30th October 2010, 10:10 PM
Great Rumbler Wrote:You can have something be spicy without venturing into "personal pain".
This is why I'm glad I found out that different people actually have different numbers of taste buds. I'm a lot more sensitive to spicy foods than a lot of people. It hurts, like it burns my mouth. No damage, but it's enough that I get no joy out of it at all. I might as well squirt lemon juice in my eye.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)