Worst smell you smell

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Severian

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gas gangrene-->rotting human flesh.....you never get used to it

As a nurse, I'm pretty much inured to biological odors, but infected diabetic ulcers are tough...
 

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Originally posted by: CraigRT
My cubicle is 15 feet from a busy bathroom

The last place I worked had a very small office with a single bathroom. Often, the president would walk from his office to the main bathroom and drop a bomb so bad that it would stink the whole office up. Then he would walk back to his office with the biggest smirk on his face and then close his office door. I always wanted to say something.
 
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I work in a cosmetic factory and The stench of all the perfumes and what not they make is so overpowering that I can barely stand to go to the production floor.
 

Tobolo

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A good mixture of herbicides and SulfoUREA herbicides.... you get the point.
 

ni4ni

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Um, the smell of burning flesh when shocking someone back to life.
 

MmmSkyscraper

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Originally posted by: CraigRT
My cubicle is 15 feet from a busy bathroom

I share your pain :(

As our office is so small, with only a door separating the office from each of the toilets, I also get the soundtrack of anything going down.

/me asks Father Xmas for a fvck-off pair of earmuffs
 

Majesty

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Even though the smells you smell are bad, be happy to smell. You will sooner or later in the day smell something good.

I was born without it and I wish I could smell for one day. :(

Life goes on. :)
 

brtspears2

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Diesel fumes. I have to pass a few hundred trucks on the road to get to work. (For those in So. Cal, mainly Hwy 60 between 15 and 57, then 605 south)
 

homercles337

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The men's bathroom here at work. I swear to gawd that some of those guys have serious intestenal problems!
 

Conky

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Originally posted by: Majesty
Even though the smells you smell are bad, be happy to smell. You will sooner or later in the day smell something good.

I was born without it and I wish I could smell for one day. :(

Life goes on. :)
Your nose is deaf? Or would that be blind? :p

I always wondered why there wasn't a common term for no sense of smell. No sight, blind. No hearing, deaf. No sense of smell, nada... actually there is a term, anosmia, but it's not a common word.

/end tangent thought

 

JasonCoder

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Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Originally posted by: CraigRT
My cubicle is 15 feet from a busy bathroom

I share your pain :(

As our office is so small, with only a door separating the office from each of the toilets, I also get the soundtrack of anything going down.

/me asks Father Xmas for a fvck-off pair of earmuffs

Man that's fuggin nasty. Let's buy these guys some headphones or earmuffs for xmas. I'd be looking for another job.
 

Juice Box

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Originally posted by: Beachboy
Originally posted by: Majesty
Even though the smells you smell are bad, be happy to smell. You will sooner or later in the day smell something good.

I was born without it and I wish I could smell for one day. :(

Life goes on. :)
Your nose is deaf? Or would that be blind? :p

I always wondered why there wasn't a common term for no sense of smell. No sight, blind. No hearing, deaf. No sense of smell, nada... actually there is a term, anosmia, but it's not a common word.

/end tangent thought

Perhaps....oh, I don't know...it's not that common of a condition?

I'd be willing to bet there are many many more blind/deaf people than people suffering from anosmia