Interesting one for the Optimax fans

It's an compound... C8H18.
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/pt/harvey/gcse/pics/octane.jpeg

 

Feck, don't fancy them lumpy things getting stuck in my carb. )

<cuts slice of humble pie>

Hmmm Tasty.

 

That's not proper octane, that's an isomer...
Oh sure, the numbers are right but the order is messed up.

This is octane:
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/vchemlib/mol/simple/fuels/octanebak.html

 

Drinking petrol is bad m'kay..

 

Strictly speaking, 2,2,4-trimethylpentane, which is the octane isomer
we're talking about.

Sure, but it's the wrong one.

 

Petrol would have left me feeling better than the red wine did...

 

Ah, now I see. Like a Moth to the flame. I found several have consumed
cups of that oily looking red liquid on sunday morning. Did it taste as
bad as it looked?

 

Those must have been good Irish coffees!

 

Ah right, my bad. That's evil stuff...

But it looks nicer.

 

Tbh, I could have happily necked liquidised brussel sprouts by then,
so god knows!

 

I've had no complaints so far. Proper hot and evrything they were ;-)

 

I have no idea, I know I drank some but that's all I can say about the
matter.

 

I'm fucking losing it I swear. It's a bit scary. That should read 'half'
First their instead of they're, now this.

<worried>

 

Er... you didn't drink from a pint glass with an inch of brown fluid in
the bottom, did you?

'cos that wasn't the dregs of a pint- that was my old brake fluid.

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I certainly didn't I'd never touch anyone's drink, abandoned or not.

I'm a bit surprised you didn't think to dispose of the glass or at least
it's contents and give it a good wash before it ended up going through a
dishwasher with a few dozen other glasses.

I've made a mental note in case there are any suspicious deaths or
poisonings.

 

Indeed. When I was a feckless youth it was common practice to ****
arsehole landlords over by leaving a glass on their premises
containing a few drops of paraffin or similar. If undetected by the
glass collector, it would find its way into the glass washer and
contaminate all the glasses subsequently washed.

 

tallbloke wrote:

Heh... Maybe the secret with your stove, is to get pissed so your sense
of fear goes away.

 

I know a bloke who kept having his home made wine nicked by a lodger..
until one day he left a couple of wine bottles with sterilising
solution[1] in the usual place.

One duly disappeared.. and half an hour later the lodger was being very
very sick. He didn't nick any more wine after that!

Phil.

[1] Can't remember the stuff - it's not particularly toxic (unless you
are a yeast cell or a bacteria!) but is is a spectacular emetic..

 

Can leave some nasty burns in the mouth and throat if it's the public
house grade stuff.

 

Nah - it was the stuff for sterilising wine bottles before they get
reused - it's just kills any leftover yeasts and the bacteria that
convert alcohol to acetic acid (lactobacteria? Can't remember).

It doesn't contain anything like bleach!

Phil.