Smelly Farangs

**The Basket Weaver** · 23-09-2007, 09:31 AM

I like the clean feeling after having a shower, and usually have at least 2 a day in winter, 3 or more in summer.

**The Basket Weaver** · 23-09-2007, 09:40 AM

Nothing worse than getting into a taxi to then be engulfed by the stench of the drivers BO. Indian taxi drivers seems to be the prime culprits.

**nedwalk** · 23-09-2007, 09:45 AM

at least once a day and with bucket in there also to catch the water to through on the garden..nothing better than a cold shower.. makes you know your ALIVE....brrrr

**terry57** · 23-09-2007, 10:17 AM

I was on a live aboard dive boat, there was this lovely French chick and i was lining her up.

Thing was she had a body odor that would kill a soi dog , but id just meet her and thought it would pass after we had a dive.

Anyway, down we go and complete our dive and once back on the boat thought id move in on her for another check out.

The girl still smelled friggin shocking so i stayed away after that.

I shit you not, true story.

So its true that women smell worse than men, especially old Canadian ones.

actually they should be shot.

**November Rain** · 23-09-2007, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by nedwalk

at least once a day and with bucket in there also to catch the water to through on the garden..nothing better than a cold shower.. makes you know your ALIVE....brrrr

I HATE cold showers! Uuurgh! Having said that, only cold water would not be an excuse for not showering.

A few years ago I was doing the monthly visa run thing (yes, I was one of those scumbags!

). The house that I was living in at the time was in a real Thai area of the town & had the water switched off (by the municipality) every night. It didn't come on again until about 6am. On visa run days, I had to be up at 4:30 am, so no running water. Even so, there's no way I would ever go out of the house (never mind an all-day visa run) without a shower - so, bucket & bowl, Thai style. At 4:30 am. I used to loathe that, particularly washing my hair with cold water. The shock value of cold water over a sleep-fuddled head. Not nice.

**Jet Gorgon** · 23-09-2007, 10:46 AM

^ I've used bottled water when the power was out and there was no rain water. I don't care. Water, soap, shampoo is all I need; freezing cold, t-shirt for a towel or even using the common shower at a backpacker guesthouse (don't touch anything).

Luckydog · 24-09-2007, 11:25 PM

Arabs PONG! My missus says "They very stink!".

**sharon** · 23-09-2007, 10:50 AM

I used to love cold shower or I just got used to it but currently, it seems to be hard to me to take a cold shower.

**Texpat** · 23-09-2007, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by sharon

it seems to be hard to take a cold shower.

Any spots in particular?

**Thaddeus** · 23-09-2007, 12:18 PM

When I first moved here, I spent the first three months living with the In-laws. The hong nam was of course standard Thai style and I hated having to throw relatively freezing cold water over myself, trying to pour it slowly was even worse.

One day I woke up very early (it took a while for me to get into that Isaan habit) and saw Mama in the kitchen area apparently just boiling a very large pan of water. I enquired of wifey as to what she was cooking.

"Not cooking, so Papa can shower, he not like cold water"

Slap own forehead.

That then became my daily, thrice daily ritual for a month. It doesn't need to be hot, just above tepid is fine.

To answer the OP, as others have stated, you can't really generalise about entire nations, but I did spend two years in France and as an olfactory assault that was generally unpleasant.

**terry57** · 23-09-2007, 02:10 PM

If you guys want to smell something absolutely mind numbing disgusting it would have to be the Australian aboriginals that get around the place.

I'm not being racist as thats not my game but when they are placed on long distance buses they are seated together up the back as to save the general public from a gag fest.

I think because they all smell the same they must not smell each other but to others its down right wrong and should be a criminal offense.

Come to think about it, maybe that French chick had a bit of aussy aboriginal in her.

**chinthee** · 24-09-2007, 12:07 AM

Originally Posted by terry57

If you guys want to smell something absolutely mind numbing disgusting it would have to be the Australian aboriginals that get around the place.

I'm not being racist as thats not my game but when they are placed on long distance buses they are seated together up the back as to save the general public from a gag fest.

I think because they all smell the same they must not smell each other but to others its down right wrong and should be a criminal offense.

Come to think about it, maybe that French chick had a bit of aussy aboriginal in her.

Damn. that made me lose my Kathy Freeman fetish right there. Tore the posters off my ceiling above my bed I did.

**November Rain** · 23-09-2007, 10:53 AM

^^ Because the water was off every night, we always had buckets & those big water cooler bottles of it on standby. But I've used bottled water in an emergency, too.

**Dalton** · 23-09-2007, 10:59 AM

Shower and personal hygine, had a lot to do with where you are in the world, I worked for sometime in very remote places in Greenland, where there were no water, no sanitation, if you wanted water you had to get ice to melt it first, the heat it up with petrolium or other heat-source. When the temp is bellow -15 to -30C then you dont sweat so much, but anyway it was not a big full shower every day.

**ceburat** · 23-09-2007, 11:01 AM

Heat a small amount of water fast in the microwave to make a bucket of cold water useable. I hate cold showers and I admit, I have skipped a shower a few times when the water was too cold and there was no way to heat it.

**kingwilly** · 23-09-2007, 02:55 PM

Crickey mate, now you're outta line.

**dirtydog** · 23-09-2007, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by terry57

maybe that French chick had a bit of aussy aboriginal in her.

I thought you said you had failed miserably on your quest to shag a French bird

**hillbilly** · 23-09-2007, 04:01 PM

I once went 3 months without a shower in Desert Storm (the 1st Iraq conflict).

Did you know that long johns can smell really bad? I cut mine off with a knife and didn't bother to take my boots off...

**Richard Littlejohn** · 24-09-2007, 02:48 AM

Originally Posted by hillbilly

3 months without a shower

Jesus Christ.

You have your valid reasons of course but what the hell did you guys smell like?

Don't answer that.

**colourful-era** · 23-09-2007, 04:47 PM

Bolivian women are not , apparently , noted for their cleanliness (or looks for that matter)

**Frankenstein** · 23-09-2007, 10:26 PM

^Miss Bolivia:

**slimboyfat** · 23-09-2007, 10:46 PM

On Tuesday I am flying with my boss from Perth (Australia) to London. His idea is that we should go straight to the office from Heathrow for a days work after this epic flight. My idea is that we are going to smell like shit and that perhaps my singaporean friends are right about smelly ang mohs.

**kingwilly** · 24-09-2007, 04:53 AM

Originally Posted by slimboyfat

On Tuesday I am flying with my boss from Perth (Australia) to London. His idea is that we should go straight to the office from Heathrow for a days work after this epic flight. My idea is that we are going to smell like shit and that perhaps my singaporean friends are right about smelly ang mohs.

ah, you're flying business class, so use the showers in the airports.

**Moss** · 24-09-2007, 05:00 AM

Spent a week travelling around Ireland, then a couple of nights in a Farmhouse on the slopes of the Slieve Bloom Mountains.

No running water, no flushing loos, no mod cons.

But still managed a bath in the running streams of the Mountain, freezing cold and the water so fine it could hardly wash the soap away.

I hated every second, but wouldn't have had it any other way.

M

**nedwalk** · 24-09-2007, 05:18 AM

your terry i speny nearly12 years in the alice...poo.. and you,d think that when it rained they would smell a little better..nup was like mouldy campfire stench on top..you learn to hold your breath upon approach..but still the worst was a chick me and a mate picked up who was hitching a ride somewhere near the grand canyon in the us..i don,t know what she worked with but uuurrggh all the windows down and get her out asap...

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