Bromhidrosis
The office is getting wired as I type, but that’s not what I wanted to blog about. It’s about my nose and low tolerance to smells. I know this may come across mean, but I think it’s a questionable topic.
Two of the workers doing the installations in the office really stink! It’s not a sweaty or food centre smell. It’s full on body odour. It’s so bad, when he was in my corner of the office, I actually felt giddy and sick (nauseous kind of sick). It was so consuming, I had to move to another desk down the hall to continue my work.
Now this is what I don’t get…
Can’t these people smell themselves?
When I go out mountain biking, there are days when I can smell my stink, and so I roll on some deodorant temporarily or run for the showers!
Bromhidrosis or body odour (also called bromidrosis, osmidrosis and ozochrotia) is the smell of bacteria growing on the body. These bacteria multiply considerably in the presence of sweat, but sweat itself is almost totally odourless. Body odour is associated with the hair, feet, groin (upper medial thigh), anus, skin in general, armpits, genitals, pubic hair, and mouth. Body odour is specific to the individual, and can be used to identify people, though this is more often done by dogs than by humans. An individual’s body odour is also influenced by diet, gender, genetics, health, medication, and mood.courtesy of wikipedia
The smellier of the two is working on a ladder, trunking the wires to the ceilings, which means his arms, are raised up most of the time. Now surely you can smell it in that position! Are people just oblivious to their own body odour? are they accustomed to their own smell? I really want to know….
I can’t work like this…. REALLY!?
It’s really bad.. I’ve never smelled anything or anyone QUITE as bad. *faint*
I think they can smell it but maybe they smell it often they dun think they smell as bad.
I hate being in the car with my MIL ‘cos she has quite a strong BO…at this point, I hope no one in my family chance upon this comment…hahaha!!
*facedesk* – jem did i use that right? hAHahhahaha
Janice: he’s still at the pantry area…..
CHloe: Daring indeed… AHHAHahaha well just msg me if u need that comment deleted HAHAHAha….
Who stinks????
Actually it’s *facepalm* and *headdesk*, but in this situation a *facedesk* sounds quite appropriate!
Okay I must learn to read AFTER THE CUT! :”P
Angela! R u talking about me! LOL
I think they smell like that everyday that they just dun feel it anymore. Same like my mum who always say i smell sweaty but i dun smell it myself. But then i think my mum has a problem cos none of my fren says i smell sweaty when i asked them!
jem: HAHAHahah whoops.. ok facedesk…
HAHAHAH ur msn msg cracked me up man hAHHAHAHAHAhAHhaHAHa
kuen: you know ironically, i read somewhere, that sweat itseld doesnt smell. its bacteria that makes you smell……
oh gawd, what a horror. i am super sensitive to smells and i wld’ve been gagging if i were in close proximity to stink.
but then again, when i was in sec sch, my mum used to complain abt odour but i could never smell it. now, if i walk past a bunch of kids in their sweat-soaked sch uniforms, i cannot help but catch a whiff of their adolescent pong!
since you’re on a laptop, take it off the desk and work from the opp side of the room? or ask your doc to remove your olfactory glands altogether. the former is the easier option but really, the latter is sure to do the trick.
hmmm why not show them cartoons during their break of Pepé Le Pew happily hopping around and people fainting, plants wilting, paint falling off walls etc. then give them significant looks. *fingers crossed* (doesn’t help that being indoors and having air conditioning makes BO 2000 gajillion times worse. for your sake i hope they aren’t working right in front of an air vent!)
and if all else fails, there’s always desks down the hall, air freshener spray or vicks =)
Okay, bad thing was, I started to be able to SMELL these guys while reading your description. Totally get what you mean. When the kids come in for lessons after PE, it’s really hell on earth.
um ive been at your workplace twice..i think i sensed the stink too. wink wink luf,
melts
btw averil…sensing a perfect opp to tell u..U STINK..
EUW! Poor iconites!!
averil: HAHAHah i did…. i went into the conference rooom on the other side of the room. trouble is…eventually i had to go back to my desk to do my work!!
priscilla: THEY WERE!!! the aircon was blowing right at them… which means we get COLD BO!!!! and you know what… it was so bad janice and i were chewing on strong mints!!!
shreksbaby: YOU STINK TOO! HAHAHAHa
germaine: it was quite a day…. unproductive……
schmelts – i ain’t the one who can’t afford to bathe!!! and “shrekbaby” huh? remind me to discuss on Mon why you want to be Molly’s baby… =D
That happened to me today too. Goodness, it was so bad, I’d swear I saw a couple of flies pass out and hit the ground after flying near his armpit. Ugh! Who needs dengue fogging with these chaps around?
averil: fill me in with the goss on monday!
-ben: i never knew BO could make me dizzy… how about dogs! they have a super heightened sense of smell… poor things
Arrghhh!!! I’m diseased!!!! I had a friend last time that wasn’t just sweaty smell. It was pungent!!! You could smell him like 10m away in open space and when the smell hit u, its like a punch in the face, u practically have to turn your head away.
You know there’s this episode from Seinfeld where he lend his car to a friend with strong BO who eventually stained his car permanently with his pungent BO. He eventually changed his car.
I hope these workers doesn’t stained your workplace!
kuen: yeah it was like that…..
chloe: Egad!!! nooo i dun wannn thattttt
Chloe yeah! Hahaha another Seinfeld fan hehehe. They call it the BBO!
Kuen: You’re a fan too?
Ch18 StarWorld is now re-running the entire show. I watch it whenever i need a dose of their crazy antics and a gd laugh.