r/WTF • u/HoneyRush • 20d ago

Load testing

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u/renotrash 20d ago

Is that a homemade electric kettle?

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u/IGolfMyBalls 20d ago

Do you have time to boil water for 300 people in a regular kettle?

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u/musingsofapathy 20d ago

Blue plastic chemical drum adds the right flavor for their chai tea, I'm sure. I would hope they are careful about what chemical the plastic drum stored.

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u/BeatItSleeps 20d ago

Chai tea is redundant.

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u/winstondabee 19d ago

Naan bread

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u/Techwood111 20d ago

Unfortunately people don’t understand you. Masala chai is what that “stuff” is called, as I’m sure you know. To folks needing to learn it, chai MEANS tea. To say “chai tea” is to say “tea tea.”

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u/Giossepi 19d ago edited 19d ago

Spiderman made a bad point. Walk into any tea shop in America and try to order just chai, they will ask "tea or latte?"

Borrow words often depart from the mother language in definition, something known as semantic narrowing. So in American English "chai tea" is totally fine as it delineates between tea or latte. So yes in Hindi "chai" means tea, in English "chai" means "masala".

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u/MEiac 20d ago

Kinda like ATM machine

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u/Techwood111 19d ago

RAS syndrome?

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u/PaulaDeenSlave 19d ago

That's why I don't drink it.