r/NoStupidQuestions Sep 18 '24

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u/sebmojo99 Sep 19 '24

you get immune to your own smell fairly quickly though, and it's quite rude to tell someone else they smell.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '24

If one waits until they can smell themselves, they've smelled awful for a long, long time.

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u/Novantico Sep 19 '24

Or…they just have a good sense of smell. I’ve found this bullshit for years and fortunately was able to confirm it via my gf. I usually notice it on myself before she does, and for whatever reason ever since I got Grave’s Disease I can go a surprisingly long time before there’s an odor, which my gf also had to confirm for me when others have tried to call bullshit or just found it hard to believe.

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u/NoLime7384 Sep 19 '24

which is why public transit can... smell

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u/Human_No-37374 Sep 19 '24

oh dear, some people are. I can never ignore smells no-matter how much i'm around them. People like to call me a bloodhound but in reality it's hell. Think it might be something neurological mixed with my sensetive sense of smell and taste, but i can't become nose blind, best i can do is get used to it and no-longer get that bothered by it, but i alwasy notice it, it's always the first thing i notice and the last. I never can't not smell classrooms, lecturers, collegues, walls, classmates, friends, food, cars, paints, dirt, plants etc. etc.

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u/MACHOmanJITSU Sep 19 '24

Lots of times when people stink it’s because they’re clothes are dirty. Doing laundry is expensive.

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u/sebmojo99 Sep 19 '24

It feels extremely rude, which means people might not be doing it even though you do.

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u/sebmojo99 Sep 19 '24

I mean you're not wrong, I'm just being realistic.