But why in the fuck did the habit of bathing oneself in perfume/cologne become so common again?? I can’t walk down the fucking street, or especially ride the bus to and from work every day, without sneezing and/or being so stuffy I can’t breathe!
Jesus Christ. I’m expecting to get a whiff of Drakkar Noir, Paco Rabanne, or better yet, Love’s Baby Soft, one of these days. —Kleenex in Pocket at All Times
This article appears in May 17-23, 2012.
Eh. It’s not the world’s fault or problem you’re allergic to scents.
I’m allergic to dogs, but I don’t expect the world to stop bringing dogs out in public. Heck, people bring their dogs into work and I just adapt and stay away.
You just have to deal with it, OB.
There’s a beauty school in the building where I work, and when those girls leave the building, our shared lobby is impassable due to the noxious cloud they leave behind. What’s sexy about watering eyes and sneezing?! I can’t even tell what they look like sometimes through my watery eyes.
Try working in a building posted with multiple anti-scent signs yet nearly every female who steps on the elevator smells like Pepe LePew’s nutsack.
i don’t know bout the 80’s, but it seems the 60’s are back. at least musically, in some commercials i’ve seen. and the classic rock stations are the best.
as to our problem about stinky perfiume and shit, i agree with you. there is too much of that crap wafting thru the air. smells like france in the 70’s. just about everyone doused themselves in cheap, stinky shit then. but how much is too much? usually when you see someone gagging and retchng, should be a hint to them. i have asked a few, if they jumped or fell into a huge vat of whale shit.
Take a run into the Pacifico some night, take a deep breath, and try not lose consciousness.
I prefer the smell of perfume/cologne to B.O., shitty ass and cigarettes any fucking day.
My old boss in the used clothing biz used to tell me that the less people bathed, the more perfume or cologne they slapped on. I tend to believe that. Sorry, Mel, I’d rather drag off cigs rolled in skidmarked papers than be trapped on an elevator with these smelly, eye-watering bungholes.
Ah man, I was never into the Ralph Lauren Polo stuff during its run in the 80’s/90’s but might give their Black stuff a try. I’m more of Hugo Boss kinda guy but need a new scent.
“My old boss in the used clothing biz used to tell me that the less people bathed, the more perfume or cologne they slapped on.”
I wholeheartedly believe that as well.
the smellier they are with that shit… the smellier they would have had to be to cover with using it in the first place.
I bite my thumb at the lot of ’em.
A little bit is not so bad but some of these tools bathe in it, I remeber a few in High School you could tell what hall they were coming down before you saw them it was so strong, but again that was the 80’s. Blame the whole Mad Men craze going on, of course I’m all for the drinking and smoking at work.
I put on scented cream before I go to bed. It make my sheets smell preeeeetty. I put fresh sheets on last night and put pink chiffon on from Bath and Body Works and now my bed smells delicious!
I don’t generally wear anything if I’m going to work because I don’t want to bother others, but I don’t think a light spray of something is going to hurt anyone.
When I’m not working, it’s fair game.
You gotta be considerate, I do agree with that, but not all of us’ll put scents on because we haven’t bathed. I’m obsessive over hygiene and I still like to dab some scent on here or there.
Though, currently, I probably smell like vomit as I just yacked my lunch up. Thank GOD there’s a private washroom here. All I wanna do is go home and shower. I feel so gross after I vomit.
You can be happy they are bathing in it cause the bugs will chase them. Then you will have the last laugh while they are running from bugs :).
you don’t wear anything going to work kitty, i’d love to see that, right guys, heh,heh.
what’s wrong with Paco Rabanne? Lady Million – that’s my scent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcrB1M1yQ_A
PK, save that shit for facebook updates, nobody here wants to hear about you puking up your lunch. Do you wanna hear about that colossal shit I had that made me grunt in pain? Didn’t think so!!!
Whatever you do, don’t buy that Billionaire Boyfriend perfume. Smells like stale male.
Back in the day, Paco Rabonne used to make me weak in the knees…
But I find as I get older, I am more and more sensitive to chemical scents. Essential oils and real (made from nature, not chemicals) perfume is OK, but those cheap scents make my nostril hairs do the cowboy dance.
As far as sheets go, mine smell awesome—I use a double rinse cycle with Ivory Snow. Vinegar in the water the second rinse, then liquid fabric softener with lavender. Then they’re hung outside. ummmmm.
The world stinks! We all know that. I got gasoline on my hands a couple of hours ago. Think I can get rid of that smell? Gasoline and paint have to be the worst smelling substances on the planet. Yes, it’s a first world complaint I understand that.
Another bad smell, women who have a very strong feminine odor covered by a litre of perfume. Older women are particularly bad for this. What about halitosis? There’s no excuse for that. Brush your teeth, gargle, whatever.
On the hand, I really don’t mind the smell of skunk, in small doses.
Ah yes, the trapped in the elevator with a person who bathes in a 45 gallon drum of perfume…. how it lingers in the back of your throat , when you finally escape, like you ate/drank some of it !
“”shudder””
THE TUESDAY ROUND-UP: PK’S BODILY STATES
PK (05/22, 11:51AM) – “I’m allergic to dogs …”
(1:47PM) – “I probably smell like vomit as I just yacked my lunch up.”
Readers will recall my recent psychological analysis of PK’s mind to explain why she scrolled past my comments. It was maintained she did so because she found them boring. She found them boring because reality for her did not consist of ideas or concepts but only of her bodily and/or emotional states. For PK ideas or concepts were “terra incognita,” uncharted alien territory.
We now see the bitch about perfumes reduced to PK’s reality as embodied in her bodily states. The bitch is irrelevant. The important point is to record the fact that she is allergic to dogs and that she has just puked. These, for PK, are of sufficient moment to be read into the record. Her allergy and puking are what is important.
This, of course, is not to criticize PK. She is what she is. It is, rather, to point out both the accuracy and prescience of Montrealman’s psychological analysis.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
“She is what she is”
Oh Monsieur, how could you use such a sentence :(? Are you sleepy today?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr9k2CaftvU
RSVP
: Depeche Mel (05/23, 1:13PM)
Thank you for your comment Mel, which I assure you I took with the utmost seriousness.
My assertion, in reference to PK, that “She is what she is” is, on a superficial reading, patently obvious but the claim carries profound ontological implications.
I’m sure it was these implications which you wanted me to address. I will do so now.
My assertion can be read as a variant of Bishop Butler’s famous aphorism, “A thing is what it is and is not another thing.” This, of course, is a strong endorsement of ontological realism, i.e., things have a mind-independent existence and not, as
the relativists might have it, merely a mental construct. The “constructivists” of course fall into the trap of an infinite epistemological regress since their assertion that reality is a mental construct is itself just another construct and so on into infinity. In other words, Mel, the consistent constructivist position is self-refuting.
I hope this clears things up and I thank you once again for your comment.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
See, why didn’t you just say that to begin with?
Eggs are eggs!
EGGS ARE EGGS!
: Depeche Mel (05/25, 10:30AM)
“Eggs are eggs!”
Good morning Mel and thank you for your comment which I enjoyed immensely. I’m sure you thought you were making an obvious assertion about a mind-independent reality – in this case eggs in the world – but let’s look at it from a “constructivist” perspective.
The main point is that the constructivist would immediately reject your claim that you were making an assertion about any mind-independent reality because such a claim is incoherent. There is no such thing as a mind-independent reality or, if there is, we can have no access to it.
As Wittgenstein once said, you have been “bewitched by language.” You say, “Eggs are eggs,” the Parisian says, “Les oeufs sont les oeufs” while the German says, “Die Eier sind die Eier.” In other words, we have language(s) on one side and reality (the egg) on the other. But we live in our “linguistic bubble” and to suppose that we can make the leap from one to other is little more than a realist conceit.
The same is true even in science. In his “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” – which I am sure you are familiar with – Thomas Kuhn claimed that all science, what he called “normal science,” proceeds within an accepted “paradigm,” a conceptual construct which makes sense of reality. Scientific revolutions occur as a result of a “paradigm shift”. The present scientific paradigm, the Einsteinian, replaced the old Newtonian paradigm. And the shift is not additive but absolute. In the Einsteinian paradigm, the Newtonian paradigm is meaningless. It has become a totally obsolete scientific “linguistic bubble”.
The realist accuses the constructivist of incoherence based on an infinite regress (see my last post) while the constructivist accuses the realist of incoherence based on an impossible transcendence (making contact with a mind-independent reality) and, what’s more, there is no “superrogatory principle” which will adjudicate the conflict to restore philosophical harmony.
I hope this has cleared matters up for you Mel, and thank you once again for your comment.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
MM, what is this inane manifesto about eggs? Maybe PK lives in her bubble, as humans do. Most people’s view of the world depends of how they feels physically and emotionally. That’s normal. However; the opposite is someone who goes through life and does not feel. Do you go about life devoid of emotion and empathy? Do you spout snippets of rehearsed information to appear intelligent? These are all distinct characteristics of a sociopath. It is what it is.
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Thomas Kuhn
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His frat name: Tommy da Kuhnt.
True story!
Wp
RSVPs
: no_Fool (05/26, 12:09PM)
“Most people’s (sic) view of the world depends of (sic) how they feels (sic) physically and emotionally… Do you go about devoid of emotion and empathy”?
No. Oh well maybe sometimes, NF, because of my sociopathic tendencies.
: Wheelie Scree (05/27, 5:55AM)
An excellent joke Wheelie, really just excellent.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
The 80’s !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_50-gOeBilc
The 80’s FUCK YEAH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9whehyybLqU
This video actually features in an interactive exhibit at the Canadian War Museum’s Cold War Gallery. Along with Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “2 Tribes” and that insufferable Phil Collins tune with the Spitting Image puppets
Heheh “Captain Kirk”