You’re surprised that no one plays with small cubes of tin? I don’t think I’ve ever played with cubes or chunks of any metal…
…though I’m looking forward to doing that with hydrogen, of course.
“Shrooms” came from “magic mushrooms” (i.e. psilocybin) so there’s certainly a “c” in the whole, even if it got dropped. The term started appearing in print around 1975, when the government started reporting on their use.
Aluminum was indeed more expensive than tin and a specialty product until WWII, when the superiority of aluminum created an all-out effort to manufacture it in huge quantities. Aluminum beer cans were introduced in 1959 by Coors. So-called tin cans were tin-plated steel. Tin is too weak to be used by itself, as The Metal Men constantly pointed out.
That’s where I learned Chemistry, too!
Tin is weak until Iron is in trouble and Tin has to come to the rescue and then Platinum gives him a kiss on the cheek… just like the Periodic Table predicts.
Going back to read the originals is hilarious. It’s like a high schooler doodled characters in his chemistry text book next to all the tables of facts.
I can’t say I’ve played with cubes of tin but for a while I was working on a soldering machine and we were getting tin bars to refill the pot of molten metal. I could fold one of the bars into a horseshoe shape, and really did hear the peculiar noise called “tin cry”.
Never tried tasting a tin bar, but I believe there is a paragraph in “Les Miserables” where a Bishop has his silver dinner plates stolen and takes it philosophically stating that he would just use tin plates. His housekeeper objects that “tin tastes”.
Sometimes I’ve heard of something tasting “tinny” for any metallic taste (that word also works for sound), but I’ve never tasted tin before.
I have never played with a cube of tin, but I do have 95% pure cubes of tungsten. They are so crazy heavy despite being only 1” and 1/2” in size.
I thought 'shrooms implied the hallucinogenic variety.
Yes. And then, decades later (sorry, hijack coming) aluminum bicycles, which had previously been exotic and expensive items, replaced steel bicycles as the default for cheap, usually Chinese-made* bikes.
*Not a slur, I just mean that’s where manufacturers go when they want to turn out massive quantities of an item to be sold at as low a price as possible.
Yep.
Also - how the hell am I noticing this thread only now?
Totally lawnchair.
Didn’t read whole thread yet, maybe already mentioned - shortened pro athletes’ (usually last) names as an ‘affectionate’ reference. In post-games you’ll hear a coach go on about ‘Barzy’ (Matthew Barzal), ‘Cully’ (Matt Cullen), ‘Cooch’ (Logan Couture) and so forth.
A first world gripe, to be sure. 
Add “Totally lawnchair” to the list. I’ve seen that used different ways, and never been able to tell what the poster means from context.
One time, it looked like the person was using it to say “I’ve folded up my chair” (as in “I’m outta here”)? Another time, a poster assumed the OP meant “I’m so relaxed that I don’t care about the subject”. Or a variation: “You can’t move me, I’m so set in my ways… that I don’t care about your response.”
So what did you mean, Id?
Anyone else here heard “totally lawnchair” before?
Nope. I have no idea.
This would be the closest defintion to my use of “lawnchair”.
Especially if it’s about to be thrown.
Oh - and editing to further add - they make the most beautiful avatars.
Ditto. It’s two English words that mean nothing when adjacent.
Probably because this thread hasn’t been active in two months, LOL.
Sure, but I’ve been around a bit longer than that, and the pit (well, and a bit of CS, GR and P+E) is usually the only forum I perambulate through, Iago-lke.
Wife beater. I detest the term wife beater. It’s a tank top. A wife beater is a person who abuses their spouse, not an undergarment.
Not sure if I’m being whooshed but that’s why it’s called a wife beater… The stereotypical person that wears that sort of garment is a blue collar male worker, the type who is prone to partake in domestic abuse due to excessive alcohol consumption and/or financial problems stemming from his meager income.
I also dislike the term because I think it trivializes abuse against women and stigmatizes those with low incomes. But there is a reason for its name. (Just not a good one.)
Properly it’s an “A-shirt”. Named in the same fashion as is “T-shirt”. Namely a resemblance between the shape of the shirt and the capital letter.
That’s my point, though. The wife beater is the person, not the shirt he’s wearing. It’s a crude, demeaning term and I refuse to use it.