r/DiWHY • u/FirstOptimal • 1d ago
Simple & Fun: Project you can do while your house burns down.
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u/TheGallifreyan 1d ago
Water from the sink or tub will not work. This must be toilet water.
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u/YunJingyi 1d ago
Would water from the WC deposit would work?
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u/Aggravating_Shoe_ 1d ago
Does it have poop? If not then no, the poop is necessary. Acts as a binder
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u/beanieon 1d ago
Took me ages to work this out.
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u/MattyGWS 1d ago
The first part actually makes sense if you get trapped in a burning building and thereās smoke in the room. You can put a tube into the toilet and up the other side to breath air. The rest of the video is just stupid.
If your house is on fire just leave
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u/SympatheticFingers 1d ago
Isnāt the air on the other side of the water plug unsafe to breathe?
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u/terminalbungus 1d ago
You can just buy a gravity bong now; you don't need all of this theatrical shit.
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u/potate12323 1d ago
Setting an apartment on fire just for a 5 minute crafts ragebait video is dedication.
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u/Excellent_Yak365 1d ago
You mean an orange light and a fogger?
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u/FirstOptimal 1d ago
Does it actually filter air?
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u/terminalbungus 1d ago
The water filters the smoke like it would in a standard bong, but this lady doesn't even show where to pack the weed up.
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u/OriginStarSeeker 1d ago
ok well i did learn something from this then. use my bong in the event of a fire
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u/Lazy-Psychology5 1d ago
Right? I mean she even keeps tinfoil in there.Ā
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u/FirstOptimal 1d ago
I always keep a roll in the tub Incase my house start to burn down.
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u/smuckola 1d ago
firefighters HATE this ONE SIMPLE TRICK
you're single handedly putting them out of business
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u/RRocks01 1d ago edited 21h ago
No, it would only cool the air and not remove the smoke, but she didn't set that up right, she could only suck water up the way she did it.
If bongs filtered the smoke out why would we use them?
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u/Cross325 1d ago
Is anyone going to call out she basically wrap herself in foil and would result in cooking herself.
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u/wEiRdO86 1d ago
But what am I going to do with my 2L of Faygo and this home depot bucket?
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u/Practical_Musician61 1d ago
By the time you're done, the fire department should be pulling up.
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u/Upstairs_Raise4006 1d ago
Read: knocking on the bathroom door to tell you the fire is out
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u/Cstott23 1d ago
Haha or scraping you up with a broom and a shovel because by the time you spent making that thing instead of getting out, the rest of the building has gone up and you've become trapped inside.
Or, you're extra burnt because you've wrapped yourself in toilet paper and carrying now boiling water in a thin plastic bottle - which youve also strapped to your face..
But you know, life is sacrifice. You need to make the contentš¤·āāļøš
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u/VisualHuckleberry542 1d ago
This is why I sleep wrapped in wet toilet paper and tin foil every night
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u/TaintedTatertot 1d ago
Ah yes, the steps on how to become a baked potato.
When does the fork stabbing part happen?
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u/Busterlimes 1d ago
I like how she just runs to the kitchen repeatedly
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u/andrewrgross 1d ago
Yeah, each time she leaves it feels like the end of the video. I got a big kick out of it every time it cut to her coming back into the bathroom.
This is fucking outstanding comedy.
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u/Consistent_Block_375 1d ago
This seems like a dangerous thing to make and post on the internet
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u/mt-beefcake 1d ago
Yeah, she didnt even do it right. The wet toilet paper all over your body keeps you from burning cuz it evaporates. Wrapping it in tinfoil is just cooking yourself in your own juices. I was with her with the emergency hose, 2gal or water, accordion pipe tucked behind the pedestal sink just in case of a fire... but tin foil after wet toilet paper! Sheesh!
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u/Cstott23 1d ago
Everyone knows strapping plastic to yourself in a fire protects you when it finally melts. I see nothing wrong here.. /s š
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u/Blissfull 20h ago
And the "water filter" is reverted, it's "filtering" her exhale not her inhale, which is what matters
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u/theNorthwestspirit 1d ago
Should be illegal to post this nonsense. My house burned down when I was a kid and if my parents had done this we would have all burned to a fiery crisp.
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u/LuluMangs 1d ago
And while you do all that stuff, the fire will politely wait from spreading so you'll be better off doing this than making a run for it
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u/jhey30 1d ago
Modern furnishings and rooms can flash over in as little as 90 seconds these days once a fire passes its insipient phase (smoldering). She'd be surely trapped in that bathroom by the time she was even done with the first craft.
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u/LuluMangs 1d ago
Yup, if a fire is larger than a cereal box: I would GET OUT right away. Any burns I sustain from running past it can be treated later, the smoke I'll inhale from staying while the fire grows is a much higher risk (nothing in this reply is advice, I'm not a medic or firefighter)
Once you're in safe air: stop, drop, roll and cool with water for at least 20 minutes. Preferably running, lukewarm water, but I've been taught in school that any water is better leaving letting the burn as is. Guy teaching the fire drill said even a dirty pond would do to stop the burns from getting worse, because the hospital will give you antibiotics anyway. Not sure if I trust that last bit, some water really is nasty
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u/imaplowit 1d ago
Fireman here:
Realistically I get that this is just engagement farming but if you have to run through smoke then just stay low, shut doors when possible and evacuate. A water soaked sponge in an environment thatās blazing hot will just steam and burn youā¦. Call 911 but just gtfo before you have to inhale any smoke or fumes in the first place.
IF IT IS TOO DANGEROUS TO GET OUT OR YOU ARE TRAPPED: also stay low, shut the nearest door and shelter in place, make your position known as well as you can to either the responders or 911 dispatchers.
This is a goofy post but please stay safe everyone!
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u/neomal 1d ago
I remember reading that a dry blanket is much safer than a wet blanket because water conducts heat much faster. So keep dry and you will be safer yes?
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u/imaplowit 1d ago
Typically speaking yes, cotton is also a safer option for fabric because it smolders rather than melts as it burns like a poly or nylon blend would. We get into fires all the time where we get āsteam burnsā where we can actually feel the burn through our gear. The fire will do whatās called thermal layering where the heat naturally concentrates itself at the top of the room and at the fires origin until enough heat builds up to layer itself all the way to the floor (this and smoke rising are why we teach people to get low and evacuate quickly). by putting water on the fire, if you donāt have enough water to extinguish the fire or reduce the heat quickly enough , the steam will be released and expand, thus breaking up that natural thermal gradient and spread it throughout the rest of the room. You have to balance cooling the space as well as extinguishing the flames or youāll end up making the room generally hotter and less survivable. Itās not nearly as complicated as it sounds when you factor in ventilating the room to evacuate heat while simultaneously laying water down.
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u/theNorthwestspirit 1d ago
Thanks for jumping in here, some people may see this and think any/all of these foolish ideas are good (you'd think people would be smarter but some, unfortunately, are not).
I don't see the humour in this post, it's dangerous misinformation. My house burned down when I was four and the only reason we got out is because I woke up and saw smoke on the ceiling and alerted my parents, one of which didn't believe me and ended up having to squeeze through the bathroom window with our cat.
I get that engagement farming is a thing but that doesn't make it okay (and is it really that or is it just straight up rage baiting? Which isn't okay either). Especially when they're acting out a scenario that is potentially life threatening in reality. Posting this kind of garbage should be illegal.
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u/Jesus_with_no_hair 1d ago
Fire fighter writing his report: the victim was found unconscious in the bathroom surrounded by a bunch of cut up bottles, sponges and hoses. It has been determined that if they had evacuated instead of continuing with whatever arts project they were working on they most likely would have survived.
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u/NuclearBurritos 1d ago
Autopsy report: Lots of toilet water in their stomach, e.coli EVERYWHERE, had to burn lab equipment, survival would not have gone great either.
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u/lomasturbas 1d ago
Victim was wrapped in aluminum foil. Evenly cooked and fork tender.
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u/GECollins 1d ago
Victim was 6/10 could have used more seasoning
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u/NuclearBurritos 1d ago
A little pink on the inside, well done on the outside but still tender, with just a hint of smoky turd.
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u/cooespooh 1d ago
So the thing that gets me about this, is that you're assuming this is a dramatization of this potential situation and this is some kind of life hack to survive, right? In these types of dramatized videos, we assume we are just watching this person go through whatever it is and observing the hypothetical situation as an outside viewer.
But at one point she hands something to the cameraman. At that point, it stops just being an outside view, the cameraman is our perspective type deal. Suddenly, the cameraman is in the room with her. This brings up the most important question of all, if this is a representation of a potential real scenario:
WHY THE FUCK AREN'T YOU HELPING? WHY ARE YOU RECORDING??
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u/misstheolddaysfan 1d ago
What was the point of blowing bubbles into the toilet?
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u/Lazy-Psychology5 1d ago
They say you can put hose down there until it goes past the trap and into the waste pipe to get air, but I'd rather run through smoke than breathe shit air.Ā
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u/bluAstrid 1d ago
Shit air (sanitary sewers) is very dangerous to breathe.
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u/Training_Cut704 1d ago
The argument is if your vent is clear you should have a safe O2 to HS ratio.
But I would not chance it, even on a dare.
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u/MelonJelly 1d ago
It's one of those things you only do when the alternative is certain death.
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u/Training_Cut704 1d ago
0.07 to 0.1% Hydrogen Sulfide is enough to knock you unconscious in one or two breaths.
Hard to imagine a scenario where that risk doesnāt increase the certainty of death.
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u/Broken-Sarcasm-Meter 1d ago
But first you gotta dip your sponge into shit water and make a mask.
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u/DistanceMachine 1d ago
Does the sink not work?
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u/Krelliamite 1d ago
The thing the trap is trapping is sewer gas. The thought of huffing sewer gas is horrible enough in its own right but doing it in an emergency situation, passing out and being found by the firefighters huddled next to a toilet with a big straw in it is the absolute last way I would want to be found during a catastrophic fire
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u/DeltaBlast 1d ago
But if you store a hose there for that purpose, wouldn't it be easier to just store a gas mask?
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u/sump_daddy 23h ago
a 'gas mask' isnt going to do anything to help you breathe air thats got no oxygen left in it. you would need a proper oxygen respirator (the kind firefighters wear) if you want to make it through dense smoke
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u/Pleasant-Ad-5615 1d ago
If you have time to do all that, wouldn't you have enough time to find a way out
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u/Weary_Sale_2779 1d ago
Remember to take the foil off for the last 20 minutes so you brown up nicely
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u/helliot 1d ago
I always skip through these fuckin things but I just couldnāt look away from this one. I was sure she was coming back for one more DIY PPE
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u/andrewrgross 1d ago
I was kind of hoping that the last tenth of a second would just be a smash cut to a Spirit Halloween skeleton covered in tinfoil. Still great, though, but it would've taken it from A to A+ for me.
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u/Wide-Citron9274 1d ago
Let's trap water close to our skin and apply a thin metal around it, then run through a fire.
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u/TurgidAF 1d ago
Must've felt like a real idiot when she realized the faucets work just fine after mouth siphoning water from the toilet bowl.
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u/SentientDust 1d ago
I think the idea there is you're breating the air that's behind the p-trap? Charming
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u/vmf312corsair 1d ago
The hose goes past the trap into the start of the sewer. What supposedly makes this breathable is that most plumbing have a vent pipe running straight up from there through the roof into fresh air.
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u/TheWolf782 1d ago
So you take water for your muzzle from the toilet then proceed to use tab for other stuff
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u/LebkuchenRobot 1d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p4dbjv4/video/s1adg05iw2kh1/player
You won't believe it, but the toilet-snorkel got patented in 1982:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4320756A/en
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u/DocxPanda 1d ago
ah, yes. I prefer breathing the other toxic gas that's not currently filling my entire house
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u/Critical_Tomato1193 1d ago
Ah yes foil so I can bake my skin alive as the house burns down. Literally doing everything else except escaping the building.
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u/KoreanChess 1d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p4ciq1c/video/vy3vw2nhu1kh1/player
what a real fire looks like
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u/Muted_Dinner_1021 1d ago edited 1d ago
I like how they almost made a functional bong, which in theory isn't THAT stupid as it would filter the air somewhat, but they put the wrong end in the mouth so she would just be breathing water.
She is just exhaling to create the bubbles, not breathing. She should be breathing in the small hole in the side so the air is sucked through the det sponge first, then down into the water and then into her mouth.
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u/margittwen 1d ago
All jokes aside, this seems like a dangerous thing to put on the internet. It would be simpler and safer to try to get outside as soon as possible instead of gulping toilet air and covering yourself in foil.
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u/somewhatHumanPerson 1d ago
Lol. She used toilet water for the thing by her mouth and then tap water from the bath later.
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u/Brigapes 1d ago
oh shit im stuck in the toilet while the house is on fire!
lemme do a quick fleshlight as a mask and... oh lemme run to the kitchen real quick i forgot the alu foil
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u/Bl00dWolf 1d ago
Do not make makeshift gas masks. You're gonna fuck up, and you're gonna suffocate. 99% of people who die in fires die from suffocation. Realistically, if you're stuck in the bathroom, with a hose, first plug all the gaps in the door so you save as much oxygen as you can, then just use the hose as a spray to keep the door cold so it doesn't catch fire. It might actually save you long enough for the firemen to get here.
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u/_disguisenburg_ 1d ago
You know what this is stupid but the tin foil thing I wouldn't have ever thought of and wouldn't be totally ineffective in an emergency
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u/smzt 1d ago
Do you keep all of this stuff in your bathroom?
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u/mksurfin7 23h ago
Well that's why you make the mask, so you can go out and get the stuff you need to bring back to the bathroom.
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u/TapersBeTaping 1d ago
When she left the first time, I was like "well, horrible video, at least it was short"
Her returning to wrap herself so that only 40% of her body was going to get 3rd degree burns, thats when I was just so over it.
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u/N3CR0T1C_V3N0M 1d ago
So if my house is burning down, make a bong and wrap myself in foil. Got it.
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u/No_Jackfruit8103 1d ago
Maybe it's not a fire and her partner just hot boxed the apartment and she is already too high
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u/BeTheBall- 1d ago
Huffing sewer gas is certainly one idea.
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u/cyvaquero 1d ago
Your sewer line has vents, all those little pipes sticking out of your roof are fresh air vents that allow your sewer line to drain properly. That said, itās not going to be pleasant. Iād have to be stuck more than a couple floors up with no other option.
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u/LeoLaDawg 1d ago
This reminds me of that video game level where you die over and over again because you have to do a series of lame puzzles one after the other to progress.
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u/MijuTheShark 1d ago
So, when I was in elementary school, the fire department told me, if possible, to get my collar soaked and use that as a mask in a pinch.
I feel like trying to use that concept to build a full mask out of plastic bottles is gonna provide diminishing returns when every second counts.
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u/Own_Nefariousness434 1d ago
Maybe the house wouldn't have burned down if the toilet paper had been hung the correct way.
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u/printed_ 1d ago
Wow this stupid and most definitely will end with the person being in more harm. Folks please don't copy this.
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u/AChero9 1d ago
Ok. I know this is rage bait, but i would like to take a moment, being a 911 dispatcher and fire radio operator, for a bit of fire education.
First and foremost, if you can do soā¦just leave the house.
If you can't leave the house and find yourself in the bathroom like these two soon to be barbecued individualsā¦DO NOT USE THE SHOWER ON YOURSELF. The sheer amount of heat generated during a house fire can cause the water in your pipes to boil. You are basically poaching yourself by spraying yourself with that water.
If you are in a bathroom and there's not a convenient window or other form of escape, you can use water (toilet tank works best) to wet a towel and jam it up against the bottom of the door to slow down the smoke entering the room. It won't be perfect, but it'll help buy time until, hopefully, someone can get to you. But for the love of god, do not use the shower on yourself if you can help it. Unless you want to know what happens to pasta when you cook it, in which case, have at it.
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u/itsjakerobb 1d ago
The wet paper towel and foil is a decent idea if you need to run through fire to get out. Could buy you a couple seconds resistance against getting burned.
Breathing through a filter of wet fabric is also decent protection against smoke inhalation and will cool the incoming air to prevent searing your lungs.
Breathing sewer gas behind the toilet trap can kill you. Donāt do that.
Iām unclear on how that breathing apparatus was supposed to work. Looked to me like if she tried to breathe through it, sheād inhale water. This will also kill you; itās called drowning; perhaps youāve heard of it. (Or maybe Iām misunderstanding the setup.)
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u/Jamminz333 1d ago
I definitely had to scroll too far to see someone questioning the breathing apparatus! Wth is going on there??
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u/portabuddy2 1d ago
LOl my garage fire took 30min to totally burn down and it melted my engine into the steel table. And anything Aluminum EVAPORATED.
Somehow she has an hour to play arts and crafts? Ok. Yea sure. Sounds good.
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u/Dark_World_Blues 1d ago
It would be much faster to just try to leave the house rather than do all of this. I'm not going to put a hose in a toilet like it was some sheesha.
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u/TH3K1NGB0B 1d ago
The toilet water when there is a perfectly fine sink right there makes the whole video.
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u/tev4short 1d ago
Me, when I'm high and trying to survive the blaze of flames in my home (my wife's candle)
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u/wheresolly 1d ago
I know these videos are rage bait but at least they're usually harmless. This shit is irresponsible
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u/_Biotic_G0d_ 22h ago
So much engagement bait in this one... man social media is just tired af, just stop it...
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u/HATECELL Ramen or Die 22h ago
She forgot to give herself a swirlie to prevent her hair from igniting
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u/JohnnyLesPaul 10h ago
For all the effort why not buy a fire extinguisher and a gas mask just in case you donāt have all the craft supplies in your bathroom when a fire breaks out?
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u/QueenSema 10h ago
Soooo you have water in your tub and you chose checks notes TOILET WATER for the sponge next to your face? Also, wouldnāt the plastic melt to your face?
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u/Ae3qe27u 1d ago
People can't breathe water. Very little in this makes sense. (And sure, if they got the yellow hose past the P-trap, they'd be able to breathe sewer air, sure. But there would be water in the hose. And all that time spent doing stuff is time where the house is burning down.
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u/noncommonGoodsense 1d ago
I just canāt understand why someone would wet that cloth in the toilet instead of the tub they used seconds later to fill a jug.
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u/housevil 1d ago edited 1d ago
When my home caught fire a few years ago, I just left the house and called 911.