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[ein]

isn't the closest language Frisian?

technically, sure, but if we're counting minority languages, we have to include creole languages like helgoland mentioned earlier and then then there's scots, which is debatably a language or just a dialect

because languages aren't a hard and fast thing and any discussion of which language is closest to another tends to fall apart once you go beyond a surface level comparison of majority languages

[scriver]

Disqualifying languages because they're minority languages seems silly and makes no sense. But Creole languages wouldn't count because they came into being as a direct consequence of merging tongues with English rather than as their own lingueages. It's like if you ask which cookie is the most resembling the Chocolate Chip cookie and somebody holds up a chocolate chip cookie with parts of a chili rice cookie jammed into it. It may be a super tasty new cookie in itself, and definitely technically correct, but not near what the kind of answer that was originally looked for.

[Rolan7]

Chili rice is so good...  A chili rice cookie?  I'm imagining that actually working somehow, and that makes me happy.

[Tack]

German is quite close to English too.
It's like europe's languages are as incestually intermingled as their royal families

[Tawa]

Well, they do speak German in Austria.

Although this handsome fella probably spoke Spanish.

[Akura]

Well, they do speak German in Austria.

Although this handsome fella probably spoke Spanish.

Er, Charles was so badly deformed by inbreeding he could hardly speak, period.

[ChairmanPoo]

Well, they do speak German in Austria.

Although this handsome fella probably spoke Spanish.

His great-great-grandfather spoke Dutch, however, and reputedly spoke Spanish rather shittily.

It's all the same to me TBH. We've been stuck with god-bothering kings (of various dynasties) for too damn long. The way I see things Josep Bonaparte was likely the only passable one and certainly the less inbred of the lot (With the forementioned Charles II likely earning first-place in the latter category).

[Gunner-Chan]

I was gonna try staying active a bit more here but then I got into Final fantasy XIV

Also I put a fire out without water today, that was kinda cool

[Frumple]

Kitchen fires respond very well to being smothered in salt. Just... throwing that out there. Good reason to have excess salt around.

[Gunner-Chan]

It was outdoors and I just beat the hell out of it.

[TheBiggerFish]

In Totally Expected News Today: Gunner-Chan is still awesome. 

[Akura]

Kitchen fires respond very well to being smothered in salt. Just... throwing that out there. Good reason to have excess salt around.

I always thought that was baking soda you were supposed to use on fire.

[Frumple]

Both work, apparently, it's that you usually need less salt to put something out, and it's somewhat less likely to catch fire itself. Different mechanics involved. Probably different efficacy for different types of fire, too. Grease ones are definitely salt, but other sorts might do better with baking soda.

[Rolan7]

Baking soda huh?  I just use flour.
(do not try this)

[Tack]

I've heard you can use a hot salt bath in order to make plastic easier to reshape as a DIY kitchen project.
But that it has a tendency to bubble and if a salt particle hits you it's going right to the bone in short order.