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I like my coffee like I like my men: not burning my tongue.
This sometimes leads me to put in unmanly things like milk so that I can drink it immediately before leaving.

I don't drink hot drinks at all. I put cold water in, or ice cubes if I have any, until it's cold enough. In tea as well.

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"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."

Speaking of tongue-burning, here's another contradictory thing.

1. I do not enjoy eating very spicy food. Anything over maybe 5k on the scoville scale. It's unpleasant and I keep trying to make the sensation go away by drinking lots of milk or ceasing to eat it.
2. I keep wanting to eat very spicy food. Whenever it's been a couple days I start getting cravings. I planted two Jalapeño plants this year and god help me there's still 50+ peppers to get through.

This is like some bizarre culinary masochism. I'm reminded of Jeff Burke's thusly disproven hypothesis that addiction is indistinguishable from liking something a lot.

How about making some coffee, freezing it into ice cubes, and then later putting the coffee ice in a cup of coffee to cool it down faster without diluting it?

I hate being around people, since a lot of them tend to annoy me and I like the solitude, yet I hate being lonely, and want to be around people whom I can talk to. My Asperger's just loves to annoy me.

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Warning: Recovering bilingual, attempting trilinguaility. Knowledge of French left behind in childhood. Currently repairing bilinguality. Repair stalled. Above content may be a touch off.

I want to be more open about my feelings so I don't get some sort of ulcer from stress or whatever, but I hate everyone that I'm around all the time.

then what makes you think being open is at all a good idea? shouldn't you want mostly to not hate people, rather than want to Express Yourself

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Warning: Recovering bilingual, attempting trilinguaility. Knowledge of French left behind in childhood. Currently repairing bilinguality. Repair stalled. Above content may be a touch off.

nobody likes scaldingly hot drinks because they're scaldingly hot and yet people still say they like, and ask for, "hot drinks". when people say "hot", therefore, they do not and cannot mean "scaldingly hot" but "pleasantly hot" -- that is "pleasantly warm".

you're not a special contradictory snowflake after all.

I actually like that my hot drinks be served cold. This gives me a choice as to the temperature I want to drink it at: if its served moderately warm, it will drop beloy moderately warm rather fast, whereas if its served too warm to be drunk, I can drink it all throughout the tolerable range, thus at my pace and leisure, instead of having the option of just right and too cold I have too hot, just right and too cold.

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Part of me wants to see the Orioles defeat the Yankees now and part of me wants them to survive long enough that the Cardinals can face them in the World Series.

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no me digas, busquemos a alguien que lo use!
wait...

You could've used truth be told too.

that's not a subjunctive, that's just a crystallized expression, a one-lexeme phrase that, at some level, operates outside grammar and on the level of lexicon instead

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