OT: Things One Qught Not Do Just Before Bed

Kamog · #1 March 19th, 2007, 01:36 AM

Just a few days ago, I was heating some soup on the stove and I started playing a game. By the time I remembered to check the soup, all the water that was in the soup was gone and the dried-up remnants of the soup was half-burned.

Another time, I was boiling a pot of water, but by mistake I turned on the wrong burner on the stove, one which happened to have the aluminum lid for the pot sitting on it. I walked away to play a game and then after a while I noticed a burning smell so I went to the kitchen. The lid was completely melted. Molten aluminum was dripping into the spill tray. It was hard to clean and the house smelled like burning for a few days after that.

AgentZero · #2 March 19th, 2007, 02:11 AM

Molten aluminum was difficult to clean up? The hell you say!

On a completely unrelated note, I find it most amusing that the Irish insert an extra 'I' in aluminum, pronouncing it aluMINIum. I don't know why that's relavent, but it's funny.

No, really, it is.

Randallw · #3 March 19th, 2007, 02:36 AM

I find it strange that americans DON'T pronounce it Aluminium like it's supposed to be.

AgentZero · #4 March 19th, 2007, 02:54 AM

Oh noes! Not the Aussies too! And who are you calling American?
slaps Randallw around with a wet fish
Wikipedia articles exist for both Aluminum and Aluminium. I'm sure there's a great story behind that discrepancy, I'm just to tired {AND CLEAN!) to find it.

Kamog · #5 March 19th, 2007, 03:11 AM

Well, I'm in Canada and in school we always learned the spelling as aluminum, without the extra 'i' and most people I know say aluminum as well.

There have been arguments at work with our British coworkers about this as well as other discrepancies.

AgentZero · #6 March 19th, 2007, 03:18 AM

Like oregano?

Randallw · #7 March 19th, 2007, 04:28 AM

If it's an Irish pronounciation then probably it's that way here because of Australias huge Irish heritage. I for one am part Irish, but then I'm also part German, French, Scottish., and probably quite a few other ethnicities.

Edit: according to Wikipedia the US used to pronounce it properly but changed when someone put out a catalogue without adequately spell checking.

phalzyr · #8 March 30th, 2007, 10:54 AM

Randallw: i find it strange that you think it is strange. Don't you know americans enough by now to not think it is strange for us to do things differently?