and I know b/c I’ve picked up an urban ‘possum
at a bar
these fuckers OTOH....
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
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
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
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
― OH NOES, Friday, December 2, 2011 2:19 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
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
(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.
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.
Keep Calm and Carrion
Carrion is such a great word. I learned it from “Marian the Librarian”.
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.
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.
Also: a gallon of sweet chili sauce.
what is that horrible smell
Also: multiple bottles of Srirachia.
And tubs of pre-peeled garlic (which I freeze).
God bless the Asian market where I buy those bulk items, and of course God bless pre-peeled garlic.
you must make the most interesting ice creams
You keep multiple bottles of Sriracha in the fridge?
I thought that was for beer.
― William (C), Monday, December 5, 2011 11:30 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
OTM
Although Jeff has been lobbying for a second smaller beer fridge for years.
Jeff OTM, the beer fridge will change your life
You keep multiple bottles of Sriracha in the fridge?
Yes, of course.
wtf
sriracha doesn’t need to be kept in the fridge fyi
I would be nice to put vegetables in the crisper drawers, I suppose.
I’m still trying to deal with this. Jesse, why do you even have multiple bottles of Sriracha? How many bottles are we talking about?
In the bathroom at my current workplace, there is a dispenser of some sort of fragrance. This stuff deserves to be outlawed under treaties against chemical warfare.
William, having know Jesse as long and as well as I have, I can say that multiple bottles of refrigerated Siracha is probably the least strange of his consumption/food storage/storage of nonfood items in places where there is usually only food habits.
I keep a bottle of sriracha in my toilet tank
I had a friend of college whose feet smelled so bad he often got unsuspecting people to ask what that horrible smell was BEFORE he even took his shoes off
your friend should stop wrapping his feet in your other friends brown sheets
lol
The fatal flaw of these:
I keep multiple bottles of Srirachia b/c I like Srirachia and I don’t like running out of it.
I do my Asian foods shopping at an Asian supermarket that is walking distance from my previous apartment, but miles from my current one. Soy sauce, sweet chili sauce, curry paste, straw mushrooms, and Srirachia are ridiculously cheap there, and they are things I use a lot of, so I stock up.
Srirachia, like soy sauce, doesn’t need to be refrigerated if used in a reasonable period, but like we learned ITT re soy sauce, it can eventually go bad. (I was at a friend’s house where she pulled from the pantry some Srirachia that was rust-colored and very watery. She didn’t realize that it wasn’t supposed to look like that b/c it had gradually turned that way over the years she had it. It might not have been toxic, but it was definitely *off*.)
It’ll go dark after a long time at any temperature. I gave my parents a bottle several years ago and it was dark as barbecue sauce before the old coots trusted it enough to dig it out of the back of the fridge to try it. Surprise! They liked it.
Interesting. Do you think it’s just due to oxidation, like when a cut apple turns brown?
I’m sure that’s it. I’d buy them a new bottle, but they’d fuss at me for wasting money.
Crazy coworkers are forever bringing in soups & casseroles to kiss-ass the managers...crockpots are on the other side of my cubicle.
Today = broccoli cauliflower soup, I hate both of these vegetables so much
HELP ME I AM IN HELL
if one of my employees brought me a crock pot full of soup, I would make them eat some of it in front of me to make sure it wasn’t poisoned
it’s pretty much every day...some are good but most of the time it’s like, “Um you know that we have homes & food of our own, right?”
The worst was the day of “seafood stew”...stunk the whole area out, I felt nauseous all day
what if yr employee had already consumed the antidote xp
well then, fairplay to that employee and I hope they enjoy the stress and ulcers that go with my position
if one of my employees brought me a crock pot full of soup, I would make them eat some of it in front of me to make sure it wasn’t poisoned
haha! i totally do this when i bring food to students. i always eat it in front of them and make a joke about it not being poisoned.
also broccoli soup should be forbidden in office atmosphere — waaaay too reeky
I eat broccoli every week and have never known it to be reeky
if one of my employees brought me a crock pot full of soup, I would make them eat some of it in front of me to make sure it wasn’t poisoned
nevar forget Gus Fring and Don Eladio
all those cruciferous vegetables start to give off sulfurous odors after they’ve cooked x amt of time — I try to never prepare enough broccoli or cabbage to have leftovers.
exactly
overcooked broccolis are extremely powerfully reeky
freshly lightly cooked broccolis are tasty (not as tasty as they are raw though imo)
Nope, sorry, they still smell bad and taste bad when lightly cooked.
Steaming brocolli should be mandatory by law.
Cabbage leftovers are not too bad if they’re placed in the fridge asap (aftter they’ve cooled down a bit).
broccoli is poison & should be outlawed, cooked or raw. Nation of VGrrl frowns on it.
wait wait wait a poster whose display name includes ‘Vegemite’ is trying to argue that broccoli is stinky? ?_?
dealwithit.gif
my sister used to cook broccoli daily and it stank to shit. never want to smell that putrid barf again.
many xposts
broccoli isnt so much stinky as evil wrong & must be stopped
My husband loves broccoli *sobs*