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yurbud

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15. I have heard that this is why Americans are so obsessed with bathing:
Thu Jan 3, 2013, 10:06 AM
Jan 2013

all our different ethnicities eat different diets, and so our BO stands out to each other more.

Once an individual or group starts eating our typical American crap, they smell like us so we don't notice as much.

On a similar note, I worked with a bunch of college friends in a cannery in Alaska one summer, and we all bathed once a week (at most) and ate drank and pretty much bathed in salmon. A friend came up to visit us for a few days and said he almost fainted from our BO, but we all smelled fine to each other.

I wonder how they knew he was the culprit? BigDemVoter Dec 2012 #1
Right? Usually, whoever smelt it... targetpractice Dec 2012 #7
Silent, but repremandable... Cooley Hurd Dec 2012 #2
Arn't farts...kinda natural??? nothing new I might add...... Stuart G Jan 2013 #20
My husband has to sit next to a coworker who deliberately TwilightGardener Dec 2012 #3
...one of the joys of working from home! NRaleighLiberal Dec 2012 #4
Flatulence Deodorizer Pad for Jumping John Dec 2012 #5
does it have a sound barrier too? Hearing before seeing is like a shark fin in the water yurbud Jan 2013 #14
"Warning!!! Fart Range!!! No Open Flames!!!" n/t RKP5637 Dec 2012 #6
Dear Supervisor: He who smelt it dealt it meow2u3 Dec 2012 #8
Anyone else see the irony in this being from "The Smoking Gun"? n/t customerserviceguy Dec 2012 #9
OMG!! LeftofObama Dec 2012 #10
Are you a guy? Laffy Kat Jan 2017 #22
This is a keeper jsr Dec 2012 #11
Get him that fart pad libodem Dec 2012 #12
I have heard that this is why Americans are so obsessed with bathing: yurbud Jan 2013 #15
This is gross libodem Jan 2013 #17
I would have expected lard yurbud Jan 2013 #18
true libodem Jan 2013 #19
A five-page reprimand is just what's needed ... JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2012 #13
this would make a great DRAGNET skit: yurbud Jan 2013 #16
Now they have done it...The Feds have...backed off.on their gas against gas..see leatest news: Stuart G Jan 2013 #21
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