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me, an hour ago: "fuck, the stove is on! what do we do?" [immediately does all the wrong things]

PSA: What NOT to do when you smell gas

In this situation, we got home to a smell of gas throughout the house and discovered our gas stove was on without a flame. it was only a tiny stream, and everything turned out fine, but here's a brief list of everything we did wrong:

NOTE: this is for if you smell significant amounts of gas, not a blanket list for all possible gas situations. (If you aren't aware, the propane/natural gas used in houses smells vaguely like sulfer, or rotten eggs - this is an additive, since it has no natural smell. It's a very recognizable smell, once you've smelled it once. It's not the same smell as gasoline.)

1. If your stove has an electrical/spark ignition, do NOT turn it off.

Spark ignitions often spark when turning on *and* off. Spark + Gas = Boom. Boom is bad. Avoid boom.

Instead, turn off the gas at the source, i.e. the physical valve at the meter. There may be a smaller valve near the stove. If you don't know where the shutoff is, the fire department will find it.

2. Do NOT turn on (or off) vents or fans.

In fact, don't flip any electrical switches - that includes lights, plugging in or unplugging appliances, etc. These cause sparks. Spark + Gas = Boom.

Also, don't start your car. obviously.

3. Do NOT open windows

counterintuitive, I know. This is mostly because you want to prioritize your exit, but it's also to keep the fumes from spreading outside, where you should be waiting for the ~professionals~ to come handle it.

4. DO take all people and pets outside.

Do this very first!! (one thing we actually did right - go us!)

This is obviously because you don't want to go boom, but you also don't want to suffocate. Gas is poison!

NOTE: the gas from your stove is probably propane (natural gas); carbon monoxide is what you get when propane burns, which is why your kitchen needs to be well-ventilated and the stove shouldn't be left burning for long periods of time, but the natural gas itself is *also* potentially deadly. Carbon monoxide detectors dont detect natural gas, so that's what the odorous additive is for.

Inhaling natural gas causes nausea, headaches, dizziness, and makes you just generally woozy, and eventually causes you to lose consciousness and potentially suffocate, just like carbon monoxide does. We don't want that.

5. DO call the fire department/emergency line

They'll check for other leaks, shut gas off if needed, then test for air quality and eventually clear your house for reentry. It takes like 1-2 hours for the gas to dissipate, generally.

Yay, you survived! Congrats!!

NOTE: if you find the stove has been left on with a flame, or it's on with no flame but you don't smell gas, then you should be safe to just open windows and turn on vents and fans to air it out.

idk, this was actually pretty scary, especially when we realized how much of our immediate response was wrong and could have turned a dangerous situation into a real disaster.

tl;dr: If you smell gas when you shouldn't be smelling gas, just get all the people and animals outside, shut off the gas line, and call the fire department or gas company. don't fuck around with gas. you're not overreacting, you're taking the proper safety measures.

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prev ik exactly what you mean, that's awesomeee

I cannot remember what it was at the time you tagged me, so let's just go with the other Mass song that got stuck in my head, "Hail Mary, Gentle Woman" (banger for REAL)

currently it's Soon and Very Soon loll XD

doin open tags for now!! Hop in if you'd like :3

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If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

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Ah! Currently it is "Soon and Very Soon" because. Yes I just got home from Mass XD

They sang it out of the original key so it was like the one song in a key where my voice doesn't stray too low but also not so high as to mess me up lol

@saltedcaramelchaos @lost-to-the-wind-sometimes @starsbecoming and anyone who'd like to hop in :DD

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mutual complementing you moodboard

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"ph"

PFFTTTT I salute you O Lost Last Name o7

“your full name without an E,F,R,S,K,I,M,L,C,A,Y,N”

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i want. snumgles

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ah. that feeling when you get an instrumental song stuck in your head and now your vocal cords need to produce a 7-part harmony with Sir Bingo Bango Bongo on the drums over here, he lives in the corner

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Hello again!! Okok, so I have something? I decided to begin with Simplified Chinese, for simplicity's sake (ba-dum-tsh XD)

What I got after the usual Less-than Favoured Amount of Researching was that pronouns are decently simple, as you really only need to know the pronoun itself and you can then add men (们) to make them plural? And then possession of anything is signified with the preposition de (的) I think? So 'You all' and 'Mine' are solved I'd gander ^-^

And then for beloved: What I've usually done for I think all the other languages is I've used beloved as adjective formatting, mainly because some languages don't have an easy or clear-cut noun for beloved, that and I think even the English phrase "You are my beloved" implies the existence of the noun "one" after "beloved" (you are my beloved [one]) perhaps?? So I was just sorta running off of the very conveniently-placed part of the adjectives article in the Wiki that explained predicative adjective use, basically: No need to use the verb shì (是), but you can use it if you'd prefer an emphasis on the adjective? Also, for "beloved", I got a three-character thing that includes the possessive de (的), a noun, and a verb, so correct me if I did that one wrong lol- (I used Google Translate to procure me some semi-correct adjectives, but when I broke down the answer it gave me I found that it was indeed three 'things' strung together)

So overall, I ended up with the phrase 你们是钟爱的我的 (Nǐmen shì zhōng'ài de wǒ de), but there are some semi-obvious tells that worry me as to its inaccuracy, such as the repeated usage of the possessive de (的), and the fact that the adjective is so oddly long lol

Basically, this whole post is me telling you all I learned so I can be corrected XD 'cause goodness knows I feel veryyyy uneasy with how well I did

It's totally up to you if you wanna respond, just rambling about Chinese to you is fun :DD

(Also! I learned that the 'falling-and-rising' tone is VERYYY hard to pronounce for a newly-learning and American pupil loll- I watched a video that helped though ^-^ I can now say that I am a tad bit more confident in my Pinyin reading skills than ever before /silly)

hmmmm

how to find native speakers of a ton of languages is beyond me

i really do not trust my rapidly thrown-together phrases in different languages to be accurate at all

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its my moms birthday :D

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oh ok

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You have been booped by this empty wrapping paper tube.

Reblog to boop all of your followers with it.

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thinking about how fiona's bit in the first shrek movie about how ogres are so ugly and unlovable, which is overheard by shrek, is the perfect example of how self-deprecation can really harm not only the people around you who love and care for you, but also people who share the same characteristics that you are mocking in yourself

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Good ol' Phil :)

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I was just messing around trying to build up the willpower to write a paper for school, when I read these back and I was like, "woah"

so yeah, you guys get some words that just occurred (they're true by the way; you have done well)

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hoo boy, me is anxious as heck

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aha! food was about half the solution

less anxious now ^-^

hoo boy, me is anxious as heck

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hoo boy, me is anxious as heck