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Re:I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape – And I will... by rozab on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @10:48AM (#43014201)
NileRed has videos of him eating pure capsaicin, which evidently doesn't feel that spicy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFvoCCRZWyI

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Re:I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape – And I will... by michaelcampbell on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:01AM (#43014419)
I have a feeling NileRed's senses may be dulled; he also made some of the world's worst smelling stuff and didn't get much from it.
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Re:I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape – And I will... by alangibson on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:01PM (#43015180)
He made military spec latrine odor and didn't think it was that bad. He's built different.
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Re:I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape – And I will... by girvo on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:27PM (#43020699)
Well not so much built different as "permanently damaged his senses"

Its semi-common in chemists. Unrelated note: concentrated formic acid does indeed kind of smell like an ant sting, and dear god does it hurt.

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Re:I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape – And I will... by treefarmer on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:22PM (#43017104)
He also permanently damaged his sense of smell/taste, so I feel like he might not be the most reliable source...
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