what is that horrible smell

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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.

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.

our cat tangled with a skunk once when I was a kid, which did have a semi-funny ending because before the skunk encounter she was grey and white and afterward, when we pour several cans of tomato juice over her in a fruitless attempt to remove the smell, she ran away before we could wash her off so for several weeks she was stained dark pink and light pink

yeah there is def a world of difference between up-close and far-away skunk. pretty sure we had a family of them living under our house for a while - the weirdest part of the smell is the sort of burnt-rubber aspect.

also remy otm, that should be posted everywhere

yeah I only really remember the burnt-rubber aspect

another fun fact; the urban possum smells just as bad as a skunk

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, December 2, 2011 9:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i want to go to this car

took me two reads to realize you said "possum"...xpost

xp I assume you mean the vanilla butter cookie car…

lol

There is absolutely no way that urban 'possum smells as bad as skunk.

and I know b/c I've picked up an urban 'possum

at a bar

these fuckers OTOH....

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xp

urban shaved 'possum

Possum up here ABSOLUTELY smell like skunks, to the point where I thought that skunks were running rampant in Somerville until I actually saw that it was a possum.

Of course, maybe all of the skunks here are fighting the possum, which then run out into view in an attempt to get away from themselves.

can I just say that I never consciously noticed how hilarious a name "Elizabeth Arden's Red Door" is for a perfume until just now

Elizabeth Arden's Brown Door

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I'm sure that the 'possums stink (the one I handled did not) but as much as skunk? Or skunk spray?

When threatened or harmed, they will "play possum", mimicking the appearance and smell of a sick or dead animal. This physiological response is involuntary (like fainting), rather than a conscious act. In the case of baby opossums, however, the brain does not always react this way at the appropriate moment, and therefore they often fail to "play dead" when threatened. When "playing possum", the animal's lips are drawn back, the teeth are bared, saliva foams around the mouth, the eyes, close or half-close, and a foul-smelling fluid is secreted from the anal glands. Their stiff, curled form can be prodded, turned over, and even carried away without reaction[citation needed]. The animal will typically regain consciousness after a period of between 40 minutes and 4 hours, a process which begins with slight twitchings of the ears.[14]

just for the record, I think I could have lived a happy and productive life without ever reading the bolded phrase in the above quote

Oh, per the thread's recommended posting guidelines:

When we lived with Jesse, I came home from school freaking out about how our apartment smelled disgusting and was there a Plumbing problem but it was just Jesse cooking broccoli or some other cruciferous vegetable.

Another time when some family was visiting I made a big deal about how bad our fridge stunk and apologized for not cleaning it when company was coming and it turned out the horrible smell was some homemade sour kraut a family member had brought as a gift. (I understand it was good; I just have a serious aversion to sour kraut.)

boiling cabbage is among the worst smells

Here is my urban 'possum

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I'm happy that I remembered to take pics.

xp - I am lucky I didn't get secreted on that night.

xp - It's a good thing I moved out before I kim chee season started.

I was walking home from the bar when I found that 'possum and I sort of wish I had been blacking out so that I could have found the terrible surprise of a string of pics of me handling that guy on my phone.

Some old dogs (particularly males) have troublesome anal glands that have to be expressed. It's wise to do this outside, and downwind of your house, and discard your latex gloves and clothing into a trash fire, and scrub down with something like gasoline...

Ditto cats!

did any of your parents ever make seaweed? boiling seaweed is THE WORST SMELL.

One of our cats would get asshole infections if we didn't take care of that anal gland thing. Then he'd scoot his poopy butt on the carpet. Then I would curl up and cry in despair.

asshole infections

welcome to ILX, infected by assholes

Oh! Dyao not my parents but once I decided to make miso soup and I used about 10x as much seaweed as called for and my apartment smelled the the most fetid saltwater marsh for DAYS.

*blinks*

that is the worst thing about pet ownership I have ever heard

"they give you unconditional love but sometimes you have to juice their asses when they get older"

I *like* the smell of boiling cabbage.

Butthole maintenance is the worst thing about pet ownership there is outside of the pet dying.

sometimes you have to juice their asses into the pot of boiling cabbage

balut is nasty enough as it is, we don't need to improvise

are we still talking about smells

we are talking about juicing a cat's ass, how could we NOT still be talking about smells

I mean god help us all if we're moving on to taste

worst V8 flavor ever

There was an energy drink called 'V' that smelled and tasted like chilled BO.

kobe, tell me how my cat ass taste

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kinda like an anal coffee

xpost, no xpost, you decide

pocari sweat is actually great and tastes like grapefruit

I think I would describe the love of a cat as conditional. xp

does dude in pic give mustache rides y/n