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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Apr 18, 2017 - 12:05pm |
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SFW read:going to Thailand to get a new hip
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Apr 18, 2017 - 11:42am |
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miamizsun wrote:going in to a hip new thai restaurant for the first time
and just assuming the heat scale was in the same universe
so i order my curry hot
and she says "hot or thai hot?"
i remember saying "thai hot" and eating a salad with ginger dressing before the event
apparently the word thai is key here (if she would have used words like "10x" or "molten" or "surface of the sun" hot, i would have had a clue)
i thought it was odd, but didn't put two and two together when the food runner (delivering my dish) was suited up like he was handling nuclear waste
and isn't it funny that there's a universal sign language when humans are in food shock/distress from such things
flailing arms, fanning your face (like that's going to help), eyes streaming tears, schnozz opened like a faucet, profuse sweating, etc.
lesson learned Was the food good?
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islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
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Apr 18, 2017 - 11:37am |
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miamizsun wrote:going in to a hip new thai restaurant for the first time
and just assuming the heat scale was in the same universe
so i order my curry hot
and she says "hot or thai hot?"
i remember saying "thai hot" and eating a salad with ginger dressing before the event
apparently the word thai is key here (if she would have used words like "10x" or "molten" or "surface of the sun" hot, i would have had a clue)
i thought it was odd, but didn't put two and two together when the food runner (delivering my dish) was suited up like he was handling nuclear waste
and isn't it funny that there's a universal sign language when humans are in food shock/distress from such things
flailing arms, fanning your face (like that's going to help), eyes streaming tears, schnozz opened like a faucet, profuse sweating, etc.
lesson learned
One of my favorite Thai places here, has what I call the random scale. They ask you 1-5 for how hot you want it, they then proceed to make whatever they want and serve it to you. I've had 5s that didn't even make me reach for the drink, and I've had 1s that I couldn't finish. I have noted that with the chili oil dishes, they seem to increase in hotness by a level or two when stored in the fridge overnight. So that 3 you had last night will be a solid 4+ for lunch the next day.
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Coaxial
Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas Gender:
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Apr 18, 2017 - 5:01am |
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miamizsun wrote:going in to a hip new thai restaurant for the first time
and just assuming the heat scale was the same universe
so i order my curry hot
and she says "hot or thai hot?"
i remember saying "thai hot" and eating a salad with ginger dressing before the event
apparently the word thai is key here (if she would have used words like "10x" or "molten" or "surface of the sun" hot, i would have had a clue)
i thought it was odd, but didn't put two and two together when the food runner (delivering my dish) was suited up like he was handling nuclear waste
and isn't it funny that there's a universal sign language when humans are in food shock/distress from such things
flailing arms, fanning your face (like that's going to help), eyes streaming tears, schnozz opened like a faucet, profuse sweating, etc.
lesson learned
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miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
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Apr 18, 2017 - 4:56am |
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going in to a hip new thai restaurant for the first time
and just assuming the heat scale was in the same universe
so i order my curry hot
and she says "hot or thai hot?"
i remember saying "thai hot" and eating a salad with ginger dressing before the event
apparently the word thai is key here (if she would have used words like "10x" or "molten" or "surface of the sun" hot, i would have had a clue)
i thought it was odd, but didn't put two and two together when the food runner (delivering my dish) was suited up like he was handling nuclear waste
and isn't it funny that there's a universal sign language when humans are in food shock/distress from such things
flailing arms, fanning your face (like that's going to help), eyes streaming tears, schnozz opened like a faucet, profuse sweating, etc.
lesson learned
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Jan 9, 2017 - 1:42pm |
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Proclivities wrote: For some reason, I was expecting an alligator to be in that in that water. I wasn't sure what was going to rise up and get him. Only gravity.
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Jan 9, 2017 - 1:34pm |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote: For some reason, I was expecting an alligator to be in that in that water.
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Jan 9, 2017 - 1:25pm |
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Lazy8
Location: The Gallatin Valley of Montana Gender:
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Dec 20, 2016 - 5:54pm |
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aflanigan wrote:Custom engraved feeler gauge sets? Water rockets.
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aflanigan
Location: At Sea Gender:
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Dec 20, 2016 - 3:17pm |
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Lazy8 wrote:
Huh. I had the same kit, or one just like it. And I actually did learn enough Morse to earn a license, just don't ask me to use it now.
And the whole hobbyist thing of collecting QRL cards never made sense to me. I earned my nerd cred other ways.
Custom engraved feeler gauge sets?
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Lazy8
Location: The Gallatin Valley of Montana Gender:
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Dec 20, 2016 - 9:43am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:I had a Heathkit set of parts and a big lego board that you'd put different diodes and whatnot into these blocks that you could put onto the board, then connect with jumper wires to make different things. For a while I knew what all those things did. Later I got a 10-band shortwave receiver, and was going to get into ham but I couldn't ever get the hang of morse code (the plug & play set had a key). The receiver was cool but you had to fine-tune it by finding a local ham guy to broadcast a tone at a known frequency etc etc and I never did that so the thing was really hit and miss. Plus we didn't have tall trees in the neighborhood back then so my antenna wire was only about 10 feet off the ground. But I could pull in Voice of America broadcasts, I think Radio Marti, and other probably pro-Commie propaganda stations with some pretty exotic music. And disco. Lots of Eurodisco. Huh. I had the same kit, or one just like it. And I actually did learn enough Morse to earn a license, just don't ask me to use it now. And the whole hobbyist thing of collecting QRL cards never made sense to me. I earned my nerd cred other ways.
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Dec 20, 2016 - 8:54am |
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Red_Dragon wrote: That explains a lot.
IT DOES NOT
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Dec 20, 2016 - 8:42am |
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ScottFromWyoming wrote:I had a Heathkit set of parts and a big lego board that you'd put different diodes and whatnot into these blocks that you could put onto the board, then connect with jumper wires to make different things. For a while I knew what all those things did. Later I got a 10-band shortwave receiver, and was going to get into ham but I couldn't ever get the hang of morse code (the plug & play set had a key). The receiver was cool but you had to fine-tune it by finding a local ham guy to broadcast a tone at a known frequency etc etc and I never did that so the thing was really hit and miss. Plus we didn't have tall trees in the neighborhood back then so my antenna wire was only about 10 feet off the ground. But I could pull in Voice of America broadcasts, I think Radio Marti, and other probably pro-Commie propaganda stations with some pretty exotic music. And disco. Lots of Eurodisco. That explains a lot.
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ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
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Dec 20, 2016 - 8:40am |
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Proclivities wrote:...and maybe it'll be ready by Easter. I had a Heathkit set of parts and a big lego board that you'd put different diodes and whatnot into these blocks that you could put onto the board, then connect with jumper wires to make different things. For a while I knew what all those things did. Later I got a 10-band shortwave receiver, and was going to get into ham but I couldn't ever get the hang of morse code (the plug & play set had a key). The receiver was cool but you had to fine-tune it by finding a local ham guy to broadcast a tone at a known frequency etc etc and I never did that so the thing was really hit and miss. Plus we didn't have tall trees in the neighborhood back then so my antenna wire was only about 10 feet off the ground. But I could pull in Voice of America broadcasts, I think Radio Marti, and other probably pro-Commie propaganda stations with some pretty exotic music. And disco. Lots of Eurodisco.
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Dec 20, 2016 - 7:50am |
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Red_Dragon wrote: My dad built tons of that stuff when I was young. Heathkit ham radio, stereo, weather station, you name it.
My uncle built a lot of those kits too - lots of cool stuff.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Dec 20, 2016 - 7:41am |
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Proclivities wrote:...and maybe it'll be ready by Easter. My dad built tons of that stuff when I was young. Heathkit ham radio, stereo, weather station, you name it.
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Dec 20, 2016 - 7:35am |
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...and maybe it'll be ready by Easter.
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ricguy
Location: between gigs...in the OC, CA Gender:
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Sep 9, 2014 - 9:42am |
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Proclivities wrote:aww the seventies(?) .... 'cause they really were that orange . I miss those days gone by... you know , before instagram filters...
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Proclivities
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender:
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Sep 9, 2014 - 7:58am |
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Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
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Oct 9, 2013 - 3:46pm |
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friends helping friends
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