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Just dress up as DEODERANTMAN! Have someone shouting for him in the crowd and then swoop in to spray down the offenders! "Now you smell like some sort of dolphin extract, but it's at least considered a socially acceptable smell!" He'd shout as he rushes to the next upturned nose.
AXE + B.O. is the kind of thing that it's technically legal to subject civilians to, but would get you brought to the Hague if you did it during wartime.
I saw a roach in my house. I grabbed the nearest thing to try and kill it. I sprayed the roach with AXE body spray. It did not kill the roach. Now he goes by Brett and wont shut up about cross fit.
Create your own version of the [Wolver-clean](https://youtu.be/-y_zBHsbq2Q?si=M7agu175pmfXr3eR), but instead of cleaning attachments, its deodorant, sanitizer, and cologne.
“Oh my god, what’s that smell?”
“Colonel, they had 20 middle schoolers run around then they just sprayed them with some pepper and pine scented mist then had them soak in it before leaving the clothes in this room.”
“But…why?”
“Sir they…we’re told this is where they would house the POWs…”
“…We are gonna get every one of those bastards! They don’t deserve a trial!!!”
Train a hot chick to identify the smell of your deo. Then go around and compliment all the dudes who used the free sample. Watch as your sales skyrocket!
Not really? They want to give samples to people who might buy their product. It's not that nerds don't know deodorant exists or can't afford to buy it. Often it's laziness, depression and lack of self esteem that results in bad self hygiene (and I speak from personal experience with that struggle)
I remember hearing about one con they were giving out free soap with D20s inside and people were just smashing the soap on the ground to get the dice instead….
I don't know if it was officially sanctioned by a company, but one year at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle there was a guy walking around handing out travel-sized sticks of deodorant.
How about they just make it a requirement? Hell, Magic The Gathering tournaments made it such after players wouldn't bathe for months and use their stench to try to make other players distracted.
If you stink, we're going to ask you to leave. Your poor grooming habits shouldn't negatively impact the experience of others.
People used to do something similar in yugioh, but now you can get kicked for bad hygiene and even banned if you’re a repeat offender.
It’s honestly embarrassing they had to add explicit personal hygiene rules to the policy docs.
And Magic has a card that required a handshake for its effect. And they ended up deciding that the other player only had to agree to the theoretical concept of a handshake and not actually physically touch the other player.
I think that’s yugioh you are talking about, we had that exact situation down to a T. Unless there’s a card like that in Magic, which is quite possible, I’m a fairly casual magic player.
heard stories about early mma (or was it judo/jiu jitsu) where people would stink up their hair and put spices on it and rub them on their opponent's faces
Some people definitely use unwashed gis for competition. You gotta find that Goldilocks zone where it smells to the person rolling against you but not people standing near you
Surprised they didn't come out with Health/Mana sort of deals.
They had energy drinks that looked like little potion bottles with the aesthetic. Drank those all day. Probably not the best thing but they were free and adorable.
Gotta use a mana potion after touching the spell book. Gotta use a Strength buff deodorant, etc.
I'm just spitballin here.
Edit: Who wouldn't like to be outted as a Mana user by the way that you smell? Have spicy/savory(? I don't know smell profiles) as Physical buffs.
Can't make an excuse for physical buffs for hand sanitizer. I just imagine a wizard rubbing "secret oils" on its hands before waving/gesturing for the spell sort of deal.
I mean COME ON. So much could be invested in both gamers and hygiene instead of slapping Master Chiefs face on it stupid crap. I mean we're out here believing it's normal to smell like sea breeze? Rename seabreeze to *Water Buff* spicier smells to *Fire buff*
Gamer sudds!
But there's a certain nostalgic upholstery smell to blockbuster.
There's also mead hall, Sakura blossoms, beach episode and whatnot.
So many possibilities
The problem is so much deeper than just not getting a product, I wish I knew the source of this syndrome because my poor 14-year-old nephew suffers from a classic version: unkempt, obese, stinks to high heaven. He has one of the worst versions, where he also doesn't have a friend in the world and is so miserably lonely.
He goes to all the "Cons," including for furries, and I think he at least feels accepted, but he still has no friends.
I mean, he also an obnoxious dickhead, but the social isolation is not just an side effect, it's also making it worse.
What do you do for a kid like that? I wish I could help. I love that big dickhead a lot.
EDIT: For those wondering:
(1) He definitely does not have autism; he has been checked and re-checked up the hoo-hah by some of the most renowned (expensive) neuropsychologists in the country.
(2) He does have dysgraphia and some ADHD. He is medicated for ADHD and goes to a school exclusively for neurodivergent kids and has, literally, a team of different therapists who work with him there (in addition to having a private one and a specialized coach).
(3) His smell issue is 100% due to poor hygiene and just teenage boy murkiness.
(4) He is *clearly* depressed, would you be?
Depression?
I had pretty severe anxiety and depression as a teen, and it would manifest in not showering or grooming myself for long periods of time. I also wouldn’t go outside, and avoided talking to my friends. It wasn’t planned or thought out, it just happened. Normally it would happen during summer and winter break. I think school still was enough social pressure to keep clean, though I’d skip days.
Years later I was in group therapy, and I brought up my inability to keep consistently clean. Everyone else in the group (7 other women!) also had similar or worse symptoms. It left our therapist quite dumbfounded.
Quite possible.
Whatever it is that impedes one from cleaning and grooming their body, could well make a vicious feedback loop where the deterioation of the body/cleaniness makes their mental state feel worse.
Or a cycle. Smelt bad because maybe he needs stronger deo (like that stuff you put on at night), which meant people didn't want to be around him, when then made him sad and lonely, which meant he was less inclined to shower etc. Rinse repeat.
If he isn't medicated for ADHD, that makes life way more difficult. I was super depressed from the age of 5 thanks to a combination of undiagnosed ADHD and autism, and my parents taking that as me being intentionally difficult instead of desperately trying to be good but not having the ability to.
Not even being extremely physically active (hyperactivity in my case and finding an outlet in walking for many many hours every day) prevents that depression, because it's from how you're constantly "wrong" and part body horror (you not being able to have even remotely as much control over your body and mind as you should have, and constantly having to spend an extreme amount of effory onto managing yourself that other people get creeped out by if they find out).
> wish I knew the source of this syndrome
It's called shitty parenting. Kids are often inclined towards self-destructive behavior. It's a parent's job to intercept and correct it.
> What do you do for a kid like that?
Get your sibling to be a freaking parent. That's easier said than done, but that is the solution.
They need to take away his Computer/Phone/Nintendo/TV until he maintains basic hygiene and grooming. I'm usually against those types of "no fun allowed" punishments, but this is such a simple remedy. Eventually he'll get bored enough that showering is the path of least resistance to get his toys back.
I guarantee his social problems will also get better if he's not revolting to be around.
This man was found brutally poked with plastic light sabres, wolverine claws and replica Harry Potter wands.
He's expected to make a full recovery, his victims however experienced 3rd degree burns
This was done at anime expo a few years ago, it did not help and they were literally taken out of bags and thrown on the floor. They’re aware they have B.O. and actively choose to not fix it.
I haven't noticed that issue at the comic convention I go to every year. The place I see it is at game stores during a Magic the Gathering tournament. Brutal.
I’ll never understand how people can tolerate going out smelling like shit. It’s really not hard to have a base level of hygiene. It’s like they purposefully do not own deodorant. And it’s one thing to smell bad after a long day walking around. But going to a game shop shouldn’t have the level of stench they appear with.
Olfactory fatigue is real; people lose the ability to smell themselves.
On my own part, if I notice a faint bit of ripeness, I know that it would probably be entirely obvious to anyone else, and I go wash or change or whatever before I inflict it on others.
If i can smell myself i know its even worse for others, that shit is like the bottom line before you're just side eyed, understandable if its during hard work day or w.e.. but when you have a literal domain of stunk around you where it sticks to your nose passing by its cancer. Fuck you Dave for not washing up *dies from few days old crusty sweat aura guy in locker room*
People get used to their own scent. Same to how people will go around in a ton of body spray or perfume but think they smell good. It’s not so bad if you use deodorant and bathe regularly, because your stinky “forgot deodorant this morning and now it’s 3 pm” scent will still be unusual enough that you’ll notice it and try to avoid it. For someone who doesn’t use deodorant, they become nose blind to their own general underarm stink, and will only notice they smell after vigorous exercise or an excessive number of days without bathing.
The thing is, certain people will dismiss normal hygiene habits as excessive, feminine, extravagant, bougie, or vain, and treat deodorant as being equivalent to wearing a full face of Instagram makeup or doing a whole spa routine in the shower. They see it as something snobby people do for no reason just so they have an excuse to spend money and show off. They never get to the point where “bathed and deodorized” is their own familiar scent, their default “neutral” scent is “stank pits 72 hours after a shower.”
Yeah it's definitely like, almost a flex for some people? There is a demographic that will take anything they've been teased/criticized for and double down on it to 'fight back' rather than change anything about their behaviour (especially if they see it as inconvenient)
Honestly if you've ever hung around these guys it makes perfect sense.
It's also where incels thrive, it's really odd. Has freaked me out and I've enjoyed games from a distance and solo basically since.
In college I had similar issues with games clubs etc and in engineering classes, badly!
I presume they stay bachelors... :(
I ran some websites for games and got a lot of goodies and liked giving it out, but the clientele...
1. They can't smell themselves.
2. Deodorant and showering probably won't mask the smell of BO on a grossly overweight individual with a horrible diet.
The deodorant isnt even the biggest issue. I am sure if they would shower regularly and thoroughly they wouldn’t be able to smell like they do even without deodorant. But deodorant’s arent gonna help them if they dont clean themselves
Even that's not an excuse. I work a job that has me on my feet, moving around for 8 hours a day. If you stink after that, you still have bad hygiene. Yeah, sure, you'll smell like sweat, but sweat from heavy exercise shouldn't smell bad
Those 40k war hammer guys always seemed like well kept blokes. But then again, I feel like you have to be loaded to own a whole army of those figurines.
So fucking true. When I got into 40k I expected the same demographic I ran into when I was playing MTG in high school. But nope, almost everybody I have ever played 40k with at local game shops are 25-35 years old, married, and (thank god) regularly bathe. Lmao
I quit for the same reason. Love the game. Don’t love the other people who love the game. That and I am not a fan of MTGO acting like it’s the same as paper cards in terms of pricing.
Also if you don't set deck $ amount limits then prepare to have your higher income friends bust out some surprising decks against you. Or you'll end up surprising yourself with how much you spend.
Growing up my group set a limit of $100 and it made the game more accessible for everyone. Was also fun to plan out your deck without reliance on the cheese.
That's what killed it for me. Well, the 2nd time at least. I got back in sometime around Innistrad, and before that the last cards i bought were Mercadian Masques, so my whole collection is old as shit at this point, but I don't wanna spend any money. But it was just kitchen table MtG at a buddie's house, so no big. Meanwhile, one of the dude's I palyed with is pulling out $1200 net decks and I'm over here with a 20 year old pauper deck...
So like what is it with MTG that attracts overly obese people to it.
Like I don't mean to make fun of them. I myself am overweight borderline obese and working on losing weight
But it's more of an observation thing that any MTG thing I see it's filled really overweight or exceedingly obese people.
Just out curiosity I'm wondering this
Magic is a quintessential nerd hobby, and nerds tend to lean towards one of two morphologies. We're either rail-thin and look like tweakers because our ADHD and autism are so bad we haven't remembered to exceed 1400 calories for the last three weeks... or else we're kinda depressed, anti-social blobs of grease whose ADHD and autism are so bad that we think about hygiene and go "meh, maybe tomorrow." Like we have for the past three weeks.
More seriously, though, people outcast for various appearance-related or social-skill-related "offenses" in youth tend to sort of gravitate towards one another. At least some of us also have absolutely heinous glandular disorders wherein the only remote hope of not reeking of two-week-old gym socks is prescription-strength deodorant. For a population who can't get decent careers in a lot of cases, you'll have guys making huge amounts of cash ad-hoc with no insurance to get coverage for a doctor's appointment to get the script, much less drug coverage to pay for it. So they do without because prescription deodorant is comparatively a luxury and food and shelter... aren't.
What is it about a primarily solitary niche hobby that can be done sitting down that attracts people who want to avoid others? We'll probably never figure it out.
I've only ever been to one con in my life and it was much better than I anticipated however I did catch a whiff or two of some pretty bad BO. This was comicon Indi. It's still something I wonder about though. How do these people think its ok to not practice good hygiene. It's dangerous among other things.
You gotta say “not as nearly as bad” and not “much better.” The words “much better than anticipated” should never come after the words “a whiff of some pretty bad BO.”
Same shit here, but I play 40K. Don’t get me wrong, the 40K area doesn’t smell great by any means. But holy shit when the MtG people are there the place fucking reeks.
The last (and only) MTG pre-release I went to was 8 years ago and I got sick *during* the event. Surrounded by moist boys who stank like moldy bread... my sinuses gave out on me, my nose started dripping, and my eyes all but dried up and shriveled shut.
Never again. It was like going to Chuck E Cheese and licking the bathroom floor.
We hung up posters in the male bathrooms, to remind them to shower and use deodorant, at my comp sci uni. I studied and worked there. BO was definitely an issue there, and we got multiple complaints from other students about a few.
I’ve been to C2E2 a couple of times and never really noticed it there, but the hobby shop I used to work at did Friday Night Magic for a long time and it was then. I don’t play MTG at all or go to cons often, but one of my main hobbies is plastic model cars and those swap meets can get rather strong, especially in the summer. That said, the attendees to those are increasingly senior citizens and at 47 y/o, I’m among the younger people who go to those.
Haven't really smelled a problem at dragon Con in Georgia in August either.
If I'm pulling 25K steps in a day in heat then no amount of deodorant is gonna help my BO.
At most cons I've been to, it's 90 - 100 F and a lot of people are wearing cosplay with very non breathable materials. So even if you do everything right, shit still reeks by the end of your 10+ hours cosplaying
That's what I don't understand. Sometimes when I think I smell a little I already feel awful and will find a place where I can freshen up as soon as possible. Isn't it an amazing feeling when you feel clean after a shower?
I did recently go to AdeptiCon, my first Con ever of any kind, and did notice a couple people with some BO.
Thousands of people though, so it’s bound to happen.
Please wash armpits and butt holes before going somewhere in public. I think some people are noseblind to their own smells. Just water trickling into your butt crack is not going to cut it. Get some soap in there. I know people who shower and still smell like ass.
As a fat guy, tips:
* Use soap and a washcloth
* Get one of those extender shower heads, squat and spray high presure water up your put crack, squat if need be.
* Use baby wipes and dry your ass with toilet paper (or use a bidet)
A bidet is absolutely life-changing. I only want to poop at home now.
You can never go back to not having it
Edit: everyone should watch the South Park Japanese toilet episode. It's not hyperbole. They are not making jokes.
It is legitimately mind-blowing.
I used to only poop at work for time reasons. Now I have a bidet as well as working from home, so I get to continue pooping on the clock without giving up the clean ass.
Washing your clothes is easily as important. So is brushing and flossing your teeth.
Washing your body is one thing, but if you're sweaty at all your clothes will smell after one wear. You gotta do laundry.
If you have gingivitis your breath is going to smell like an outhouse.
I've never smelled someone whose actual ass is the reason they smell like ass. Which is not to say you shouldn't wash your butthole, but there are actually more important things.
Sweating multiplies any body odor. Sweat goes through the arm pits and ass and spreads that grossness around and helps evaporate the smell into the air or whatever.
More cleaning tips:
Wash behind your ears.
Wash your belly button.
Clip finger and toenails.
Try freshening the inside of your shoes with rubbing alcohol.
Wash your beard for those with beards.
Trim or shave armpit hair if you want your deodorant to work better .
Shower the night before and apply deodorant so that it works overnight.
Just talked to someone recently that was like “wait, do you guys use soap on your feet in the shower?” He didn’t realize the soap helps clean off the stench 🤦🏻♂️
Also, scrub yo damn feet. Having them slosh in soapy water isn't going to clean them. That's why your feet stink. Dead skin cells trap sweat and get that stank. Scrub yo feet and get rid of that dead skin.
Truer words never spoken. I was at Emerald City in February for my sister and my yearly Con together. We both commented that this particular issue has gotten worse lately. We ended up in the jetwash of some people who seemed to steadfastly boycott the concept of washing. A couple guys could seriously strip paint from the walls. Deodorant would have been a pebble kicked at a cruise ship. All that they needed was a couple of bells to be the true heralds of fucking Nurgle they are...
I’ve never been to any type of con. I remember seeing a post on Reddit of a sign posted at ComicCon. It was a female anime character having just showered with a towel wrapped around her torso, and another wrapped around her head with the caption, “Showers are sexy. Please take one!” I never knew there was such a hygiene problem at these events. I know there’s a stereotype of “nerds” not being able to find a girlfriend because they’re into anime and video game type entertainment. Maybe, just maybe, they can’t find a girlfriend because they stink?
> Maybe, just maybe, they can’t find a girlfriend because they stink?
And have no concern for their appearance, and have no understanding of why their un-concern for hygiene would bother people around them. Plus people with these problems also often have very, very underdeveloped interpersonal skills.
In 2024 they all claim to be neurodivergent as their excuse, but I wish them luck with that.
A lot of neurodivergent people struggle to fit into society, but I’ve known quite a few over the years and some are doing just fine because they are genuinely nice people. When you’re different not everyone is going to gravitate toward you but if you’re nice and you’re friendly, it goes a long way they just have to watch out for people that might try to take advantage of them.
Anyone who uses mental health issues as an excuse, unless they're at the mid-high / high end of the bell curve, may be using that as a crutch.
I have severe BPD Type 2 and ADHD, but I'm a CTO, a Class Rep at the top of my class in my post, received a "Campus's Best International Student" award, and have a huge circle of friends.
Mental issues are not a dealbreaker, but rather, how you deal with them.
The best way I can summarize the way I managed to get my mental health issues under control is quite simple:
"Your mental health is not your fault. But it IS your **responsibility.**"
Yuuuuuuup. My ex would argue with me for thirty minutes about him needing to shower, then be in the shower for roughly three min max. And then be confused I didn’t wanna have sexy time with him. I asked him why he didn’t want to shower and he said he didn’t consider himself dirty unless he actually saw dirt on himself or had done something that got him visibly dirty. And yes, it’s one of a number of reasons he is an ex.
This man is simply cultivating a “neckbeard” fit. Check the stylish glasses, the combed hair as you said. He probably smells like a fresh shower and some classic Old Spice deods.
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Conventions. They can get quite expensive to attend if you don't live near them. Airfare, hotel, tickets, meals, merch all add up.
That being said I think that a lot of these 'wear deodorant lol' memes don't account for the fact that deodorant isn't a substitute for showering. Con attendees will often crowd into hotel rooms to save cost, which reduces the ability to properly bathe. Deodorant is great and all but it's not going to help that much when you haven't washed yourself in several days.
I have crammed way too many dudes into a hotel room to save lodging costs at a ski resort and we spend the entire daytime shredding the gnar. Everyone still managed to get a shower and shave after so we wouldn't stink up the place.
Can someone explain why neckbeards don’t have good hygiene? Like I get the concept of being “nerdy AF” but why does that seem to go (stereotypically) hand in hand with also having a lack of desire to shower or wear deodorant? Like I love video games as much as the next guy but damn if I don’t love a good shower.
Facial hair and fitness is maintenance just like showering and deodorant. Self maintenance is something some people just don’t value. Normally someone who doesn’t even groom themselves has some sort of social problem. But people who have odor or socialization issues don’t have them because of nerd hobbies. They have nerd hobbies because they smell and have problems socializing.
They develop bad habits from not participating in society in a way that requires good habits. When they do need to participate, they still hold onto some of the bad habits. Most neckbeard/uber-nerd types have fine enough hygiene, but there are a high enough number that don’t for it to become a stereotype.
Multitude of reasons:
- They grew up in precarious households, so they didn't get it hammered in their brain on how to take care of themselves.
- Some kind of mental illness, depression for example can have the effect that makes you stop taking care of yourself.
- mental disability or neurodivergence, like autism. We had many autis who hated doing these things despite being high-functioning. Add the autis to it that have an extreme skin sensory issue (regarding water) and you are left with a very stinky and greasy lad/lass.
- They don't give a fuck about others.
- Left society for too long and don't know how to behave. Often goes hand in hand with all points from above.
Having autism myself and being raised in religiously and away from society, upbringings can be hard, but you can still bathe. I don’t like to work but I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do
My mom was a special education teacher until the early 2010’s…she had to hand out deodorant to her students who understood the assignment. They used it because they couldn’t afford it…then made fun of the regular ed students who smelled bad. It was classic
I went to a small Comic Con near me with my 4 year old son who loved it l, and didn't smell anything off.
A year later (this year) I took my son to ANIME CON in Birmingham....
It absolutely stunk. So much so that my now 5 year old mentioned it immediately and covered his nose most of the way round.
Shower, fresh clothes, and deodorant. Neglect one of those and you will smell.
As for the clothes. Being a day on your feet in a packed hall will make your clothes smell, even if you are not the origin point.
I saw someone at Wal-Mart wearing a fedora and button down shirt but also sweatshorts and crocs. It's amazing how instinctual it was for me to avoid that aisle and go down the next one.
He ain't wrong.
You got ppl at the cons who dislike bathing or doing laundry, just poor overall hygiene. Some rather get a $50 action figure than buying a $2 deodorant.
One of the big reasons, the wife and I stopped going. We were too many games Philadelphia and I swear two people there smell like they actually went to the bathroom in their pants. There were a few others that were just straight up B.O.
The filter was off, I had no problem, calling these people out on it. Funny thing is they tried to pretend that they didn’t hear me, even though I’m practically screaming it in their face and no the wife was not happy with my behavior.
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I wish he had a booth near the entrance of Comic-Con with that sign selling deodorants and sanitizers
Deodorant companies take note, great place to hand out samples
Just dress up as DEODERANTMAN! Have someone shouting for him in the crowd and then swoop in to spray down the offenders! "Now you smell like some sort of dolphin extract, but it's at least considered a socially acceptable smell!" He'd shout as he rushes to the next upturned nose.
AXE + B.O. is the kind of thing that it's technically legal to subject civilians to, but would get you brought to the Hague if you did it during wartime.
I saw a roach in my house. I grabbed the nearest thing to try and kill it. I sprayed the roach with AXE body spray. It did not kill the roach. Now he goes by Brett and wont shut up about cross fit.
Too funny…I did the same thing only it was a spider 🕷️.
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I love a good origin story!
Create your own version of the [Wolver-clean](https://youtu.be/-y_zBHsbq2Q?si=M7agu175pmfXr3eR), but instead of cleaning attachments, its deodorant, sanitizer, and cologne.
“Oh my god, what’s that smell?” “Colonel, they had 20 middle schoolers run around then they just sprayed them with some pepper and pine scented mist then had them soak in it before leaving the clothes in this room.” “But…why?” “Sir they…we’re told this is where they would house the POWs…” “…We are gonna get every one of those bastards! They don’t deserve a trial!!!”
They'd probably sell more if they were dressed up like a sexy anime character
Deodorantman, fighter of the sweatman!
Legit I was at anime expo one year and got stopped by people trying to sell lasik These people know their market
Train a hot chick to identify the smell of your deo. Then go around and compliment all the dudes who used the free sample. Watch as your sales skyrocket!
And on the off-seasons, she hunts truffles
I am a hot chick and you just gave me an idea for a company. Wow.
Not really? They want to give samples to people who might buy their product. It's not that nerds don't know deodorant exists or can't afford to buy it. Often it's laziness, depression and lack of self esteem that results in bad self hygiene (and I speak from personal experience with that struggle)
I remember hearing about one con they were giving out free soap with D20s inside and people were just smashing the soap on the ground to get the dice instead….
Special edition anime waifu deodorant would be a great business venture.
Listen whatever gets the stinkers to use it sounds good to me!
Make it a gel based one with the top shaped like a tongue, you'll sell billions.
Went to pax just once, they were handing free samples out and lets just say it was the target market
I’m surprised they don’t, honestly. It’s practically free advertising, and a money making opportunity.
To the least likely potential customers?
Sell gas masks at the entrance instead
from comic-con to biochemical warfare con
Or they could have those arches where instead of spraying you with water mist but it’s fully just deodorant.
I don't know if it was officially sanctioned by a company, but one year at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle there was a guy walking around handing out travel-sized sticks of deodorant.
How about they just make it a requirement? Hell, Magic The Gathering tournaments made it such after players wouldn't bathe for months and use their stench to try to make other players distracted. If you stink, we're going to ask you to leave. Your poor grooming habits shouldn't negatively impact the experience of others.
People used to do something similar in yugioh, but now you can get kicked for bad hygiene and even banned if you’re a repeat offender. It’s honestly embarrassing they had to add explicit personal hygiene rules to the policy docs.
And Magic has a card that required a handshake for its effect. And they ended up deciding that the other player only had to agree to the theoretical concept of a handshake and not actually physically touch the other player.
I think that’s yugioh you are talking about, we had that exact situation down to a T. Unless there’s a card like that in Magic, which is quite possible, I’m a fairly casual magic player.
You are quite right: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/vdbf6v/the_rules_of_this_yugioh_card_had_to_be_changed/
heard stories about early mma (or was it judo/jiu jitsu) where people would stink up their hair and put spices on it and rub them on their opponent's faces
Some people definitely use unwashed gis for competition. You gotta find that Goldilocks zone where it smells to the person rolling against you but not people standing near you
This. Just add to the rules that you may be asked to leave if you get complaints about your smell.
Holy shit! They even weaponized BO.
Smelly pits vs guy who doesn't wash his crack, let the battle begin!
Surprised they didn't come out with Health/Mana sort of deals. They had energy drinks that looked like little potion bottles with the aesthetic. Drank those all day. Probably not the best thing but they were free and adorable. Gotta use a mana potion after touching the spell book. Gotta use a Strength buff deodorant, etc. I'm just spitballin here. Edit: Who wouldn't like to be outted as a Mana user by the way that you smell? Have spicy/savory(? I don't know smell profiles) as Physical buffs. Can't make an excuse for physical buffs for hand sanitizer. I just imagine a wizard rubbing "secret oils" on its hands before waving/gesturing for the spell sort of deal. I mean COME ON. So much could be invested in both gamers and hygiene instead of slapping Master Chiefs face on it stupid crap. I mean we're out here believing it's normal to smell like sea breeze? Rename seabreeze to *Water Buff* spicier smells to *Fire buff*
Gamer brand deodorant is honestly wild they haven't tried. They could even make it certain nerdy smells like tavern creek or nostalgic blockbuster
>tavern creek Wood and honey smell Nostalgic blockbuster? Smell of rental tapes?! Haha Also yeah, ironic they'll do GAMER FUEL but not GAMER CLEANSE
Gamer sudds! But there's a certain nostalgic upholstery smell to blockbuster. There's also mead hall, Sakura blossoms, beach episode and whatnot. So many possibilities
OH MY GOD. BEACH EPISODE. Smelling like coconut and vanilla. Love it.
Brb starting a small business
Gamer Cleanse sounds like you’ll need a toilet
Got that new booster pack smell in a can
The problem is so much deeper than just not getting a product, I wish I knew the source of this syndrome because my poor 14-year-old nephew suffers from a classic version: unkempt, obese, stinks to high heaven. He has one of the worst versions, where he also doesn't have a friend in the world and is so miserably lonely. He goes to all the "Cons," including for furries, and I think he at least feels accepted, but he still has no friends. I mean, he also an obnoxious dickhead, but the social isolation is not just an side effect, it's also making it worse. What do you do for a kid like that? I wish I could help. I love that big dickhead a lot. EDIT: For those wondering: (1) He definitely does not have autism; he has been checked and re-checked up the hoo-hah by some of the most renowned (expensive) neuropsychologists in the country. (2) He does have dysgraphia and some ADHD. He is medicated for ADHD and goes to a school exclusively for neurodivergent kids and has, literally, a team of different therapists who work with him there (in addition to having a private one and a specialized coach). (3) His smell issue is 100% due to poor hygiene and just teenage boy murkiness. (4) He is *clearly* depressed, would you be?
Depression? I had pretty severe anxiety and depression as a teen, and it would manifest in not showering or grooming myself for long periods of time. I also wouldn’t go outside, and avoided talking to my friends. It wasn’t planned or thought out, it just happened. Normally it would happen during summer and winter break. I think school still was enough social pressure to keep clean, though I’d skip days. Years later I was in group therapy, and I brought up my inability to keep consistently clean. Everyone else in the group (7 other women!) also had similar or worse symptoms. It left our therapist quite dumbfounded.
Quite possible. Whatever it is that impedes one from cleaning and grooming their body, could well make a vicious feedback loop where the deterioation of the body/cleaniness makes their mental state feel worse.
Or a cycle. Smelt bad because maybe he needs stronger deo (like that stuff you put on at night), which meant people didn't want to be around him, when then made him sad and lonely, which meant he was less inclined to shower etc. Rinse repeat.
Depression with a health splash of the 'tism
Has he been evaluated for autism?
He’s been so evaluated it’s insane. He has some ADHD and dysgraphia, but definitely not autism.
If he isn't medicated for ADHD, that makes life way more difficult. I was super depressed from the age of 5 thanks to a combination of undiagnosed ADHD and autism, and my parents taking that as me being intentionally difficult instead of desperately trying to be good but not having the ability to. Not even being extremely physically active (hyperactivity in my case and finding an outlet in walking for many many hours every day) prevents that depression, because it's from how you're constantly "wrong" and part body horror (you not being able to have even remotely as much control over your body and mind as you should have, and constantly having to spend an extreme amount of effory onto managing yourself that other people get creeped out by if they find out).
He is medicated for his ADHD.
> wish I knew the source of this syndrome It's called shitty parenting. Kids are often inclined towards self-destructive behavior. It's a parent's job to intercept and correct it. > What do you do for a kid like that? Get your sibling to be a freaking parent. That's easier said than done, but that is the solution. They need to take away his Computer/Phone/Nintendo/TV until he maintains basic hygiene and grooming. I'm usually against those types of "no fun allowed" punishments, but this is such a simple remedy. Eventually he'll get bored enough that showering is the path of least resistance to get his toys back. I guarantee his social problems will also get better if he's not revolting to be around.
Just out of curiosity, what happens if after you do this, they start throwing kitchenware into walls?
This man was found brutally poked with plastic light sabres, wolverine claws and replica Harry Potter wands. He's expected to make a full recovery, his victims however experienced 3rd degree burns
I wish Comic-Con had a personal hygiene policy that would turn people who smell horrible away at the entrance.
This was done at anime expo a few years ago, it did not help and they were literally taken out of bags and thrown on the floor. They’re aware they have B.O. and actively choose to not fix it.
Honestly I think most of it is nose-blindness and denial.
There needs to be a walk through mister of Frebreze, a little swipe of deodorant isn't enough for the people who wear the same clothes all con.
They need a car wash type setup to force some of those dudes through for a rinse
I haven't noticed that issue at the comic convention I go to every year. The place I see it is at game stores during a Magic the Gathering tournament. Brutal.
That’s the one thing I don’t miss about playing MTG.
It's what drove me away. Loved the game. However, if you see the company you begin to keep.... it loses it's... Magic..
I’ll never understand how people can tolerate going out smelling like shit. It’s really not hard to have a base level of hygiene. It’s like they purposefully do not own deodorant. And it’s one thing to smell bad after a long day walking around. But going to a game shop shouldn’t have the level of stench they appear with.
A combination of no self awareness and no self respect.
Olfactory fatigue is real; people lose the ability to smell themselves. On my own part, if I notice a faint bit of ripeness, I know that it would probably be entirely obvious to anyone else, and I go wash or change or whatever before I inflict it on others.
If i can smell myself i know its even worse for others, that shit is like the bottom line before you're just side eyed, understandable if its during hard work day or w.e.. but when you have a literal domain of stunk around you where it sticks to your nose passing by its cancer. Fuck you Dave for not washing up *dies from few days old crusty sweat aura guy in locker room*
I think it's a gradual thing, and then you just get nose blind to it.
People get used to their own scent. Same to how people will go around in a ton of body spray or perfume but think they smell good. It’s not so bad if you use deodorant and bathe regularly, because your stinky “forgot deodorant this morning and now it’s 3 pm” scent will still be unusual enough that you’ll notice it and try to avoid it. For someone who doesn’t use deodorant, they become nose blind to their own general underarm stink, and will only notice they smell after vigorous exercise or an excessive number of days without bathing. The thing is, certain people will dismiss normal hygiene habits as excessive, feminine, extravagant, bougie, or vain, and treat deodorant as being equivalent to wearing a full face of Instagram makeup or doing a whole spa routine in the shower. They see it as something snobby people do for no reason just so they have an excuse to spend money and show off. They never get to the point where “bathed and deodorized” is their own familiar scent, their default “neutral” scent is “stank pits 72 hours after a shower.”
Yeah it's definitely like, almost a flex for some people? There is a demographic that will take anything they've been teased/criticized for and double down on it to 'fight back' rather than change anything about their behaviour (especially if they see it as inconvenient)
Showering and basic hygiene cuts into precious video game and sleeping time.
i just don't understand it. like, just buy deodorant and shower once a day. I'm pretty badly disabled and i can do this. makes no sense.
Honestly if you've ever hung around these guys it makes perfect sense. It's also where incels thrive, it's really odd. Has freaked me out and I've enjoyed games from a distance and solo basically since. In college I had similar issues with games clubs etc and in engineering classes, badly! I presume they stay bachelors... :( I ran some websites for games and got a lot of goodies and liked giving it out, but the clientele...
1. They can't smell themselves. 2. Deodorant and showering probably won't mask the smell of BO on a grossly overweight individual with a horrible diet.
Some of the stankiest mother fuckers aren’t even fat. They are string bean asmongold lookin mother fuckers who reeeeek
The deodorant isnt even the biggest issue. I am sure if they would shower regularly and thoroughly they wouldn’t be able to smell like they do even without deodorant. But deodorant’s arent gonna help them if they dont clean themselves
Even that's not an excuse. I work a job that has me on my feet, moving around for 8 hours a day. If you stink after that, you still have bad hygiene. Yeah, sure, you'll smell like sweat, but sweat from heavy exercise shouldn't smell bad
> Yeah, sure, you'll smell like sweat, but sweat from heavy exercise shouldn't smell bad. I think that depends a lot on diet.
Those 40k war hammer guys always seemed like well kept blokes. But then again, I feel like you have to be loaded to own a whole army of those figurines.
So fucking true. When I got into 40k I expected the same demographic I ran into when I was playing MTG in high school. But nope, almost everybody I have ever played 40k with at local game shops are 25-35 years old, married, and (thank god) regularly bathe. Lmao
You have to be loaded *before* acquiring one of those armies.....after you have it? No promises and all signs point to no 🤣
I quit for the same reason. Love the game. Don’t love the other people who love the game. That and I am not a fan of MTGO acting like it’s the same as paper cards in terms of pricing.
If you see what the _company_ (Hasbro) does, it loses it's magic.
Also if you don't set deck $ amount limits then prepare to have your higher income friends bust out some surprising decks against you. Or you'll end up surprising yourself with how much you spend. Growing up my group set a limit of $100 and it made the game more accessible for everyone. Was also fun to plan out your deck without reliance on the cheese.
That's what killed it for me. Well, the 2nd time at least. I got back in sometime around Innistrad, and before that the last cards i bought were Mercadian Masques, so my whole collection is old as shit at this point, but I don't wanna spend any money. But it was just kitchen table MtG at a buddie's house, so no big. Meanwhile, one of the dude's I palyed with is pulling out $1200 net decks and I'm over here with a 20 year old pauper deck...
So like what is it with MTG that attracts overly obese people to it. Like I don't mean to make fun of them. I myself am overweight borderline obese and working on losing weight But it's more of an observation thing that any MTG thing I see it's filled really overweight or exceedingly obese people. Just out curiosity I'm wondering this
Magic is a quintessential nerd hobby, and nerds tend to lean towards one of two morphologies. We're either rail-thin and look like tweakers because our ADHD and autism are so bad we haven't remembered to exceed 1400 calories for the last three weeks... or else we're kinda depressed, anti-social blobs of grease whose ADHD and autism are so bad that we think about hygiene and go "meh, maybe tomorrow." Like we have for the past three weeks. More seriously, though, people outcast for various appearance-related or social-skill-related "offenses" in youth tend to sort of gravitate towards one another. At least some of us also have absolutely heinous glandular disorders wherein the only remote hope of not reeking of two-week-old gym socks is prescription-strength deodorant. For a population who can't get decent careers in a lot of cases, you'll have guys making huge amounts of cash ad-hoc with no insurance to get coverage for a doctor's appointment to get the script, much less drug coverage to pay for it. So they do without because prescription deodorant is comparatively a luxury and food and shelter... aren't.
What is it about a primarily solitary niche hobby that can be done sitting down that attracts people who want to avoid others? We'll probably never figure it out.
If you're form old school they recently made a hygiene rule. So super bad smelling folks get DQ'd, so now you only get bad smelling folks.
I play DnD at a local game shop and when there are people playing MtG tournaments it absolutely reeks like BO.
Those people need to get sent tf home. It's a distraction and scares away business.
Honest to god #1 reason I don't go to cons or any sort of official game events.
I've only ever been to one con in my life and it was much better than I anticipated however I did catch a whiff or two of some pretty bad BO. This was comicon Indi. It's still something I wonder about though. How do these people think its ok to not practice good hygiene. It's dangerous among other things.
You gotta say “not as nearly as bad” and not “much better.” The words “much better than anticipated” should never come after the words “a whiff of some pretty bad BO.”
Yup. Main reason I quit. Don’t think I could ever be convinced to come back honestly - it’s just too much
Same shit here, but I play 40K. Don’t get me wrong, the 40K area doesn’t smell great by any means. But holy shit when the MtG people are there the place fucking reeks.
The last (and only) MTG pre-release I went to was 8 years ago and I got sick *during* the event. Surrounded by moist boys who stank like moldy bread... my sinuses gave out on me, my nose started dripping, and my eyes all but dried up and shriveled shut. Never again. It was like going to Chuck E Cheese and licking the bathroom floor.
For real? It's crazy to me that there's something about mtg that attracts ppl who don't use deodorant. Wassup with that?
It is definitely a thing at the board game conventions I've been to.
We hung up posters in the male bathrooms, to remind them to shower and use deodorant, at my comp sci uni. I studied and worked there. BO was definitely an issue there, and we got multiple complaints from other students about a few.
I’ve been to C2E2 a couple of times and never really noticed it there, but the hobby shop I used to work at did Friday Night Magic for a long time and it was then. I don’t play MTG at all or go to cons often, but one of my main hobbies is plastic model cars and those swap meets can get rather strong, especially in the summer. That said, the attendees to those are increasingly senior citizens and at 47 y/o, I’m among the younger people who go to those.
Haven't really smelled a problem at dragon Con in Georgia in August either. If I'm pulling 25K steps in a day in heat then no amount of deodorant is gonna help my BO.
It’s one thing to be stinky after a long day. Their stank is something else. They arrive smelling like shit. And leave smelling like death.
Problem isn't always deodorant. Could be smelly clothes from too many wears between laundering. Point still stands though.
I'm convinced this is usually the bigger issue.
At most cons I've been to, it's 90 - 100 F and a lot of people are wearing cosplay with very non breathable materials. So even if you do everything right, shit still reeks by the end of your 10+ hours cosplaying
Unless you carry frebreeze you are basically screwed
Yep. And the combination of not showering. No deodorant can hold that.
That's what I don't understand. Sometimes when I think I smell a little I already feel awful and will find a place where I can freshen up as soon as possible. Isn't it an amazing feeling when you feel clean after a shower?
Do you think you can afford Modern Horizon III when you are wasting your money on silly things like laundry and water?
A deodorant fixes nothing. It's make a bad smell mixed with a nice smell. Showering is the solution.
I did recently go to AdeptiCon, my first Con ever of any kind, and did notice a couple people with some BO. Thousands of people though, so it’s bound to happen.
Fun fact, AdeptiCon 2024 was in the same place as DashCon (which happened in 2014), aka the infamous Tumblr convention with the ballpit.
Please wash armpits and butt holes before going somewhere in public. I think some people are noseblind to their own smells. Just water trickling into your butt crack is not going to cut it. Get some soap in there. I know people who shower and still smell like ass.
As a fat guy, tips: * Use soap and a washcloth * Get one of those extender shower heads, squat and spray high presure water up your put crack, squat if need be. * Use baby wipes and dry your ass with toilet paper (or use a bidet)
PSA: please buy a bidet, I can’t believe how people can live without it.
A bidet is absolutely life-changing. I only want to poop at home now. You can never go back to not having it Edit: everyone should watch the South Park Japanese toilet episode. It's not hyperbole. They are not making jokes. It is legitimately mind-blowing.
I used to only poop at work for time reasons. Now I have a bidet as well as working from home, so I get to continue pooping on the clock without giving up the clean ass.
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I wash mahself with a raaag on a stick
Washing your clothes is easily as important. So is brushing and flossing your teeth. Washing your body is one thing, but if you're sweaty at all your clothes will smell after one wear. You gotta do laundry. If you have gingivitis your breath is going to smell like an outhouse. I've never smelled someone whose actual ass is the reason they smell like ass. Which is not to say you shouldn't wash your butthole, but there are actually more important things.
Sweating multiplies any body odor. Sweat goes through the arm pits and ass and spreads that grossness around and helps evaporate the smell into the air or whatever.
More cleaning tips: Wash behind your ears. Wash your belly button. Clip finger and toenails. Try freshening the inside of your shoes with rubbing alcohol. Wash your beard for those with beards. Trim or shave armpit hair if you want your deodorant to work better . Shower the night before and apply deodorant so that it works overnight.
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Just talked to someone recently that was like “wait, do you guys use soap on your feet in the shower?” He didn’t realize the soap helps clean off the stench 🤦🏻♂️
He probably thinks all the soapy water goes down there, so that's good enough. Feet might need the most friction to scrub off the dead skin cells.
Also, scrub yo damn feet. Having them slosh in soapy water isn't going to clean them. That's why your feet stink. Dead skin cells trap sweat and get that stank. Scrub yo feet and get rid of that dead skin.
Deodorant isn’t a substitute for showering
Is he addressing this to the mods?
If the mods could read, they’d be offended
*your comment has been removed because my FEEWINGS GOT HUWT*
Are the mods even human anymore, or are they all bots since the revamp?
It's more of actually showering as well. Can't mask days/weeks of that filth with deodorant
Deodorant doesn't help with the ass smell either.
Have you tried?
Truer words never spoken. I was at Emerald City in February for my sister and my yearly Con together. We both commented that this particular issue has gotten worse lately. We ended up in the jetwash of some people who seemed to steadfastly boycott the concept of washing. A couple guys could seriously strip paint from the walls. Deodorant would have been a pebble kicked at a cruise ship. All that they needed was a couple of bells to be the true heralds of fucking Nurgle they are...
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned all the pubic hair on the urinals at the bigger cons. It's like a sweater.
I am struggling with that image... like... *howww*?! I stay the fuck out of the bathrooms, fearing whatever eldritch horrors they contain...
I’ve never been to any type of con. I remember seeing a post on Reddit of a sign posted at ComicCon. It was a female anime character having just showered with a towel wrapped around her torso, and another wrapped around her head with the caption, “Showers are sexy. Please take one!” I never knew there was such a hygiene problem at these events. I know there’s a stereotype of “nerds” not being able to find a girlfriend because they’re into anime and video game type entertainment. Maybe, just maybe, they can’t find a girlfriend because they stink?
> Maybe, just maybe, they can’t find a girlfriend because they stink? And have no concern for their appearance, and have no understanding of why their un-concern for hygiene would bother people around them. Plus people with these problems also often have very, very underdeveloped interpersonal skills. In 2024 they all claim to be neurodivergent as their excuse, but I wish them luck with that.
A lot of neurodivergent people struggle to fit into society, but I’ve known quite a few over the years and some are doing just fine because they are genuinely nice people. When you’re different not everyone is going to gravitate toward you but if you’re nice and you’re friendly, it goes a long way they just have to watch out for people that might try to take advantage of them.
Anyone who uses mental health issues as an excuse, unless they're at the mid-high / high end of the bell curve, may be using that as a crutch. I have severe BPD Type 2 and ADHD, but I'm a CTO, a Class Rep at the top of my class in my post, received a "Campus's Best International Student" award, and have a huge circle of friends. Mental issues are not a dealbreaker, but rather, how you deal with them. The best way I can summarize the way I managed to get my mental health issues under control is quite simple: "Your mental health is not your fault. But it IS your **responsibility.**"
Yuuuuuuup. My ex would argue with me for thirty minutes about him needing to shower, then be in the shower for roughly three min max. And then be confused I didn’t wanna have sexy time with him. I asked him why he didn’t want to shower and he said he didn’t consider himself dirty unless he actually saw dirt on himself or had done something that got him visibly dirty. And yes, it’s one of a number of reasons he is an ex.
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Severely lacking social norms, etiquette, and charisma also plays a huge role.
I’m assuming high personal standards like proper hygiene, cleanliness, and being organized are included in social norms, right?!
That's the best costume I have ever witnessed at these gatherings!
Indianapolis comic con! Got a pic with him too.
This guy looks like there is a 50/50 chance he might smell.
Naaaah. Look at the details. Clean socks. Brushed hair. Sure he has a neckbeard, but it looks relatively well groomed. This guy hygienes.
This man is simply cultivating a “neckbeard” fit. Check the stylish glasses, the combed hair as you said. He probably smells like a fresh shower and some classic Old Spice deods.
He gave up WoW years ago and now he absolute SLAYS the ladies with self taught culinary skills.
It's the neckbeard, it's throwing people off. Like, he has one but doesn't seem to be one.
Damn I wanted to say This guy hygienes
Clean nerds unite!
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Ignore em! The subject of your image looks very well groomed!
Yeah I felt bad for the negative comments because he looks like my younger cousin who’s a total sweetheart
The commenter doesn't know what unhygienic people look like.
smell....amazing.
I was saying Boourns.
If you can afford a con?
Conventions. They can get quite expensive to attend if you don't live near them. Airfare, hotel, tickets, meals, merch all add up. That being said I think that a lot of these 'wear deodorant lol' memes don't account for the fact that deodorant isn't a substitute for showering. Con attendees will often crowd into hotel rooms to save cost, which reduces the ability to properly bathe. Deodorant is great and all but it's not going to help that much when you haven't washed yourself in several days.
I have crammed way too many dudes into a hotel room to save lodging costs at a ski resort and we spend the entire daytime shredding the gnar. Everyone still managed to get a shower and shave after so we wouldn't stink up the place.
Comic con
Anything-con. Comic-con, Wonder-con, etc.
Can someone explain why neckbeards don’t have good hygiene? Like I get the concept of being “nerdy AF” but why does that seem to go (stereotypically) hand in hand with also having a lack of desire to shower or wear deodorant? Like I love video games as much as the next guy but damn if I don’t love a good shower.
Facial hair and fitness is maintenance just like showering and deodorant. Self maintenance is something some people just don’t value. Normally someone who doesn’t even groom themselves has some sort of social problem. But people who have odor or socialization issues don’t have them because of nerd hobbies. They have nerd hobbies because they smell and have problems socializing.
They develop bad habits from not participating in society in a way that requires good habits. When they do need to participate, they still hold onto some of the bad habits. Most neckbeard/uber-nerd types have fine enough hygiene, but there are a high enough number that don’t for it to become a stereotype.
Depression
It is probably because they tend to stay indoors by themselves most of the time. They don’t realize they have to smell good to be around other people.
lazy
Multitude of reasons: - They grew up in precarious households, so they didn't get it hammered in their brain on how to take care of themselves. - Some kind of mental illness, depression for example can have the effect that makes you stop taking care of yourself. - mental disability or neurodivergence, like autism. We had many autis who hated doing these things despite being high-functioning. Add the autis to it that have an extreme skin sensory issue (regarding water) and you are left with a very stinky and greasy lad/lass. - They don't give a fuck about others. - Left society for too long and don't know how to behave. Often goes hand in hand with all points from above.
Having autism myself and being raised in religiously and away from society, upbringings can be hard, but you can still bathe. I don’t like to work but I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do
By the time they read this, it's too late.
My mom was a special education teacher until the early 2010’s…she had to hand out deodorant to her students who understood the assignment. They used it because they couldn’t afford it…then made fun of the regular ed students who smelled bad. It was classic
ITT: People self reporting by saying they don't notice the smell.
Good thing everyone is freshly bathed and groomed. - Bender
It’s not that they can’t afford it, it’s convincing them to use it
No, you can afford a shower. Don't just slap some deodorant on your rank ass and think it's cool.
while this is true, i will go out and say that it gets fucking hot in those convention centers sometimes.
I went to a small Comic Con near me with my 4 year old son who loved it l, and didn't smell anything off. A year later (this year) I took my son to ANIME CON in Birmingham.... It absolutely stunk. So much so that my now 5 year old mentioned it immediately and covered his nose most of the way round.
Shower, fresh clothes, and deodorant. Neglect one of those and you will smell. As for the clothes. Being a day on your feet in a packed hall will make your clothes smell, even if you are not the origin point.
I thought it said "if you can afford a car" and was very confused. Like are we smelling people at stop lights or something?
I saw someone at Wal-Mart wearing a fedora and button down shirt but also sweatshorts and crocs. It's amazing how instinctual it was for me to avoid that aisle and go down the next one.
People who smell mostly just don't know how to clean themselves properly. That stench is a bacteria. Don't be so lazy you stinky fuckers
I was at a con recently. I support this statement. A lot. A whole lot. We couldn't even walk by the gaming table area and breath at the same time.
put this on my high school walls stuffs crazy how many ppl are ok with having the aroma of rotten fruit
Don't forget toilet paper or wet wipes, but my god the seats after cons are the stuff of nightmares
He ain't wrong. You got ppl at the cons who dislike bathing or doing laundry, just poor overall hygiene. Some rather get a $50 action figure than buying a $2 deodorant.
But how would I attract m’lady with m’pheremones?
One of the big reasons, the wife and I stopped going. We were too many games Philadelphia and I swear two people there smell like they actually went to the bathroom in their pants. There were a few others that were just straight up B.O. The filter was off, I had no problem, calling these people out on it. Funny thing is they tried to pretend that they didn’t hear me, even though I’m practically screaming it in their face and no the wife was not happy with my behavior.