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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Furball on October 14, 2005, 12:40:48 PM
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13449126,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/09/wgall09.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/09/ixworld.html
Straffo ,V,, :D
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they got it right
(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/ATA/21479BP.jpg)
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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?
Charon
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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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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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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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well... yes mega... I believe that it is safe to say that is the lesson in this thread.
lazs
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Let get it straight :
in France we have statistics about our hygiene
you have illusions about your hygiene
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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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Originally posted by megadud
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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It's not just the french the spaniards avoid water like the wicked witch as well.
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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" :)
Charon
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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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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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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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I take offense to that Hang, i'm ugly. Pay for my plastic surgery and i'll get it fixed.
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As I had to explain to my Latvian ancestried freind, "I can avoid lookin at yah... but the stink is inescapable".
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Paper or plastic? The paper merely prohibits you from seeing me, the plastic puts me 6 feet under.
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Originally posted by storch
It's not just the french the spaniards avoid water like the wicked witch as well.
Yipee let's all go cliche-happy! "Well, most americans I've met stank to high heaven!"
Daniel
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Originally posted by Hangtime
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.
:rofl
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Originally posted by CyranoAH
Yipee let's all go cliche-happy! "Well, most americans I've met stank to high heaven!"
Daniel
no they didn't. actually to the Japanese we stink. That's because of the high meat content in our diet. They seem to find that offensive.
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Meat makes you stink? What do they eat? Kobe beef?
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apparently to them we do, they smell kinda fishy to me, but then again I like fishy smells. ;)
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I would agree for the most part based upon my experience our hygenic standard in this country is excessive to the rest of the world. The worst experience I had was working with some guys from Africa in close quarters in a hot kitchen. These guys brought some make your eyes water, peel the paint off the walls, plant wilting FUNK. I was very frank with them. Guys you smell like dead sun baked elephant. They did not understand what I was talking about. because most people do not smell their BO. Water is a very precious commodity where a lot of people come from so..........bathing is a luxory not a neccesity. Anyways they thought I was wacked and needed to mind my own business. thank God they were temporary students training at the hotel I was at at the time.
Uber.
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thought this was rather amusing too: -
The French fondness for downing tools is illustrated by the fact that around 2,000 are, on average, on strike each day – of whom 1,384 are in the transport industry – producing one new industrial dispute and two strike warnings across France’s celebrated rail network every day.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
I just love bein a crocthety old man.
Anyhow, the guy don't stink anymore, but he's still ugly.
Does he still live in your mirror??? :p :O
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Funk is worldwide. Theres folks in my town that their underwear has become one with their body Im sure. Cant get near em. When I worked with my dad plumbing years ago, I had to go to this guys house we called the cat man because he had 50 cats living with him. He did have a cat box, but by the smell it was just there for looks. I walked thru the door...gagged..and had to leave. I said to dad.."No fuggin way pops!"
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Originally posted by Maverick
Does he still live in your mirror??? :p :O
The smelly guy had no monopoly on ugly. Yep, there's an ugly guy lookin back at me whenver I look in the mirror.
But I don't stink.
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I thought country bashing was unaceptable on this board.
Oh yeah right...it doesn't happen, I forgot.
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Lets see, in order of quantity of refrence we've got
5 smelly americans
4 stinky french
and one each rank african, spaniard, brazilian, Japanese, latvian and a croatian. And two of them were americans, so it's 7 to 4 on a golf score with 2 more ailen residents.
9 to 4, the USA stinks more than paris in august, wich up to this point was generally aknowledged (even by the french) to have one of the highest BO ranks (pun intended) on the planet.
dooo dah.
I think it's been a fairly internationaly stinky thread, yes?
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lol
git :D
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Originally posted by Saintaw
I thought country bashing was unaceptable on this board.
Oh yeah right...it doesn't happen, I forgot.
is you is or is you ain't a frenchman dammit :D no one has yet said the belgiques stink. frankly the beer is so good who cares what you smell like or how long your wimmins beards are. :D
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I thought country bashing was unaceptable on this board.
Oh yeah right...it doesn't happen, I forgot.
All I know is that when I was in Paris, there was Dog**** everywhere. Apparently the French themselves realize this, since I pulled that from the French article that was cited. There used to be more dog**** on American big city streets, but at some point laws were passed to take care of it -- because its nasty
Charon.
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I've always noticed the french stink, but the yanks also smell of BS more than any other country :)
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Soap?
The salty sea-spray and the blood of slayed munks and munkettes gives you just the right smell..
(http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/images/dress-up/acc/hats/historic/viking-horns-helmet.jpg)
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I have worked all over the world. I shower every day and wear my cloths once before laundering them. I thought this was what everyone else did but I found that certain countries did not bath as frequently.
However when I was training we had a couple of french guys in our dorm and they showered every day as well. One day we were talking about different cultures and their washing habits. The French guy told me that when he was doing his national service they made sure you washed and brushed your teeth each day and that many of the conscrips needed this training.
So I guess if you are a former French soldier you probably bath well. If not then there is a good chance you are a member of the bath once a week club.
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I must admit, there is something about a really beautiful woman who has a serious stank goin on to high hell and back, that turns my crank.
I want to get smelly too!