A person who gets a thrill out of setting people up against each other, especially in online bulletin boards and often regarding people and issues in their locality. The Political Pyromaniac may take a posting or email message and forward or copy it to another person, knowing that it will cause a virulent reaction. The PP essentially likes to set fires and stand back and watch the ensuing fireworks or explosion. They are also the peeping Toms of the Internet and closet drama kings and queens.
Charles, a known Political Pyromaniac, received a group email post. Tina said a website owned by a man named Jim was "an amusing little supposedly non-political site." Charles forwarded the message to Jim. Jim then sent an anti-Tina email to everyone on the group and copied it to her bosses, trying to get her fired. He pointed out that Tina's husband was "a city police officer," which was not relevant to anyone receiving the message. The recipients didn't really know Jim or why he was so upset or what he was getting at. They responded in Tina's defense. Charles sat back and watched the action and then quietly unsubscribed from the email group.
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A person who absolutely loves fire. The smell of gas or smoke sends them into ecstasy. Lighting a candle and blowing it out and relighting it and blowing it out repeatedly, watching the smoke lightly twirl around in the air, is a good sign of an pyro. Many pyros can figure out different types of gas and/or what's being burnt just from the smell. Watching a flame on a lighter flickering is fun and addicting, but watching a full piece of paper burn all the way to the bottom is complete elation. Pyromaniacs are difficult people to understand and are often confused with arsonists. Pyromaniacs know how fire works, can predict in which direction it will burn, how much smoke the fuel will make, how quickly an object will burn, what the burning object will smell like even before it is being burnt, knows how to mix chemicals to make cool flames (like boric acid with alcohol for a green flame) and other crazy cool things. An 11 year old kid who wants to be bad ass in front of his friends and owns a lighter and makes what he calls "fireworks" (i.e. match rockets, penny bombs, etc.) is NOT a pyromaniac, just a fag.
11 year old: "Hey look guys! I just made a FLAMETHROWER out of an Axe deodorant can and a lighter!! haha wow I'm such a pyromaniac!!!"
Friends: "No, dude, you're not, you're a fag. Anybody can make a 'flamethrower' out of deodorant and a lighter. Can you make a pipe bomb? No? You haven't? Can you tell the difference between the smell of butane and natural gas? You can't?! Well then you're not a fucking pyro! Go home and play with your matches."
Friends: "No, dude, you're not, you're a fag. Anybody can make a 'flamethrower' out of deodorant and a lighter. Can you make a pipe bomb? No? You haven't? Can you tell the difference between the smell of butane and natural gas? You can't?! Well then you're not a fucking pyro! Go home and play with your matches."
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2. A 1983 Album by the British Rock Band Def Leppard. It includes the hit songs "Photograph", "Rock of Ages", "Foolin'", and "Too Late for Love". Also rated by Q Magazine as one of the best albums of the 80s.
3. A 2010 single by the British-German Eurodance group Cascada.
2. A 1983 Album by the British Rock Band Def Leppard. It includes the hit songs "Photograph", "Rock of Ages", "Foolin'", and "Too Late for Love". Also rated by Q Magazine as one of the best albums of the 80s.
3. A 2010 single by the British-German Eurodance group Cascada.
1. Pyromania is not the same as Arson!
2. Hey man, Def Leppard's new album Pyromania was so rad! I was stoked at how amazing it was.
3. I'm gonna get the fire started, impossible for you to breathe, the temperature is rising up, up, so hot, 'cause I burning up...Pyromania, Pyromania, ow...!
2. Hey man, Def Leppard's new album Pyromania was so rad! I was stoked at how amazing it was.
3. I'm gonna get the fire started, impossible for you to breathe, the temperature is rising up, up, so hot, 'cause I burning up...Pyromania, Pyromania, ow...!
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