Detroit city employees discouraged from wearing strong scents
 

As someone who absofreakinglutely cannot stand the scents that most women and men bath themselves in, I applaud the shit outta this.

Its about time that !

Detroit outlawed the Pollock shower?

Chas

I should take this to work. We have a woman there whose "scent" is so strong it damn near brings tears to my eyes. This in a place where we roast about 250-300,000 pounds of coffee per shift. It's a nasty odor, theres some kind of perfume, but there is also an indescribable underlying funk. UG!

Good for Detroit! If that city can't do anything else right, it can stamp out foul body odors.

Dave

What about that patchouli oil shit that we hippies used to wear. I smell that shit today and it makes me want to barf. Yuck!

Don't forget Musk oil.

The big thing now is Axe or something like it. We would always tell the boys that if they insist on wearing something smelly, it should come with them into the room, not announce their entrance. It's hard to fight it when the ads are all telling them that hot chicks will be all over them if they put the right scent on.

I'm just now getting over a case of bronchitis, but coming across any strong perfume can send me on a coughing jag.

Regards,

D-Ray

I wear Axe every now and then. It's good for covering up that annoying smoke smell.;)

Never went in much for the oils but I still burn incense (while listening to the Mahavishnu Orchestra ;))

John

I burn incense too, it drives the Missus crazy.

Ever since I had my stroke, I can barely tolerate cigarette smoke, loud perfume, BO, any of that. There were several women my mom's age who you could smell 'em comin' a half hour before they got there...Fortunately, they're all about gone now...

Imagine what it must be like for a newborn coming into a world where everything is new. It must be pretty intense.

I think we learn to ignore certain things so that our senses aren't overloaded with extraneous stimuli. Maybe after a "brain related event" we can unlearn certain things like what sensory input to ignore or de-emphasize so we can concentrate on the important stuff.

Just some random uninformed thoughts.

John

My wife has been trying to discourage me for years from making strong scents. No luck (on her part) yet.

Interesting concept, John. My G/F at the time said I'd "changed", but never could tell me exactly HOW I'd changed. I DO know that it is difficult for me to now grasp new concepts-Trying to learn Excel, for example, just buffaloed me, & was one of the things that led to my firing. I couldn't "Think straight" at least at first, after the stroke. One thing that HAS stayed is that I cry VERY easily anymore-I can see something on, say, the JFK assassination, or hear a song from "Back in the day", & it'll turn on the waterworks. Doesn't necessarily have to upset me, some things just will "set it off". The "Gag" reflex is hair-trigger, too-I can merely SWALLOW something "the wrong way", & I'll choke myself. Most of the "bad" stuff has diminished w/time-but will come up & bite me every once in awhile just to show Who's Boss, I guess. The sensitivity to odors must have been some weird trigger set off by the stroke. I've talked to my Dr. & to my wife, & the best they can do is just say, "Yeah, strokes are "Funny"...They'll do weird stuff like that to ya..."

Are you getting the chicks? I mean, in boatloads?

:)

Lmao!

Pete

Yeah, I'm afraid that's why my younger son liked it.

Regards,

D-Ray

It just dawned on me that's why my son every once in a while will be swimming in that stinky shit. Duhhhhh.....:o