You’re lucky.
Wait, I assume you mean in passing. I didn’t have to sniff someone’s butt like a dog to encounter some strong odors in the wild.
I’ve experienced adult odors in the same manner as the kid in this commercial when I was young.
There is no doubt that sometimes people stink. Teens and pre-teens (boys especially) have some hormonal and emotional shit going on. Some adults too. Some people do, in fact, need to bathe more often. But Lume wants everyone to both be hyper aware of how much they may possibly stink and, at the same time, tell you you don’t need to bath. It’s the shaming that pisses me off. Actual tagline in one of their commercials, “I didn’t know how much I smelled until I started using Lume.”
Did you know that right now while minding your own business, you smell bad and you don’t even know it? And also, at the same time, if you sit down and you do not like the smell you just gave off, the answer is also to not bathe so often? But really, never forget, you stink unless you buy Lume.
There’s the odors that our bodies secrete, and then there’s the odors from the excreting and decaying bacteria who feast on those secretions. Some people do not differentiate, either out of shame or simply as a matter of taste.
There is nothing worse than a stinky teenaged* boy that tries to cover up that stink with axe body spray.
- Into middle 20’s
And to me, honest sweat from hard work isn’t that bad.
Lysol?? My girly bits recoiled in horror just reading that! 
Sounds like trump at a feminine odor press conference. “I’ve heard Lysol can knock out odors. Is there anything we can do with that?”
My work is done here. 
For good reason.
By 1911, doctors had recorded 193 Lysol poisonings and 5 deaths from uterine irrigation. All the while advertising claimed Lysol was “gentle,” “non-caustic,” and “will not harm delicate tissue.” —Andrea Tone, Devices and Desires
never listen to a manscape commerical lol and yes some of us need the extra help so other people around us can breathe and no amount of showering helps …
Oh, yes, I remember FDS, and also Norforms, feminine hygiene suppositories. We learned in sex education that they are NOT to be used as birth control, and the package said it, too.
I also remember some kids joking about FDR, Feminine Deodorant Roll-On, and another kid overheard them and said, “How about Tickle, with the big wide ball?” It even said so on the bottle.
Jay Leno once had one of those ads in his “Headlines” segment, and in this case, it described a woman who “restored harmony to my marriage” by using - yep, Lysol.
In the pre-antibiotic days, gonorrhea was often treated in women by dissolving an ounce or so in a gallon (or thereabouts) of the hottest water she could stand, which was then used as a douche. As for men, they had their urethras flushed with the straight product. YEEEE-OWWWWW!
ISTR that this picture was in National Geographic.
That’s our Beck. Avoids strangers but snuggles up with wayward possums…
Is that what Norforms were? I remember the commercials but I guess I was too young for it to register.
I had totally forgotten about Tickle, which is odd since I used it and IIRC, tried ever color / scent. Thanks for the blast from the past; sorry for the hijack.
Not a hijack at all! Those, too were annoying commercials back in the day.
I freaking love Tony Hale (from Arrested Development and Veep), but I don’t love these ads.
Perhaps the answer is for them to market their product to the furry community?
If only you could’ve smelt Clarence the possums offending odors.
But…by the time stayed a week close at hand I had figured a way to keep the odor down. Cat litter, sevin dust and baking soda in a cat tray. A nice treat and he’d jump right in. He rolled and rolled in the stuff. It scratched itches he couldn’t get to. As long as I gave treats he’d roll.
When he got out I’d squirt him unawares with some crap perfume we had.
He was fresh, I tell you. Fresh.
This always irritates me, too. Clearly they figure their targeted customer base isn’t capable of distinguishing a government program from a for-profit enterprise. The hope is that confused seniors will assume this company exists to serve (instead of to rake in the cash).
I have a lot of reading to catch up with in this thread, so my apologies if this has already been mentioned: there are a couple of commercials that always annoy with their apparent weird mistakes. One is the Ensure ‘living fridge foods’ one with the Sergeant (or whatever he is) claiming that the product will give you loads of energy, and then immediately, as though to demonstrate he’s lying, one of the living food items lets out a weak-or-pain-riddled groan.
The other is the Liberty Mutual one with two women talking in front of the Statue, with an unseen toddler in a stroller saying her first word: “Liberty,” of course. The unintended weirdness comes from the non-mother’s oddly hostile/suspicious tone when she asks the mother “how many people did you TELL??!?!”
I get that the idea is that the kid learned that as a first word due to the mother talking too often about her insurance company. But why the antagonistic tone of the question?
These peculiar overtones make me wonder if the purveyors of the products in question possess basic common sense–which doesn’t lead me to want to buy their stuff.
Isn’t that the one where the food is trying to lift and move the orange juice carton? The food is the staining to lift. Then Ensure says, “I’ll take that,” and easily lifts and moves the living orange juice carton.