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Well...naahhhh...

Yes you do.

It's why I came back.

Actually it's because I remembered I left my roofies on the table and I need them for the next time I go out.

Nobody touched them right?

I gave them all to Sponge Tom but somehow he just kept posting anyway.
Of course if he's posting unconscious that would explain the slight increase of the quality of his posts.

I don't understand. If you double-post after a few minutes, it combines your posts.
But if you double-post by clicking the post button twice after only a few microseconds, it posts twice‽

This post has been edited by Rickton: 28 June 2009 - 02:07 PM

Yes, what's not to understand?

Sometimes it deletes your posts altogether...

It's OK, Undead. We all know just like to increase you post count.

Do you now see the madness you've started, prophile‽‽‽

SQUEAK! said the Death of Rats, who always wins its game.

Either you just messed up that sentence or you just called me a post count...



I'm offended either way

I like to think it was a little of both.

Edit: That means you're twice as offended as you otherwise would be, right?

This post has been edited by Sponge Tom: 28 June 2009 - 07:13 PM

My crim law professor (who sounded exactly like Sarah Palin if you closed your eyes) pronounced 'pedophile' "peed-o-fill." It is pronounced, of course, "peh-duh-file" (or "pee-dough-pee-ley" if you're a ridiculous latin-type). Once we figured out what the ###### she was trying to say, we all had a hard time not keeling over with laughter (mainly because she would get really pissed off if we were to suddenly start to laugh in the middle of a discussion of pedophilia).

This all goes to show that prominent scholars don't necessarily know how to pronounce words directly related to their scholarship. It also goes to show that I never thought I'd get so many rubber bands with the chocolate syrup.

-Pufer

Never mind your professors, your entire population pronounces things in a truly messed up way.

What's illuminum when it's at home for example?

Bricks!

Doris!

I honestly don't know what the hell you're talking about here. Aluminum? At the risk of walking into a setup, how/why does aluminum change when it's at home?

Aluminum/aluminium is a color/colour thing, rather than a pronunciation thing. The guy who came up with the stuff - a Brit, himself - called it aluminum (like platinum, lanthanum, molybdenum, and tantalum) because it made sense.

Modern convention states that the oxide of any metal is the stem-plus-a. Thorium --> thoria, magnesium --> magnesia, lanthanum --> lanthana, etc.

Aluminum oxide is not aluminia, it's alumina - there's no question about that one, everyone uses alumina. For whatever reason, you Brits have decided that aluminium --> alumina, which just doesn't make any sense. Aluminum --> alumina. The base is alumin, not alumini. Alumini wouldn't be a stem, but a different word (like alumni, which is not the plural of alumnius, but of alumnus).

Actually, it wasn't done for "whatever reason," it was done for the pure and explicit reason that that aluminium sounds more pretentious and "classical" than aluminum, the correct and original word. Some bunch of mustachioed silly English types sat around being idle in a room back in the 1800s and decided that they wouldn't sound pompous enough saying 'aluminum' while traipsing around in their silly uniforms in their traditional knees-bent, running-about, advancing behavior, so they added a superfluous 'i.' Americans and Canadians laughed, whereas the French thought it was a great idea - being completely ridiculous themselves - and did it as well.

The strangest part of that last bit, of course, is that it is entirely true. The superfluous 'i' only exists in the British spelling of aluminum because the British powers-that-be are pretentious boobs.

-Pufer

This post has been edited by Pufer: 29 June 2009 - 10:43 PM

Mmmmm boobs.

I was talking about the pronunciation of the word, actually.

But you guys do use some stupid names for things.

On the subject of Aluminum/Aluminium, did you know that it can be extracted from grass, it is the most common metal on earth, but was only 'discovered' in 1822 and you and Canada are the only people in the world that don't put that 'i' in there

On the subject of Canada, did you know that Canada has never started a war, nor a war for a Canadian cause and the uranium in the atom bombs dropped in Japan was supplied by Canada...

I concur.

Iron is the most abundant metal in the Earth (as in, if you melted down the entire Earth, core and all) but aluminum is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, followed by oxygen, which is number 1, and silicon, which is number 2.


[citation needed]


One of the atom bombs dropped on Japan used plutonium, which is an entirely different animal, and I'd like to know your source for where the uranium for our bombs came from as well; there's a uranium mine and distillery about 20 miles west of where I live, and I know there are several uranium mines scattered throughout the US, primarily in Colorado, Nevada (most of it was put there by nuclear tests, or so the legends go) Wyoming, Idaho, North Dakota...

http://twitter.com/qikipedia

Obviously they are wrong too, because the bomb dropped on Nagasaki used plutonium, not uranium.

No, it's, "I just accidentally the whole game." If you're going to meme do it right DOMMOT FRONK!

I just accidentally WHOLE the Hamster.

Well, that explains the cardboard tube and all the strange sounds.