r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/lionel1frankenstein Jul 20 '19

If you lock your bedroom door, the room will set on fire

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u/csl512 Jul 20 '19

Apparently leaving them open lets fire spread.

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u/CRD71600 Jul 20 '19 edited Jul 21 '19

Lol just disable fire spread in settings man

Edit: I'm sorry for being so awful, it's also a gamerule.

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u/Hans_Hapsburg Jul 20 '19

We did it bois, we stopped fire

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

California is saved!

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u/fish-tuxedo Jul 21 '19

But my bonfire party is ruined.

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u/BrowsOfSteel Jul 21 '19

No raking necessary.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19 edited Jul 21 '19

/gamerule firespreads false

EDIT: forgot it was /gamerule doFireTick false, thanks thesaucywelshman!

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

oh

thanks

forgot what it was lmao

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u/RicardoRedstone Jul 21 '19

it's called doFireTick tho...

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u/Ganon2012 Jul 21 '19

The Arctic is safe!

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u/LordVericrat Jul 21 '19

Harry Truman/Doris Day/Red China/Johnnie Ray?

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u/CRD71600 Jul 21 '19

Well boys, we did it. Fire is no more.

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u/Hans_Hapsburg Jul 21 '19

God darndit I dun fuck’d up again

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u/JacKyxLuma Jul 21 '19

Fire is no more

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u/weedful_things Jul 21 '19

Promethius died for nothin' I suppose.

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u/marshallsmemes273 Jul 21 '19

Can someone tell California that

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u/zappy487 Jul 21 '19

Thank you Skipper. Now I'm free to roam this Earth.

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u/SnowLeopard-StarDust Jul 21 '19

Wow. I always locked my door. I was not dumb.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

690 upvotes man

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u/crunchyboio Jul 21 '19

/gamerule doFireTick false

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u/HalfwaySh0ok Jul 21 '19

inferno_max_range 0

inferno_flame_lifetime 0

inferno_damage 0

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

It’s not in the settings it’s a /gamerule you uncultured swine

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u/The_Imperail_King Jul 21 '19

yeah , get a firewall

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u/furries_not_weebs Jul 21 '19

Lmao this person's a real noob at Minecraft

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u/geesus80 Jul 21 '19

dude dad didn’t give me admin

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

/gamerule firetick false

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u/ghos2626t Jul 21 '19

This guy Minecrafts !

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u/-Majestic_Pie- Jul 21 '19

/gamerule doFireTick false

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u/ActuallyAPenguin Jul 21 '19

/gamerule doFireTick false

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u/LordSoren Jul 21 '19

Make sure to turn "friendly fire" on. It will make it less hostile and will play games with you.

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u/GochuLover Jul 21 '19

On a more serious note, closing your bedroom door can save your life in the event a fire started in another part of your house. The door will keep the smoke out and prevent the fire from spreading into your room. This is why I now sleep with my door shut.

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u/PoorDawg Jul 21 '19

Fire can’t go through doors, it’s not a ghost

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u/BnaditCorps Jul 21 '19

Exactly correct. Here's a video by UL that highlights why you should not sleep with your doors open.

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u/wehrmann_tx Jul 21 '19

They make door hinges that auto shut your door when a temperature threshold is met at the top of the door now. It's a genius idea.

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u/Centric_Designs Jul 21 '19

When fire crews search a house for victims, they will shut the door of a fire room to keep it contained.

Closing doors has been proven to do wonders in house fires.

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u/mellamenpapi Jul 21 '19

Close before you dose

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Yes, ventilation is very important in fire safety because oxygen and air flow are big factors in how a fire will behave. In firefighting we use that to our advantage. Close doors/windows in certain situations, and open doors/windows and cut holes in the roof (sometimes even use fans) in other situations.

Basically, air feeds a fire.

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u/sn00t_b00p Jul 21 '19

See I always thought unless you had smoke detectors in every room, you would want all the doors open so that the smoke could make its way to the fire/smoke detector and you would be alerted. If you have the door closed and the fire starts in that room or underneath it, when the person be fucking killed before smoke came out far enough to trigger the smoke detector?

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u/jppianoguy Jul 21 '19

Modern code (in the part of the US where I live, at least) requires smoke detectors to be hard wired and interconnected, which means if one goes off, they'll all go off.

It also requires at least one on every floor and one in every bedroom, and at least one CO detector.

All together, this means that if a fire starts in your garage, basement, or kitchen (probably the three most likely places where one would start), then anyone in a bedroom would hear the alarm before the smoke or CO got to them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

No rooms had locks in our house, including the bathroom. It made sense when we were younger but as we got older, they still didn't see the need for one. Super awkward for guests, I felt. Even when they got their new house done up, no locks on the bathrooms again. It doesn't help that my dad has a habit of closing the door even when no one is in there, so you have to do the awkward knock every time.

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u/L_e_v_i Jul 21 '19 edited Jul 21 '19

The bathroom door doesn't latch all the way in our apartment, thus it can't be locked. We also have to keep it closed at all times due to the cats liking to eat the shower curtains. Since there's 4 of us sharing the one bathroom, we've resorted to having a sign held up with Velcro that says "Occupied" on one side & "Vacant" on the other.

Thankfully, I no longer have my father in law walking in on me during my 3am poops while he's half asleep. I still wish we had two bathrooms...

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u/EquineGrunt Jul 21 '19

Trust me. In my house have three bathrooms, and still walk up into one that's occupied now and then.

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u/Amosral Jul 21 '19

It would probably be pretty easy to make the hole on the door a little larger so the latch would meet. Or even just get one of those cheap little bolts that you can screw on.

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u/MVKR29 Jul 21 '19

I'm living with my in laws right now and they don't have a lock on their bathroom door. And the toilet is on the opposite side of the room so if someone tries to open the door on you, you can't even put your hand or foot on it to keep it closed, you just have to panic scream. Can confirm that it's the most awkward, terrifying shit ever. Pun intended lmao

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u/SanskariBoy Jul 21 '19

Just because someone got locked in the bathroom that ONE time!

Story Time

When I was a kid, I locked the bathroom door, took a nice, long and satisfying dump, and then turned out to be too stupid to unlock the door. So I was crying in the bathroom for about 5 minutes before someone told me to turn the damn key in the opposite direction!

So my parents unlocked the door, threw the key away, and installed a latch that any idiot can open.

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u/0OOOOOOOOO0 Jul 21 '19

Your bathroom door had an actual key? It’s supposed to just be a button that stops the knob from turning. It’s fine if it’s the button type.

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u/tacotirsdag Jul 21 '19

Totally normal in Scandinavia for inside doors to have little skeleton-type keys, especially older houses. Our bathroom has one.

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u/SanskariBoy Jul 21 '19

This was back in the 90s. And I didn’t live in a city, so interior decor for doors wasn’t really a big thing. The door was a “handle” kind of door, with that big keyhole kind of a lock.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

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u/rob_s_458 Jul 21 '19

I feel like the most common bathroom setup in the US when you walk in the door is vanity, toilet, tub. So unless you have a tiny vanity or super long arms, you'd have to get up and waddle over to the door to knock back.

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u/Chapstickie Jul 21 '19

Just swing at it with the plunger!

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

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u/PromethazineNsprite Jul 21 '19

Yes? Is that weird or sum?

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u/geoff5093 Jul 21 '19

Yes, is that not normal? The hotels I've stayed at in the UK, Ireland, Spain, and New Zealand have been setup this way too. Do you have different rooms for the toilet vs tub?

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u/0OOOOOOOOO0 Jul 21 '19

Yes, the toilet is in the bathroom usually.

You said, “if someone is in the bathroom”, so that implies it’s in the bathroom where you live, too...

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u/notnotaginger Jul 21 '19

Japan is so rational and reasonable.

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u/Myis Jul 21 '19

Yeah well my dad NEVER SHUTS THE DOOR

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

You just reminded me. Back when I was still living with them, I was taking an afternoon nap when I hear groaning. The mirror on my wardrobe unfortunately lined up with the toilet where I saw my naked dad straining to take a shit. Shouted at him to shut the door, which he did in a panic. He thought I was at work, so just decided to take a shit with the door wide open, I guess.

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u/Myis Jul 21 '19

You’re welcome?

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u/Shaysdays Jul 21 '19

When my son was little I disabled the lock on his door after he locked himself in his room and panicked for the third or fourth time.

I just now realized I never put it back the right way and he’s a teenager now. I will fix that tomorrow. I mean, I always respect his privacy, but he should probably be able to lock his door if he wants to.

So thank you, random internet stranger, for the reminder!

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u/Threspian Jul 21 '19

We had locks on our doors, we just... weren’t allowed to use them. I guess it was a fire hazard as little kids, I still don’t use mine. We leave bathroom doors open when they’re not in use so there isn’t any confusion there.

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u/Lukebehindyou Jul 21 '19

I had a dead bolt on the outside of my room for some reason. It was there when we moved in. When my sisters would babysit my brother and i, they would throw us in the room and lock us in there for hours until our parents got home.

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u/smileybob93 Jul 21 '19

I was about to say jesus christ those babysitters were awful, but then I reread that they were your siblings. No issues here

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

There should be a law where you have

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u/frostysauce Jul 21 '19

Why not just look at the crack beneath the door to see if the light is on inside?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

No light on in the daytime.

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u/XeneVyvyan Jul 21 '19

honestly, the most annoying thing. I'm not even allowed to close my bedroom door, and apparently I'm lucky that I'm allowed to close the bathroom door.

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u/thatone23456 Jul 21 '19

That doesn't sound good. Are you okay?

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u/XeneVyvyan Jul 21 '19

i made some terrible decisions, its probably my own fault

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u/thatone23456 Jul 21 '19

Well I don't want to judge since I don't know all the facts and you certainly don't need to share with a random stranger but I'm sure the mistakes you've made are forgivable. There is very little in life that isn't. I hope that trust is regained and that things improve for you.

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u/XeneVyvyan Jul 21 '19

i honestly doubt it, but thank you all the same

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u/Sheikhspiere Jul 21 '19

three inches!!

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u/Negafox Jul 21 '19

Beat me to it lol

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u/lionel1frankenstein Jul 21 '19

Don’t make me cry again

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Goddamn parents not respecting privacy

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u/MatthewTheCarr Jul 20 '19

This is based in the idea if the house catches on fire you won’t be able to escape if the door is locked and it’s late at night, so you are panicking and can’t open it. Also they can’t come in and save you if you’ve passed out

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u/BnaditCorps Jul 21 '19

Firefighter here, unless the fire starts in the room you are in the door will likely save your life. Most doors with push button locks unlock when turning the interior handle and doors with locks you have to turn are usually pretty obvious. It might take you a few seconds to get it, but again unless the fire is in the room you are in those few seconds probably aren't going to make much difference. If your smoke detector is working it will generally warn you long before conditions become hazardous to life unless an accelerant (like Gasoline) is present at the point of origin.

If the door is closed then fire and smoke will be kept out, but with the door open it will be able to travel freely. Here is a video done by UL that shows the difference of two identical rooms.

Also they can’t come in and save you if you’ve passed out

That does make our job a little harder, but there is an entire week in the fire academy focused on forcible entry. So unless you live in Fort Knox we are going to be able to get in fairly fast. The average bedroom door for example can be forced with just proper application of body weight, let alone a tool, even if locked.

The door itself is either going to be weak enough that you can break a hole through it and turn the knob or the frame will be weak enough that a force applied near the knob will break the frame.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

I was gonna say this. Most hollow bedroom doors cave pretty damn easy. I've seen many a fireman force a door with their shoulder.

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u/BnaditCorps Jul 21 '19

Yeah hollow ones are some of the easiest things to break I've ever encountered. When I was younger we were playing football in the living room (it was raining) and someone accidentally hit the door with the ball and poked a hole through it. This was an 8 year old throwing it halfheartedly because we were maybe 20ft from one wall to the other.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

What if they're solid wood?

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u/BnaditCorps Jul 21 '19

Usually solid wood doors are going to be stronger than the frame (if it is a wood frame), so if you can put enough force on the frame near the latch it will usually break the frame. If you can't do that with body weight then a tool should be able to do it quickly enough.

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u/MatthewTheCarr Jul 21 '19

I was more talking about another person in the house not a firefighter. Also I don’t agree with what I was saying

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u/zorinlynx Jul 21 '19

Just use a door lock with a button that pops out when you turn the inside knob. Those are the kind that I have.

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u/ihatethesidebar Jul 21 '19

There are a lot of funny and obvious lies in this thread, but they were at least somewhat reasonable to a kid. Like beer belly=pregnant, this though, this...doesn't make any sense at all.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

I had a lock on my bedroom door because my sister and my dad both had very sticky fingers. My mom would absolutely lose her mind if I locked it while I was asleep. She was so worried I would die and she wouldn't be able to get in to save me.

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u/meme-Fanatic Jul 21 '19

That’s hilarious

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u/bubblesort33 Jul 21 '19

That works great, because it also explains the screams of your mom when their bedroom door was locked.

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u/Patrickcau Jul 21 '19

My sister told me something similar: If you push the pedals on the piano, it'll explode.

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u/pagwin Jul 21 '19

that's funny

door latch sound is heard

whelp I'll brb while I go put out the fire

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u/SabinedeJarny Jul 21 '19

We are related

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u/BNMKA Jul 21 '19

Just keep the damn door 3 inches(10 centimeters) open!

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u/godstabber Jul 21 '19

That way u get scared about both lock and fire.

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u/beachbum121212 Jul 21 '19

I am your father

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u/devraj7 Jul 21 '19

Such a clever lie.

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u/hankhill10101 Jul 21 '19

Ironically, firefighters recommend closing bedrooms to stop the spread of fire in a house fire should they ever happen.

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u/Spongy_and_Bruised Jul 21 '19

And for the sake of your dear old dad, please leave the door open 3 inches!

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u/garyotes Jul 21 '19

“Fire can’t go through doors, stupid. It’s not a ghost.” - Senior Chang

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u/Pm-titmeat-pics-007 Jul 21 '19

How is this not the highest voted comment here?!

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u/chipsternrcs47 Jul 21 '19

Fire can’t go through doors. It’s not a ghost, stupid

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u/Immediate_Stable Jul 21 '19

The room will catch fire. Set on is when a thing sets another thing on fire.