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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-01-28 17:51:00
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Entry tags:food, it is not a waste of butter and sugar, let them eat cake, microwave of the night

Alton Brown does what?!?!?
[info]angieobsessed would like us all to know that microwaving butter in order to melt it is a crime against humanity.

This has been a public service announcement.


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[info]rachelmap
2009-01-29 08:44 am UTC (link)
We're not. There's an urban legend here in Korea that if you sleep in an enclosed room with your electric fan running, it can kill you. They've been saying this since before I got here back in '94, and nothing anybody says seems to be able to persuade them otherwise.

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[info]dragonfangirl
2009-01-29 08:46 am UTC (link)
Apparently they defend themselves from skepticism by saying that there's something unique to the Korean constitution that makes them vulnerable to the evil fan spirits.

But then, they also say that electric fans destroy the air in a room by chopping up the oxygen molecules, so.

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[info]rachelmap
2009-01-29 08:59 am UTC (link)
The most ridiculous one I heard was that it pushes all the oxygen to the other side of the room. ¯⁔¯;

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[info]phosfate
2009-01-29 03:52 pm UTC (link)
they also say that electric fans destroy the air in a room by chopping up the oxygen molecules

I kind of love Korea now.

At work, when the system slows down, I tell people that, depending on the weather, it's because the electrons have either swollen in the heat and jammed the wires, or are too cold to move efficiently. "Really?" "No."

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[info]issendai
2009-01-29 05:29 pm UTC (link)
A friend who taught in Korea ran into this myth too. She also says doctors have told her it's a coverup for deaths from alcoholism--if a guy dies alone with a sky-high blood alcohol level and there was a fan somewhere in the room, clearly the fan was to blame.

Damn fans.

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