The key things to understand here are that most chemicals formed naturally that lead to life contain carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, the most abundant elements on earth. These are the organic chemicals. You also have a lot of inorganic compounds that form a bit differently, and most if those are things like metal salts.

The elements are always looking to be in their lowest energy state, just like water will always run downhill, and that makes them settle into stable compounds and molecules. So you can have two elements that are very reactive and toxic in their pure state, like sodium (a metal that will ignite violently with air), and chlorine (a gas that will straight kill you), and they will combine to form a compound we all cannot live without, NaCl, table salt.

You can read more about cyanide toxicity here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_poisoning, but the key thing to understand is swirling a bunch of carbon and nitrogen around is unlikely to form CN- ions in any significant amount, so there's nothing to worry about there.

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Or this youtube series looks fun:
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On not being able to find the door:

Thankyou very helpful.

Quality alcohol is nice with a meal and such. Port and brandy and champagne. A cold beer on a hot day. A glass of ale in a pub on occasion. Otherwise, name one good thing about being drunk.

It makes other people seem almost interesting.

Not really.

Not a dam thing.

Will get 375ml of wine for Friday. A little alcohol can maybe get me interesting.

These things are highly dependent on who is doing the imbibing.

What happened to all the threads from before 9-15-14? Did we have another archiving event or something. Feels like we've lost some remotely interesting threads.

bottom left hand corner of the forum there's a showing threads from option, the default is 2 months you can change that to whatever. The threads are still there.

Well, how bout that? Never noticed.

I think it works the other way 'round.

I think I'm hilarious when I'm drunk and I don't care what you think!

Soon my 10k post will be published in ATF. SMP will be up there.

It removes inhibition of saying very sexually explicit comments to females, thus increasing your chances of either scoring, or getting a slap, if that is your thing.

It either makes my tinnitus go away, or makes me just not care about the god awful ringing in my left ear.

My tinnitus is in my right ear.

I'm back in the USA. God's Country. Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.

Welcome back Zeno. Have a beer with some comfort American original 50-60s style fast food or enjoy some liquer by the fire after some dessert and remember the old country that is the original country of reason moreover the madness...

cheers. Raising a wee dram, sorry to have missed you.

Thanks guys.

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Last restaurant meal was in Bordeaux. Wine we ordered is above. I had the local cassoulet dish. The casoulet dish varies depending on the sub-region of southern France.

Bordeaux is a wonderful city (at least the central area and near the river) with a grand gothic cathedral.

Alcohol is good for you (in proper proportion). Especially wines and beers for meals. I don't care what others may think. Ok by me that you miss out on one of man's greatest inventions and pleasures.

mmmm. Beanie weenies.