even worse than the fridge smell is when you have a stack of dirty dishes that haven't been done in days and days, and there is no apparent smell until... you lift one off and suddenly the trap of nastiness starts seeping into the air.
― smoove operator, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda wish there were a smelltube.com but only for good smellsthat would make me really happy, in fact
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
oh i have another one
went camping for the weekend, came home and smelled a terrible fermented fart smell. is it my dirty clothes? no, it is the water from the pot of beans and rice i rinsed, but neglected to wash
uuuuuuuuuuuuughhhh so gross
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
the actual worst worst is when you are by yourself in a room and you fart, and then you leave to get something, and then you walk back in and realize that an entire colony of dead mice is in your ass
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Or if you fart in the car and the lock it up and later when you return to the car with another person and open the door, there it is, waiting for you.
Or so I've heard.
― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
dyao another contender for the perfume of which you speak is CINNABAR by Estee Lauder. Full dIsclosure: I love that stuff and wear it occasionally but I think it smells okay on me and I know lots of people hate it.
Also maybe Clinique Aromatics Elixer.
― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
I mean to say I know lots of people hate Cinnanar out of the bottle but like the way it smells on me. Or maybe they're just being nice and start uncontrollably retching when I leave the room.
― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
coworkers' reheated leftovers
― uhh (ok), Friday, 2 December 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
I walked into the front door of my house once and said aloud "what is that smell?" and it was my roommate, hiding behind the door to surprise me. That was awkward.TBF he was once given the nickname "old pizza" (he kind of smells like that)
― Mr. Farmer, Friday, 2 December 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
September/kitchen/rotten potatoes
― William (C), Friday, December 2, 2011 2:33 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
This has happened to me twice. The second time it smelled enough like vomit to cause me to bring up my lunch.
― camp yo lo tengo autumn sweater saturday night (rusty flathead screwdriver), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
hmm next time I smell this perfume I will try to capture it in a bottle and give it to you guys irl, to confirm.
you know what's a great horrible smell? fish sauce
― dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
a variation of this:
I was talking to a college roommate one night, sitting on his bed, just about nonsense. I asked him when he had gotten brown sheets and he told me that these were the same blue ones he had at the beginning of the semester, he just never washed them
I never set foot in his room again
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
hahahaoh old pizza and brown sheets now that is what i am looking for
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
smelled like a bunch of mice were re-enacting the 120 days of sodom behind the sink.
― dr. strongo, Friday, December 2, 2011 2:16 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
also just recently we had so much bad food shoved way in the back of our refrigerator that waves of what could be charitably described as "period smell" used to waft through our kitchen at random times until we cleaned that bad boy out
― OH NOES, Friday, December 2, 2011 2:25 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
dying at both of these
― cad, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
my kitchen sink smells fucked up right now. i guess i need baking soda or something?
― cad, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
I bought my house in 2009 from an old widow who had lived there alone for 4 years or so, but who had moved into the house in the 1940s. It had a very particular smell of dust and decomposing chemicals from the upholstery and 40 years of greasy cooking and booze and whatever.
So I'm on the commuter bus heading home yesterday and a guy sits down next to me who smells just like my house before we cleaned it up and renovated. It wasn't "horrible" like rotten potatoes but it was pretty unpleasant to be rubbing up against him on a bus seat.
― camp yo lo tengo autumn sweater saturday night (rusty flathead screwdriver), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
iirc the sheet revelation cued me into to some sensory clues that my mind was busily deflecting in order to preserve my sanity, like how the sheets felt vaguely wax-papery and how his bedroom smelled faintly like old ham
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
xp: my math is somewhat off there. She got the house in the late 50s.
― camp yo lo tengo autumn sweater saturday night (rusty flathead screwdriver), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
There's a water treatment plant a couple miles from our house which, thankfully, only smells when you are directly next to it. But sitting at the stoplight adjacent to it is pure torture, even with the windows rolled up tight and the vents shut. I've gagged many a time sitting there.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
not really related but this just reminded me: i had no idea till i moved to the US that "skunk" is called that because it actually smells like a skunk... i always thought it was just because it was strong-smelling, LIKE a skunk.
― smoove operator, Friday, December 2, 2011 7:19 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
I don't understand at all. You thought that skunks were called that b/c they smelled strong like a skunk, not b/c they actually smelled the way a skunk does? I'm trying to understand but there's something I'm not getting.
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
Mostly I came here to say that this thread title sounds like the name of an Onion infographic, e.g., What Are We Yelling About?
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
I remember in high school, a bunch of us spent a week at the U of MN at a high school journalism camp where due to a mixup jjj and I were not rooming together as planned. We were in jjj's room where we'd ordered a pizza and were sitting around bullshitting and eating when jjj's roommate came in and freaked the fuck out. You would have thought we were frying durian in cat diarrhea based on his reaction, which included angry shouts of "WHAT IS THAT DISGUSTING STENCH" and "GET PERMISSION BEFORE YOU JUST BRING A PIZZA INTO SOMEONE'S ROOM, GAAAAAAAWD!" Of course we were all "um yr roommate is right here and he said it was okay, so whatever" and continued eating.
I want to say he ran out of the room and we hid the pizza box under his bed but I might be making that up.
xp: Jesse, "'skunk'" = "'mary jane'" = "'ganja'"
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
tbf I will probably kick somebody out of my house for bringing in the horrible stench of dominoes
― dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Holy shit. I read a comment on FB a while back that is perfect for this thread. I have to find it!
xp- Ooooohhhh! Now I understand. Thank you.
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
steady larfs at my desk, keep it up
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
lol
IIRC it was some local campus pizza place (which may or may not have been a Dominos now that I think about it)
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
green peppers smell atrocious on pizza, but it's not like old canteloupe.
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
also the worst smelling old lady perfume from clinique is obviously YOUTH DEW
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
maybe that's estee lauder?
youth dew vs. creamofsumyunguy
― dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
I found it! A guy posted this comment to a friend's FB post about a stinky train car:
When we lived in the city, I was quite tired one winter morning and wearily took the dog for her morning walk. I rushed back to the apartment, got my bag, headed for the bus stop. I get on at LaSalle and Goethe. At LaSalle and Division, a homeless guy gets on and, of course, sits next to me. It is at that time I smell the strong odor of shit. FML. But, by the time we get to Oak St, the bus is packed and there is nowhere to go, so I just stay put. I get off at LaSalle & Adams, head to the office at the CBOE, the shit smell still haunting me. I get into the office, reach into my jacket pocket for my keys, and find a bag of dog shit, no doubt put there during my dog walk just 20 minutes earlier!
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
OH NOES otm - we don't have skunks where i come from, so i had no idea what one smelled like. i wonder how many other people are completely ignorant of this.
― smoove operator, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
xp: oh god, I have a story like that
We were visiting friends in town and their condo had this awful, horrific smell in it that seemed to have no origin; everywhere we went, it was there. We thought we had tracked it down to some spots on the stairs outside their door and the husband, who was head of their condo association, typed up this long letter about cleaning up after spilling things in public spaces and taped it on the front door of the building.
After about 10 minutes of conversation we decided to leave because the smell just wouldn't go away. We walked outside and I noticed some reasonably fresh dog shit someone had neglected to pick up with a noticeable footprint in it. It jumped out at me because the footprint matched the tread on the bottom of my shoe. Basically, in our quest to find this smell that was magically following us everyone, I managed to track dog shit around their entire condo and halfway up the carpeted stairs in the common space.
Oops.
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
why do I have so many of these stories, clearly I am a disgusting beast
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
haha I was just gonna comment about how half this thread is HI DERE posts
― dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
the other half is me! i am disgusting but also have a lot of smell-related memories.
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
I've never had to deal with skunk spray close up, mainly just smelled it in roadkill-passing; from a distance and with brief exposure, I actually kinda like it.
― William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
i usually like skunk smell too but as i mentioned, i am disgusting.
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
I don't mind dead skunk smell, if dead skunk smell is what I think it is
― dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
WHAT
SKUNK SPRAY IS THE WORST FUCKING THING IN THE WORLD
gagggagaggrrgrrglaaaaaaaaaa verging on retching just thinking about the time my childhood cat tangled with a skunk, that was not good times
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
they don't have to be dead!
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
xp says the guy who wore lysol perfume
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.sinpets.com/dogpix/20070727Coprophagia_homebreeder_Samoyed_ToaPayohVets.jpg
― nakhchivan, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSKHUcenqHs
― yes this is the real (snoball), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
I managed to track dog shit around their entire condo and halfway up the carpeted stairs in the common space.
I have done this. Ugggh!
― M. White, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
Old skunk a ways away is okay. Fresh skunk real close will shut you down
― M. White, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
xp did the shit hit the fan?
― yes this is the real (snoball), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
I have done a similar thing as the man with the dog shit in his pocket, except it was a purse that the cat peed on.
― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
I would rather BATHE in cologne than smell a skunk up close ever again
I would rather soak for an hour in DRAKKAR than smell something sprayed by a skunk again, words cannot adequately describe the physical PRESENCE of that smell; the closest I can get is the aggressive BO you sometimes run into on public transportation that mashes so many terrible smells together that the overwhelming scent your brain can process is "stale saliva".
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
at work there was one set of cubicles which always emitted the weirdest scent. it was as if food had gone sour and someone had vomited in response to that, and then someone took Lysol to try to cover up the sour food and vomit.
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
How did you spill milk all over the inside of your car? Hydraulics acting up again?
― Dermot O'Leary is playing some beats/at night he's a TV presenter (snoball), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
there was a horrible smell in the grocery store yesterday and i think it was because they'd set up a propane bbq (for free samples of some sort) and something was amiss. five minutes after i walked by, i went by again and it was gone. half the store smelled so weird, the kind of smell that is bad yet hard to place, so i was both trying not to breathe deeply and yet trying to figure out what the horrible smell was and so, breathing deeper. eesh.
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
xp Actually I remember when the windscreen on my old car leaked and rainwater got in, pooling in the passenger side footwell, and that stunk bad enough. I can't (or at least don't want to) imagine how bad milk would stink up a car.
― Dermot O'Leary is playing some beats/at night he's a TV presenter (snoball), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
way to humour a deems jeez
― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
the only logical thing to do is to find something even smellier to mask the milk smell
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
Just don't wash, like, ever again.
― Dermot O'Leary is playing some beats/at night he's a TV presenter (snoball), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
Also, put used burger wrappers all over the floor of the car to soak up the milk.
― Dermot O'Leary is playing some beats/at night he's a TV presenter (snoball), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
one (1) full tin of baking soda brushed in through the carpet, have to vacuum in the morning. fingers crossed
i sold a car before because i spilled milk in it. shit is the worst
― delonge and winding refn (p much resigned to deems), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
Stop drinking milk in the car.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
i was transporting it from the shop this time tbf
the last one, yeah ok fair enough
― delonge and winding refn (p much resigned to deems), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
There was an episode of Car Talk from a while back in which a guy called in to ask how to get rid of the smell of rancid butter that had melted into the heating ducts in his car. It was pretty funny.
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
!!! haha wtf
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 08:04 (twelve years ago) link
lol car talk gets bad smell q's all the time. iirc the answer is to take it to a body shop.
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
there was one where a guy's buddies pranked him by hiding a fish in the vents or something
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe advice for d - http://www.cartalk.com/sites/default/files/features/fido/zeolite.html or http://www.cartalk.com/sites/default/files/features/fido/ozone.html
― wore glasses and said things (thejenny), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
ta!
No smell as yet i've the soda left on it and will hoover tonight before checking status
― twice banned gabbage is death (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
why are you putting coke on it? gross
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
simpsons
all i'm sayin
― twice banned gabbage is death (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
The odor that you may smell on the 9th floor is due to an oil delivery to the building early this morning. I have spoken to the building security and they have checked our floor and now that the ventilators are running – the odor should be eliminated shortly.
If you have any problems, please see me at once.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
parents are boiling seaweed again
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Saturday, 24 December 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link