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[-] [email protected] 98 points 2 months ago

What the Full are you taking about

[-] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago

Just like sodium and chlorine, the combination of the two is a lot milder than either half.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Instructions unclear.

I just dumped all of my NaOH into my HCl and the flask is getting really hot.

What do now?

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Drop some Mentos in it.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Remembering my chemistry professor telling us about how he went half deaf. As a young TA he had access to a brick of sodium and thought it would be a good idea to throw it into his parents pool

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

My dumbass was trying to combine the words lol

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

It's also "heat" and "duck" combined.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Also "helicopter" and "buttock" put together

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Also "helium" and "sock" put together

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Back in the 80s my roommate and I tried to invent a new swear word. We settled on "cuck!" Definitely sounded dirty but meant nothing, at least to us. And I really don't think it was slang yet back then.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Holy forking shirt balls.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fulling heck

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I'm tired of all these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's what you get when you fight a stranger in the Alps!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'd guess that it originates from Hekkenfeldt, an old Nothern European name for Hekla (Heklufjall), an Icelandic volcano believed to be the entrance to Hell and a meeting place for witches.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

the reason they don't combine into the worst no no word is because of an integer overflow

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Hecking heck

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Occasionally the showerthoughts here reach the quality level of the R-site.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's heckin untrue! Some of us just like how it soooooounds!!!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Helk yourself fulk wad!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Honestly, it's much more versatile:

"Heck you man, I'll heck you up so bad you'll hecking wish you hecked up and went to heck."

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fuck works for all of those too.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, shove it up your heck!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

https://www.etymonline.com/word/heck

heck(interj.)

euphemistic alteration of hell, by 1865.

Wow, there's nothing there. That's the only info we got. I'm starting to be sold on the hell+fuck idea

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Mother mother duck

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

H-E-double-sippy-straws

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