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Old 04-04-2013, 13:05   #19
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: People who smell horrible?

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Originally Posted by Less View Post
What exactly is a nasty smell? Yes, a dirty body, yes an over zealous application of perfume, (especially if the body wasn't clean in the first place).
Like everything else in life we all define smells differently.
Maybe your friend moved away because she couldn't stand your smell?
Life is strange!

Well, there are some stinks that you can never forget...the smell of burnt flesh(I was once sent to do the final offices for a chap who had perished in a house fire)...the smell of melaena stools...unforgettable.
The smell of fungating breast cancer....horrible.
The smell of a tramps unwashed smelly feet...they had not seen soap and water for so long, that his toe nails had grown right into the soles of these smelly boots.

Crusty gussets are not very pleasant either.

That said, most of these people could not help the way they smelt...but it is something different to neglect personal hygiene to such an extent that you become offensive to your fellow workers/colleagues/general public.
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