My dad used to tell me the story of a very smelly boy
who he went to boarding school with in the dim and distant past. It wasn't a problem with hygiene as they all had the same regulation 'one bath per week' treatment. The poor lad just oozed a pervading fug of rotteny-fishlike odour. It was actually particularly violent during the weekly bath when it would bond with the warm water vapour and roll out across the whole dorm house and cause much misery. Not least for the poor boy who it belonged to who quickly became known as Stinky Pinsent.

The story is not all doom and gloom though, Stinky grew up to be a handsome young man, who married a very pretty lady, presumably with a very poor sense of smell. They had kids and stuff and their youngest son won lots of medals. The end.
(lumpytuna, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 14:22, 4 replies)

Sounds like Trimethylaminuria
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylaminuria
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 15:07, closed)

it does indeed
not a fun condition, but I like to think it saved him from some 'fagging'. Silver linings and all that.
(lumpytuna, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 15:37, closed)

I was in sixth form
with Matthew Pinsent and Greg Searle. Used to play bridge against them almost every lunchtime.

It wasn't a boarding school and I never noticed Pinsent smelling of anything other than failure to understand the Gerber Convention.
(Rise and Fall of the Atomic Cabbage Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 16:01, closed)

I'd always wondered
if the curious affliction had been passed down to him. Nice to hear that it wasn't.
(lumpytuna, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 16:05, closed)