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Subject: Dealing with BO From: GUEST,Kjell Date: 13 Aug 01 - 06:00 AM No cookie again
I used to have a real problem with sweating alot, but made sure it was clean sweat, sometines changing shirts three times a day and constant washing and use of deoderant.
I have a friend that wants to come to Whitby with me and stay in my camper van. The problem is that he smells of old sweat. When I suggested to him that a wash wouldn't go amiss, he laughted and said it was a good manly smell. Well its not. Any ideas on how to proceed, all you wise catters out there. Any sweaty songs? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Patrish(inactive) Date: 13 Aug 01 - 06:28 AM Am I the one who has a BO problem? Or do have another reason for signing MY NAME at the bottom of your post Patrish who had a bath this morning honest! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: GUEST,Kjell Date: 13 Aug 01 - 06:41 AM Oops, sorry Patrish. I was thinking of you, but nothing to do with nasty smells. I was going to surprise you at whitby when you realised who I was. I give you a clue - Broughty Ferry Kjell |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Patrish(inactive) Date: 13 Aug 01 - 06:48 AM reset your cookie kjell now |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: KingBrilliant Date: 13 Aug 01 - 06:53 AM Or is it that Kjell is hoping that you'll have an appropriate funny song in your repertoire Patrish? As to your problem Kjell - I doubt if you'll change the sweater - if I were you I'd get an awning & stick 'im out there. I had a friend who had appalling BO due to health problems, it wasn't his fault - but I'd not feel obliged to be in a confined space with him for too long. Is there camping? Can you/he borrow a tent so you can each have your own space? Kris |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Kjell Date: 13 Aug 01 - 06:55 AM KB I do have an awning and could stick him out there, but its a bit leaky. Better he gets wet, than me gassed cookie reset |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Patrish(inactive) Date: 13 Aug 01 - 06:59 AM Read your personal message and act accordingly |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: kendall Date: 13 Aug 01 - 08:25 AM If it's your camper, it is your call. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Linda Kelly Date: 13 Aug 01 - 03:20 PM buy him a t-shirt with the armpits cut out -or with 'Mr Whiffy' on -or if that is too subtle try the direct approach and hose him down when he comes within an inch pf the van! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: MAG Date: 13 Aug 01 - 03:41 PM Patrish -- you wouldn't be an American by birth, would you? (Wouldn't mind reconnecting w/ a friend who moved to England many years ago -- please pm me if you're him. Mary Ann G. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Mrs.Duck Date: 13 Aug 01 - 06:14 PM Introduce your friend to us and we can say 'Hello you smell!' Let's you off the hook - just make sure it's the right friend!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Firecat Date: 13 Aug 01 - 08:09 PM Subtle hints work! I once had a friend with the very same problem. The way I sorted it was like this. First I had a water fight with them (that worked but I got drenched as well), and then I bought them some deodorant as a pressie! They got the hint after that! (By the way, if you are going to have a water fight, tell me when it is!!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: mousethief Date: 13 Aug 01 - 08:30 PM My now-17-year-old stepson was given the "hint" by schoolmates when he was in 8th grade. He was a very infrequent showerer, and in general his personal grooming habits were lacking. For his birthday a bunch of his friends went together and got him a toothbrush, some toothpaste, shampoo, body bar, and underarm deodorant. He's been a very clean "man" since that very day. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: SINSULL Date: 13 Aug 01 - 09:05 PM Song suggestions? There was a Challenge not long ago dealing with a high school student arrested for asssaulting a teacher by wearing scented hair gel. All scented toiletries were banned in this particular county. Take a look. I remember some pretty humorous comments on body odor. You haven't experienced the real thing until you have ridden the infamous "7" train in summertime while crammed next to a manly man in a mesh tank top - the tall one who holds onto the overhead hanger and puts his horrendous, hairy armpit in your face. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Amos Date: 13 Aug 01 - 11:21 PM Or you could say, "Frankly, friend, you smell so strong that I'm not willing to put you up in my little trailer. Ya wanna make a deal here???" A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: sophocleese Date: 13 Aug 01 - 11:25 PM Park the trailer next to the stables (if there are any) you can then spend your nights in the delightfully distracting game of trying to determine which animal the odour is coming from. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: catspaw49 Date: 14 Aug 01 - 12:14 AM Here's a few things you might say................ "Yeah, that's a manly smell alright....like a man who has worked all day in a sewer." "Ya' know you could sell that scum in your pits to Ely Lilly to make penecillin." "It really ain't the smell, it's the fuckin' burning in my eyes." "I think your dog took a shit in your soapdish." "Geeziz man, you could knock a buzzard off a shitwagon." Spaw
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Gary T Date: 14 Aug 01 - 09:26 AM If this person has a wife/girlfriend/buddy whom you could enlist to get the message across, that may be effective. Otherwise, you may have to be direct, and tell him that the odor is unpleasant and you simply can't see sharing a camper with the smell. Not the sort of conversation most of us look forward to, but it's do that or suffer. Of course, I rather like Spaw's "it's not the smell, it's the eyes burning" line. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: catspaw49 Date: 14 Aug 01 - 12:44 PM "Last time you spent a night in my camper, the vinyl covering peeled off the walls." "The best thing about your manly smell is that I can't tell when you fart." "Chemical Warfare is outlawed by the Geneva Convention and this applies to you too." "Just don't stand too close to the campfire 'cause I think that stench may be explosive." "Not to put too fine a point on it, but when you walked into the woods, 4 skunks ran out and 17 birds fell out of the trees." Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Mrs.Duck Date: 14 Aug 01 - 06:09 PM That's what I love about 'spaw - his subtlety!:0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 14 Aug 01 - 09:58 PM As Ann Landers would say: Print this thread and leave it lying where your friend will find it and read it. And while he's reading, walk around him spraying room-freshener. Seamus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: SINSULL Date: 14 Aug 01 - 10:02 PM Did you see the movie "Seven Deadly Sins"? The police find what they believe to be a corpse in a room decorated with hundreds of room fresheners - those nasty trees cab drivers hang on the rear view mirror. An expensive but effective ploy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: catspaw49 Date: 14 Aug 01 - 10:37 PM "I'm thinking that bulge in your pants is really mushrooms growing under your nuts." "Can you spell soap? How about anti-perspirant?" "I know you said you had a bath recently, but could you define "recently?" "You smell like a urinal in a police station.....that hasn't worked in 12 days.......with a Parodi cigar and 256 decaying cigarette butts .......next to an overflowing toilet.......with huge floaters........and a junkie-wino barfing in it." Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: GUEST,Denise:^) Date: 15 Aug 01 - 03:38 AM Thanks, Spaw; those were *some* lists! (got to remember never to cross this guy...) Denise:^) (wiping the tears & trying to laugh w/o waking the family) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: GUEST,Kjell Date: 15 Aug 01 - 05:31 AM Thanks for all your help. The situation has resoved itself as i don't think i will be coming to Whitby after all. Yes my friend will still smell, but at least it wont be going up my nose. See if you can sniff him out. You'll just have to meet me another time Patrish. Kjell |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Liz the Squeak Date: 16 Aug 01 - 02:28 AM Whoooo nice put downs Spaw, must remember them.... We have a guy in our office who insists on spraying himself with deodorant actually IN the office - gave me the wheezes every time..... so sometimes not being smelly has it's problems too.... He had to be formally requested to attend to his toilette in the appropriate room..... or else go with me to the hospital every time he precipitated an asthma attack! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dealing with BO From: Mr Red Date: 16 Aug 01 - 03:42 PM Er... I know it's doesn't help in this case but there is an article in this weeks New Scientist that shifts the blame for divorce (statistically) on scents and perfumes hiding natures calling cards and confusing the olefatory senses which are looking for comlimentary cues (vis vis the respective immune systems). I guess between friends it serves as a barrier signal. And is working? Hose line is it anyway? |