I just watched this video , which was suggested by this post
It’s a short British educational program about water. I was very surprised to hear the narrator pronounce the chemical formula H2O as ‘H-twenty’. I’ve never in my life heard anything other than ‘H-two-oh’. What’s going on?
It’s a parody.
woosh, d’oh. I had it playing in the background and that bit jumped out at me. Thanks for clearing that up. :smack:
Haha, no problem. I considered giving you a healthy dose of the typical doper snark, but it seemed that you couldn’t possibly have really been watching it closely. You should, though, it’s really pretty hilarious, but at least half the humor is visual.
You’re kidding, right?
[spoiler]“What are birds? We just don’t know.”
“Water’s boiling point is 1000 degrees.” (notice no units)
Although, seeing how red and burnt his hand was when he was eating his egg was funny!
Aunts building an igloo??
Bubbling nitrogen through water changes it from “invisible” to “whiskey”.[/spoiler]
Good stuff, but I wouldn’t show it to somebody who didn’t know better.
Watched it again, listening to what was actually being said this time. Really funny.
Great programme 
Edit: now fascinated by the use of a scalpel to open an egg
You didn’t notice the fact that water doesn’t really belong in its own little box on the periodic table?
ETA: actually, you might want to take a closer look at that version of the periodic table:
Related documentary about The Birds of Britain:
Starlingrad…hee heee…
I had it playing in the background so I wasn’t watching it, only listening, and barely at that. It’d be great if someone sold that period table as a poster
Baby birds are called ‘bees’…
That one cracks me up even thinking about it.
Shoot, I want the T-Shirt
My sister said I once called it “H-Twenty”, though I have no recollection and probably would’ve been around six at the time (i.e. smart enough to use terminology, not smart enough to use it correctly).
Frankly, it sounds like the kind of thing I’d do.
Boy, Tom Lehrer really botched that one song of his.
I’ve been wanting that poster for years now. I’m almost to the point of printing it up msyelf, though I doubt my school’s print shop would be very happy with that.
That poster, and the stuff along with it, proves again how humor in the UK is substantially more interesting than the version that tends to permeate the United States of America. <sigh>
fAu. Love it!
Yeah! How could anyone think that Table is funny? There’s not one fart joke.
Beef! That one just cracked me up for some reason.
There’s subtlety in there that you might miss first time around - check out the atomic weights and numbers for Copper, for example.
“Podium” had me cracking up. Also, the atomic symbol “Hi” meaning “hello”. 