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Today in town a range rover pulled up along side me to ask for directions, The driver and his wife in the passenger seat were very very large people and the smell bellowing out of the car window was horrendous. The bloke driving was making a balls up of where he wanted to go and low and behold the back window came down and in the back were what must of been his very very large daughters, well at this point the smell hit me and I gagged, turned around and walked off. Why oh why doesn't somebody/ anybody tell them how bad they smell of BO to do them and everyone in contact with them a huge favour.
Has anyone on here told a family member/ freind / work colleague or even a stranger to sort their personal hygiene out ?

I used to work with someone who had a BO problem. One morning, one of his colleagues (no idea who) put a can of deodorant on his desk. Cruel, but I can understand why they did it.

Bastard, that was me  :)

Why didn't you tell them

I used to work with someone who had really bad breath, I built up the courage to tell him and after that in the mornings when I used to pick him up in the works van all you could smell was either toothpaste or mouthwash and I noticed he became a bit partial to Polos  :) I thought of it as doing him a favour though as he probably had no idea.

I think me literally gagging and turning away gave them a good idea.

I don't know why people have to be told to smell nice,have nice breath, clean hair etc. It should come natural to people to care about their appearance. Very rarely do I go out in public without making sure all these criteria are ticked.

I got tasked with telling someone at work they needed to do something about their body odour, should have been my managers job but he bottled it and 'deputised' the task to me. One of the hardest things I've had to do and I didn't make a very good job of it as I was too embarrassed, ended up kind of skirting around the issue and not dealing with it.

I'd handle it differently next time, would get straight to the point and deal with it. It is a genuine problem for some people and not always caused by poor personal hygiene. Sure that in some cases they don't realise themselves that it is a problem and they'd be upset if they found out no one said anything.

It all worked out ok in the end though. We offloaded them to another department who weren't aware of the issue.

This happened to someone in my first job....you didn't used to work for an ISDN equipment manufacturer did you :)

I'm guessing this kind of thing happens quite frequently

Suppose things like sore throats can give you bad breath but by and large it's down to poor hygiene. probably a bit over the top in my earlier post about telling a stranger they smell but I would expect my wife, kids or any family member to tell me if I was stinking the place out and being talked about.

Ha, no the research councils.

Indeed, my mum told me it happened in her workplace in the 60's. There always has and always will be smelly people.

a few years back i lived in staff accomodation and for a brief period we had a bloke working and living with us who only used to shower about once a week, he fucking stunk, and we regularly told him. mind we told him not to steal our food or piss on the toilet floor but he didnt listen. we called him 'alky' which is pretty self explanatory, it was like having pet tramp!

Years ago I worked part time at Sainsburys, there was a guy who worked in the warehouse who was the stinkiest person I've ever met. But he was the type of guy who liked to talk to everyone and if you were sat alone on your break you could guarantee he'd come and sit next to you.

One day one of the duty managers did everyone a favour and told him to fuck off home and have a shower or don't bother coming into work.

I try to change my pants and socks once a week whether they need it or not

I can't understand how some people can stink so badly and not notice.

I remember once being in a shop in Chippenham and some biddy came and stood next to me, farted and then walked off! Was she trying to get me the blame? I stood there mildly in shock at what had happened. :)

One of the stallholders on the markets stinks - he doesn't wash and the same t-shirt and hoody last him a week. I am next to him 2 days a week and through the warmer weather it costs me sales, as you can smell him 20 feet away. He claims he showers every day, but you can see from how increasingly greasy his hair gets through the week that he is lying.

Also used to share an office with a fat spurs fan, who used to re-wear shirts on Thursday and Friday that he had worn on Monday and Tuesday, but without washing them in between. He was really unpleasant, not helped by the fact that his diet seemed to consist entirely of scotch eggs, pasties and chilli flavoured crisps, which he would have for breakfast and lunch, both meals eaten at his desk.

What does he sell?

Do you mean to say sometimes you don't succeed?

Reminds me of the sketch from bottom where Richie's pants are crusted to him.

There's a bloke that get's on the bus around swindon sometimes and his hair is always greased back and he stinks of aftershave as if he had poured the whole bottle on himself, he wears a stfc coat as well I'd hate to sit next to him it's bad enough when he passes on the bus

Bad breath - you can't help but wince when talking to someone who has it, especially if you haven't spoken to that person before. I used to know someone who could strip wallpaper with their breath  :no:

Probably the worlds dodgiest bookie that offers the odds in the legends lounge

His odds are complete an utter crap i know that!

Luke rooney was 12/1 the other night :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

2 guys in Sir Dans every Saturday stink of BO, 1st occasion I was happily eating my gourmet chicken burger when the fat cunts decide to sit next us and I couldn't eat the rest of it. I avoid them like the plague now!

There is an old fat women who works in Boots in Wood Street, Old Town with the worlds worst breath. After she served me I actual heaved outside the shop.

Now, I have young children so am used to the unpleasantries of the human body but this was just evil. It was like she was decomposing from the inisde out.

Bet she enjoys a good old chomp on the d though

What is it with shop staff and their shit breath? All the ones that first spring to my mind have been shop workers.

BO is inexcusable as it is blatantly obvious even if you are the one with it. It's such a strong smell it's clear who has it

My 13 year old son has terrible b.o even though he showers every day. The other day i made him get back in the shower again about 3 hours after he had got out of it. The thing is he smells worse when he sits around vegging out. when he is at school he hardly ever smells but at weekends & holidays he stinks but showers the same.

I'd say he must have underlying health issues if he stinks 3 hours after washing. BO is caused by bacteria which builds up. 3 hours is very quick to start stinking

Could be a hormone issue. My sister had a similar thing.

How do you make a hormone ? Punch her in the stomach (sorry)

What deodorant does he use? My friend, 34, had only ever worn Lynx body spray, and other stuff which smells nice but does nothing for sweating. Once he moved to a proper roll-on, his problem odour ceased completely.

A liberal application of talcum powder, especially on the feet, socks and trainers is to be reccommended

That's a good point Barry, my teenage son covers himself in fancy sprays but now I've made sure he uses a decent roll on because the spray just breifly disguises any BO. If I go into his bedroom just after he has gone out I choke on the amount of spray in his room.

Does he put his dirty clothes back on after he showers?

Do people who smell genuinely not realise it? A girl asked me to smell her armpit tge other day, I told her to do it herself.

We had a librarian at school who always stunk of piss, she must have known. And there was a reverend who had tge worst b.o, it was like rotting lemons mixed with gone off chilli con carne. Really acidic in your nostrils.

On the odd occasional I've been a little 'ripe' myself, I've always been very aware of it.

I remember working for Allied Dunbar back in the 1980s.  There was a pretty posh bird in the pensions department who absolutely reeked.  Someone bought her a brut 33 set in the secret Santa..

I'd have had that down as a sure fire make out line...first the armpit, get a nose full of pheromones and doubtless fanny next..I guess you can afford to be picky?

Or he's a bummer

I hadn't thought of that :hmmm:  What would your response have been if a bird asked you to sniff her armpit?

One step ahead of you there, Reg. it was fanny before armpit this time.

And I'm a bummer too, in the sense that I've done her up the bum also.

I think I may have gone a bit OCD in this regard recently.  My experience of London public transport has led me to conclude - especially in summer - that roll on deodorant beats the shit out of any other sort of deodorant.  And that the application of said deodorant is greatly facilitated if you take a sharp razor to your pits, girl style, every once in a while.  That's quite an admission - especially for someone growing a 'tache for the first time this month - but I'd recommend it.

That happened in my office in the nineties.

Fuck off you cunt....you said you wouldn't tell anybody!

We have a large number of indian contractors at work working on various projects.  A couple of them smell completely vile, a mix of curry and strong BO.  A member of my team was on holiday for a few days and one of them sat at her desk.   My team members either side of him pulled their tops up over their noses in order to continue working without gagging.  It couldn't really have been more obvious, but he seemed totally oblivious. 

I've become badly allergic to deodarant in the last couple of years. I blame it on overuse of Lynx in my twenties. PPI has nothing on this, as I reckon everyone will be fucked if they've ever used it.

Roll on is the answer

More like Stroll on.

Droll one, Nev

Nah, not serious,Troll on.

I followed a bloke into the petrol station earlier who was reeking, by the time I had picked a pint of milk up and got to the tills he had gone but the smell definitely hadn't . I just hope the girl behind the counter didn't think it was me  :(

I went in there just after, did you not see her face? She was wretching, poor girl.