Makes you wanna stick you face in ice afterwards
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I like this, but I honestly don't know why.  It's a no joke kinda hot searing pain that feels so good.  It's hotter than any ramen on the market that I've tried.  This is no joke.  The hotness doesn't even go away.  It just get progressively worst, even after you stop eating, your mouth, lips, tongue is tingling with searing heat.  Ice cream only helps, while you're eating it, but once you stop, the fire is back.  Tomorrow will be fun day.
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This recent documentary has many aspects to recommend it.  For one thing, the film footage is beautiful and breathtaking.  For another, the film's message is extremely urgent: the effect of today's global warming specifically on the world's ice.

In a nice personal touch, the film follows one particular athlete-photographer as he travels the world to shoot footage of "extreme ice."  The title makes it sound like some extreme sport, and indeed it is for him, as he performs daring feats in his noble quest to photograph the "inside story" of global warming processes.

For example, the documentary features close-up footage of bright blue rivers of meltwater racing over Greenland's glaciers under the summer sun.  The rivers are absolutely gorgeous.  But then we see their horrible fate, as they plunge into gaping holes in the glacial surface and tumble into seemingly bottomless caverns.  The photographer actually dangles down into one of them, trying in vain to see any bottom to it.

Of course, thousands of feet below, unseen, all that meltwater finally hits bedrock.  There it acts as a lubricant, easing the movement of the glaciers atop the rock in their inexorable slide to the sea (gravity does the rest).  The effect is like that of the millimeter of oil which lets pistons slide easily up and down in their cylinders.  Only, the glaciers just keep sliding down into the sea - they don't return to land again.

That lubrication factor, we learn, is only one of those behind the glacial melting now accelerating on Greenland (and elsewhere).  Another is the increasing warmth of the sea water itself there in and around the Arctic, now several degrees warmer than it was just a few decades ago.  This contributes even more to the thawing, the glacial glide, and the rising seas worldwide.

Greenland's situation is especially worrisome for at least three reasons: 1. Its thick glaciers contain vastly more ice mass than does the thin ice sheet over the Arctic ocean (which is melting even faster); 2. That glacial ice, if or when it all slips into the sea, would definitely raise sea levels worldwide (up to 20 feet higher than at present); and 3. Greenland, unlike the purely polar ice, stretches way down into relatively warm latitudes (60 North: equivalent to the northern tip of Scotland), where air and water temps will soon get even warmer.

All of this portends disaster for humankind, of course, starting seriously within just another decade or two.  Terrible effects are already certain, but we can still stave off the worst ones, with careful planning and concerted effort.
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it kicks you in the teeth right from the get go......then mellows you out, then left hooks you in the jaw....awesome..thanx boys, this was well worth the wait
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All that good shi.. stuff. My face started to reach high surface temperatures while listening to it, similar to the effect of the live at filmore east album with Jimi, buddy miles and billy cox as well. I recommend having some dry ice or a fan to keep your eyes, mouth, ears and general face area functioning while you're listening; you wouldnt want to explode. My toes remained fine, which is great because I just got new slippers. Record material is good and it plays/sounds great on my record player.
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This book made you want to slap the taste out of somebody. I couldn't put it down though. I can't wait to read the second half to see who she really picked
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If you have friends that you want to turn into enemies then this is the stuff for you! Gross as hell and will repulse just about anyone. Check out Youtube for some hilarious and fun pranking videos. I might just take this with me to a busy haunted house and just spray the walls at random and wait for the sound of the people behind me to vomit! :)
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I'm amazed how it will lock on your face and follow it.  Cool!
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I love how I can break up ice with the straw, but I am always clinking my teeth with the metal and thinking I am going to chip my tooth!
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Imparts a plastic, chemical taste to the ice.
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Perhaps a mean trick, but my mom has dentures and my daughters thought this ice tray would be hilarious. My mom got a real laugh out of lemonade teeth in her water this summer.
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its cool but it makes some people have motion sickness
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I am a newcomer to Bathory. I rank 5 stars here for honestly being one of the nastiest, skull-splitting brutal, clanking loud pieces of recorded music I have ever heard. The vocals are just plain scary. The music sounds like welded steel slaughter house machinery caked in dried blood and running on top gear. This album is  that freakish weird insect under the rock that you picked up playing as a kid. It startles you initially and then you want to go back and look at it carefully again and again.  At a loud volume this album rattles dental work and revisits ice hockey concussions. It's like being checked on the ice without a helmet by Cromagnon Man.

(damn)
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It's a balmy -20, so ready, set, go for the world's coldest human-powered race. Jessica Simon makes not only a unique contribution to crime fiction but a stellar addition to the Arctic canon. In FROM ICE TO ASHES, she heads for the Top of the World, the Yukon Arctic Ultra competition, which winds its perilous way from Canada three hundred kilometres across the border to Tok, Alaska. Simon ratchets up the action by interweaving the already exciting and challenging quest with a sinister plot to blow up a missile defense system at Fort Greely. From page one, when well-guarded electrical boxes are being rigged, a secret countdown begins.
 Auxiliary RCMP officer Markus Fanger, a complex man with Continental ties, finds himself  administering a probationary community service by supervising a cocky native teenager, Donjek Stoneman. Their job will be to ride ahead on their snowmachines and establish a checkpoint to monitor the runners, bikers, and skiers on the icy route. With bone-chilling temperatures and deadly animal traps lurking off-trail,  not only is the race a severe test but demands serious survival and communication skills should anything go wrong. Night comes early and dawn breaks slowly up top. Don't even ask what happens to batteries.
 Simon is a Yukoner. People still smoke in this world and tuck cardboard over their vehicle radiators. They chow down on moosemeat and bless wolverine fur to warm their faces. Her description of the cold shows the routines that these tough people take for granted. "Hunched under the icy torment, she ran to her car, unplugged the block heater and climbed in. Crystal cold irritation in her lungs left her coughing." It doesn't take long in this climate to learn to tell the temperature by the way fresh air goes down the windpipe.
 The savvy race monitors are worried about the entries from Guatamala, Spain, and Mexico. And what about the devout Muslim from Germany? Friendly enough and conditioned from rigorous training, he's also into a love affair with a civilian electrician with a grudge against anyone in power. In a totally credible twist with details familiar to a tradesman, she has infiltrated the soft underbelly of a critical missile defense system at Fort Greely..
 A resident of Whitehorse YK, Simon earns points from her precision and verisimilitude. Every spot can be located, even the eponymous waypoint, Chicken. Hills and corners on the route are as real as the scrofulous trailer described in the opening scenes, abandoned like the plans of hippie homesteaders. "It sat under the snow, the roof almost as caved in as the barn behind it, looking like a stepped-on Crunchie bar, chocolate-brown siding flaking off orange sponge-toffee insulation." Only yellow spray-foam keeps out the killing chill. Dreams die fast in a land which takes no prisoners.
 Donjek and Fanger deserve further adventures together. They're the right characters in the right place at the right time, fresh and exciting entries onto the crime-fiction scene. It would be no surprise if Simon's book garnered a movie option.
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Cons:
- Casual conversations are escalated to shouting matches over the deafening scream of this device when being operated.
- Shaved Ice Parties are tricky as you can only do one bowl at a time; ice must be consumed immediately after making to avoid melting, but alas, such is the nature of ice.

Pros:
- Makes delightfully fluffy shaved ice, not that crunchy, grainy, sno-cone bull$hit that many a 'shaved ice machine' produces
- Super Duper easy to use.
- Can use regular ice cubes from the fridge and get pretty much the same result as from the ice mold.
- Turns my stifling hot apartment into a stifling hot apartment with yummy cool treats
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Hilarious game to play and a great icebreaker for groups. Be prepared to laugh your butt off while looking like a fool.
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Great performances from Patrick Wilson and Kurt Russell. However, I watch a lot of violent movies and play a ton of violent games. This movie has one scene in particular that legitimately made me queasy. So good on them for getting to my desensitized nerves. WATCH IT!
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This ice cube mold makes excellent models of the Titanic. It isn't especially difficult to remove the ice ships from the tray without breaking the smoke stacks, and if your drink is chilled before the ice is put into the cups, the ships retain their Titanic shape for an exceptionally long time.
However, in my experience presenting the ice boats in drinks at a party is a short-lived joke. People laugh at first before the conversation of the party sinks into a depressing state as people empathize with the many people who died when the Titanic sank. The last time I used these ice cubes at a party, people ended up leaving my house in tears. I almost think that using these ice cubes at a party is the equivalent of having a candle shaped like the World Trade Centers.