# Smelly People...YUCK! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 19, 2000, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smelly-people-yuck/33749 "2000-09-19T18:01:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smelly-people-yuck/33749/21 "2000-09-20T03:26:05Z")
> [@](#): > > Where are you from? DC area … it’s just that I’m one of those Americans who can’t resist poking fun at her own culture sometimes. (Well, OK, most of the time.) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smelly-people-yuck/33749/22 "2000-09-20T04:06:59Z")
\*Anyone who puts purfume or cologne on at the gym has an ulterior motive for being at the gym. \* Really? I use some deodorant before working out because if I don’t, after an hour or so people will be falling off their exercise bikes as I walk by. Especially if I’m exercising after being at work all day. What does piss me off, though, is hearing “all you foreigners smell bad. We Japanese don’t have body odor.” Yeah, right. I’ve been surrounded by rush-hour commuters that were so bad I thought there had been another nerve gas attack. And this from a co-worker who was in an argument last week with three others over who had to sit with our boss (Stinky-san) at the next business trip? –sublight ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smelly-people-yuck/33749/23 "2000-09-20T04:50:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Grimhacker \* > \*\*…TAKE A FUCKER SHOWER ASSHOLE!!! \*\* What exactly is a “fucker shower?” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smelly-people-yuck/33749/24 "2000-09-20T06:42:36Z")
_What exactly is a “fucker shower?”_ I don’t know, but I’m taking an umbrella. –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smelly-people-yuck/33749/25 "2000-09-20T09:18:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\*\*Anyone who puts purfume or cologne on at the gym has an ulterior motive for being at the gym. \* > > Really? I use some deodorant before working out because if I don’t, after an hour or so people will be falling off their exercise bikes as I walk by. Especially if I’m exercising after being at work all day. > –sublight \*\* Have you tried showering after the workout??? Sorry, couldn’t resist. I worked at parts place once. A repairmen who came in often was subject to a shop rule. He was forbidden from standing within 10 feet of any of us. This dude reeked. Yeah, AC repair is hot, sweaty work by it’s very nature, but this guy stunk to high heaven on Monday morning! And, by it’s appearence, wore the same shirt he had on Friday afternoon. I couldn’t imagine letting this smelly fucker into my home to fix my air conditioner. ---
**Author:** ![Grimhacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Grimhacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grimhacker)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smelly-people-yuck/33749/26 "2000-09-20T09:19:12Z")
good question…what the fuck is a Fucker Shower? I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smelly-people-yuck/33749/27 "2000-09-20T16:37:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > **Really? I use some deodorant before working out because if I don’t, after an hour or so people will be falling off their exercise bikes as I walk by.** You use deodorant? Good. But, I said purfume or cologne. ---
**Author:** ![Stella\_Fantasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@Stella\_Fantasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stella_Fantasia)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smelly-people-yuck/33749/28 "2000-09-20T16:48:58Z")
BLECCCH!! Someone at my office always wears too much of some kind of crappy perfume,& it makes me want to retch every single goddamned morning. Really, it’s just about as nauseating as someone who hasn’t washed for a week. EURRRGH. Really, it’s not that complicated. Bathe every day (more than once if you get real sweaty or barf on yourself). Don’t wear the same clothes for three days running. Use perfume/cologne in moderation if you choose to use it. If you still stink, see a doctor about a possible endocrine imbalance. This is not rocket science. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smelly-people-yuck/33749.md?page=1)