• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    An old joke, possibly originating from somewhere in the basement of a DuPont facility:

    How can you tell a chemist apart from an engineer?

    …

    The chemist washes his hands before he takes a leak.

    • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      9 days ago

      Also pro tip: don’t touch your gf all over when she just got home and greets you while cutting peppers, because she screamed so loud in agony when I touched her clit. It was truly horrible and I still feel shit about it, even though we broke up years ago for other reasons.

  • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 days ago

    Not me. I ate a jalapeno today that was the hottest fucker in the bunch. Forgot to wash my hands. Both my mouth and eyes were on fire. Worth it.

  • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    9 days ago

    I’ve eaten nearly exclusively spicy food for many years and have only been eye spiced once. I generally don’t even wash my hands after, and often touch my face and eyes while cooking because of my hair. It almost feels like a fairy tale to me, the idea of getting eye spiced. Are people irritating their eyes with peppers spicier than serrano, arbol, and pequin peppers or are my eyes just impervious?

    But I would like some advice for an ongoing issue, I still can’t figure out how to prevent my home from filling with painfully spicy air when I stir fry. Any advice on that front?

      • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
        0·
        9 days ago

        Oh jeez, our federation is borked. It took hours to get this notification. But yeah, at this point, upping the power on our motor seems to be the only immediately apparent longterm feasible option

          • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            9 days ago

            we discuss an unusual exposure of capsaicin to the vaginal mucosa with successful treatment.

            Before I read any further, I’d just like to point out my supreme confusion at how a respirator might help in this situation. I first imagined a patient in an urgent care being prescribed a respirator to treat their nightmarish groin pain.

            Edit: by god, they must have been screaming from the speculum. I nearly audibly screamed as I read through this. What fresh, undeserved horror this person lived through.

            • Maeve@kbin.earth
              2·
              9 days ago

              My point is peppers are used in pepper spray. Respirator because you may be especially sensitive. People actually die from reaction to capsaicin.

              • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                9 days ago

                Oh, I’ve understood that for ages. Back when India was trading the record for hottest pepper, you’d find dozens of videos of folks eating them. Some died from aspiration. Others from swelling in the gut. I take it seriously.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      I make pith-in quickled jalapeno fuckers and it never dawned on me that it might have been diffusion!

      Thanks for answering a question I’ve had for longer than reasonable.

  • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
    0·
    9 days ago

    I just picked up more nitrile gloves for chopping jalepenos because I didn’t wash throughly enough before touching my junk once.

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
      1·
      9 days ago

      I should probably do that. Feels like you can scrub your fingers pretty decently after cutting peppers, and there’s still a bit of residual burn when you touch sensitive areas. Maybe it depends on the spice level of the pepper, but I don’t generally go above habs for eating raw, so it’s not like I’m chopping reapers or even ghosts.

      • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        I once scrubbed my hands like 4 times after cutting up jalapenos, went to the store to get a missing ingredient, and when I was leaving I rubbed my eye.

        I thought I was going to have to go to the ER.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Actually some of it must’ve gotten in the corner of my nail and cuticle cause I just wrestled with an eye booger and had an unpleasant 30-ish seconds.