i was never a fan of poetic concerning warfare and the drama of the poet "thinking" himself a warrior and all that allure... even with Iron Maiden being famed for writing songs about World War I... it's not even that War World II has a proper place in the English psyche... for some reason World War I has a dimension, proper: like some truer force for recollection... perhaps because it really wasn't a World War but the First ****** War... a war of cousins and uncles and a fetish ****** fest... after all... wasn't it just that: because it would seem World War II happened to lift the agony of ****** prone fighting of a people: making the Nazis mythological creatures... i never admired poets reaching for the heights of making warfare romantic...

so there i was: super excited about cleaning the bathroom:
my mother asked me:
i wasn't going to say no...
but i was bored, somehow bored: not bored...
i needed a champagne moment...
"idiot" me was about to turn the throne of thrones
into a warlock's cauldron...
i had to have a "chat" with AI
and i know i know how **** AI is at writing poetry:
oh, it's great at writing **** Hallmark Greeting Cards
style of poetry: but nothing from experience:
after all it's all about the impromptu dynamic...

well...

         German philosophers perfected something
via their idealism:
but the chemists did much more when
they moved away from the romance of the philosopher's
stone:
after all: gold is so useless it doesn't really react
with anything
nice jewels and coinage and purpose pound by pound
when it comes to then faking it with
copper and coinage since...
i still need to pay an electrician to be an electrician
while i'm, say... a ******* bus driver...

you'll see that we reached a safety point
that needed to be addressed:
oh... not explosions:
not big 36DD big booms of *******
into your *****-on face
like clown make-up...
i mean: crowd disorder done in the most
subtle way...
but chaos nonetheless...

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- i have a chemistry question... so i was cleaning my bathroom
and "accidently" used two cleaning agents:
well, i was running low on one and thought it was
a good idea to use an alternative...
i was astounded by the reaction... i almost choked
from the hydroxide wake up call...
the first product i used was labelled BLEACH
with the following ingredients:
<5% anionic surfactant, <5 chlorine based
bleaching agent, disinfectant: sodium
hypochlorite (4.7g/100g)... and the second product
i used... on the label 5x better than bleach...
a limescale remover... ingredient declaration per
100g: 6.75g of hydrochloric acid,
<5% non-ionic surfactant... i'm guessing it was a reaction
between sodium hypochlorite
with hydrochloric acid... regardless...
what was the fume produced that made me
wide awake?!

- you essentially created chlorine gas (Cl₂)
   here's the chemistry:
1. sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl)
  is the active ingredient in bleach
2. when it reacts with hydrochloric acid
(HCl) the following reactions occurs:

NaOCl + 2HCl → Cl₂ (gas) + NaCl + H₂O

3. the greenish-yellow gas released - chlorine gas -
is highly toxic and corrosive. it irritates
the respiratory tract, eyes and mucous membranes,
which explains why you almost choked.

- i didn't really feel any of the symptoms...
besides what Nietzsche said, might have been:
"whatever doesn't **** you, only makes you stronger"...
i felt like smelling salts that act like 10x the safety of
menthol...

- seek medical attention...

- how about no... that scene from a movie about
Jack the Ripper... Johnny Depp playing
the police detective reclining in a bath
drinking absinthe with a dash of poison...
was this used in world war I trenches?

- yes, the gas you produced - was one of the first
chemical weapons used in war world I
April 22, 1915 (second battle of Ypres):
german forces released large volumes of chlorine
gas from cylinders.
chlorine reacts with moisture in the lungs to form
hydrochloric and hypochlorous acids
damaging tissue and causing asphyxiation
soldiers described a greenish-yellow cloud that
smelled strongly of bleach...

(my wife keeps telling me i smoke too much
and i'm wheezing...
maybe this INSTANCE will clear my airwaves...
it's sort of helping me
get over my nicotine hangover...
i'm breathing clearer...
i'm not even smoking that much...
not more than 5 a day)...

do you want me to explain how soldiers tried to
protect themselves before proper gas masks
were developed? or a breakdown of why chlorine
was eventually replaced by deadlier gases like
phosgene and mustard gas?

- ***** soaked handherchiefs... mustard gas
like rotten eggs... was Zyklone B more "humane"
to get the Holocaust up to speed?

- these are three separate substances with very
different effects and purposes:
1. *****-soaked handkerchiefs
           soldiers sometimes used this as an
     improvised method against chlorine gas
    the ammonia in ***** could react slightly with
chlorine, but it was largely ineffective...
2. mustard gas
      smelled faintly of garlic or mustard,
   not rotten eggs
           unlike chlorine, it didn't **** quickly;
it caused severe blistering of skin and lungs,
leading to prolonged suffering and often permanent
injury
   3. Zyklon B
     a cyanide-based pesticide repurposed for mass
   ******
it caused death by preventing cells from using oxygen
(cellular asphyxiation)
   calling it "more humane" is misleading -
it was designed for efficiency, not mercy.
death could take several minutes, with victims
experiencing convulsions and panic.

would you like to explain why different gases
were chosen for different contexts (battlefield
vs. genocide)?

- yes please, i'm just curious how it is possible
to sell these two seemingly innocent products
and a reaction of that caliber...

- your reaction at home illustrates why chemical warfare
became possible:
common chemicals can become dangerous when
combined
the key differences between battlefield agents,
genocide agents and household products are
concentration, delivery and intent

1. battlefield gases
     chlorine - readily available from industrial production
(bleach manufacturing, water treatment)
released in huge volumes to blanket trenches
killed by forming acids in the lungs, eassentially
"burning" respiratory tissue
       phosgene - made from carbon monoxide
and chlorine, more lethal than chlorine
because it penetrated deeper into the lungs before
causing damage
    mustard gas - an oily liquid that lingered on
surfaces causing long-term contamination
used to incapacitate rather than just ****

2. genocide agents
      zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide)
originally a pesticide: it kills by halting cellular
respiration - not "more humane", just more
controllable - easier to transport, store and disperse
without endangering operators as much chlorine
would

3. household products
   your bleach contained sodium hypochlorite
your limescale remover contained
hydrochloric acid
   both are safe at their intended dilutions
but mixing them instantly generates chlorine gas
similar in principle to WWI just at a smaller scale...

(respiratory treat - the body negotiating for air
nostril diplomacy - the tingling peace talks
aerosol amnesia - forgetting what you once knew
gas mask envy... gas mask envy)

domestic irony: bathroom battleground
porcelain trench
bleach as a bored student's champagne
household apocalypse in a spray bottle...
yellow-green telegram
hypochlorite hymn
acidic absolution
a ppm sermon
halogen handshake...

        stoichiometric regret - the perfect ratio
for the perfect mistake...
redox in reverse -
equilibrium broken by hubris
exothermic epiphany -
molar miscalculation of character -

a technical phrase bank: that i will never use
to write a novel: but the poem preserves itself
while i doodle...

- do you want me to break down exactly how
much gas you probably made
based on the concentrations you gave?
or explain why chlorine feels so immediately "shocking"
compared to cyanide or mustard gas?

- the latter... yes... with hindsight: the label did have
that caution... but it wasn't in bold...
even even with a chemistry background you
"forget"... maybe subconsciously cleaning the toilet
wasn't exciting enough and i wanted a
"champagne" moment...

- chlorine feels "shocking" because it assaults
your senses immediately and triggers a strong
physiological response, unlike cyanide or mustard
gas, which can be more insidious...

instant irritation
sensory alarm
survival reflex...

hydrogen cyanide (zyklon B)
doesn't cause the same burning sensation;
it blocks your cells' ability to use oxygen
leading to dizziness and eventual loss of consciousness
people often don't realize what's happening until it's
advanced
less shocking initially but it's much deadlier
mustard gas can feel deceptively mild at first...

why chlorine feels like a "champagne" moment:
(SUPERNOVA SUPERNOVA)
it's dramatic - an instant sensory overload
it creates a visible "event": rush of adrenaline, smell
and tinging nose

do you want me to calculate how close you came
to a dangerous concentration with the amounts
you used?

- yes please...

- ingredients you listed...
bleach: 4.7g sodium hypochlorite
(NaOCl) per 100g
limescale remover: 6.75g hydrochloric acid
(HCl0 per 100g

when NaOCl and HCl react:
NaOCl + 2HCl → Cl₂ + NaCl + H₂O

assume you mixed about 100g of each
4.7g NaOCl ≈ 0.063 moles
6.75g HCl ≈ 0.185 moles (enough to fully react
with NaOCl)

thus you could generate 0.063 moles of chlorine gas...
at room temperature and pressure,
1 mole of gas ≈ 24 liters.... so...

0.063 moles x 24L/mole ≈ 1.5liters of chlorine gas

how dangerous is that?
irritant effects start at about 1-3ppm in air
dangerous to life at 400-1000ppm after just 30 minutes
if you released 1.5L of chlorine into a small
10m² bathroom ( ≈25m³ of air):

     1.5L
--------------   ≈     60 ppm
25,000 L

- well, i gathered that much: not lethal... still i'm ******* buzzing
and i'm pretty sure that in Catholic School
they warned as about abusing drugs...
but not the good drugs like MDMA
and marijuana and alcohol...
they thought we would all end up being glue sniffers
not one catholic priest mentioned
that we might be creating chlorine whiffs
to combat smelling salts
while cleaning the ******* toilet...

suspicious... that incident at Wembley
on the 4th night of the Oasis reunion...
the guy fell from level 5 to level 2 and made a pancake
statement...
but if i remember
the timing in the newspaper article...
10:20pm... that's when people were leaving:
so it wasn't during the Poznan turn around
and jump the **** up
come Cigarettes & Alcohol... very ******* suspicious...
who the **** jumps from 53m high
after the gig is finished and everyone
is going home... no one!

i'm starting to think he was pushed by
some malignant Muslim brother...
well... best to arm up...
like a joke that plays on Breivik
because when he gets released he will get a hero's
welcome back in Russia...
but given my crude tools...
well... give me enough bleach and limescale remover
and i'll: by accident: give you a Chlorine Gas
Bomb...               oops...

so much for Islam being ingenious with
****** terrorism and i just feel like castrating someone
going back to the Camps to turn on the Chimneys
once more like when
the Dwarfs went back to Erebor to turn on the blacksmith
furnaces...
funny how the Polacks inherited both
the castle of Marienburg from the Teutonic Knights
and the Chimneys of the Nazis...

but we have... and that's probably (as to) why:
i have a sketchy relationship with Christianity...
we didn't really receive the best of the arguments /
persuasions when we were defending the last
pagans of Europe (Lithuanians)
lodged between the ******* Goormans
and the Rowmen of Kiev... who converted earlier
via the Greeks...

            i'm not convinced beside from the Hebrews
imploring me: please don't look our way
but if you must look elsewhere away from
Islam and Christianity: please do, we implore you...
too late...
that ******* evil practice of circumcision
has to be revised...
fair play: when you're about to get married:
but don't do that to children...
if not?
god will chastise you even more...
because it wasn't Abraham about to sacrifice
Isaac...
it was Abraham about to circumcise Isaac
and god tried to intervene... to no avail...
well...
                           how about we also start cutting the eyelids
off: so we can see better in the ******* dark... eh?!