# Songs that totally did not happen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 10, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417 "2022-08-10T06:36:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/221 "2022-08-19T12:05:39Z")
When your new favorite Thai place tells you that their ‘hot’ level really means ‘hot’, you need to take them seriously. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/222 "2022-08-19T16:18:24Z")
Unless they say “Thai hot” they are still white-spicing you. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/223 "2022-08-19T16:36:00Z")
I went out to a Thai place with a group of friends. We were each asked, “1-5, how hot?”. I ordered a 2 or 3, as did most of the table. One guy said 5. The waiter asked if he was sure and he said he was. Turns out for some reason he thought 1 was very spicy, 5 was bland, and he cannot handle heat. Our meals came and we all started eating. The guy who ordered 5 realized he fucked up, but he ate every last bite. He looked absolutely miserable though. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/224 "2022-08-19T17:24:33Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Unless they say “Thai hot” they are still white-spicing you. 😛 > [@kayaker](#): > > The guy who ordered 5 realized he fucked up, but he ate every last bite. He looked absolutely miserable though. At many Thai places in the past I still got white-spiced even when I said ‘Thai hot’. So I thought I knew spice. But when we first ordered at our current favorite local place, the waitress said “are you sure you want Thai spicy? We take the spice levels _ **very** _ seriously here.” I was like 'uh, yeah, I think I know what I’m doing, thank you. Thai spicy for me". And I was like the guy in kayaker’s story who ordered the 5. Now, I’m embarrassed to admit, I order my red curry dishes ‘medium plus’ these days. And it’s not just the serious heat level of our favorite Thai place, I think my aging digestive system just can’t handle the heat like it used to (talk about a burning ring of fire!) ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/225 "2022-08-19T17:53:18Z")
I bet no one from U2 scaled any city walls and probably never climbed any of the eight thousanders. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/226 "2022-08-19T17:55:14Z")
That’s why they still haven’t found what they’re looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/227 "2022-08-19T19:59:26Z")
After walking 500 miles, I think you might look for a cab to take you the next 500. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/228 "2022-08-19T20:21:36Z")
Ah but they never claimed to have walked 500 miles and then 500 more. They just said they _would_ do it. That The Proclaimers made that claim in order to get into someone’s pants, is completely believable even if them actually following through and walking to Southern Europe (through the channel tunnel I guess?) is more dubious. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/229 "2022-08-19T21:24:09Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > I bet no one from U2 scaled any city walls and probably never climbed any of the eight thousanders. Yeah, well, I bet Eminem _was_ in a movie, and that Mekhi Phifer _was_ right there! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417.md?page=11)