To think people should keep their b.o under control in public places?

[Whirliwig72]

Ok so there is a lady on a course I'm on who has really really strong stale sweaty smell. It's so bad that I'm finding it hard to concentrate. Not a one off unfortunately as she smelt last week too:( How do people not know when they smell? Would I be unreasonable to say something to her and what on earth could I say that wouldn't cause huge offence? Thinking of taking a 'plague type pomander' with me to smiff next week!

LeQueen, Scotch, did the highly developed sense of smell get more developed during pregnancy for you also? I was like a dog then, I felt sick continually due to it, and smelt things no one else could.

I'm impressed at your noses LeQueen and Scotch, that's amazing that you can smell that much! Maybe you should consider volunteering for medical experiments or something.

This thread makes me glad that smoking did so much damage to my sense of smell!

Not just you with the taste thing, I have a dc with the same skills , sadly we live with someone who has zero sence of taste.

Another question LeQueen and Scotch, no one believes me, please tell me this happened to you too, before I even was due my period the one you miss then check to see if you are pregnant, I knew I was pregnant, as I could taste metal and smell things no one else could, were you the same?

I had to have this 'talk' with a colleague once who sometimex smelled of piss. really badly of lamp-post-right-at-the-bottom piss.
turned out he had a kidney condition. he was really really relieved to be able to talk about it.

LOL @ medical experiments, yes I think we get called "super tasters" and the survival value in that is, you don't die from eating rotten food - on the other hand people with no sense of taste/smell would not starve to death as they would eat anything (saw a tv prog about it once).

Lady, was much more developed in pregnancy (morning sickness through preg and until a week after delivery!), also more developed mid - end of menstrual cycle.

I am always smelling/tasting things others can't.

WOW LeQeen, same here! The change in taste (metal taste in mouth days before period due, hardly worth doing a preg test), sadly it didn't stop me from eating for two :)

I remember with my second pregnancy, I was on sofa and got up and announced I was pregnant due to the taste in my mouth, my ex looked at me like and a few days later, the day before I was due on, i couldn't wait any longer I did a test and there was the faint line. I only ever felt that feeling at the beginnings of the pregnancy, once I got to about 14 weeks and nausia went, it got more tollerable with regards to smells and taste, and once baby was born I went back to normal.

gebsbear, where the fuck do you work?!!!!, sounds terrible!!!"

debsbear even

Your eyesight changes?

Seriously LeQueen, they could make good use of you in a laboratory somewhere.

X post LADY - so you are another metal-mouth taster in pregnancy - true, it does happen.

Mmmmmm LeQeen, it MIGHT just be you but I'd say PEOPLE look different at that time, not really noticed colours though.....

I am going to look out for the eyesight change, I have never noticed that, and I am going to ovulate any day now. Though to be fair, I think my eyesight in one eye is fucked now, and I am going to have to be checked out due to recently diagnosed sleep apnea and my oxygen levels dropping to 60% at night. I will check out my normal eye and report back .

I think my DD may be a súper taster, there are loads of things she can't eat- mostly sweets- because the taste is so intense, while all the time the other kids are chomping away. She tells me some tastes hurt her tongue and it's not acidity or similar, it is just the taste.

I don't get pain in my mouth. I love different tastes, I just don't like too much spice, I can only tollerate between mild and medium. The more complicated the flavours the better, I love it, that is why I don't like too much spice as it kills off all the back flavours, and I love the complexity of the flavours.

Yabu. I think people with bo should make no attempt whatsoever to do anything about it.

Sounds like she is adorabell. I think only one of my 4DC is a supertaster. The others are like DH, average/below average on smell/taste.

You like a bit of Bo smell, then Bibbity?

This post is bringing back lots of dodgy smell memories. An old colleague of mine was on the rather large side and wore rather shirts skirts. The circumference of her thighs prevented her crossing her legs comfortably so she'd often sit legs akimbo. This was usually fine as her legs were mostly under the desk but was very off putting on hot days during one to one meetings when we'd sit facing one anorher with the smell of sweaty fanjo filing the air!

No, quite OBVIOUSLY no one likes the smell of bo. Therefore this is a non-aibu question. If you are going to post a question in aibu, then it should be something that people can respond to either way.

The "am I being unreasonable" bit means that the op isn't quite sure whether they have a point or not and is asking a wider audience for opinions (possibly hoping that most will agree with them).

I reckon its smelly clothes.Sometimes I have come across second hand clothes that absolutely stink of BO even after washing them.

But I still can't work out why the person wearing them can't smell it.

OP,in your situation I am afraid I would take the cowards way out and just put up with it,since its not forever....

Quite right bibbity - I guess the am I being unreasonable dilemma for me stems from whether to say something to the pongy lady or not. Nevertheless I've enjoyed reading the discussion that has arisen.