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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Smells.
It is said that the sense of smell is the one with the strongest links to memory. Certain aromas transport me instantly, such as bonfires which smell of festivals.

What is your favourite smell and why?

Fart jokes will result in a savage kick in the face.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:37, 315 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I enjoy the smell of misery in the morning

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:38, Reply)
The Apocolypse Badger

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:39, Reply)
Matches
I love the smell of a freshly struck match, no idea why. Any cooking of bread is awesome too and instantly renders me starving.

My good lady uses some kind of scrub in the bath that smells really spicy, but I can't quite place what it is.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:39, Reply)
I love matches too.
But that's mostly as I'm a bit of a pyro.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:43, Reply)
There is also this reason!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:46, Reply)
Vagisil, that is.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:53, Reply)
or "concrete"

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:55, Reply)
Whenever I see somebody taking Vagisil off the shelf in the supermarket
I have to resist an urge to point and shout "UNCLEAN".
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:02, Reply)
Vagisil
sounds like some kind of lady garden shelf, useful for little knick knacks
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:03, Reply)
Somewhere to rest your pint, like.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:05, Reply)
That is exactly what I was thinking

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:06, Reply)
TGB has them.
Very useful. One of them holds the collected works of Mills and Boon.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:10, Reply)
I like cinnamon. Apparently it's an aphrodisiac. This explains a lot.
Honey and melted tar remind me of being a child.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:39, Reply)
Melted tar is a kids smell, that's for sure!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:40, Reply)
Was your dad an Irish itinerant tarmacker?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:43, Reply)
No, the sun in LA would melt the roads and we visited La Brea a couple of times.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:46, Reply)
Farts.
My mums.


:(
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:40, Reply)
Pipe tobacco
reminds me of my Dad
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:40, Reply)
Reminds me of me grandfather.
I love it for that reason, despite the fact that it was smoking them that killed him.

*pages Alanis*
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:44, Reply)
I fucking hated the smell as a kid
but it always reminded me of him. He's given up smoking altogether now though
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:47, Reply)
I didn't know you knew my grandfather.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:14, Reply)
I "knew" your grandfather all right

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:20, Reply)
Reminds me of mine, too
as do Hamlet cigars and Aramis aftershave, or whatever it's called.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:15, Reply)
I'm revoking your access to our private board.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:41, Reply)

+s board
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:45, Reply)
OMG there's a post that doesn't have any homoerotic overtones!
Never fear! Darth Foxtrot is there with his strikethrough powers!

Phew!
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:51, Reply)
it's funny because you're gay but won't admit it until you're 60

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:52, Reply)
That was quite good actually
*respectful applause*
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:55, Reply)
CLOSE ONE!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:53, Reply)
Cigars and aftershave.
Babies.
Books.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:42, Reply)
The smell of brown leather
It blended in with the weather
It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth
It blocked all my senses
Couldn't see, hear, speak any longer
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:43, Reply)
Who sung that?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:44, Reply)
The Jam

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:44, Reply)
Now I recognize it.
Down in the Tube station at midnight.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:44, Reply)
Whoa-oh-ohhhh-oh

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:46, Reply)
Roast beef, always makes me think of christmas

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:44, Reply)
Your turkey has gone off then

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:47, Reply)
I've never been a huge fan of roast turkey
It's the boxing day roast beef I look forward to.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:49, Reply)
Turkey is shit,
its only benefit is its sheer size.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:52, Reply)
I like Christmas turkey
Loads of bacon and butter seepage into it - nyom
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:53, Reply)
Istanbul is fucking massive, after all

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:55, Reply)
Leave the internet, please.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:06, Reply)
Haha

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:11, Reply)
Don't you mean Constantinople?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:42, Reply)
Hahahahahaha

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:52, Reply)
I find smells much more evocative than photos, for instance
certain smells remind me of being on holiday (such as the smell of 5am on a summers morning, and yes it does have a particular smell, or the smell of festivals or barbeque) but probably my favourite smells are baking bread/cake, cut grass or the smell after rain in summer.
The smell of old books is great as well.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:44, Reply)
Do you like Pina Coladas?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:46, Reply)
Taking walks in the rain?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:47, Reply)
Not really
when it's pissing down I like to open the window a little bit so I can hear it properly and rejoice at the fact that I am warm and dry inside.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:16, Reply)
Good question
Vomitus reminds me of family holidays because my sister always, alwasy got carsick. Nice, eh. One of my favourite and least-encountered smells is the inside of a well-tended greenhouse. I know this is massively random but it takes me back to being about 6 or 7 and being amongst my Grandad's tomato plants in sunny Yorkshire. I encountered this smell for the first time in about 20 years last summer at Ms Foxtrot's grandparents and was torn between childlike glee and welling up for the old boy.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:45, Reply)
There is nothing random about it.
In fact, you've explained it in the very same sentance.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:04, Reply)
His Grandad bummed him ragged in there
and told his mum the blood in his pants was tomato juice. Best day of his life, that was when he first 'knew'.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:07, Reply)
That is revolting even for me. Sorry.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:15, Reply)
I love the smell of books
One of the many reasons why I dislike kindles.

My mum's spaghetti bolognese. It doesn't matter how shit your day's been, coming home to that smell makes everything better.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:45, Reply)
I always sniff a book before I read it.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:46, Reply)
Freshly popped party poppers
See also just-fired cap guns.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:45, Reply)

party
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:46, Reply)
It's all about loosening up

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:48, Reply)
*gets inflateyhead feeling, goes bright red*

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:48, Reply)
Urgh. Worst. Smell. Ever.
On night at the Sunday Social this irritating bird spilt a whole bottle down the side of a speaker stack, giving me and countless others hideous headaches. She was nicknamed 'Mary Poppers' after that (by me) and went on to marry my friend Tom, she is now Mrs Chemical Brother, NOT IRONICALLY.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:51, Reply)
My "mate" managed to pour the remains of a bottle over my face at the Leeds festival a few years ago
Cheers for that
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:54, Reply)
Highly dangerous.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:08, Reply)
I thought so, yes
Luckily I wasn't having a spliff or anything at the time
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:10, Reply)
a man should smell of clean washing and nice citrus aftershave. this is the best smell ever.
a man who smokes, eats too much garlic, and/or drinks coffee is just not the same. you sit or lie there looking all polite or romantic or sexy or whatever, but inside your nose is all wrinkled and you are thinking "your breath reeeeeks and you clearly think that chewing gum covers it, well it fucking doesn't."

there is a certain chemical, no idea what it is, but when i smell it occasionally, i am instantly transported back to the hand gel in the hospital at 3am waiting in a gutted sobbing panic for the doctors to tell me whether my mum was going to come round or not, and then 15 times a day whilst she was in a coma, every time i went in or out of the ward... it gives me cold sweats when i smell it now.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:46, Reply)
when my mom was in the hospital the morgue was below the lobby entrance
as the week went by the smell got worse and worse, I don't know if it was just my imagination or what
I will never ever forget that smell
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:53, Reply)
no, it is a very evocative powerful thing, the sense of smell

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:57, Reply)
A nice musky anus
It reminds me of happy times with HappyBara's missus.

NB - my thighs are of 'normal' length.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:47, Reply)
I was actually waiting for a response like this!
You get a click sir
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:49, Reply)
Why thank you Sir.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:51, Reply)
*applause*

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:55, Reply)
sweat and laundry detergent mixed reminds me of living at my aunts house when I was a kid
gives me this crazy homesick feeling everytime I smell it unexpectedly, it makes my heart hurt
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:47, Reply)
2 stroke engines
They remind me of my childhood bombing around on bikes. All modern bikes are 4 stroke and they don't smell right.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:49, Reply)
Mothballs remind me of my nan's house.
She had those things everywhere. Mind you, I never saw a moth in her house.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:49, Reply)
Would you go back to where you were castrated?
I think not!
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:50, Reply)
Cut Grass
school days back when I were a lad...

Also (if anyone can explain this beyond the fact that my wife is clearly a bit dim) Whenever you get the faint food smells on a summers evening she claims it smells of Spain, this being dispite there being no sweaty waiters trying to seduce young women,
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:50, Reply)
I get this, it happens to me sometimes.
But I think the Curry mile in Manchester smells like Leeds Festival.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:57, Reply)
That's because no one has washed for 48 hours.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:14, Reply)
this may be the most racist comment on b3ta
just because they are asian and work in curry restaurants does not mean they don't bath or shower.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:25, Reply)
I don't know about that,
I said 'nig-nog-gollywog-give-a-dog-a-bone' on here the other day.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:31, Reply)
yes but you are openly white supremacist type
and don't pretend to be a woolly love-everybody-liberal type.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:32, Reply)
I sincerely hope it doesn't
I quite like the smell of festivals when I'm at the festival: when you get home you realise you fucking honk. For a good chunk of the Wilmslow road to smell that way would be really quite bad.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:34, Reply)
Favourite Smell?
Teen Spirit deodorant.

It reminds me of dead smack heads.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:50, Reply)
The smell of lillies
When my ex gave birth to my son, the hospital ward was filled with the smell of fresh lillies.

It was a happy time, my son and heir was thriving, me and the ex were proud and happy parents, and we didn't despise each other like we do now.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:55, Reply)
I was shagging her the whole time, you know.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:57, Reply)
Even while she was giving birth.
I imagine you had to switch to anal though.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:58, Reply)
She 'split' half way through so it was kind of 'a bit of both', really.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:59, Reply)
*bokes*

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:00, Reply)
Great minds...

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:01, Reply)
oh for fuck's sake

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:02, Reply)
Was it like that bit of meat on a home-made kabab that doesn't get threaded properly ?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:06, Reply)
Like that, but with more of a 'poo' thing going on.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:10, Reply)
:(((((((((((((

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:12, Reply)
actually
i'd have thought it would be the one time she was split wide enough to accommodate monty and the baby...
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:59, Reply)
There's no difference after the tearing.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:00, Reply)
You have my deepest sympathy my man.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:58, Reply)
Really? They give birth for like 8 hours or something like that, sometimes even days.
Didn't you have a pill so you can finish off? Personally, if it lasts longer than the ad break between hollyoaks on C4 and E4, I get bored and wonder off for a sandwich.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:03, Reply)
The smell of the seaside
The fresh sea air and cracking good fish and chips - remind me of happy holidays as a kid.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:57, Reply)
The screams from my village burning when the raiders came.
As the houses burned and crackled, memories of generations of life times up into the smoke, filling our lungs as we ran for the boats. "WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST" came the yell from the camp leader, little did we know that that was their moto too. They wouldn't have came if the spells held in place, if we all kept inside the concealment encantation, I knew this, we all did, and that was how I gained vengance on my tribesman. I had done the deal with the devil, and I relish every single return payment.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:58, Reply)
As the boats left the shore I was last on, I told them to go without me, that I would fight them off. Through the mysts they could see the remains of the village.
the flames reaching the top of the tallest trees, I was the last one left, no tear was shed on my part, I watched them float off. When they were out of sight, I turned, and a smile engulfed my face, "Hello boys, pleased to see me?". It was then I showed them where the meed was burried.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:01, Reply)
You need a Yop, young man

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:02, Reply)
They don't sale Yop in southgate, I went to cockfosters just now, I have two bottles of yop, the last two.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:03, Reply)

I actually went to four shops today searching for it, true story, =(
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:04, Reply)
Working from home going well then?
Also have you started writing spam because the above posts (the burning not the yop ones) are the kinds of things that surround a pennystockpicks link
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:28, Reply)
=P Well, it was only the corner shops, and cockfosters was 'cus of docs.
I signed up to a website that pays me $0.001/post or email I send containing the word 'yop'. I'm almost up to a dollar !
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:39, Reply)
Desperation at 10 to 2, then it's NA's time to pounce!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:59, Reply)
my older brother loves the smell of petrol
it hurts my head and makes me feel carsick. why would anyone like that smell? it smells like being squashed in the back of a hot car and driven round twisty roads at high speed whilst trying to read small print in a book

*yaks*
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:59, Reply)
'Car smell' is repulsive.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:00, Reply)
Only because your's smells of renderred fat.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:02, Reply)
Have you just had a stroke?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:04, Reply)
/Helen Daniels lolz

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:11, Reply)
Were you once a kidnap victim?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:02, Reply)
Yes, I was

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:03, Reply)
telling myself that is what happened
is how i sleep at night
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:03, Reply)
Bonfires in the winter,
barbecues in the summer (obviously)
Petrol all year round.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:03, Reply)
Petrol + Fire?
A winning combination.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:10, Reply)
thanks for the sympathy reply dude.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:12, Reply)
Honey. Makes me think of Body Shop Honey Stick lip balm
and all of a sudden I'm just turning 14 and I'm snogging Alan McDonald in the rain.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:22, Reply)
VANILLA
reminds me of my friend's car after she opened an entire magic tree in one go, it was awful. also the super mobidly obese unpopular girl at school reeked of vanilla and you could smell her coming a mile away.

(irritatingly she is now slim and tall and quite good looking.)
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:24, Reply)
I wonder where poor smelly girl is.
She had scabs and smelled of wee and talc and cheap deodorant she'd used to disguise the smell. Poor little thing.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:26, Reply)
there's a book by an indian/english writer called "ishq and mushq" which apparently means "love and smell"
because those are the two things in life that you can't hide.

i quite like that.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:31, Reply)
That's lovely, and true.
My aunty hates my natural smell. She said it's sweet, but not nice like candy floss or honey sweet. She said sometimes sick people smell sweet.
I used to sleep in her bed every Friday and she said it was quite overwhelming some nights.
I think she just hates me.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:35, Reply)
rotta
/rottingfleshsmellssweet
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:39, Reply)
really?
Maybe I'm a zombie.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:41, Reply)
The man has clearly never encountered 'Hai Karate'.
You could mask the smell of Auschwitz with that stuff.

cf 'Blue Stratos'
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:36, Reply)
John Paul Fucking Gaultier for 'men' is the most homosexual, overpowering, noxious, begging-women-called-Debbi-for-sex-while-secretly-wanting-to-get-bummed-off-your-best-mate-Dazza tart-spray I have ever had the unfortunate experience of inhaling.
BAN IT.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:38, Reply)
To buy it in Bristol, all you have to do is go to Boots and ask for a can of 'Bob'
They check to see if you've got SKILL and if you have, they'll sell it to you.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:42, Reply)
Why's it called Bob?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:42, Reply)
After our own, dear, Bobby Pires

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:45, Reply)
The footballer or Turdy?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:46, Reply)
I know somebody's missus
whose anus has a slight, but noticeable "mushq".
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:41, Reply)
Schteve?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:42, Reply)

Alan Ronald
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:27, Reply)

Ronald Trevor
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:27, Reply)

trevor
Jim
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:29, Reply)
Aww, that was gonna be my next one!
JimSteve
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:30, Reply)
ye but I buggered up the ST so epic fail.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:30, Reply)

Steve Andy
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:32, Reply)

Andy Liz
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:33, Reply)
Struggling now
Liz Becky
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:38, Reply)

Becky Amy
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:39, Reply)
^ SPAZ!
EDIT: Good Ninja skills.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:40, Reply)
Shush!!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:43, Reply)

Amy Chris
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:40, Reply)

Chris Michael!
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:44, Reply)
Oof!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:49, Reply)
yes?
Oh, wait. That's not my name anymore...
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:46, Reply)
Alright Ting Ting!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:51, Reply)
hey bunny
how's 'it' hanging?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:53, Reply)
It's hanging over because I went to see Gilbert O'Sullivan and got drunk.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:58, Reply)
Did he sing your song?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:00, Reply)
Yes, and we all had a little cry.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:08, Reply)
poof

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:10, Reply)

Ronald Trevor Old
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:29, Reply)
I proper larfed there, in the office and everything.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:30, Reply)
:)
Yay!
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:33, Reply)
Hahahah
Remain on the internet.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:32, Reply)
That's the second time you've said that to me.
The only other time, was after I posted some shit Kirsty MacCall joke.

I almost feel validated.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:34, Reply)
I loved the Propellerheads' remix of her last single.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:37, Reply)
*Applauds*

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:39, Reply)

last single face
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:40, Reply)
Pfft!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:41, Reply)
I had to share a table with them once,
at a party in George Martin's studio in Hampstead, for the launch of a James Bond film soundtrack. Right dullards they were.

Possibly my shittest name drop ever.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:47, Reply)
Dettol - my childhood.
My mother was a cleaning obsessive.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:23, Reply)
You were a victim of Domestos abuse as a child.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:28, Reply)
I purely was, Jeff.
She used to pick my nose and do my ears with cotton buds all the time.
And IRON MY UNDERWEAR.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:29, Reply)
Killit - BANG!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:31, Reply)
talking of farts has reminded me I need to pack my gas mask for the weekend

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:26, Reply)
Getting kinky eh?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:28, Reply)
No it's a survival thing

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:30, Reply)
The smell of Brut and vaseline makes me sad for some reason that I can't put my finger on

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:30, Reply)
+ as it is still too sore

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:31, Reply)
hahahaha

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:32, Reply)
Because of your half-brother
(Oh, and you mis-spelled 'Bert')
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:31, Reply)
haha!
I like this
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:32, Reply)
Oh dear god

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:35, Reply)
Tobacco reminds me of when I first tried to get served in pubs
A strange part of me misses the way your clothes would smell of stale beer and cigarettes the following morning. Nowadays they just smell of stale beer and it's not quite the same.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:31, Reply)
Stale beer, public lavatories and bum-lube, you mean?
EDIT and sailors' spunk.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:33, Reply)
It's the only way I can still have a fag in the comfort of the pub.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:34, Reply)
Two in a row get clicks from me!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:35, Reply)
Excellent work, dear boy.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:37, Reply)
I almost prefer that to the way they smell now
although coming home after a night out, lying down in bed, the room is spinning...and you realise your skin and hair reeks of stale fag smoke... that's not a good moment.
But then going out somewhere which reeks of piss, BO and stale beer isn't that great either.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:37, Reply)
I can't imagine people smoking in a restaurant now, I used gto smoke quite a lot

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:43, Reply)
I know what you mean
when I went to Spain last year and everyone was smoking in the bars, I was really shocked by it, and surprised by how shocked I was. Ridiculous really when you consider we've not had the ban that long.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:44, Reply)
I wouldn'tt mind pubs with no food, but somehow it just seems wrong now
If I remeber back to my local, which is quite enclosed and low ceilinged and think how smoky it was, Roy Castle wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:48, Reply)
Hahaha

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:50, Reply)
That post was obviously soo good, you didn't even notice the typos

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:00, Reply)
Well I won't invite you back next time then, 'Rip van Winkle'

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:43, Reply)
Haha!
I did notice when I woke up that your flat smelled of something else entirely. Again, how I slept through it is a mystery, it was rather strong...
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:47, Reply)
Chloroform, that was.
How is your arse, by the way?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:49, Reply)
I heard Lady gaga is making a scent that smells of meat and semen
It'll be called L'eu D'arth
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:46, Reply)
I proper love smells, me.
I have a fascination with perfumes and essential oils and stuff. I used to work in a duty free shop, and was quite good at identifying and finding perfumes for people.

My personal favourite smells are:

Paris (the perfume) because it reminds me of my Mum.
Chanel No 5 - which I used to hate, but I think my tastes have now matured sufficiently for me to love it.
Coal dust in the air on a cold day - because it reminds me of my grandparents' home in Barnsley. See also my granddad's pipe tobacco.
The smell of my dog. For those of you who aren't dog people, each dog has a very distinct smell. Ask Jeff.
As rswipe said up there somewhere, there is a chemical in something that takes me back to those sort of deoderants and showergels we all used as teenagers. Sure, Mum, Impulse (Fa for those who lived abroad and might remember it) and I'm suddenly 13 again.
Also, vanilla positively disgusts me these days, due to a period of my life where I pure reeked of the stuff. And no, I wasn't the fat unattractive girl at swipey's school.

I was the fat unattractive girl at my school.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:52, Reply)
Your dog looks awesome

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:57, Reply)
How does it smell?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:59, Reply)
Funny you should ask

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:04, Reply)
Natrel Plus. Green flavour.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:57, Reply)
Also, i love sniffing Tigger.
He smells like the Christmas tree when it comes out of the loft. Or teddy bear's fur. A bit dusty.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:58, Reply)
'Coal dust in the air on a cold day - because it reminds me of my grandparents' home in Barnsley. '
Hahahahahahahahahahhaha

I swear I could actually hear a 'Hovis' colliery brass band striking up there. By 'eck.

*fancies pigeons*
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:59, Reply)
shows what you know, fuckface
Barnsley is in the south of that fair county, and is an absolute shithole compared to the rolling hills and scenic cobbles of the Hovis area.

I think there's someone from QOTW who lives in Barnsley, but I can't remember who.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:02, Reply)

+ a box in
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:03, Reply)
ooooh
there's posh.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:05, Reply)
reet posh
Can't type a Northern accent, being a home counties chap and all
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:06, Reply)
Silly NakedApe
just say 'gay southern woofter'. We're all friends here. Nobody will judge you.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:09, Reply)
That too

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:11, Reply)
You are right,
my knowledge of the impoverished, depressing, smelly north is not what it could be.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:05, Reply)
We wer so poor we had to suck t' coal dust out of t' air
and shit charcoal brickets to burn
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:03, Reply)
This needs more acknowledgement as a hilarious post

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:11, Reply)
Feel validated
I clicked.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:20, Reply)
Ta muchly!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:23, Reply)
so does my cartoon up there
they liked it on /board.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:23, Reply)
I like it here!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:27, Reply)
'Coal dust in the air on a cold day in Barnsley'
Was that a song by Northern Nora?

I remember her cousin Zoe sang the song 'Sunshine on a rainy day'
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:01, Reply)
Poor, Jeff,
Poorer than a red brick terrace in Bolton in't 50s. Eee, we 'ad it tough back then.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:03, Reply)
I remember this when it was just whippets and pigeons.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:05, Reply)
pigeon pie for tea and sex after
eh Jeff?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:06, Reply)
Aye, lad.
But we 'ad uz sense of humour. Not like nowadays wi' yer 'drum and bass' music and fancy lagers.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:06, Reply)
when mr b3th was a contractor, he was 'oop north'
and wandered into a proper northern pub for a small tipple.

Apparently when he asked for a pint of lager and lime, the whole place descended into aggressive silence.

"Um... I mean... a pint of bitter please mate".
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:08, Reply)
Lager and lime is pretty Darth in all areas to be fair

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:08, Reply)
Hahahah 'pretty Darth', like it

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:11, Reply)
by 'it'
do you mean bumsex?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:12, Reply)
No, I don't.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:23, Reply)
Them fancy lagers wor nuthin burra dream fer us back then.
You 'ad to murder yer granneh fer an alf a Mild.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:09, Reply)
A prossies handbag
By the way - the cricket just finished.
Hahahahahahahaha!
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 16:59, Reply)
UR Peter Sutcliffe AICM 'specially customised' jumper

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:01, Reply)
What a bunch of fuckwits

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:02, Reply)
IN YOUR FACE

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:16, Reply)
Wait I'm English, just unimpressed!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:17, Reply)
Tell Cromwell to stick that up his arse

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:18, Reply)
Tis but a minor set back...

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:22, Reply)
Good man. POTD.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 18:22, Reply)
The bonfire smell
especially on an autumn evening (best of all the seasons.) Also my favourite perfume Sensi, and the smell you get on a really clear, crisp winter morning.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:10, Reply)
*sings Sumer Is Icumen*

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:12, Reply)
If you ever get the chance, and you haven't already done so
check out Shalimar by Guerlain. It smells like coming home on a really cold November evening when it's dark and there's fireworks and bonfires in the air.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:14, Reply)
That sounds really nice
I've never worn much Guerlain. Must check it out
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:17, Reply)
this
I need a new day perfume, I'm bored of my old one.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:20, Reply)
I'm loving my new ones :)

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:21, Reply)
what do you usually wear?
and do you have a fragrance 'family' that you prefer?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:22, Reply)
I don't know anything about fragrance families
but if you have some clever way of recommending stuff I would be glad to hear it. (My method was going to involve half an hour in Boots and lots of those cardboard testers) Can I gaz you later perhaps? I've got to dash...
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:37, Reply)
Guerlain is my favourite fragrance house
their stuff just seems to stay much longer than most.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:21, Reply)
I'm trying some new ones at the moment
waiting for delivery
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:26, Reply)
If you ever get the chance, and you haven't already done so
check out Night to Remember by Shalamar. It is perhaps the gayest video of all time.

And I've seen 'Small Town Boy' by Bronksi Beat.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:18, Reply)
Fuck me I hate that song

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:24, Reply)
They will be heartbroken to hear this news.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:30, Reply)
As will many, many bands when they here of your opinion of them

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:36, Reply)
They also do a nice range of chocolates.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:26, Reply)
Have a list Monters
Tomato plants - I grow them every year just for the smell which reminds me of my late grandfather who used to grow them in his greenhouse. Sadly I have to make mine risk the patio.
The aftersmell of bonfire night on a foggy morning transports me back to childhood and the favourite northern pastime of dead rocket collecting.
Freesias - for no other reason than I like them.
Curry - the smell from the New Himalaya on the way to the pub has me salivating every time I walk past.
The smell of rain in the woods where I walk my dog.
Puppies - only dog owners will get this one.anyone who is not pleased by that lovely warm puppy smell is a heartless twunt.
Dewberry bath bubbles by the Body Shop make me think of happier times in general.
Fresh bed linen which has been line dried.
Clean men smell lovely too but sadly I don't know any...

EDIT: I hate the smell of vodka for painful reasons that I cannot even begin to think about posting on QOTW cause I'm just not going back there.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:20, Reply)
This may make me a cunt
but my family bought a new puppy a few days ago (which I knew nothing about) and when they visited, the puppy smell almost made me sick
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:23, Reply)
ah don't worry
you'll soon get to like it............
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:27, Reply)
I'm not really a dog person

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:30, Reply)
Not like our Jeff.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:31, Reply)
I'm sure if I met more women I could kick this dog habit.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:35, Reply)
I may have to ask you to leave team awesome...

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:32, Reply)
:(
You've ruined my LIFE
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:34, Reply)
You ruined it by not liking dogs

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:35, Reply)
It's not my fault
*slinks from the building*
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:37, Reply)
aww come back
You can stay. But to balance it out Lab can't be in Team Awesome this weekend
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:42, Reply)
Sorry Labs
I'm definitely taking the deal
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:46, Reply)
Hush you.
Not being that keen on dogs is a valid life-choice.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:39, Reply)
pft no
wrongy mcwrongerson
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:42, Reply)
So why
in satan's name did they get you a puppy?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:32, Reply)
scrub that
I just re read your post....getting a little over eager.....
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:33, Reply)
They didn't. They got them a puppy.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:34, Reply)
I don't like puppies.
I do like kittens though, they look retarded when they run.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:27, Reply)
I don't like cricket.
WOH NOOO.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:29, Reply)
I love itAH

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:31, Reply)
can we take point 9 as conclusive proof that AA has a cheesy knob?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:25, Reply)
You could
but I have never met AA..........
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:26, Reply)
Wow, I read that as BelladonnaAnodine
my eyes have betrayed me. I really am an internet spastic.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:29, Reply)
You really are.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:30, Reply)
I'm sorry, you have been right all along.
*picks up dunce hat, sits in corner*
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:32, Reply)
Your hat's on upside down. The round end goes on your head.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:35, Reply)
Recognising that you have a problem
is the first step towards healing.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:30, Reply)
Should have
gone to Spacsavers
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:31, Reply)
Leave the internet
Also if one more person says to be, "woah, that was a bit last minute dot com" I will kill them, with an axe.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:33, Reply)
Why are you being so mean?
I'm a bit confused dot com about this.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:35, Reply)
Sir Ape
I said Spacsavers, not the well know optician.........a little play on words......geddit?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:35, Reply)
I thought it was good pal.
But I've just proved myself to be a retard so what do I know?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:37, Reply)
Thank you
kind Turdd
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:41, Reply)
Missed that...soz

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:38, Reply)
I'm confused.com

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:35, Reply)
oh dear
looks like you're "for it"
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:36, Reply)
My last request is to compare some meerkats

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:37, Reply)
You're toofuckingslow.com

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:37, Reply)
At least I don't need to visit wonga.com

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:38, Reply)
ah, mean minds think alike

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:39, Reply)
I quite liked the word wonga
but the bobby that does the adverts has ruined it for me
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:40, Reply)
wonga.com

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:38, Reply)
WeBuyAnyCar..... Err, sorry. As you were.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:37, Reply)
Hahahaha, I genuinely just burst out laughing at my desk there

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:39, Reply)

rocket cat

Eee, times wuz 'aard. But we got by wi' the music o' George Formby in uz 'arts, and our catskin 'ats to keep uz warm.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:27, Reply)
This is funny
my mother insists on calling her lean grilling machine George Formby........thankfully they are removed from the north and do not own either a whippet or pigeons. They have also replaced their coal fire with a bloody horrible electric dimplex affair. So evidence of the north is almost removed............
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:30, Reply)
How many metres' walk across a grim backyard is their lavatory from their house?

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:34, Reply)
They measure it in whippet lengths

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:35, Reply)
all 5 of them
are contained within their property.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:35, Reply)
I suppose if you live on a diet of gravy and coal
you need a 'lavveh' every few feet.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:36, Reply)

lavveh empty KFC bucket
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:37, Reply)
I already told yer
no coal - they burnt peat anyway...........living in Ireland, it's the most readily available to them.....
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:39, Reply)
Poor old Pete.
De little fecker.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:40, Reply)
That's impressive
most rooms only have four corners.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:37, Reply)
ha ha ha ha

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:37, Reply)
Ah but puddles are round.

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:42, Reply)
Careful now, with dat dere damp you'll be down with de consumption

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:45, Reply)
You can take the povvo out of the North, but you can't take the North out of the povvo

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:34, Reply)
Rive Gauche.
Fond memories of many a booze filled evening.
Now it's Hermes Rouge. Stops me getting lonely during the day.
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:27, Reply)
to me campfires, forests
and facepaint are the smells of larp and thus of happiness and fun and friends and tiredness and bruises
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:36, Reply)
Surely the smell of LARP is virginal sweatiness

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:37, Reply)
...and bad teeth
don't ask me why but there are a lot of bad teethed people at larp
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:39, Reply)
It would right in on the tooth front
When I eat an apple it looks like it's been savaged by a rabid weasel
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:40, Reply)
I have a sticky out tooth at the top front right
but it's not like it's rotting away or anything
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:42, Reply)
*passes beer bottle*

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:43, Reply)
*pop!*
so, why are we still using this ridiculously long thread, then?
(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:45, Reply)
Started a new one!#

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:48, Reply)


(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:47, Reply)
you're always posting pictures of me, you git!

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:47, Reply)
300 *mexican waves*

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:41, Reply)
*shoots mexican for waving at my blonde daughter*

(, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 17:42, Reply)

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