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Ois: Once (ONCE!) I sang some karaoke at a restaurant. To protect humanity, no more.
I took a tram trip to meet a bunch of people I only knew via the internet. This was around one of those times moral-panic current-affair shows had a couple of stories about the danger of such trips. Turns out they were right, a cup of Tea at the beach side coffee house costs $4.80.
A long time ago, I mixed extra-spicy-chilli-chips, boysenberry ice cream and choc-coating mix together. If I could provide a single word of advice: Don't.
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Aliasalpha: Oh I remember that karaoke thing, thats when those bloody aliens invaded wasn't it? I had to sing total eclipse of the heart. I hope to hell the rest of the world appreciates how much Australia sacrificed for them! My voice is SO not in that key...
Your chilli story reminds me of another thing I did that was really fucking stupid. I sliced Red Savina Habaneros with my bare hands (and a knife, what I mean to say is that I wasn't wearing gloves) and then went to the bathroom without washing my hands. Now a few people would have done something similar with chillies, most likely with the Jalapeno which has a heat rating of 2500 points or so on the scoville scale (which measures chilli heat) and that can be pretty fucking painful. The red savina, by contrast, has a rating of 350,000-580,000 points. Lets just say it's a miracle I still have a fuctional knob...

I've tried SingStar on the PS2. If those bars representing my voice were 1 or 2 lines higher, I would of nailed 100% on that game. Bah! Sure I can summon Aliens and Space-Nazis, but I don't want to make me fellow Aussie have to do such an act as singing Total Eclipse of the Heart... You're a braver soul than I good Sir.
Your chilli incident also brought back memories.
Chili Padi (AKA: Birds Eye / Thai Pepper). 50,000-100,000 scoville. Cut them up. Touched them with hands. Wiped by brow. Hand touched eyelid. Spent the next half hour with the shower blasting my face. Habaneros (tasty with noodles) after finding out their rating, I use tongs and don't touch directly. Functional knob? sweet zombies man! You're lucky to survive!
Post edited January 27, 2009 by Ois
I had an after school job in a little vegetable shop long, long ago.
We got some dried chilies and I had to weigh and repack them, into smaller proportions.
I had rubber gloves, but i had a twitch in my eyes and automatically rubbed them.
The rest of the day i tried to wash my eyes with water.
All I can say is that water doesn't help at all.
Edit: looks like chili accidents are not that uncommon.
Post edited January 27, 2009 by der_baer_fm
hmmm chilli, hmmm.... you are talking about stupid bets like eating chilli (red hot chilli pepper i think it is in english) and drinking tequilla on it ? It was tasty.... for first few seconds, i dunno taste of dinner after that.
I think everyone have stupid idea about eating hot spicy weirdos sometimes.
(my favorite food is Linde chilli chockolate, nuts in wasabi and S'Chuan soup with little more chilli)
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der_baer_fm: I had an after school job in a little vegetable shop long, long ago.
We got some dried chilies and I had to weigh and repack them, into smaller proportions.
I had rubber gloves, but i had a twitch in my eyes and automatically rubbed them.
The rest of the day i tried to wash my eyes with water.
All I can say is that water doesn't help at all.
Edit: looks like chili accidents are not that uncommon.

Since chilli is highly alkaline (as far as edible substances go), hypothetically you could neutralise it with something lightly acidic such as vinegar or citrus juice but somehow dunking "Little Alias" in lemon juice after that rather painful burn was a long way from my mind. Its not normally something I'd put near my knob, same goes for my eyes...
Then again I'm somewhat stupid when it comes to chilli, I think it's the one recessive jock dickhead gene that I can't suppress but I love to try the hottest ones I can find. One day I'm going to find and try the Dorset Naga which can reach 1.05 million on the scoville scale, thats 50% the strength of military grade irritant equipment (non lethal ammo or capsicum spray)
Oh yeah.
One day I was late for school. I rang the bell for the bus to stop but it didn't. I thought 'sod it, it's not going that fast' and jumped off.
It was going fast enough for me to run a few feet, roll considerably more feet and cause much pain to scraped skin. It's a miracle I've never broken any bones.
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Weclock: what is the craziest thing you've ever done ever?
I cut my own hair last night.

I cut my own hair all the time... it's fun :D
I can't mention the craziest thing I've done in case there are minors here...
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der_baer_fm: I had an after school job in a little vegetable shop long, long ago.
We got some dried chilies and I had to weigh and repack them, into smaller proportions.
I had rubber gloves, but i had a twitch in my eyes and automatically rubbed them.
The rest of the day i tried to wash my eyes with water.
All I can say is that water doesn't help at all.

Capsaicin (the chemical in chilies that cause the burning sensation) isn't water soluble, which is why water won't stop the burning no matter how much of it you use. To wash off the capsaicin you need to use oily substances, like vegetable oil or vaseline (although rubbing your eyes with these probably wouldn't be such a good idea). Applying an ice pack can also help reduce the pain.
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der_baer_fm: I had an after school job in a little vegetable shop long, long ago.
We got some dried chilies and I had to weigh and repack them, into smaller proportions.
I had rubber gloves, but i had a twitch in my eyes and automatically rubbed them.
The rest of the day i tried to wash my eyes with water.
All I can say is that water doesn't help at all.
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DarrkPhoenix: Capsaicin (the chemical in chilies that cause the burning sensation) isn't water soluble, which is why water won't stop the burning no matter how much of it you use. To wash off the capsaicin you need to use oily substances, like vegetable oil or vaseline (although rubbing your eyes with these probably wouldn't be such a good idea). Applying an ice pack can also help reduce the pain.

Milk might help...it does when you eat the chilis......
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DarrkPhoenix: Capsaicin (the chemical in chilies that cause the burning sensation) isn't water soluble, which is why water won't stop the burning no matter how much of it you use. To wash off the capsaicin you need to use oily substances, like vegetable oil or vaseline (although rubbing your eyes with these probably wouldn't be such a good idea). Applying an ice pack can also help reduce the pain.
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JudasIscariot: Milk might help...it does when you eat the chilis......

Milk could indeed help a bit, as it has enough proteins and other organic molecules in it to at least partially dissolve the capsaicin oil.
never, under any circumstances, use alcohol.
Well, when I was little (about 5=6 or so) my brother and I woke up one morning and decided for some damn reason that it would be fun to go into the kitched and literally take EVERYTHING out of the fridge and throw it onto the ceiling and walls.
Holy crap was that stupid, we had eggs on the ceiling, ketchup on the walls, crap everywhere.
When our mom woke up and saw it, man we got a beating in a half. Now that I look back on it it was quite funny, but stupid. I still have no idea why we did it either.
As far as the dangerous kind of crazy, I have wrecked on a four wheeler twice. Once I hit a hill and didn't realize it (tall grass) and I flew up off the four wheeler onto the ground, l wasn't hurt.
Then the second time, I was going across a intersection and I did not know that my brother had been messing with the four wheeler and the throttle got stuck on me which caused it to pop a wheelie as I went across and about half way across the intersection I fell off the back end (it was going fairly fast too) just about the time a big truck was coming along and he had to change lanes.
After I fell off the four wheeler toppled over a few times and I was thrown to the pavement and hit the back of my head and back before skidding along and turning over. Luckily I had a helmet on which I almost didn't wear because I couldn't find it before we left the house (but I insisted on finding it before leaving even though my friend was in a hurry and said it'd be ok to just forget it).
The helmet had a huge dent in the back of it and pieces of the pavement embedded in it.
I ended up having to go the hospital a few days after the accident because my back was sore as hell but it was just a pulled lower muscle.