Causes for the fire alarm going off in my dorm room.
Causes for the fire alarm going off in my dorm room.
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MMmmmmm…. Baaaaaacon!
wow. First. Your life goal have been attained! Whatever will you do now? Will you try for the elusive “second?” Or will you be content with knowing that you’re a douche bag that could think of nothing witty or clever to say, so instead went with “first?”
Yes, I meant has, not have. Even us mere mortals make mistakes.
no we don’t, only you
Excellent retort. I take my hat off to you.
Actually Daemon just did. What you said should actually read, “No, we don’t; only you.” Mere mortal.
And haven’t we seen very similar graphs before? This has gone way down.
Will you be replying in correct thread progression next time?
Where is the “Idiot making popcorn’ slice?
i’d have to agree. while i never actually lived in a proper dorm (yay on-campus apartments!), the horror stories i heard were all related to popcorn, not bacon. or faulty wiring in 30+ year-old housing.
Or hairspray. Seriously. Excessive hairspray set off the fire alarms. We had 4 alarms in the same day because of idiot girls.
Well my alarm clock went off 11 times the day that I made this chart… and it was the 14th time for that particular week.. and the cause of it all was bacon. I thought it fit alright.
And the fire department shows up to smack the dumbass who burned the bacon. It’s bacon, why on earth would you think it ok to burn it?!
your alarm clock went off 11 times because of bacon? you must be very strict about when you have bacon. i dont see what that particularly has to do with fire alarms though.
id have to agree that at the dorms here (temple u), the alarms mostly go off because of people burning popcorn. actually..i think thats the ONLY reason ive heard of alarms going off /:
In my friends dorm they actually set the microwave on fire while making popcorn.
that’s just the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever heard.
no..no wait i stand corrected. when waiting outside after a popcorn alarm made everyone evacuate the dining hall (it’s on the first floor of one of the dorms), i heard a girl next to me talking about “stupid freshman” who use the ‘popcorn’ button on microwaves. apparently everyone should know that popcorn buttons aren’t meant for popcorn. microwaves are too powerful for making popcorn =|
im not even kidding a little bit.
yeah, it was always the goddamn popcorn
and always at 3am
why?
ahh, the oft heard of yet never documented 3 a.m. munchies. Said to be experienced by the drunk, the stoned, and medical and engineering students pulling all-nighters.
And the Foriegn Exchange folks who stayed up to call home at a decent their time.
Never documented? Dude, I can fix you up.
They also left out the idiot who thought the microwave doubled as a sock dryer. Yes, this happened at my school.
Best gem from my college days:
Someone cooking a corndog in ALUMINUM FOIL for 18 MINUTES at 3AM during DECEMBER EXAM WEEK and it was SNOWING. We almost formed a lynch mob.
And then when the heater in my dorm room caught on fire, the alarm didn’t go off because this smoke didn’t rise— it kinda billowed over and hit the ground like dry ice in a haunted house. The room smelled like smoke for the rest of the year.
Last september we had a freshman pop a bowl of Mac & Cheese in the microwave and return to her room to grab/do something. Next we knew, the floor was full of smoke, the alarm is going off, everyone is evacuating, and we learn that she forgot to add water to the bowl. Our whole dorm smelled for several days, and the firemen had a good laugh at her expense.
At least she laughs as she recounts the story.
You forgot “mechanical error”
….. waiting outside for 20 minutes while the fire department inspects, then having the alarm blaring for another HOUR before someone figures out how to turn it off.
THREE TIMES IN A WEEK.
Ugh, that happened to me my freshman year. Only it was december, finals week, and all of 20 degrees outside.
Bacon should appear last for maximum funny.
I know but I couldn’t undo it.. and I thought of it 3 seconds after I hit submit.
I have never heard of a fire alarm going off because of bacon… What kind of college experience did I have!?
One that was sadly lacking in bacon
Apparently …
dont worry you arent the only one. my experience is quite lacking in bacon. ):
Was I the only one who’s shenanigans WERE actual fires?!
Nope … my freshman year, someone lit two trash cans and a frickin bulletin board.
i had it happen with stuff in the oven. the alarm wouldnt shut up and my dog was truamatized forever…
Where’s the slice for “bacon shenanigans”?
That is the most excellent idea EVAR
…yet with the potential to quickly go horrendously wrong very fast.
SHUT UP… HAND ME THAT BACON AND THAT TRAFFIC CONE… I’m going in
I guess we’d have to cram a venn diagram into this pie chart too.
yea… i can relate to this. for me it was fried chicken. smoke everywhere. not good.
Grilled Cheese Sandwitches! Hell, mine goes off if I steam clean my frying pan. I’m an old fart who has learned that smoke detectors are triggers by steam irons to close to the dang-blasted smoke decectors. any body else set theirs off with a steam iron?
Shenanigans should be a much bigger slice. Swap it with the bacon one and that’ll look better.
Do it yourself, lazy a$$
Then people will be like “This asshole copied”
I agree about that, shenanigans happen basically every night, definitely every weekend. Only about twice a semester is there a burning smell coming from a kitchen.
your comebacks suck. i guess YOU are too much of a “lazy a$$” to make them better. Sir VG or whoever was just stating their opinion! your rude comments dont help anything.
They forgot ’stupid girl taking way too hot a shower for far too long.’ (That actually happened at my dorm last year.)
How about “stupid boy setting off fire alarm with lighter to get back at stupid girl taking a shower when he wanted to”?
dumba$$
Dude you are too much of a loser, if you’re not in that shower with that girl you fail as a man, i know if i whenever i needed a shower in my shared dorm i would be with which ever girl was using the shower.
You forgot to add popcorn and ppl trying try dry their clothes in the microwave.
People dry their clothes in the microwave!? WTF!?
LOL, someone took “Dilbert” a little too literally…
Hi roomie! Yeah, that was unbelievably stupid. Still, watching Firefly while we were waiting in the quad almost made up for the hours of sleeping in we could have had.
Oh man, I’m going into rez next year, hope it’s not really like that. I had enough of 3 fire alarms a week in high school lol
I’m sorry to break it to you, timmis, but maturity is sadly not a factor in one’s eligibility for admission. It should be, but isn’t.
What ever happens, at least it won’t be worse than my junior year… they installed stoves in the rooms of an apartment-style rez hall, but forgot to update the smoke detectors to take into account the higher amounts of heat and whatnot…
We weren’t allowed to have microwaves or any cooking implements in our dorms. In my case, I could eliminate the “bacon” section and divide the remaining space between “smoking” and “shenanigans”. Very accurate then.
Dude we aren’t allowed to cook in my dorm either.. but somehow bacon always sets off the f@#$king fire alarm.
You forgot weed.
You must be high right now not to notice that ’smoking’ was included in the graph. Or do you snort your weed? Stupid high people.
Stupid angry not-getting-laid people.
yeah… you forgot ‘dorm’s graduate assistant is pmsing’. she pulled the alarm at midnight on us the one night. seriously, how much more of a bitch can you be? i mean, true, most of us were awake, but we still all wanted to kill her – it was 10 degrees out!
Year before my freshman year, there was a fire alarm at 2 AM in early January. Apparently one guy ran outside wearing nothing but his silk boxers… and it was -15 out, with the wind chill.
We had one guy who wore footsie pajamas that he would always wear
when he came out. He looked ridiculous, but I’m sure he was a hell of a lot
warmer than the rest of us.
If bacon is setting off your fire alarm, yer doin it wrong.
No If it’s not setting off you’re fire alarm your doing it wrong
Febreeze also needs to go on the list…. Take a can of febreeze and spray it at the detector. Sets it off beautifully.
I swear I am going to pistol whip the next one of you that says, “shenanigans.”
Replace bacon with “That douchebag in room 303 who keeps lighting candles” and all six of our fire alarms (including the one at 12AM followed by the one at 2AM) are explained. Not even the smokers set it off, too clever in getting around the pot-hounds that are the RAs.
I swear, I’m going to pistol whip the next person who says “shenanigans…”
replace bacon with popcorn and it’s more true.
I swear EVERY week someone would pop popcorn on the “popcorn” setting and it would make the alarm go off…
IT’S BACON!!!!!!!!!!
During the summer I worked on a college campus and got free housing (so I lived in a dorm). My dorm had built in bunks, and I was on the top one. I had a day off work and so I decided to sleep in. Little did I know, that they were TESTING the fire alarms that morning! They didn’t give out any notice about it either. Being on the top bunk, the alarm was only a few feet from my head. Needless to say, I was very, very pissed.
Poor color choices.
I’m in college and so there’s a couple good stories about fire alarms. This one time, it went off at three in the morning because of the particle detector. This guy’s roommate evidently had farted, so he sprayed the room with Axe so much that it set it off. It was pretty hilarious, after we got back inside from the twenty degree weather.
Another time it was burnt easy mac. Not so easy, after all?
Ironically it’s always been the ‘good’ floor that’s set it off, not the pot-smoking one. I guess they’re a bit more cautious..
List of the best food ever
1. BACON
2. Chocolate
3. Waffles
4. Churros
5. Sushi
6. Pizza
7. Ice Cream
Idiot. you forgot orange chicken from panda express.
So true, there’s also fire drills.
What about the hairspray (sadly only guys caught that on fire), Idiots pulling the handle, or the dumbass next door neighbor that catches their micro-fridge on fire by putting a CAN of soup in the damned thing?
Oh, and the random electrical fires….Though Bacon is a HUGE cause of the alarms going off at my school…or the 6th floor girls being stupid while cooking…