The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread
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@Karla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@PleegWat said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@HardwareGeek I know ~30 years ago on vacation in France when tap water was chlorinated my mum would boil it before use. Or rather, only use tap water when it would need to be boiled anyway like for tea, and use bottled water otherwise.
Don't know how true, but I remember hearing that just leaving the water exposed to the air will reduce the chlorine.
That's because chlorination is via hypochlorous acid, which breaks down into chlorine gas eventually. Chloride ions, well, don't. they're quite stable and nonreactive (being noble gas-like electronically).
By definition, a filter can't remove dissolved substances by mechanical action. There are chemical "filters" that can, by causing reactions to create insoluble compounds which then can get mechanically removed.
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@El_Heffe said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
My whole family is in this post.
Depending upon the sitch, my husband and I could go either way.
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@Karla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
my husband and I could go either way.
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@Karla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@PleegWat said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@HardwareGeek I know ~30 years ago on vacation in France when tap water was chlorinated my mum would boil it before use. Or rather, only use tap water when it would need to be boiled anyway like for tea, and use bottled water otherwise.
Don't know how true, but I remember hearing that just leaving the water exposed to the air will reduce the chlorine.
Dissolved Cl2, but not ionic Cl. Some O2 Cl ion surface action driving some Cl towards Cl2
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@Karla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@PleegWat said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@HardwareGeek I know ~30 years ago on vacation in France when tap water was chlorinated my mum would boil it before use. Or rather, only use tap water when it would need to be boiled anyway like for tea, and use bottled water otherwise.
Don't know how true, but I remember hearing that just leaving the water exposed to the air will reduce the chlorine.
Don't know how true, but I remember hearing (from a TV detective show, so take it with a lot of NaCl) that if a person drowns in a swimming pool the chlorine in the water in their lungs makes it easy to determine that they drowned in a pool rather than some other fresh water (e.g., lake or river), but after 24 hours or so, the chlorine has dissipated enough to make that no longer possible.
Moral: If you're going to murder someone by drowning them in your pool, then throw the body in a lake to make it look like an accident, try to make sure the body won't be found for at least 24 hours.
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@Benjamin-Hall that's a tetra. ed. it's probably a tetra. that or it's a male common shiner in breeding season
ed. the muskellunge's length-weight power-law exponent of 3.325 is atypically high
ed. breakthrough... as soon as I work out the full etymology of
loach
this should all make sense
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@Gribnit said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
this should all make sense
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@Benjamin-Hall I can't see the minnow fin because Paris eat 'em all
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@Placeholder I might have recommended
'et
which is available, but on the whole, this is a work of genius. Several armed teams are en route.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
"O die schöne, o die schöne, o die schöne, Schnitzelbank!"
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Dress code
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@El_Heffe said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
Dress code
"I'd love to delve deeper into your source."
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@El_Heffe said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
Dress code
JS; that should be a dress code violation.
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@Karla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@PleegWat said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@HardwareGeek I know ~30 years ago on vacation in France when tap water was chlorinated my mum would boil it before use. Or rather, only use tap water when it would need to be boiled anyway like for tea, and use bottled water otherwise.
Don't know how true, but I remember hearing that just leaving the water exposed to the air will reduce the chlorine.
This is common advice in the aquarium world. Chlorinated tap water will hurt the fish, so some people leave a bucket of new tap water out overnight the night before they clean the tank. (Most people use chemicals instead because they work faster.)
Also, if the water in the tank already is too chlorinated, you're supposed to leave the aquarium lid open until the chlorine levels come back down.
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From the comments to a YT video about a crime lab that did shoddy ballistics evidence analysis:
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There was a fire near where I live a while ago. One heroic firefighter ran into the building repeatedly to get trapped people out, and he did such an amazing job at the rescue that, even though he suffered some nasty burns, none of the victims he rescued were burned!
When he got out the burn salve and realized that he was actually the only one who needed to be treated, he said...
"I only have myself to balm."
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So I had to go vote the other day, on a Tuesday, as I recall, and several precincts were sharing the same smallish set of municipal buildings in a fenced-in area in a largish greenspace inside an apartment complex, I found out. So, we got directions from the vote(-y-person? vote monitor) to the building our precinct was actually voting at, after arriving at the first building. But, we got kinda turned around, and ended up outside the fence on a path through the grassy area instead of just going to the other building. Probably a quarter-mile detour.
Sounds like a pain, but really it was a walk in the park.
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I read a new book last night about a group of insects who live in a Italian city.
It's a Rome ants novel.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
Rome ants
Fortunately, you did not mix up "Roman ants" and "ruminants".
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@BernieTheBernie said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
Rome ants
Fortunately, you did not mix up "Roman ants" and "ruminants".
It would be vaguely appropriate to call a Roman termite a Roman ruminant ant. So I have done so. No-one stopped me. There is no God.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
Rome ants
Fortunately, you did not mix up "Roman ants" and "ruminants".
That would be a baaaa'd mistake. Ewe'd really feel sheepish.
Alternatively
That'd really get my goat
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Helium is my favourite element. I can't speak highly enough of it.
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@Zecc said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
Helium is my favourite element. I can't speak highly enough of it.
objection. This is not an allotropic pun, but has been bonded onto a minor example of actual humor. Although your humanity does you credit (in the eyes of filthy, filthy humans) you must distill away these adjuncts. Puns are not a joke. One might indeed ask...
DO YOU THINK THIS IS PUNNY?
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@Benjamin-Hall chicks don't... even hum... my god no. the inner door opens. Do not read as I have read. This pun of many is as any other.
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I can't believe someone would do this to a policeman just one day before his retirement.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
(ObDisclaimer: this isn't strictly speaking a pun.)
There's a neighborhood near me that used to be the site of a poultry farm; the stock were just released and their descendants now run wild over a couple of blocks area. Chickens, guinea fowl, and peacocks.
One year after the usual hatchings the peacocks were out with their mates and the babies bumming bread from cars going through the neighborhood like they always do. I said to myself I need to come back with some hummus.
I still want to see if peachicks will eat chickpeas.
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@da-Doctah said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
(ObDisclaimer: this isn't strictly speaking a pun.)
There's a neighborhood near me that used to be the site of a poultry farm; the stock were just released and their descendants now run wild over a couple of blocks area. Chickens, guinea fowl, and peacocks.
One year after the usual hatchings the peacocks were out with their mates and the babies bumming bread from cars going through the neighborhood like they always do. I said to myself I need to come back with some hummus.
I still want to see if peachicks will eat chickpeas.
To bring it back on topic, it was certainly fowl play to just release them. Those turkeys.
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More Indian Hills Community Center
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@boomzilla have not confirmed, but perhaps this incident brought out the best in them.
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Did you know when creating a nest, birds use a method called twigonometry?
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@Benjamin-Hall Well, strictly speaking, the pores of the filter could also be small enough to simply block the passage of some solubles. But the molecule ions would be pretty large.
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@Rhywden said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Well, strictly speaking, the pores of the filter could also be small enough to simply block the passage of some solubles. But the molecule ions would be pretty large.
this is one elaborate setup guys. hope you're going somewhere with this.
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@Gribnit said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Rhywden said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Well, strictly speaking, the pores of the filter could also be small enough to simply block the passage of some solubles. But the molecule ions would be pretty large.
this is one elaborate setup guys. hope you're going somewhere with this.
Well, it's important to do further research on this because in theory polar bears should be blocked by such a filter even though they're soluble in water.
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@Rhywden
but what about bi-polar bears?
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@boomzilla said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread:
https://imgur.com/t/et/XEt4am4
Mr. ET