The Very Many Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread ΛΓ

[Ajidica]

Mountain Dew in Canada doesn't have caffeine? What the heck?

It is because their milk comes in bags..... bags.

 

[Synobun]

Mountain Dew in Canada doesn't have caffeine? What the heck? That's it's main selling point.

I'm actually a huge fan of the blue mountain dew. It's my favorite soda.

It has caffeine now, at least here near the border. But yeah, it originally didn't have caffeine.

 

[Farm Boy]

Drugz, Tak, drugz.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

What the hell do you want caffeine for?

Some people prefer to get their caffeine fix from pop, rather than coffee.

As for why anyone would want caffeine in the first place, it's an addictive thing. My dad and grandmother tried to get me to drink coffee, and I flat-out refused. I can't even stand the smell of coffee, and finally told my dad to quit bugging me. He finally accepted that if I didn't join him in drinking coffee, that meant there was more for him.

It has caffeine now, at least here near the border. But yeah, it originally didn't have caffeine.

I just checked that 2L bottle I finished yesterday afternoon. The label says it has some specified number of milligrams of caffeine per 355 mL.

I never even noticed. The only stuff I have here now that has caffeine in it is Dr Pepper.


Fun fact (okay, not really fun): Never drink anything with caffeine if you're taking Ventolin. That's something I wish the doctor/nurse/pharmacist had mentioned to me before I drank some Coke and then had to take a Ventolin pill because of an unexpected cloud of cigarette smoke that left me coughing and extremely short of breath.

That was the worst case of shakes I ever had in my life.

 

[civvver]

I guess there's some regulation that may not be in effect any more in Canada that said only cola's could have caffeine. Weird.

Yes I get all my caffeine from pop or energy drinks, though I tend not to drink the later much since they cost double or triple what pop does. I love coffee, I love the flavor and smell but my stomach can't handle it any more. Right after college I was having a ton of upset stomachs and I was drinking 1-3 cups of coffee at work every morning. I stopped and instead drank one pop and a bunch of water and upset stomachs went away. Now I have acid reflux and coffee and wine are the biggest triggers by far. The only case I'll even chance coffee is if it's with a really great breakfast like on the weekends where you just have to have it and I'll take pepcid and tums before. Pop goes fine with bacon and eggs and stuff cus it's sweet vs salty/savory but bitter coffee with sweet breakfasts like pancakes and pastries is amazing. I do miss it.

Pop also has way less caffeine than coffee so I don't really consume that much overall. I drink on average three cans of pop a day which is about a liter and is 120-150 mg of caffeine depending on whether it's diet dew or diet coke since diet coke has less. That's like one and a half cups of regular coffee. A liter of coffee would be like four cups and be around 400 mg of caffeine.

 

[Takhisis]

Drugz, Tak, drugz.

I make do with computer games.

 

[Ajidica]

I have some button down shirts I wear for work that are getting a little bit worn around the cuffs and some of the cloth is wearing though. Any idea what I should do with them? It feels wrong to throw them out, but can't really donate them because they are getting a bit worn.

 

[Cutlass]

I have some button down shirts I wear for work that are getting a little bit worn around the cuffs and some of the cloth is wearing though. Any idea what I should do with them? It feels wrong to throw them out, but can't really donate them because they are getting a bit worn.

Donate them anyways. I had an uncle who was running a small town church thrift shop. He explained that they kept the most wearable stuff to sell, and sent the rest of the stuff on to relief agencies like Salvation Army and Goodwill. Those places in turn kept what they could use, and gave what they couldn't to disaster relief, where people had nothing at all. So it may not be wearable in an office, but someone who just lost their home in a flood might have it as better than nothing, or it could be passed on to a less developed country, where it's still better than the alternatives.

 

[Ajidica]

or it could be passed on to a less developed country,

That's probably what I least want to happen.
Seriously, this American trend of donating clothing to people in poorer countries has to stop. There is a reason Rwanda (I think it was them) banned aid agencies from just dumping clothing on them. It is quite bad for the local economy. As Bangladesh showed us, clothing is an industry that is cheap and easy to set up, surprisingly empowering for women, and well paid compared to being a dirt farmer. Dumping excess clothing in a country is a good way to wreck that industry. Even if there is a massive disaster, it is frequently better to have the aid agency purchase the clothing locally (or at least in the same region) to help keep the local economy alive in the face of a natural disaster.

But other than that, thanks. I'll check out if the local relief agencies can make use of them.
(The foreign clothing donation is just a massive pet peeve of mine.)

 

[Arakhor]

I'd just keep them and wear them under a jumper, but I'm not generally au fait with office politics.

 

[Synobun]

You can bring them to the tailor and they'll recede the cuff-line until all the frayed material is gone. That does mean they'll become mid-sleeves or t-shirts, but certainly usable without needing to be an under-accessory for other clothes.

 

[Ajidica]

I'll see if I can find any jumpers on sale during spring, but usually the only place I can find jumpers that aren't the heavy Norwegian Sea Captain style are trendy hipster places that cost way too much.

 

[Arakhor]

Don't you have cheap catalogue stores like Primark in the US?

 

[Takhisis]

I don't understand why you don't like heavy woollen sweaters.

 

[Ajidica]

Don't you have cheap catalogue stores like Primark in the US?

Yeah, there are actually a couple outlet malls near me. That would require me go shopping though.....

I don't understand why you don't like heavy woollen sweaters.

As I am not a grizzled Norwegian Sea Captain braving the biting wind and crashing waves of the North Sea, it would get a little warm in my office during the winter.

 

[Takhisis]

You 'Muricans and your ridiculous calefaction. Brave the weather like a man!

 

[Ajidica]

Cold I can take, but by office gets absurdly hot because our HVAC system was probably last replaced when it was acceptable to refer to people as "colored" or "negro".

 

[Hygro]

Is there anything more capitalist than a peanut with a top hat, cane, and monocle selling you other peanuts to eat?

I... no, no there isn't.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I have some button down shirts I wear for work that are getting a little bit worn around the cuffs and some of the cloth is wearing though. Any idea what I should do with them? It feels wrong to throw them out, but can't really donate them because they are getting a bit worn.

Donate them anyways. I had an uncle who was running a small town church thrift shop. He explained that they kept the most wearable stuff to sell, and sent the rest of the stuff on to relief agencies like Salvation Army and Goodwill. Those places in turn kept what they could use, and gave what they couldn't to disaster relief, where people had nothing at all. So it may not be wearable in an office, but someone who just lost their home in a flood might have it as better than nothing, or it could be passed on to a less developed country, where it's still better than the alternatives.

Goodwill would not sell them at their main store. I worked there for a summer and 90% of what comes in the door as donations goes right back out to be dumped in huge bins at a central warehouse where they can be bought for pennies on the pound. What doesn't get sold there likely ends up in a garbage dump or shipped overseas. In addition to aid-dumps, used clothing gets shredded and used as filler in all sorts of applications. Just today there was a picture of a busted punching bag on reddit that was filled with old clothes.

 

[Takhisis]

Cold I can take, but by office gets absurdly hot because our HVAC system was probably last replaced when it was acceptable to refer to people as "colored" or "negro".

So it's quite an up-to-date system then.