Why do we like to smell bad smells?

faceman

In a lift the other day. Theres a bad smell. Conversation goes like this:

Person A: [sniff] "uuhh, whats that smell, its rotten? [sniff]
Person B and Me: [sniff] yeah thes rotten alright, smells like poo
Person A: [Sniff] what is it? [bigger sniff]
Person B: [big sniffs now] i dont know, someone dead in the lift shaft?
Person A&B: [sniff], [sniff] Thats really disgusting, let me out of this lift already! [sniff]
Me: Why do you keeping sniffing even though you know the smell is bad?

And then the penny dropped. Why do us human beings do this?

Jesus Wept

Eddie Murhpy touched on this before in his stand up.

It's because we want to rank (pun intended) and rate the smell, based on how bad it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSZJJc3T1RQ

Pighead

Pighead didn't want to reply to this thread because it stinks so much but all of a sudden the words were all typed out and the Submit Reply button was pressed. Humans are mad.

Dun laoire

I farted on my uncle's head on Monday and his fringe parted. No sh1t!! He'l tell you himself

Jigsaw

Dun laoire wrote:

I farted on my uncle's head on Monday and his fringe parted. No sh1t!! He'l tell you himself

I sincerely hope there was no sh1t!!

:eek:

rannerap

pink eye!

Ninja_scrotum

There's nothing like a dense cloud of fartgas to get a room full of lads goin.

"JAYSUS WHAT DID YA [SNIFF] EAT"

FlutterinBantam

You could take a fcukin knife an'fork to it.

Zillah

"Like to"? As opposed to "feel a compulsion to"? Evolution! Those who went to the bother of identifying the bad smells discovered there was shit in their food or a corpse under their shack. Those who didn't ate shitty food and inhaled corpse for a month. Those jerks died.