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I get that.
I did a middle school sleepover at a friend’s house and her older sister and friends decided to watch Friday the 13th and it put me off on horror as a genre for decades.
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You really aren’t missing much, from a cinematic standpoint, but you’ll internalize a bit more GenX/Millennial pop culture, so it‘ll probably be a net gain.
Other than jump scares, there’s not much to be worried about as an adult.
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People desperately want there to be some secret folk remedy and I don’t know what remedy could be more folksy than water and time.🤷♀️
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“All these other physicians and chemists and biologists have been up in this thing and developed a whole field of best practices but I read something on the internet and now I’m gonna be the Albert fucking Einstein of pepper spray relativity” is some real Done My Own Research energy.
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Okay.
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I tell people that OC is actually way more useful for private citizens than cops, because all I need to do is chemically poke someone in the eye to get a head start in running away. Cops gotta wrestle the person they just sprayed.
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You’d think this would be self-explanatory and yet here we are.
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…neutralized like it said on the can.
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(The key here is that OC is not a magic wand. People can be trained to fight through it, or can get acclimated. At its best, it’s a remote controlled poke-in-the-eye that can be done from a dozen feet away. For me, that’s a head start in running away. For a cop, that’s a bad guy that wasn’t …
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Oh, yeah, dudes definitely get acclimated to it. It’s no magic wand.
With current tech, though, if OC or the Taser function properly (far from a given) they’re the closest thing to a phaser set on stun that we have.
(A phaser set on stun would be the most revolutionary LE tech ever.)
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I was rapping with Tom Givens and he was griping about the surge in popularity of OC in the private citizen training space.
I was like “Well, Tom, you’d spray a guy and then have to wrestle him into cuffs and a squad car. I spray a guy and all I gotta do is run. We are not the same.” 😅
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In my bacon-American days in the bar district I once had a sergeant non-ironically just issue me a display carton of OC cans. I sprayed lots and lots of drunks and then tried to make them more comfortable before their ride to jail. Standard treatment was three bottles of water. Water works.
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I was rapping with Tom Givens and he was griping about the surge in popularity of OC in the private citizen training space.
I was like “Well, Tom, you’d spray a guy and then have to wrestle him into cuffs and a squad car. I spray a guy and all I gotta do is run. We are not the same.” 😅
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Goddammit, Siri, when wrote “inert” I meant “inert”, not “inner”.
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Obligatory:
“And if you’re taking a class as a private citizen that purports to train you on OC spray and does not provide you with inner trainers as well as an opportunity to get sprayed yourself (optional for an end user, mandatory for an instructor) then it’s not a serious class.”
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Yeah, it’s a complicated issue.
More annoying to me because I try and evangelize good OC orthodoxy…
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I mean, it doesn’t hurt in those roles, but it doesn’t much help in real time.
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Or just water. It works better. I know everyone wants a special ingredient, but really it’s just running water.
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This is one of those rare actually gender-specific things where it’s apparently the difference between accidentally wiping the habanero around your eye vs. in your eye.
That incident was the start of my jihad against twist safeties on OC canisters.
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“All these other physicians and chemists and biologists have been up in this thing and developed a whole field of best practices but I read something on the internet and now I’m gonna be the Albert fucking Einstein of pepper spray relativity” is some real Done My Own Research energy.
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Well, CS and OC are two distinct varieties of suck.
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I knew someone who carried a small OC dispenser with an inverted pocket clip and one of those twist safeties… (can you tell I hate those?) …in the front pocket of her jeans.
I will leave you to imagine the result of a good multi-second spritz down the front of her trousers. 😬
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I honestly think that dish soap might be useful in decontaminating stuff later, but it’s as bad in the eyes as OC.
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I tell people that OC is actually way more useful for private citizens than cops, because all I need to do is chemically poke someone in the eye to get a head start in running away. Cops gotta wrestle the person they just sprayed.
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…just spray me in the face and pass me the hose, rather than have me blindly trying to find a safe place to pull over in Chamblee-Dunwoody so I can writhe on the grass waiting for the owie to go away.
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The absolute worst I got was driving around ATL with a friend in my ex’s ‘75 Duster in August.
My friend had her roommate’s keychain with one of those dumb twist-safety dispensers. It sat there and quietly fogged the entire interior before our eyes really started burning and…
MF’er, next time…
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Bazinga! 😅
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Do eyewash stations in labs use milk or Dawn dishwashing soap? No. No they do not.
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You’re not dissolving it. You’re flushing it.
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(And if anyone tells you to use oven cleaner spray for self defense, you should never listen to them again because that is terrible terrible terrible advice.)
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It kills me because I imagine Tom and I would get along fine. In a lot of ways our political arcs are similar, with the difference that I lost my religion. Inside his lane, he is really a world class SME… but damn he is a poster child for how getting paid for punditry will damage lane-keeping skills
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That’s an NCAA celebration, not even pro-level.
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“I’ve let you fuckers take the Gadsden flag, the Gonzales flag, ‘molon labe’, and now I even have to think twice before flashing an ‘okay’ sign, but no, you don’t get the ‘Murrican flag.”
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“I’ve let you fuckers take the Gadsden flag, the Gonzales flag, ‘molon labe’, and now I even have to think twice before flashing an ‘okay’ sign, but no, you don’t get the ‘Murrican flag.”
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Shitheads have ruined a lot of good stuff, but you gotta draw the line someplace and say “No, you don’t get to take this one from me.”
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He somehow manages to make Kevin McCarthy look like a vertebrate, which is something heretofore thought impossible.
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(And if anyone tells you to use oven cleaner spray for self defense, you should never listen to them again because that is terrible terrible terrible advice.)
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