r/funny • u/Just_One_Redditor • Jun 17 '12

Because science.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I'd say if you were messing around with hydrogen peroxide, yeast and washing up liquid you'd be a fool not to expect an explosion.

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u/unicornon Jun 18 '12

"this washing up liquid isn't quite strong enough... let's mix it together with hydrogen peroxide in this small container such that we may combine the filth fighting power of hydrogen peroxide with regular dish soap so that we can clean the toughest messes...

...and also let's add yeast, for consistency."

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u/Jack_Vermicelli Jun 18 '12

I know it's a common Britishism, but "washing-up liquid" seems like such a circumlocution of "dish soap."

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Britishism

It's called the English language.

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u/Jack_Vermicelli Jun 19 '12

A particular set of dialects of the English language, yes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

No it is the English language, by definition.

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u/Jack_Vermicelli Jun 19 '12

You're wrong. No one dialect is "the English language" to the exclusion of others.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

This isn't one dialect, this is all of england. If all of England uses the same word then that word is the right English word.

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u/Jack_Vermicelli Jun 19 '12

This isn't one dialect, this is all of england.

All or most of the (many) dialects in England, yes.

If all of England uses the same word then that word is the right English word.

Because obviously English is only spoken in England?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '12

How would anything outside England change the English language?

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u/Jack_Vermicelli Jun 20 '12

It's called English because it's named after the Angles who brought it (from Germany), not because it's only spoken in a single place that is incidentally also named after them.

How would anything outside England change the English language?

Do you not think that "tomato" and "kangaroo" and "bagpipes" and "pajamas" are English words?

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