What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[jamespowers]

I like to whack 'em with my cane. I am disabled, and I wait my turn like everyone else.

:rofl:

 

[jamespowers]

The best thing to put out the spice fire in your mouth is sugar. Next time you happen to crunch into a Thai chile or habanero, don't reach for the fire hose, just grab a sugar packet and dump it in your mouth. You'll be good as new.

Sugar maybe but pineapple juice sounds better. A Mai Tai sounds even better.

 

[jamespowers]

They have a wonderful fruity, chile flavor. They're just hotter'n all get out.

Habaneros aren't hot. Obviously you never had a Trinidad Scorpion Moruga before. 2,009,231 SHU. Nothing and I mean nothing combats that!
A Habanero is only 100,000 to 300,000(depending on which one) if that gives you any idea how hot the scorpion is.

 

[Zombie_61]

Habaneros aren't hot. Obviously you never had a Trinidad Scorpion Moruga before. 2,009,231 SHU. Nothing and I mean nothing combats that!
A Habanero is only 100,000 to 300,000(depending on which one) if that gives you any idea how hot the scorpion is.

:nono: I like spicy food, but if it's so hot that it scorches my taste buds to the point that I can't taste what I'm eating I have no use for it.

 

[DesertDan]

When I was sick some years back I was on a medication that made me crave salt. I followed my brother's example and took to sipping pickle juice as a way of satisfying that craving, but the acid upset my stomach. So I'd throw in a spoonful of baking soda first -- and get a kind of fizzy pickle-flavored drink.

I bet I could bottle that now and make a pile of money. "Aunt Lizzie's Artisanal All Natural Pickle Soda." Add some ginseng, and the hipsters would beat a path to my door.

Sorry Lizzie;



Dill Pickle Phosphate & Dill Pickle Milkshake
McAlpine's Resturant and Soda Fountain, Phoenix AZ.

 

[jamespowers]

:nono: I like spicy food, but if it's so hot that it scorches my taste buds to the point that I can't taste what I'm eating I have no use for it.

I said it was spicy not flavorful.

 

[Gregg Axley]

The only smoky flavored thing I want to drink is Scotch.
I drank some Kona Blend today at a school meeting and I am still jittery from the damned stuff---even though I put a lot of cream in it. I can't understand the allure. :doh:

I don't do Kona, Columbian, or any other variety because of it's name in the hopes of being hip.
On occasion I'll do flavored coffee on the weekend, but my daily one is still the Café Noir.
At one time the weekend blend was Café L'Orange, you guessed it....coffee with a hint of orange flavor.
Recently I ran out of my daily blend, and decided to drink some coffee a friend brought from Honduras.
James I had that hopped up feeling all day.
So it's back in the cabinet.

 

[jamespowers]

I don't do Kona, Columbian, or any other variety because of it's name in the hopes of being hip.
On occasion I'll do flavored coffee on the weekend, but my daily one is still the Café Noir.
At one time the weekend blend was Café L'Orange, you guessed it....coffee with a hint of orange flavor.
Recently I ran out of my daily blend, and decided to drink some coffee a friend brought from Honduras.
James I had that hopped up feeling all day.
So it's back in the cabinet.

I think coffee drinkers want a type of legalized dope from coffee now. :doh:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

 

[jamespowers]

No way! After I tried Maple bacon beer that was enough stuff flavored with bacon. Bacon has to be real bacon and nothing else.

 

[Gregg Axley]

:nono: I like spicy food, but if it's so hot that it scorches my taste buds to the point that I can't taste what I'm eating I have no use for it.

If it scorches your taste buds, you have 2 actions that need to be taken.
First is the sugar packet as suggested, the second is locating the nearest "ice house" in your town, because you are going to need it the next day.

As for bacon flavored coffee, I guess you could put a piece in the coffee as someone would do with a cinnamon stick in hot chocolate.

 

[dh66]

No way! After I tried Maple bacon beer that was enough stuff flavored with bacon. Bacon has to be real bacon and nothing else.

Maple bacon beer sounds even worse than fruity flavored beer.

Maybe a coffee flavored beer.....or beer flavored coffee.... Naahhhh

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[jamespowers]

Maple bacon beer sounds even worse than fruity flavored beer.

Maybe a coffee flavored beer.....or beer flavored coffee.... Naahhhh

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I've had coffee beer too. You don't wanna go there.

 

[jamespowers]

If it scorches your taste buds, you have 2 actions that need to be taken.
First is the sugar packet as suggested, the second is locating the nearest "ice house" in your town, because you are going to need it the next day.

As for bacon flavored coffee, I guess you could put a piece in the coffee as someone would do with a cinnamon stick in hot chocolate.

Sugar won't do a thing with that much heat. Just go for the Mai Tai and hope the alcohol prevents intestinal damage. ;p

 

[HudsonHawk]

Sugar won't do a thing with that much heat. Just go for the Mai Tai and hope the alcohol prevents intestinal damage. ;p

Alcohol makes the capsaicinoid effect even worse.

 

[jamespowers]

Alcohol makes the capsaicinoid effect even worse.

Depends how much you drink.

 

[Zombie_61]

If it scorches your taste buds, you have 2 actions that need to be taken.
First is the sugar packet as suggested, the second is locating the nearest "ice house" in your town, because you are going to need it the next day.

I'll have to try the "sugar packet" cure the next time it happens. As for the ice house, no need for that--if it scorches my taste buds, it's immediately going back out the way it came in; I'm not about to let it cause further damage.

 

[rocketeer]

Any votes for getting rid of the term 'Human Resources'?
It appears that personnel are now a resource to use rather than a person. Anybody here work in a Human Resouces department and objects to modern terms like this.

Another pet hate word. Uni instead of University. University is something to be proud of, not all who wish to go will achieve the required grades. To demean it to just three letters is to disrespect University, or should that be to 'diss'!

 

[HudsonHawk]

Any votes for getting rid of the term 'Human Resources'?
It appears that personnel are now a resource to use rather than a person. Anybody here work in a Human Resouces department and objects to modern terms like this.

I'm not in HR, but I'm not sure why one would object to that term. The field has turned into way more than "personnel" in the last 50 years, especially with the administration of things like insurance, 401(k)s, disabilities, Workman's Comp, Ombudsman, and the many other non-work related services many companies provide their employees. It's far from simply hiring/firing anymore.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Our HR department is there to bring more red tape to the process!
That and monkey wrenches.
Things went smoother BEFORE it got bloated with bureaucracy.
Then again, I AM with the government.