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by cypher543 3384 days ago
Also for anthropomorphizing atoms. Sulfur seems very grumpy.
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If you've ever worked with sulfur, yes. Sulfur is grumpy.

Could be worse --- flourine is so clingy.

flourine -> fluorine

I assume it's a typo here but it is getting really common on the Web, doesn't anyone turn on the spell checker in Firefox/Chrome/etc?

Yours, Sulphur.

Is flourine a thing? If it doesn't exist this typo is a bit annoying, but not as bad as the silicon / silicone typos.
It's one of the elements found in the minerals breadite, crackerite, and hardtackum.
More a braino than a typo but yes, you are right.

And I can't even pretend I was talking about bread, because someone else made that joke further down. Damn you, logfromblammo!

I legitimately laughed out loud.
Sulfur is grumpy because it hates to be anthropomorphized like the GP did.