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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 81 points 2 years ago

I can smell ants and cockroaches. I can also smell when someone has been in my house hours after they leave. Its annoying as hell to have this sense of smell since its considered rude to point out that someone stinks. To me its like they are screaming in a small room.

[-] Lurker@lemmy.zip 39 points 2 years ago

I recently had to close my store for an hour, because I was the only one working and couldn't breath due to one customers bad hygiene. People treat me like I'm overly sensitive or making up my discomfort, but to me it feels like being suffocated.

Also I can totally smell roaches, they smell worse than any other thing in existence. Never smelled an ant though. Did not know that was possible.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Did not know that was possible.

Same, but I'm starting to think you need a pretty sizable infestation in a nearby wall for this to be a thing.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Bedbugs smell worse than roaches. Roaches will make me leave a place. Bedbugs make me run in terror.

[-] Lurker@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

I refuse to find this out.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Best way to get rid of bedbugs is by turning your house into a temporary sauna. Ensuring everywhere reaches some 50º Celsius will kill all the little fuckers.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

No anime conventions for you unless you wear a gas mask!

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

In 95 I was staying at a hotel that had a D&D convention. I was with a group of union boilermakers and we got gripped at by the staff for refusing to allow some of those stinkers on the elevator with us.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I've never actually been to an anime convention and had no idea how common anime fans with poor hygiene actually existing was until I read some of the horror stories when this was posted before.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 10 points 2 years ago

I would guess it's just related to teenagers getting body odors and not knowing yet that they have to deal with them.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe, but I don't remember everyone stinking when I was a teen. Or teenagers in general stinking any more than anyone else now.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 2 years ago

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chemicals-teen-body-odor-chemistry

[-] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I can smell cockroaches and periods. It's weird, but I can for some reason

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I can smell when a woman has her period if I smell her skin, so not at any distance other than intimately. My best guess is all the hormonal changes alter pheromones from the normal and we can pick up on that.

Not like it is a bad smell, just her normal natural scent changes.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah me as well. I can also smell when someone has a disease. I know cancer or at least the type my grandmother had but some of them I have no idea what is wrong with them. I can also differentiate different kinds of drugs.

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I have a good sense of smell but…that sounds more like cripplingly good

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