outdistances its predecessor, the Bhut Jolokia, or "ghost chili," by more than 300,000 points on the famous Scoville scale of tongue-scorching chili hotness.
Why? Seriously, why do we need this pepper?
"It numbs your tongue, then burns all the way down," he told the paper. "It can last an hour, and you just don't want to talk to anyone or do anything. But it's a marvelous endorphin rush. It makes you feel great."
Know what else feels great? Being set of fire...while drowning...
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Dude at work gave me some seeds for the ghost pepper. Planning on growing some this spring.
Why? Seriously, why do we need this pepper?
Why do you need a processor that performs billions of operations per second when your RAM can't move that fast anyhow? Just because. Why do they make Everclear 190 proof? Just because.
Buddy of mine once recounted a story ...
Wayne Gretzky and Karl Malone were drinking at some high-class place one day. Wayne goes up to the bartender and says, "I'll have a glass of Louis XIII." The bartender pours Wayne a glass and he starts drinking it. Karl Malone walks up and says, "Bartender, I'll have a Louis XIII and coke." Wayne looks on incredulously and says, "Karl, why are you mixing a five cent soda with a five hundred dollar glass of liquor?" Karl Malone looks Wayne Gretzky dead in the eye, opens the coke, and starts pouring, "Because I can, Wayne. Because I can."
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."