OK folks, I know we don't like the funk of unwashed, but dang it, perfumed out is just as bad.
I live a good half mile from my nearest neighbor, but I can smell his wash like he threw in 10 dryer sheets.
My eyes water and nose runs (yes I tried to catch it).
Same with the Cologne for both men and women, why must you douse youself till it's a fire hazard?
A little goes a long way, and if you're using it to cover up the fact you don't know basic hygene, it makes it even worse.
Body washes are not a replacement for soap and water, and will not make you attractive to the opposite sex if used by the Gallon.

Thank you,
Please scent responsibly.

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Hold my beer and watch this!

Arent you glad you use dial? Dont you wish everybody did?

Sir, I'm with ya, but I think the problem is one of ignorance rather than hygiene.

Whatever the cause, going about over-scented should be a punishable offense, and entering a confined space (such as an elevator) while over-scented should entail mandatory three-strikes sentencing.

JMHO, FWIW.

Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.

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Wishin' don't make it so.

This is the Axe Body Spray generation. No need to clean off the bacteria and grime, just cover it up with something more potent and pungent. Funny thing is the commercials act like it makes you smell good to the opposite sex when it really just makes you smell like a South end of the North bound skunk.

Sometimes I think this is more to do with so many folk having become desensitized to sensory input. I am convinced that should the predatory aliens land in force that there will be a great deal of "low hanging fruit" to eat before they get anywhere near me. Many people these days are so unaware of their environment that it takes a loud noise, a powerful smell or some huge visual event to catch their attention.

My mother and I were flying Space A on a military flight back in '79. We got bumped of in Zaragosa Spain, and decided to take the train the rest of the way home. My father was a Chief in the Navy and we lived in Rota Spain, about a 14 hour drive from Zaragosa. We didn't know Spanish, but saw a Express train going to Rota and purchased two tickets thinking Express meant we would be home soon.

Well evidently in Spanish Express means go slow and stop in every one horse town along the way. It was like something you see in the movies, with people getting on the train carrying chickens and such. My mother sat in the enclosed compartment with two rows of bench seats along with a family of 5. I got to sit outside in the aisle with our luggage(which turned out to be the good seat).

I tried to sleep, as it was at night and there were 10 or 12 others with no seats, sleeping/sitting/standing in the aisle. I wasn't very happy about the hard floor, having people stepping over and on me all night, and the wonderful aroma of stale body odor and chicken poo.

In the morning, the family in the compartment with my mom woke and took a little bath, washing their faces with a worn bandanna and water from a water bottle. Then they all doused themselves with cologne, and combed their hair after pouring cologne on the comb. My mother came out of the compartment to "check" on me, her eyes red and full of tears, her nose running like a faucet. When she opened the door, I swear the the cologne fumes killed three chickens.

My mother finished the train ride standing with me and the chickens in the aisle, with the natural odors of stale sweat and fresh chicken poo as our only and welcome respite from the cologne.

The guys and most of the women around here smell like Lava soap. Thank goodness I bought the gallon size bottle of .007 cologne in '70. I still have a half a gallon left. Two winters ago I got snowed in and had to drink about a quart. I usually dab a bit behind both ears and "special places" before I hit the Walmart.

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SOS USA

Worth repeating.

Pheromones in Flirting, Dating and Relationships. Pheromone secrets for lovers. Pheromone use in relationships.

I may have to reconsider the daily use of soap. The "manly scent" of Irish Spring just may not be as effective as the manly scent of man.

Try sitting at counsel table with a defendant that hasn't brushed his teeth in 5 months continually whispering in your ear.

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Forum consigliere

Definitely a factor. As we age, our senses dull. Oldsters are, along with the newly pubescent teens, the most egregious offenders of OOOPS (Offensive Over-application Of Perfume Syndrome).

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I remember playing music in bars in the 70's around here and the favorite, or at least most used fragrance for women, was Taboo. I think I still have a chunk of it stuck in my nose. One woman in a tavern could stink the whole place up. Makes you think, flammable. I wonder if folks that douse themselves with strong fragrances may have defective or at least very insensitive sense of smell? I say God bless them all. This thread really stinks.
Pray for our country,
gordon

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better have that checked

Ahh, the stink of humanity......

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Even older, even crankier....

Or sitting there in the warm wash of wave after wave of Copenhagen and expectin' (no pun intended) the inevitable splatter. If'n Adam had discovered Copenhagen, I'm guessin' the human race would have ground to a halt right there...

When i was younger i went to a small baptist church and ALL of the older ladies absolutely reeked of perfume it was so bad i became violently ill on several occasions.

I did have to ask to be moved from a plane seat next to a man whose cologne was causing me to experience asthma symptoms.

Thankfully, the flight attendant found me a better seat.

"Be Careful How You Use It"

HAI-YAA!!!


Hai Karate - vintage TV commercial - YouTube

I work at a local college campus and there are a lot of middle-eastern folks that attend and man are they big on the Axe body spray. That stuff stinks I don't understand what their draw to that stuff is but I wish the supply would dry up. I know this sounds racist but it's true.

I don't really like the smell of someone who threw on half a bottle of colonge/perfume/deoderant/etc. But if I gotta make a choice between that and B.O. Then bring on the colonge!

I saw what you did there!

Russ

You crack me up.
I'm convinced you "just ain't right". (southern idiom for "off a little")
Take another snort and see if it fixes ya.

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Lee Jarrett

Had a friend of the folks at the next table at the Anniston gun show last month sit there off and on, wish it had been always off!!! Think it was a half bottle of Old Spice. Course it wasn't any worse than one of the perfumes some women used to wear before I retired. Get in the elevator and it smelled like two-three day old stale beer. Barf stuff..
Larry

I try to be considerate of others. I only wear Old Spice... or Halston I-12 or Z-14... or whatever my daughters buy me for Christmas. What really flips me is to be getting ready to attend a meeting and get a e-mail reminding the attendees to not wear fragrances/hairspray, etc. due to possible problems this might cause for people with allergies. I know such folks must have a hard time in stores and restaurants, sporting venues, etc.

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HEY! Watch what you say about "Old Spice". Worn with Hoppes #9
it makes a guy irresistable to the opposite sex.
Jimmy (aka Don Juan)

That's why you get paid the big bucks! Bring a sonic care with ya the next time.

I'm back now. Lot's of hot water for the shower since I put in the new water heater Tuesday.

Who remembers that dreadful perfume Poison from the 1980s. Talk about an apt name. The mail lady who worked in our building could be detected 15 minutes out with that stuff. I swear that stuff could gag a maggot.

About the same time Brut was all the rage for the guys. I used it but not to excess. In the pub one night when one of the girls suddenly sniffs and asks who is wearing Brut. None of us fessed up thinking she was objecting. Big mistake of my part. Apparently this girl pretty much did the whole Porky's locker room routine on a whiff of Brut. Guess I missed out.

^^^ This. As we age our smellers tend to not work so well. This is why the old ladies at church dump on a gallon & a half of foofoo juice. They put it on till THEY can smell it.

My wife's so bad I need to roll down the truck winder for a few miles...

Sitting behind the table at a gun show this weekend; some woman came up to the display behind me, wearing something I'd never smelled before. It was pretty strong. I sneezed for 4 solid mintues before she moved on.

If any of you are looking for the other half gallon of 007, I got it. One Christmas, 5 of my nieces each bought me an industrial strength bottle. So far I used 1 bottle, half when three of my dogs got skunked some years ago. The other half doused in a '66 Ford Falcon I bought cheap, cause some dude died in it. Never did get the odor of that 007 out of the car.

Cheers;
Lefty

Doesn't that warrant a stink palm? What's fair is fair.

I have 2 8am classes during the week, and my seat-mate is a big, long-haired kid who probably works 2 jobs. He's a nice guy, but he is always falling asleep in class, but not before kicking his shoes off...


The stink is enough to make all of us on our side of the class gag and cough. The professor used to wonder about why we were all coughing until she came back to help me on an Excel problem. Her eyes got wide and her nostrils got skinny, and she looked at the pile of hair snoring in the corner, and left...

Now if I could get my 15 year old son to hit the showers more often, I'd have it made...

Seinfeld - The Car Stinks - YouTube

How funny. Christian Dior still makes this, it's one of their signature perfumes...and mine. It's an easy one to overdo. I spray it in the air ONE time, and walk through the mist. it works for me, everyone tells me they like my fragrance.

Our legal friend dealing with clients melting their eardrums reminded me of some stories about nonbrushing band kids and the funky stuff that made their instruments no longer playable. I've only seen two extremely bad cases , but when a kid blows thru the horn and the smell out the other end knocks you down...ugh...

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Soli Deo Gloria

The U.S. Army (of all organizations) has THE cure for bad odors in a vehicle. The M2A1-7. Very effective - takes only seconds and the smell is GONE

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In dog years I'm dead.

This is the standard MO for going to gunshows. Stop bathing for two weeks prior, then a day or two before start eating beans and broccoli. Then wear the same clothes for a week.

Its amazing how the crowds just part as you walk down the aisle.

Chemical warfare was outlawed by the Geneva convention way back when.
I wonder if that's how Moses parted the Red Sea.
John

Me, I'd rather smell the aroma of O' De Pew Colone and Underarm/Groin Spray that the stinky ol' bodies of the of the other Walmart Shoppers.

If its good enough for Peppy Le Pew, its good engouh for me.

Rule 303

One of my soldiers got stuck rooming with a guy from another squad who wouldn't bathe (unbeknownst to me). The kid came to me one Monday morning and told me about the problem - the guy was spraying himself with pine scented air freshener rather than showering. I proceeded to tell the offending party to get his goat smelling rear in the shower and repeat daily or I'd give him a crash course in personal hygene with a garden hose and a stiff bristle brush. He knew I was serious. We had no further issues with body odor.

I use old spice. And that in spite of once dateing a woman who told me to quit wearing it because I smelled like a "old man"! Hey! Next month I will be 71 so I aint gonna give it up!

Years ago a oakie had a old good looking ford pickup at work. I asked him about it and he told me he inherited it from his dad. He said his father was missing for about 3 or 4 days. Finaly he was found. He had a heart attack and had run off a country road in oklahoma and through some thick brush that had sprung back. He said the truck wasnt hurt.
He must have read my questioning look and explained farther.
Aw, it aint bad. Maybe in winter when I turn the heater on ya can smell a little somethun, but it aint too bad!

I take it he and dad weren't real close. That's COLD.
f.t.

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Frankly he "acted" serious as a heart attack when he told me the story! However just knowing these type guys and with another 40 years of life experiance, I would bet he was haveing fun putting me on!

Actually, the Egyptians came up with that first.
They (both men and women) would put a large amount of beeswax on top of their head, and the beeswax was filled with herbs/spices and other sundry noxious stuff. As the day got warm, the wax would melt and run down their head/hair and release the scent. I can just imagine the mess!!!

It just goes to show that we're not the first generation to go through this.

I don't even want to mention some Roman ways of "cleaning up," as it'd make me lose my lunch.

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I heard the romans had public bath rooms. Toilet paper wasnt invented yet so they had community sponges and probley vessels of water. How would you like to be a maintance man back then?

I've had enough of this thread. It's like kindergarten toilet humor. I suggest body odor rank #2 after political threads as objectionable.

Now lets all light up a fart.

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Stink you say?, its obvious you folks dont own English Bulldogs. I have 2, if the snoring wont kill you, the uh scent from behind will. Gives a whole new meaning to " magnum loads ", 26

I used to work with a woman who used to wear so much perfume it would gag you. I would come home and my girlfriend at the time thought I was with someone else because all my clothes stunk of it. It got to the point where my girlfriend came to work to see the women because she wasn't believing me. One day the woman didn't come to work and quit her job over the phone and come to find out she was arrested for drug use. All I could think was the perfume was trying to cover up something.