Could you knock off the fuckin colognes guys?I know you want people to like you and all,but stop being so insecure and be compfortable with yourselves.I can taste that shit in my mouth.Dont worry women will like you without it.Just say hi and take it from there.Once you build up your confidence and become more secure you’ll find you don’t need it and what a fool you looked like wearing it.
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Axe could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon. It’s probably the amount they put on to cover up that fresh no-shower smell of dirty pits. About the only thing they could attract is a wild ferret.
Nothing says insecure frat boy like Axe, and it definitely repells more than it attracts. I recommend Aqua di Gio, ‘gentlemen’.
Someone sitting near me on the bus drenched in cologne is enough to give me a splitting headache for the rest of the day.
People always say that showering and staying clean so that you don’t stink is a common courtesy to everyone who has to be within ten feet of you at some point. Well I’d say the same goes for strong scents, STRONG scents mind you…
I can’t stand people like this co-worker of mine who insist that everyone buy non scented soaps and shampoo because the smell makes her queasy, and throws a fit whenever someone so much as opens a stick of lip chap.
Even the stuff people use to wash their clothes is often head -achy and nauseating to some of us. Sometimes I wonder if people have any sense of smell left at all…
Using unscented or even just less or naturally scented products is easy and smart, considering what’s in some of those heavy perfumes.
Okay… what is a guy to do about deodorant then? Most of the stuff carries a scent; sure there are products out there that do not, but they’re few and far between, and not to mention, half the time they’re ineffective. If it came between stinking and making one person who sat beside me on the bus slightly uncomfortable, I’m gonna make that person uncomfortable. let me tell you a story: there’s a woman in my office who is (these are her words) “allergic” to scents. She gets a headache the minute she smells anything close to perfume/scented. Here’s the thing: if she doesn’t know about it, there’s no trouble. She’s happy as a bee, working away, free of headaches. The minute she catches word of someone wearing scents, the end of the world is nigh. She locks herself in the staff room, lights off, with a “migraine”. Look, I’m not saying that we should drown ourselves in the stuff, because even I get a little woozy if a woman walks by and drowns herself in eau de skank, but it’s like everything else in our society; we feel like we need to go big or go home. I just think a little moderation is probably better, and sometimes it’s all in our heads.
Hey Dr. Fever,
Do we work together? LOL. I have a bitch just like that at my workplace.
Women have more of a problem with this than Men. I have been subjected to all manner of personal care products that women use while traveling on Metro Transit. Don’t be going on about men cause women are way worse concerning strong scents.
Dr Fever, for the most part, deodorant on a guy doesn’t smell unless they spray it all over themselves, or have their bare armpit exposed, or have just sweated a lot, in which case we’d all rather smell that than BO. My bf wears it, and it has a scent, but I don’t smell it unless I’m super close to his armpit. So you don’t have to worry so much about that.
Not the women.Ive noticed over the years women are more scent free than anything else.And the women who are wearing it only use a little.You almost have to be on top of them to smell it.Now the men have taken over and wear so much perfume that they smell like the women of the early 80″s.As far as “b.o.” goes,there’s no need to be smelling like an 80 year old woman at the bingo hall on a saturday nite.Lots of mild to unscented deoderants that work just fine.Again its all about insecurities.You dont smell womens underarm deoderants as soon as she steps on a bus.But yet a mans will turn your stomach 10 feet away.Because he “thinks “he smells nice.
@ Dr.Fever…i think we all have at least one militant scent nazi at our workplace.. seems that its becoming increasingly common to have “environmental sensitivities”
now im not discounting the fact that they actually exist…but come on people, is it really as extensive a problem as it has become. i know for sure there are some people where i work that arent above feigning a headache to shirk some duties.
Your right JK. Women wear tooo much perfume to cover up the stinky pussy.
It’s too bad that the people who insist on bathing themselves in fucking perfume will never understand how obnoxious they truly are. I mean, they clearly must think that they are doing us all a favour by forcing us inhale their offensive stink! Deodorant is one thing (although some of the men’s stuff is a bit much), but perfume just isn’t necessary. How do you explain to someone that they need to wash at least SOME of that shit off? I can’t see that conversation going well…