Originally Posted by
bakerjw
OT... I cut habeneros without gloves once. Learned the hard way.
Palms are pretty thick in most cases. Just don't forget to wash your hands. If you rub your eyes you'll be sorry.
Originally Posted by
Skipjacks
You get used to pepper spray. It's pretty mild compared to some of the military/police grade stuff out there.
If you spray it on someone who is used to it (which can happen if we're talking about someone who's assault a random stranger) odds are you're just going to make them angrier.
Getting use to it doesn't mean it has no effect. It just might not be as intense as the first time. I recently cooked up a batch of pepper spray to rid pests from my garden. The tiny vapor particles alone were enough to send my nasal passage into full running faucet mode.
I shudder to think how it would have effected me had I been hit in the face with a direct dose. This stuff was powerful, and I was only using medium grade habanero I had grown. You correct in that its effects are not instantaneous, unless you get hit in the eyes.