Get your act together There’s no excuse.
Minging feet? Don’t wear flip flops. I don’t want to see your fungal toe nails or smell your flaky athletes foot. Buy some foot spray or go to see your Doctor. I don’t care how you tackle the problem just do so and keep your feet covered up until you have.

Clean your teeth. Halitosis is disgusting and (unless you have some sort of mouth related medical condition) preventable. Brush your teeth at least twice a day, floss and use mouthwash if you need to. Don't breathe in other peoples direction until you've got this sorted out.

Shower or bathe every day. Soap and water are cheap. You don’t have to buy expensive brands.

Wear deodorant and change your clothes frequently. Smelling your B.O. when you are packed in next to me on the tube makes me want to punch you in the face.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 7:28, 22 replies)

Nothing beats a squaddie in the pool on a hot morning
in the middle of a heatwave tho. ;)
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 6 Feb 2012, 7:38, closed)

There is no excuse for men wearing flip flops at any other time than when on the beach / around a swimming pool.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:14, closed)

or indeed, walking around barechested, wearing shorts, etc.

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 12:32, closed)

Your post
makes me want to punch you in the face.
(username failed moderation, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:16, closed)

your username offends me
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:20, closed)

There was a Ruby Wax feature
where she explained that before the late 1940s, everyone smelled a bit. Just the way it was and no-one really thought much about it. Then :ifebouy soap started an advertising campaign that said it was bad to smell and people tried much harder not to.
Supposedly.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:28, closed)

Given that most men, even manual labourers, would typically wear:
- A vest or undershirt
- a heavy cotton shirt with collar & tie
- a waistcoat made from heavy woollen fabric such as tweed or serge
- a suit of same
- a felt or tweed hat of some kind

and that their concession to hot weather was to take off their jacket and roll their sleeves up, it's hardly surprising they were a bit smelly most of the time.

Aerosol air fresheners were invented by the Japanese to get rid of the stink (apparently like sour milk to their nostrils) of occupying American forces personnel in the immediate aftermath of WW2, apparently.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 12:37, closed)

My Auntie
worked as a physiotherapist in wartime London. One of her jobs was to treat slum kids for rickets with ultra-violet light. On their first treatment she had to take out the stitches that sewed them into their clothes and put in hook and eye fasteners.
East End children, pre-war, were sewed into their clothes in the fall and wore them day and night until spring.
I wonder if they stunk.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Tue 7 Feb 2012, 2:47, closed)

Or
you could just back off a bit?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:42, closed)

I'm with you on the halitosis
as I'm always getting stuck next to people whose breath could strip paint on the tube and it's horrific
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:53, closed)

Why don't you just take a taxi, you easily offended buffoon?

( Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:57, closed)

Or are you a corporate shill for Unilever?

( Pope Shax XIII uses Visio for picture editing, does it show?, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:58, closed)

^ stinks

( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 9:59, closed)

I like how you've managed to upset people by pointing out that basic hygiene is easily maintained.
Nicely done.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 10:19, closed)

^What the fat, sweaty virgin said^

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 12:16, closed)

For once, you are bang on the money.
More of this.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 6 Feb 2012, 12:52, closed)

Shan't. So there.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 10:20, closed)

*Wafts in your general direction*

(The Luggage is haunted..., Mon 6 Feb 2012, 11:51, closed)

As a bit of Trivia
Halitosis was a name made up by one of the bigger mouth wash companies.Think it may have been Listerine....
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 12:20, closed)

I'm calling bullshit on that
According to Chambers Etymological Dictionary, the word "halitosis" dates from 1874 while Listerine was formed in 1879 and the mouthwash product didn't go on sale until 1914. Apparently they did coin the phrase "chronic halitosis" in 1921 but that's all.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 15:02, closed)

I'm sorry you feel that way
because you smell like a twelve-day-old corpse at the height of summer.

I wasn't going to say anything, but you brought it up...
(rampants, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 17:40, closed)

How the fuck can you tell who's smelly?
The entire Tube system stinks of sweaty, farty humanity at all times.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 19:08, closed)