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
I would rather soak for an hour in DRAKKAR
hahaha what about TWO HOURS?! you're right though -- the amalgamated stench of super old BO is what makes me retch on the most regular basis
― recently deposed application inspector for the (league of women voters), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
Good lord is that Samoyed cute.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Now that we're through mowing for the winter and the trees have dropped their leaves all over the yard, I'm very nervous about tracking dogshit into the house.
― William (C), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
xp: don't smell its breath
― OH NOES, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
I think the worst smell ever in my mind is associated with a mental image of a pair of very old red sweatpants that have never, ever been washed
― dayo, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
I lived in a total shithole when I first moved out on my own and we had tons of mice. One night my roommate and I were watching TV when we were overwhelmed by a horrible smell. After some inspection he realized it was coming from my chair. Pulling away the cushion revealed that I'd been sitting on a rotten dead mouse for a couple hours. NBD.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Friday, 2 December 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
Mild, far-off skunk smell is sort of intriguing, but skunk roadkill is bad, (god help if you were the one to hit it) and skunk spray on a dog is worse. My poor childhood dog got sprayed in the face and we tried everything to wash it off (including tomato juice, which did nothing) but it hung on for months. She also got a face full of porcupine quills, and there is no question that a face full of quills is easier to handle than a face full of skunk musk. Not even in the same ballpark.
xps OH NOES OTM. It's just impossible to handle.
more xps
― Sandbox Jesse, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://damnyouautocorrect.com/images/surprise-mom.jpg
― remy bean in exile, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
One of my proudest public transit moments was when I led my inlaws between the cars on a moving train because we boarded a car on which a man who had shit his pants approximately three weeks ago and had yet to clean them was taking a nap. Even better, the car we crossed into smelled like vanilla butter cookies, no lie.
― thejenny, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
i met this dude at a bar once 4 years ago, halloween karaoke party, he was wearing nothing but a one piece shiny gold spandex jump suit type thing as if he was some generic superhero like "solid gold man" or something, and wafting off of his body was the most confusingly awful scent.
like there's BO, and then there's the next-level cottage-cheese-in-the-desert-heat-mixed-with-pickle-brine poupourri that was drifting towards my nostrils in what i swear were visible stink lines.
― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Friday, 2 December 2011 21:48 (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