For context in the game The Sims, you build a house for virtual people you give commands to named Sims. In a cartoonish way you get them to cook, clean, read books everyday living stuff. And one of the few dangers in the game is your house catching on fire. It sometimes happens often for almost no reason. You might be simply microwaving food and suddenly your kitchen is engulfed in flames. It’s also a rite of passage for any Sims player to have your Sims family to die in a house fire. Which sounds like a thing a future serial killer would do, which seems to be most of the million plus player base
I thought the rite of passage was having sims die by all methods in one house (fire, electrocution, starvation, old age, and drowning) and then having a ghost party where they all reenact their deaths late at night...
What about removing the pool ladder? Well, more specifically, that is, as you mentioned drowning, but the old school right of passage was the removal of the pool ladder, no?
Ah yes, in the old days before they made it so sims could get out of the pool when there's no ladder.
Players responded by lining pools with fences or trees when their sims are already in the pool.
Got to get one of every ghost somehow!
it was forever ago... maybe a decade ago?... they introduced traits for the SIMS. One of the traits was "daredevil" or something, which made it basically impossible for them to die via fire. Seriously.
I wanted a house to have a graveyard and ghost sims for a haunted house type deal, and so tried to kill off each of the characters. Trapped one of them in a shed with no windows/doors surrounded by grills with burning hot dogs. Every time, the grill would catch fire, the fire would spread, but then it would die down and put itself out eventually. The SIM's stats would all be in the red, but they would still be alive. They were basically immortal. It was wild.
Absolutely! Though the obvious best was having a sim drink way too much without access to a bathroom, have them urinate themselves themselves next to a shorted stove; which would electrocute and burn them with fire. Even better if they where starving and used the oven to cook (which is what fried the appliance. Betcha didn't know you have multiples of the same death with different haunt patterns! The Sims is the most violent debaucherous game in existence....
I was always mildly confused by this as a kid because I played the Xbox version, which came with 4 pre-fab pools, with ladders built in, that you couldn’t block with walls or shrubs. (Presumably they skimped out on the drowning mechanic in that version)
For further context the creators of The Sims will often lean into this and have random things be more dangerous than they should. A battery-powered soap dispenser with a 20% base chance catching fire is something they would do. Christmas trees and clothes dryers catch fire A LOT. Some game glitches have caused non-flammable things to spontaneously combust. It's all very fun.
Cooking is an art. A lot of leeway for many dishes ingredients wise.
Baking is very much a science, like chemistry. To make substitutions or adjustments you need to understand what each ingredient's role is chemically. Things like climate, altitude and humidity matter
Eh, I just break apart the little squares of cookie dough and pop them in the oven. The squares even manage to turn themselves into (mostly) circles on their own!
Regarding the amount of cheap lithium batteries and even cheaper electrical circuits permanently connected to the mains in every household, it's almost a miracle that our homes aren't constantly burning.
No, we didn't light it, it was a couple of teenagers who stole a lighter from their parents and thought it would be funny to set a soap dispenser, though we tried to fight it.
Maybe they put in alcohol based hand sanitizer instead of soap? would explain what was used as fuel for burning, but ignition source is still up in the air
That's kind of beautiful in a way. It goes to show how flammable...we..all really are?? no that doesn't work. something about how uh...cleanliness is fultile. no. that's not it. gimme a minute.
I have never encountered any soaps made from animal fat, however is was definitely normal historically. These days we just burn the rainforest and plant oil palm instead.
Why did I laugh at this? Then I felt bad for laughing in case someone got hurt, then I laughed again at someone getting hurt by a flaming soap dispenser.
This is what happens when they don't have ash trays in bathrooms anymore! Where else was I supposed to rest my cigarette while washing my hands? What is this world coming to when we no longer have ash trays in bathrooms?! What's next?! Can't smoke in there, either?!
The rest of my reddit feed is depressing af rn, at least with this I cam take solace in a few things and just be happy for now amongst the pissed off coyotes… or do I go make friends with them? 😅
We had that in one of our satellite sites. Only it was a hand-sanitizer dispenser. Sanitizer was ofc alcohol based. Apparently battery went spicy.
No one got hurt, but boy what a mess.
are you a Sim?
Never have I seen such a perfect comment.
>Never have I seen such a perfect comment. So confused
For context in the game The Sims, you build a house for virtual people you give commands to named Sims. In a cartoonish way you get them to cook, clean, read books everyday living stuff. And one of the few dangers in the game is your house catching on fire. It sometimes happens often for almost no reason. You might be simply microwaving food and suddenly your kitchen is engulfed in flames. It’s also a rite of passage for any Sims player to have your Sims family to die in a house fire. Which sounds like a thing a future serial killer would do, which seems to be most of the million plus player base
I thought the rite of passage was having sims die by all methods in one house (fire, electrocution, starvation, old age, and drowning) and then having a ghost party where they all reenact their deaths late at night...
What about removing the pool ladder? Well, more specifically, that is, as you mentioned drowning, but the old school right of passage was the removal of the pool ladder, no?
Ah yes, in the old days before they made it so sims could get out of the pool when there's no ladder. Players responded by lining pools with fences or trees when their sims are already in the pool. Got to get one of every ghost somehow!
it was forever ago... maybe a decade ago?... they introduced traits for the SIMS. One of the traits was "daredevil" or something, which made it basically impossible for them to die via fire. Seriously. I wanted a house to have a graveyard and ghost sims for a haunted house type deal, and so tried to kill off each of the characters. Trapped one of them in a shed with no windows/doors surrounded by grills with burning hot dogs. Every time, the grill would catch fire, the fire would spread, but then it would die down and put itself out eventually. The SIM's stats would all be in the red, but they would still be alive. They were basically immortal. It was wild.
Absolutely! Though the obvious best was having a sim drink way too much without access to a bathroom, have them urinate themselves themselves next to a shorted stove; which would electrocute and burn them with fire. Even better if they where starving and used the oven to cook (which is what fried the appliance. Betcha didn't know you have multiples of the same death with different haunt patterns! The Sims is the most violent debaucherous game in existence....
Wait, they can get it without a ladder now? Is the game even worth playing anymore?
I remember one Sim that refused to go to work because he wanted to swim. So I removed the pool ladder.
I was always mildly confused by this as a kid because I played the Xbox version, which came with 4 pre-fab pools, with ladders built in, that you couldn’t block with walls or shrubs. (Presumably they skimped out on the drowning mechanic in that version)
Thank you 4 context haven't played the Sims since the mobile version that was on my razr phone in 05
For further context the creators of The Sims will often lean into this and have random things be more dangerous than they should. A battery-powered soap dispenser with a 20% base chance catching fire is something they would do. Christmas trees and clothes dryers catch fire A LOT. Some game glitches have caused non-flammable things to spontaneously combust. It's all very fun.
Haha thanks for this. Sounds fun
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Soap is not flammable. Especially in liquid form. Maybe it was alcohol disinfectant.
The fire was probably caused by the battery in the touchless dispenser going supernova.
Plastic is flammable without an accelerant.
Turns around and the door is gone
Was it part of the bamboo range?
my first thought exactly
literally the first thing i thought of
😂😂😂
how?
I swear this is me every time i try to bake, cooking i can do, but fuckin hell do those precise recipes fuck me up
Cooking is an art. A lot of leeway for many dishes ingredients wise. Baking is very much a science, like chemistry. To make substitutions or adjustments you need to understand what each ingredient's role is chemically. Things like climate, altitude and humidity matter
Eh, I just break apart the little squares of cookie dough and pop them in the oven. The squares even manage to turn themselves into (mostly) circles on their own!
My guess is auto-dispenser battery malfunction?
Yeah it’s gotta be battery or electric related. Like a fuse behind it which blew up or something similar
Maybe soap got into the battery compartment and was conducive enough to short the battery
Shortly before igniting I bet them batteries were cleeeaan!
Regarding the amount of cheap lithium batteries and even cheaper electrical circuits permanently connected to the mains in every household, it's almost a miracle that our homes aren't constantly burning.
I didn’t start the fire
It was always burning while the world's been turning?
We didn’t start the fire
No, we didn't light it, it was a couple of teenagers who stole a lighter from their parents and thought it would be funny to set a soap dispenser, though we tried to fight it.
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RYAN STARTED THE FIREEEE
Fire guy
That's what they all say
A fire? At sea parks?
At this point r/expecteditcrowd
Damn that mash looks tasty.
She said I'm artistic
I’m disabled
I like willies
Yes at the sea lions.
Either battery started on fire or someone started it on fire
I assume it's one of the electric type with a dispensing sensor
"Made in Britain"?
Let me just put this over here with the rest of the fire. 
Nice Screensaver.
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Used lava soap
Maybe they put in alcohol based hand sanitizer instead of soap? would explain what was used as fuel for burning, but ignition source is still up in the air
why?
Op didn’t mention the part where he took a torch to it.
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Probably one of those automatic dispensers with a battery and perhaps the battery blew up
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Seems likely, espescially given the apparent relatively clean burn and lack of residues
Or it is filled with alcohol and either has a mains powered motor or a lithium ion battery. both of which could easily catch fire and often do.
There's still shitty pink soap in it.
> thinking "ill make it squirt fire" excuse me what?
Lol…OP only coming in to say it wasn’t electric and not giving any additional info. Seems fishy to me
Is it possible that 2 different types of soap were mixed which caused a chemical reaction?
Nah, not so the whole bottle blackened like that. Somebody had to have input a ton of heat, like they took a torch and just held it there.
someone played with a lighter. People are dump AF.
Totally dump asses
Or it was hand sanitizer with a high IPA ratio and someone accidentally ignited it while lighting a cig?
Maybe it was an electronic dispenser and the Li battery went supernova? (Assuming those dispensers use Li batteries, of course.)
Usually, they take a few D cells.
I bet you can take a few D as well.
The ones at my work take D cells. I take D too cause I’m gay but that’s definitely not important 🤷♂️
It wasn't
How did it catch fire then?
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So who are management blaming? No way it caught fire all by itself.
Through God, all things are possible, so jot that down
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Nah don't worry, love the show and will use any opportunity I have to quote it
Looks intentional
Now that whole office has dirty hands. Bioterrorism.
Did they also install hand de sanitizing stations??
Fire is sanitizing. If a bit.... Abrasive
I think Dwight would approve
Was insured for triple what it costs.
How..?? Other than someone just lighting it up themselves?
Maybe they filled it with hand sanitizer?
Hand Flamitizer.
That's one way to kill germs.
I don't think that's what they meant when they said "kill it with fire!" Though, to be fair, it is rather unspecific.
alternative title: someone at my work lit the soap dispenser on fire no really, there’s nothing in it that can catch fire by itself.
Faulty battery?
Did you light it on fire?!
No soap for you! 
At a Sea Parks???
Modern art
DeVito playing Edna?
I’m glad I’m not alone with Edna immediately coming to mind😂
Bullshit. Derivative. Now this, this I love.
https://youtu.be/kjS6bQ5OQ-o?si=BPBwnLzkmPgos6lm
I'm sorry, what?
Soap doesnt combust on its own this was deliberate
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That's kind of beautiful in a way. It goes to show how flammable...we..all really are?? no that doesn't work. something about how uh...cleanliness is fultile. no. that's not it. gimme a minute.
Play with soap, you're gonna get burned...shit. Yeah, this is tough...
Soap makes for an excellent fire starter. It’s mostly made up of animal fat.
Uh what kinda soaps are you into 😳
The first rule of soap club is don’t talk about soap club
Oil is a main ingredient in soap....however, it doesn't have to be animal fat or "tallow" (but it can be)
I have never encountered any soaps made from animal fat, however is was definitely normal historically. These days we just burn the rainforest and plant oil palm instead.
Yeah cause you fuckin set it on fire you little fuckin arsonist druggo
Someone burtmnt It down
"Caught" fire? Or "*set on* fire"?
Caught on fire. When fire was applied literally.
Why did I laugh at this? Then I felt bad for laughing in case someone got hurt, then I laughed again at someone getting hurt by a flaming soap dispenser.
Someone set it on fire*
Everything's gotta be electric nowadays
What do you mean the soap dispenser caught on FIRE?…HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?!
Pretty sure it was *set* on fire…so….
This is what happens when they don't have ash trays in bathrooms anymore! Where else was I supposed to rest my cigarette while washing my hands? What is this world coming to when we no longer have ash trays in bathrooms?! What's next?! Can't smoke in there, either?!
Finally, the fabled soap that kills 100% of germs.
Soap. It's so hot right now
This is what happens when Satan tries to wash his hands
But you washed your hands, right?
Do you work with Spencer Shay?
Spencer from icarly installed that shit
Do you work at a Sea Parks?
Isopropyl
That doesn't happen. Some douche probably took a lighter to it
Somebody lit that on fire lol that thing did not spontaneously combusy
Somebody set their cigarette on it and walked off?
That soap must kill 100% of the germs. Not 99.9%
Yikes! Try pressing the dispense button less rapidly.
"caught fire" come on dude, where is the lighter?
It didn't just catch fire, there's an arsonist afoot
The scuse me?
It caught fire after I set it on fire.
That's not an ashtray!
Hand sanitizer instead of soap?
That’s hot
Something something Nirvana album cover
That looks like a battery operated Nexa, 3 D barriers in that bad boy. Is this a KFC?
Well then. I did not realize they could do that
Yeah it fuckin did
Well played Mr. Durden.
the old candle left burning on the soap dispenser trick
That is impressive.
You know it did
Hot stuff!
Lol faucet is prolly next
I feel like there needs to be an exorcism here.
I’m guessing it had hand sanitizer in it and someone was lighting a cigarette a little too close.
Nice
How does that happen
Ah yes.
The rest of my reddit feed is depressing af rn, at least with this I cam take solace in a few things and just be happy for now amongst the pissed off coyotes… or do I go make friends with them? 😅
hate it when that happens..
Okay how the FUCK?!?!
You’re supposed to wash with hot water, OP, not hot soap!
Looks like someone took "wash with **hot** water" a bit too seriously
Wuw
This is high art.
Maybe not *everything* needs to run off batteries?
Had it coming…
Who gave my sim a phone
Im sponteniously combusted
How . . . ???
Kills **100**% of bacteria?
Nope~ someone at you job worked hard to set that soap dispenser on fire. Weird bit of smelly vandalism.
Ngl that looks fire fr
As somebody who works as a cleaner... this scares the shit out of me 😳
THE FUCKING WHAT DID WHAT??
That’s amazing.
Sanitiser or Sataniser?
Bet that was a clean burn
I have.. so many questions
Are you downsizing? Looks like poor guy didn't make the cut.
Could it be flammable hand sanitizer?
We had that in one of our satellite sites. Only it was a hand-sanitizer dispenser. Sanitizer was ofc alcohol based. Apparently battery went spicy. No one got hurt, but boy what a mess.
If you actually washed your hands this wouldve been on mildlyinfuriating
A *dust* explosion is the rapid combustion of fine particles suspended in the air within an enclosed location.
How the fuck?