The 10th time you need to think about who is after revenge and where would they have hidden the fish

Gives a whole new meaning to: That smells fishy....

now im going to always be paranoid.

I wasn't sure about believing this but found a legit looking source. Didn't know this but seems legit. https://energytoday.biz/blog/this-weird-smell-means-your-home-is-in-danger-of-an-electrical-fire

I can attest to this one- we had some electrical connections on our furnace heat up and begin to slowly release an odd smell- fortunately it shorted out BEFORE catching fire. The service Technician showed us the melted connection- LUCKY< LUCKY < LUCKY.

Yeah for me it was because my 7 year old peed in a cup and hid it under the sink for several days…

I am so paranoid about these things that I run my hands over outlets, switches, and the lines of the wires in the walls to check for warmth. Just in case.

smell like fish? Like in fish market? Or a burned fish? or grill fish? or....

This happened to me. It was inside our water heater so we couldn't see it or any smoke, it was just a bad smell. A friend was staying over and woke me up at 3am. Thank goodness!

If my house smells like fish I'm gone. I hate that smell. I hate it even more now that I know this.

Found this one out the hard way when an outlet shorted out and torched my brand new bed that I only got to sleep in ONCE.

Well this sucks for 2 reasons: 1) I never usr the kitchen (I rent a room in a large house) so it might very well smell like fish because of what people cooked before I got home 2) I have allergies and asthma and a lot of the times I can't really smell too great

My house kinda smell like fish rn...

what if ur house smells like dead bodies then what

1/10 be cooking those yummy fish sticks

Tell me about it .. living next to a Fish restaurant!

But #10 means you p****d off your neighbor and he didn't invite you to his fish fry.

Could also mean your dog has a bladder infection. Sometimes, their pee smells like tuna.

Electric + Heat = Fish (..?)

But I was cooking fish on the wires

And if it smells like burnt toast, it's a stroke

I dunno, to me it was more of an ozone-ish smell. Didn't remind me of fish at all. But then again, it didn't turn into a full blown fire and just shorted out two rooms.

Electrofireying!

Strange, but good to know. I have an eerie feeling that advice is going to come in very handy one of these days.

Omg!!! Thank you!!!! I needed this!!!!

Did not know that. Now I do

So what is it the 10th time?

Fish and/or the taste of a 9volt battery. Those of us who liked one... Know what it will smell like. Kinda fishy-metalic.

9 times out of 10? I would think unnoticed dropped or forgotten food would be a more common cause, and surely if something actually catches fire the most noticeable smell would be burning/ smoke? I thankfully haven't had an electrical fire, but if something electrical overheats to the point of emitting a noticeable smell, in my experience it just smells like burning plastic.

What?

And the tenth time? You forgot to put the leftovers in the fridge...

True. When I was in college the house smelled like fish for no reason. A year later the central switchboard melted and almost got fire.

It's the plasticizers that cause the fishy odour

it's usually someone in the kitchen microwaving a fish curry, and it's at the office

The 1/10 is because the cat found your lunch.

Or some godless heathen put fish in the microwave!? 🤔

Fish? So, it's not because the neighbours are having delicious fish barbecue?

There are additional components in electrical insulation for this exact reason.

If an electrical fire smells like fish, I feel like someone needs to go sniff a few more fish. I've smelled many a wire as it melted or actually caught on fire and I would never describe it as fishy.

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Or possibly someone didn't wash downtown.

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Nope, 9 times out of 10 my wife left the dirty plates in the sink for no reason.