what is that horrible smell

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

oh, also there was a Right Guard deodorant called 'Arctic Ice' that smelled like fermented old person's sweat.

Pocari Sweat does NOT taste like grapefruit! Not unless you've dumped a lot of salt on it first.

have you ever walked into a room that was full up with the smell of someone's bad breath?
i have

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

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I cannot describe how hard this is making me laugh right now.

I have walked into a stairwell filled with someone's bad breath, so yes?

the wall of halitosis is THE WORST

The combined shroud of bad breath and body odour is awful. The type where the person moves away, and maybe 30 seconds later you move through where they were standing, and it's like you get covered in a shroud of filth.

a friend of mine at this summer camp in high school used to say things like "who cares about that shit?" when I said I had to brush my hair or anything hygiene related, then one day he starts talking to me real close to my face and I figured out he was eating shit nuggets for lunch and clearly not flossing afterwards

what is that horrible smell

herman cain's crotch

I am about 95% certain you planned that post/display name combo

Re: bad breath, on the train, sitting next to someone with bad sinus breath is a bad way to start the day. Or someone with musty bed breath. Ugh.

"musty bed breath" raises so many questions, the first and foremost being "why would you eat a musty bed"

Maybe the afflicted person literally ate breakfast in bed?

Okay, so at the San Diego Comic Con a few years back, my buddy and I met up with this crazy girl he knew from high school who had been walking around all day dressed as Aeon Flux and only at the end of the day realized that a) she was starting to feel self-conscious, and b) she had not had the foresight to pack a pair of pants. She didn't want to leave through the main entrances due to a newfound modesty (after, again, walking around in a THONG through the convention all freaking day), so my friend and I loaned her our cardboard 300 shields to cover herself with, and we decided to go through the upstairs hallway so as to avoid the bulk of the crowd. Now, this happened to be a Saturday, and Saturday night at the convention was Masquerade night, where all the cosplayers gather to show off their Cloud Strife and Sailor Moon costumes. And the upstairs hallway that we decided to go down was the one where they had lined up to get into the ballroom. We went up the escalator, started walking down this hallway, and – BAM. It was like walking into a bubble filled with stench. I don't have any clever analogies to describe the smell, but I will put it this way – it is exactly what you would expect a poorly-ventilated hallway to smell like when filled with overweight nerds (who have poor personal hygiene at the best of times) who had been walking around all day in a packed convention center in the middle of July in Southern California while wearing heavy latex, fur, and cardboard outfits. We dashed through the hallway, which was not a short hallway, and made it to the other side, and it was like we had come out the other side of the bubble and everything smelled perfectly fine again.

Whenever I go to Comic Con with newbies now, I try to make them go through that hallway to get the full experience. But it has never smelled quite as bad as it did that one time.

omg loooooooooool

dunno why but this is my favorite part my friend and I loaned her our cardboard 300 shields to cover herself with

I'm hoping that when Pepper catches that mouse or snake or whatever he's been after in the corner for the last few weeks he brings it out into the open so that we can throw it away, not eat it or let it rot underneath the sink.

i am just getting over a cold and I had a lot of congestion/mucus buildup. some remnants still remain, and today I hawked up a big green thing of mucus taht smelled so bad I almost followed it up with a retch (but thankfully didn't). good lord.....glad that thing is out of me