear Nickleback." - Dave Grohl

  10. #10

    Default

    The big hole at the top is the vent I was referring to and I've yet to see a privy that doesn't have one.

  11. #11
    "No matter how thin you slice it, it's still Bologna" Cape078's Avatar
    Join Date
    12-17-2007
    Location
    Raleigh, NC
    Age
    46
    Posts
    13

    Default

    this sounds like a job for the Myth-Busters.....

  12. #12

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Cape078 View Post
    this sounds like a job for the Myth-Busters.....
    They'd figure out what Wolf said, that the match would go out. Then they'd get bored and pour gasoline in it just to see an explosion.

  13. #13
    Section Hiking Knucklehead Hooch's Avatar
    Join Date
    03-26-2007
    Location
    Charlotte, NC
    Age
    55
    Posts
    3,948
    Images
    17

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by warraghiyagey View Post
    Then they'd get bored and pour gasoline in it just to see an explosion.
    Fire, fire, fire!
    "If you play a Nicleback song backwards, you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forward, you'll hear Nickleback." - Dave Grohl

  14. #14
    Registered User
    Join Date
    12-17-2006
    Location
    Tennessee
    Age
    37
    Posts
    18

    Default

    well, if it were full, it would make it smell a little better.

  15. #15
    Registered User mobileman's Avatar
    Join Date
    06-30-2007
    Location
    Indianapolis, In
    Age
    85
    Posts
    80

    Default

    It would ...............pppppppaaaaaaaannnzzer
    taking the high roads and the low roads

  16. #16
    Registered User 4eyedbuzzard's Avatar
    Join Date
    01-02-2007
    Location
    DFW, TX / Northern NH
    Age
    67
    Posts
    8,143
    Images
    27

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by L. Wolf View Post
    it would fall into the s**t and go out. what the frig do you think it would do?
    Well, just because YOU know all that doesn't mean anybody else does. After all, it's not like it's mentioned in the LNT or ESC guidelines.
    "That's the thing about possum innards - they's just as good the second day." - Jed Clampett

  17. #17
    Registered User Cannibal's Avatar
    Join Date
    04-10-2007
    Location
    Denver, CO
    Age
    53
    Posts
    656
    Images
    1

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Cape078 View Post
    this sounds like a job for the Myth-Busters.....
    They did it already, with a porta-potty. No love on the explosion!
    Tomorrow might just be too late and today is just beginning.

  18. #18

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Cannibal View Post
    They did it already, with a porta-potty. No love on the explosion!
    Crap.

  19. #19
    Registered User Panzer1's Avatar
    Join Date
    03-06-2005
    Location
    Bucks County, PA
    Age
    69
    Posts
    3,616
    Images
    11

    Default

    What if there was enough dried toilet paper in there to cach fire?

    Panzer

  20. #20

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Panzer1 View Post
    What if there was enough dried toilet paper in there to cach fire?

    Panzer
    Then you have a new fire ring for the night.

Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 LastLast
++ New Posts ++

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •