the new Abby Cox video is so good and reminds me of the Spongebob Driver's License meme
"so everyone involved in this incident was likely tipsy or at the very least, tired (quite possibly both)?"
"yes"
"and the sort of crinoline most blamed for fire deaths- in unreliable news stories -wasn't even in fashion anymore?"
"yes"
"and Mary Wilde and her partner were dancing around the room at high speed, which can make even narrower skirts or men's tailcoats flare out and the trajectory of the couple difficult to control?"
"yes"
"and the servants had probably removed the grate from the fire to start banking it for the night, leaving the open flame unguarded?"
"yes"
"and there was more fire than usual involved in this party because it was Halloween?"
"yes"
"and Emily may have tried to beat out the fire with her own skirt, a plausible explanation for how it spread to her clothes as well?"
"yes"
"and both girls fell or were rolled down a hard stone staircase before they died, with no autopsy ever being performed on their bodies to rule out internal injuries from that as a cause of death?"
"yes"
"so wearing crinolines was barely a contributing factor, given everything else that went wrong."
"no it was definitely the crinolines' fault"
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