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Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:27 pm
by Vuvuzela
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.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:32 pm
by Thry
Vuvuzela wrote: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.
Drink black coffee in a glass filled with ice cubes then.

Lots of people do that around here - quite manly.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:50 pm
by Astraios
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.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:58 pm
by Aurora Rossa
Ean wrote:Drink black coffee in a glass filled with ice cubes then.
That dilutes the coffee, though.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:31 pm
by Radius Solis
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.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:54 am
by Thry
Jabechasqvi wrote:
Ean wrote:Drink black coffee in a glass filled with ice cubes then.
That dilutes the coffee, though.
Not a problem I've heard from people who drink it (who usually drink it quickly), so don't worry.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:55 am
by Thry
Astraios wrote: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.
You don't like hot cocoa or chocolate or whatever you call it? Milk with honey when you're sick before going to bed?

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 11:40 am
by Astraios
Ean wrote:You don't like hot cocoa or chocolate or whatever you call it? Milk with honey when you're sick before going to bed?
Hot chocolate. And I said already, I don't drink hot drinks. Look there, I put emphasis on 'hot', which makes it mean "I don't drink drinks which have a very high temperature". Of course I love hot chocolate and milk and honey and honey and lemon and things.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:06 pm
by Shm Jay
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?

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:14 am
by chaoktarukto
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.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 7:22 am
by Wattmann
Astraios wrote:
Ean wrote:You don't like hot cocoa or chocolate or whatever you call it? Milk with honey when you're sick before going to bed?
Hot chocolate. And I said already, I don't drink hot drinks. Look there, I put emphasis on 'hot', which makes it mean "I don't drink drinks which have a very high temperature". Of course I love hot chocolate and milk and honey and honey and lemon and things.
You're contradictory.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 7:47 am
by ----
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.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:10 am
by Pthagnar
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

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:23 am
by Thry
Wattmann wrote:
Astraios wrote:
Ean wrote:You don't like hot cocoa or chocolate or whatever you call it? Milk with honey when you're sick before going to bed?
Hot chocolate. And I said already, I don't drink hot drinks. Look there, I put emphasis on 'hot', which makes it mean "I don't drink drinks which have a very high temperature". Of course I love hot chocolate and milk and honey and honey and lemon and things.
You're contradictory.
+1, emphasis on the contra-

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:25 am
by Thry
Pthug wrote: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
What if those around him are hateworthy.
Find a new around then! Or rediscover people. Sometimes happens, especially when you just have first impressions of them. People in isolation are not the same as people in groups.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:52 pm
by linguoboy
Radius Solis wrote: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.
I enjoy spicy food, but it aggravates my chronic GERD like nobody's business. So I spend a lot of time saying to myself, "I would love to eat that but I really don't want to be up slurping Pepto-Bismal until 2 a.m."

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 6:02 pm
by Astraios
Wattmann wrote:You're contradictory.
Maybe so, but what's contradictory about drinking them pleasantly warm instead of scaldingly hot?

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:20 am
by Wattmann
Astraios wrote:
Wattmann wrote:You're contradictory.
Maybe so, but what's contradictory about drinking them pleasantly warm instead of scaldingly hot?
You dislike hot drinks but you like hot chocolate - that's very contradictory xD

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:57 am
by Pthagnar
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.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:50 am
by Torco
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.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:56 am
by Thry
Torco wrote: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.
stahp with the subjunctives

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:59 am
by linguoboy
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.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:31 am
by Torco
Ean wrote:
Torco wrote: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.
stahp with the subjunctives
may it be said, that the subjunctive mood be known as best mood is what the LORD indented.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 10:36 am
by Thry
no me digas, busquemos a alguien que lo use!
wait...

You could've used truth be told too.

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 11:17 am
by Torco
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