does it really smell in India?

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saw him on leno last week doing standup with some fresh material finally.
one of jokes was how he was going to india and as soon as he stepped off the plane, it smelled like shit.

now, no offense but i've been some indian friends' homes and it smelled funky, to put it nicely.
is that how it smells in all of india?

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argh, should check before i post.
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[Atomic Playboy]

They've got less than half the land mass of the US, but 4 times as many people, and all they have to eat is curry. You do the math.

 

[DanFungus]

Definitely had a very distinct smell when I was there 10 years ago. Sometimes imports from there smell the same way and it's very recognizable to me.

 

[sdifox]

newsflash, all animals smell, but each ethnic group smells different. You would not smell your own ethnic group because your brain filters it out.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

A lack of running water

A lack of personal restrooms

An abundance of public toilets

Wiping ass with your hand

Curry

I'm thinking Russel Peters is spot on.


Every American I've known has come back from a trip to India with the same comments. "That place is disgusting". I'm sure the rural areas are much nicer than the big-cities.

 

[PokerGuy]

Never been there, but judging by the comments I've heard from others who have and from the participants in every "The Amazing Race" season where they've gone there, it has to be absolutely horrendously nasty.

 

[Legendary]

Yes. Quite distinctly in some areas. Most of it is bad. Very bad.
However some smells are quite amazing. Those require some luck.
<---Indian, goes every few years

 

[dr150]

India is a difficult place to visit when in an urban area regarding smells (even "small towns, villages" are in the 1-2 million inhabitant range, lol)

It indeed smells like sewer, burnt petrol from the rickshaws and unwashed animal smells Terrible! Just terrible!

The houses and many businesses also smell funky.

The rivers are polluted with waste and industry run off.

People take dumps in plain sight in foot traffic areas.

"Holy" animals are accidentally run over by the maddening cars/rickshaws....and aren't taken care of. If it survives, the poor animal is generally left uncared for...crippled/bleeding/hurting for the rest of its life!

One time, ON a HEAVILY congested sidewalk, I stepped into a HUGE fresh cow pie (it's miraculous that everyone avoided it except me in a shoulder-to-shoulder sandal wearing crowd). It enveloped my shoe!!! It took me about 45 minutes of hard scrubbing with an industrial brush and water given to me at the hotel to get the shit off the Vibram hiking sole....I even had to use my nails at the end to get this stubborn shit off hard to reach corners (I didn't care any more). The shit stuck like glue!
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I could go onand on, but you get the jest.
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After a while, your brain tricks you into thinking these are normal smells....but that took over 4 weeks to just go from bad to somewhat tolerable.
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I kissed the ground when I came back to the States.



BTW........these smells are inherent in most 3rd world countries I've visited. India's sewers get the gold star for smells however.

 

[Connoisseur]

Originally posted by: Fmr12B
A lack of running water

A lack of personal restrooms

An abundance of public toilets

Wiping ass with your hand

Curry

I'm thinking Russel Peters is spot on.


Every American I've known has come back from a trip to India with the same comments. "That place is disgusting". I'm sure the rural areas are much nicer than the big-cities.

Rural areas are pretty bad too

 

[angry hampster]

I'm with dr150. I went to India a couple years ago with my family. We spent 2 nights in Mumbai (to fly in and out) and a week and a half in the southeastern countryside. Mumbai smelled awful.

 

[Saint Michael]

Okay, I'm not going to say that all Indian people smell bad... but most of them do. I mean, there's this guy at my school, for example, from some Indian place somewhere in India where they speak Indian. He has these long fingernails with grime from the deepest, darkest depths of Hell giving each of his fingertips a black aura of funk. When you walk within 20 ft. of him you are immediately blasted with his stink-field, some sort of combination of spices and body odor magnified to monstrous proportions and radiating from his core like heat waves from the heart of the sun. Really you'd think he could just take a fucking shower and that would be that. The scary thing, though... is what if he does take showers? Ugh... god damn.

 

[maziwanka]

it doesn't smell like shit. that's just fucking stupid. sure you'll sometimes pick up a whiff of curry when walking past restaurants and whatnot, but you'll have some of the best food you've ever eaten in your life there.

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael
Okay, I'm not going to say that all Indian people smell bad... but most of them do. I mean, there's this guy at my school, for example, from some Indian place somewhere in India where they speak Indian. He has these long fingernails with grime from the deepest, darkest depths of Hell giving each of his fingertips a black aura of funk. When you walk within 20 ft. of him you are immediately blasted with his stink-field, some sort of combination of spices and body odor magnified to monstrous proportions and radiating from his core like heat waves from the heart of the sun. Really you'd think he could just take a fucking shower and that would be that. The scary thing, though... is what if he does take showers? Ugh... god damn.

wtf. nice to use one person to make a generalization that most indian people smell bad. in all honesty, i could name 10 different white people that smell like absolute shit (and look like it too) but not a single indian person.

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: Fmr12B
A lack of running water

A lack of personal restrooms

An abundance of public toilets

Wiping ass with your hand

Curry

I'm thinking Russel Peters is spot on.


Every American I've known has come back from a trip to India with the same comments. "That place is disgusting". I'm sure the rural areas are much nicer than the big-cities.

fyi those people are f-ing morons. they expect shit to be exactly the same as america? i'd bet most of these people are close minded fools.

you may wipe your butt with your hands but you fucking wash them afterwards. plus you use water to clean your ass so it's actually cleaner than smearing shit in your ass crack.

ignorant fools. russell peters was probably trying to be funny but if this is the kind of response you get he should change his act.

 

[RichUK]

They wipe their arses with their hands. Just saying.

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: maziwanka

Originally posted by: Saint Michael
Okay, I'm not going to say that all Indian people smell bad... but most of them do. I mean, there's this guy at my school, for example, from some Indian place somewhere in India where they speak Indian. He has these long fingernails with grime from the deepest, darkest depths of Hell giving each of his fingertips a black aura of funk. When you walk within 20 ft. of him you are immediately blasted with his stink-field, some sort of combination of spices and body odor magnified to monstrous proportions and radiating from his core like heat waves from the heart of the sun. Really you'd think he could just take a fucking shower and that would be that. The scary thing, though... is what if he does take showers? Ugh... god damn.

wtf. nice to use one person to make a generalization that most indian people smell bad. in all honesty, i could name 10 different white people that smell like absolute shit (and look like it too) but not a single indian person.

Oh, there are many more people. I just happen to know this guy personally, and he's a cool guy. It's just hard to be anywhere near him. I'll also say that this goes from-India Indians, not Indian-Americans. Oh, and have fun with your faux-outrage.

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: maziwanka

Originally posted by: Saint Michael
Okay, I'm not going to say that all Indian people smell bad... but most of them do. I mean, there's this guy at my school, for example, from some Indian place somewhere in India where they speak Indian. He has these long fingernails with grime from the deepest, darkest depths of Hell giving each of his fingertips a black aura of funk. When you walk within 20 ft. of him you are immediately blasted with his stink-field, some sort of combination of spices and body odor magnified to monstrous proportions and radiating from his core like heat waves from the heart of the sun. Really you'd think he could just take a fucking shower and that would be that. The scary thing, though... is what if he does take showers? Ugh... god damn.

wtf. nice to use one person to make a generalization that most indian people smell bad. in all honesty, i could name 10 different white people that smell like absolute shit (and look like it too) but not a single indian person.

Oh, there are many more people. I just happen to know this guy personally, and he's a cool guy. It's just hard to be anywhere near him. I'll also say that this goes from-India Indians, not Indian-Americans. Oh, and have fun with your faux-outrage.

it's not outrage, it's just anger at the high level of ignorance in this thread.

"we don't do it here, so it must be disgusting!"

of course, india isn't as clean as america (or even close in some respects), but i don't know how people can say it smells like shit.

i went to india when i was a child and then re-visited 18 years or so later. if i thought it smelled like shit i would have told my brother before he visited this past winter (his first time in like 20 years).

the smell never struck me enough to actually think to myself, "man it stinks."

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: maziwanka
you may wipe your butt with your hands but you fucking wash them afterwards. plus you use water to clean your ass so it's actually cleaner than smearing shit in your ass crack.

I'd rather have shit on my ass than shit on my hand. I'd also rather you have shit on your ass than shit on your hand if I have to be around you. That shit smell doesn't just rub out because you casually wash your hands right after smearing them with feces. It is long-lasting.

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: maziwanka
you may wipe your butt with your hands but you fucking wash them afterwards. plus you use water to clean your ass so it's actually cleaner than smearing shit in your ass crack.

I'd rather have shit on my ass than shit on my hand. I'd also rather you have shit on your ass than shit on your hand if I have to be around you. That shit smell doesn't just rub out because you casually wash your hands right after smearing them with feces. It is long-lasting.

yea, not really. if you use water to clear away MOST of the shit BEFORE you wipe, it's not really a problem.

but, good for you to have some shit smeared in your ass for the rest of the day after you take a crap.

i'd also like to know how you figure it's "long-lasting"? does the shit permeate your hands? are you hands just soaking in shit?

 

[Saint Michael]

Originally posted by: maziwanka

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: maziwanka
you may wipe your butt with your hands but you fucking wash them afterwards. plus you use water to clean your ass so it's actually cleaner than smearing shit in your ass crack.

I'd rather have shit on my ass than shit on my hand. I'd also rather you have shit on your ass than shit on your hand if I have to be around you. That shit smell doesn't just rub out because you casually wash your hands right after smearing them with feces. It is long-lasting.

yea, not really. if you use water to clear away MOST of the shit BEFORE you wipe, it's not really a problem.

but, good for you to have some shit smeared in your ass for the rest of the day after you take a crap.

i'd also like to know how you figure it's "long-lasting"? does the shit permeate your hands? are you hands just soaking in shit?

No, but if i did it the Indian way they would be.

 

[ChaoZ]

Originally posted by: RichUK
They wipe their arses with their hands. Just saying.

You learn something new everyday. I don't like judging people's cultures but wtf is up with that?

 

[gururu2]

India, like a lot of other highly populated third world countries in very hot climates do tend to offend the american nose. we get so used to erasing every natural human and animal scent that all we can stand is perfumes and flowers. grow up in a country like India , Mexico, Bangladesh, Brazil, and you get used to the way people smell. body odor becomes less offensive as does the stench of thick oily smoke from fried foods that get embedded in the household. The natural scent of people isnt an indication of cleanliness or health either. immigrants, even from europe, arent acclimated to the ways of cleanliness and smell that we Americans promote. its kind of shocking, because at any point in the day, every american is glossing themselves with thousands of foreign substances to beautify smell and appearance. u got toothpaste, mouthwash, hair gel, skin cleansers, skin medications and lotions, make-up, deodorant, eye drops, etc.

 

[Crono]

It smells in a lot of places in India. What do you expect? It's a 3rd world country, and hygiene isn't exactly the top priority on peoples minds (surviving is). The "funky" smell you get from going to Indian people's houses here in America s from the many spices used in cooking, which are very pungent and tend to spread around the house by convection. Indians that don't cook/eat Indian food that often don't have that smell in their house or on their clothing. I'm fairly Americanized, and don't eat that much spicy Indian food (not that I don't like it, but I prefer a varied/balanced diet and I'm prone to heartburn) and I don't have that smell.

 

[maziwanka]

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: maziwanka

Originally posted by: Saint Michael

Originally posted by: maziwanka
you may wipe your butt with your hands but you fucking wash them afterwards. plus you use water to clean your ass so it's actually cleaner than smearing shit in your ass crack.

I'd rather have shit on my ass than shit on my hand. I'd also rather you have shit on your ass than shit on your hand if I have to be around you. That shit smell doesn't just rub out because you casually wash your hands right after smearing them with feces. It is long-lasting.

yea, not really. if you use water to clear away MOST of the shit BEFORE you wipe, it's not really a problem.

but, good for you to have some shit smeared in your ass for the rest of the day after you take a crap.

i'd also like to know how you figure it's "long-lasting"? does the shit permeate your hands? are you hands just soaking in shit?

No, but if i did it the Indian way they would be.

what's the indian way? enlighten me

 

[Crono]

On a related note, I wonder if the Japanese with those toilets w/hydrojets that shoot water onto your rear think us Americans who use "little squares of paper" to clean ourselves with are disgusting.