LOL
Posted on 02/18/2010 1:06:35 PM PST by Nachum
Few people would argue that air travel doesn't stink on same days, but what about their fellow passengers?
Well, the smell of one passenger was so bad that he was apparently asked to leave a recent Air Canada regional airline flight.
The Air Canada Jazz flight from Charlottetown, on Prince Edward Island, was preparing for the two-hour flight to Montreal when passengers on the plane reportedly complained about the odor coming from one of their fellow travelers. The crew eventually decided to ask the man to leave the plane.
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How did we make it all these years with freedom over our bodies with such fragile imps amongst us?
I used to sing in a choir where one of the tenors must have used an entire bottle of Aramis at a time. I could barely breathe, let alone sing around him. I finally went to the choir director and had him ask the guy to dial it back some. To this day, I cannot stand the smell of Aramis.
One day I had a woman in my office just long enough to ask directions to another part of the building, less than a minute. Forty five minutes later, somebody walked into my office and said, “What is that smell? Did you just put on perfume?”
Nope, I’m betting on Olbermonkey.
Read the Outlander series. The stink of the room or crowd is often mentioned by Claire the time traveler.
Fat ladies always put on too much perfume because they cover more square footage! Also, I was waiting for a red light to change and I could actually smell the perfume of the lady in the car in front of me. I swear.
When smoking was banned on flights, HVAC money could be saved by reducting the cabin air replenishment rate.
I never found France to be any stinkier than anywhere else.
Maybe you’re right, but I doubt people had lots of clean clothes and such. I bet they smelled pretty bad by our standards.
What did they smoke?
Reminds me of being in a tightly sealed college classroom in the winter with the heat on, surrounded by...uh, foreign students. OH MY GOD ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Tony and Cleo Grenadiers.
LOL
People carried a pomander or scent ball to hold under their nose.
It wasn't so very long ago (1800's) that regular bathing especially in winter was considered unhealthy.
My experience with Indians is it is not so much that they don’t bathe or whatever (actually, I think they don’t as much as westerners), but it’s their diet!
The garlic, the curry and other spices...when people load up on that stuff, they can reek even when they come out of the shower.
Actually, back when I was teaching HS warm spring days could really bring on eau de teenager. Many of them did not use deodorant. They made us stop burning candles (fire hazard) and sometimes it got pretty ripe. We were not allowed to open the door (post Columbine Safety) nor windows. The kids would complain, but there wasn’t much I could do.
I have no idea what those are, but did they really have them in the middle ages? (or is this a joke I’m totally missing)
I’m sure you were more used to it. I used to have friends who thought the middle ages was such a romantic time and would have gone back to that time if they had been able to. I always thought...yeah, well people were rather stinky by our standards today. I even watched the Lord of the Rings movies thinking...those people look very smelly. I think I’m too hygenic!
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