Walking into someone else's bad breath cloud

[Ray Travez]

Well, it happens a lot round here.... In the supermarket, mainly. Somehow for me it's worse than the fart stench, which is mercifully rare and helpfully announces its prescence before you reach the epicentre. The Breathcloud, you step sideways two feet in the yogurt aisle and bang! you're in it. Right in.

I wonder how some of these rotters are still alive. Surely the angel of death is waiting in the wings, judging by the foul pustulence of their exhalations

[bgmnts]

How come we are okay with the smell of our own shit but not our bad breath or body odour? Weird.

[a duncandisorderly]

there is no cloud, it's just someone else's germs.

[The Boston Crab]

Just put a cricket stump straight through their windpipe.

[a duncandisorderly]

Just put a cricket stump straight through their windpipe.

fuck off with your bastard cricket shite.

[Uncle TechTip]

Well, it happens a lot round here.... In the supermarket, mainly. Somehow for me it's worse than the fart stench, which is mercifully rare and helpfully announces its prescence before you reach the epicentre. The Breathcloud, you step sideways two feet in the yogurt aisle and bang! you're in it. Right in.

Are you sure the smell wasn't just the yoghurt aisle?

[willpurry]

Just put a cricket stump straight through their windpipe.

Then say 'Howzat' in an Arnie voice.

[The Bumlord]

Not as bad as being stuck opposite a breathmonster on the train. Awful business.

[The Boston Crab]

Then say 'Howzat' in an Arnie voice.

Bravo. That's a ripper.

[Buelligan]

The breath stuff, presuming it's not from garlic or simple shit-eating (in itself a hazardous occupation on many levels, I understand), is very often a sign of illness, not badness.

[a duncandisorderly]

The breath stuff, presuming it's not from garlic or simple shit-eating (in itself a hazardous occupation on many levels, I understand), is very often a sign of illness, not badness.

in the case of an ex of mine... actually two different exes.... serious backed-up-ness. one dump a fortnight is not healthy, woman. get some bran-flakes, fuck's sake.

[seepage]

How long does it take for 2L of very cheap table wine to dissipate? Asking for a friend.

[Buelligan]

It very much depends on what sort of dissipation one is interested in.

[seepage]

The sort so it's not obvious my friend has drunk 2L v.cheap table wine.

[Buelligan]

Send him out for a wee baggie of "Horse" and no one will be any the wiser.  That should dissipate him sufficiently.

[imitationleather]

How long does it take for 2L of very cheap table wine to dissipate? Asking for a friend.

If you have it with your breakfast unless your commute involves circling the earth by the time you get to work it still won't be gone. Sorry.

[Ray Travez]

How come we are okay with the smell of our own shit but not our bad breath or body odour? Weird.

I don't mind my own b.o., as long as it's not been around too long. Something quite earthy about it. I think that the real reek of bo is from milk. I'm convinced of it. If I don't drink milk for a few weeks, there's no smell, but it's always noticeable a few hours after I've drunk it.

I think there's some science about why we don't mind our own farts, but are repulsed by the smell of other people's. Can't remember it though, guess I filed it under 'not useful'. 

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You can dilute your B.O. masterfully by drinking enough fucking water for a day.

[a duncandisorderly]

If you have it with your breakfast unless your commute involves circling the earth by the time you get to work it still won't be gone. Sorry.

I'm an astronaut on the ISS, so I should be fine. btw, I can see your garden from here, & the neighbour's cat has been shitting in your flower beds. looks like he had squirrel for supper.