OT: Things One Qught Not Do Just Before Bed

[AgentZero]

Decide to pop into these forums 'just to see what's happening'. I'm quite sozzled and should have gone to sleep a few hours ago, yet here I am, going on a mad postathon.

[capnq]

Atrocities said: 3. Start a game of Space Empires

This is also a good one to avoid while waiting for a pot to boil.

Fortunately, I noticed the change in sound when it transititioned from boil to fry.

[Kamog]

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]

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]

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

[AgentZero]

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]

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]

Like oregano?

[Randallw]

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.

[Renegade 13]

Bah. Aluminum just sounds better than aluminium.

Canadian pronunciation > those other people's pronunciation