We're from France...........
Posted on 01/30/2013 1:52:25 PM PST by Red Badger
A French family were ordered to leave one of Paris's most popular museums because their body odour was annoying other visitors.
The couple and a young child were on a free trip to the Musee d'Orsay with a charity that supports hard-up families.
As the group browsed a room with paintings by Van Gogh, security guards told them they had to leave the building because people were "complaining about their smell".
The worker with the Act for Dignity charity said: "I argued with the security man, telling him the family were all decent and properly dressed.
"Not a single other person had complained about us so I refute the idea that it was their smell.
"We moved on to another room, but we were again met by four museum guards who ordered us out of the building."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
We're from France...........
Does Harry Reid know about this?
If there smell was bad...
that’s a VERY low bar to meet!
“Not a single other person had complained about us so I refute the idea that it was their smell....”
Wanna bet? I’ve told people their body odor was so bad they needed to clean up. You have to use tact, but when a person walks into a skating rink where you are, and the WHOLE PLACE is immediately filled with their body odor it is time to say “Enough”.
If the French complained, it must have been REALLY bad.
a room with paintings by Van Gogh
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paintings by a guy who cut off his ear and sent the stinky decaying thing to a girl to impress her ...
and theyre worried about a little smell from dirty warm whole ones ???
The “smell”, aren’t these the same problems Disney had with the amusement park in France?
I don’t even know if the place is still there, but apparently they prevented to tell their employees to bathe.
My husband and a friend went to La Mans two years ago, and he said it (French body odor) was pretty bad when they were out side the event.
Oh well, who are we to judge them, after all what does it really matter. (/s/)
My dad used to call the French.... Dirty smelly cheese monkeys..
I work with a Brit who had that problem, but it is unusual among them.
I bet they were Africans. One time I was on a train traveling through Spain and suddenly everybody came rushing out of the car in front of me, waving their hands in front of their faces.
Because of where the train stopped on the platform, I decided to walk through that car. It was nearly empty...except for one young African woman, sitting there wearing traditional dress and probably just off the boat. She smelled so bad it made your eyes water.
Someone later told me that Africans put some kind of fermented animal grease on their hair to make it shiny and also to make it possible to braid it into the shapes they like, and this is what smelled so bad.
It's a horrible smell, but I felt bad for the poor girl, because she had no idea, she probably thought she smelled just fine (and she looked quite clean and well dressed in an ethnic way), and she probably also thought that she was being harrassed because she was African. But that wasn't it at all: she just simply reeked.
We used to have a fellow in the office at the CS (Containership) line I worked for who was Polish. He never had a bath in his entire life I believe. He was constantly assaulted by people in the office, but to no avail. He was a very nice person, just didn’t bathe, and stunk like Hell
I was the lucky one in the office as my job took me out to the docks, and to off dock suppliers everyday. Whenever I saw that guy enter, I exited.
How would you like to long flight on Air France.
Sweaty BO is one thing, but most Europeans are used to this. In my opinion, the Germans are the worst of all for stinking...the words “dry cleaning” in any language seem to be unknown to them, and as a result they wear a lot of wool that always stinks of sweat.
So I’d say this French family didn’t just have a normal European BO problem.
Reminds me of that smelly cook in “Monte Walsh”. The boys had to take mattters into their own hands.
Body odor too stinky for the French?? Wow...that’s some stench!
I have, several times. 8-9 hours from Atlanta to Paris..................
If this happened in France, I can only imagine they smelled like rotting corpses or something similarly unpleasant.
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