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To wonder how people can cope with smells worse than this!?

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DurhamDime · 11/09/2026 15:30

Just got home from being out for the day.

As I entered the dining room I was hit by an awful smell. Immediately started looking around for a mess. Maybe the cat had thrown up etc. Nothing.

So shone a torch under the side table/cabinet. Tiny dead mouse.

Have got it out and thrown it away. It wasn’t badly decomposed or anything, not actually decomposing visibly yet thank goodness.

But the smell was awful. Like a food bin in hot weather. I disinfected the floor and I’m now sat in another room, outside doors open in both rooms, and I can still smell it (or feel like I can….)

Not the first time we’ve had it. (Aren’t cats great 🤣)

Every time this happens though I can’t help but think how awful those houses you see where everything they move there are dead mice/rats etc. Or worse, how awful it must be for people who have to find (and smell) dead bodies.

Just crazy how bad one teeny mouse can smell.

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outerspacepotato · 12/09/2026 17:15

There is a very, very popular, very, very expensive perfume. It's everywhere.

And it smells like Pseudomonas. 😷

DozyCrow · 12/09/2026 17:21

I used to work in a funeral home. I spread Vicks under my nostrils when I had to go in the cold room if we had a particularly pungent deceased in our care. We had special crystals too that could be put round the bodies to absorb smell, but no idea what they were.

BatshitIsTheOnlyExplanation · 12/09/2026 17:22

CustardySergeant · 12/09/2026 15:43

Re your penultimate sentence "the smell was like shit and death and foist mixed together." What is foist? If it's a typo for something I haven't been able to work out what.

Sounds like a cross between fetid and moist?

Blushingm · 12/09/2026 18:15

Waitingfordoggo · 11/09/2026 16:43

Anyone who’s travelled in the Far East might be familiar with durian which is a fruit. It smells like decaying biological matter. I encountered it in Malaysia, where the locals claim it’s absolutely delicious, but I couldn’t get near enough to one to actually try it- the smell made me spontaneously vomit. I believe it’s banned on public transport in many places.

I think there is also a cheese which is banned on public transport in France.

DH brought me back chocolates from Singapore - one had durian fruit in it. It was awful!

Blushingm · 12/09/2026 18:16

C-Diff

walk on to a ward or into a house where someone has C-Diff

That and Malaena!

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