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posted 09-02-2012 05:36
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New York always smells of burnt pretzels. Or something burnt. From the street vendors, I guess.
A lot of Boston smells like wet newspaper. Especially Commonwealth Avenue. At least it used to. It's not bad. It's just odd. The T stations have a special, unique smell that I can't describe, but whenever I smell it, I'm transported back to 1997.
Likewise, the dorms at William & Mary have a specific smell that would always remind me of my first visit to see my brother there in 1989.
It's remarkable how smell, more than anything else, brings on a flood of memories.
Paris smelled like moldy ass. I don't see how that's ok or how nobody else notices.
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posted 09-02-2012 09:23
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I'm not sure I would recognise mouldy ass were I to smell it.
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posted 09-02-2012 09:29
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Go to Paris.
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posted 09-02-2012 09:36
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Ass as in donkey, or the other one?
And would you not tend to smell the mould rather than the ass in the latter case, and the ass rather than the mould in the former?
Jumentous, by the way, could be a very useful word here. You could say "Paris was particularly jumentous" and nobody would be offended (until they looked it up)
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posted 09-02-2012 11:44
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Reed John wrote:
It's remarkable how smell, more than anything else, brings on a flood of memories.
Researchers who work with memory have learned that the five senses can play a very significant role in the process of making, storing, and retrieving memories. Smell in particular is very evocative, as the olfactory bulb is located right next to the part of the brain that handles memory storage, so people tend to create strong links between smells and particular memories.
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posted 09-02-2012 12:01
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I am intrigued by the thought of a donkey becoming mouldy.
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posted 09-02-2012 12:28
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Reed John wrote:
With due respect for one of the world's greatest cities, I found that Paris reeked of BO and piss everywhere i went there. Don't people shower there? And what's with all the pissing along the Seine. It was one of those stereotypes I was sad to learn is true.
That's right ladies and gentlemen, the stereotype has now been proved beyond doubt, French people don't wash and piss in rivers. Thanks for that.
I have never seen anyone pissing by the Seine so I wouldn't assume that's particularly widespread. It might even just be tourists dismayed by the lack of public toilets. There are however considerably more dogshits on the streets of Paris that on those of any British or American city, which might explain the smell. But if you think Paris is unbearably stinky your delicate nose might want to stay clear of Marseille.
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posted 09-02-2012 12:34
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Yeah, I don't find Paris at all as Reed describes it.
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posted 09-02-2012 12:42
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Dog shite capital for me was Buenos Aires, I had to walk with my head down so as to look and avoid the crap on the streets.
Did not find Paris like Reed John posted at all.
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posted 09-02-2012 12:42
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When my friend’s father (He be English) goes to Japan to visit the in-laws they call him “CHEEEEESE”
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posted 09-02-2012 12:47
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The Exploding Vole wrote:
I am intrigued by the thought of a donkey becoming mouldy.
Forget it man. Just drop the dead donkey.
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posted 09-02-2012 13:17
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Stretches of the Metro can be a bit malodorous, I assume because it runs alongside old sewers or something, but other than that, Paris is fine, I reckon.
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posted 09-02-2012 13:18
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Why at Last! wrote:
Stretches of the Metro can be a bit malodorous
I associate the Metro with that slight burning smell you get on some of the older trains.
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posted 09-02-2012 13:39
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Twisted Sister wrote:
When my friend’s father (He be English) goes to Japan to visit the in-laws they call him “CHEEEEESE”
See, that would have me shoving well ripened Camembert in their faces.
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posted 09-02-2012 14:28
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Gangster Octopus wrote:
Why at Last! wrote:
Stretches of the Metro can be a bit malodorous
I associate the Metro with that slight burning smell you get on some of the older trains.
I wonder if that's due to the rubber tires on some of the lines.
Paris rocks, btw. Big fan, smells or not.
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posted 09-02-2012 16:43
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Paris certainly is a remarkable place for so many reasons. I'm not trying to run it down. But the apparent lack of hygiene concerns me.
I don't know if people piss in the Seine, but walking along the Seine, especially under the bridges, I smelled and saw puddles of piss.
The stairwells in the parking garages in downtown State College also smell of piss. That's less forgivable.
Washington DC in summer smells like hot garbage much of the time.
New York smells like garbage sometimes too, but there are so many other smells competing with it. Along with the aforementioned burning pretzels, in summer in Manhattan, you get steady whiff of sewer mixed with more cab exhaust, notes of hot asphalt, and the occasional smell of burning rubber.
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posted 09-02-2012 17:30
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San Francisco smells of Eucalyptus trees, ocean fog, and money. Except for the restaurant rows on Stockton and Clement, which, at certain times of the year, smell like you wore the same boxers for a week and then simmered them in fish sauce. I assume it's some sort of traditional Chinese dish but i've never figured out which.
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posted 09-02-2012 17:31
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Worst smell from a river in a big city is supposed to be Rio Rimac, in Lima, Peru. Several people I know who have been there explain it as among the worst stench they've experienced.
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