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 Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:27 pm
Oh nuts, you can wear 3 kiki's and 4 coco's at once?
That means I have to buy 5 letters..
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:29 pm
Care_e hehe this is my friends avi.. he has 7 kiki/coco's XD  WOAH! eek
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:31 pm
Miri: Oh, I see how it works.
... Suddenly, I want to try some of that pure capsaicin now. o.o
Who thinks I'm crazy? 8D
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:33 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:37 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:38 pm
Miri: The way ThinkGeek uses the word "lethal" there, they're using it as the third definition meaning gravely damaging or destructive, also devistating. They also say it "still provides a pungent and spicy punch," meaning it's had to have been eaten before. I'm pretty sure they're not saying it causes death.
Edit: I'm going to go do some research quick to check anyhow.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:41 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CapsaicinQuote: In large quantities, capsaicin can be a lethal poison. Symptoms of overdose include difficulty breathing, blue skin, and convulsions. While the large amount needed to kill an adult human being and the low concentration of capsaicin in chiles make accidental poisioning by chili consumption exceedingly unlikely, capsaicin has been implicated in some cases of infanticide in India. I'm thinking that if you eat a block of it pure, you die, but if you eat a bunch of peppers, you're less likely to become poisoned.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:47 pm
http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/cap_od7.htmlQuote: Aside from the above possible adverse effects, the super-hot sauces will not seriously harm you. "Comprehensive nutritional studies have not shown any adverse effects of chile or capsaicinoids even at ten times the maximum use levels," wrote the one world’s experts on capsaicin, V.S. Govindarajan, author of the mammoth study, Capsicum--Production, Technology, Chemistry and Quality. But even if you do overindulge in super-hot sauces, do not worry, for they are quickly metabolized in the liver and excreted in the urine within a few hours. (Excerpted from The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia, by Dave DeWitt, William Morrow & Co., 1999). Yet there's also this. The page I linked is much larger than the quote I pulled from it. Apparently from scientific studies done, it's killed rats and other rodents by them "drowning" in it, and most likely having "respiratory paralysis." They assume the amount of capsaicin needed to kill a human would be 13 grams, however that's only if we were as sensitive as mice were.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:02 pm
I love the new donation item heart I'm keeping all four letters and using them for kitties.
Thanks again ALex for the help ^^
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:03 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:05 pm
I find it amusing how humans love to ingest things that were originally created by plants to defend themselves. capsaicin, oxygen...
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:11 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:21 pm
Oi, what a weekend @.@
I think I'm going to take a break from Gaia in a few days.
But eh, who knows XD;;
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:06 pm
I HEART THE NEW DONATION ITEMS! heart
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:11 pm
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