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No More House Fires

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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.

—UnaBubba, Mar 01 2004

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 ?
—normzone, Mar 02 2004
   

       Used to SCUBA. I developed a persistent pneumothorax on my right lung. I don't dive anymore.
—UnaBubba, Mar 02 2004
   

       Ouch. So you won't be the saleman demonstrating this new housing. I'm not so sure about lowered heating and cooling costs....
—normzone, Mar 02 2004
   

       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.   

       No problem with shallow water, like in a house. I have to be careful if I go deeper than about 3-4 metres, though.
—UnaBubba, Mar 02 2004
   

       Una unless you want a bungalow the house will be 3-4 meters deep,
—engineer1, Mar 02 2004
   

       Most houses in my world are single storey. Ceilings are 8 ft, or 2.4m.
—UnaBubba, Mar 02 2004
   

       Please dry your hands after using the toilet, thankyou.
—skinflaps, Mar 02 2004
   

       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.
—UnaBubba, Mar 02 2004
   

       Surely the deaths from drowning, electrocution, suffocation, poisoning from fecal contamination, and shark attack would far exceed any life-savings from house fires.
—kropotkin, Mar 02 2004
   

       //Most houses in my world are single storey. Ceilings are 8 ft//   

       I'd feel claustrophobic
—theircompetitor, Mar 02 2004
   

       *cough* Shameless plug *cough*   

       This idea gave me an idea. (link)
—GenYus, Mar 02 2004
   

       //and shark attack //   

       ? Where would the aforementioned sharks come from?
—UnaBubba, Mar 02 2004
   

       Engineers generally have to wash their hands BEFORE they piss.
—Ling, Mar 03 2004
   

       "Just plug this food mixer in, dear" ... bzzzt
—PeterSilly, Mar 03 2004
   

       If there was a serious inferno raging around the house, wouldn't you be poached to death?   

       (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)
—kmlabs, May 24 2004
   

       Who's going to light these fires? Poachers?
—UnaBubba, May 24 2004
   

       //I was taught not to piss on my hands//

I didn't have to be taught not to piss on my hands
—hippo, Jun 06 2004
   


 

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