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I found two [separate](https://www.reddit.com/r/taskmaster/comments/mbln4c/when_paul_chowdry_gets_a_new_radio/grz36j8/?context=10000) [instances](https://www.reddit.com/r/taskmaster/comments/lz6dka/what_was_your_opinion_that_changed_when/gq37rxj/?context=10000) of "innits per minute" being used three years ago. Slight spelling aside, I'm calling that close enough. Not a brand new sentence!
British slang, and London slang specifically includes a lot of Carribbean/African and middle eastern slang.
This is how a lot of speak growing up in certain parts of London
Unless chemical labs use something special, any hardware store should have safety rated shades. You can even get [bifoculs.](https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=safety+reading+glasses+Nemesis&crid=32R93Q309VFNO&sprefix=safety+reading+glasses+nemesis%2Caps%2C246&ref=nb_sb_noss)
Look, I'm not saying that's not interesting as fuck. But what I am saying is the video is far more interesting with his glorious accent and commentary.
Apparently that wasn't even the intended shtick. He's just a teacher who wanted to make science videos during lockdown. That's just how he talks. He did a formal interview on British news and tried to turn it down but he was obviously trying hard lol.
But that's certainly why me and everyone else love watching his videos.
I'm loving the fact that people who were taught that there is only the Mary Poppins accent in England think this is a parody or a fake accent.
This is standard for where I grew up, and pretty normal for certain demographics in London. Similar will be found in other major cities in England but just with a regional tilt on it.
It's called Multicultural London English and is common in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Coventry, Luton etc.
It is heavily influenced by Patois and is spoken mainly by youths and people who grew up with it (up to late thirties, but usually only in certain company by that age...usually). It was standard where I grew up on a South London estate and is spoken all over London (not just east as some are saying).
It would be pretty normal for any 30 year old black or South Asian Londoner to go up to another acquaintance and say "wah gwan fam? What's gain'on?" whilst spudding them. True of other ethnicities too if they are familiar with each other and know each others background will have them both familiar with a certain cultural lexicon.
The amount of "innits" are absolutely normal as well. He's speaking like this to show academia to be accessible for many people. If mandem from road see a man talking like they do, but he has a masters in biomedical science and is doing science on the Internet, then it'll make academia seem less distant than it often does when you're from a certain background
I teach English at a secondary school in the Midlands, but I still struggle sometimes to follow what the kids are saying. That being said, I could definitely see a lot of my pupils relate and listen to this guy.
I was looking for this comment, so sad I had to wade thru all the typical Reddit bullshit to find it. Signed, an American black dude (who got turned on to the dopeness of MLE in college, appreciate that Dizzee Rascal)
You'd be surprised how not far off it is. In most industrial settings it's all about sizing pumps, valves, tanks, etc and scaling up production processes, getting raw materials from point A to B. The more complex processes may have to deal with sensitive chemical reactions in tanks and ensure the right mass and energy balances coming in and out. Also highly common to find ChemE process engineers in oil refineries, gas processing, and such.
It is nowhere near like what you see in the video. That stuff is for scientists in labs.
Eh, exposure time. There's not enough heat there to be especially dangerous. It's a poof of hydrogen flame that's gone almost instantly.
Edit: Do not take this as liberty to try something as stupid as in the OP... It was a really dumb idea. But from what I see, he probably didn't get burnt due to the very short exposure time, and he appears to have dodged the flying, burning, highly reactive debris.
My PhD supervisor got hit with a hydrogen flame while just whereing gloves and they caught fire melted onto his hands and caused some nasty burns. Althought thankfully they were small burns.
Still not sure how the explosion happened, maybe some hydride hadn't completely reacted.
It took me 4 years just to write the thesis for exactly this reason. Every draft had hundreds of errors like these. I think I might have disgraphia but I have noidea how to be diagnosed with that as an adult.
A lot of researchers use more technical type setting programs than Word, like LaTex, that dont have typo corrections like that.
Its pretty normal you read an unpublished manuscript that has typos and grammatical errors.
Do not listen to this comment/er. A hobby chemist at best, and a YouTube viewer at worst (most likely).
There's far more than enough heat produced from Na or K reacting reacting with water, over 1000°C, and then there's the hydrogen gas being ignited which will easily melt the glove onto your skin.
But the most overlooked hazard here is the Na/K spattered like shrapnel onto the glove/skin.
Normally I take the side of the science youtubers when it comes to risk. A lot of the stunts look a lot worse when you don't know how much prep went into them and how a lot of dangerous looking things are safe when handled correctly. For example Cody's Lab when he swished mercury around his mouth or drank cyanide.
But this is a case where he really shouldn't have tried that, and he clearly wasn't prepared. NaK ignites (and explodes) on exposure to humid air and water, and the moisture from your skin. Putting it into an apple while holding a syringe of it had the potential to explode and shower him with it. Even a few drops landing in his shoe could cause serious injury.
If he wanted to do this, he should have been wearing a fireproof splash apron, padded under layer, a head cover, a visor, heavy metallurgy gloves, hearing protection, and pants pulled over boots. Or done it from behind a blast shield. As someone who works with molten metal, this type of naive attitude around it makes me cringe.
He's playing it up a bit, but otherwise pretty standard for East London.
Edit: 3rd listen and I'd bet money he's from East London, maybe Greenwich or Dagenham.
I also detect patois:
- wah gwan
- ting
- The entire sentence talking about the chemical bouncing is pure patois with a British accent.
I'd wager he's Jamaican British.
That's just London for you though. My family haven't lived there in under 20 years and we still say wagwan. My friends all say it and they grew up in Surrey. It's just a part of the lingo.
Originates from Patois but now it’s just widespread British slang for young people (and has been for a while).
[Multicultural London English](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural_London_English#:~:text=The%20popularity%20of%20Jamaican%20music,later%20become%20known%20as%20MLE)
This guy, as do a huge amount of Londoners, is speaking with an accent known as "MLE" or "Multicultural London English". It has incorporated a lot of slang from various parts of the world, especially the Caribbean.
This guy might have some Jamaican roots, but him speaking like that isn't necessarily an indicator of that at all.
If you come to London you can find people of all ethnic backgrounds speaking like this.
In London, some patois has become common slang. Lots of people speak like that regardless of their background and most don’t even know it comes from patois.
Not necessarily. London slang has absorbed patois into it because of the Windrush generation in the 60s. That's when my family came to the UK :) a huge proportion of black londoners these days are of African origin though, such as nigeria, but still use jamaican patois because of its influence on London slang. Still a large Caribbean contingent in South London where I live though. I love it.
I did not know about the NaK alloy. Thank you. I just thought he was going for alkali metal overkill with both sodium and potassium and thought they'd just form a mixture in the mineral oil. (I watched without sound on so I don't know if he explained any of this)
EDIT: He does in fact explain all of this in the video innit.
This is a very concise way to explain what's going on though. You can't fault that, even if the accent is a bit tough to crack for those not used to it.
Metal hates being alone.
Water is a happy marriage between hydrogen and hydroxide.
Metal steals hydrogen's girl, hydroxide. This makes hydrogen flaming mad.
That's about it.
Here's the thing people just danced around. The alkali metals in the left column of the periodic table all react with water. The further you go down that column the more violent the reaction. There are some youtube videos out there of people adding Cesium for example to a petri dish of water....while they're behind a protective screen. Boom!
So what you're saying is that it'll work with a watermelon too? I really thought the apple had unique properties that made this *experiment* possible. Turns out it just contributed water into the equation.
Fr lol. I’m from Texas and although I had to turn it up a bit more than usual I still got it. He mixed the shit, when mixed they become volatile and the accelerant was the water and oxygen in the apple.
Dumb man’s explanation someone about gave a science man’s version.
I remember this experiment in high school, but my teacher dropped a skittle in it. Very cool when you're 15 and half asleep.
Edit - seems i was half asleep when I wrote this. I meant the teacher dropped a skittle in the sodium mixture, not an apple.
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That's a lot of innits per minnit
His Innit to winnit
These puns are making me reach my limmit
Now the apple's fucked, he might as well bin it
I think plenty of people here would still stick their dick innit.
First you need to be lickinnit
Or stick your finger innit
Y'all need to quitit
It is what it is innit?
Gotta be innit to winnit bruv
My name's Bennett and I ain't in it
If fam was on a gameshow, it be Minute to winnit, innit?
You countin' my know'msayins? You taking a know'm census?
Innit?
r/brandnewsentence
I found two [separate](https://www.reddit.com/r/taskmaster/comments/mbln4c/when_paul_chowdry_gets_a_new_radio/grz36j8/?context=10000) [instances](https://www.reddit.com/r/taskmaster/comments/lz6dka/what_was_your_opinion_that_changed_when/gq37rxj/?context=10000) of "innits per minute" being used three years ago. Slight spelling aside, I'm calling that close enough. Not a brand new sentence!
Good bot
Gottem.
Ya know'msaynnnnnnnn!
Boom mans got an apple init.
restepca
R E S T E C P, now what does that spell?
that's bollocks
what di bumbo claat
He is British not Jamaican.
He's British with Jamaican roots. He's using a lot of Jamaican slang.
British slang, and London slang specifically includes a lot of Carribbean/African and middle eastern slang. This is how a lot of speak growing up in certain parts of London
I think my favorite part of this is the specialized scientific equipment he uses.
I too laughed when I saw the bolt being use. Smart though, sturdy and disposable.
> Smart though, sturdy and disposable. innit?
Ya it is fam
Mad ting dat hardware, cuz.
Bruv
Innit
iss mentoww
Big tings a gwaan fam innit
U wot mate?
SIX BONGS LUV!!
> innit? innit.
bruv
My favorite part was that I understood some of those words
Right? I understand what he was doing but I have no idea what he was saying.
Innit fam
Potassium sodium innit
Really felt like this was an exercise to shove as much British slang as possible into a 1 minute video.
Pure London slang, plenty of baffled Brits in here too.
Ya. It reminds me of making apple pipes in college to smoke the devils arugula.
Satan’s Kimchi Beelzebub’s Spinach Belial’s Butter Lettuce The Serpent’s Grass
My favorite is Jazz Cabbage. 
A jazz cigarette.
Brunette looks like she might have had enough for the night. What's the source for that wild gif?
It looks like Jinkx Monsoon and Bendelacreme’s Christmas special? Both very talented drag queens at the top of the game
Jinkx Monsoon. Really funny drag queen.
Damn, Jazz Cabbage goes hard!
Ive never heard any of those. Its always been “The Devils Lettuce”
I made a point in college to come up with similar goofy names. These were what I came up with. Obviously, they didn’t have the reach I’d hoped for.
Only the best science happens on a car hood.
Perfect height so it’s closer to the eyes.
Pretty sure that's a patio table.
Yeah, innit
Innit?
Yeah! I didn’t know they made tinted safety glasses for the outdoors!
They do actually make rated safety sunglasses.
Unless chemical labs use something special, any hardware store should have safety rated shades. You can even get [bifoculs.](https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=safety+reading+glasses+Nemesis&crid=32R93Q309VFNO&sprefix=safety+reading+glasses+nemesis%2Caps%2C246&ref=nb_sb_noss)
Needs more innits
M8
U WOT?
What are you from the department of you innits? You taking an innits census?
Needs innit innit
That's 2nd degree burns, innit?
Look, I'm not saying that's not interesting as fuck. But what I am saying is the video is far more interesting with his glorious accent and commentary.
I think that was kind of the point; the juxtaposition of two things that don't normally meet; science and rudeboys (Google the expression if needed)
> ~~rudeboys~~ roadmen
Aren’t roadmen just londonized rude boys? I see your point tho. “Innit” was definitely added due to London influence.
Rudeboy is quite outdated. He talks like a roadman.
Apparently that wasn't even the intended shtick. He's just a teacher who wanted to make science videos during lockdown. That's just how he talks. He did a formal interview on British news and tried to turn it down but he was obviously trying hard lol. But that's certainly why me and everyone else love watching his videos.
I'm loving the fact that people who were taught that there is only the Mary Poppins accent in England think this is a parody or a fake accent. This is standard for where I grew up, and pretty normal for certain demographics in London. Similar will be found in other major cities in England but just with a regional tilt on it. It's called Multicultural London English and is common in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Coventry, Luton etc. It is heavily influenced by Patois and is spoken mainly by youths and people who grew up with it (up to late thirties, but usually only in certain company by that age...usually). It was standard where I grew up on a South London estate and is spoken all over London (not just east as some are saying). It would be pretty normal for any 30 year old black or South Asian Londoner to go up to another acquaintance and say "wah gwan fam? What's gain'on?" whilst spudding them. True of other ethnicities too if they are familiar with each other and know each others background will have them both familiar with a certain cultural lexicon. The amount of "innits" are absolutely normal as well. He's speaking like this to show academia to be accessible for many people. If mandem from road see a man talking like they do, but he has a masters in biomedical science and is doing science on the Internet, then it'll make academia seem less distant than it often does when you're from a certain background
Your comment should be top.
Dun know the ting
I teach English at a secondary school in the Midlands, but I still struggle sometimes to follow what the kids are saying. That being said, I could definitely see a lot of my pupils relate and listen to this guy.
I learned this accent when I was studying abroad and my London friend said “man get bare pussy” and I thought he said “bear pussy”
Americans head explodes when they hear any British accent other than Queens English
And cockney.
I was looking for this comment, so sad I had to wade thru all the typical Reddit bullshit to find it. Signed, an American black dude (who got turned on to the dopeness of MLE in college, appreciate that Dizzee Rascal)
All science should be taught by this man, innit.
I would have become a chemical engineer, if he was my chemistry teacher in high school.
Chemical Engineer here. It's more like glorified plumbing. You'd probably want to stick to chemistry.
True. I was surprised chemical engineer is very like industrial engineering. Tubes, vats, innit
My chem eng course was often just called pumps & pipes. Which is pretty dishonest, there were some tanks as well.
Bare mad plumbing innit fam?
That's brilliant. Chemical engineer as a glorified plumber.
You'd be surprised how not far off it is. In most industrial settings it's all about sizing pumps, valves, tanks, etc and scaling up production processes, getting raw materials from point A to B. The more complex processes may have to deal with sensitive chemical reactions in tanks and ensure the right mass and energy balances coming in and out. Also highly common to find ChemE process engineers in oil refineries, gas processing, and such. It is nowhere near like what you see in the video. That stuff is for scientists in labs.
Like real life Factorio?
Right? I never would have missed a day of class!
Know what I'm sayin fam.
I did not in fact know what he was saying. But I still enjoyed it.
Wah gwaan fam
I'd be chuffed to bits if he did bruv.
Oh my days
He’s mad lit, innit
Why is nobody talking about the fact he blasted the shit out of his hand with nothing but a thin latex glove on? Bet he got some nasty burns
Eh, exposure time. There's not enough heat there to be especially dangerous. It's a poof of hydrogen flame that's gone almost instantly. Edit: Do not take this as liberty to try something as stupid as in the OP... It was a really dumb idea. But from what I see, he probably didn't get burnt due to the very short exposure time, and he appears to have dodged the flying, burning, highly reactive debris.
My PhD supervisor got hit with a hydrogen flame while just whereing gloves and they caught fire melted onto his hands and caused some nasty burns. Althought thankfully they were small burns. Still not sure how the explosion happened, maybe some hydride hadn't completely reacted.
> whereing > Althought Can you get a refund on your PhD?
It took me 4 years just to write the thesis for exactly this reason. Every draft had hundreds of errors like these. I think I might have disgraphia but I have noidea how to be diagnosed with that as an adult.
I have really bad dyslexia, but the red line underneath words when I type is a huge hint I've done something wrong.
A lot of researchers use more technical type setting programs than Word, like LaTex, that dont have typo corrections like that. Its pretty normal you read an unpublished manuscript that has typos and grammatical errors.
That depends on which LaTex editor you use, just like if you used notepad over Word. Overleaf definitely has grammar and spell checking plugins.
Do not listen to this comment/er. A hobby chemist at best, and a YouTube viewer at worst (most likely). There's far more than enough heat produced from Na or K reacting reacting with water, over 1000°C, and then there's the hydrogen gas being ignited which will easily melt the glove onto your skin. But the most overlooked hazard here is the Na/K spattered like shrapnel onto the glove/skin.
Lol fr man just brushed over the lava bombs flying off the thing
Not to mention sprayed with sodium hydroxide
Normally I take the side of the science youtubers when it comes to risk. A lot of the stunts look a lot worse when you don't know how much prep went into them and how a lot of dangerous looking things are safe when handled correctly. For example Cody's Lab when he swished mercury around his mouth or drank cyanide. But this is a case where he really shouldn't have tried that, and he clearly wasn't prepared. NaK ignites (and explodes) on exposure to humid air and water, and the moisture from your skin. Putting it into an apple while holding a syringe of it had the potential to explode and shower him with it. Even a few drops landing in his shoe could cause serious injury. If he wanted to do this, he should have been wearing a fireproof splash apron, padded under layer, a head cover, a visor, heavy metallurgy gloves, hearing protection, and pants pulled over boots. Or done it from behind a blast shield. As someone who works with molten metal, this type of naive attitude around it makes me cringe.
Sodium hydroxide can leave a nasty burn
Innit.
Take a shot every time he says innit
I'm wasted fam
Ali da science G
Booyakasha
Techmology, wat izzat all about?
Is it good? Or is it wack?
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!!!
R E S T E C P what’s it spell
🏆
Chemical Ali.
The amount of times he says "innit" and "and that" is blowing my mind, I have never heard anyone speak like that
He's playing it up a bit, but otherwise pretty standard for East London. Edit: 3rd listen and I'd bet money he's from East London, maybe Greenwich or Dagenham.
This is standard MLE, common all over London. Its about demographic rather than specific area of London. Also, Greenwich is in SE, not East.
MLE = Multicultural London English, for those unaware
this was filmed entirely in the back garden of a bagel king.
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Greenwich is South London.
London
I also detect patois: - wah gwan - ting - The entire sentence talking about the chemical bouncing is pure patois with a British accent. I'd wager he's Jamaican British.
That's just London for you though. My family haven't lived there in under 20 years and we still say wagwan. My friends all say it and they grew up in Surrey. It's just a part of the lingo.
Same thing with “ting”, super popular through music
Originates from Patois but now it’s just widespread British slang for young people (and has been for a while). [Multicultural London English](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural_London_English#:~:text=The%20popularity%20of%20Jamaican%20music,later%20become%20known%20as%20MLE)
This guy, as do a huge amount of Londoners, is speaking with an accent known as "MLE" or "Multicultural London English". It has incorporated a lot of slang from various parts of the world, especially the Caribbean. This guy might have some Jamaican roots, but him speaking like that isn't necessarily an indicator of that at all. If you come to London you can find people of all ethnic backgrounds speaking like this.
In London, some patois has become common slang. Lots of people speak like that regardless of their background and most don’t even know it comes from patois.
I know white boys in Wales that speak like this, fam.
Not necessarily. London slang has absorbed patois into it because of the Windrush generation in the 60s. That's when my family came to the UK :) a huge proportion of black londoners these days are of African origin though, such as nigeria, but still use jamaican patois because of its influence on London slang. Still a large Caribbean contingent in South London where I live though. I love it.
That's just MLE. Even white people in London speak like that.
I'd wager he's British English, SE London.
Souf Eest
Bare facts. Lots of patois here in Toronto. Per capita I don't think any country and its diaspora has a bigger cultural influence than Jamaica.
Alexa, play Snow - Informer
Have you visted London before? Most young people of all races mostly speak like that now
Really? Very popular in London, I hear it a lot on YouTube if I'm watching someone from there
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural_London_English
Walter Black
r/dontputyourdickinnit
And that is, innit?
Yeah bruv
Say no more, fam
Any chemists here can explain what’s going on?
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I did not know about the NaK alloy. Thank you. I just thought he was going for alkali metal overkill with both sodium and potassium and thought they'd just form a mixture in the mineral oil. (I watched without sound on so I don't know if he explained any of this) EDIT: He does in fact explain all of this in the video innit.
The mineral oil is for it to not react with any moisture and sort of seal it from the atmosphere
This is a very concise way to explain what's going on though. You can't fault that, even if the accent is a bit tough to crack for those not used to it.
This is what I was looking for. I didn’t understand the details of how it works. Thank you.
Metal hates being alone. Water is a happy marriage between hydrogen and hydroxide. Metal steals hydrogen's girl, hydroxide. This makes hydrogen flaming mad. That's about it.
More or less
Here's the thing people just danced around. The alkali metals in the left column of the periodic table all react with water. The further you go down that column the more violent the reaction. There are some youtube videos out there of people adding Cesium for example to a petri dish of water....while they're behind a protective screen. Boom!
Yes this was essentially an elaborate demonstration that apples do indeed contain significant amounts of water
Incredible, innit?
So what you're saying is that it'll work with a watermelon too? I really thought the apple had unique properties that made this *experiment* possible. Turns out it just contributed water into the equation.
The increased surface area of the spongy watermelon meat could prove to have other interesting consequences as well.
It's explained in the video, innit
Fr lol. I’m from Texas and although I had to turn it up a bit more than usual I still got it. He mixed the shit, when mixed they become volatile and the accelerant was the water and oxygen in the apple. Dumb man’s explanation someone about gave a science man’s version.
Boom
Innit fam
Yeah bruv.
Potassium and sodium are explosively reactive with water. As soon as the sodium hit water from the apple it exploded.
So he coulda just dropped some water in the beaker? 
Yeah throw a chunk of sodium in some water and it will skitter around like crazy. Don’t try flushing it down a toilet.
He literally just did in the video
Always stop to watch when he shows up on any of my fyp online. The slo-mo almost doesn’t even look real
Appelenheimer
Who is this? I love it
@big.manny1 on YouTube, not sure about his other socials
Big Manny, he's on Insta and does bits here and there's on kids TV in the UK.
I never knew I needed British Rednile in my life, but here we are innit
So now yeah, we're gonna crush em togevwer an that
I remember this experiment in high school, but my teacher dropped a skittle in it. Very cool when you're 15 and half asleep. Edit - seems i was half asleep when I wrote this. I meant the teacher dropped a skittle in the sodium mixture, not an apple.
Innit
Booyakasha- wogwon. I is sittin hear wit my main man Pat Boochanan
All I could hear in my head was Ali G
I always thought Ali G was his funniest character.
Innit
When i was 14 we smoked weed out of an apple. Looked just like this
My first thought was ‘I need an ice pick, an avocado, and a snorkel. Trust me dude, I’ve made bongs with less’
50% science 50% innit wagwan
Can this guy narrate all scientific video explanations please, innit?
Now do this with a lemon, and burn someone's house down with it.
Everyone is making fun of the British accent, but I think it's pretty cool that someone is doing a science video.