This whole “trust Tumblr blindly” thing is eventually going to kill someone, as I became pointedly aware of on one occasion I was making fun of how poorly a particular bleach-based drain declogger was working on my sink and got a chorus of really dangerously misinformed people telling me to pour vinegar in after it because all cute little cool kid diy home care blogs they’re following talk about vinegar like it it’s the big secret the cleaning companies don’t want you to know.
And I cringed knowing that someday, some Well Actually expert who read a blog article once is going to give that advice to someone who unfortunately didn’t take high school chemistry and isn’t aware that MIXING VINEGAR AND BLEACH MAKES CHLORINE GAS.
holy fucking jesus tits reblog to save a life
For those not aware, vinegar is not the only thing you shouldn’t mix with bleach. Bleach is pretty nasty stuff, and if you’re using it to clean, you’re almost certainly using too much of it- the concentration used to sterilize things in microbiology labs handling extremely dangerous diseases is 1 part bleach to 9 parts water.
Besides vinegar, it’ll react with basically anything acidic to make chlorine gas, which includes a lot of household cleaners. Toilet cleaner, for one- my mom learned this the hard way with those solid bleach things you put in the toilet tank.
It’ll react with ammonia to make chloramines, which are also unfun. Ammonia is also a common ingredient in some household cleaners, as well as in pee, so be careful using bleach on really nasty toilets or litter boxes or whatever.
Bleach and hydrogen peroxide usually doesn’t produce poisonous gas (it bubbles a lot, but it’s mostly oxygen), but you still shouldn’t do it, because I had to say “usually.”
Basically when in doubt, rinse the thing you bleached with LOTS of water before you use any other cleaning chemicals on it.
i just really love when someone has studied a historical figure for a long time and gets so familiar with them that they talk about them as if they were friends. like there goes my boy caesar killing a bunch of gauls again! oh julius you rascal
Anonymous asked: *curtsies* Your Grace, If you were given the chance to rename 3 alcoholic beverages after punny literary references, what drinks would you rename and how would you have them called?
*Curtsies* I once went to a bar in Iowa that had a cocktail called the Hemingway and when I asked what was in it the bartender told me it was just straight rail vodka in a pint glass. Frankly I don’t think I’m going to top that.
I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?
Nim Chimpsky.
Fucking monkey pun.
And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But
BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.
Its not just the linguistic anthropologists.
There’s a group of very important genes that determine if your body develops in the right shape/organization… they are called the hedgehog genes, because fruit fly geneticists are all ridiculous. The different hedgehog genes are all named after different hedgehogs. And then someone decided to get clever and name one “sonic hedgehog” because this is just what fruitfly geneticists do.
Well sonic hedgehog controls brain development, and now actual doctors are stuck in the position of explaining to grieving parents that their child’s lethal birth defects or life-threatening tumors are caused by a “sonic hedgehog mutation”.
And this is why no one will invite the fruit fly people to parties.
Biogeochemical scientists, upon discovering the complex mechanisms that govern the storage and use of molecular iron on our planet, decided to call this cycle “the ferrous wheel”. We groaned about that for at least five solid minutes.
The phenomenon of sneezing when exposed to sudden bright light is called an Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio Opthalmic Outburst. ACHOO.
words-writ-in-starlight asked: OH MY GOD. ARE YOU A FAN OF THE KENCYRATH CHRONICLES? IS THIS THE REAL LIFE? I'M REALLY SORRY FOR THE CAPS LOCK BUT I JUST SHRIEKED IN A COFFEE SHOP AND I'M REALLY EXCITED BECAUSE I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR ANOTHER FAN OF THESE GODDAMN GREAT BOOKS SINCE I GOT A TUMBLR.
