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Yes haha mark v.funny. But no, the laundrette on Lower Clapton Road went up in flames last night, c.4 o'clock. I was woken when confused shouting drowned out the us.Hackney small-arms fire, car alarms, distant unplaceable shrieks and explosions. From my flat roof I saw much smoke, some sparks, no flames but flickering orange glow in lower window, naked neighbours craning out their winders, firemen, a RIVER of water flowing down LCR, and a few cops.

― mark s, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So, have you ever been caught in one? Started one? Living top floor of an apartment block it is my one BIG fear: idiot neighbour loses control of chip pan etc etc.

― mark s, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Accidentally set fire to a magazine rack when I was 7. Vividly remember get my arse belted for that, but in my defence I had just joined the cubs and was honing my firemaking skills.

Remember hearing a story that female students would cause fire alarms to go off thus luring hunky firemen to their dorms. I assume this is just an urban myth propagated by hunky firemen.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my ex was TERRIFIED of fires...the building we were living in had once caught fire..and yes, we were on the fourth floor of a walk- up...i wasn't living there yet, and no one was hurt...she used to wake up in the middle of the night when a siren would sound anywhere in the city...

most terrifying aspect of living in queens: all those blocks upon blocks of apartment buildings and houses connected to each other...which means, one goes up, they all go up...

― jess, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I was about five or six, there was a fire in the basement of our apartment building. A nasty rumor started among the neighborhood kids that I had started the fire. I couldn't go out for about a year without hearing, "there's the girl that started the fire." It got so bad that I started to believe that I had started it. I'm really paranoid now about accidentally setting a fire - sometimes I get to work and panic at the thought that i may have left the iron on.

― Kerry, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fire Engines in pop = classic. Davey Henderson, "Fire engines are winding back to start up again", "There are Fire engines going by, they're going going to try to make the world more cold".

Fires aren't very nice though, I imagine.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My chem partner and I got in trouble in class whenever we did a lab involving the bunsen burner. "THE FLAME DOES NOT NEED TO BE A FOOT LONG!" "It's not a foot long yet! Maybe we can make it though...." It was fun trying to see what would burn or melt and what colors the flame turned, too. Only one thing ever exploded and it wasn't a big deal, though.

Ironically, the only real mess we made was when we turned on the eyewash after class, couldn't figure out how to turn it off, and flooded the room.

― Lyra, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Friend of mine at school whacked on a gas tap once and lit it. flame went all across the room.

When I was about 5 our garage blew up. Something to do with the car battery, car went up, garage went up. My memory of it's sketchy but i remember being very impressed by the enormous flames.

― matthew james, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ohmigod, and another time, my dad & I went to church, and after communion, someone came running up to the altar, and said, "will the owner of the car with license plate ABC12345 please come out to the parking lot", and my dad got up and left. I stayed in church, and when I came down the church steps, I saw this ten or fifteen foot tongue of flame at the end of the parking lot: someone had blown up my dad's car - they threw a flaming something or other into the back window! I have no idea why - it's not like he had any enemies. It could have been a disgruntled steel worker (my dad had things with steel company logos in his car and there were massive layoffs and plant closings at the time) or maybe it was a Catholic-hater, I don't know...

― Kerry, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

FIRE is the best element. Wouldn't you rather have a friend with fire than a weak coward? This should be my answer to the are u charmed by doomp. thread too ... i saw a big fire in the city where i lived, it was completely silent and was destroying a two storey building, you could see a mattress on fire through a window ... but it was silent, just flames bending round walls! the people were outside on the street holding suitcases (i don't know) ... this sort of fire is pretty irrelevant really ... some people are so frightened, it's exasperating, but they pretend to be pragmatic

― maryann, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/9051/bigheat.jpg

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At some point in my teenage years the church across the road from my parents' house burnt down. Being a local landmark, on the crest of a hill, the blaze could apparently be seen from most of South London. There were countless fire engines and what had been a gorgeous Victorian red brick beauty was reduced to a smouldering blackened hulk in a matter of hours. Needless to say, me and my dad both slept right through the whole event; my mum woke up because she heard something but didn't bother to go and see what it was.

― alex thomson, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tadeusz, if I was using a browser that had pictures and stuff I'd be getting pretty pissed at you right about now.

― Josh, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no josh, for 9/10 of his pix are NOT WORKING haha: except of course for ones with stalin in them...

(of course my browser makes linux look like trans-galactic telepathy)

― mark s, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WHen half of City University burnt down in June we were on the way to see Amorres Perros (or the Three Colours trilogy done quick) and saw the billowing smoke and the fire engines vainly trying to get down Upper Street. I had recently been passed over for a job in City University because they did not recognise my unique ape-ish skillz.

I sez "Look. There is a fire." Girlz sez "Oh".

80% of fires in the UK are caused my Arson. I am fire warden for my building, I have to talk to firemen when they come to the many false alarms we have. New maroon uniforms are cool.

― Pete, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best typo ever?

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six months pass...

ILEWHACKED: "prawn bending"

the laundrette still hasn't reopened

― mark s, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

prawn bending?

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 21 November 2008 03:42 (seventeen years ago)

Abbott, were you searching for "prawn" or what?

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 21 November 2008 07:50 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

The house next door to mine is on fire. I woke up because I smelled the smoke and they've been battling it for over an hour now. Scary stuff but everyone in the house is safe which is the most important thing. With all the noise, fire trucks and lights I'm wide awake. Great.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Saturday, 15 August 2009 06:55 (sixteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

I was talking an old friend last night who nearly burnt out his kitchen whilst boiling some potatoes when he was pissed in the 90's. It left some serious smoke damage in his shithole bedsit where the view from the "lounge" was a dirty brick wall in Lockwood with a rotting rubbish pile in front of it. So he did a midnight flit a few months later. The landlord sent the most laughable "heavy" you could ever see after him to pay for it, the heavy was from a family of formidable crims but still not very dangerous and the more he snarled at my friend, who had quite a bad stutter and a nervous habit of laughing a lot under duress the more that it enraged this idiot even more at what a shit enforcer he was. You had to be there. But also I can't help laughing at how this idiot friend managed to escalate this whole situation without even a chip-pan full of hot fat and rather with an unattended pan of boiled potatoes.

― calzino, Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:07 (five years ago)

stand by your pan

A very Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at CPSC! Remember to stand by your pan today! pic.twitter.com/piDMsoz1zb
— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) November 26, 2020

― superdeep borehole (harbl), Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:41 (five years ago)

"midnight flit" About 12,700 results (0.38 seconds)
"moonlight flit" About 51,900 results (0.36 seconds)

― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:52 (five years ago)

U.S. Cooking-Pan Safety Commission

― the burrito that defined a generation, Sunday, 29 November 2020 01:53 (five years ago)

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