h a l f b a k e r y"Bun is such a sad word, is it not?" -- Watt, "Waiting for Godot"
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
Before Artificial Hot Water people often heated their water with a hot water heater. That was very wasteful and expensive. Things are much better now that a substance derived from pepper is added to the water in a mixing tank where the heater used to be. Aside from that things are about the same
as before.
Please log in.
If you're not logged in,
you can see what this page
looks like, but you will
not be able to add anything.
Annotation:
|
| |
Straight from the capsaicink. |
|
| |
//<rimshot>// Yeah, that's one place you wouldn't
want this pepper water to get. |
|
| |
It quits ringing quite quickly... |
|
| |
This is baked. And by "baked", I mean "such a
profoundly terrible idea that no sane person would
even consider trying it". |
|
| |
//often heated their water with a hot water heater. |
|
| |
deja vue alert..surely that's a cold water heater? No point in warning water that is already warm. |
|
| |
Put menthol in the water, like what Withnail uses in the film, tad easier on the delicate bits than pepper |
|
| |
Would spicy water work as well as hot water for washing grease off dishes and getting dirt out of clothes? |
|
| |
[morrison (or not)] Are "hot water heaters" a pet pieve of yours? I see no problem at all with calling it a "hot water heater". There are many names and phrases in common English that use shortcuts like this. A "hot water heater" is a heater that produces hot water. Calling it a cold water heater is incorrect because it will make hot water out of hot, warm, tepid, cold or frigid water. Calling it a water heater is fine in many cases since a hot water heater is probably the most common type, but adding just 3 letters and a space tells the reader (or search engine) that it's not a fish tank or swimming pool water heater that you're talking about. |
|
| |
I can think of many other cases with this type of usage. |
|
| |
Tie a knot.
waffle iron
Drill a well.
Pour a foundation.
Carve a statue.
cookie cutter
hole punch
|
|
| |
English is not a programming language. It's called a hot water heater in common usage, so don't confuse things by convincing half of the people to change the common name of something based on some semantic agrument. |
|
| |
I think only you call it a hot water heater, scad. You and rcarty. Forward thinkers call it a hweater, to save wear on the space bar. |
|
| |
It's actually called an immersion heater. Go figure. |
|
| |
Insane is like inflammable right? If inflammable means flammable then I'm most assuredly sane. |
|
| |
Not to mention continent. |
|
| |
I terpret.
I terpret well. |
|
| |
Your reasoning is (in)disputable. |
|
| |
Technically it also heats hot water to keep it from cooling. |
|
| |
//make hot water out of hot..water |
|
| |
Good lord, that's miraculous... |
|
| |
Rigorous and methodologically sound research (just typing the words in google) brings a mixed result... |
|
| |
15,200,000 - water heater,
53,700,000 - hot water heater
14,700,000 - cold water heater |
|
| |
but, if we try Yahoo it's
131,000,000 - water heater,
101,000,000 - cold water heater,
86,000,000 - hot water heater |
|
| |
so this is even stranger than I thought it was going to be... |
|
| |
Heat, light but no smoke? |
|
| |
Perhaps it should be parsed as “hot (water heater)” |
|
| |
...why not just a //water hotter//? |
|
| |
I guess, I can't use this water to warm up my hands or fingers after returning from skiing or cold environment. |
|
| |
You probably could but I wouldn't rub my eyes or pick
my nose afterward. |
|
| |
// Heat, light but no smoke? // |
|
| |
Smoke and mirrors, seemingly… |
|
| |
"E Tenebris Lux", perhaps ? |
|
| |
"Ee bah gum"was always good enough in my days |
|
| |
//I wouldn't rub my eyes or pick my nose afterward |
|
| |
A friend went to the loo, after chopping chillies, but hadn't washed her hands...it might be a similar experience... |
|
| |
//I wouldn't rub my eyes or pick my nose afterward.// |
|
| |
I'd gladly rub your eyes after using this water, [Ubbs]. |
|
| |
If her fingers made direct contact with her the
mucous tissue of her genitalia or her sensitive anal
tissue when she went to the toilet then I probably
wouldn't want to eat the food she was preparing
when she got the chili juice on them. |
|
| |
I was too much of a gentleman to ask... |
|
| |