People with Body Odour

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Referring in this case especially to the tubes at 6am, The tubes already smell bad enough as they are - any smell is heightened by the tubes distinct lack of fresh moving air. Therefore i ask why does a business man - who actually appears quite smart - stink really really stink, how at 6am can you smell that bad? does he have roll off deodrant, lynx to the named fragrance of "wet dog with a hint of pub and cooked onions?"

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

tell me your stories around BO, especially funny or embaressing ones- you can refer to yourself as "your friend" if it make s you feel any better, but we all know it's you....

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

I smell badly today, I dunno why. I had a shower this morning, put on clothes (all fresh on today), went to work, caught a whiff of myself, and I smell like somebody's run a marathon in my shirt then put it back on the hanger for me.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Some fabrics hold smells in them just for fun, and release them randomly at inconvenient moments. Washing is no match for their evil ways.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Especially under the arms of some tops...but viniger believe it or not removes them, dab a bit of white viniger under the armpits of said garment, wash as normal straight away.

i think i have a "thing" about BO i went to an all girls school and anyone who had the slightest hint of a disco patch or a whiff was ridiculed hence my collection of about 3 half used deodrants around mr room and one permanent fixture in my desk/bag.

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

my flatmate used to make our eyes water, he could stench out a room just by walking near it. I can't even begin to describe the smell but give me a few days and a thesaurus and I may come up with an approximation. Lets just say people wouldn't come into our house because of the gamy odour

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

gamy?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

It even emerged out onto the street from his upstairs room, it went out his window, tapped on the door, went up the hall, up the stairs and back to his room. Kinda like a snake biting its tail.

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

bad breath is far more of a problem on my morning train. especially with farty nerds of students that insist on babbling away stinkily right in front of me

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

gamy, well I probably spelt it wrong. Think, err, pungent, ripe and feral

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

no i got what you meant by gamy... just wanted to know how he smells gamy, yeuch!

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

I don't know, physical labour, advanced dehydration and hitting the bottle too hard. Smoking a lot and living on noodles.

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Weird Fat Kid Smells part i: Bologna
I bought this pack of mixed dried beans (15 kinds) to make bean soup, and it came with an artificial flavoring packet "smoked ham hock" that I wasn't gonna use. I dipped my finger in it, licked it ...

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

I work in an op shop warehouse sorting out stuff sometimes; there are some pretty special smells that piggy back in on the shoes and clothing. And sheets (ripped straight from the bed to the op shop)

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Menelaus Darcy is back! Wicked!

Big Macs smell of body odour and vice versa.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

cooked onions

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

I can imagine that people who work in charity shops smell some pretty funky sh*t in fact i think that would be my nightmare sorting through bags of stuff left on the doorstep all weekend - new warm home to rats, full of soiled goods.....

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

It's bloody awful.

Some people just smell, I really think it's down to dirty clothes in the cases of the worst offenders, or perhaps they just sweat a huge amount, but I am fairly convinced clean clothes and regular showering means you won't smell obnoxiously bad even if you do sweat on a particular day, even without deodorant. Though I still wear deodorant, and feel very self conscious without it.

One of my friends regularly stinks of BO, it's quite embarassing, one night it was so bad I just had to tell him, for his sake and also cos I was afraid people would think it was me, and we were at a blacktie ball (though not part of it as such, in normal clothes).

He seemed grateful, I didn't say "Hey you fucking smell" or whatever. Sadly he still does smell often, it's a shame.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

My friend (not me as I’m v clean) used to smell terrible, we’d tell him all the time but he never took any notice of us. When we were on nights out it’d get to the point where you couldn’t stand near him, as his tang would just be too much. All he had to do was shower before he came out but he never did. Anyway, he got a girlfriend who used to say “get a fucking shower, you stink”, and in the end he did. To this day I still hear her telling him to get a job.

Also a person at work smelt so people put a can of deodorant on this persons desk as a hint, but in the end it came down to a manager having to a have a word. Not long after the person left.

There is no excuse for it; I have no tolerance for stinkers.

Just wash you filthy bastards.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh it is ok for mental people to smell because they are mental.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

I used to work in Oxfam when I was on the dole a couple of years ago, and you do get some pretty gross stuff donated occasionally, but it's not generally THAT bad. No rats in the stuff left outside, sometimes a bit of rainwater from where some thieving cunt has been through it, but that's about it.

It did get quite baffling when you'd empty a bag onto the sorting table and it'd be full of dirty socks and underwear. WTF did they think we were going to do with it? The recycling/clothes to disaster zones company won't even take clean underwear!

We took care not to put our hands in bags until we knew what was in them. Just empty the contents on the table and if necessary don the rubber gloves!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

I vote rubber gloves

i am totally paranoid about me ever smelling though, whenever i smell BO at first i always think it's me after the 2/3 point check (check pits yourself, check breath yourself, ask friend/mum/partner to check) and i know it's not me, i immediately wonder who it is.

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

this is the wonder of life though, brush your teeth and shower before bed, and you still end up smelling funky in the morning.... damn those bacterium

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

and yet sometimes go out raving till 6am no deodrant, nothing before you collapse fully clothed on the floor near your bed, wake up smelling really surprisingly good....???

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking about stink the other day. I'm surprised, given that it's the bacteria that makes people smell, that they don't market a deodorant that has anti-bacterial properties. Or maybe they do. I'm not very up on these things.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Natural deodorants often contain anti-bacterial ingredients like tea tree. Possibly artificial anti-bacterial agents are too harsh, killing all the goodies as well as the baddies? I'm sure they do exist though.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I can't imagine what "good bacteria" might be doing of use in one's armpits.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Eating the smelly ones! (Er ok my 'knowledge' quite blatantly falls over at this point.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Killing the bad bacteria? Breaking down urea?

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

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