Die in a fire OR What I learned from World of Warcraft

[Don Coyote]

The early part gets bogged down in ALL CAPS and WoW specific speak.  The point / moral is correct motorcycle.

Yeah.

In which case I'd say, redo the whole piece because the "Fire" analogy is nonsense as well, spoken by someone who apparently only knows fire from movies and computer games:

When someone tells you to die in a fire they are most likely telling you both die in a fire and that they think you are fucking toolbag dumb enough to actually stand in a FUCKING FIRE until you die.

No, dying in a fire usually goes like this: You go to bed, sleep, your house is burning, nobody saves you, you die of CO poisoning, your body burns to a crisp. Notice the lack of "standing around in a FUCKING FIRE until you die". It's why they invented smoke detectors.

So, once and a while. Stop look around, make sure you aren't in the FireTM and see what else is going on in your life. Tunnel vision kills. And it doesn't always kill you.

Die in a fire or don't. You can choose. You just need to wake up and pay attention.

"You just need to wake up" is truly the most useless and idiotic suggestion to prevent death by fire I have EVER heard.
Although "once in a while, stop and look around to make sure your house is not on fire" really comes to a close second.

Now since this thread isn't about fire prevention methods, I'm just going to leave it at that if you want an analogy for something that slowly kills you because you're not paying any attention right up until it is too late, fire is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind.

Um, he's referring to World of Warcraft, where you can in fact stand in a fire until you die, without even realizing it.

Which I said. In the rant. And then I said the Fire^tm isn't always fire. Once again it's talking about the typeface.

This was also a partial explanation of what it means when someone tells you to die in a fire.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I love posting population figures.  Nobody ever wants to even look at them.   

It's true.

Let me try.

HOLY FUCK 200 BABIES PER MINUTE WHAAAAAAT

OMG WHAT SHOULD BE DO?

SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT

*STARTS STOMPING OUT THE FIRE BABIES*

No but seriously. No actually the above is not at all un-serious. I know the figures. Seven billion plus two hundred a minute. They actually do scare me every time, but apart from that, I really have no fucking idea how to meaningfully act upon that information.

Yeah, it's what I call bad signal.  It's correct information, but it's of no use.

The Boston Museum of Science has one of these clocks, probably outdated now, where it measures deaths on one dial and birth on another.  I can distinctly remember being a kid and watching that clock thinking "...uh, isn't this going to be a problem?"   

You too? 

[Kai]

I love posting population figures.  Nobody ever wants to even look at them.   

It's true.

Let me try.

HOLY FUCK 200 BABIES PER MINUTE WHAAAAAAT

OMG WHAT SHOULD BE DO?

SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT

*STARTS STOMPING OUT THE FIRE BABIES*

No but seriously. No actually the above is not at all un-serious. I know the figures. Seven billion plus two hundred a minute. They actually do scare me every time, but apart from that, I really have no fucking idea how to meaningfully act upon that information.

Yeah, it's what I call bad signal.  It's correct information, but it's of no use.

The Boston Museum of Science has one of these clocks, probably outdated now, where it measures deaths on one dial and birth on another.  I can distinctly remember being a kid and watching that clock thinking "...uh, isn't this going to be a problem?"   

You too? 

These two dials should be everywhere.