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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApparently, there are two ways to react to finding that your house is on fire.
One way would be to summon the fire department, activate any sprinkler system and try to extinguish the flames with fire extinguishers, water hoses, buckets--- whatever is available.
The other would be to criticize the fire and hope it rains very hard in 2020.
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Apparently, there are two ways to react to finding that your house is on fire. (Original Post)
Atticus
Aug 2019
OP
"I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic ...
Magoo48
Aug 2019
#8
Skittles
(153,160 posts)1. it is just plain SICKENING now
lunatica
(53,410 posts)2. I like that analogy!
RainCaster
(10,874 posts)3. One minor suggestion
The other would be to criticize the fire department and hope it rains very hard in 2020.
Shaddox
(384 posts)4. I tried to find a good metaphor, but do monkeys shit fire and throw it?
dalton99a
(81,486 posts)5. Tsk, tsk, be patient. The fire will burn itself out
after the house is burned down
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)6. With us in it!
Duppers
(28,120 posts)7. Exactly my hubby's response when...
I read the OP aloud to him.
Btw, why are we not mentioning the name here?
Magoo48
(4,709 posts)8. "I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic ...
and act as if the house was on fire.
Wait a minute, we have much to attend to before we can address this fire thing. We are not combustion scientists, so just slow down.