ColdFusion718
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I don't do that, but I am now considering whether to wear a tin foil hat when I walk by Zysoclaplem to prevent his diseased brainwaves from infecting my relatively healthy brain. I also wonder how Zysoclaplem determines when to resume breathing.
If you pass someone going the opposite way and they really do smell, it could linger for half a block or more, and if wind is blowing at your back, their smell could be carried even further, right into your nostrils, possibly infecting you with ugly.
If you pass someone going the opposite way and they really do smell, it could linger for half a block or more, and if wind is blowing at your back, their smell could be carried even further, right into your nostrils, possibly infecting you with ugly.
:thumbsup: Nice reference, except grenouille didn't differentiate between good smells and bad ones.
OP: Obviously you can smell the ladies for a long time after they walk by, right? Just because they carry a marker scent that indicates their presence in the air that they trail behind them... therefore you must realize that the ugly people also do this, they just are probably not wearing perfume, like the pretty lasses, and so you don't smell the marker. But trust me - it's there. Slacked dead skin cells, CO2 and other aerosols from their breath, hairs from their arms and legs, etc.
Pretty pointless to hold your breath only when within 10 feet of them, since you're constantly breathing "used" air in from other ugly people.
Pretty pointless to hold your breath only when within 10 feet of them, since you're constantly breathing "used" air in from other ugly people.
Miramonti
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I'd go out on a limb and say it has less to do with the smell of ugly people (except for may be indigent/disassociated people), and more to do with a preoccupation with 'ugly' due to insecurities of being ugly and/or of being seen associated with ugliness.
Good looking people can smell nasty as well. Perhaps its fair to say many know they don't have to try as hard to be acceptable. (That's if it can even be said statistically that 'generally good looking people' have better hygiene and clothes washing habits...and good smelling laundry detergent...than 'generally not good looking people'.)
Also, people's perception of 'ugly' is generally not a constant and frequently changes as a person gets older and goes thru different stages in life, so this impression is probably more to do with perception, than reality. Which therefore imho, this asociation is probably more psychological than simply due to an acutely heightened sense of smell.
Its not to say its an intelligence deficiency...some extremely intelligent people have very unusual associations with objects and perceptions. One european guy could remember pi to tens of thousands of digits without using mnemonic techniques, and with testing it was discovered he had a remarkable association with numbers as abstract shapes that seemed to significantly aid his memory for such long number sequences.
Good looking people can smell nasty as well. Perhaps its fair to say many know they don't have to try as hard to be acceptable. (That's if it can even be said statistically that 'generally good looking people' have better hygiene and clothes washing habits...and good smelling laundry detergent...than 'generally not good looking people'.)
Also, people's perception of 'ugly' is generally not a constant and frequently changes as a person gets older and goes thru different stages in life, so this impression is probably more to do with perception, than reality. Which therefore imho, this asociation is probably more psychological than simply due to an acutely heightened sense of smell.
Its not to say its an intelligence deficiency...some extremely intelligent people have very unusual associations with objects and perceptions. One european guy could remember pi to tens of thousands of digits without using mnemonic techniques, and with testing it was discovered he had a remarkable association with numbers as abstract shapes that seemed to significantly aid his memory for such long number sequences.
If you could have Brad Pitt's company but he was covered in doo doo would you want it? And he cannot clean himself, or have anyone clean him while he's with you. Maybe not covered, but smelled of it and it was noticably offensive.
Good to know OP generalizes that "ugly" people (in his POV) smell bad and quite possibly contaminates the air that they come in contact with them.
In other news, a certain group of people who share the same "lifestyle choices" are more prone to contracting HIV. :roll:
In other news, a certain group of people who share the same "lifestyle choices" are more prone to contracting HIV. :roll:
m1ldslide1
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it's a jab at people who think gays/lesbians are more prone to contracting HIV; not at the gay/lesbians themselves. you can now unwind.
as for ugly people, Travis Johnson said it this week:
so that takes care of that.
Interesting, very interesting... Probably has some background roots with stinking ugly people. If this is all you have to worry about, then hold your breath away, everybody's got some little psychological tick or another.
Ugly, no I don't hold my breath.
Dirty, dont care what they look like, wearing clothes that haven't seen a washer in weeks, don't have enough self-respect to keep appearances up to human levels, yes I hold my breath to avoid unpleasant odors that are bound to follow them. Much the same way I hold my breath walking past an ugly diesel truck's exhaust while breathing freely aorund a Civic or Prius.
Dirty, dont care what they look like, wearing clothes that haven't seen a washer in weeks, don't have enough self-respect to keep appearances up to human levels, yes I hold my breath to avoid unpleasant odors that are bound to follow them. Much the same way I hold my breath walking past an ugly diesel truck's exhaust while breathing freely aorund a Civic or Prius.
m1ldslide1
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OK, OK... unwinding in progress... maybe that iRonic post got my hackles up. And I'm not even sure what he meant either.
Ok, I'll see your weirdness and raise it $2. I tend to inhale as people walk by because I'm curious what they smell like. Although I prefer woman, I don't limit the behavior to them. It's like of like watching people in a crowd and analyzing them based on their appearance, it's just another sense with which to do it.
Now, as a sat there and wrote that it occurred to me that I DO hold my breath when someone especially nasty walks by but I would assume that is natural. If it's not, it should be. Afterall, farts are composed of small poo particles and you don't want to be tasting that goodness do you? Same with fuglies.
Wish I could change my vote.
Now, as a sat there and wrote that it occurred to me that I DO hold my breath when someone especially nasty walks by but I would assume that is natural. If it's not, it should be. Afterall, farts are composed of small poo particles and you don't want to be tasting that goodness do you? Same with fuglies.
Wish I could change my vote.
By lifestyle choices you mean people who don't use protection during sexual intercourse, correct?
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