If I find something interesting I'm usually good at it but science only gets interesting once you've done the boring bits
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:18, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Science is just magic made boring

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:21, Reply)

That is a superb little phrase.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:24, Reply)

I can back it up too
For example. You're in the kitchen. You mix eggs, flour, milk, baking powder and I don't know, whatever else in a tin, and put it in the oven for twenty minutes. Then a fucking CAKE comes out! Science my arse, that is categorically magic.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:27, Reply)

emulsification of fat and sugar traps tiny air bubbles
these expand and stretch the gluten in the flour as the cake rises. The protein from the egg turns from liquid to solid and stabilises the bubbles. Finally the Maillard reaction of sugars and proteins browns the cake. Am I spoiling it for you?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:33, Reply)

You possibly could
but luckily I don't know what half of those words mean so can continue to exist in a state of blissful ignorance and magic cake
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:35, Reply)

Not for me. Cake's fucking shit.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:36, Reply)

It's a fookin disgrace

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:38, Reply)

Hahaha
Good work there
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:41, Reply)

One young kiddie on Cake cried all the water out of his body. Just imagine how his mother felt. It's a fookin' disgrace
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:41, Reply)

Cake isn't fun anymore. You've ruined my business. I hope you're happy
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:36, Reply)

haha. I made a fucking AWESOME chocolate cake yesterday.
that's really awesome in the Monty sense, not in the teenage surfer sense.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:38, Reply)

Cake ruins lives
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:44, Reply)

It affects a part of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon" which deals with time perception

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:49, Reply)

haha, what utter arse.
Magic is just science for toddlers.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:27, Reply)

Bollocks is it
Gandalf was properly old and he was like, WELL magic
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:28, Reply)

pssst. He's not real.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:28, Reply)

Hahaha, yeah alright
Next you'll be telling me that Star Wars didn't ACTUALLY happen, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:31, Reply)

OK.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:43, Reply)

innit

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 9:31, Reply)