Maybe they're messing with the figures...

but in respective transatlantic informercials, i've been told that in Britain, the leading cause of house fires is, [sic] chip fires (as squalid as it sounds, if ten mansions in Belsize Park go up in flames, like six of them will be from chip fires. Right...) And that in America, the leading cause of house fires is dryer fires - meaning the ones that start from not cleaning out the lint compartment in before you load the machine. But what does this mean? You'd think the Americans would get into more trouble for deep frying all the time, and the British that eat and fry chips in their own houses and who really don't seem to care how they leave the house looking would appear to be more conscientious about reading the care labels on their clothes. I watched the weakest link today and did laundry, so maybe that's what they do over there. It certainly provides enough brakes in which to go and check lint build up.