Sriracha may be hotter but the sugar give every meal a taste of marmelade. Tabasco ist okay but I prefer my bottle of Painmaker: that has the amount of scoville I require and it doesn't taste funny.

P.S. I just read on that site that is linked here that Sriracha isn't even hotter so: what a joke. Also: soft plastic bottle. Harmful.

Yeay! I have exactly the same Mario action figure :)

Now don't tell me the Japanese word for 'Fart' is 'Gassen'...

BTW: just to settle this... Humos, I would be very pleased if you are right which, to me, would mean that things have changed very quickly in good old France, although I wouldn't approve of parents having to go to prison for having slapped their child. But maybe you and I are just talking of different levels of brutality?

@Humos. No, I'm not trooling. Wish I was. My experience is also not narrow at all and reaches from personal experience to discussions on blogs like this one www.bloglaurel.com/ where a "good beating" was advocated by the majority of commentors after a posting related to this subject. I live in germany where domestic violence is taken very seriously. I also spend a great deal of time in Belgium where it is regarded as very inappropriate. France is the only coutry I know, where each visit leads me to wonder about what exactly is wrong with the mentality. People will slap their kids in public or threaten to do so and nobody will be appaled at this. Don't give me that bullshit about child beaters beeing sent to prison in France. Sorry but it's just not true.

You certainly have a point there. But there is a downside too. Do you know that in France, it's still absolutely acceptable, if not even mandatory, to beat and threaten your kids. Violence should not be part of education. I had many long discussions with french people about this issue. They stick to it, no matter what I say. I was reased by a violent french father myself. I know quite well what I'm talking about.

I was going to say Hitlerjugend but it has already been said. So I'll just leave you with the correct spelling.

Guess who's next

Looks to me like a 50:50 chance of shooting yourself

They should be given a taste of their own medicine

I have a couple of german cookbooks from those times for reference and for fun. The pictures are incredible. Those colours, those assortments...

Talk about family values...

I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Alfred Hitchkock

I've always hated clowns. Anytime I saw a clown, I always suspected a pervert or weirdo with a distorted life behind the mask. It's not funny, just groce. Why can't we settle this stupid custom. Why do poor people like her have to go through these painful confrontations when what they resent is just the extreme of a natural and sane reaction? Stop the madness!

That's why I hated school so much.
Cynical, sadistic, self-indulgent teachers who think they're entitled to humiliate you just because you can't follow their subject. I had to leave school and make it on my own because of that brand of teachers. I give him an F.