My dad used to tell me
that there is only a finite amount of water in the world and you can't change that, only change its state from ice/liquid/steam. I was going to explain about the result of burning hydrogen, or how I separated water once by passing a current through it, but he attended school in the 40s, and probably not a very good school whose only purpose was to teach the 3 Rs until he was old enough to leave and get a job on the barges with my grandad.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 13:03, 8 replies)

HAHAHAHA your dad drives a barge
My dad drives a 40 lorry...which if you think about it is the 20th century answer to barges... unless of course it was the 19th century that barges started to come about.
(TwinkleFuckingToes Has a ingrown toe nail, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 13:28, closed)

Shame you deleted your other post!
Was a classic! I too have a friend who works part-time in IT support! What are the chances, eh? :p
( Zumf Ham banjo, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 13:32, closed)

I realised I'd pressed enter whilst typing
and then looked up wondering "where's my text box gone".

Pretend it was a trailer for the rest of the post.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 13:41, closed)

Ah I've just seen the complete post
I retract my previous sarcastic comment! Click, by the way!
( Zumf Ham banjo, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 13:44, closed)

Damn thee! I am offended by your sarcasm
Not really, I'm too busy with my "beans & sausages and potato waffles" lunch.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 13:48, closed)

If he'd been talking about energy or mass instead of water, he'd have been entirely correct.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 20:19, closed)

In all fairness
On an ecological scale he was basically right. There's no way we could make a significant dent in the word's water supply one way or the other through electrolysis or hydrogen burning.
(+3 Baroque Vambrace of Icthyology, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 2:17, closed)

Um...
You know all that greenhouse CO2 we're getting from burning hydrocarbon fuels (i.e. crude oil derivatives)?

Well, the other product is water.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 12:52, closed)