Dublin Bus Smell Detectors

Collie D

Now that we are getting some good weather has anyone noticed how bad some people smell on the bus. Fair enough if it's the evening and you've been woking on a building site all day in the heat, I can understand a bit of a smell but it is just as bad in the morning. Do people not shower before they go to work. I would be embarrassed to leave the house without a good long hot shower. And it's not just guys. Well dressed girl, well made up, etc. sat beside me this morning and the bang off her was unreal. I'm sure the whole bus must have smelled it too and looked around. There's her looking all prim and proper and me in jeans, t-shirt and hadn't shaved. I bet they thought it was me which made it worse.

grimloch

The idea that we should smell nice in this heat is ludicrous. I shower before I go into work most days but I probably walk a good five miles a day on top of legging it up thousands of flights of stairs. I don't tend to smell too bad but it really can't be helped.

Karoma

I hate the smell of onion and garlic that seeps through their pores (Giving the ****ers the benefit of assuming they ever shower. Filthy swine.)

antSionnach

My mate is always going on about how people on buses to posh areas smell normal and people on buses that go through pov areas stink. Having stayed on the 46A and 10 past O'Connell Street enough times I actually find myself in agreement. Anyone know why this is?

Last year the gf was living out in Harolds Cross and theres some fairly dodge buses going out there... jesus the smell of piss was unbelievable. Old people always seem to be the worst offenders.

Body odour stinks

Ruu_Old

Take the doors and windows off the buses in the summer months even if it rains you're in a win win because the smellies get a shower.

Karoma

antSionnach wrote:

Last year the gf was living out in Harolds Cross and theres some fairly dodge buses going out there... jesus the smell of piss was unbelievable. Old people always seem to be the worst offenders.

The 16/a constantly shtinks.

Posh -v- "pov" bus routes is a crock of shit. They all have smelly gits.

antSionnach

Karoma wrote:

The 16/a constantly shtinks.

Thats it! couldnt think of the number. it does though doesnt it. Theres a 54 too that smells of homeless granny

Karoma

antSionnach wrote:

Thats it! couldnt think of the number. it does though doesnt it. Theres a 54 too that smells of homeless granny

I haven't sat on a homeless granny, so I can't directly compare the two. I'll take your word for it.

Terry

all buses smell.
it doesn't matter where they are going.
you'll always get some scumbag taking a piss down the back./

Dudess

grimloch wrote:

The idea that we should smell nice in this heat is ludicrous. I shower before I go into work most days but I probably walk a good five miles a day on top of legging it up thousands of flights of stairs. I don't tend to smell too bad but it really can't be helped.

Yeah, but there's deodorant. Forgot mine today. I'm an idiot! Sorry to anyone who was near me before I bought some. And had a really really long almost cold shower this morning. Heaven! Hate when it's this hot. Love when it's sunny but this heat is just unpleasant. We're not prepared for it. I nearly suffocated at work - no air-conditioning. But then, there's hardly going to be much of a market for it in Ireland.

InFront

julep wrote:

all buses smell.
it doesn't matter where they are going.
you'll always get some scumbag taking a piss down the back./

I disagree, some buses smell fine, someobody mentioned 46a and 10 they do smell fine its true,

i would make a similiar point on the two luas lines. I had to work in StJames' recently and changing luas lines ie getting on the one that goes to st james, the smell was often terrible.

its just because its usually got a higher proprtion of scruffy types and they dont seem to have as good a standard of hygiene as others. have no idea why tbh

Zapp Brannigan

Was on the 39 today and the smell was atrocious both ways in and out of town!
The windows were all open but the smell persisted, wasn't pleasant!

Dyr

dublin buses bus actually smell all by their lonesome a lot of the time. Funny thing is some of the new ones smell like the public transport i was on in eastern europe, hot machine type smell. Maybe the poles borught it over lol

though there used to be one little fella on the 13 in the mornings and his job looked like it was a kitchen porter or u-bend inspector or summat..he smelled and looked horrific, and this was on his way INTO work, musta have lived in a sewer. I felt sorry for him because the bus could be packed and hed still have have a clatter of empty seats around him. People would sit beside him, cop the bang offa him and immediately retreat down the end of the bus

Collie D

Dudess wrote:

Yeah, but there's deodorant. Forgot mine today. I'm an idiot! Sorry to anyone who was near me .

Wasn't the 27 by any chance? you could be the inspiration behind my original post

Karoma

Slurms wrote:

Was on the 39 today and the smell was atrocious both ways in and out of town!
The windows were all open but the smell persisted, wasn't pleasant!

The 39 smells every day of the year. I nearly got into a fight one morning, last winter -I was sitting behind some smelly onion-oozing bitch, so I opened the window...

ST*

Karoma wrote:

so I opened the window...

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Reeeally? WtF happened next?!?!

/Sits on edge of seat.


Fire it up there Karoma.

Call Me Jimmy

ST* wrote:

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Reeeally? WtF happened next?!?!

/Sits on edge of seat.


Fire it up there Karoma.

de bitch hit him a schmack jah!

Reganio 2

My mate works for dublin bus on the southside and they find loads of sick all over the bus especially the night link. But the worst is when he found .... wait for it .... A s**t bag on the bus on one of the seats:eek:. You know like a granny with bowel problems and she just un attached the bag left it there and hoped off the bus . The smell was supposedly the worst he had ever smelt.
sick or what.

emeraldstar

Karoma wrote:

The 16/a constantly shtinks.

never ever noticed and this used to be my regular bus into town. Strange. Are you sure????

antSionnach

emeraldstar wrote:

never ever noticed and this used to be my regular bus into town. Strange. Are you sure????

Yes s/hes right! I got this loads until a few weeks ago, the thought of that smell makes me feel sick. Maybe not on every journey, but my prevailing memory of going to my girlfriends was the bad smells i had to endure. Not worth 1.35 to travel on, but I suppose it is quite regular.

Karoma

ST* wrote:

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Reeeally? WtF happened next?!?!

/Sits on edge of seat.


Fire it up there Karoma.

You'll have to sit on my lap...

Re: 16/a: positive. Almost every single bus. *sniff* And it's not me.

Dave!

Collie D wrote:

I would be embarrassed to leave the house without a good long hot shower.

You obviously have a serious B.O. problem in that case...

Terry

antSionnach wrote:

Yes s/hes right! I got this loads until a few weeks ago, the thought of that smell makes me feel sick. Maybe not on every journey, but my prevailing memory of going to my girlfriends was the bad smells i had to endure. Not worth 1.35 to travel on, but I suppose it is quite regular.

really?

My mate is always going on about how people on buses to posh areas smell normal and people on buses that go through pov areas stink. Having stayed on the 46A and 10 past O'Connell Street enough times I actually find myself in agreement. Anyone know why this is?

does your girlfriend know you regard her as living in a "pov area"?

antSionnach

julep wrote:

really?


does your girlfriend know you regard her as living in a "pov area"?

harolds cross isnt really pov but yes i make it abundantly clear that i dont want her to catch poverty while there:D Shes a native of Malahide though, so she's got immunity!

/ sarcasm/

ST*

Karoma wrote:

Re: 16/a: positive. Almost every single bus. *sniff* And it's not me.

You are still responsible for what you bring home you know.



If my car broke down I'd sooner walk than catch the bus / train etc.

Mimikyu

This post has been deleted.

Binomate

The back of the top deck usually smells of piss anyway.

Mimikyu

This post has been deleted.

zilog_jones

The buses in Limerick don't sound half as bad, but then again we have been banished from double-deckers. I get the 302 (Caherdavin) and 304/304A (Raheen/Raheen via Greenfields) every day to work and back, and I get the 308/308A to UL when I'm in college, and they're usually not particularly smelly, though the back of them often stinks of ass/vinegary chips/scobe/piss/diesel. And there's always the odd stinky old man.

They seem to rotate the buses between routes too, so none of them smell particularly worse on their own. Half of them seem to break down when it gets too hot anyway

LikeOhMyGawd!

Anyone who uses buses must be 'pov' and so by default is a stinker. Even the 7 and 46; I mean can't you afford a taxi or a car that works?

DonkeyStyle \o/

Collie D wrote:

Dublin Bus Smell Detectors

Hmm, wassat? like having a doorman at the front of the bus that gives you a quick sniff before letting you on?
I'd pay the extra fare for that tbh... but only if he kicked roudy/annoying people off the bus aswell.
There ye are bouncers, some daytime work for ye.

Collie D

DaveMcG wrote:

You obviously have a serious B.O. problem in that case...

Because I like to shower every day and like to be ygienic, how you work that out? I take it you're not a regular shower taker, hope you don't live on my bus route

The Song Thrush

Every morning the same fat schoolkid would sit next to me for some reason. The smell of sweat and feces off him was attrocious. Thank **** school's out for the summer.
And this is the 46a, supposedly one of the posh routes.

Hal1

Hmm, I think theres only 1 air conditioning unit thing to a floor on those double deckers, thank fook I dont have to use buses anymore lal

antSionnach

supposedly? as bus routes go its the definitive posh one. the only one that could rival it would be the 10/a, until it crosses the liffey and metamorphasies. That 10 is one schizo of a busroute. posh and pov at the same time!

More stinky people in poor areas. Its not rocket science. I for one think that smelly people should be made sit on the roof or run along behind the bus:p

Reku

Hmm 19/a seem to be ok in the mornings and evenings, there have been a few times when someone would get on still stinking of drink from the night before but anything else was just a one off of someone with a severe hygiene problem (remember one guy who nearly attacked someone for moving his bag when the bus was too full and his gear was spread all over the ground, my guess would be homeless and not right in the head, absolutely horrid smell! Was desperately trying to keep from throwing up over it and it lingered for the rest of the trip even though he got off on Parnell Square!).