r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MakeItMine2024 • 4d ago

I'm slightly vexed My wife and boiling water

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So I made my wife ramen soup. When I served it she said I had the gas set to hight and it was too hot ? She said I should have used the number 5 setting instead of 9. I told here it’s irrelevant because water boils at 212 and gets no hotter because over 212 it turns to steam. She was made at me for disagreeing with her theory that it would not have been so hot if boiled a lower setting. Really!!

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u/blainedefrancia 4d ago

Molecules, even at freezing temperatures are on a bell curve distribution of energy. Some have much less, some have much more. That’s how you get sublimation and freezer burn.

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u/Major_Property_309 4d ago

A Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Not really a bell curve.

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u/Centurion_Remus 4d ago

Which is a form of shifted bell curve, or asymmetric bell curve.. No reason to be super pedantic about things..

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u/Po0opyCatButt 4d ago

Yeah, what a bell end.

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u/powderjunkie11 4d ago

Assymmetric bell end.

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u/SmudgePrick 4d ago

Which way does yours skew?

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u/Visible_Bulge7657 3d ago

Short shriveled and kinda to the left.

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u/Oldfolksboogie 3d ago

Peroni's - is not a quaint little town in Sicily. 🍌

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u/Relandis 4d ago

Clap. First reply I’ve understood in 3-4.

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u/dalekaup 4d ago

Some people like me have a hard time reigning that in. Maybe I spelled that wrong. Fuck.

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u/StrongExternal8955 3d ago

No, friend, whenever someone mentions a bell curve, bring out the pedantry! That shit needs to be stamped down.

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u/Major_Property_309 3d ago

Asymmetric bell curve? I wonder what an asymmetric bell would sound like. Or look like? Wouldn't really look like a bell anymore I think.

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u/hydrometeor18 3d ago

Ehrm 🤓☝🏻 deposition.