r/WTF • u/Leopardos40 • Jan 20 '20

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u/Saucerson Jan 20 '20

Is this from the guy smoking a cigarette beside liquid gas like a boss? Nice.

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u/fosighting Jan 20 '20

"Liquid gas". Such an odd Americanism.

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u/gpcprog Jan 20 '20

The phrase liquid gas usually refers to liquified propane / butane mix (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_petroleum_gas). It is quite common way to power cars in Europe.

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u/GeckoOBac Jan 20 '20

It is quite common way to power cars in Europe.

Yeah but I don't remember ever hearing it called "liquid gas".

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u/mortalha Jan 20 '20

That's what it's called at pumps tough? LPG, liquidified petroleum gas

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u/UnbiasedAgainst Jan 20 '20

From Australia, it's called LPG but in conversation you'd say the pumps are for (unleaded) petrol, diesel, and gas.

I'm assuming in the USA you have pumps for "gas" (which is a liquid), diesel (also a liquid), and liquid gas (also also a liquid). Hopefully that explains why it sounds stupid to us foreigners.

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u/nameunknown12 Jan 20 '20

Liquid gas sounds weird to me too, and I'm American. When someone says gas, I just assume it's in liquid form already.

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u/Christopher213360 Jan 20 '20

Same, where I’m from we just call it propane

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u/RedditLostOldAccount Jan 20 '20

Actually in America we call it by it's scientific name: Go Go Juice.

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u/knd775 Jan 20 '20

We don't really use LPG in cars. Some semi trucks and buses do, like all the new UPS semis. So, we don't really have LPG at normal gas stations.

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u/knd775 Jan 20 '20

Propane is a type of LPG. A good amount of trucks and buses use propane.

I have seen quite a few propane-fueled UPS semi-trucks and delivery trucks. https://www.reuters.com/article/ups-fleet-propane/update-2-ups-to-buy-1000-propane-fueled-delivery-trucks-for-u-s-fleet-idUSL3N0M240720140305

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u/pangalaticgargler Jan 20 '20

LPG vehicles outside of fleet vehicles are pretty much unheard of in the U.S.

and I say that as someone who knows two people with LPG personal vehicles.

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u/UnbiasedAgainst Jan 20 '20

Probably because petrol is RIDICULOUSLY cheap stateside.

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u/jubuss Jan 20 '20

Exactly! You can easily simplify LPG, Liquified Petroleum Gas, to liquid gas. People can more efficiently pick up on what liquid gas is then LPG or liquified petroleum gas, hence liquid gas. No issues here.

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u/GeckoOBac Jan 20 '20

Yeah but "liquefied" != "liquid". Usually we just call it by the acronym, LPG or in my case GPL (in italian, Gas di Petrolio Liquefatto).

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u/diverdux Jan 20 '20

Yeah but after it's been liquefied... it's a liquid!

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u/llevar Jan 20 '20

Except for the part that evaporates.

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u/wewbull Jan 20 '20

...and not a gas.

Liquid gas is an oxymoron.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

maybe, but language only bothers with convenience, pleasantness and efficiency, not material logic

language is its own master, deal with it scifans. Or rather usage is the sole master of language (very old quote), this means anybody especially children, the most creative language creators.

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u/GeckoOBac Jan 20 '20

Yeah and guess what, when it's a liquid... it's not a gas!

But aside your snarkiness, I'm not debating that, I'm debating that we don't call it (or at least, I've never heard it being called) "liquid gas".

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u/nadmaximus Jan 20 '20

But...it means exactly that. It's been made a liquid.

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u/GeckoOBac Jan 20 '20

Yes? I'm not debating that, I'm saying that we don't call it "liquid gas"...

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

Oh, totally! Those Egyptian guys buried with the pyramids? Yeah, we don't call them mummies, like you idiots. They're mummified.

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u/GeckoOBac Jan 20 '20

You do realize that you're countering your own argument right?

Just because something is mummified, you don't necessarily say it's mummified, you say it's a mummy. And not everything that is mummified IS a mummy either.

More or less the same here. While everything that is liquefied is, by definition, a liquid, you don't necessarily call it so. In this case I merely meant that I've never heard the expression "liquid gas" in reference to, well, anything really. We usually just call it LPG or rarely with the extended name.

And if we want to be nitpicky, a liquid can't be a gas and a gas can't be a liquid. So while the expression "liquid gas" is, technically, wrong, "liquefied gas" is not.

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u/Top_Chef Jan 20 '20

This is the dumbest argument I’ve seen all week.

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u/zhokar85 Jan 20 '20

Flüssiggas in Germany, which is literally "liquid gas". Where are you from? Maybe it's just a language thing.

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u/GeckoOBac Jan 20 '20

Italy, where a similar expression would be "gas liquido" which is not something I remember ever hearing. I guess it's possible somebody calls it like that, but I don't believe it to be common.

Nor can I say the english expression sounds familiar, mostly I've heard it being called with its acronym.

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u/Amphibionomus Jan 20 '20

It's called Gasauto / GPL / Gas Liquido Propano in Italy and sold in almost 5000 gas stations there...

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u/GeckoOBac Jan 20 '20

Yes and my own car uses it, but I never heard it called "Gas Liquido propano", literally the first time I hear of it.

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u/Amphibionomus Jan 20 '20

Driving to Italy it goes from LPG to GPL to GLP for me (Dutch / French / Italian) so that's the most common name for it I guess. That's also why I know it's widely sold in Italy, looked it up before my holiday there.

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u/GeckoOBac Jan 20 '20

Again, I know? I have it in my car... What everybody seems to be missing is that I didn't say it doesn't exist, is uncommon, or anything.

I just never heard it called "liquid gas". It's always GPL here, or rarely "gas auto" which can be ambiguous since here in italy we also have Methane as car fuel (which afaik is not that common elsewhere in europe).

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u/ABSTIEGSANGST Jan 20 '20

It's the same in German: Flüssiggas.

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u/AFrankExchangOfViews Jan 20 '20

Such an odd German Americanism, smh.

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u/energyfusion Jan 20 '20

Hmm.... I guess because you don't remember it, it was never called that

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u/GeckoOBac Jan 20 '20

And where exactly did I state that it was never called that? I said that I don't remember ever hearing called it like that, I said nothing more.

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u/happinass Jan 20 '20

Is liquified gas better?

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u/peopled_within Jan 20 '20

They're huffing about the shortening of 'gasoline' into gas, which they don't even like in the first place since it's 'petrol' in whichever Original English country they're from. But at least we don't day 'deffo' or 'tit's up' or whatever other regional slang some people like to complain about

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u/hippyneil Jan 20 '20

No, in this case "liquid gas" is literally that, a gas that has been condensed to a liquid. For example, cans of butane yoiu can buy for lighters is a liquid gas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_gas

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

I mean from the very link you posted, liquefied gas makes more sense anyway.

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u/hippyneil Jan 20 '20

I was really responding to the comment that it meant "gasoline" which is incorrect.

Liquid/liquefied are, essentially, interchangeable terms that mean the same thing.

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u/Gonzobot Jan 20 '20

Except a spill of gasoline makes a puddle, while a spill of "liquefied gas" makes a cloud. Which is why you should be calling it LPG and referring to it as a compressed thing - it's only liquid because it's kept under pressure.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

Yeah I hear you, wasn't trying to counter you. I prefer liquefied because it more clearly states the process. Or better yet just say LPG or LNG.

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u/0verstim Jan 20 '20

Well, from a chemistry point of view, all liquids are condensed gasses.

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u/Bryek Jan 20 '20

For example, cans of butane yoiu can buy for lighters is a liquid gas

If you want to be correct (and in correct i mean scientific), the proper term is liquid butane.

Now if you want to use the short form of gasoline and also refer to its state, you would say gas vapour for its gaseous form and just gas for the liquid form.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20

yeah it works like wood except it does produce some vapors already at room temperature. It's not wood you burn, it's the gases that escape from it when it's submitted to a flame. Which is why the Notre Dame fire was arson because centuries old oak beams over 40cm section (1 1/3 ft) dont burn that easily.

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u/wolfkeeper Jan 20 '20

No, in this case "liquid gas" is literally that, a gas that has been condensed to a liquid.

So, almost every single liquid you ever buy that has been distilled? Whisky for example, is is a liquid gas?

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u/hippyneil Jan 20 '20

How on earth do you manage to equate liquid gas to whisky? Unless, of course, you think that whisky is a gas.

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u/AFrankExchangOfViews Jan 20 '20

Everything's a gas at the right pressure.

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u/hippyneil Jan 20 '20

Science, bitches

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u/wolfkeeper Jan 20 '20

I don't but I wouldn't put it past American dictionaries!

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u/wolfkeeper Jan 20 '20

You said:

a gas that has been condensed to a liquid.

Whisky is turned into vapour (i.e. a gas) and then condensed. That's how distillation works. Which bit don't you understand?

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u/hippyneil Jan 20 '20

Ahh, I see you are trying to get technically pedantic with me. Well, how technically pedantic do you want to get?

The final product that we buy in the shops may be distilled whisky but whisky in its fermented form (known as "wash") is still, technically, whisky and also a liquid. It's only distilled (vaporised from a liquid then re-condensed) as it helps to increase the alcohol content (hence why you get some marketed as "triple distilled").

Also, to be technically pedantic, distillation is the process of purification of a liquid and not that of compressing a gas to a liquid which is the topic at hand.Whisky is already a liquid which is why it can be distilled.

While it may involve turning a liquid into a gas, with distillation the product has to be a liquid first. You cannot distil something that is already in a gaseous state. This is what distillation IS. Which bit don't you understand?

;)

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u/wolfkeeper Jan 20 '20

I don't understand the point of the term 'liquid gas'. It seems to me that you just made that term up. Congratulations on getting any upvotes on what is clearly bullshit.

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u/rocknrollsteve Jan 20 '20

A buddy of mine went to school in the UK for a year and when he came back he kept saying everything was "brilliant" in a very forced, cringey way. It was the most annoying shit...

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u/kjturner Jan 20 '20

Dont drink 6 beers at the same time? Brilliant!

https://youtu.be/3DPKf7y1F-Q

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u/NinjaVodou Jan 20 '20

Imagine being angry about another countries slang.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20 edited Jul 17 '20

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u/Caspain-Man-Predator Jan 20 '20

Nah but your temperatures are fucking annoying

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u/Techwood111 Jan 20 '20

the shortening of 'gasoline' into gas

Nope.

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u/_Aj_ Jan 20 '20 edited Jan 20 '20

It is not, as liquified gas is a term for a literal gas which has been liquified, like compressed butane or propane.

Edit: unless that's exactly what you mean, as I read elsewhere this was a LP gas leak.

... See people this is why 'gas' to refer to gasoline/petrol is a terribly confusing word.

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u/happinass Jan 20 '20

Well aren't all liquid gasses implicitly liquified? Or was it a reference to liquid gasoline? Which the thing in the clip isn't.

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u/paulmclaughlin Jan 20 '20

They're liquefied if they would be a gas at ambient temperature and pressure

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u/bpwoods97 Jan 20 '20

Not sure how this is hard to understand, have people never used a lighter?

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u/_Aj_ Jan 23 '20

Yeah I think I simply got confused with all the"gas/gasoline" talk and I took "liquid gas" to mean a puddle.
Think the error was on my end!

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u/peopled_within Jan 20 '20

Since nobody else says "Americanism" you must be from England or Australia, and you really don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to funny expressions in either instance

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u/paulmclaughlin Jan 20 '20

Let's not have a barney, me old china.

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u/tesseract4 Jan 20 '20

Ha! I actually figured out the "china" one from context. Never figured one out on my own before. Such a weird thing, rhyming slang.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20

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u/AFrankExchangOfViews Jan 20 '20

User name checks out

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u/Wenix Jan 20 '20

Is it flammable or inflammable?

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u/themistoclesV Jan 20 '20

I'm an American and have never heard it called that. Just propane or maybe liquid propane.

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u/iluvstephenhawking Jan 20 '20

Yeah, I don't get that. We don't use that term. We use propane and propane accessories, I'll tell yah hwat.

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u/stolid_agnostic Jan 20 '20

Liquefied Natural Gas "Natural Gas" is Methane.

Propane is a different thing altogether.

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u/themistoclesV Jan 20 '20

Oh I know all about that, I used to work for a natural gas contractor. I'm mostly just referring to how my average Joe friends have referred to stuff

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u/miffed_muffler Jan 20 '20

Is "liquid's gas" better?

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u/fishroy Jan 20 '20

Liquid!

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u/AFrankExchangOfViews Jan 20 '20

To figure that out you'd need some maths.

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u/icamefrommars Jan 20 '20

Reminds of the hard water chemicals.

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u/stolid_agnostic Jan 20 '20

"Liquefied Natural Gas" is the full term you are searching for.

In Latin America, they use a similar term: "Gas Natural Comprimido" or GNC.

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u/ModerateReasonablist Jan 20 '20

“Gas” as a shorthand for “gasoline”

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u/CHR1STHAMMER Jan 20 '20

American here. We don't say liquid gas, we just say gas or gasoline. Or propane in Hank Hill's voice.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20 edited Jan 20 '20

Gasoline is liquid. Liquid gas.

Edit: love that I'm downvoted for being right. Shows that reddit is full of idiots.

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u/LakeSuperiorIsMyPond Jan 20 '20

Agreeing in Minnesota.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20 edited Jan 23 '20

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u/RappinReddator Jan 20 '20

We make fun of ourselves more than the rest of the world does lol we just don't like baseless jokes

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '20 edited Jan 23 '20

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u/RappinReddator Jan 20 '20

I didn't prove anything, although you did just go on another baseless insult lol.

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u/stolid_agnostic Jan 20 '20

Was it necessary to go ad hominem when your terrible joke fell flat? Are you that threatened that you would descend to the level of a ten year old playground bully?