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You always thought the French smell funny..
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2005, 12:52:17 PM »
they got it right


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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2005, 02:04:13 PM »
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On the streets of Paris – where, according to Le Point, the city’s 200,000 dogs deposit 16 tons of dirt on the pavements every day


I don't know about the rest, but that was someting that was abundantly apparent while in Paris. It seemed like their was a pile every 5 feet or so to be stepped around. Really, about like walking in a dog run in some areas. What's up with that?

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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2005, 02:05:53 PM »
A good friend in school had a french mom.  His dad met her in paris after the place was liberated.  My friends mom was a mean SOB and definately never showered or bathed that any of us could tell.  She stank pretty bad.

My theory is....well.........lets just call it the "Cheeze Theory"

I believe the French are so in love with all things cheeze that they actually generate their own body cheeze.  Most folks know that cheeze is actually created in a warm (98.6) rancid environment.  Rancid is what you become after not showering or bathing for an extended period of time and well....body cheeze does start to grow.......and it stinks.  But the french like the stink so to them its a sort of perfume I guess.

Thats my theory and Im sticking to it!
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Not just the French
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2005, 02:36:30 PM »
I don't think you can tag this just on the French. I worked for a company owned by a guy from Croatia who's American wife had to remind him to shower before work every morning. He would bring over some of his nephews from overthere and give them jobs and some of these guys really stunk! He was told several time by customers not to send them back if they did not bathe.

Sorry Furby but I work for a British company and we often get Brits coming over here. While most are fine folk there are a few that also have an aversion to soap.

We also have a born and raised American who, on a long project in Brazil, met and married a Brazilian woman. He seems to have picked up the local custom on only showering on Sat. night. This guy can leave a funk in a hallway 20 minutes after he passes.

(BTW: We just promoted one of our Brit transplants to President of our operating company here in the US. I could not be happier. Damn great guy!)

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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2005, 02:41:55 PM »
so what have we learned here..if you are not american born, then you smell. :aok

PS yeager nice theory! :lol  the freench sure do love their cheese and wine.

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« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2005, 02:59:08 PM »
well... yes mega... I believe that it is safe to say that is the lesson in this thread.

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« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2005, 03:09:12 PM »
Let get it straight :


in France we have statistics about our hygiene


you have illusions about your hygiene

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« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2005, 03:15:40 PM »
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Originally posted by straffo
Let get it straight :


in France we have statistics about our hygiene


you have illusions about your hygiene


(Lifts left arm and smells)

Nope no illusions here. The soap and water from this morning seems to be still working.

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« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2005, 03:20:21 PM »
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so what have we learned here..if you are not american born, then you smell. :aok


Or we Americans are just obsessed with bathing.

Heck, I get up on a Sat. morning, take a shower, and promptly go outside and cut the grass and get all sweaty and stinky. Come in and take another shower. I just can't bring myself to get dressed in the morning without that shower.

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« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2005, 03:32:58 PM »
It's not just the french the spaniards avoid water like the wicked witch as well.

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« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2005, 03:56:08 PM »
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I just can't bring myself to get dressed in the morning without that shower.


I do the same, and did so even when I worked on some pretty dirty, nasty  jobs. It helps me wake up in the morining as much or more than a cup of coffee. On a particularly groggy day, I'll stand under the water and turn the heat down for 5 seconds or so to get that extra "boost" :)

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« Reply #12 on: October 14, 2005, 03:59:37 PM »
My company brings in interns, mostly from Germany for 6 months.

The last batch, had this french broad.

She stank.

I sat 35 feet away.

Some days it was so bad I had to turn a fan on in my cube to blow the stink back.

Not just B/O either, like nast nasty NASTY funky Nasty smells mixed with BO.


I eventualy moved to another row.

She smelled so bad it would linger for 30 or 40 minutes and if you passed her in the hall you would have to try really hard not to gag.


HR told her to bathe. After that she only smelled 3 days out of 5.


Now my bosses boss is French and based out of France, and he is cool, and does not smell.

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« Reply #13 on: October 14, 2005, 04:13:05 PM »
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Originally posted by Clifra Jones
(Lifts left arm and smells)

Nope no illusions here. The soap and water from this morning seems to be still working.

Look like you, you're not working :D

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« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2005, 04:42:03 PM »
My landlord was raised by Latvians. He used to stink. I had to give him the 'lecture' one day when he showed up at my door to watch a game....

"Pheeww. You stink. shower before you come up here. While we're on the subject, wash yer damn clothes and change yer sheets every week, the reek outside your apt door is offensive. Look, in case you fell asleep in hygine class, here's how it works. You gotta shower (with soap) every damn day, not once a damn week. When you sweat and don't bathe bacteria begins grows in and on your skin and THATS what stinks. It sticks to everything you touch, every piece of clothing, the furniture you sit in, your car.. everything. You ever notice that american women don't stink when they sweat? It's because they are fastidious about bathing. You ever notice that american women won't have anything to do with yah? it's because you stink all the damn time, and you stink because you ain't clean. It's a sign of disgusting personal habits and THATS why you can't get a date.

Bathe. wear clean clothes. change your sheets often. and fer crissakes see a dentist and a plastic surgeon because yer ****in ugly too."

Then I took his sixpack and closed the door in his face.

I just love bein a crocthety old man.

Anyhow, the guy don't stink anymore, but he's still ugly.
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