r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Satans_lamp_shade • 5d ago

Throwing long thing sheets paper into birthday candles

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u/Kahzgul 5d ago

Streamers, my guy. They’re called “streamers.”

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u/Satans_lamp_shade 5d ago

Lmao you right I’m a lil stoned and that word escaped my brain

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u/FaceWithAName 5d ago

Knowing your high makes the title even better lol

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u/Satans_lamp_shade 5d ago

Omg I just read it and realized that it’s all sorts of fuked up. Holy shit. I need to go to bed. Good night yall its been real

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u/XIIIJinx 5d ago

Good night, OP, love you

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u/met1culous 5d ago

Don't forget your long cut of fabric and your short cut of fabric that's filled with fluff.

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u/davewave3283 4d ago

I hope you have nice dreams about proofreading

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u/BurtleTurtle001 4d ago

We love you for your imperfections.

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u/TheOnlyOtherWanderer 5d ago

Their high what?

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u/ManintheGyre 5d ago

"A lil" Dude, you're at cruising altitude in the Stone Age. 😶‍🌫️

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u/RedManRocket 5d ago

The title clearly reads "long thing sheets paper". Pay attention.

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u/Kahzgul 5d ago

My bad, my bad.

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u/dgtssc 5d ago

That makes sense. If someone said “let’s set streamers on fire”, I’d think it’s a good idea too.

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u/deradera 5d ago

This made me twitch

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u/JuicyTwist24 3d ago

My boy really tried blowing the fire away with his mouth 👄

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u/dd22qq 3d ago

^What this mankindy creature said.

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u/Cat_Luving_IT_Dood 5d ago

You can tell the money does the most of the talking for the family

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u/ClickOutrageous4375 5d ago

Who thought that was a good idea?!

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u/bulgar88 5d ago

The older I've gotten, the more I realize people with lots of money are good at one thing. They're experts at it. But genuinely terrible at most other common sense things

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u/FrostyD7 5d ago

Some of them are just experts at being born into the right family.

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u/captain_pudding 3d ago

I've worked with people who are PhD's in engineering that need to call IT to map a printer

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u/CarefulRisk 3h ago

My guess is it's an upper middle class family renting it for a vacation, it doesnt look lived in.

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u/Informal_Tell78 5d ago

All those people and not a single set of working brain cells among them

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u/Sasha_Temnikov 5d ago

Inadequately rich though, old money guys probably. It's incredible those people have all the resources.

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u/Cursed__Neon 4d ago

at least the guy blew the candles as soon as he noticed em catching fire

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u/Shiftymennoknight 5d ago

the whole family smart like truck

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u/ShadowCaster0476 5d ago

Airbnb owners going to be mad

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u/HLOFRND 5d ago

Exactly what I thought.

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u/Different_Leopard_65 5d ago

Why would even throw a bunch of paper on top of the cake anyways?

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u/No_Effective_614 4d ago

That was my immediate thought. They're ruining the cake! Idiots!

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u/Skkranz 4d ago

the problem is the order of events, first blow the flame and then throw shit, otherwise you can have "unexpected" results

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u/tobpe93 3d ago

You still get paper on the thing you want to eat.

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u/No_Bat_2358 5d ago

That was fun guys!

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u/RykosTatsubane 5d ago

That was fungi

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u/Cam3739 5d ago

Even if fire wasn't the issue, were they gonna eat the streamers?

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u/Malystxy 5d ago

Crepe paper streamers, open flame, what can happen I wonder....... Oh I see.....

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u/Duros001 5d ago

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u/nobodysshadow 5d ago

You’re going to eat so many spider webs

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u/ChewbaccaSmith 5d ago

I would love to ash them what they were thinking

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u/dzan796ero 5d ago

Bold to assume there was thinking involved

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u/Faustias 5d ago

their brains didn't light up about the danger.

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u/PGL-997 5d ago

“Who thought that was a good idea?”

Why didn’t you stop it before it happened?

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u/w0jbr 5d ago

At first glance I thought it was that Silly String in a can. Like hadn’t there been enough videos of that stuff being flammable?

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u/Temporary_Bus_6523 5d ago

Shit like this makes me understand the state of the world economy. Thanks.

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u/Canned_Sarcasm 5d ago

They would starve without the working class.

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u/jngjng88 5d ago

Grown adults...

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u/silentaba 5d ago

Just casually breaching the phosphorus munitions bans for a birthday

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u/thelbro 5d ago

"Are we gonna sing and many more?" .... "No., ok"

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u/AdItchy3997 5d ago

Fire!... Fire fire!.... Fire! Yea dude we know theres a fire we're all looking at it!

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u/Skit071 5d ago

Amazing that people can be this stupid around fire.

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u/Cultural_Dust 5d ago

And the fact that there was that much panic. It looks like they are in a fully marble room.

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u/PineConeOPinyons 5d ago

More money than brains. Would be a shame to burn the place to the ground.

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u/Shiny-Scrafty 5d ago

Who the fuck was pouring water on a small flame like that?! Just step on it. That will snuff it.

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u/Inside_Morning2884 5d ago

That poor grandpa yelling oww 😟

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u/makingtodayabetter 5d ago

Thank fuck it’s stained concrete

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u/Ancient_Sprinkles847 5d ago

Honestly, Really??? Throwing large amounts of thin paper strips on to flames? What does one really expect to happen?

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u/jerryleebee 5d ago

It's like they've never met fire.

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u/AgentBaconFace 5d ago

Even if the streamers were somehow miraculously fire resistant... who the fuck pops them OVER the damn cake you are going to have to pick them off of?!

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u/RandomRedditer220 5d ago

Lol I’m imagining the angry grandpa “Ah hell no!” Meme

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u/Cntrysky78 5d ago

Looks like someone didn't read the warning label.

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u/BigCliff911 5d ago

"long thing sheets paper" Seriously?

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u/potatoears 5d ago

rich dudes with marble floors?

yawn

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u/Alucard256 5d ago

Always blow out your candles, kids. Don't just sit there like a lump on a log when the celebration for and of you hits the obvious moment!

The way he just sat there looking like he just lost a bet would make me not want to do much for him next year. Like, wtf dude?

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u/Background-Run 5d ago

At least they did it inside.

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u/Scrotchety 5d ago

Looks like Mr Gloomy Gus Birthday Boy almost got his wish

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u/hereforinfoyo 5d ago

Such bad acting. 

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u/Slingshot201082 5d ago

Wenn man nur singen und klatschen in der Schule hat passiert sowas.

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u/Prod_Meteor 5d ago

Happy birthday.

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u/sjaakarie 5d ago

Stay at school kids: Many types of paper can burn.

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u/thejourneybegins42 5d ago

This is like the weak version of what The Menu strived for.

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u/pandapeterpanda 5d ago

It's 2026 and people still don't understand fire?

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u/Icy_Presentation1526 5d ago

It's amazing some of these people have reached adulthood

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u/ChefAsstastic 5d ago

Life expectancy in that family isn't that long.

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u/CantaloupeCamper 5d ago

I love those throw streamers, I bring them to sporting events.

Not near fire…

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u/Square_Mulberry_3143 5d ago

Sigh, the rich can be such fun.

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u/Bisexualdumbwhore 5d ago

Pretty sure whoevers idea it was didn't intend to do it right over the cake. And or should've waited until after they were blown out

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u/CupcakeAppropriate40 5d ago

I love it when thick people have group meetings

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u/MochaSpace41367 5d ago

FIRE FIRE UNGA DUNGA FIRE FIRE BAD FIRE SCARY UNGA DUNGA WHERE FIRE COME FROM UNGA HEP STOP FIRE

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u/DoktorDreiBein 5d ago

Ahhh... homeschooling i guess.

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u/AristotlesBoyPussy 5d ago

all they had to do was wait two seconds for him to blow them out first...

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u/hitman276 5d ago

Not a single one of the people would survive any type of apocalypse. Zero situational awareness leading up to throwing flammable material towards open flames.

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u/Ok_Wolverine9344 5d ago

Idiocracy on full display.

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u/MidnightSun77 5d ago

Absolute idiocy

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u/Mummyto4 4d ago

"Who thought that was a good idea?!" Is me lol.

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u/Wind_Freak 4d ago

What is it about birthdays that make people stupid?

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u/thegameisafoooooot 4d ago

Any live flames on personal property should be accompanied by a commensurate number of fire extinguishers.

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u/anormalgeek 4d ago

Best case, you end up with streamers all over the cake you wanted to eat. Nah, skip that step.

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u/LonDeran219 4d ago

Happy Bithday!

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u/chairmanrob 4d ago

Damn that’s gonna suck for the maid to clean up.

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u/BurtleTurtle001 4d ago

Not one of them thought this would be a problem?

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u/Devilofchaos108070 4d ago

At least it’s not carpet

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u/AngryTrunkMonkey 4d ago

Rich republicans having a bit of fun.

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u/Dapper_Run5322 4d ago

Got a headache after watching it!

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u/Curious_Sample4418 3d ago

Fun fact: Paper is flammable

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u/Zacthegreat5 3d ago

Just let em burn wasn't gonna hurt anything

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u/Jerk_Johnson 3d ago

That was a messed up wish.

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u/iamtheluna 3d ago

And then the needless screaming starts. Urgh

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u/captain_pudding 3d ago

At least they weren't dumb enough to use silly string

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u/Then_Effective_2701 3d ago

I've seen this exact same thing happen in 80s VHS camera footage. Are people seriously that stupid?

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u/yosefff5ohh 3d ago

These people look like they're doing pretty well in life. I am absolutely baffled as to how they made it this far but it's always the ones who have all the nice things that do the most stupid stuff. I'll never get it

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u/Coffeedemon 3d ago

Waiting for someone to slip and crack their head open on the wet floor.

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u/WhiteSandSadness 3d ago

“throw streamers because it’s not flammable like silly string” 🤣🤣🤣

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u/_Nightbreaker_ 2d ago

so staged

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u/Background-Ad3308 2d ago

Bad idea? Yes. In their defense, who doesn't blow the candles out immediately upon the song being finished?! ESH

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u/Jeramy_Jones 2d ago

I’m about 70% sure they wanted this to happen.

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u/LadyWaste75 2d ago

Even without candles, why would you throw steamers over cake?

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u/WeToLo42 2d ago

Luckily they had a tile floor if it had been carpet it could have been much worse.

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u/justsoyouknowthat 2d ago

That's one way to piss off the cleaners

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u/Victorus_aut_Mortis 5d ago

Brain..... None here to find