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Thats so great!
I would love to join, but can't say yet, I want to mobilise a few friends with similar interests first.
Please give me a week, then I can say for sure 
And least year was really great
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(My Armenian grandfather once told me this is because Europeans might be uneasy with the thought of an Armenian or Turk sneaking down their chimney in
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Nooo my fucking sides are in orbit 
Also cool we have an indian chemist among us, but I wonder why we have only one?
By the amount of indian papers we must at least have a hundred 
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| Quote: Originally posted by arkoma |
You should go ahead and meet Friday.
@vibbz--Live in the US,and have sent to the UK and Canada, and had a Santa from Oz one year, so yes, very much international!
I love this time of year! |
I absolutely plan to, I move into my own place Oct 1st and have the book out and ready to start so I don't need to dig through boxes to find it in the
new place.
I greatly appreciate it and as well as everything else.
| Quote: Originally posted by karlos³ | Thats so great!
Also cool we have an indian chemist among us, but I wonder why we have only one?
By the amount of indian papers we must at least have a hundred
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Vibzz is a great chemist too, his videos are awesome and he has a way of teaching like an instructor. I know in the Discord there are a bunch of
Indian chemists so there has to be some here too.
Indian papers are almost as plentiful as German papers lol.
Really the 4 countries I see the most from are US, Germany, China and India. What I like about many Indian papers is they are often in English or you
can sometimes find a translation easy.
Chinese papers are never in English, and even sometimes Google translate makes no sense. I have a photo somewhere where it said along the lines of
"Add 10mL of children's tears to the solution", do they have to be tears of joy or tears of fear?
Syn'
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| Quote: Originally posted by Syn the Sizer | | I have a photo somewhere where it said along the lines of "Add 10mL of children's tears to the solution", do they have to be tears of joy or tears of
fear? |
Proof!
Or it didn't happen
I offer an old pharmacy bottle(photo of course) containing 1-phenyl-2-propanone in return 
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I'm looking forward to participating this year!
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I am definitely interested.
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| Quote: Originally posted by karlos³ |
Also cool we have an indian chemist among us, but I wonder why we have only one?
By the amount of indian papers we must at least have a hundred
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The number of scientists in the university and the number of amateurs is not necessarily correlating for some countries. It could be either the case
when there are no scientific positions available, so the people who do chemistry are mostly hobby/amateurs (and sometimes they are very advanced), or
the other way around - if you can do something interesting in chemistry you can get a good position but have no time or money to do the same as a
hobby.
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I know of at least two Indian chemusts active on the board at the moment.
For SS, the more engagement from more people, the more fun it is.
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Can anyone explain to me what Secret Santa is and how it works?
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This is secret santa, I think it is a very thorough explaination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Santa
Oh... now I get why I received mine in time for sinterklaas!
(thank you again )
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I’d just like to know if my recipient ever got his stuff. Never heard a word from him after the initial message. I’ll still be contributing this
year though.
You can’t claim you drank all day if you didn’t start early in the morning.
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It appears I misremembered it was just tears not childrens tears.
Sorry for the digression
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Oh, and please sign me up too.
I asked friends who are here too, but since our forum is down the last days, well...
How long will it be open up to register?
And, j_sum, do you handpick the recipients actually?
Because if so, then that's great and also I'm impressed.... but I actually ask because if, I can and will put up more details in my request if its not
too much.
Maybe someone from a country where they don't have exactly the same sweets durings christmas
Or wait, even better, so while we're at it I just ask here
What are typical christmas sweet things or such from or associated with Germany, something you'd also like to receive?
I actually have not really an idea whats considered typical on the outside.
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| Quote: Originally posted by karlos³ |
Maybe someone from a country where they don't have exactly the same sweets durings christmas
Or wait, even better, so while we're at it I just ask here
What are typical christmas sweet things or such from or associated with Germany, something you'd also like to receive?
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I would say mead or Holunderbeerwein, but those can't be mailed overseas. Or the dry ingredients for Gluhwein.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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@Syn, pharmacy phenylacetone bottle pic attached, as promised 
Thank you the inspiration, and crazy!
There you happen to be born as, live in, and in general, are german your whole life and only last year the thought occured to me, while drinking a
glühwein "damn, christmas would suck without glühwein" and now I hear about that!
I would have thought other people else would drink other hot alcohol containing things... local warm alcoholic drinks we do not have here...
So christmas does for you not actually smell like bratwurst and glühwein?
Thats really something to swallow...
We were once in breslau, poland, and it was just as it is here, but its just a step over the border.
Else, no, christmas I've always been in my country.
But really great, thank you, this bit has already helped to kickstart my creative thinking
(but keep em coming nonetheless )
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| Quote: Originally posted by karlos³ |
Thank you the inspiration, and crazy!
There you happen to be born as, live in, and in general, are german your whole life and only last year the thought occured to me, while drinking a
glühwein "damn, christmas would suck without glühwein" and now I hear about that!
I would have thought other people else would drink other hot alcohol containing things... local warm alcoholic drinks we do not have here...
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People will have mulled wine here, but it's not nearly as universal as it is in Germany, and one generally has to collect all the spices and make it
from scratch.
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| Quote: Originally posted by DraconicAcid |
People will have mulled wine here, but it's not nearly as universal as it is in Germany, and one generally has to collect all the spices and make it
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Always used mulled wine interchangably, I thought its the english equivalent, but I guess not?
Wow, I guess those ready-to-use glühwein spice mixes(just put into the wine while warming up) would be huge for exportation then
Like a tea bag, but no, not "like", actually they are tea-bags.
Good that I know that in advance!
Next christmas I am going to make a million or even seven, by exporting a few tons of those to the states!
But not to get rich of course.
View this is an humanitarian act.
You guys can't live on like this any longer, I am appalled, but also, my heart is broken because of the many americans who went from crip to grave
without at least once a year for just a month being able to have sweetened hot alcoholic beverages sold (and socially acceptably drank) at every
corner, next to a bratwurst vendor....
Mhmmm bratwurst... alright.... I think I got all the drool wiped off and out of the keyboard...
It turned autumn so quick, and all the christmas sweets are available already, also, its freezing cold at times.
And I have to admit, I am also getting into the mood, slowly.
Guess it was the same for MadHatter when he opened the thread
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Yes, mulled wine is simply the English term for Gluhwein. You can find the tea-bag things for mulled wine, but they are hard to find. Mulled wine
isn't popular enough for the importers to ship in a lot of it, and it's too hard to find for it to become really popular.
And most of the continent has repressive liquor laws that say you can't drink in public without risking fines, so buying a mug of mulled wine at an
outdoor Xmas fair isn't going to happen.
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I haven't participated much on this board, however I really like the idea of Secret Santa and would love to participate
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| Quote: Originally posted by basement | I haven't participated much on this board, however I really like the idea of Secret Santa and would love to participate
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Great!
Watch this space. In all likelihood I will see my way clear to opening this up this Thursday.
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I don't remember what was in the form last year but I suggest you add a small section if we have special items to give, so you can do better pairs.
Some of us are overflowing with glassware or chemicals... this year has been especially lucky!
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| Quote: Originally posted by karlos³ |
What are typical christmas sweet things or such from or associated with Germany, something you'd also like to receive? |
Hand grenade
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| Quote: Originally posted by j_sum1 |
Great!
Watch this space. In all likelihood I will see my way clear to opening this up this Thursday. |
Ooh, I'm impatiently waiting
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| Quote: Originally posted by karlos³ | | Quote: Originally posted by Syn the Sizer | | I have a photo somewhere where it said along the lines of "Add 10mL of children's tears to the solution", do they have to be tears of joy or tears of
fear? |
Proof!
Or it didn't happen
I offer an old pharmacy bottle(photo of course) containing 1-phenyl-2-propanone in return |
https://www.theregister.com/2008/09/15/innocent_drinks/
Not what Syn said but do I still get the prize ?
The spirit of adventure was upon me. Having nitric acid and copper, I had only to learn what the words 'act upon' meant. - Ira Remsen
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Ew thats disgusting
What did they think? Did they even think? Oh man...
Yes, you are free to download the picture of the prize(above) too
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Ok everyone. This thing is up and running again for this year.
The link for the sign-up thread and further discussion is here. https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=15...
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