Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland

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Filios1Threads: 15 Posts: 1,953 Joined: Nov 13, 07 ♂	Sep 21, 08, 22:08 #151
Dziedzic: Ive noticed people from India have a distinct smell. Curry?

DziedzicThreads: 4 Posts: 41 Joined: Jan 30, 08 ♂	Edited by: Dziedzic Sep 21, 08, 22:26 #152
Filios1: Dziedzic: Ive noticed people from India have a distinct smell. Curry? Thats probably it

asmaaniThreads: - Posts: 46 Joined: Nov 12, 08 ♀	Nov 14, 08, 12:43 #153
funny thing I went to India spent some time there and I never met anybody stinking, regardless of the heat outside.

EriclipisThreads: 7 Posts: 31 Joined: Nov 7, 08 ♂	Nov 16, 08, 06:58 #154
lol before I had a car here in Poland my wife son and I took the buses and trams all the time! My son puked when 2 rif rafs got on the bus and smelled like something had died inside them! Get used to it because unfortunately there is a huge problem with alcoholism and non working people here who can not afford the proper place to stay. Hence it's why they don't shower.

southernThreads: 116 Posts: 10,955 Joined: May 17, 07 ♂	Nov 16, 08, 07:12 #155
Polish people smell wonderful.

Polonius3Threads: 1,005 Posts: 4,833 Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂	Nov 16, 08, 08:14 #156
Wasn't it Queen Elizabeth I who said she took a bath once a month whether she neeed it or not?

osiolThreads: 59 Posts: 4,714 Joined: Jul 25, 07 ♂	Nov 16, 08, 09:19 #157
Suprise suprise! She wasn't Polish! So what's your point? I think most people in Europe in those days had slightly dodgy personal hygiene.

essextime

Nov 22, 08, 20:23 #158

I bathe about once a week (in summer, in winter it's not necessary to bathe so often) then apply litle bit of deo and don't smell at all. Deodorants these days can make wonders! (And yes, they are all the same regardless of which country they are made in since there is only about 1.5 corporation producing them). The only people that smell BO are manual workers who don't use deos at all. ;-)
But since we are talking about smells and hygiene: I have been to most of european countries and visited all the big cities in Europe west of Kiev. Never seen so much s**t on the streets as I see in London everyday: people just throw rubbish straight on the streets like it's still dark ages or something. Mice and rats are common everywhere, and coacroaches, even bedbugs and lice - things I did not know still existed in real life before I went to London (thought it was somethiing of the past like cholera).
Bless you, UK.

osiolThreads: 59 Posts: 4,714 Joined: Jul 25, 07 ♂	Nov 22, 08, 20:31 #159
essextime: thought it was somethiing of the past like cholera Many would swear more strongly after such a rant. Cholera? K**** more like. essextime: he only people that smell BO are manual workers who don't use deos at all I do manual work. We manual workers all (for I am their spokesman) reckon that it's people in stuffy offices with no fresh air who smell bad.

essextime	Nov 22, 08, 20:42 #160
When I said "cholera" I meant a disease not a swear word. As for office workers... No, they usually don't smell worse than manual ones... ;-)

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Edited by: osiol Nov 23, 08, 06:11 #161

essextime:

they usually don't smell worse than manual ones

Yes they do.
No they don't.
Yes they do.
No they don't.
Of course they flipping do! Stuck in an office, usually with recycled air, bad heating systyems, people wearing shirts with collars and ties - unnaturally uncomfortable attire. Maybe smelly manual labourers is a London thing. Out here in the country, everyone smells of freshly cut hay, honeysuckle and wood shavings.

There's no point arguing with a guest though.
Yes there is.
No there isn't.
Yes there is.
No there isn't.

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Edited by: Seanus Nov 23, 08, 06:27 #162
I just paid you for an argument, Osioł ;) Nudge nudge wink wink Sweat here? No different from back home. Some oldies stink to high heaven and the young ones are usually fresh.

Loesje	Oct 16, 09, 13:50 #164
It's actually pretty funny... WHen I read this topic I thought about my sundaymornings on HALA :) Because I regognise the description of the smell so well from there... When I wrote the whole note it turned out you've been there too ;) Maybe smelly people gather there? :) !

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Oct 16, 09, 14:06 #165
This I don't get. I'm not saying that it doesn't exist and is noticeable on public transport but I have never encountered it.

persil	Nov 13, 09, 17:27 #166
Government health department should post the following information on bill-boards and tv commercials ....... wash your armpits and wear a clean shirt/blouse daily. This will eradicate your problem. And Seanus, get your nose cleared and stop wearing blinkers. SIMPLE !

1jolaThreads: 33 Posts: 2,737 Joined: Sep 23, 08 ♂	Jun 18, 10, 20:14 #167
I'm not joking, ask a Pole what a roach is called?

MagdalenaThreads: 5 Posts: 1,389 Joined: Aug 15, 07 ♀	Edited by: Magdalena Jun 18, 10, 20:16 #168
Matowy: Are you sure about that? Because I have never, ever seen a cocroach, or heard of anyone else seeing them. I don't think they exist at all in Europe. Then if you ever come to London, I can show you things you've never seen before, and I ain't talkin' about historical monuments here ;-p 1jola: ask a Pole what a roach is called? Karaluch?

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Jun 18, 10, 20:31 #169
Karaluch, yeah. They are more common in Japan and they maintain very healthy and hygienic standards. Gokiburi in Japanese.

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Jun 18, 10, 20:33 #170

Karaluch czy prusak?

Kiedy po kuchennej szafce biegnie brązowy, płaski owad długości około półtora centymetra, jedni krzyczą:"prusak", inni - "karaluch" lub "karaczan". Kto ma rację? Okazuje się, że wszyscy, bo kilkanaście żyjących w Polsce gatunków owadów spokrewnionych z prusakami należy do licznego rzędu karaluchów zwanych też karaczanami lub hełmcami. Prusaka można zatem tytułować każdą z tych nazw, choć powszechnie mianem "karalucha" określa się jego kuzyna - mniej licznego i dwukrotnie większego karaczana wschodniego....

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Jun 18, 10, 20:47 #171

JustysiaS:

i can't tell you how many times i heard that in Poland haha. i gotta say my folks always had a problem with me wanting to have a shower/bath everyday when i still lived at home. and they would be at the door asking what i'm doing if i've taken more than 10 minutes in there haha... i think it's one of those darn silly rules stuck in so many Poles' heads that if you don't work physically you don't need to shower everyday, there are so many Polish people i know who only bathe/shower once a week, or once a month, and to them a person washing themselves everyday is a freak and a pansy! a waster. families out there still tend to take a bath in the same water one person after another, and then use that water to wash clothes or water the garden haha...

and as for some ethnic groups smelling cos of the stuff they eat... i've met people from many different cultures and i gotta say that it's almost a rule that Indians and Turks absolutely REEK. it's like a mixture of sweat, dirt and curry or whatever spices they use every day. it's just men who stink though. i read an article about Indian men a while ago and it said personal hygiene is the last thing on their list of chores. i'm not being racist here or anything, just a personal observation.

OMG , really. You know, in some WEstern countries this would be a blessing, since some of these countries experiance droughts and thus water shortages.

I think the worst smell in poland one can experience is from bad alcohol breath.....
as for the BO , there is space, and its not like we are London, living on top of each other.
Plus you might take into consideration, that still in a lot of old city houses there is no showers/baths installed, theres still outhouses in the backyard(these days more often found to be a toilet installed in the corridoor next 2 the stairs)

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SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Nov 23, 08, 06:35 #163
Yes I did ;)