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Your friendly neighbourhood AI (DuckDuckGo) says slightly lighter than air. Makes sense, my CO detector is higher than the boiler.
 
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By simple reasoning a molecule of CO is heavier than a molecule of O2. But by that same reasoning a molecule of water H2O is much lighter so why does water not float on air? Need a chemist to explain that to this layman.
 
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Black Hole said:
'Scuse me, but I don't need telling to keep away from nappy buckets (whatever that might be)! It's like the TV adverts telling me to keep away from children. Yes!
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There's a famous court case from the US where a woman took a microwave oven manufacturer to court. She'd microwaved her dog to dry it after bathing it, which didn't end well. Her case was the instructions did not say you shouldn't microwave your pet, and she won. Which is why for decades afterwards microwave instructions said not to microwave your pet.
 
gomezz said:
By simple reasoning a molecule of CO is heavier than a molecule of O2. But by that same reasoning a molecule of water H2O is much lighter so why does water not float on air? Need a chemist to explain that to this layman.
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CO is about the same overall density as air so it spreads far and wide, which is one of the reasons it is so dangerous.
 
Black Hole said:
Is CO heavier or lighter than air?
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Yes.
And I think you mean "relative density". Tut-tut, BH.
antipodean said:
I believe it is heavier than air, that is why one needs to take serious precautions when cleaning tanks and other containers where you have to crawl inside, even when the top is open.
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I think you may be thinking of CO₂ which is more dense (x1.53) than air.

CO has a relative density of 0.967 apparently, so to (mis-)use BH's terminology, it is "lighter".
 
antipodean said:
I believe it is heavier than air, that is why one needs to take serious precautions when cleaning tanks and other containers where you have to crawl inside, even when the top is open.
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No that's for CO2 which is quite a lot heavier than air, you can simply descend into a tank full of it.
 
EEPhil said:
People are obviously that stupid.
Do we need warnings for everything? What happened to common-sense?
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Americans. Need anyone say more? Especially these days. That was before them. Sadly the influence is seemingly unstoppable from its ever increasing encroachment over here.
Perhaps the Don (et al) wants to take us over too, as well as Venezuela, Canada, Cuba, whichever bit of the Middle-East it is, Greenland and any other place he deems.
 
EEPhil said:
People are obviously that stupid.
Do we need warnings for everything? What happened to common-sense?
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That's the problem with the US legal system, you can sue for anything. We're in danger of going the same way, but we do have the concept of whether the ordinary man in the street would consider this reasonable or not in our legal system.
 
Owen Smith said:
There's a famous court case from the US where a woman took a microwave oven manufacturer to court. She'd microwaved her dog to dry it after bathing it, which didn't end well. Her case was the instructions did not say you shouldn't microwave your pet, and she won. Which is why for decades afterwards microwave instructions said not to microwave your pet.
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I still don't need telling to keep away from nappy buckets, and I don't care whether stupid people don't.

Regardless, it's the stupidity of the American courts that allowed the case to win, they should never have ruled that unless something is excluded it it automatically included.

Owen Smith said:
we do have the concept of whether the ordinary man in the street would consider this reasonable or not in our legal system.
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Yes.

prpr said:
And I think you mean "relative density". Tut-tut, BH.
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I expected somebody would pick up on that, but "lighter than air" is a common idiom for "less dense than air".
 
Owen Smith said:
That's the problem with the US legal system, you can sue for anything.
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You can even try to sue a foreign broadcaster for something which has no bearing on the US as it wasn't shown there.
Owen Smith said:
we do have the concept of whether the ordinary man in the street would consider this reasonable or not in our legal system.
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Not sure I'd trust that now with all the sheep following the tripe on social media.
 
(I'm not convinced this is an amusing item}

Some school in Whitstable has won a Beano joke competition with this (massaged very slightly):

I didn't think food could make phone calls, then boom – Onion rings
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The best way I can describe it is as a Bob Monkhouse or Les Dawson throw-away one-liner pun but for Gen Alpha. I inserted the word "phone" and added the dash to make it read properly. Something to note is there is a current vogue for onion ring jokes (no idea why, I'll have to find a young person to interrogate), so it is tapping into that zeitgeist. And the "boom" (accompanied by an appropriate gesture) is young people's slang meaning "head explodes because something inconceivable has occurred" (like "who knew" or "does not compute").

One of my favourite one-liners (so far as I know, I wrote it, or at least polished it):

Did you hear about the apprentice sorceress who subscribed to Which? because she couldn't spell?
 
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Black Hole said:
(I'm not convinced this is an amusing item}

Some school in Whitstable has won a Beano joke competition with this (massaged very slightly):
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As the OP of "Amusing Items", you can make the rules! 😁
I'd say for a bunch of kids to come up with that is... "clever" (like you would say to such kids), that brings it up to 'somewhat amusing'.
 
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