An Article About Flashaholics in the Huffington Post

So, tell us more!

it's not kreisler nor dinoboy nor do we have pieces of intel H)

But you both must be proud you beloved DD was mentioned!

I didn't know my flashlight could explode.. is this true?

He overdid it a little with the dangers of LiIon batteries.... excuse me.... cells. ;-)

I laughed a little, but the writers over the top tails of danger and out of contex information makes me realise how far down the food chain the Huffington Post has fallen. I suspect his other works because for a month of research he didn't learn much.

Does BC = BS ?

I think people are taking the article like it's meant to be some sort of breaking news, it's clearly not and more a commentary on life. It's informative and light hearted, the style suits it's target....more factual and he'd only have us reading it not the general public.

LOL...

Someone here still needs to fess up...

Man ... I start to think flashaholics aren't as bright as the article would suggest. Maybe this post together with this wiki-link will brighten the darkness.

Good timing - I had just read OP again, he already fessed up!

Brilliant writing, I would add.

Ha! This is like one of those mystery movies where you are dying to find out "whodunnit" and in the end you find out that person was right in front of you all along!

-Garry

It's a great article about a hobby (or at least the intensity of a hobby) that most people don't realize exists. Was it front-paged at Huffington Canada, or was that just because that's how I got to their site? I like the BLF shout out.

But you can feel that he is a novelist.... making a big fuzz and being overly dramatic on an otherwise dull subject like battery safety. At least we have a reference outside flashlight forums whenever our little hobby is called dull or uninteresting. Maybe we get a Hollywood blockbuster with a title like "flashlight - terror from the charger" starring keanu reeves who dodges exploding flashlight parts in matrix style. ;-)

This article is so funny! I love the way he wrote it.

I laughed. He likes BLF. Can't be all bad. When I saw the OP, I thought, "uh-oh".

Anything that makes us laugh, ist gut, Ja?

At least he is learning, to keep twig-n-berries from attaining low earth orbit! Laughing

None by ultrafire?

It has an Anthony Bourdain, tell it the way it is, in your face, don't care if I offend you, you can kiss my arse kind of flavour to it. Instead of Kitchen Confidential, call it Lumen Confidential if I may. I like it.

Maybe some of you are taking some of it a little too literally or not reading the whole editorial. He starts off with the shock factor with exploding pipe bombs, insults, while all along he's talking about himself.

He's one of us now.

"And flashlights aren't really the world's most dangerous hobby"

"the word "dangerous" is appropriate"

both true, he is at no point serious about it being the most dangerous, and I can't see why you can't see that.

Gorann, that’s called a “hook”. Loosen your BVDs a few notches!Laughing