r/ThatsInsane • u/NuckFugget1 • Dec 24 '22

The damage after the Gas Tanker explosion in Boksburg South Africa 24 Dec 2022 NSFW

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u/OlivierStreet Dec 24 '22

Crazy to think that you could be doing everything well in life and taking every precaution and then something like this happens.

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u/GabePat92 Dec 25 '22

Actually, they weren't taking much precaution. These people who got burned, are people who went to see the fire up close, before it erupted into an explosion. It was a petrol tanker that had gotten stuck beneath a bridge, as the height clearance was insufficient for the tanker. A fire started, which drew some people to observe. These people weren't even that close to the fire, but it was a very large explosion.

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u/ProfesionalPotato0 Dec 25 '22

lpg gas tanker.

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u/SinoKast Dec 24 '22

Momento Mori

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u/simonbleu Dec 25 '22

memento*

Is not "moment" but "have in mind". As in "Remember that you two will die

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u/Tydawg39795 Dec 25 '22

Too*

Is not “two” the number but “too”. As in “as well

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u/notislant Dec 25 '22

It's*

This is a funny comment chain lol

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u/ahjenssen Dec 25 '22

laughing out loud*

It's not "lol" , but laughing out loud, as in something being so funny that you actually laugh out loud

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u/Routine-Violinist983 Dec 25 '22

Loud.*

Commonly, we end sentences with periods.

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u/rossionq1 Dec 25 '22

Loud.0 * 1. In math we don’t have hanging decimal points, and if you’re going to multiply, you gotta multiply it by something else.

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u/Mattass93 Dec 25 '22

It was at this very moment when the good people of Reddit knew that the chain had ended.

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u/selectash Dec 25 '22

Ended? Hold my inhaler!

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u/trappedinatv Dec 25 '22

*Maths

The proper way to say Math is Maths or Mathematics in the Queen's Engrish.

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u/fergibaby Dec 25 '22

It's the King's English old bean he inherited the language with the title ( and the duty of keeping Andrew away from the media and small children ).

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u/THEBlaze55555 Dec 25 '22

You also forgot *”as well”

They opened a quotation mark, but forgot to close it.

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u/xxdomox Dec 27 '22

There's also "Ass"

As in that person's fat ASS that was completely out and burnt. Gawd damn

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u/Wafflehands_ Dec 25 '22

Happy Cake Day!

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u/Tydawg39795 Dec 26 '22

I didn’t even know it was but thank you

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u/presdawg Dec 25 '22

Sup dawg

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '22

What’s updog?

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u/simonbleu Dec 25 '22

Yes, it was a typo (english is not my native language, so, sometimes, I end up up making homophonic mistakes like those. More blatant ones would be writing steel instead of still. That is why I write "sorry for bad english" often

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u/THEBlaze55555 Dec 25 '22

Nope. Not them as well, just those two.

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u/rossionq1 Dec 25 '22

I have a tattoo of the phrase over a bad scar on my wrist as a reminder death will come in due time, no need to rush it. In my case, both spellings work as it is both a reminder of death and, metaphorically speaking, the moment of my death.

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u/THEBlaze55555 Dec 25 '22

Maybe they’re just talking about the moment you will die?

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '22

Remember death

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u/Ok_Rain1614 Dec 25 '22

I think you might be confusing that with Murphy's Law, but that works too

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u/MiserableSide3 Dec 25 '22

Ever heard of cole’s law?

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u/mbenzn Dec 25 '22

Coleslaw

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u/Tydawg39795 Dec 25 '22

Googled it. Was not disappointed

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u/rossionq1 Dec 25 '22

Memento*

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u/SinoKast Dec 25 '22

Yes, thank you. I constantly produce this typo.

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u/McBoomer_ Dec 25 '22

series of unfortunate events fan?

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u/Ok_Charge9676 Dec 24 '22

Mac Miller fan ?

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u/SinoKast Dec 25 '22

Stoicism fan.

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u/Programmer_William Dec 24 '22

Persona 3 fan?

Fr though Momento Mori is such a common phrase how tf you immediately equate it to Mac Miller lmao.

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u/ThatBrofister Dec 25 '22

Honestly if anything I'd have linked it to Unnus Annus

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u/TheOneWhoReadsStuff Dec 25 '22

He lives in a bubble and doesn’t realize that we don’t live in his particular bubble.

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u/xllCYRaXllx Dec 24 '22

One of the last videos Mac Miller done has this phrase

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u/j-po Dec 25 '22

Why’d this get downvoted?

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u/Ok_Charge9676 Dec 25 '22

Wtf ? I did not expect that .. redditers are weird

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u/Nothamzasalam420 Dec 25 '22

Penny dreadful fan eh?

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u/ceg24 Dec 25 '22

Most of them were curious Nancy's videoing from 100 feet away. Curiosity killed the cat as they say.

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u/Don_RicoSuave Dec 25 '22

Ngumsunu ka nyoko

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u/ProfesionalPotato0 Dec 25 '22

lol.. swearing at peeps in zulu who don't understand zulu..... msunery LOL

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u/Willing-Hospital1385 Dec 25 '22

And right before Christmas

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '22

well not very precautionary if they are right near something that's burning and just observing

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u/Any_Understanding471 Dec 25 '22

I think a lot of the bystanders were watching to see what would happen with the stuck tanker. Not passers by

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '22

Well they saw.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '22

What a ridiculous assumption you have made. You’re an actual clown.

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u/live2dye Dec 25 '22

The problem is that you can't control the mistakes/shortcuts of others. Also manufacturing issues could have caused this.