Personally, I’d think not, as long as the word is used to literally identify when someone has a brown skid mark on the rear end of their clothing and/or underwear.

Now if I used it as an insult and called you or someone else a shart, well yeah I think it would be interpreted as offensive.

To me, it’s all in the intent of the word. But then again, I don’t give a flying fuck. Hell, I can’t even fly to save my own damn life. Shit.

I’d use a pencil eraser to polish off surface level tarnish, no need to bust out the grinders here. But otherwise your comment is on point.

Regarding the magnet contact area, the magnet was blocking most of the ambient air from the silver. Given that the spoon was where most spoons live anyways, the kitchen, consider all the food scents and vapors it has experienced on the fridge, that likely accounts for the sulphur oxidation others have mentioned.

The bottom side wear is probably largely wear from the spoon slightly wobbling every time the fridge door is opened and closed.

Cool cool, and makes sense really.

According to a number of other comments, when such lighters are used in cleaner settings, they last a lot longer. But when used to light a pack of cigarettes a day, well the lighter gets dirty much more quickly and eventually starts shorting out.

Yes, bad habit, I know…

Flint is actually more reliable in the long run than those electric clicker things, so yeah that’s awesome actually 👍

Yay Dollar Tree! … ☹️

Yeah though, even the refillable ones have their faults. The clicker spark button igniter thing tends to end up breaking all on its own within around ~10 refill cycles, at least in my experience.

I’m all about renewable and reusable tech, and I’m actually happy to have this lighter as long as I can keep it lasting, but sadly nothing lasts forever…

You have a good point regarding not keeping flammable fluids in your camping gear, honestly I’ve barely even thought about factors like that.

I have done some basic tests with my arc lighter, and I figure that if you’re gonna keep something like this in your camping gear, then either have a small pack of toothpicks packed in, or be ready to use a dry twig.

Either way, it’s really easy to start a flame with one of these lighters by lighting a thin and dry twig to start with.

Except for the ones that aren’t.

Please ignore user village604, they clearly don’t know what they’re talking about when they said electric arc lighters are supposedly harmless.

They are most certainly not harmless, in fact they’re as dangerous, if not more, than a regular lighter.

Bruh, these lighters are quite literally designed for the sole purpose of igniting fires, you think your skin is somehow immune to this? Go ahead and zap yourself once, for even a split second with one of these things, and you’ll instantly get 4 dead burnt spots on your finger.

If you care to test longer, these lighters arc around 1000 times a second, at thousands of volts. And they arc for up to around 7 seconds before automatically shutting off. So if you wanna lose your fingerprint, or perhaps even half your finger, then go ahead and try lighting your finger up like a cigarette, you’ll find out just how flammable human flesh can be when electrocuted.

So, with all due respect, please for the love of fucking God do not ever again try to tell anyone that something is safe when you clearly don’t know a fucking thing about it.

I ought to report you, but I won’t. I expect you to edit your comment and apologize for telling people that electronic arc lighters are supposedly harmless.

THEY ARE NOT HARMLESS, ELECTRIC ARC LIGHTERS CAN AND WILL ELECTROCUTE YOU IN AN INSTANT AND BURN YOUR FLESH TO LITERAL DEATH!!!

That’s cool 👍

I’d still end up cleaning it, both to avoid future corrosion, plus that soot freaking stinks!

Extreme case story here…

I had a fella bring his computer into our shop for diagnostics and hopefully repair after a house fire. The case was originally light grey, but it was covered outside and even inside with nasty stinking black soot and the front panel was mostly melted.

We checked it out though, the PSU had failed. So we pulled out our test PSU and tried that, and the nasty stinking computer actually booted up!

Well, the boss didn’t want to be responsible for this mess, so he told me I could take it as a side job if the customer really wanted it fixed. He already knew that I’ve successfully salvaged flood damage computers, so why not?

Anyways, I took the motherboard and expansion cards out and took them to our local car wash. I soaked the boards with tire/engine cleaner, then pressure washed the crud away with plain water. Then I used an air compressor to dry it as best as I could, and then left it on the roof of my car in the hot sun for like 4 hours.

Everything worked fine after all that, so I hooked him up with a spare computer case I had laying around to replace his nasty half melted case.

You can actually pressure wash the circuit boards as long as there’s no power (do NOT pressure wash the PSU at all!), as long as the boards are completely dry and clean before reassembling and powering it back up. Just, be careful around any sensitive parts, and do not pressure wash the CPU socket, unless you like all your precious pins bent. Also, don’t pressure wash the fans or mechanical drives or such.

This technique isn’t for the faint of heart though, and I usually only reserve such drastic measures for boards that have already failed due to spill damage, corrosion, or other extremes where the board would otherwise end up in the scrap pile.

Oof ⚡

Yeah I hear you there, even without a metal mesh screen, they’re not all that great for lighting pipes or bongs, that’s still best left to a good old trusty Bic lighter.

That’s actually a sort of interesting thought.

I’m not sure if you’d get much out of such a self winding recharge mechanism like that though, as those self winding watches basically rely on your arms swinging as you walk/jog/run around.

Still a nifty idea. I could see one designed without any battery at all and just a little flip out hand crank handle instead. Not like it should take more than 5 seconds or so to light a doobie, so it wouldn’t be all that inconvenient, and you’d never have to bother charging it…

That’s awesome! 👍

Going by other comments here, apparently candle wax vapor/deposits aren’t nearly as electrically conductive as nicotine/tar/ash buildup, so basically everyone saying they use theirs to light candles has indeed reported these sort of lighters work for many years with no problems.

Things get a lot dirtier a lot quicker and end up eventually shorting out when used to light a pack of cigarettes a day. Yeah, bad habit I know, but at least I know how to clean and maintain mine when it starts acting up.

I think the biggest flaw with mine in particular is that they put a chrome plated (electrically conductive) beauty cover cap over the ceramic insulator for the electrodes. ⚡🤦‍♂️

When everything is perfectly clean it works just fine. But over time, especially when used to light a pack of smokes a day, nicotine, tar and ash build up over the ceramic which ends up leading to electricity bleeding through the tar, shorting out to the chrome plating, leading to a short circuit, incorrect arcing, and pretty rapid failure of the electrodes.

If it had been designed without the chrome plated beauty cover cap, it would most likely last damn near forever without having to bother cleaning it all that much, but sigh, it’s piss poor engineering to put a conductive cover over high voltage arcing electrodes.

Regardless, at least I know how to safely clean and maintain it, and indeed its already saved me countless disposable lighters. But for the average person, the moment it shorts out through the chrome and into the metal shell, and literally zaps the person holding it, most people would basically say fuck that and toss it the moment they get electrocuted.

It’s not even loud yo. Are your ears okay?

I’m no medical expert, but I’ve had hypersensitive hearing before.

You might wanna check in with an ENT (Ear, Nose, Throat) doctor if you can…

It’s dangerous out there, take Whiskers Jelly with you…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3wEdK_vxw

😂🤣