The nastiest odour you've encountered.

Archeron · 11-06-2008 08:49PM #1

Earlier today in the course of my job, I was introduced to a prospective customer, so I shook his hand and exchanged pleasantries. As he opened his mouth to say hello, a waft of what can only be described as a 2 month old ham basted in the pus of a rotting vulture came breezing out of his mouth and almost made me go unconscious.
I dont know if he knew that his breath smelled like satan in olfactory form, but it actually made my eyes water. When I got outside, I gulped huge lungfuls of fresh air, but that nasty pong seems to be staying with me. Five hours later and I think its gone that far up my nose that I can actually taste it....ewwww.

So what stench do you think is the worst you've encountered in your daily life? Feet? Farts? Decomposing rabbits that you found in a ditch?

In fairness, close second for me has to be really stale sweat, but todays particular unpleasantness is something that will, sadly, stay with me for a while.

GirlInterrupted · 11-06-2008 08:51PM

Archeron wrote: »

Earlier today in the course of my job, I was introduced to a prospective customer, so I shook his hand and exchanged pleasantries. As he opened his mouth to say hello, a waft of what can only be described as a 2 month old ham basted in the pus of a rotting vulture came breezing out of his mouth and almost made me go unconscious.
I dont know if he knew that his breath smelled like satan in olfactory form, but it actually made my eyes water. When I got outside, I gulped huge lungfuls of fresh air, but that nasty pong seems to be staying with me. Five hours later and I think its gone that far up my nose that I can actually taste it....ewwww.

So what stench do you think is the worst you've encountered in your daily life? Feet? Farts? Decomposing rabbits that you found in a ditch?

In fairness, close second for me has to be really stale sweat, but todays particular unpleasantness is something that will, sadly, stay with me for a while.

Nephews nappy whilst he had a stomach bug = What concentrated evil must smell like.

Abi · 11-06-2008 08:56PM

I passed by an man in a shop once, and the smell actually made me dry-gag with water streaming down my face.

He stank of interference, piss and pure filth.

ferdi · 11-06-2008 08:59PM

yore ma

zuutroy · 11-06-2008 09:01PM

Some chicken went out of date so we put it in the rubbish and put the bag out on the balcony. It was 30c all week and 5 days before bin day....sickening

Pigwidgeon · 11-06-2008 09:03PM

a guy i used to be friends with stayed in someones house for a week before,
didn't shower, brush teeth, change clothes (including boxers and socks) for the week, basically no hygiene. the smell was not plesent (putting it nicely) and somehow his girlfriend was still all over him..

Creamy Goodness · 11-06-2008 09:05PM

the bin at the top of grafton street. or the bottom if you're that way inclined (down near vodafone)

it's bloody gastly.

cmplol1jne · 11-06-2008 09:05PM

raw peeled potatos left in a pot of water for about a week... vile and overpowering

Archeron · 11-06-2008 09:06PM

ferdi wrote: »

yore ma

Now thats a good "yore ma"

johnnyq · 11-06-2008 09:06PM

Skunk!

No really, it is the worst fecking smell ever!

Sherifu · 11-06-2008 09:11PM

A shed of damp rotten potatoes.

swingking · 11-06-2008 09:15PM

the smell of one of those god awful
diarrhoea farts

Ruu_Old · 11-06-2008 09:17PM

Farmers nearby who mixed pigs blood into the schlurry and spread it onto the fields.

s14driftking · 11-06-2008 09:24PM

Ruu wrote: »

Farmers nearby who mixed pigs blood into the schlurry and spread it onto the fields.

x2 tats vile

Gordon · 11-06-2008 09:24PM

A friend of mine and his family were killed and left in the house for a week in the height of a Greek summer. They had a closed casket funeral and even then the smell made me nearly lose my stance and collapse. Granted though, it was quite emotional too.

cmplol1jne · 11-06-2008 09:24PM

Oh wait, now that I think of it... it was driving past a "meat factory" when the wind was blowing just so... the stench of death and disembowelment.
Taking a shortcut near bovine university comes at a terrible price

gidget · 11-06-2008 09:34PM

i got the smell of the scene where a decomposing body was discovered a few years ago - a neighbour opposite my nana's was found dead in his bed after neighbours hadn't seen him in a week - bare in mind it was during one of Ireland's sunniest July's. i went over to visit my nana the day after he was discovered and was sent over to his relative with some stuff and the smell was just awful -

Dord · 11-06-2008 09:39PM

A guy I went to school with. Actually his whole family smelled. REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD.

The only way I could describe it would be rubbish and stale sweat.

Fremen · 11-06-2008 09:42PM

Joe Robot wrote: »

A guy I went to school with. Actually his whole family smelled. REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD.

The only way I could describe it would be rubbish and stale sweat.

God bless the upper-middle class with their superfluous "actually"s.

FatherTed · 11-06-2008 09:47PM

Used to work in an NYC office with an hasidic jew who brought in gefilte fish a few times a week for lunch. That stuff really stunk up the place.

The Bollox · 11-06-2008 09:53PM

chicken grease. it is absolutly vile! nothing can compare to the stench

Ass · 11-06-2008 10:17PM

Ants under a magnifying glass.

Dord · 11-06-2008 10:20PM

Fremen wrote: »

God bless the upper-middle class with their superfluous "actually"s.

Huh? WTF is that supposed to mean?

Kimbot · 11-06-2008 10:23PM

I once had a cr@p that was so bad the smell made me puke!! Granted I was dying with a dose but once that smell hit me I had no choice but to throw up it was that foul.

Thrill · 11-06-2008 10:27PM

Archeron wrote: »

Now thats a good "yore ma"

+1 The best use of "yore ma" I've seen in a while.

Garlic breath. A guy I used to work with used to eat it all the time, every day in fact, and you could smell his breath from a fair old distance. Having to stand near him while he spoke (or just breath ) was a pain in the nose.

Stephen · 11-06-2008 10:35PM

The place I work in has an effluent plant that returns crystal clear water to the river, but holy crap the by-product from it is the most vile sh1t I have ever smelt. It gets taken away by tractors and spread on fields. Worse than any slurry. I have had the misfortune to be stuck behind one of those tractors on the road for a while. Never a better reason to get a car with air conditioning :pac:

irlirishkev · 11-06-2008 10:39PM

Without thinking, one afternoon while in a city centre rehearsal studio, I sniffed the microphone I was singing into..

Well sweet Jesus. The years of of people breathing/spitting into that mic had definitely taken it's toll. Stale putrid human stink, so bad I nearly threw up on the mic.. Come to think of it, it's probably happend. That would account for the severity of the smell..

Ick..

daisy123 · 11-06-2008 10:41PM

johnnyq wrote: »

Skunk!

No really, it is the worst fecking smell ever!

+1, I always thought tv was overexaggerating. It wasn't!!

Also, any meat that has been left too long in the heat. Nasty.

Bait is also up there. Some guy opened his container of bait next to me at Booterstown DART station the other day, the smells combined, defo in my top three!

Steve · 11-06-2008 10:48PM

Good few years back... I was involved in a project in a bone meal factory. Basically, bone meal is dead cows that are unfit for consumption which are then ground up into pulp and dried.
My boss at the time went to a meeting in the factory, they gave him a (sealed) bag of it because apparently it's great stuff to put on roses.

2 months and several valets later, the stink was still so bad in the car he had to sell it.

pickarooney · 11-06-2008 10:51PM

A pile of sheep stomachs left in a butcher's shed for a week.
I used to go to school beside a meat factory and the stench of death was incredible for the first few months, but after that you just stopped smelling it.

cmplol1jne · 11-06-2008 10:52PM

I'm suprised no pansy anti-smokers have mentioned the ciggarette smoke they once smelled from a co-workers jacket... the way they carry on you'd think I was blowing rotting corpse bits in their face.
*peeew I don't like the smell*
C'mere I've got a meat factory and a sack of old spuds I wanna show you.

The nastiest odour you've encountered.

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