Originally Posted by Frownland

Spicy foods cause the body to release endorphins in response to the capsaicin. If you load up on it and hold it on your tongue, you'd probably feel relaxed once the fire died down. It's similar to a runner's high.

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Plus, both your mouth and anus will build up resistance to the pain. Just kinda sucks getting to that point.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.