I agree guinesschick, but it's not limited to olfactory taste. That is only one symptom of a general bad taste/no taste disease that now permeates modern society. It seems that the popluace today was never taught (or never learned) about proportion or moderation. Things must be mixed in certain amounts in order to blend well. However, today's motto seems to be "If a little is good, a lot must be great." Do they even teach how to apply cologne, other than "a little dab'll do ya"?

Other symptoms of this disease include sloppiness of apparel - not just kids with their underpants showing, but adults wearing worn, holey, ugly, mismatched casual attire to evening events, blandness and tastelessness of food at restaurants "voted #1 in the area," the visual assault of colors and scene flicker of the commercials on television, and inconsideration of smokers - if they are in a No Smoking building, where do they go? Right outside the front door, so you have to walk through their cloud of stench to get in the building. Then you reek of their offal the remainder of the day.

Is there anywhere that they still teach what makes a tasteful object, or is it that general population had taken a large step toward slobiness and just don't care any more?