• hydrashok@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Thankfully my current office doesn’t have anyone I interact with like this, but at a previous job I’m pretty sure the dude bought cologne by the 55 gallon drum. It was painful.

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    3 months ago

    It used to be I would have to ask women from time to time to go easy on the perfume. Lately it has been all men. And I do say perfume when I ask them (always a great reaction).

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    3 months ago

    [Me, entering the office building] *sniff* Oh, $coworker is here today.

    And they came through here 2 hours ago.

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      3 months ago

      Came here to say the same thing. I have a coworker who’s so consistent and heavy-handed with his cologne that I don’t ever have to visually check if he’s in the office or not.

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      3 months ago

      I can smell when my neighbors opened their door, and I can even give an educated guess when it happened. It’s cigarette smoke in their case though.

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    3 months ago

    Tip: don’t hold your breath instead preserve the clean air in your lungs by taking rapid short breaths until loss of consciousness occurs

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    3 months ago

    I’ve been this person once and I’m ashamed. I got a knock off parfum not realizing how strong it was and just went ahead and did my 3 sprays. Omg I realized when I was standing in line at the pharmacy and someone muttered something under their breath. I threw that scent away in shame

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        Have you never once been in or even near a locker room? Blasting an ENTIRE can of axe body spray is something iv yet to find a single country doenst have a equivalent of.

        9th grade is high school after all.

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        3 months ago

        9th grade in the states is high school level. I mean, it’s probably just body sprays, not actual cologne and perfume, and they might be self conscious about body odor being just past or still in puberty?

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          3 months ago

          Kids should act like kids, perfume and cologne should be banned and confiscated in school, there’s no place in children’s schools for these distractions. It will hinder other kids from paying proper attention in class!

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            3 months ago

            Did you drop your /s? If perfume and d

            If you were to ban perfumes and colognes, would you ban scented deodorant? Out of everything students have to worry about…you think this distracts them?

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              3 months ago

              Schools can provide free unscented deodorant

              *edit why is this disliked? We provide soap for bathrooms, deodorant is soap for the armpits right? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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              you think this distracts them?

              This distracted me back then. This distracts me now.
              Who would’ve guessed that people who filled everything with scented stuff in school would grow up to be adults that use scents to fix all problems?

              • Minor body odour distracting the guy next to you? Fill your body with odorant that now makes anyone in the whole room nauseate.
              • Body stinks of whatever you smoked during the break? Noone can tell if everyone’s nose is blocked.
              • Chinese mousepad made out of non RoHS compliant rubber, has residual industrial volatile compounds causing nausea? Well, the room “freshner” can cause more nausea. Fill godowns with the perfume and nobody will notice the Chinese rubber.
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    2 months ago

    The worst is when you can smell people walking past you when you’re outside… before they pass you.

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    i mean when you’re in high school and are bombarded with commercials that say “saturate yourself to the core fibers of your very soul with axe body spray, and women will basically throw their vaginas at your face as an involuntary reflex action”…is there any other option but to do what they say?