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Wow, this has never happened to me. Havnt smelt a weird guy in my local GW yet but if i did i would mention it, its like telling somebody their fly is open. Yes its awkward but would rather be told of it rather than have it showing.

Now while my hygine probly isnt the best iv never been told i stink up an area before, just so yous know i have 2 showers a week, dont use deodrant(unless its extremely hot) and i change clothes everyday unless there is some very gd reason not to.

...Is it somehow "odd" that I shower every day (occasionally skipping on Saturday if I'm not going anywhere),brush my teeth twice a day and use deodorant ?
I'm beginning to get the impression that it somehow is.

I'm one of those rare gamers.

A married one.

I wouldn't have ever had a girlfriend if I didn't bathe regularly.
She wouldn't have agreed to go out with me.

In my group, we all are relatively clean and fresh smelling. At tournaments, we are the marked minority.

40k tourneys in stores smell - to paraphrase the late, great Vincent Price, "the funk of 40,000 years".

I shower every other day unless i'm going somewhere, any more than 1 day without a shower and my hair gets far too greasy (even 1 day shows) for my liking.

When I was in my apprenticeship and working etc. i'd shower every day, skipping the weekend if i'm not doing anything (it was rare that I wasn't doing something for both days, usually I went somewhere on Saturday).

I also have to shower in the morning, if I shower at night, then I just have to have another one when I wake up because my hair is greasy again.

FITZZ wrote: ...Is it somehow "odd" that I shower every day (occasionally skipping on Saturday if I'm not going anywhere),brush my teeth twice a day and use deodorant ?
I'm beginning to get the impression that it somehow is.

Its not odd at all, its purely based on how you are raised, and personal preference. As i could take showers everyday and what not to have a high hygine level. but why bother spending 15 minites to wash and the like when its clearly not needed?? Ok brushing teeth and a quick spray of deodrant are fine daily.

(And for somebody like me who has hair that nearly reaches his backside it usually takes a while, probly 30 mins for a full shower so it makes it somewhat silly for me to wake up at probly 6am to just wash/dry myself to be out the door for half 7 in the morning as i have uni)

(And for somebody like me who has hair that nearly reaches his backside it usually takes a while, probly 30 mins for a full shower so it makes it somewhat silly for me to wake up at probly 6am to just wash/dry myself to be out the door for half 7 in the morning as i have uni)

I have long-ish hair (about shoulder length) and I used to be up at 6:30am and out of the door at 7:10am for work, usually on as little as 2-4 hours of sleep, showering every morning (didn't have time for breakfast though, not that my stomach would accept anything). It's an absolute ball-ache at the start, but you get used to it eventually.

I'm a pretty sanitary person, and I haven't had too many run-ins with the gamer funk. Except for tournaments, but with that many dudes in a room, you can't help it.

ZacktheChaosChild wrote:I'm a pretty sanitary person, and I haven't had too many run-ins with the gamer funk. Except for tournaments, but with that many dudes in a room, you can't help it.

I disagree, I work with over 150 people..none of them start the day smelling like a dead and rotting cat,hell none of them end the day smelling that way.

LakotaWolf wrote:seriously people with some of your responses.......think about if someone said that to you...........you would be pissed off and ready to fight

and another touch of reality.......BO isnt the only thing that makes people smell offensive......cheap cologne....cigarette smoke

if everyone could automatically be able to make someone NOT do something that offends them.....we wouldnt have these events......imagine the society we would live in

so keep smoking, keep wearing your cheap ass cologne and thinking your gods gift to women, and keep not showering/washing your clothes cause even those things can be offensive to each other but at least we should be able to make these choices in life without being oppressed

Touchy subject bro?

hey think about it this way guys. A smelly gamer is one less person to compete with for those few wargamer women

xlightscreen wrote:hey think about it this way guys. A smelly gamer is one less person to compete with for those few wargamer women

True...but then again,who'd want to date a wargamer...I hear they smell.

Some players smell. In most cases I just accept this as part of the hobby and move on. Im there to game not monitor your hygiene. I just stay on my side of the board when playing. lol.

If it is a regular or a friend I let him know on the side so he cant go along being that smelly guy. Im pretty admissive though so who knows...

It takes what? Five to ten minutes to shower. It's not that much to spare if you're going to be in a social situations. Most cultures find body odour offensive.

I've not played against a "smelly" player and I can honestly say I would straight up tell them. Honesty is better than repulsion.

chromedog wrote:I wouldn't have ever had a girlfriend if I didn't bathe regularly.
She wouldn't have agreed to go out with me.

Respectfully, I'm going to disagree. Maybe you wouldn't have had *that* girl, but you could've gotten one.

I know "dirty, smelly, no tooth brushing gamer" with "OMG, She's DAMNED cute. Why is she with him?" girlfriend. I know the girl. No mental deficiencies, etc. to speak of.
Sadly, this is not the first time I've seen this with guys like that.

It makes sad panda sad.

Eric

MagickalMemories wrote:
I know "dirty, smelly, no tooth brushing gamer" with "OMG, She's DAMNED cute. Why is she with him?" girlfriend.

Its always heart crushing / mindf***king when that happens, its pretty much a case of "How the hell did you manage to pull her, yet i look, and smell, so much better than you??" its either that, or you go into a state of depression or your just like me and shake it off coz you remember why your with your current girfriend if you have one lol.

Auxellion wrote:

LakotaWolf wrote:seriously people with some of your responses.......think about if someone said that to you...........you would be pissed off and ready to fight

and another touch of reality.......BO isnt the only thing that makes people smell offensive......cheap cologne....cigarette smoke

if everyone could automatically be able to make someone NOT do something that offends them.....we wouldnt have these events......imagine the society we would live in

so keep smoking, keep wearing your cheap ass cologne and thinking your gods gift to women, and keep not showering/washing your clothes cause even those things can be offensive to each other but at least we should be able to make these choices in life without being oppressed

Touchy subject bro?

no personally i bath everyday..........but like i said what annoys me is stank stale cigarette smoke odor on people.......or over use of colonge.......reality is weather its a good smell or not if it over powers a room it aint good

but no matter what there is still a better way to handle things than be rude like alot of the comments here that people said they have or would make

on a side note.......being from NY......i know alot of people of Italian herritage......honestly some emulated garlic from their pores......as well as when in college a friend of mine had such oily skin.....miday his hair looked like it was never washed.......do remember food choices and genetics can play a part

but like i said what annoys me is stank stale cigarette smoke odor on people

How many of those people are actually smokers?

My old high school tried to implement a way of punishing students who smoked by doling out detentions/suspensions to people who smelled of smoke. This was scrapped because they failed to take into account people who have friends/family members who smoke and naturally get doused in smoke on a daily basis.

As a child of a family of parents, grandmothers, aunts and siblings who smoke, I can say that stale smoke is more powerful than people give it credit for, and hangs around a lot longer than other smells. Because of the environment people can grow up in, they can quickly become used to the smell, whereas b.o. is a lot more noticeable.

You can call people out on smoke if you want, but unlike b.o. where it's 100% their fault for ignoring the stench they're emitting, you take a chance of calling out a person who hasn't touched a cigarette in their life and simply has their environment to blame for a smell they might be so used to, that they simply do not notice (similarly, family members and friends will also be used to it, so relying on them for a smell-update won't work) and so chances are you're going to be called out by random stranger X because they're the only one who isn't used to it.

D.o. can only do so much with smoke too, never more than masking it for a while, and requiring large quantities to do so (going back to the point of over-use of d.o. It was also how some smokers were identified in my high school; they either smelled of smoke, or smelled of d.o./perfume overapplication); because the person would be used to the smoke smell, he'll need telling again when he needs to re-apply... and again... and again, and it can be soul-crushing to be told "You smell" on a regular basis for something that isn't your fault.

I sometimes teach classes of teens going through puberty in the height of summer with near 100% humidity in a room without air conditioning after they've just been outside playing sports for PE, without their showering, and without their changing clothes.

They still have never smelled as bad as some gamers I've met in air-conditioned rooms performing minimal physical exertion.

Yes, diet and ethnicity can affect your smell, but they will never affect it enough to make other people's eyes burn, as some gamers have made mine. That can only come from one cause: an erroneous belief that you don't need to bathe. For a several days.

You don't need cologne. You don't need body sprays. You don't even really need deodorant (but it helps.) Soap and water are enough to do the job. Is this really too much to ask?

sorry cant buy that i am a product of a mother grandmother aunts who all smoked........was around it all the time........my clothes never smelled........what i am talking about isnt from being around others who do smoke........its that i smoke three packs a day and cant go five minutes without one smell

"it can be soul-crushing to be told "You smell" on a regular basis for something that isn't your fault"

wether it is or isnt their fault it can be still soul crushing

take the comic peanuts and the character PIGPEN.......we all knew that kid growing up.........someone whose parents had the most disgusting house.......they were all dirty......but because they were brought up that way thats what they became as adults

dont you thinks its soul crushing to have someone throw soap at you or say "Bro, you stink"

sorry cant buy that i am a product of a mother grandmother aunts who all smoked........was around it all the time........my clothes never smelled........

Did they all live in the same house? My sister smokes, my dad smokes and my mum smokes, and we lived in the same for years.

It also seems we have wildly different experiences, are you sure you just weren't used to the smell? Now my sister has moved out and my mum has moved out pending a divorce with my dad and how he now smokes rarely in the garden, i've noticed smoke smells I haven't noticed previously. A year ago, if my dad had walked in after a cigarette, there'd be no difference to me, but now I can smell the smoke.

On an off-topic note, what's with all the full stops?

JOHIRA wrote:I sometimes teach classes of teens going through puberty in the height of summer with near 100% humidity in a room without air conditioning after they've just been outside playing sports for PE, without their showering, and without their changing clothes.

They still have never smelled as bad as some gamers I've met in air-conditioned rooms performing minimal physical exertion.

Yes, diet and ethnicity can affect your smell, but they will never affect it enough to make other people's eyes burn, as some gamers have made mine. That can only come from one cause: an erroneous belief that you don't need to bathe. For a several days.

You don't need cologne. You don't need body sprays. You don't even really need deodorant (but it helps.) Soap and water are enough to do the job. Is this really too much to ask?

It's not that much to hope for but does it really mean you should say something to someone.......remeber its a double edge sword......here in the U.S. where i am from you cant smoke in a bar........and actually anywhere in a public building............now i dont smoke and at the same time glad that i dont have to deal with it at the bar anymore..........but when do they then say well if you have too strong of perfume you cant come in......or you stink you cant come in.......even the law for not smoking started off as just a simple people complaining about having to smell it


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sorry cant buy that i am a product of a mother grandmother aunts who all smoked........was around it all the time........my clothes never smelled........

Did they all live in the same house? My sister smokes, my dad smokes and my mum smokes, and we lived in the same for years.

It also seems we have wildly different experiences, are you sure you just weren't used to the smell? Now my sister has moved out and my mum has moved out pending a divorce with my dad and how he now smokes rarely in the garden, i've noticed smoke smells I haven't noticed previously. A year ago, if my dad had walked in after a cigarette, there'd be no difference to me, but now I can smell the smoke.

On an off-topic note, what's with all the full stops?

my mother was a heavy smoker.....quit now.....only times the cigarette smell was bad where you couldnt stand the smell was in her car.......i grew up in a house that was always clean......which is odd cause my office looks like a train wreck

Well.... if you move out of your house when your older.... you won't have to deal with all the smokers..... I personally don't smoke.... if people decide to be unsanitary/smell... you should call them out on it...... I feel obligied to at least mention it to some smell bro..... you seem to be overly sensitive to smells.... in class right now.... girl next to me has some strong perfume.... eh whatever.... doesn't bother me.... i'll mention it though......

Soul....crushing....to be told you smell.....?

One has to be more subtle.
Use comments such as...

'Why yes I do make my own terrain. I often use DEODERANT cannisters for water towers.'
'Do you remember that old scratchuilt hovertank in road trader? Yeah I think Rick Priestley used a DEODERANT STICK container for the chassis.'
'No I couldn't use a Nurgle army as I really can't abide REALLY BAD SMELLS.'

...and so on. Remember to raise your eyebrows and look pointedly at the offending individual. If they don't cotton on to your meaning then e-bomb them with this.

http://www.youreallysmell.com/index.php?act=1

If they really stink I tell them I want to have a Basilisk artillery duel with them down wind. That fails if they have no basilisk though...

Plan B..... /don gasmask.

On this topic though, Ive had people tell me they like playing me because I smell nice. That often makes me wonder if I suck and theyre just trying to say something nice

But I have had shop owners give me freebies and discounts because 'When they know theres a girl playing here they actually wash and pee on the toilet seat less'. Yes, they said 'less'.

I really think game stores should sell packs of handi wipes and deodorant. And Fabreeze.

If you have time to game, and can afford little toy men- you have the time and ability to combine water + soap= wash.

LakotaWolf wrote: sorry cant buy that i am a product of a mother grandmother aunts who all smoked........was around it all the time........my clothes never smelled........what i am talking about isnt from being around others who do smoke........its that i smoke three packs a day and cant go five minutes without one smell

Both of my parents smoked my entire life. You do realize that typically you can't smell it if you're in the middle of it, "around it all the time", right? I smoked for about 3 years in college. Now that I've quit, every time I go to a bar that allows smoking, I can always smell it on my clothes afterward. I know who at work goes out for smoke breaks because I can smell it on them as they walk past. You just desensitize yourself to it.

dont you thinks its soul crushing to have someone throw soap at you or say "Bro, you stink"

Well, I certainly agree that just because someone stinks doesn't mean that you should have license to be an donkey-cave to them. A polite and quiet, "Hey man, you may want to duck out and score some deodorant." would suffice.

Mistress of minis wrote:
On this topic though, Ive had people tell me they like playing me because I smell nice. That often makes me wonder if I suck and theyre just trying to say something nice

That depends, are you winning or losing?

But I have had shop owners give me freebies and discounts because 'When they know theres a girl playing here they actually wash and pee on the toilet seat less'. Yes, they said 'less'.

Not our fault, we're only BS3. Seriously though, this is disgusting and has actually made me decide to hold it for another however-long until I can find a different restroom.

Also, what's with the excessive periods in this thread?

I still contend that the smell of cigarette smoke & cologne/perfume aren't even in the same ballpark as the smell of someone who refuses to wash their body.
An individual who smells of cologne/perfume...even heavily,is at least making the attempt to smell nice.
And while some find the aroma of smoke unpleasant,it's no where near as unpleasant as the smell of someone who for one reason of another won't shower.
IMO it's simply pure laziness not to take ten minutes,get in the shower,and wash yourself.

Mistress of minis wrote:On this topic though, Ive had people tell me they like playing me because I smell nice.

I think you misunderstood the way they were meaning it; "Hurr Hurr. I like you. You smell purty."

On topic: If I ever owned or ran a game store, it would have a sign up reagrding my inability to put up with funky smelling gamers and a store rule that you WILL be asked to leave if you smell unwashed.

Eric

Maybe I'm the odd one out here but I HATE the smell of axe and similar spray deodorants, its offensive to me, it smells like s*&% and if anyone sprays that crap near me I will light it on fire and huck it out the store (well not really, ill ask him to get away from me but I want to grab and huck). I personally never use any type of deodorant, pit stick or otherwise, just a shower and a change of clothes.

I would rather smell moderate BO then the assault on my senses that is axe.

Of course sometimes you gotta chose between HORRIBLE BO or axe, and it's a tough choice.

Those of you who don't use deodorant because of the smell.... Were you aware that there are scentless antiperspirants?
They keep your pits from sweating, so they don't get all funky.

I don't care WHO you are. If you shower in the morning, then spend a day gaming, you are RANK by the end of it if you didn't use some sort of deodorant or antiperspirant.

Eric

Roll on deodorant. Takes 10sec. Doesn't stink. Use it.

Iv met people who just don't believe in personal hygiene. Don't shower, don't clean the dirt from their nails, hardly ever shave. They smell like toilet and think its normal and more "manly" to do so.