RANT: Wear Some Damn Deodorant...

[Muse]

If you're like me even with all the antiperspirant in the world, if I'm working out, I still sweat right through it, and it still smells. Nothing I can do about it, unless I put foil tape on my arm pits or something but that would not be very comfortable.

A gym is not really suppose to be a pleasant smelling place. It's a place with a bunch of sweaty guys lifting weights, yeah it's going to be a little smelly.

On that note I do prefer working out at home and not having to deal with having other people around me.

I'm Indian and I don't smell. -snip-

As noted by a woman I know everybody has a smell peculiar to them. She should know, she works in a fairly high end hair cutting salon in the east S.F. Bay. Now the great majority of her clients probably shower and wash their hair before they come into the salon.

Point is, you are going to give off odors regardless of what you do, however they will be a lot less disagreeable if you practice good personal hygiene. I sometimes go in the gym with one day having past since my last shower, not usually. Never more than one day. Besides using soap and a wash cloth, fairly thoroughly, I spray some rubbing alcohol (70%) in each armpit and rub it in, after I shower. This further rubs out any bacteria in the area and retards their resurgence. It's cheap, easy, doesn't leave a potentially offensive odor, and leaves no residue whatsoever.

It's interesting the etymology and progression of terms commonly used to describe the olfactory experience. Historically, the terms used start out as positive. In time, the very same words come to connote unpleasant experiences. I read or heard a treatment of this subject quite a few years ago, so don't remember the details.

 

[Fritzo]

So, the crystals I rub under my arms every day don't work?

 

[randomrogue]

Highly relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLq2-uZd5LY

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Be a nice fellow & give them some free deodorant.

Even better. Run around spraying all them stinkers down with febreeze. That'll teach 'em.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

i'm indian and i smell bad.

i love indians

especially Anand

 

[Ichinisan]

[snip]

Careful. An Indian in this thread already got an infraction for saying that.

 

[eits]

Careful. An Indian in this thread already got an infraction for saying that.

an indian owns this website.

not all indians smell bad... it's just like anyone else... if you don't practice good hygiene, you're gonna stink. i just don't understand why these guys at the gym don't.

 

[busydude]

an indian owns this website.

not all indians smell bad... it's just like anyone else... if you don't practice good hygiene, you're gonna stink. i just don't understand why these guys at the gym don't.

It not about good hygiene. Indians generally tend to sweat a lot. Deodorant only recently became part of our culture.

You can have terrible personal hygiene and not stink.

 

[eits]

It not about good hygiene. Indians generally tend to sweat a lot. Deodorant only recently became part of our culture.

You can have terrible personal hygiene and not stink.

lol that's not true at all

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Careful. An Indian in this thread already got an infraction for saying that.

no, it's true.

regardless of what anyone else here says the fact of the matter is BO is considered to be very sensual in my culture. the most prized women are the fat bitches who wear corduroys in the bombay summers. that pungent, sweaty BO demonstrates her fertility.

i know from personal experience when i don't wash my balls for a few days, i get way more girls.

 

[eits]

no, it's true.

regardless of what anyone else here says the fact of the matter is BO is considered to be very sensual in my culture. the most prized women are the fat bitches who wear corduroys in the bombay summers. that pungent, sweaty BO demonstrates her fertility.

i know from personal experience when i don't wash my balls for a few days, i get way more girls.

D:

 

[busydude]

D:

Deal with it!

 

[Muse]

no, it's true.

regardless of what anyone else here says the fact of the matter is BO is considered to be very sensual in my culture. the most prized women are the fat bitches who wear corduroys in the bombay summers. that pungent, sweaty BO demonstrates her fertility.

i know from personal experience when i don't wash my balls for a few days, i get way more girls.

LOL, and your balls itch too.

 

[Gintaras]

ok... i've had it... people, if you're going to be working out at the gym, wear some damn deodorant. really. it always seems like it's ONLY people from a certain ethnic group that don't realize that you need to wear deodorant if you're going to be working out around other people. i just can't stand choking at the gym while i'm trying to stay concentrated on my workout. i don't care how lax or extensive your personal hygiene regimen is; wear some freaking deodorant so you guys don't fog everyone out of the gym. it's just common courtesy. i don't walk over to you and fart in your face while you're bench pressing; you can stand to wear some fucking deodorant.

sick of it...

seriously...

Many Ethnic Groups could be sick of individual of Ethnic Group you do belong. And Ethnic Group you do belong to, maybe sick of you....

Do you belong any other sexual group that those of Group called Hetero?

Does it make you feel better than others are?

 

[Gintaras]

Some dudes fucking stink!

OWN SHIT NEVER SMELLS....

A lot of people entering a bathroom, they pretend to be walking in into Sephora store or some Perfume Outlet...

 

[zoiks]

Man. I had a similar experience at the 24 hour fitness in Sunnyvale (aka little india or toyota corolla central). I was running on the treadmill and was already half an hour into my hourly run, when this guy with skinny little legs joined in on the treadmill next to me. After some minutes this rank putrid sewer smell introduced itself in my nostrils. Don't know what the guy ate who was now on the treadmill next to me but it was not good at all. I must say that this smell was probably worse than any farty smell that I've smelled. It was simply rank! And guess what, while running, you tend to breathe with your mouth and I was inhaling and breathing that shit in like nothing. I friggin had to stop running 35 minutes in to move somewhere else.

Oh. To add to the OP's plea, please go to the bathroom and do your number 2 before coming to the gym. Will save a lot of lives. I promise.

 

[MovingTarget]

Let me get this straight....you advocate that people apply deodorant for the purpose of doing a workout at the gym. This is stupid. If a person really reeks up the gym during a workout, then likely they stank beforehand and have other hygiene issues to address. For the rest of us who shower on a daily basis, deodorant is not a requirement at the gym....although it should be applied when the workout is complete if you choose to go back into public.

 

[Gintaras]

i know from personal experience when i don't wash my balls for a few days, i get way more girls.

No envy for you...

"girls", who don't take a shower for a few days too..."Girls" of your circle.....

 

[Herr Kutz]

Man. I had a similar experience at the 24 hour fitness in Sunnyvale (aka little india or toyota corolla central). I was running on the treadmill and was already half an hour into my hourly run, when this guy with skinny little legs joined in on the treadmill next to me. After some minutes this rank putrid sewer smell introduced itself in my nostrils. Don't know what the guy ate who was now on the treadmill next to me but it was not good at all. I must say that this smell was probably worse than any farty smell that I've smelled. It was simply rank! And guess what, while running, you tend to breathe with your mouth and I was inhaling and breathing that shit in like nothing. I friggin had to stop running 35 minutes in to move somewhere else.

Oh. To add to the OP's plea, please go to the bathroom and do your number 2 before coming to the gym. Will save a lot of lives. I promise.

Maybe curry?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

i wonder whos going to get infractions

Mods, didnt mean to be so harsh on my original post.

edited post

 

[JackBurton]

Ok, so I've learned a couple of things about ATOT members, although not shocking. Apparently most are fucking disgusting and think wearing deodorant & antiperspirant are one of those optional things you do in life. They also think a gym should smell like a fucking sewer.

So let me clear up a few things:

1. Wearing deodorant and antiperspirant EVERY DAY should not be optional. If you are out mingling in public, wear it. Quit being disgusting. No one wants to smell your BO. And no, just soap and water alone doesn't cut it. If you need help figuring out the steps, shower and then RIGHT AFTER you shower apply deodorant and antiperspirant under your arms. Yes, EVERY time after you shower. WTF? People don't do this?

2. Gyms aren't the most pleasant smelling places, but that doesn't mean you should walk in there smelling like a pile of shit. Strong perfume and BO are highly frowned upon. Again, quit being disgusting and wear some antiperspirant (it doesn't have to be scented morons, so quit making excusing for your disgusting habits).


That is all.

 

[Imp]

I played clarinet for a year next to a dude whom smelled and never wore deodorant. I can still taste it... Yum.

 

[MovingTarget]

Also, another thing....why wear deodorant during the winter when you shower daily and don't do anything requiring you to sweat? I can understand this during the warmer months though as I live in the South....perpetual swampass abounds in the summer months due to the high humidity.

 

[Ichinisan]

I played clarinet for a year next to a dude whom smelled and never wore deodorant. I can still taste it... Yum.

You didn't mention his ethnicity.

 

[SandEagle]

It not about good hygiene. Indians generally tend to sweat a lot. Deodorant only recently became part of our culture.

You can have terrible personal hygiene and not stink.

wow dude. at least cover that shit with Fair & Lovely.