Having lived near seaside towns for decades, old victorian hotels/pubs etc. going up in flames to be replaced with flats is pretty much the endgame of most owners coming to the end of squeezing the life out of their properties.
It truly is amazing how many of them go up.
Thing about pubs. All that liquid around, plus the decades of piss and vomit in the carpets, you’d expect them to be almost completely fireproof. Yet they seem to have this awful habit of randomly going up in the night. When nobody’s there to cause a fire. When nobody’s there to die in one.
It’s almost like the sentient fire decides how best to destroy property without destroying people… and knows how to seek out the effective accelerants on the top shelf. Sure, I know to aim for the good stuff, too, and ignore (ew) beers and ciders, but I’m notably not fire (though some weirdo might think I’m hot. Usually a man, and usually only after aiming for the good stuff). Many would argue that I’m supposed to be sentient, for a start.
Is it too much to ask that people don’t burn down our countries heritage for a quick buck?
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Having lived near seaside towns for decades, old victorian hotels/pubs etc. going up in flames to be replaced with flats is pretty much the endgame of most owners coming to the end of squeezing the life out of their properties.
It truly is amazing how many of them go up.
Thing about pubs. All that liquid around, plus the decades of piss and vomit in the carpets, you’d expect them to be almost completely fireproof. Yet they seem to have this awful habit of randomly going up in the night. When nobody’s there to cause a fire. When nobody’s there to die in one.
It’s almost like the sentient fire decides how best to destroy property without destroying people… and knows how to seek out the effective accelerants on the top shelf. Sure, I know to aim for the good stuff, too, and ignore (ew) beers and ciders, but I’m notably not fire (though some weirdo might think I’m hot. Usually a man, and usually only after aiming for the good stuff). Many would argue that I’m supposed to be sentient, for a start.
Is it too much to ask that people don’t burn down our countries heritage for a quick buck?