Should somebody be allowed to fly if they smell bad?

14dMoney

Is it fair that others have to suffer?

I can see this thread taking off.

Snow Garden

14dMoney

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14dMoney

14dMoney wrote: »

Thanks 4 d bump m8

You're cordially welcome. Those two minutes must have been torment.

Paddy Cow

El_Duderino 09

14dMoney wrote: »

Is it fair that others have to suffer?

I was on a bus last night and came downstairs 5 mins before my stop. There was a smell of pissy old person who hasn’t washed their trousers in months and it was disgusting. I can’t imagine actually sitting beside someone who stinks for hours.

Should they be blocked from flying? Dunno. Probably.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Utterly unenforceable. Define smelling bad. The smell of garlic off somebody turns many a stomach. Some perfumes are overpowering and nauseating in confined spaces. The notion is nonsense.


There's a serious lack of imagination in these new thread lately. Or, people have little to be concerned about.

greencap

But smellies dont know that they're smelly.
I was in an Indian womans house there the other week, the bang of curry.

And its the same for other cultures who don't normally encounter westerners/europeans ... apparently there's some hum off us too.

maybe we're just so used to it that we don't realize.

punisher5112

No f in way.... I turn smelly folks away all the time....

punisher5112

greencap wrote: »

But smellies dont know that they're smelly.
I was in an Indian womans house there the other week, the bang of curry.

And its the same for other cultures who don't normally encounter westerners/europeans ... apparently there's some hum off us too.

maybe we're just so used to it that we don't realize.

Think the op talking about those that don't wash or ever clean or change their clothes.

Eli Thundering Earring

Eli Thundering Earring wrote: »

Utterly unenforceable. Define smelling bad. The smell of garlic off somebody turns many a stomach. Some perfumes are overpowering and nauseating in confined spaces. The notion is nonsense.

It's not nonsense though, is it. You're allowed on a plane when youre munching on a packet of silver mints, not when you're guzzling madkeral from a can.

If you're causing distress to passengers or causing them to become uncomfortable, it's probably already permissable to refuse them to board a flight. Good.

greencap

punisher5112 wrote: »

Think the op talking about those that don't wash or ever clean or change their clothes.

So you mean like people from Offaly?


How about if like 4 (individual, not family/group/associated) people complain then you have to get sprayed down with some air freshener and eat a pack of mints/chew some gum.

4 complaints and you have to go through de-smellification.

greencap

Paddy Cow wrote: »

I wonder did they take it to court.

fmpisces

greencap wrote: »

So you mean like people from Offaly?


How about if like 4 (individual, not family/group/associated) people complain then you have to get sprayed down with some air freshener and eat a pack of mints/chew some gum.

4 complaints and you have to go through de-smellification.

:eek::eek: 'Scuse me?

Dave_The_Sheep

Yes.

Sciprio

Only in the cargo hold with the rest of the animals

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

It's not nonsense though, is it. You're allowed on a plane when youre munching on a packet of silver mints, not when you're guzzling mackeral from a can.

If you're causing distress to numerous passengers, or causing them to become uncomfortable, it's probably already permissable to refuse them permission to board a flight. Good.

But, many people don't mind the smell of canned mackeral. Personally I couldn't sit next to someone who smells of roasted garlic or curry. Should I demand they are put off the plane?

SEPT 23 1989

Square up to them and tell them that if they can afford to fly they can afford a bar of fcuking soap

odyssey06

Be allowed to fly because of a smell? Never mind that, what about EBOLA?
Every one flying should have to go through a full decontamination procedure.

RMAOK

Could you not just open the window to let out the smell?

Eli Thundering Earring

Eli Thundering Earring wrote: »

But, many people don't mind the smell of canned mackeral. Personally I couldn't sit next to someone who smells of roasted garlic or curry. Should I demand they are put off the plane?

Eli Thundering Earring, I don't think we need to do a poll to agree that most people dislike the smell of canned mackeral in a confined space -- in the sense that it makes them seriously uncomfortable or even, in some cases, nauseated.

Anyway, we don't need a poll; a quick google seems to answer the question

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2018/08/07/unpleasant-as-it-is-travelers-sometimes-have-to-face-up-to-flying-with-foul-smelling-fellow-fliers/#5d83b9b91b83

If you've ever thought “there ought to be a law" against people who turn the air in the cabin of a modern airliner rancid, you're in luck.

Okay, it’s not exactly a law, per se, but most if not all airlines have rules in their contracts of carriage and/or government-approved operating procedures that allow them to remove particularly smelly passengers if the stench is so bad that other travelers are sickened by it.

Dublinmuppet

Smelly people on planes is an absolute nightmare. Don’t start me on screaming kids. I find the worst offenders are big fat people. A lot of them look clean but I reckon they can’t get in under the folds of skin and it’s a very nasty smell that comes off them

Your Face

No, they should stay in England.

Tamara tamara

No smelly people and fatties in the cargo hold. Usually covers both.

Skylinehead

Is it fair that others have to suffer this and other OP threads?

https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?user=907350&threads=1&sort=newest

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TheRiverman

Eli Thundering Earring wrote: »

Utterly unenforceable. Define smelling bad. The smell of garlic off somebody turns many a stomach. Some perfumes are overpowering and nauseating in confined spaces. The notion is nonsense.


There's a serious lack of imagination in these new thread lately. Or, people have little to be concerned about.

I think the thread is mostly about bad body odour as in person not washing him or herself,smelling of urine,****,sweat and unwashed clothes which will last as long as he or she is on the plane.

Paddy Cow

I was watching an airline series on youtube a while ago (can't remember the name but it was an American one from about ten years ago, something with South in the name I think) and there was this one episode where a check in manager had to deal with a guy who had serious BO. Some people talked to her about the smell coming from him and she had to talk to him about it. I was embarrassed for both of them but more her. She handled it really well and got him to have a wash in the rest room and gave him something to change into.

We all have a natural body odour. People who eat food with a lot of spices will smell of that. Western people because we have a dairy based diet also have a distinct smell. That's fine. There's nothing you can do about it (science backs me up on this before anyone cries racism - something about microbes in your gut breaking down food and how it's released) but we get on with it.

There's no excuse for getting on a flight if your body odour is BO. If you stink then I think it's ok for airlines to say you can't board. How do they enforce that though? Nowadays people are likely to get offended and sue for emotional distress so while the manager I saw who handled it perfectly got away with it ten years ago, I don't think she would today.

Leg End Reject

I'd suggest that people who haven't mastered basic personal hygiene shouldn't be allowed to leave their homes, never mind board a flight.

silverharp

possible solution at the start of this clip :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUxHL-LtEJw

black_and_blue

They shouldn't be allowed out of their house if they smell bad.

Dr.MickKiller

Just get a pair of smell cancelling nose phones.

The Bishop Basher

I was stuck beside a particularly honking passenger one evening. Thankfully it was london to Dublin so only a quick flight. I’m not easily offended or put out by anything but the stench off this guy was unfair on all of us who had to endure it and it got worse every time he moved which was regularly as he’d had a few jars and hit the toilet regularly.

I usually have a cup of tea and a snack on that flight but I couldn’t stomach it and didn’t want to risk him handing me my food.

So yes, I think smelly people should be banned from flying until they can wash and for those arguing about the smell of certain foods it’s not the same. Like vomit, the smell of BO is almost universally disgusting to other humans.

Austria!

Paddy Cow wrote: »

There's no excuse for getting on a flight if your body odour is BO.

especially when the thing you're flying in is an aircraft

punisher5112

There is a guy who gets the 46a, 145 or 155 and stinks worse then a sewer.

He gets on sits upstairs and nobody even bothers opening a window...

I was on one day and the smell hit me as the doors opened, I went up and it didn't take me long to spot him even from the back....


It was time for him to get off and we were all met with an arse covered in Sh1te and the reason for this was the arse in the trousers had worn away .....

I couldn't believe someone actually let him sit beside them and right up on them....

How the driver allowed him get on is beyond me as this guy is a regular.

lainey_d_123

Dublinmuppet wrote: »

Smelly people on planes is an absolute nightmare. Don’t start me on screaming kids. I find the worst offenders are big fat people. A lot of them look clean but I reckon they can’t get in under the folds of skin and it’s a very nasty smell that comes off them

Same. Funny how they're so quick to be sensitive to others' comments or even glances but have little concern for the person wedged in next to them.

I read a self absorbed article the other day about an obese woman complaining about people 'fat shaming' her and how humiliating it was when people gave her dirty looks. Not a single thought for what she was inflicting on her seat mates. I've spent an 8-hour flight next to an obese person and it was torturous. Couldn't even sit square on in my seat so had to sit with my back twisted, which caused a huge amount of pain. Obviously couldn't sleep. I discreetly asked the cabin crew to move seats when I'd absolutely had enough of it and the woman had the gall to start crying.

F**k off, ya self absorbed bint. We all have our problems. I was at the time suffering with a serious medical condition and had been counting on getting some rest on the flight. I tried everything I could before resorting to asking to be moved. I didn't shame her, I didn't even talk to her. I just looked out for myself, the way she was looking out for herself by taking up half my seat to save herself having to buy two seats.

I'm sure it IS difficult to be obese and get dirty looks, yes, but these people go on as if the rest of us should just put up with being wedged in and made uncomfortable just to save their feelings. It's as if they think nobody else matters and nobody has their own problems.