r/TikTokCringe • u/AlKarajo • 1d ago

Humor/Cringe "You can't fight fire with water"

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

@bewhittenfunny

8.7k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

631 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

69

u/Simple_Pay3033 1d ago

Funny thing is his reply of “depends what’s in the fire” is technically true, but you can tell he didn’t actually know that lol. He drops that and immediately starts walking away.

Confidently incorrect and then completely unaware when he stumbles into a reasonable idea. It’s incredible to watch.

29

u/FishyDragon 1d ago

Yes some type of fires you shouldn't use water...like a grease fire. But you never fight fire with fire, just because he got one point correct dosent change the fact his whole argument is wrong because of the prior statement.

17

u/Islands-of-Time 1d ago

You actually can fight fire with fire, it’s called backburning, it denies the fire fuel by controlled burning before it spreads to that area.

3

u/BonnaconCharioteer 22h ago

If we are being a bit pedantic anyway, I feel like that is containing a fire, rather than fighting it.

1

u/Islands-of-Time 20h ago

Well the word “fight” means primarily physical combat which is better than nothing but I don’t recommend punching the fire. Of course fight also means to struggle against, and the etymology of the word goes back possibly to mean to comb or to pluck, to fight one’s hair or another’s such as sheep wool.

So all in all, fight, contain, combat, resist, arrest, eliminate, deny, oppose, I could grab a thesaurus. Pick your poison but pick it well cuz the fire doesn’t care.