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Take a bath, get a change of clothes.

You, yes, you, smartass in the back of the shop, you know what, you can have all the anecdotal stories in the world about how great you rocked this game or how you've written a minimum of 3 pages of fluff for every single marine in your army.

You can be fat or skinny, bearded or shaven, tall or short...

But you smell brother.

Do you know how difficult it is for the rest of us, the ones with connection to the real world, to get our friends and families to accept what we do isn't the weirdest thing they've ever heard off? We work painstakingly to erode prejudice against our hobby, we then take non-gaming friends, relatives, wives and lady friends into the shop and what do they get for showing open mindedness to our interest?

You, you stinky fether...

I'm talking to you, awkward teen who's not learnt that the bathing regime of an 8 year old won't work for a 17 year old who's gone through puberty, you smell like ammonia, clean yourself daily fether.
I'm talking to you, basement dwelling, wrist support wearing, greasy haired 30something who's not changed your clothes in 2 weeks and smells like wet dogs and wee.
You are an adult now, anyone over the age of about 14 who's not showering every day and changing at least their underwear daily, is going to smell horrible. Sort yourself out.

You're letting the team down.

Huh?

Here is yours...

Classic MGS right here. Food for the soul.

Bloody bunch of kids... or at least one of them... kept dropping his guts in the FLGS today. Generally smelling bad is generally bad, but those sudden, concentrated and unashamed silencers that catch you off guard... ferchrissakes. Put me in a room with a moderately smelly hippy anyday. At least I can leave voluntarily before I get too uncomfortable. With their stereotypically bad diets, farting nerds are the absolute worst.

When I used to go to MTG prerelease tournaments in the second half of the 90's I frequently had to sit back from the table as far as possible because of such stinkers at the other side.

At a certain point the group of people I went to these tournaments with took deodorant sprays with us, and when there was an unwashed type around we used to spray them when they weren't looking.

Worked perfectly most of the time

Sadly this is an issue which extends beyond the doors of GW stores. In the past, whilst running a bar, I have had the uncomfortable but neccesary job of telling both staff and customers to sort out their personal admin. As such I have no problems with making rather loud and unsubtle comments if there is a smelly bastard in the vicinity. At present I work with a bunch of trainee carpenters and brickies, after 8 hours manual labour it is very rare to even get a whif of mild BO. So there is no excuse, its not down to hormones, diet or an awkward phase, its down to being a dirty little toerag now sort it out.

My FLGS is decent, but some people...it really is embarassing.

Oddly, I struggle to think of anyone particularly smelly in my local GW.

Of course that likely means it is I who is all stinky, but seeing as I use deodorant and shower regularly, I'm not convinced.

Just remember this simple rhyme!


"shower at least once a day, and all the other gamers will come out to- WASHYOURSELFYOUDARNCREEPERSWEETJEEZYOUNEEDABATH.

I once caught a kind drooling on my BA codex. Stinky cross eyed little bugger. It was a stream. He denied it, but it was still funny as hell.

There are smelly people all over the place, not just at GW. This message needs to be read to the world.

I have some illness or other that means i sweat a insane amount even in a warm room, if i have people commet that I smell nice, other people should be able to.

Now, one thing needs to be made clear on the difference between levels of being smelly.

After a good workout or other form of streneous activity, people smell sweaty, I'm perfectly ok with this smell and dont mind it a rediclious ammount. If you've been at work, I'll understand.
The problem I have is that stagnant water smell people have when they just don't take care of their hygenic needs. Its basically the same smell a rotting wet dog would have.

Hurm I think I'm going to spray perfume on my deldar and Slaaneshi marines (and maybe necrons).

Seems fitting somehow

Gamer protip to keep from stinking:

DO NOT USE DEODORANT.

Seriously.
Don't.

Use antiperspirant, instead.

If I use deodorant and, say, go to a tournament, by the end of the day, I can smell my OWN pits (and, yes. That *IS* with a shower in the morning). And, you know the deal about smelling yourself. if you can smell yourself, then everyone else has been smelling you for a while, now!

Guess what, guys? I'm not the only one. Many of you are that way, too.

Just do everyone a favor and switch to antiperspirant. If your pits aren't sweating, then you don't need to worry about if they're funky (provided your hygiene is otherwise in order, as well).


Eric

I haven't showered since Friday, though I also haven't left the house since Friday either.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Take a bath, get a change of clothes. ... You're letting the team down.

Indeed, and if some one smells and you don't tell them, you're letting the team down too.

Enforce the standard, Be the standard

MagickalMemories wrote:
Use antiperspirant, instead.

+1 to this. deodorant doesn't work on grown men. old spice red zone is anybody's best friend.

shaving with a decent shaving cream every other day, dove soap, and maybe a light spray of cool water or dolce and gabanna with some buffalo jeans and a nice white shirt WHO KNOWS YOU MIGHT EVEN GET A GIRL @45 year old virgins in our store

I can't use antiperspirant.

I'm sensitive to the aluminium chlorhydrate active ingredient used in ALL of them here (even the 'hippy' crystal ones use this salt). I just use deodorant a little more often and on hot or warm and humid days, take another shower.

There was a guy at a certain game store that I used to frequent that literally smelled like a sack of onions at all times. It was absolutely horrendous to be around.

I couldn't agree with MGS more.

Ugh, why must there be the obligatory fat guy with sweat stains underneath his man boobs at my FLGS? I swear, I have smelled trash cans behind restaurants that smell better. (Yes, I used to work at a restaurant)

must be a white guy thing. I have yet to come across person at my local GW that smells bad.

Kouzuki wrote:must be a white guy thing. I have yet to come across person at my local GW that smells bad.

Have you only gone once? Or did a freak fire accident burn out your sense of smell? Because I dont believe you. People smell, not just white guys



This is why I hated working with the public. This one time a lady smelled SO BAD, that when she paid for her purchase, I swear to you, her money stunk. I actually put it in a ziplock, and sprayed it down with some Oust spray and sealed the bag until the store closed. I actually dry heaved when she got near me. Thats just awful!

I don't get a shower in as often as I should, but I make sure to shower/shave/anti-sweat if I am going to hit the local GW later that day.

Please, if you have to cut butt, for the love of God take it outside.

Tzeentchling9 wrote:I don't get a shower in as often as I should, but I make sure to shower/shave/anti-sweat if I am going to hit the local GW later that day.

Please, if you have to cut butt, for the love of God take it outside.

Or at least reserve it for the bathroom.

KingCracker wrote:
Have you only gone once? Or did a freak fire accident burn out your sense of smell? Because I dont believe you. People smell, not just white guys

This is why I hated working with the public. This one time a lady smelled SO BAD, that when she paid for her purchase, I swear to you, her money stunk. I actually put it in a ziplock, and sprayed it down with some Oust spray and sealed the bag until the store closed. I actually dry heaved when she got near me. Thats just awful!

I go quite often, possibly once every 2/3 weeks. Yes I've come across some obnoxious people in the subways and stuff, but not actually at my local GW.

Love it! Consider yourself befriended! --nothing like observational humor, because any of us who have ever visited a comic store before has seen 'this guy.'

guys like this make our local FLGS tournaments a nightmare, you leave feeling soiled, like you just spent all day in an outhouse baking in the sun...

In the past, we put together small care packages specifically for the Stinky Gamers. We went so far as to print up small cards announcing that the recipient had won the GFA.

What is the GFA you ask?

Gamers Funk Award

The bag contained a small bar of soap, a travel size deodorant, a comb and hand sanitizer. Typical Gamers grabbing swag bags get the surprise of their day getting one of the subtle and gentle reminders to be wary of their stink and how it impacts others.

One word Gents....WASH...

I am amazed at how poor hygiene is among Gamers...

Cheers.

Michael Collins

Kouzuki wrote:must be a white guy thing. I have yet to come across person at my local GW that smells bad.

You haven't got any kusai jiji playing 40K?

Kilkrazy wrote:

Kouzuki wrote:must be a white guy thing. I have yet to come across person at my local GW that smells bad.

You haven't got any kusai jiji playing 40K?

Is that some sort of smelly Japanese person?