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[–] 102 points 3 months ago (24 children)

My 9 year old recently asked me what "stop-drop-and-roll" was and I explained it was if you were on fire and she gave me a really skeptical look and asked, "did that happen a lot when you were a kid?"

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Only needs to happen once in a lifetime. Grease fires are more common than you might think.

    I imagine someone who wasn't taught stop drop and roll would just run around panicking. But probably a lot of people who were taught it as well.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I imagine it was also more common when people regularly had fires in their own homes. I bought that same child a pair of pajamas as a toddler that had a million warning tags about keeping them away from open flames because they weren't flame resistant... Not a problem, I tended to keep my babies away from open flames regardless.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    My stepbrother was caught in a house fire as a teenager and he has third degree burn scars over like 60% of his body. Stop, drop and roll probably saved his life.

    So it does happen, but it's always like there's this person who knows this guy that it happened to and not like it happened to everyone.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Children are fantastic at injuring themselves. My oldest, now grown, really wanted to touch the candle flame. No amount of removing him from the situation and telling him it was hot stopped him from trying to touch the fire. He learned the hard way. If he had panicked I could see him lightning himself on fire.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It happened to me but that would have been the wrong reaction, tearing my overalls off was much more effective

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    [–] 41 points 3 months ago (37 children)

    The boomerfication of millennials is a sight to behold.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    "Dear fellas, I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry." - Brooks in The Shawshank Redemption.

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    [–] 21 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I've been in & out of institutions thanks to my addiction to phonics. School got me hooked on the stuff.

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    [–] 21 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Everything on this list is still being taught to my kids (NZ). Phonics is still the best way to teach reading. Every new stupid fad dies out and they come back to phonics.

    I'm pretty surprised they're learning cursive though. Wtf

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    I believe cursive is thaught because the hand makes repetitive movements that way, not because of how it looks. But since we barely need to write anything lengthy anymore i guess efficient writing isn't worth that much more than inefficient writing.

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    [–] 12 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Why is Stop Drop and Roll no longer being taught?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Far less open flames around your average household. Less fireplaces being used, electricity is far more available so it replaced candles, you don't see wood stoves pretty much ever anymore, and even gas stoves are being replaced with electric ones nowadays.

    Fire used to be far more prevalent. Prometheus would be sad, at least until he discovers the fire emoji and tinder.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Plus flame-retardants in children's clothes and furniture are way more common than they used to be. So kids are seeing fewer fires, and when they do, they're less likely to get lit up.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Exactly, thought of that after finishing the comment. That, fire extinguishers, houses being less prone to fires, fire and electric code updates, smoke and fire alarms being so prevalent now, there are fewer and fewer children going up in flames nowadays.

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

    They left out the duck and cover nuclear drills, analog black and white tv and rotary phones. Oh, and most house didn't have air conditioning.

    Edit: Oops. Never mind i was thinking of my childhood in the 60's.

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    As someone who had to learn cursive in school, I dropped that shit literally as soon as they said we didn't need to use it anymore. Good riddance.

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