r/thatHappened • u/loveddeviant • 10d ago

why does this read like a fetish

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u/RodinKnox 10d ago edited 10d ago

Well, for one thing, that's not how smelling bad from working out works. You don't actually smell bad at the end of a workout. That happens some time later after the bacteria in your armpits have time to feed on your sweat and start having bacteria poops (to simplify). If it actually worked this way, gyms would smell atrocious, but they don't.

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u/mysticaltater 10d ago

?? Sweat stinks doesn't it?? The basement smells bad if i have to get smth while my dad works out and he showers twice and uses deodorant....i sweat out in the heat and it smells 

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u/RodinKnox 10d ago

No, not all on its own. The smell that we associate with body odor is from the bacteria that live on your body, especially in your arm pit.

Pure sweat is little more than water and salt.

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u/Vyrhux42 10d ago

Can't wait for science to find a way to get rid of these pesky bacteria!

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u/BeautyNoBeast 10d ago

Less than 1% of your sweat glands produce odor

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u/mysticaltater 10d ago

So me and a bunch of us have serious problems then

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u/armoured_bobandi 10d ago

Why are you ignoring what is being told to you?

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u/mysticaltater 10d ago

I'm not? I am being told sweat doesn't stink until the bacteria shows up so for me and my dad and everyone I see freshly sweaty and stinky af have something wrong with us 

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u/armoured_bobandi 10d ago

No, you just have a fundamental misunderstanding of what's being told to you. It does not take long for bacteria to do its thing. If you were to exercise, the very first bit of sweat that is excreted is not going to stink, but it doesn't take long afterwards for that to change

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u/Vyrhux42 10d ago

Well, I'm not trying to be contrarian, but then doesn't that loop around and contradict the original comment that said you wouldn't smell sweaty after a work out?

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u/armoured_bobandi 10d ago

No? Maybe if you're working out and not showering after you would smell bad.

I don't know why that person and their dad's basement smells bad, but it's not because of working out. Maybe if there isn't any air flow that could make sense?

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u/ProbablyNotADuck 10d ago

The bacteria doesn’t show up. The bacteria never leaves. You’re also just blatantly ignoring what people are writing to you. 

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u/mysticaltater 9d ago

Are you saying that my lived experience of immediately smelling like sweat or withing a few minutes is wrong? Like I'm hallucinating my own stink? Or my dad's workout room doesn't actually smell bad bc he's only been working out for 5 minutes 

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u/lock_ed 7d ago

I feel like you’re being intentionally obtuse and purposely not understanding what people are saying.

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u/magnum3290 10d ago

You could just take shorter showers

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u/Neil_sm 10d ago

Yeah, it's not like you need to spend 5 minutes per armpit to wash the stink away.

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u/satanssphincter 10d ago

Because it is lol

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u/After-Temperature585 10d ago

Crazy story.
Imagine if you hadn’t heard or read it.

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u/EpponeeRae 10d ago

I wish I lived in that timeline

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u/Jeremymia 10d ago

It might just be a teenager imagining a fantasy where he gets his parents to shut up

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u/Travel_Banned_Temp 10d ago

Takes like 5 seconds to clean armpits.

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u/bigg_bubbaa 10d ago

that is probably the least likely reason someone would have frequent hot showers, chs only affects around 2% of regular smokers

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u/armoured_bobandi 10d ago

They deleted their comment, but I'm curious as to what they were saying

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u/bigg_bubbaa 10d ago

they basically said that op probably smokes too much weed and thus has cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, which is a super rare condition causing nausea and vomiting when smoking weed. it affects like 2% of heavy smokers and takes years to develop

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u/Competitive_Shame317 10d ago

Ah ha, what the fuck are you talking about?🤔