what is that horrible smell

plastic. it wasn't the cutting side that was gross it was the side underneath it. hmm

it was just some kind of general purpose cleaning stuff. the water that comes out of my tap does get to boiling though so I'll run it under that for a few more mins

That should see to it I think. wood borads are great but they do have more germ risks. lol says me who has been using a wooden board with splits in it and a mouldy taint to it for far too long now haha. :/

Ugh this cat piss smell is the worst, and its hot and muggy which is just adding to the horror.

I DONT EVEN HAVE A CAT ANY MORE :( Yampy, effin' things up even beyond the grave.

The landlord had to replace the carpet in our den-type room because of a ceiling leak and the floor under place where the previous tenants, who moved out more than a year ago, kept their cat box still smelled like pee.

It is a very irremovable smell, I realise :( I feel bad, cos all her life my cat was fastidious about her loo habits, but when she got sick she just stopped being careful. Sigh.

aw :( sorry you have to deal with that trayce

Aw its ok now, I've come to terms with it, tho I do miss her muchly.

There was a kid who went to my middle school named Guy (pronounced the French way, etc) who, unbeknownst to me, came from a really fucked up situation and was actually an amazing person whom I befriended as a more *mature* 19-year old.

Anyway: Guy smelled like a mixture of unwashed feet and puke. Just...raw. Nasty.

We were in computer class one day, and some kid mentioned Guy, and I'm just all typing at my computer and I say, "Oh, you mean that really smelly kid?" And there's this silence. And then I look up and Guy is looking right at me. I don't think I've ever felt more like an asshole in my entire life.

Oh also, he didn't smell bad when he got older. Mostly because his schizophrenic mother who kept 50 cats in the house died when we were both 15.

Last year around this time, there was an awful smell in the kitchen of our former house. It was a nasty winter, and we had decided to smoke cigarettes in the house anyway, so for a few weeks, we just covered it up by smoking.

But then it got worse. It migrated. This awful, burning death smell. Like someone else above, it smelled like we were in meth country, somewhere out in the Alpine area of San Diego or something.

Anyway, it started taking up the whole house.

Then one day I came home and my housemate Jaime said, "WE FOUND THE SMELL!!!" while running up to me. And then she described, in intimate detail, how she and our other housemate SCRAPED A BURNT AND ROTTING RAT CARCASS OFF OF THE BACK OF OUR FRIDGE.

Glad I moved out.

i mean yeah, i've lived in collective houses/punk palaces/squats for many years, but that story actually takes the cake. the rotting rat carcass cake.

oh! and i second that 'soaking beans and forgetting about them' smell. when i lived in a co-op in college, i was preparing lunch for a mess of people and was like, "wonder what's in this metal tub that's been here for two weeks" and when i opened it....ugh, molded....chickpeas.....of....doom.....

we had a carousel of roomates the first couple of years I shared a house, and a lot of them smoked and kept grabbing cups or w/e from the kitchen and using them as ashtrays, and then leaving them outside for us to find later. the worst was a cup that was full of cigarette butts, water, and had been sat just inside the laundry room door at some point and stayed there for...well, godknows.

it smelled like fermented evil vomit and it made me want to die

Man even as a smoker I will say icky ashtrays - esp ones full of water and left for a while - are the worst thing ever. Nothing worse than waking up with a hangover and coming out to a room with ashtrays in it and smelling them :(

I've always wondered why people don't dump out ashtrays more often than they do.

Me too! Especially when the old cig butts catch fire off the fresh ones & it's a big smokey gross mess.

Like someone else above, it smelled like we were in meth country, somewhere out in the Alpine area of San Diego or something.

lol

once in the summer the freezer in my flat somehow became unplugged, i don't know how this happens without someone moving it.

a smell had begun to rise through the flat, and when i confronted it, it was because my flatmate had a lot of fish wrapped in tinfoil in there.

i wanted to cry it smelled so bad, and almost laugh at the same time, i was screaming.

one time I entered the house during the blistering heat of the summer to an overwhelming aroma that made me nauseous and wanting to vomit.

as I got closer to my bathroom, it was enough to make me keel over. and I realized on entering what it was.

Someone, presumably from my roommate's family, had taken a shit, clogged the toilet and let it sit for 9-10 hours. I was so fucking pissed. had to plunge it while holding my nose and trying not to throw up.

also the scent that emanates from really spoiled food? last house. roommate had fucking mayonaise from 2010 in there....all kinds of shit past expiry. it was like he just had no clue.

just spilled half a litre of milk onto the floor of my car fuck fuck fuck

Lucky it's winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

when you have the heat on and the windows up

How did you spill milk all over the inside of your car? Hydraulics acting up again?

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.

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.

way to humour a deems jeez

the only logical thing to do is to find something even smellier to mask the milk smell

Just don't wash, like, ever again.

Also, put used burger wrappers all over the floor of the car to soak up the milk.

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

Stop drinking milk in the car.

i was transporting it from the shop this time tbf

the last one, yeah ok fair enough

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.

!!! haha wtf

lol car talk gets bad smell q's all the time. iirc the answer is to take it to a body shop.

there was one where a guy's buddies pranked him by hiding a fish in the vents or something

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

ta!

No smell as yet i've the soda left on it and will hoover tonight before checking status

why are you putting coke on it? gross

simpsons

all i'm sayin

simpsons

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.

parents are boiling seaweed again