Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Eh, it's a bit of colouring, like is used in almost every soft drink & plenty of food, @ThanosReXXX.... It's far from being the worst ingredients in most of them, if that's the concern

@ThanosReXXX It's been that way for quite a while now, actually. At least 5 years, maybe more. Shortly after it became the go-to brand for X-Sports (because writing extreme is also 2 hrd.)

Also the contents aren't exactly the color shown there....it's similar ish but that color over-saturates it horrendously. It's not really THAT solidly opaque a color. It's, indeed a bright yellow, but it's much more translucent more of a paler-but-still-neon-ish color than that. It's bright, but doesn't look like something from a Spiderman comic like that picture above.

@Eel They're selling booze to drunks...how creative does it need to be?

You'd be surprised, it's probably like the console wars but with alcohol brands.

The fancy expensive bottles would be like the cool gamer PC's.

@Eel So... I don't HAVE to like Batman?
(for the record: I actually do)
I was only semi-serious with that previous comment. I actually wondered about that logo before, and once I believed that the bat logo might have to do with the history of Bacardi, and having to secretly brew and store it in caves, places where bats might obviously hang around as well.

But now that I brought it up again, I decided to look it up, and the truth is far less clandestine or sinister:

"Ever wonder why the legendary rum maker would choose a bat as its brand logo?

As the story goes, company founder Don Facundo Bacardi Massó’s wife, Doña Amalia Bacardí, spotted fruit bats in the family’s distillery one day. Believing the winged visitors were a sign of good luck, she insisted they be the symbol of the family’s company.

Her intuition was spot on, as Bacardi rose to be one of the largest spirit manufacturers in the world with legions of fans, including Ernest Hemingway, who referenced the company in three of his novels."

@BruceCM Depends on what that "just a bit of coloring" consists of. Mountain Dew isn't banned in so many countries around the world for no reason, you know...

Isn't it, @ThanosReXXX....? Probably due to other additives, though. Which would make plenty of other energy drinks banned, too

"and also because bats are ****** cool", added Doña Bacardi.

@BruceCM Yeah, obviously it's not just coloring, it's also about additives (edit: although I've hardly ever seen any of these garish colors in soda drinks over here, if ever). If you can access that link I posted earlier, it's an interesting read, also mentioning six other food items banned around the world but not in the US. The States seem to be far more lenient towards toxic food items than lots of other countries.

Then again: I shouldn't be too surprised about that, seeing as even tap water is filled with additives, amongst which the supposedly beneficial fluoride, which is only beneficial in certain amounts and/or daily doses.

@NEStalgia Well, I found a more accurate pic... erm, I mean picture:

I suppose it doesn't entirely look like something created in Norman Osborn's secret lab, but it definitely still looks just as toxic as Red Bull or Monster...

Eh, try it.... You might even like it

@ThanosReXXX lol. Well it's basically HFCS, citric acid, random "colors and flavors"and water..... Do it's toxic enough . But the good kind of toxic . The color is still overdone there though and i still like the real sugar kind...hfcs tastes so chemical to me.

Speaking about Toxic...

@ThanosReXXX I mean I honestly don't know how Nintendo could be so out of touch to not realize people want their games from later systems too. I just don't.

As for the other stuff - the benefit of an online forum is that I can leave whenever I want and, no offense, I don't really care what people think here, at the end of the day.

As I've only skimmed the last couple of pages, why are we discussing toxic green carbonated beverages? XD Even when I normally drank sofa, I didn't particularly care for Mountain Dew.

Just about anything brown without "Diet" slapped in front of the main name, on the other hand....

@Heavyarms55 True migraines are thankfully rare; typically my headaches range from "Yeah, it's bothering me, but I can function" to " Okay, gotta close my eyes for a minute while resting my head. Then back to it!"

I normally power through all but the worst ones without painkillers unless they last more than a few hours. I'm not against meds by any means, but I'm also a believer in not using them unless they're really needed.

Its been a while guys and gals. How has everyone been?

@NintendoByNature Welcome back!

@Tyranexx The talk of Mountain Dew and headaches reminds me of one of my university roommates. The dude used to down between 12 and 16 liters of Mountain Dew every week. He used to just go through at least one 2 liter every single day - amazingly he wasn't overweight nor did he exercise to counter it. Frankly I don't know how that works. But eventually he started getting serious stomach ulcers and vicious acid reflex disease - so he stopped drinking the stuff straight - and had like a 72 period of literal withdraws from the lack of caffeine.

I get headaches if I go long enough without caffeine too - but I've never had it in the amounts he used to.

@Heavyarms55
Yo, you were so busy with Pokemon Shield recently, weren't you ?
How about some ACNH for tonight at 6 pm ?
Last time i requested the outfits and the cap from Pocket Camp.

I had my last lesson today - students begging me to stay, co-workers remarking how America sounds like a nightmare right now, and the simple fact that I don't want to leave all ripping my beating heart out and showing it to me... I'm not remotely stable right now. I veer back and forth between wanting to scream, cry or smash something and yet old habits from childhood of just hiding everything behind the smiling face mask are already returning. It was even worse at the elementary school as the kids were literally holding on to me begging me not to go. At least the jr. high kids are sarcastic about it. Although they all wrote me little notes and good-bye cards. Lots of them drew pictures of me and for me (they all know I love Pokemon and Gundam so I got lots of that <3 )

Add to everything that even though I bent over backwards for a non-stop flight from Tokyo to LA, Delta just decided "Yeah, I know you paid for that but we're sticking a layover in anyway. Deal with it."

I pretty much only feel calm when I'm completely engrossing myself in fiction right now.

Even though literally no one I actually work with wants me to go - to the bureaucrats about 5 steps up the food chain, I'm just a number on a piece of paper like everyone else. The contract was for 1 year, extendable up to 5 and nothing more. And actually, from the sound of it, they are not replacing me - they are cutting funding over all.

The more things change - the more they stay the same. If not for anime and video games, I would be resorting to drinking and... perhaps other options to deal with my stress. I know people back "home" love to bash on my hobbies all the time, but they've always kept me from resorting to other means of relieving my stresses.

@Anti-Matter Sorry about that - I keep seeing your messages when I'm away from my Switch. But I'll try to remember to hop on and order those things for you tonight. Just keep bugging me and eventually I'll remember.

@Heavyarms55 Was there no chance of finding another similar job with the experience you got from there, just before the expiration of the contract?