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House fires are responsible for many deaths worldwide, each year.
The solution is simple. Brick/board up the doors and windows and fill the house with water. Wear breathing apparatus whenever you are inside. Eat outside, cook outside, talk outside (unless you opt for the comms package).
Sleep
inside, watch TV inside (new UW lenses available), save time bathing, enjoy the comparative weightlessness of living underwater, simplify birthing processes, have a masive water feature in your home, cuts heating and cooling bills. The benefits are manifold.
Not recommended for Alaska, Greenland, Siberia and parts of Canada.
The Idea This Gave Me
http://www.halfbake...20Fires_20Part_20II
No More House Fires Part II [GenYus, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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[ Unabubba ], do you scuba, or are you just blowing bubbles ? |
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Used to SCUBA. I developed a persistent pneumothorax on my right lung. I don't dive anymore. |
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Ouch. So you won't be the saleman demonstrating this new housing. I'm not so sure about lowered heating and cooling costs.... |
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Water is a heatsink. I have helped someone design a house with a 70,000 gal tank under the concrete floor, to maintain steady temperatures, year round. |
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No problem with shallow water, like in a house. I have to be careful if I go deeper than about 3-4 metres, though. |
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Una unless you want a bungalow the house will be 3-4 meters deep, |
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Most houses in my world are single storey. Ceilings are 8 ft, or 2.4m. |
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Please dry your hands after using the toilet, thankyou. |
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I'm amused by people who have to wash their hands after they go to the toilet... I was taught not to piss on my hands. |
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Surely the deaths from drowning, electrocution, suffocation, poisoning from fecal contamination, and shark attack would far exceed any life-savings from house fires. |
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//Most houses in my world are single storey. Ceilings are 8 ft// |
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*cough* Shameless plug *cough* |
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This idea gave me an idea. (link) |
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? Where would the aforementioned sharks come from? |
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Engineers generally have to wash their hands BEFORE they piss. |
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"Just plug this food mixer in, dear" ... bzzzt |
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If there was a serious inferno raging around the house, wouldn't you be poached to death? |
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(I'm not sure if "poached to death" is one of those sentences like "razed to the ground"? I'm sure there's a term for that kind of sentence... Oh yeah, I know what it is... nonsense) |
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Who's going to light these fires? Poachers? |
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//I was taught not to piss on my
hands//
I didn't have to be
taught
not to piss on my hands |
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