Never ever follow me in a store...foul is not the word for it.

I worked with 2 brothers who were from India. They were actually pretty cool guys, but gawsh darn, on a hot summers day , they made the hippies at a GD concert smell like fresh cut flowers .
This was a big 20 bay shop, and on hot days, there was no where to escape it ,it actually made me sick to my stomach. It used to be funny seeing the rest of the guys in the shop trying to work as far away from them as possible . The two brothers would have the front 2 bays, and everybody else would fight for the bays at the other end by the doors .
Management asked a few of us shop guys to say something to them about it . We had an older guy who did it with tact, and just explained that it was part of our culture to bathe and use deodorant . I guess even back in 1990, they were afraid to offend them. My boss at that time,, was also a spineless ninny.
It must have worked, because , they then moved to dousing themselves with cheap cologne, which was a huge improvement .

That's twice now that you've appeared to have had an uncomfortable inner experience and twice that you may (perhaps) be looking outside of yourself for the cause.
It's not uncommon for us to want the universe to alter itself so that we're comfortable...and that includes wanting others to alter their speech and behavior...FOR US.
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A funny example that I remember from the Mary Tyler Show:
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Lou Grant: (Scornfully) "Ted, you know how you are?"
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Ted Baxter: (Proudly, with chest stuck out) "Yeah Lou."
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Lou Grant: "Don't be that way."

:)
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It's my notion that everyone could learn a great deal about the insidious underpinnings of PC when "Cultural Marxism" is Googled.
We can begin to know that deception is the mask we choose to wear on the way to our own self-execution. Self-deception is a pretending to not know.
We may not feel oppressed, even if we are classic examples of self-alienation; the mystified oppressed who are not only robbed of our freedom, but robbed of our awareness of the robbery, and being given the illusion that we benefit from it.
That is what falling under the influence of Political Correctness does. It's the goal of Cultural Marxism.
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Had a roommate in college assigned to live with us for the first term. It musta been a cultural thing. The guy never once took a shower or washed his clothes. Eventually he stopped going to class, too. Trashed a full ride scholarship. He'd apparently never been away from home which was in the Cass Corridor of Detroit.

He was an OK guy but had absolutely no upbringing.

While attending the University of Exeter, we had a guy down the hall in the dorm who never bathed or laundered his clothes. One day we had enough and threw him into the shower, cloths and all and squirted liquid detergent all over him. Brutal, I know, but he got the message.

Not exactly just BO but similar... Friend at University master program came from Japan - slight smell on clothes but no biggie, until we met at his apartment for a study group one day. Holy $%$#%! Could-not-breathe. I gagged, had to bail, and felt bad because he's a nice guy and it was not strictly speaking BO....

Come to figure out he'd moved from straight from his family home to a corporate dormitory for a big conglomerate, so essentially went from his mother to his company taking care of washing his clothes or bedsheets, stuff like that... he showered but had no clue about the rest... I took the time to explain he should wash his bedsheets every weekend (or at least 2 weeks - trust me it had been 6 months or so ;-) , wash his clothes with *detergent*, and emptying food trash more often... The clothes smell was clothing washed with just water and sweat "baked in" by the dryer. There was stuff crawling on his bed...

He had *no* idea, stuff had magically been done for him until now. Once explained to him in great details (him taking notes, I kid you not), he totally fixed it all and aced it, just had ZERO clue until told. Amazing to me, but hey... We aren't all the product of similar environments ;-)

Alot of clueless, helpless people out there who have no common sense, or basic skills.

exquisitely put!
ought to be a sticky on some psych forum somewhere. wonder if it would fit in my sig line. ;)

Stanky is stanky. Hit the showers, use deodorant, you best de-fence in not to offend. Now hit the shower!http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1485884422.jpg

Walking to a restaurant in town with my family I ran into a guy that works in the operating room at work. Great guy, but when he's not at work he wears an OUTRAGEOUS amount of cologne. He's a sweet guy. Gay and very expressive. So of course when he sees me I get the full body hug. I introduce him to my family and we part ways. Throughout dinner I can hardly taste my food because I'm immersed in a cloud of cologne. My kids are teasing me relentlessly. The waitress was laughing and she even said she noticed!

The word is 'cloy'. Excessive parfume/cologne. Ugh!
My Mexican employees would often stink with super heavy cologne/after shave.
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Edit: Oops, scratch that definitive word "Mexican"...for the sensitive ones on the forum. :)

A defensive measure intended to discourage people from competing for the dragon pants ...

the person that invented AXE body spray should be sent to an island. wow!! kids coat themselves.

stank BO..yea. i wouldnt say anything. every culture comes at it from a different angle.

me? yesterday i put on a shirt that stank like a wet moldy towel. product of my wife's laundry skills. a tiny bit of sweat from me activated it, and it was crushing..i drove home and showered and put on clean stuff. eff it..i'm self regulating.

We had a co-worker that had a male cat the must have sprayed everything in the house. The dude would come to work and the cat pee was overwhelming. The boss actually took him outdoors to send him home to shower and put on clean clothes. He still stunk. He was fired within a week. Zero tolerance for that.

We had a lady customer that was a solid Cougar. Very pretty but she had to take a bath in her perfume. It was so strong one could taste it in the back of the building when she walked in the front door. She was a good customer (she paid her bill and it was some decent money) so we all knew the boss was going to put up with the stink.

I was part of a team supporting the USMC in Korea. A team member, Louis, was obese and did not exercise proper hygiene. Well the humidity was very high and the hours were long. We were working in air conditioned tents but Louis never stopped sweating. At the end of the second day the Lt. Col. in Louis's tent pulled me aside saying he was not allowed to return unless he cleaned up. That didn't work out so well - Louis was put on a plane home inside the week.

Years ago I started car pooling with this guy at work. He was young, very fit, good looking, well groomed, and fun to talk to. Yet he drove a Honda Civic that smelled so bad I got nauseous within 5 minutes of our 30 minute commute. I would come home and my wife said I looked green. Had to end that commuting arrangement after a couple weeks with a lame excuse.

One of the funniest thing I saw at work years ago was actually rather gross.

To get to one side of the business to the other everyone had to walk through the front foyer where the customers were waited on. The rule was if you saw a customer waiting, stop and help the customer. We had a customer come in that was a "large boned" (OK she was fat) women and she did not wash all the vital parts that really need washing on women, especially on large females.

I was was finishing up with a different customer getting out of the foyer into our work area and was happy to get out of the foyer just as one of the other guys walked through and curled up his lip and exclaimed in a loud voice "what stinks like fish?!"

I fell on the floor of the work area with the giggles and the regular front counter person was stuck up there. The loudmouth suddenly realized just what he was smelling and RAN to the bathroom to puke. I was laughing so hard I was crying.

I just cover the foul odor with cologne...which makes it a sickly sweet odor... I am wondering if it could be those Thrift store cloths and shoes, or not showering for weeks at a time?

When I was young and walking through department stores with my Daddy he would let out these horrendously loud and wet sounding PBBBBBT's. I would cringe, shrink away into another aisle and pretend that I did not know him while holding my nose...His comment was, "Do you want me to get sick or something" ostensibly by holding in those potent gases.

""what stinks like fish?!""
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Old military joke: "Two things in this life smell like fish, one of them is fish"

That's some clever schit right there.

People who haven't bathed properly and recently enough smell bad, regardless of where their ancestors are from. There can definitely be a dietary and/or genetic component as well but I find it to cross ethnic lines fairly completely.

Use of deodorant helps.