Smelly people first thing in the morning making me cross

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I completely understand in the UK we are currently experiencing extremely high temperatures, however......

why is it so many people smell really strongly of B.O first thing in the morning? I was on the bus Saturday morning around 9am and their were one or two people who smelled really strongly, not just slightly. This morning I was in my local shop around 10am and the man in front of me smelled that strongly that when he left, the smell even lingered.

I can understand if it was towards the end of the day, then it would be more reasonable that people would have B.O. I am just really irritated how these people think it's acceptable that other people have to put up with their offensive smell.

What does that even mean? That sounds like a load of uneducated wank

I was going up to London on the tube on Friday. I was sitting and a guy was strap-hanging over me. He absolutely stunk of BO. His armpit was a couple of feet from my face and I tried to keep my head down trying to avoid the full effect of the stench. I was a nurse so have smelled the whole range of disgusting things in my time but this made me feel sick.

It’s absolutely pointless worrying about this stuff if you live in the real world - cars, public transport, pollution everywhere, all the shit we breathe in our lungs.

Thanks for clarifying. Your previous post could be read as though you did, and I know some (insane, imo) people do.

Maybe. It was a suggestion as to why some people don’t use them, not my opinion.

I don’t use them because they work by blocking your pores and a common side effect is blocked pores/ cysts and they can trigger acne and cystic acne.

They are also ineffective anyway. They redirect sweat away from your armpits etc but your body naturally releases the same amount of sweat from other areas to regulate its temperature.

From what I know when I had the privilege of working alongside some people from Eastern Europe, they worker harder than dogs. I would do crazy shifts like 7am to 11pm mon-friday, and my Eastern European companions would be going off to another night shift or simply working 7 days a week nonstop. All whilst sharing one flat in poor living conditions. They literally lived to work. I was a slob by comparison. I don't recall anyone smelling offensive. A few old geezers did though, they were divorced and past retirement and if anything, it engendered a sense of wishing they could be cared for better. But a lot of people are functioning as autonomous beings

Acne on your face or under your arms?

haha...just like the well groomed ladies who after using the toilet are more interested in doing their hair and makeup then washing their hands

I’m from Irish builder stock which is the 1980s equivalent of the Eastern European 😆

my dad smelt a lot. He would come off the site get home at 7pm, lay on the sofa in his dirty clothes and fall asleep, waking at 5am to go back to work.

looking back, he was overwhelmed and stuck in a rut of exhaustion. As always when you’re overwhelmed and exhausted the problems seemed to stack up, and simple things became a tangle of problems go unravel.

i have friends whose husbands are tradies who change out of their work clothes in the garage and go straight for a shower after work, then do the kids dinner and run them
go their dance classes. I don’t know why, but my dad’s post work life looked very, very different so I understand why some “dirty workers” are the same.

Toxins?! You're talking twaddle, pure twaddle.

It literally is the body cooling. The difference under the arm is the moisture is trapped and bacteria begins to grow.
This is why need to use better things to control the stink. Or wash, often.

I tried the wild one as well and I was smelly too half way my work day yikes, had to change for Sure/dove

I wonder if the people in SE Asia are mostly Hindu. A friend told me that Hindus think we westerners smell of sour milk.
Dd has a friend who is vegan and she always smells really fresh.

Tell us you just can’t stand men without telling us you just can’t stand men 🙄

I recently bought Fussy organic deodorant (or whatever it claims to be!). Awful stuff, it doesn’t work at all. I persisted using it for a month as apparently it takes your body a while to get used to it. During that time I had to shower twice a day. In the end, I threw it away (together with the two expensive refills I’d bought) 🤦🏼‍♀️🙈 Back to using Mitchum.

I do think most bad smells are the result of laziness and people not wanting to “be rude” and tell their family/friends.

My husband is a hgv driver and there is one driver that always smells funky, even on a Monday morning.... apparently no-one likes working working with him, stuck in a lorry with him for 8-10 hrs plus unloading 😷

It is fine to shower weekly so long as you wash the smelly bits and face daily, and hands frequently.

No, they're not ineffective, they do what designed to do.
We sweat all over. Armpits included. The difference, as mentioned before, is the sweat gets trapped and bacteria grows. When we sweat on the face, arms, back, legs etc, it's whipped away by the air or by clothing.
So antiP under the arm stops the sweating and it therefore stops bacteria under the arms and stops the smell.

It's absolutely nothing to do with toxins. Our bodies get rid of toxins quite ok with our organs and antiP will have no effect on toxins whatsoever. You literally cannot sweat out toxins.

No! And certainly not in this weather and on public transport. Please.

I have a friend like that as well.

It would have been normal before showers were invented. Arms and legs don't get smelly in the heat. Armpits feet and bottoms do.

A few years ago I made the mistake of taking my daughter to the Natural History Museum in the afternoon. There was a BO smell around the main hall but my god, when I went into the ladies loo 🤢. There were a group of women covered head to toe and smell followed them around . They had kids about so I’m surprised they didn’t say something - I know if I smelt that bad my daughter would have said something .

If you’re washing all the bits that smell daily you’re just as well jumping in the shower.

Nooooooooo

That is a good point, if you have daily access to a shower. If not, washing with a flannel is a good substitute.

I actually think it’s the “fashion” for shower gels and the move away from soap.

i don’t think shower gel properly cleans. If I use it I’m much stinkier more quickly than if I use soap.

in fact I think many products are designed to temporarily make us smell better, but not the cause so we use more.

I ran out of dog shampoo once so used our human version when he rolled in something. Now usually I don’t need to wash the dog- but after a couple of days he stank, so I washed him again. Next day, stinking. I was having to wash him near daily. Went out and got dog shampoo and bingo- smell gone and back to only needing to wash when he was muddy.