I'm freezing! Send help!
And darwin wins.
Just because shme hasn't posted yet doesn't mean shme's dead.
It just means they aren't on the internet anymore, and are like, outside. Not suffocating/drowning to death.
That or getting one of the most amazing blowjobs ever and lost their ability to type due to the sensations behind it.
edited 13th Apr '12 3:05:03 AM by Vorpy
Troper PageWell yeah, if my carbon monoxide alarm had gone off I'd be out the door.
The term "Great Man" is disturbingly interchangeable with "mass murderer" in history books.If mine went off, I'd fling open all doors and windows, turn off anything that's burning, then try to figure out how to get the critter to stop making noise.
Death by carbon monoxide is anything but painful. You just start feeling sleepy, pass out, and die. Which is why I think it's a horrible way to die - I'd prefer my death to be quick and violent, not slow and gentle.
edited 13th Apr '12 4:04:16 AM by MidnightRambler
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
That can be arranged.
Seriously, though? Posting on the forums in the face of a CO alarm? This is like the setup for a bad CSI Miami one-liner. You know, that phrase that the site's so frequently associated with...
edited 13th Apr '12 6:16:58 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.![]()
Please don't - the one thing I'd prefer most about my death is that it will be far, far into the future. (My target age is ninety-three).
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I potholed it. (No idea if you're being sarcastic on that one. Doesn't carry over too well on the internet.)
Yeah, I was just kidding. Oddly specific target, though.
edited 13th Apr '12 6:17:08 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
Yeah, I just came up with that number one day and decided that that would be a good age to go. But it's really just a way of saying, 'I love life, I want to live life to its fullest, and I want to live pretty damn long!' Anything over 90 is fine with me.
What I'm more specific on is the time of year. I'd like to die in September or October, because that's the time of year when I'm least excited about the coming season. If I died in March, it would be 'Yay, springtime's here aga- Gack!' In December, 'Hmm, let's see if we'll have a nice snow-and-ice winter this ye- Urgh!'
edited 13th Apr '12 7:16:07 AM by MidnightRambler
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I'm kinda hoping for at least 106. That's probably aiming pretty high, though. I want to live to see 2100, that'd be fun. If I do the right things like exercise or Tai Chi or whatever, then that and scientific advances would probably put 106 into the realm of possibility.
edited 13th Apr '12 7:21:05 AM by Zahaele
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. And also spiders.Do you have gas? If not then you don't really need one, but if you do it's essential. It should be easy enough to spot; they look a bit like this
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edited 13th Apr '12 11:53:39 PM by InverurieJones
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'Cooking gas is not carbon monoxide, though* — it has a very distinctive smell (I think they put additives in it to make it more easy to notice) and you'd definitely notice it if you left it open.
Hopefully before it saturates the room to the point that the heat of the lightbulb makes everything explode...
I used to have a smoke detector which went off whenever I cooked bacon. That was mildly irritating.
But yeah, carbon monoxide is dangerous business.
edited 13th Apr '12 11:58:54 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.Er...
Take your seats, kids, for Basic Chemistry/Basic Plumbing:
'Cooking gas' is mostly methane (which is why it smells strongly of, er, methane). Having a gas cooker isn't the problem; having gas central heating is.
CO is a by-product of the combustion of natural gas in a gas boiler (as used for heating in old or cheap houses). This usually goes out through a flue, but if the flue becomes obstructed it can back up into the house, filling your living space with a cloud of deadly gas.
Houses with electric or oil central heating do not have this problem.
edited 14th Apr '12 12:16:20 AM by InverurieJones
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'Old or cheap? This side of the North Sea, every house has gas heating.
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
