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What is the worst thing you have ever smelt?

84 replies

Lazarou · 14/10/2007 20:53

I can think of two. A pair of my dhs undies that I thought were clean....

Old veg left in the steamer (that I thought had been washed)for a week

Anyone else?

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JacOLantanne · 14/10/2007 21:35

I was in Paris on holiday a couple of years ago and I visited the toilets in the Louvre. There was quite a queue and I went in after a woman who obviously had the shits. It was the very worse smell I have ever smelt - really, really thick and absolutely disgusting. I started coughing as soon as I went in and felt quite embarrassed because she must have heard me. Then of course it still stunk when I came out and I'm sure the person after me thought it was me.

I ended up with food poisoning 2 days later (and there were cockroaches in the hotel - disastrous holiday) but I have always wondered if it really was...

Other than that cat shit gets my vote - especially that coming from my cat Molly.

Sexonlegs · 14/10/2007 21:36

Vomit. Dog Shit.

Also, whatever it was that dd1 had stuffed up her nose, and had been there for several dys. When we managed to get it out, I stupidly sniffed it. OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!

JacOLantanne · 14/10/2007 21:37

Burning hair is bad but my brother (who used to light his farts on a regular basis) tells me that burning bum hair is worse.

TheMoistWorldOfSpetimusQuench · 14/10/2007 21:37

It can be about context too.

In my old job as a carer, i dealt with some pretty horrendous incontinence pads and associated yuckinesses.

But I found that the "bleaurgh" factor depended entirely on how I felt about the person. For example, my fave client ever, Bunty, used to wee everywhere, copiously, constantly and was unable to keep a continence pad on for 5 minutes due to her dementia. Her flat was absolutely filthy, stinking and rancid, but I could have sat in there all day (and often did, with windows shut and the heating on ) because she was so lovely and great company.

Nasty bitchy aggressive Humphrey and his alcoholic diarrhoea strewn bed sheets on the other hand.... oh dear...

olala · 14/10/2007 21:40

the cat poo i have just cleaned up from all over my cellar .

BettyBatShapedSpaghetti · 15/10/2007 10:02

I told DP about this thread and he said I had to post his answer -

DP has been using Sodium Bicarbonate (?) ear drops due to a build up of wax in his ears -it softens and loosens the wax. Anyway, the other day a huge piece of wax came out of his ear and he sniffed it -he nearly puked, his face was a picture!!

The stupid thing is he then went on to smell it again just to check it was as bad as he thought

My vote would go for the fart DP did about 8 yrs ago after drinking real ale the previous night. It was so bad I threw up (although I was pregnant and suffering from nausea at the time so that didn't help)

Hassled · 15/10/2007 10:07

All of my clothes after my beloved cats left a dead mouse in amongst them. The smell had permeated through everything in the wardrobe - and I kept imagining the smell for days afterwards.

ThreadyKrueger · 15/10/2007 10:10

Oh my goodness SpetimusQuench, your world really is moist, isn't it.

spookykitty · 15/10/2007 10:10

When I worked in the lab we used to test for Clostridium spp the same type that causes botulism and the new hospital superbug. Anyway it produces hydrogen sulphide and when you open the tubes it makes you gag I will never forget the smell, we we also used to have loads of rotten meat and smell fish which is pretty horrid.

MeltingandScreamingIcarus · 15/10/2007 10:19

My dad when a large boil burst. My sis and I both threw up and ran away while he shouted for cotton wool.

sheepgomeep · 15/10/2007 11:17

ds when he has been to the toilet

The worst for me has to be rancid off thick clumpy sour milk . ugh ugh ugh.

I heave even if milk is on the turn.

not too keen on dog shit either

Piggy · 15/10/2007 11:23

A dead maggot infested rat.

GrumpyOldHearsewoman · 15/10/2007 11:27

You'd have to go a long way to smell something worse than fox or pheasant shit. DD1 got fox shit on a dress one day whilst playing outside, I thought it was tree sap (or twee sap, if you are a wonderpets afficianado) and took a good sniff. OH MY F*ING GOD!!

Cleaned pheasant poo out of a horse's stable one day and truly thought I was going to vomit. It has a tar-like consistency that makes it very difficult to clean up, it just sort of stretches...

ScottishMummy · 15/10/2007 11:27

necrotising fascitis as a student.

MaryAnnSingletomb · 15/10/2007 11:28

sheesh - this thread is gross !

LadyOfTheFlowers · 15/10/2007 11:31

.....a pair of my half digested, chewed up knickers the emergency vet (££££££) had to remove from dogs' bum as the elastic was poking out.....

I didn't know if the sheer embarassment or the horrendous smell was going to kill me first.....

ThreadyKrueger · 15/10/2007 11:32

I suddenly realised that I was reading this thread with my fingers squeezing my nose shut.

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 15/10/2007 11:32

a sceptic placenta

MeltingandScreamingIcarus · 15/10/2007 12:51

Was it the scent of disbelief? [grin}

MeltingandScreamingIcarus · 15/10/2007 12:51
Grin
mrsflowerpot · 15/10/2007 12:55

oh this is disgusting....

I'm going to add our car after dd threw up in it 3 long, hot hours away from the ferry port last summer. DH misguidedly sprayed the seat with aftershave - he has had to ditch the aftershave now as it makes both of us gag.

BettyBatShapedSpaghetti · 15/10/2007 13:34

I've just thought of another pretty foul one -the smell of Dd's vomit after DP fed her satsumas just before her bedtime milk when she was about 18m old.

That smell lingered for ages. There was the added barf-factor of having to scrape all the satsuma segment "skins" off the sheet, floor, pyjamas etc before putting them in the wash

stealthsquiggle · 15/10/2007 13:39

Swan poo

Sugar beet factory (truly, retchingly, gross)

Whatever they were spreading on the fields next to DS's school last week - the best guess we could come up with was chicken shit from a hen house that hadn't been cleared out for years

Blandmum · 15/10/2007 13:46

One for the biochemosts/ chemists on MN

Mercaptoethanol

Barf. It was 25 years ago and the memory of it is giving me dry heaves atm!

Bile salts

JossStick · 15/10/2007 13:47

Stealthsquiggle - do you live near Telford?

Sugarbeat factory there - bleurgh!

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