Anaphylaxis is the reaction this guy almost had to the 1 million statement, that is a joke of course but is also a perceived insult risk in a way depending on occasion. I can imagine if i did it the other guy can always have a chance to assume i was mocking his English in which case the statement orders of rice SIR comes with an angry poker face, hidden, evident only in the tone of the SIR. I wouldn't be horsing around with people that prepare my food unless i trusted them. But then you don't get great stories to tell either lol.

Seriously have you ever wondered how much rice as in individual rice grains you eat per meal when you cook (ok assume you boil 1 cup of lets say Thai Jasmine rice). I bet one million actually probably is many many dishes but i have no idea how many. That makes the joke likely enough rice to last a year or more. So i did an experiment with 3 powers of 2 and one of 10 basically that within say 25% error gives 10000 grains per cup or about 2500 per serving. So 1 mil is 400 orders of rice. Imagine if the guy was in a fighting spirit, never responded with anything other than "you got it Sir", and then returned to your table with 400 orders of rice just to redouble on the joke.

Now lets help you and make it 396 in the next few minutes since rice tested times 4 went into the boiling pot after the experiment. I will have mashed potatoes later with the rest of the chicken breasts. No time for Turkey.

Have a nice holiday everybody.

I was, in fact, teasing his choice of words. The story would have been less humorous had I said what he actually did, which was laugh at my little joke. Thank you for ruining the story by making me clarify that I was joking about the exchange. I really appreciate it.*

To calculate the number of grains of rice in a cup, here is the proper formula in its entirety: http://bfy.tw/8uAG

*be show some consistency and read this literally and without any humor. You should say "you are welcome" since I said that I appreciated your comments.

The proper "formula" (if the alternative is googling ) is experimentation, isnt it according to your past devotion to experiments?

So 10k gets more credibility for the Google result not mine lol!

After all i cared about MY rice! Which is a decent quality actually. Anyone with nice rice quality feel free to suggest good ones by the way.


PS: i didnt ruin your story. To the contrary i think. I simply asked and answered a question all likely had when they read it. I added to it what some could do to double back on your joke. That is probably funny to actually happen but i bet can be done only by the owner or a server that has had it with working there as the other guys will pussy up to do it in fear of losing their job. So i added to your story by actually inviting people to imagine many such stories and their chaotic developments.

I like to mix hot sauce in my rice.

Short grain rice > long grain rice

Reinventing the wheel < googling

Public service announcement:

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/can-rehe...?CategoryID=51

Happened to me once. Made me faint, fall over and obtain a quadruple face fracture.

How many people here are English?

I never understand how people hurt themselves when they faint. Excluding drunkenness, you have at least 5 seconds warning and often far longer that something really isn't right before you keel over. Why don't you get low, quickly? Is it fear of looking silly?

I had never fainted before. How am I supposed to know what the five-second warning signs are?

Dunno...you kind of instinctively sense that something isn't right and that you should probably sit/lie down right away.

Anyway, congrats on a) getting to adulthood without ever fainting and b) wiping yourself when you did. You sound like a boss.

You sound like a woman.

I'm English.

I am spending tomorrow in a very small boat in the Channel.

Finding the case for your own brand of rice after specifying what it is leaves no bs room for wasnt born yesterday sarcasm like short vs long. But random answers on the internet do not always specify what they measure and how and are in general for that reason less trustworthy. So nobody reinvents anything here and nobody ever learns how to do things fast by looking for easy answers by strangers in yahoo answers or whatever. If you had a young child and you asked them that question you would definitely not want them to try to google it until after they estimated. Your story in a holiday is an excellent opportunity to quiz a ten year old and even imagine together with them ways to do things. Oh but when it comes to us we wont use the same standards we would enjoy seeing the child apply demonstrating early scientific style reasoning depending on how they did it.

If i was your server i would, depending on my mood and desire to work there, be either in an extremely fake manner polite, appearing to be amused by the joke, or genuinely amused depending on the overall way it happened or simply answer you got it and then either place an order for 400 servings of rice or leave you wondering and worried for a while if i got it literally, then ask another person that would be the verifier guy to come a bit later in your table and ask you completely ironically but of course seemingly polite too; do you actually want 1mil divided by 2500 grains/serving or 400 servings of rice SIR?


If you ask a random person how many grains are roughly in a serving of rice 99% or more would have no idea or guess wrong. All that happened here is that you said an amusing story (nicely presented by the way vividly placing the reader there) and i responded by calculating what 1 mil grains is like to satisfy my own curiosity, then expanded on the joke by imagining how a server could have reacted if he wanted to escalate the joke and maybe lose his job or keep his job and appear to be amused or genuinely be amused , all 3 being reasonable possibilities when this happens.

In service industry workers are trained to see the customer as almost always being right and tolerate behaviors or play along. That doesnt make them however on the inside always happy to obey this bs fake game. Being reasonably kind to them and not leaving any chance for perceived mocking of them is a proper approach in my opinion. A joke is cool provided there is little room to be wrongly perceived. Caring for others that serve you means choosing your jokes carefully to not offer such possibilities of wrong interpretation. But again of course no great story telling will come out of such kind behavior.



PS1: nice info on rice to be safe or aware/alarmed. Personally i have never faced anything like that but i never let cooked rice out in a covered pot for more than few hours at worse, preferably only minutes and then store it and i have reheated it even two times before over 2-3 days of refrigerator storing without noticing anything negative or undesirable (of course the first time you cook it is superior in taste). However i obviously boil it for like 20 min when cooking it and maybe the origin of the grain and its earlier treatment has reduced the chance for bacteria developing that fast, as well as affected its nutritional value of course. Maybe its different for brown rice.

PS2: I have never fainted either in my life ie for few decades now lol. The only time i recall getting close to it was when i was riding a bike for the first few times learning, becoming excited and careless initially, that i fell from it and hit the ground with some speed and insured my hands in the wrists (light blood and friction cuts) and felt real weak briefly and a funny unfamiliar sense of dizziness and smell that progressed to weakness and then recovery. I think it was the only time i came close to fainting and never again in even worse accidents/injuries/cuts. Is it true that women tend to faint more often? It might seem that way. They usually know it when it is about to happen and say something.

Say yes to amylopectin.

Long grain rice has, as its only superior quality over short grain rice, is that it is easier to count.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncope_(medicine)

Do they? Scientific research has established that?

No just rare personal experience with others and mostly stories from relatives and friends when i wasnt present and my own bike experience too. Also you have probably seen in movies depictions of it etc. Definitely not scientific study but lets be serious now, how can you do a scientific study of life as it randomly happens? You can only try to cause fainting (how properly that is not risky?) and see what people say it feels like or keep a proper recording of the rare events it happens naturally in people with higher risk;


From your own link;

"Syncope affects about three to six out of every thousand people each year.[1] It is more common in older people and females. It is the reason for one to three percent of visits to emergency departments and admissions to hospital. Up to half of women over the age of 80 and a third of medical students describe at least one event at some point in their life.[2] Of those presenting with syncope to an emergency department, about 4% died in the next 30 days.[1] The risk of a bad outcome, however, depends very much on the underlying cause."

I can imagine low blood pressure or quick change in position ie acceleration/deceleration, some injuries even maybe dislike of seeing blood and nasty cuts are some rare other causes too.

"symptoms may include lightheadedness, sweating, pale skin, blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, and feeling warm, among others. "


So you do get it before it happens briefly but maybe not always.


Some controlled way you can cause it;






By the way looking at g level on the last one you see it happen at near 7g.

Now imagine having a bike accident like i did that you fall to the ground and come to stop within 2 meters and then observing your wounds right away. If you had speed 10m/sec with the bike say and you fell to the ground and decelerated rapidly over 2 meters say then you have

u^2=2a*d or a= u^2/2d=2.5g. But maybe that is avg and the peak is easily over 5g at some point. So it can explain some rapid pressure fluctuation and the shock and observation of injuries can take you close to it but not there yet exactly as i felt. Also vertical speed from say a fall of 1 meter is (2*g*h)^(1/2)=4.5 m/sec and if you decelerate within 2 cm of ground material and skin/fat/muscles etc you feel almost 4.5^2/2/0.02=50g but ultra briefly (probably huge uncertainty in that number). So 50g real fast and 5g a bit longer will not get you there but it will try to look like it with some shock value too contributing. Also if you rapidly stand up you kind of feel a black out momentarily sometimes. Maybe it is like that almost at the beginning of it.

Quesion for Brian:

After hearing about this for some time, I just took the Implicit Association Test. Here are my results on the race test:



I fall within only 18% of test takers who show no racial preference. Over 65% show at least a mild preference for white people. I assumed based on my upbringing and what I'm regularly told over in P that I would have some preference for white people. So, is this test for real? Is it easy to get the result you want? I want to know how much stock I should put in this result.

Okay, I think the test is bunk. I took it 7 more times in a row and got results all over board from a strong preference for whites once, moderate once, slight once, twice more no preference, once a slight preference for blacks and once a moderate preference for blacks.

The test-retest validity of it is pretty dismal.

It also has nearly no predictive value of behaviors on the individual level.

That you took it seven times probably says more about you than the test scores themselves.

After years of extensive scientific research, I've concluded that Black Bitches give better BJs than White Bitches.

The validity of my research is above reproach. So you can Suck it if you refuse to believe my conclusion. All research was conducted in the USA, except for one outliner in Denmark. Which was not included in the data set.

USA # 1

I'll need names and phone numbers in order to see if your results are reproducible.

Racist theme again.

What should that tell me?

"Your result:
Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Black people over White people."

Apparently no obvious racist bs bias passes for strong preference here which i doubt i have. I dont buy this result i am more on the neutral side in preference. Maybe i am a bit more careful with black people as in try to avoid being unnecessarily aggressive or agitated or insulted as easily and maybe a bit kinder on randoms recognizing that they may have had the other side experienced sometimes so they need some balance of love, friendship and respect too. But at the same time i still think that some of the problems have cultural origin and that some traditional white cultures are superior in certain aspects without that automatically making anyone born better from the other. The avg white or black person have very close IQ and if you raise them in the same good family both will be likely similarly good or troubled but mostly good.

There is bias in how you treat people. If you are a bit more careful in how you treat others even if on purpose more sensitive to not insult them or offer a bad example, that is slight bias too. Ideally you operate naturally with whoever you have dealing with and not pay attention to color. But i doubt it's perfect.

I doubt i like sexually black women more than white for example or even the same. It would take a really beautiful and intelligent cultured black woman to go there in a serious relationship and not care at all for the choice but be confidently happy. If it's not that great i would feel safer with a white choice only because it doesnt carry an automatic baggage of issues with it and because i have been exposed to more white girls before in my life and have more information about them culturally (ie the inside the family cultural thing). But i would be equally kind and flirty with both if similarly beautiful given the chance. I might be more aggressive towards a white woman in pursue though all else being equal. If alone in an island i wouldnt care though and be the same to both if there was attraction.


So i anticipate i have some bias that is entirely innocent though.

I find the test easy to manipulate by the way or probably biased towards black affinity if you simply are even right in the middle. Apparently it is calibrated to recognize someone in the middle as preference to blacks and not as neutral. It is a nasty world out there. That or the test is all over the place and of little value (i need to retake and try to manipulate slightly to see if there is any consistency). Also maybe in real life you are less rational in extreme situations.


The problem with perceptions is that they are influenced mostly by the extremes of the distributions where indeed some difference between traditional races does exist mostly of cultural or historic origin or rare biological origin (as you would expect for geographically separated groups of people for thousands of years ie its not the skin color that gives any difference but mostly the difference in location that only correlates that way with color until of course recently that all changed to a degree with mixing) (same for sexes on this on certain rare qualities). But the avg person (of random sex) has similar qualities or issues if they are brought up in similar conditions. There is no such thing as superior race or sex but there is such thing as better culture for sure either way (i mean you can find better and worse in both). Just be friendly and give a chance to all people and recognize there is a lot of injustice historically out there and opportunity loss for many.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsess...lsive_disorder

I recommend pickling stuff in time for Christmas, so you can give people home-made gifts that taste foul but make them love you. Excellent therapy.

You made me change avatar.