to think the government shouldn't be hiding this sort of chemical from us.

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There is a new chemical that the government seen to be hiding from us - dihydrogen monoxide. Not many people seem to have heard of it but it is widely used.

Why do they always hide this sort of thing from us. See the website below for more information.

www.dhmo.org

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN???

I got banned from a FB group for pointing out that "chemical free shampoo" wasn't chemical free if it contained borax, salt etc and that everything was a chemical!

I got banned from one for pointing out that two different packet mixes combined was assembly, and not 'cooking with only two ingredients'. Apparently, it was v v rude to cast aspersions on their baking abilities.

Is there a petition we can sign?

It's a racing certainty that there is but please, nobody post a link to it!

Oh the list, the list.... www.dhmo.org/facts.html

It's Boxing Day, I don't have time for this! Can we get together tomorrow, save the world from this shocking chemical then?

We need to deluge the press with information, drown our MPs with information requests. No drip feeding the public, we need to splash this across every paper in the country. And we must be ready for a long campaign, we can't let it dry up due to lack of understanding.

We must wash away the ignorance of the public about this menace.

Poor Cumbria is getting a lot of dihydrogen monoxide. It's a conspiracy.

Water lot of bad puns on this thread...

Well, maybe we could sewer

Drip feeding :(

Sigh. Sorry but i have a massive sense of humour failure when it comes to dhmo, and i knew it would be that when i saw the thread. Again, sorry, i know i shouldnt have clicked.

Its just so bloody inaccurate, water already has a perfectly good chemical name if you're just being satirical, that most people dont know and would work. And nothing winds me up more than inaccurate satire. It does not help that the people i know who share this type of thing think they are a whole lot more clever than they actually are.

Oooh! Judgey knickers! Spoil sport!

Get a grip, it is Boxing Day and some of us like the light relief!

If you mix it with fruit and test and leave it for a few months it can significantly improve christmas!!!

Come on then, BeyondJinglebells, you obviously want to be asked the correct name for dhmo, and I will indulge you - what is it?

Ah, don't do that. The corrected version has been out there for 30+ years. But the DHMO seems to have stuck!

DOH!

I dont want to be asked, if it was relevant i would have included it? Like i said, it is just one of those things that rubs me up the wrong way, and i apologised in advance for being a twat and pointing that out.

It is probably 99% due to the people i know who share this type of thing and i am genuinely sorry for being twatty about it :)

Dihydrogen monoxide is a killer I tell you! And what is the government doing about it?

Maybe we need a petition!

Oh, you need to apologise more than that!

I am now singing

Love is like oxidane...

It has become an earworm! I hates ya, I tells ya! I truly does

FIL used to leave a bowl out for passing dogs with 'O24K9S' written on the side and people used to complain that it was dangerous to leave random chemicals where dogs and children could get at them.

I am not joking, either.

Wow beyondjinglebells. If you have a massive sense of humour failure at this what on earth would you be like if something really serious was posted.

I got a couple of grips for Christmas. Would you like them.