How are you feeling?

S_Spartan

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Theyre separated by boiling points. methanol has a lower boiling point than ethanol so it will vapourise first rise up the distillation column and condense first along with acetone, aldehydes esters all of which have lower boiling points , highly toxic stuff which must be disgarded.
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Very interesting. I learned something.:thumbup:
 

Argentum

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Is it that you resemble a wolf?

I can only assume that's why everyone who claims to care deliberately hurts me.

I suppose if they know they'll be forgiven as always, it doesn't matter if they do something they know is hurtful in order to get answers. After all, it's not my feelings that matter, it's whether or not I'm in their lives. Just like they'll pick a fight with me just to see if I care enough to get angry. What does it matter if it hurts me as long as they have their answer?

And yet, I'm always the bad guy somehow. I'm always the one doing people wrong by not trusting what they say.
 
Very interesting. I learned something.:thumbup:

:) In theory that's how it works there's a lot of stuff that can go wrong though aside from methanol poisoning. Theres so much to think about safety wise. You'd have to be vigilant about having perfectly working apparatus, calibrated thermometer, proper ventilation, avoiding superheating and pressure build up. Distillation needs to be given time too if done too quickly the vapors don't have time to condense or the condenser isn't working properly those vapors pose a real safety hazard. Theyre extremely flammable and unfortunately that happens. Home distillation unless you really know what you're doing is just not safe in my opinion and even if you do I just think you really need a proper lab set up. I really wouldn't recommend it
 

Phoenixx

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Very panicky this morning and my mind won't stop racing. Finals week is making me crack. I've been in a cruddy mood all week and I'm taking it out on people. Also having an ignorant professor to deal with isn't helping. Thank god today is the last day I'll be seeing her.

Trying to calm myself down with a decent breakfast, hot mug of tea, and music.
 

Argentum

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How do you know it's deliberate? Do you think their motivation is that they want to hurt you, or what are they really after?

A) They flat-out admit that they did what they did to see if/how I would respond. They explicitly tell me so. B) They explicitly tell me they knew there was a risk I would be hurt, but thought it was small enough that they were willing to take it.

What their motivation was doesn't matter when they knew what they were doing was going to hurt me.
 
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Graeme1988

Hie yer hence from me heath!
Overwhelmed... Still very anxious whenever ah go outside.

Am also tryin' tae lose weight for health reasons - which is summit ah should've done years ago. But never did, because ma family never take ma needs intae consideration, it's always whit they think is best for me, no' whit ah think.

Ah don't think ah lose much, but ah'll try ma best.
 

Graeme1988

Hie yer hence from me heath!
A) They flat-out admit that they did what they did to see if/how I would respond. They explicitly tell me so. B) They explicitly tell me they knew there was a risk I would be hurt, but thought it was small enough that they were willing to take it.

What their motivation was doesn't matter when they knew what they were doing was going to hurt me. That's human beings for you... the only thing that ever matters is themselves. Even the perception of love is ugly and twisted, an arrangement where one person is kept around to incite strong feelings of desire in another.

That I am part of this species disgusts me.

Sounds like ma family... Sorry yer huvin to pit up with that, Argentum.
 
A) They flat-out admit that they did what they did to see if/how I would respond. They explicitly tell me so. B) They explicitly tell me they knew there was a risk I would be hurt, but thought it was small enough that they were willing to take it.

What their motivation was doesn't matter when they knew what they were doing was going to hurt me.

Is there a reason you need these people in your life?
 

Argentum

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Is there a reason you need these people in your life?

No. I cut them out.

The problem is that it's everyone. No selection criteria can protect me if I choose to let people in. I can't just choose people who have demonstrated honesty even in dishonest workplaces, people who are caring towards animals and children, or anything else that--in theory--would imply safety.
 
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No. I cut them out.

The problem is that it's everyone. No selection criteria can protect me if I choose to let people in. I can't just choose people who have demonstrated honesty even in dishonest workplaces, people who are caring towards animals and children, or anything else that--in theory--would imply safety.

It can't realistically be everyone except you, can it? Maybe there's some selection criteria you're not accounting for that draws the wrong people to you.
 

Argentum

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It can't realistically be everyone except you, can it? Maybe there's some selection criteria you're not accounting for that draws the wrong people to you.

If you've got any ideas, I'd love to hear them. Logic is a wonderful tool... until it doesn't get results.

I'd like to believe that other people are good and capable of genuinely caring about others, for more than just how useful they are or how validated they can make someone feel. I'm just too tired to keep an open mind anymore after two decades of this treatment, starting with my family whose first use for me was to vent to me as a small child about adult problems like money, the workplace, and all the criminals out there who shot up schools and wanted to abduct me.

My mother taught us to lie to child services and put us in two different physically and psychologically abusive households. She knew what was going on and went through it herself, but wouldn't let us be taken and--despite being the breadwinner--wouldn't leave so that we would be safe. What, after all, would we matter compared to her desire to appear as a good mother, satisfy her own demons in those marriages, and keep us close?

What could my safety and happiness ever possibly matter to a human being compared to their own wants?
 
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People are annoying. I want to tell them leave me alone. I would like to reply to a particular text with '"Your texts are a nuisance obligation and there's no point to them. As soon as I reply you'll reply and then I'll have to reply and this situation would be fine but the content of what you're saying is annoying. The process is annoying the content is annoying. Stop giving me this obligation!!!!"
 

S_Spartan

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People are annoying. I want to tell them leave me alone. I would like to reply to a particular text with '"Your texts are a nuisance obligation and there's no point to them. As soon as I reply you'll reply and then I'll have to reply and this situation would be fine but the content of what you're saying is annoying. The process is annoying the content is annoying. Stop giving me this obligation!!!!"
Tell them that you can't text right now cause you got diarrhea.
 
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