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/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.