Who cares if someone misspells a word. Don't completely ignore the content of a post simply because you feel like you're superior to someone else for correcting their grammar. It's the fucking Internet for crying out loud. Last I checked we aren't being graded.
Oh and for the love of the DIY gods do not spill 10% menthol solution on your balls. It is not fun.
This post gets an A- (room for improvement)
A++ If you elaborate on the menthol situation.
I just tried three sample batches, 30/70, 50/50 and 70/30 PG/VG. I will say that they are all very horrible on the balls, but the higher VG burns the best. I guess it is subjective though.
Affirmative. I'll be testing the effects of Koolada/scrotum interaction and will report back with results.
If it's something that can easily be chalked up as a simple typo, you're absolutely correct. But if someone can't manage third grade English (which, sadly, is all too common on reddit), then I think it's a good sign that their chemistry skills may be a bit lacking as well.
There's a chemist in China who would love to talk to you using his second grade English skills.
I have 20 years of experience in my field and I speak Japanese ... very poorly. No one would expect me to do my job at a sufficiently professional level in a Japanese environment since I wouldn't be able to communicate at a professional level. As this is a primarily English speaking subreddit of hobbyists, expecting native English speakers to be able to spell, once again, at a third grade level, is not a lot to ask for.
Just a quick reminder, I'm not suggesting we all be Nobel laureates. Just be able to form sentences and spell at the same level as an 8 year old. I think that that is a sufficient intelligence filter.
Edit: Yes, this isn't a professional subreddit, but hobbyists. You still need to know how to spell.
Edit2: typo
I don't think this is exactly chemistry. It's at best baking.
Honestly most people that are good at science and math are not really good at reading and writing. Different parts of the brain. But hey good job at doing exactly what the OP was talking about A+ for being a douchebag.
Sorry to disappoint, but phrenology isn't a real thing. And I fail to see how showing concern makes me a douchebag, while name-calling excludes you from the very label that you applied to me. Furthermore, scientists, chemists, mathematicians, and chefs all need to know how to spell at at least a third grade level. If you don't know the difference between your, you're, and yore or there, they're, and their, then you're in no position to be giving advice to people about inhaling chemicals.
> phrenology
So I completely agree with you about needing to be able to write at a certain level. But while phrenology is a psuedoscience, the issue wasn't their belief that different parts of the brain serve different functions (because they absolutely do), it's that phrenology extrapolated too much from this and was quite unscientific about it all.
> Who cares if someone misspells a word
If I misspell a word: I care. Because I consider doing a quick spell-check a courtesy to my (potential) readers. Not something I need to do to get better "grades".
> you feel like you're superior to someone else for correcting their grammar.
Is my grammar all wrong? Please, do correct me. English is not my first language, so I know that I make awful mistakes all the time.
> Don't completely ignore the content of a post
Completely agree!
>Is my grammar all wrong? Please, do correct me. English is not my first language, so I know that I make awful mistakes all the time
You. I like you. Also, I find it amusing that your grammar was almost perfect.
edit I also would like to say, thank you for using a comma after that "please." Too many people forget that poor little guy.
Warning: English nerd wall of text ahead. As an aside, you would use a comma as opposed to a colon in the phrase "if I misspell a word: I care." If you want to accentuate it how I assume you would, with stress on at least the "I" in "I care," the easiest way to do it correctly would be to use italics, like so: "If I misspell a word, I care."
The reason that you would use a comma is that the sentence is composed of two phrases (being "If I misspell a word," and "I care"), and sentences in English use the structure of "Subject-Verb-Object*.
The verb is "care," obviously, and you are the one who is caring, so you are the subject. The object of the sentence is wonky, because it's not what most would consider an object, but is a prepositional phrase ("if I misspell a word"). The rules are weird and I confused myself trying to write them out, even with English being my first language, bolstered by 5 years of Latin as a teenager. That's a tangent we don't need to get off on, though.
Getting back to the sentence structure, if you were to use the S-V-O sentence structure, your sentence would read "I care if I misspell a word." When you change the order of the sentence structure, (in this case to O-S-V), you have to separate them with a comma.
If you want me to go into correct usages of colons and semicolons feel free to ask (or Google it, as I might misspeak). If you want me to shut up and never post stuff like this again, feel free to say so.
edit: formatting
> Last I checked we aren't being graded.
Oh, but we are. I make lotsa ~~tipos~~ typos myself, but I do tend to gauge a person's communication skills and attention to detail by what they write.
I'm not a grammar Nazi; I don't correct people's grammar, spelling or punctuation but lack of these skills does affect how I perceive that person. That said, everybody makes mistakes but I do judge a person's skill at communicating by how they communicate.
If people don't care what they write why should I read what they have to say?
I'm not saying that everyone should act like an English major but folks who think communication skills don't matter are kinda fooling themselves, I think.
edit: That said, I think assholes are a bigger problem than people who can't spell ;-)
How dare you not use an oxford comma? Reported.
I don't know the context for this post, but agreed. We almost all came here to save money and make some awesome juice. My wife spells terrible so I guess I gloss over it most of the time.
Also, that last sentence made me laugh out loud for reals. 😃
I find this section of Reddit to be by far the friendliest. Similar minded people helping and sharing with each other. Let's keep it like that.
> do not spill 10% menthol solution on your balls.
Man, take your safety seriously. Learn from woman. When around dangerous substances use apron. You can be naked, but cover vitals.
I thought it was suppose to cool stuff down not burn lol.
Don't ever try icy-hot down there. BAD IDEA!
ok ill be the one to ask, how in the planet did you manage to spill menthol on your balls..were u mixing nakee
Nah I had basketball shorts and compression shorts on. I was mixing up a fresh 10% menthol solution. Afterwards I divided it up so I can give some to a friend so he can make his own menthol juice. I went to put the cap back on the solution (cap was sitting behind the bottle) and I knocked the bottle over when I was pulling my hand back. The solution hit my junk and went right through the mesh of my shorts and the mesh of a junk flap on my compression shorts.
Is this a problem on this subreddit? I rarely see people being dicks about grammar or spelling on here.