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NOT THE EYES, NOT THE EYES!!
Law enforcement grade pepper spray is only 2.000.000 scoville.
only 2 scoville? I kid I know some countries write 2,000,000.00 as 2.000.000,00
It does not matter how many 000s you put on it. The hottest Scoville on the scale is 1! You can see her in panels 3 to 12 above.
Try again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale#Scoville_ratings_of_chemicals
The heroine featured in the comic above is called Sydney Scoville. She is prettier than any other Scoville I have ever seen, therefore is the hottest one on the scale. The fact that she is the only one one I have ever seen, also makes her number one. ;-)
Sorry, I can’t resist plays on words.
Damn, I never actually made that connection in her name. Not even when the old chinese lady said something about living up to your family name
My eyes are watering in sympathy from the fumes of this digital noodle dish.
it seems like Sydney’s met an equal
Awesome, simply awesome, thanks for making staying up till 5 am for the update worthwhile Dave.
Freaking. Hilarious.
Im too busy laughing to say more.
Great way to start the day. Every time I look at the last two panels, I get a fresh bout of the giggles. :)
So that’s why she wears glasses
Love it! So glad you decided to put this in. Now do we find out if any of the orbs have healing properties for Sydney’s poor eye?
love the star wars reference too
ADAMAS!!!!! See I told you!!!!!
****POINTS TO PANEL #3****
He does listen to the silly arguments we get into!!!!
****Sets up armor****
I am so happy I could just kill something! I need to go hunting!!!!
******BEP BEP CRACKLE SIZZLE FADES FROM VIEW*****
Bismarck! It’s dangerous to go alone! Here take this!
*Hands Bismarck his Maxima plushie*
Can I haz Halo plushie pleaze?
sure, just don’t open the tube. *Hands Yorp a Syd Plushie*
But does it have “Flail-Fu Action” like the action figure?
Nope, the tube launches small foam Orbs…made of impact triggered Semtex.
So it’s a PPT (Pew Pew Tube)?
yep
Ah ah ah! Only if you’re hip! :P
His/her avatar is Marvin. I see that as hip enough!
Or at least from a highly advanced civilization.
Yay!
Well if Yorp gets Sydney (dammit), I want Punk-rock Daphne. Humina. <3
Here ya go Az. I have plenty of everyone except Dabbler. How about a nice Arianne plushie? *Pulls cord and it says “Twist on my little finger! MAHAHAHA!!*
I prefer the “Don’t Photo My Butt” Sydney. Cute butt.
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/397
Tried that but the prototype went mysteriously missing.
(sets crate of plushies down) fresh from the factory D.P.M.B. sydney and beholder xeriel. what other production models do you have for me to deliver for the lines?
*Checks lists* We need the entire Swimsuit Series, and Dabbler’s “you’ve been a naughty boy” action figure.
I believe that’s my order for the D.P.M.B. fan club.
So she isn’t fully immune to the heat… her poor eye
I swear, the owner swooning did it for me.
Great page DaveB. Once again you’ve outdone yourself.
This is now one of the “Hottest” webcomics out there.
Ouch… she was doing well until the pepper spray effect kicked in
She never said she was immune to heat, you can see it back in the Thai Restaurant that she knws she’s going to be in pain later that evening.
When it comes to eating “Picante” she can stans some high heat and enjoys it really hot. Were it “Caliente” she would be like anyone else normal involving high temperature.
Here it shows WHY ypu want to be careful with spicy food and your eyes. Wanna bet this is not the first time this has happened to Halo?
Giggle- snort…ouch!
Great Palpatine quote.
I guess making her angry did the job.
Wanna bet she starts coming here EVERY DAY for more?
No bet. They will probably give her a special booth with very good ventilation to suck up the fumes so they won’t hurt the other customers.
Any bets on how Dave is going to follow this next week?
Alarms going off and a report of a chemical attack in the building.
to start then the team comes down med interview to ruin the press show hahah
Ha ha ha!
“This is Suzie News with a medical emergency report. Three medics were violently assaulted after trying to remove a violently volatile toxic substance from the stomach of the crazy girl from earlier in the day. It turned out she only needed her eyes looked at.”
You know, if one of the unknown orbs really does have a healing function, this would be a great way of finding out.
ayup.
Oh, man – her mouth and throat are immune – her eyes are not. This can only end well…
Cobra Fang Juice, Hydrogen Bitters, Old Panther – if Daffy and Porky could survive those, I’d expect Sydney to.
You’re old enough to get that reference?
I thought I was the only one.
Dude, they show reruns all the time.
My Little Duckaroo
Drip along Daffy
I’m 26 and I got the reference
I got the reference but I’m 47, and a product of uncut Warner Brothers.
(1) Yes, I am old; (2) I should hope more people would get it anyway.
I’m old enough to have forgotten it but youtube refreshed my memory and I remembered Saturday mornings watching cartoons and eating cereal. I laughed my ass off again.
It’s prolly because Daffy and Porky survived those that they went for the “Unmaker”. Take no chances!
When I first read the comic, I thought a noodle specifically came out of her mouth and purposefully slapped her in the eye. Second time through, it made sense that it was a slurping accident… or was it? What exactly was in “the unmaker”? ANGRY NOODLE MONSTER!
Perhaps the Harvest begins?
According to wikipedia, between 1.5 and 2 million SHU (Scoville heat units) is the heat rating of law enforcement grade pepper sprays. If that meal really is 3 million SHU…ouch.
I’ve heard rumours about some militaries using hotter pepperspray than 2M, but have no confirmation. I’ve seen an ad for 10M Barbeque sauce though. Probably by following a link here, but not sure.
IIRC 5 million units is what they use in the Park service to drive off bears (Apparently that’s what will drive off a Kodiak)
Not the military. Law enforcement in some of the super max prisons in the USA. Some ‘customers’ in there have hit a bit to often by the normal grade stuff, to the point that the effectiveness is dropping.
Could it have been 1 million sauce? That is generally considered the limit for normal humans so they don’t poison themselves (or dread going to the toilet afterwards). You can see the difference in that the stuff above 1 million, in my experience, has a disclaimer saying that it is an additive and not to be used as a normal sauce on your food.
If not then you probably have seen a Blair’s Reserve (that is limited production run) sauce which are meant for collectors more then to be actually used.
My question is where can I get me some of that hot stuff. :)
I have seen an episode of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives where one of the featured cooks uses pure capsaisin oil in this preparation of super-duper-suicide wings. It is not all that gets used, but everybody needed breathing gear and the people handling it were wearing thick long gloves. It looked like serious stuff. Unfortunately, I do not remember where this place was.
Even with that protection, some of the highter ones, ghost peppers especially are known to have the oil eat through rubber gloves.
And Sydney is willingly putting something that dangerous into her stomach. Wonder how badly she will pay when she is older.
Ace, in “Too Much Information”, isn’t quite as much of a fire head as Sydney, from the looks of Today’s comic, but even his dishes aren’t considered fit for normal human consumption. One of the Characters took a look at some Tuna Salad he made and said “It’s RED!” The other one mentioned that when she said Ace made it, it was “more of a warning.”
When he was in the hospital once, the Doctor put him on a strict diet including “no more spicy food.” His answer was, “OK Doc, I’m ready. Pull the plug.” I expect Sydney’s answer would be the same.
I’m trying to be careful not to make Sydney some kind of crazy Mary Sue character which is why I had her flopping around and ultimately sepuku her eye. She obviously has exceptional tolerance but I don’t want to make her annoyingly immune to the stuff.
Just imagine what would happen if she were immune to pepper spray and the like.
actually she may be immune to the inhalation of Pepper Spray but not to the effect on the eyes. A sergeant once told me after being hit enough times a CS grenade does nothing but clear your sinuses.
You just described a Jon Lovitz animated TV-character, “The Critic” (his tagline: “It Stinks!”).
When maced in the face, he said that it’s happened so often that he’s become immune.
(…”MMMMM – Jalapeno…”)
Whilst doing research for how to treat a cut throat (yea, odd thing to be doing), I came across the advice that if someone has consumed a corrosive poison, you are best leaving it in the stomach (unless the label advises otherwise). Obviously because the stomach has various protective measures to contain its own digestive acids. If you try to induce vomiting, it will cause the throat to be exposed to additional damage, over and above what was already caused on initial consumption.
The Unmaker seems to realise it will do more damage outside than in ;)
But, yea, Sydney is probably going to have stomach ulcers and whatnot… assuming she survives long enough!
For info, if you have an emergency involving a cut throat, don’t bother Googling it. Useful advice on what to do is so buried, that whoever is hurt will have bled to death, or drowned in their own blood, before you get the info!
I would recommend your first step be to call 911. One of my EMT teachers told us a story about a call they had of a fellow who didn’t trust doctors. When they arrived on scene the man was dead in front of his computer and had been looking up causes of chest pain. He died of a heart attack.
My Uncle once left a note for his son and two grandson’s, all drivers, that said “gone to the hospital.” didn’t say which one or why, didn’t wake up any of them or the neighbors, all of whom would drive him, simply drove himself to the hospital about 30 minutes away – while having a heart attack.
Mom slapped him when she caught up to him.
Do not forget that someone who has cut their throat might not be able to talk!
I live in an isolated enough spot that we have to be self-reliant in winter. Temperatures get down to -30 and the snow can get so deep that even snow ploughs get stuck in it! They work hard to keep the roads open, but Sod’s Law dictates that “If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong, at the worst possible time.”
I have even been issued surgical equipment (at the surgeon’s suggestion), so that I can operate on myself if complications occur with a surgical implant I had years ago. At least two people I know locally have had to perform surgery on themselves or friends.
But, yes, calling the emergency services is still high priority (balanced with stabilising the patient so that they survive the time taken to call, of course).
I’m not as immune as Sydney is so can confirm capsaicin is definitely worse coming back up. Especially if it hits your sinuses on the way.
Stomach ulcers I’d be less inclined to expect though as she’s clearly strong enough to resist its other effects on her mouth and digestive system, meaning the main concern would likely be acidity. Except, tastewise atleast, actual hot peppers seem to be more acidic than the extracts thereof.
I can’t say I know for sure though as my personal chilli consumption has had no obvious negative effects (not even increasing the mouth ulcers I used to get) so I’ve done no proper research into the matter.
Look up Project free TV. They have most of the latest TV shows and a lot of movies free to watch streaming.
Either they have no cartoons or their search engine is broken.
Panel seven almost looks CGI. Good effects.
Just noticed panel seven is where she lost her glasses. Was wondering how the noodle wasn’t stopped by them.
So very glad you did this page, Nice! :D
Isn’t that the same stuff that nearly did in Daffy, Porky and McNasty?
Got the name wrong, it’s Nasty Canasta. I haven’t seen that cartoon in soo long.
Wasn’t Nasty Conasta the name of the bad guy he was trying to arrest?
OOPs, misread your first post. Thot ya wer tawkin bout thu naim uf the kartuun. ;)
is it just me or are there no errors today, good job DaveB
Peggy’s reactions make me laugh every time
Her reaction of complete silent suprise with tears from the fumes. Great stuff.
Great refrence to the stop, drop, and roll not working again.
Her sweating when she sees a guy walk but in a LEVEL 4 HAZMAT SUIT!!!! was hilarious.
Now we get to See Sydney with an eyepatch?
What? You think a restaurant like this doesn’t have an eyewash station?
I wonder if it wouldn’t be better to pour milk over your eye in a situation like this?
I don’t know much about this kind of stuff, but it does clean away the heat when you drink it.
I may be asking a stupid question, but if you don’t ask you will never know.
You are correct in that normal water doesn’t work. Not sure about milk but if it works I expect the fat in it to be the component that binds the capsaicin. For something that is guaranteed to work use oil.
I think Anon’s, more specific, suggestion below is probably helpful. He advices baby oil. Given that it is designed for human use, and on delicate skin at that, there is less chance for complications.
Ok, rule #1: NEVER put milk ANYWHERE NEAR you eyes!
Milk has cartloads of bacteria in it and *nothing* good will come from introducing that to your only ocular organs. I saw an article detailing a woman who tried mixing eyewash in an empty milk carton. There was still some residual material inside it, and that was enough to give her a terrible infection that eventually led to the loss of her eye (the bacteria had started eating into her *brain* and there was no other way to get to it).
Actually saline would be the best choice.
Love the World of Warcraft reference in the 3rd panel. It seems that someone is a little angry.
A WoW reference? Um…no. Go back about 18 years.
Nothing in WoW is original. Accept that now. Everything they have is ripped off from something else.
True, although I personally laughed for about 15 min when I got to play a Death Knight and ran into Siouxsie the Banshee.
Personally I always believed that the designers just had an odd sense of humor. Having played D and D myself I know how fun it can be to put cultural references in a game in a humorous way. Finding them in WOW can be part of the fun. In one impoverished zone the flight point is “Hoboair”. :)
Of course they had a odd sense of humor. These are geeks who want to make the best game ever for it’s time and technology, and have been doing this for a decade.
I know I enjoy their humor myself. Some of the achieves are funny as hell.
O_O …. you mean that nothing is WoW is orginal … so all those NPC’s names are not orginal?!?!
NOOOOOOO!!!!
My concept of the World at large has colapsed … what if the world was made on a Thursday and all of our memories were implanted so that we would wouldn’t and couldn’t know … that means that nothing that we know is new or real. What if … what if …
Anyhow … you said from 18 years ago … what from? If you don’t mind sharing.
Oh man … I need to turn in my geek card …. I can’t belive I didn’t realize what that is from ….
(goes off in to corner with dunce hat on)
Ah, another Last Thursdayist, I see. Good, I’d hate to hear you were one of those heretical Last Wednesdayists, they give me the creeps. ;-P
Eh? That line from Star Wars was in World of Warcraft? I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised I guess. I did love seeing some references in wow.
Yeah … it’s what the Sha of Anger says when you start fighting it.
Location …. Kun’lai Summit (spawns about every 15 minutes)
Ah, I stopped playing back in January so I haven’t been around for MoP. I probably would have geeked out fighting the sha then.
I can walk down the street and buy a burger Called “The MegaDeath” which is 5 million scovilles. You not only need to sign a waiver but you have to wear gloves because it’ll burn you through your skin. If Sydney ever fell in love with a burger It would be that one.
5 million? Sorry, I find it hard to believe. The burger would have to contain 30% of pure capsaicin to get that effect. And since LD50 of capsaicin in mice is ca. 47 mg/kg, that would be enough to kill a small elephant…
…unless they use resiniferatoxin instead of capsaicin, of course :)
I honestly don’t know what they use but they make you eat it outside, and the burn lasts for several days afterwards according to https://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/20070308-Cranky_Worlds_Hottest_Burger.
According to https://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/article.php/20080717-7_Men_vs_Worlds_Hottest_Burger they use a big tablespoon of Blair’s MegaDeath Sauce (550,000 Scoville units) per burger. I’m not quite in this league yet, but slowly getting there…
I don’t know much about hot food’s so I just need to ask what’s Pure Cap that she wanted to put a drop of to make her food HOTTER?
At a guess? Pure capsicain.
capsaicin, the chemical agent in chilli peppers that induces the burning sensation
Pure Cap isn’t actually pure. It’s mostly soy oil with just 3% capsaicin: Scoville rating ~500,000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neSkefSTjuw
The real reason it’s called “Pure Cap” is that, as an additive, it allows you to quickly heat up a dish without changing the flavor profile.
For a moment, I thought Sydney’s eye melted.. but it was just tears.
Also, is she calling for a medic because of the noodle-whip to the eye? Or the gratuitous application of pure pain to said eye?
I hope someone brought an emergency milk ration to neutralize the CAP ;D
If the milk doesnt work, go with baby shampoo. I got maced during training for a security job, and thats what they gave us: milk and baby shampoo ( I still couldnt see properly the next day xD ).
I so can see this in the next page being something like this:
Peggy: “Max we have a slight problem. Syd will not be attending the conference.”
Max: “What did she do? You where suppose to stop her from doing stupidings? Why worn’t you protecting her? You know that she is a civ and needs our protect…Wait just tell me what happened”
Peggy: “She pissed of the waitress in Fusion, from what the cheff said the meal was about 3 million or more scoville. A bit got into her eye. The medics are on route. But that is not the only problem. She ordered second’s, and the way she is eating she might be going back for thirds. I’m just suprise that the hazmat alarms have not gone off yet.”
Max: “Why would they go off?”
Peggy: “It is a toxic bath in there. The cheff and waitress are in hazmat suit just so that they can surve the food. Is the paint melting, ah crap you may want to move the conference elsewhere.”
Or something to that effect
I can not wait to see how DaveB outdoes this page.
Or ….
Arianna is happily running what is shaping up to be a well-run, brilliantly-organized and, above all else, CONTROLLED press conference. A PR triumph with all the “right” questions and answers being used, the Power Point Presentation is a work of art and ARC is coming across as being a very professional outfit……
…. R-i-g-h-t up to the point where Sydney suddenly appears from nowhere, charges across the stage screaming blue murder, breathing toxic fumes all over the place, and so on. THEN things get strange.
That sounds about right…
Oh my god that was so funny i just love this webcomic.
on a side note do DaveB you have an e-mail where y can put up some suggestions for the Webcomic?
if so plese respond or e-mail me please
This forum is a good place to put suggestions. He’s used some of our ideas from here before.
But if you are looking for somewhere else just scroll up to the top of the page and there are a lot of other choices up there.
You can hit me up here or twitter or on the facebook page. Keeping up with those three is enough work without adding in an email to check too.
panel #3-Yesss give into your anger, strike me down with all your hate (starwars has to be!!!!)
THE EYE!!!! IT BURNS!!!LOL
O SHIT thanks dave havint laughed like that in ages been miss the funny lately hahahahhahahahahahahhahah
Utterly the best moment in webcomics yet. was laughing for 15 minutes after seeing this
Maybe one of the supers on staff has healing.
Or Sydney could open the Tube Of Mystery and use an Orb.
Zinnngggg! “Not that one” Bang! “Not that one” Crunch! “Not that one” …….
My eyes! The glasses do nothing!
…
Oh, because they fell off. First rule of safety gear, it doesn’t help if you don’t wear it.
You might love spicy food Sydney, your retina on the other hand does not.
Actually the cornea is what got hit; that is the clear part in the front that lets light into the rest of the eye structure. The retina is in the back of the eye. If it gets hit, someone has a much larger problem.
usually a lethal problem.
AWESOME. Panels 3 and 4 are special favourites of mine.
BEHOLD! The Unmaker cometh! Pay it homage before you incur its unholy wrath!
I was half expecting her to go “Meh…” then explode.
You know this page is going to end up on TvTropes under “Eye Scream”.
Well, that was different. Sydney just managed to pull off a stunt that an invincible character would cringe at.
Oh, I’d love to see Achilles try that!
No. Achilles couldn’t handle the Unmaker. He may be invulnerable, but he still feels pain.
While the pain of a direct eyeball hit would be extreme, I’m sure that the reason Sydney is calling for a medic, is the fact that her optic nerve just shorted out.
When you get up into the million+ scoville range, it will literally make you blind temporarily. The eye just shuts off.
Happened to a friend of mine as he drove home after eating really spicy. He thought he’d washed his hands good enough, but as he was driving, touched the corner of his eye with the back of his hand and that eye just stopped working, total black. Came back about a half hour later, but scared the crap out of him.
Wow, You learn some weird stuff from reading the forum in this webcomic.
I am sure that either Michio Kaku, or his students have shown up here a few times. There has been some very high science bantered around a few times. I don’t see that often in public.
We’ve discussed various scientific theories,Chemistry, Biology, ballistic weaponry, close combat skills, quantum entanglement. and that’s just right of the top of my head.
I did think this was a pretty brainy forum at times. It’s very intresting to read.
We also get comments that are so ill-informed that they are painful, or hilarious, to read.
Depends how third/fourth/etc-hand you still count as a student. There are some who’ve seen Dr. Kaku on TV, maybe even some who’ve met him. But there are also some who just happen to have relevant background to the topic at hand. For instance, I’m a recently-graduated Chemistry student with experience in armoury from a sports and ancient-weaponry perspective, family in the nuclear power industry, and a strong interest in space technologies. Throw in a few dozen more people with similarly wide-ranging interests, and it’s amazing what a range of topics have a few ‘experts’.
You in the SCA or ARMA?
Also there is a real wide range of job and hobby experience. I’ve had a lot of different jobs myself, some skilled some not. I’ve had a real hunger for education too. I used to read encyclopedias as a child.