B.O. - classic or dud?

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Just a little bit - sexy and manly (perhaps having an unconscious effect)? Or just vile?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Depends what it smells of. If it smells of soup I've been told classic.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

A little bit is sexy, yeah. A PROPER amount is VILE.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

what about on girls? personally i like it on both sexes, but not overpowering.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Vile. Stop being a scab and but that Superdrug deo-stick.

― Lara, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree I think.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I mostly meant on girls, actually, but on boys too I suppose. Doesn't seem all that sexy ON me TO me.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

when you're a girl, a shower is enough to get the worst of the smell away.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

You probably can't smell it on you if it is mild, Andrew.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Di - I should hope so! If not then you really do have a problem.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I can, I'm paranoid.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

nick i think you have a problem cos you think you are the authority on what women should smell like.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

what's wrong with smelling like a man (if you are a man)?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

di - ??

Women can smell like whatever they want. I just meant you have some serious B.O. if it doesn't come off in the shower.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

okay that seems fair enough... i just don't see what wrong with a little whiff. i like it and so does everyone i've been with.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

By 'you' I meant 'one' in the offending sentence. I think you're right and most people do like a tiny bit, but not enough to identify as 'B.O'. Is there a human scent that is distinct from the festering sweat bacteria that constitutes B.O.?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

its okay i didn't take it personally nick, i took it generally, which is just as bad (but don't worry, its okay now). umm i'm not sure about the human scent but body odour is known to contain pheromones so its sorta logical if some people dig it a little.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Di - as Nick is THE ALPHA MALE he *is* an authority on what women should smell like. We should all be striving to meet his standards.

― Lara, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't decide whether to post this to the annoying colleague or the B.O. thread, so I'm going to post it to both! Anyhow, in one office where I worked we had a guy with a B.O. problem and the managers had to have words with him in private on a couple of occasions. And yes, on those rare occasions when my sinuses were clear (one day in seventeen approx) it was quite annoying and offensive to me. However, it was NOT NEARLY AS ANNOYING AND OFFENSIVE as the colleague who used to go on and on about it all the bloody time whenever the guy with the problem walked out of the room! Not only that, but as soon as he left she used to reach for the can of air freshener which she kept on her desk *specially* and spray about a litre of it about the place! So instead of an office smelling of sweat we had an office reeking of air freshener!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Who decided N was the alpha male? Goddamn.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

its okay andrew, you can be the beta male. oops wrong thread.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Lara is taking the piss. Anyway, it was she who told me to buy the deostick, so she has a cheek.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick's Alpha Male status was decided at a secret meeting in an underground bunker in Budapest in November of 2002. The meeting was attended by badgers, crayfish and two single blokes from Twickenham.

― Lara, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

And btw, I have *four* cheeks and each one smells more delightful than the other.

― Lara, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

In what order?

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

i just want a whiff of di's lurex.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i can only say dud. what's sexy about an obnoxious odour? whether it's a small or large dose doesn't matter to me, its vile either way.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

what about V.O.?

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I bet kilian doesn't like kissing or sexual intercourse.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

You are all drunk, except Killian, who is OTM.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

it's good on the other person if it's right after you have sex and it isn't overpowering, but on the whole, i say dud (unless it's mild)

― sand.y, Thursday, 16 January 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

marcello, as long as your armpits are hairy and a little frangrant, my lurex will smell however you want it to smell.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 02:02 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I wanted to revive this thread because I need to vent about my new flatmate who has a fair amount of b.o. He's got his friends staying here (by everyone's consent), but the male buddy of his also has b.o. It's cold (snowed this week) and so airing out the flat is a no-go.

My flatmate's room smells of dirty socks and male caucasian b.o. Funnily enough, it smelled nearly the same when a different white guy was living there. I think maybe there's something to racial body chemistry (even if race is a construct).

Or maybe the sweat from the dirty feet just got leached into the carpet and will never leave. This new flatmate is terrible at housekeeping, so maybe his room just reeks from the previous guy's stank.

This male buddy of his is a smoker, too. Out of respect, they don't smoke indoors, but they still stink up the flat merely by having their clothing strewn about. I sprayed what I think is Febreeze on their coats and dirty laundry because I was nearly retching from the odour, but it didn't really help.

I think smokers, especially males, smell bad not only from the lingering tobacco smoke but also because they tend to be really unhealthy and put other bad things into their bodies. The bad things eventually come out and smell foul. Sick and decaying people stink. Furthermore, smokers destroy their sense of smell with their consumption of cigarettes and so they don't/can't notice when they smell bad. Or maybe they are just rude and insensitive, don't care if their b.o. is bad. Seems typical.

I'm not going to tell them to wash their clothes or bathe more frequently because I'm moving out in less than two weeks. Yay!

― Melinda Mess-Injure, Thursday, 10 March 2005 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

As for the original question...just the tiniest whiff of b.o. on a person whom I like (who also has good health and hygiene) is okay, even nice.

But I dislike b.o. in general. I'm on the fence though about what's worse, someone dousing him/herself in a noxious cologne such as CK1 or someone who's got powerfully nasty b.o. I hate hippies, but I gotta say that I'd rather deal with someone who's got bad b.o. than someone who wears a gallon (or even a squirt) of CK1.

Has anyone heard this idea that the less one washes, the less odour one's body will produce. This was some dirty hippy notion a friend of mine from the Pacific Northwest told me about. She only took a bath/shower once a week in the winter. I didn't tell her, but I thought that this theory was bullshit. She smelled a bit unpleasantly ripe to me. I

had another friend from Portland who must've had this same notion because she had a powerful personal odour and didn't seem to take a shower in the three days she was visiting. She claimed that since she didn't sweat, she didn't need to bathe. She even went to an orgy. I was disgusted...not by the orgy participation but because she hadn't bathed before going there. Am I just an uptight middleclass American who bathes too much? I love bathing! It's one of the things I really enjoy about Japan.

― Melinda Mess-Injure, Thursday, 10 March 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I just revived a sweat thread bfore seeing this!

― Senior Executive/CEO (nordicskilla), Thursday, 10 March 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

can i fart in yer face, melinda?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 10 March 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure, Eisbär, as long as I get to stick a hot soldering iron up yer bum first to cleanse and cautherize.

― Melinda Mess-Injure, Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Dirty hippies = dud.

Dirty hippies at orgies = send pics plz.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

mine: classic
yours: dud

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 10 March 2005 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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