No fair. We all know that is the coolest car ever.

Beautiful country, beautiful people. Been there, loved it.

It looks cool? Well, we have completely different ideas of cool looks, apparently… I think this car looks cool.

That may be true, but in case of the Cybertruck, I doubt that there is any lipstick you can put on that particular pig that can somehow turn it into something I would even remotely consider buying.

I mean, I’m European, I can’t buy the fricking thing anyway, but I am also rather glad that I’m spared from ever seeing it in the wild.

Leaving all the downsides of the Cybertruck aside - the fact that it’s built by a fucking nazi, the fact that it can turn in to a death trap, the fact that the build quality is shit…

Who the fuck buys a hideous, hideous car like this…? Who suffers from such poor taste that they think a piece of junk that looks like it was designed by a five-year-old is something worth spending money on, let alone so much?

Let me correct this sentence: Close to your due date or not, don’t travel to the USA.

It was several teams from different German cities, five people per team. Don’t remember how many teams exactly, but at least eight. I got 9th in the solo ranking but we won the team title.

Same here. My balcony faces North. No way I can grow my own peppers, but I know some places where I can at least get decent quality habaneros, scotch bonnets and jolokias.

Recently made a mango habanero sauce using fermented yellow habaneros. Lovely stuff.

Well, I don’t like it, but you definitely have a point. :)

Definitely. I have stopped using extracts altogether, I go for best taste now, make my own sauces, I frequently attend Chili Festivals here in Berlin and I’ve tried hundreds of hot sauces. It’s become a hobby.

But I will never, ever again participate in a hot food contest.

To be honest I only backed out because some medics who were present took my blood pressure and emphatically recommended that I stop.

PS: While I didn’t win the solo title, my team got the most points, so at least I won the team title, which is nice.

PPS: Rank one and two had a decider - pure The Source wiped from the plate with slices of dry bread. Painful to watch.

That particular extract tastes very awful, really bitter. There’s a British manufacturer called Grim Reaper who has figured out how to produce extracts that aren’t bitter, but “The Source” will ruin the taste of your food along with making it extremely hot.

Um… thanks, I guess. I’m one too…

So I participated a bit longer ago, the hottest pepper extract available at the time was called “The Source” rated at 7.1 million Scoville units. To put that into perspective, Carolina Reaper peppers, depending on how well they’re grown, can reach about 2.5 million Scoville (Reapers weren’t around at the time either, hottest pepper was the aforementioned Bhut Jolokia).

I quit when they served a lemon sorbet with a large amount of that in it - which was the most sadist thing they could come up with in my opinion. Imagine you’re in a lot of pain from having suffered through all the enormously hot rounds before that one, and then they serve you something icy cold, which you are desperately longing for, but you also know it will just inflict immense pain.

It’s like throwing a drowning man a barbed wire rescue rope.

Well, then I shan’t.

Again, I respectfully disagree. Peace and understanding are not at the core of the Christian religion, it’s merely a pretense.

The bible says nothing against slavery, it calls for the death of homosexuals, it condones genocide in the name of their deity. It’s a weak, diffuse collection of ancient myths and stories brimming with questionable morals that are incompatible with humanistic values.

Christians have always been cherry picking their morals from the bible according to what suited them best at the time. Every progress mankind has made during the past centuries towards enlightenment has been consistently opposed by the church and thus, by the people following what the church preached (just saying this because so many apologists claim only institutional religion is to blame). Still happens today - you will find most homophobic, racist and evil people are religious, while humanists are generally irreligious.

Claiming these wicked people are not the way they are because of their religion is failing to acknowledge the fundamental problem with religion as a whole - at its core lies a monumental intellectual dishonesty, because it’s all about accepting the claim of god’s existence without any evidence whatsoever. And people willing to accept unproven claims and who are able to lie to themselves in such a huge way are also very much able to tell themselves they’re just doing good while committing unspeakable crimes.

Nope. These people are true Christians. They follow their holy book to the best of their ability and they do follow the teachings of Christ.

I once participated in the German Hot Food Competition, it started off with having to eat a whole Bhut Jolokia chili and only got worse from there.

Nevertheless, by saying most of them don’t follow Christian values, you kind of imply that Christianity in and of itself is not to blame for their behavior. I submit to you that they are true Christians and Christian values are the reason.

No True Scotsman.