what is that horrible smell

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

(also what my mother said after i was born)

this thread is merely the end result of God's revenge on LL for her metaphysical musings over Thxgiving weekend upon the nature of being noseless...

I'll hear nothing negative about Pocari Sweat, as they employ Motomichi Nakamura, the artist responsible for The Knife's "We Share Our Mother's Health" video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YodFCfYPmw

I am ultimately thankful for my ability to smell both foul and sublime smells, it's true.

At the same time? I mean, if someone were to smell a really noxious fart and the most fragrant flower simultaneously, which aroma would they be aware of?

Did that imply simultaneous sniffing? Don't think so.

I meant a mixture of both gases up both nostrils. Not one up each nostril or anything weird like that.

I was thinking that the fart smell would flatten all other smells in the room like a nuclear blast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion_flower

Keep Calm and Carrion

Carrion is such a great word. I learned it from "Marian the Librarian".

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Amorphophallus_Wilhelma.jpg/508px-Amorphophallus_Wilhelma.jpg
Amorphophallus titanum, common name Carrion Flower.

Day of the Triffids Carrion Flowers

rotted, glowing, mackerel

damn that thing is amazing

Amazingly, lentils can be the stinkiest thing ever if you leave cooked ones in a pot for too many days and then de-lid them... uurrghhh, fermented death yuck.

Worst smells for me though are seriously sick homeless people. I hate feeling judgemental but when someone gets on a tram and the whole tram suddenly smells like BO+vomit+dogshit+doritos I just want to fling myself out of a window.

Burnt tomatoes.

chicken parts in the garbage bin. ew grody.

xxp it's the Doritos that really sends it over the edge

Haha yes.

Why do they even make dogshit flavour Doritos when they're so unpopular?

Well, the shit-eating dog market is substantial....

Rotten potato is one of the worst smells ever. And rotten onion.

I'm surprised more ppl haven't mentioned melons -- old melon is the pinnacle of sweet/rot.

Oooh yes rotten (raw) potato, definitely a foul stench.

The worst. Also if you leave gereberas in a vase too long = rotten potato stench

or however you spell that flower lol

Oh man, rotting flower water is vile. It smells like a big vase of diarrhea.

When I worked at a grocery store I accidentally stuck my hand into a rotten potato. The smell would not wash off, not even with bleach or baking soda.

in one of my rental houses we had a phantom stench in the kitchen...one day I lost it & went through every cupboard & corner praying it wasnt a decaying mouse. In a random empty cupboard I found a bag of completely rotted, deflated potatoes. I can still dmell them. *shudder*

smell

We had a phantom smell in our last apartment. It turned out to be a gallon can of soy sauce that was totally fine (or at least we used it and didn't die) until one day it made our apartment smell like something crawled into a vent and died.

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa225/fowlerjenn/IMG_1770.jpg

Before we figured out what it was, we called Jesse AND building maintenance. Phantom kitchen stenches send me into this panicked fight-or-flight state in which I monomaniacally tear the kitchen apart until I find the thing that smells.

WHOA SORRY GIANT CAN OF SOY SAUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Smelled up my kitchen, now it's smelling up this thread.

see that is why it's not worth it to buy in bulk

I had no idea you could buy bulk metal cans of soy sauce! Yows.

I buy those big jugs of soy sauce. They last about me about 2 months. I love soy sauce.

see that is why it's not worth it to buy in bulk

Yes. So we learned.

Did you not refrigerate it? I've had soy sauce that was still good after a few years that I only threw out because the bottle got too messed up.

No. You don't really have to refrigerate soy sauce and the giant can of it didn't fit in the fridge anyway. But I mean, you don't really have to refrigerate soy sauce if you're going to use it pretty quickly. I'm thinking we had this can for more than a year.

You would think all that salt would preserve it for years.

Huh, it never occurred to me that soy could go bad. Seemed like, I dunno, vegemite...like a "forever" condiment, lol.

EVERYTHING I KNOW IS WRONG *cries*

I refrigerate my soy sauce, including the big jugs. That's what the crisper drawer is for - refrigerating bulk products.

I thought that was for beer.

The second, smaller fridge is for beer!

crisper is for beer and apples
no one needs that much soy sauce in their fridge at any given time unless that fridge is inside of a restaurant

Wrong. I need that much soy sauce.