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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.
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Straight from the capsaicink. |
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//<rimshot>// Yeah, that's one place you wouldn't
want this pepper water to get. |
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It quits ringing quite quickly... |
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This is baked. And by "baked", I mean "such a
profoundly terrible idea that no sane person would
even consider trying it". |
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//often heated their water with a hot water heater. |
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deja vue alert..surely that's a cold water heater? No point in warning water that is already warm. |
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Put menthol in the water, like what Withnail uses in the film, tad easier on the delicate bits than pepper |
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Would spicy water work as well as hot water for washing grease off dishes and getting dirt out of clothes? |
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[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. |
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I can think of many other cases with this type of usage. |
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Tie a knot.
waffle iron
Drill a well.
Pour a foundation.
Carve a statue.
cookie cutter
hole punch
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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. |
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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. |
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It's actually called an immersion heater. Go figure. |
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Insane is like inflammable right? If inflammable means flammable then I'm most assuredly sane. |
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Not to mention continent. |
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I terpret.
I terpret well. |
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Your reasoning is (in)disputable. |
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Technically it also heats hot water to keep it from cooling. |
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//make hot water out of hot..water |
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Good lord, that's miraculous... |
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Rigorous and methodologically sound research (just typing the words in google) brings a mixed result... |
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15,200,000 - water heater,
53,700,000 - hot water heater
14,700,000 - cold water heater |
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but, if we try Yahoo it's
131,000,000 - water heater,
101,000,000 - cold water heater,
86,000,000 - hot water heater |
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so this is even stranger than I thought it was going to be... |
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Heat, light but no smoke? |
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Perhaps it should be parsed as “hot (water heater)” |
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...why not just a //water hotter//? |
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I guess, I can't use this water to warm up my hands or fingers after returning from skiing or cold environment. |
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You probably could but I wouldn't rub my eyes or pick
my nose afterward. |
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// Heat, light but no smoke? // |
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Smoke and mirrors, seemingly… |
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"E Tenebris Lux", perhaps ? |
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"Ee bah gum"was always good enough in my days |
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//I wouldn't rub my eyes or pick my nose afterward |
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A friend went to the loo, after chopping chillies, but hadn't washed her hands...it might be a similar experience... |
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//I wouldn't rub my eyes or pick my nose afterward.// |
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I'd gladly rub your eyes after using this water, [Ubbs]. |
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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. |
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I was too much of a gentleman to ask... |
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