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I get that it's the most normal thing in the world to fart, but please, there are limitations. When you are at a social location, especially when you stay long,like in gw. I mean, the person let out this huge fart. It was an explosion, like somone nuked us from orbit. And then the stench! I saw three people gagging and leaving the store at once. I had to try hard to not puke, and I left the store for a few minutes. Took a few breaths and dared to enter again.

It's not just wargamers.
I remember working at my father's autoparts store over the summer a few years back. Some people would come in and they'd smell like they havn't washed in years. Hell, in some cases it smelt so bad it felt as though they just shat themselves in the store. We always kept a can of Febreeze under the counter for such situations because they were just so frequent.

That said, I don't understand why people can't shower and put some deoderant on before they go out. I shower every day, wear deoderant, and if I'm going out, maybe a bit of cologne. It's not that hard and it doesn't take that long.

Scrazza wrote:I get that it's the most normal thing in the world to fart, but please, there are limitations. When you are at a social location, especially when you stay long,like in gw. I mean, the person let out this huge fart. It was an explosion, like somone nuked us from orbit. And then the stench! I saw three people gagging and leaving the store at once. I had to try hard to not puke, and I left the store for a few minutes. Took a few breaths and dared to enter again.

This does provoke a good question, "Why can't you excuse yourself long enough to drop that bomb somewhere else?"

I usually have a good idea when I'm going to violate the Geneva Convention. It's not too hard to slip out the back door and apologize for it later.

daedalus wrote:

Scrazza wrote:I get that it's the most normal thing in the world to fart, but please, there are limitations. When you are at a social location, especially when you stay long,like in gw. I mean, the person let out this huge fart. It was an explosion, like somone nuked us from orbit. And then the stench! I saw three people gagging and leaving the store at once. I had to try hard to not puke, and I left the store for a few minutes. Took a few breaths and dared to enter again.

This does provoke a good question, "Why can't you excuse yourself long enough to drop that bomb somewhere else?"

I usually have a good idea when I'm going to violate the Geneva Convention. It's not too hard to slip out the back door and apologize for it later.

I didn't even know that guy that well. He was a regular customer, and I rather disliked the guy, for his behaviour and such. His stench did it. Whenever I see him again, I'll just turn around and head back home. (luckily for me, he raraly goes to gw.)

I wonder at times if these sorts of people have in some way become so accustom to the idea of being "outcast" that they actually take some sort of refuge/delight in being smelly unwashed individuals.

Either that or they've given up on trying to fit in so much that they give up on all social mores, not just the ones they didn't feel compelled to follow in the first place.

Not so much delight as simply apathy.

FITZZ wrote: I wonder at times if these sorts of people have in some way become so accustom to the idea of being "outcast" that they actually take some sort of refuge/delight in being smelly unwashed individuals.

In my FLGS we had one of those, a brute, stinky, ultra-filthy, unwashed,etc etc etc... and proud of it....

Pretty funny he claimed me to be fatter than him (jaja his trousers can fit two or three of myself, and i'm not precisely... slender), brutest (mmm maybe he had reason in that matter), and stinky (my stench comes for an excess of testosterone, unlike you pig...) and i'm not farting like a bag-pipe, he did, and as i said... proud of it...

There is also 'Gaming Store Funk' (that would be a great name for a brand of incense) which is a lot like 'Junior High School Boys Change Room Funk". You open the door and you get a nice whiff. At our old club we used to first try to talk to them, then it was just "Wash yourself or f*** off". It generally worked.

Gamer funk is saddly a reality. Potentially because this hobby attracts a unique cross section of our poplulation. namely people who have large fantasy lives who seem to have been drawn from the fringes of popular society. NOT ALL just the majority i think. Playing with little toy soldiers is not the mainstream trust me.
as such since a larger portion of this subculture are drawn from fringes, social norms are not the same. Perhaps the lack of potential with the ladies has a lot to do with this condition. Probably it has something to do with this. Less time is spent on perosonal health and bathing, dressing properly, and working out. Most gamers fall in the out of shape fat or skinny collumn as well so ...

sennacherib wrote:Gamer funk is saddly a reality. Potentially because this hobby attracts a unique cross section of our poplulation. namely people who have large fantasy lives who seem to have been drawn from the fringes of popular society. NOT ALL just the majority i think. Playing with little toy soldiers is not the mainstream trust me.
as such since a larger portion of this subculture are drawn from fringes, social norms are not the same. Perhaps the lack of potential with the ladies has a lot to do with this condition. Probably it has something to do with this. Less time is spent on perosonal health and bathing, dressing properly, and working out. Most gamers fall in the out of shape fat or skinny collumn as well so ...

Heck, that makes me an outcast in the gamer society. I've been gaming since I was nine, and I'm now 16. I do have to tell, I'm not out of shape fat, skinny, I do not stink like human waste, and I do care about personal hygiene and health, and I do spend time working out. Do I have to worry the gamers are going to ban me?

I may be out of shape and skinny, but that's because of the insomnia and malnutrition. That, and it works with the whole 'apathetic eccentric artist type' thing I got going on (of course, whether that works is a completely different subject).

Hell, even when I was in shape, I was still skinny as all hell.

Gamers should try and think like the army they play.

for example, the Imperial guard

"Give me thirty push ups for the Emperor!"

etc...

Scrazza wrote:Gamers should try and think like he army they play.

for example, the Imperial guard

"Give me thirty push ups for the Emperor!"

etc...

...I can do 100...

Although if I use one arm, I can only do 40.

Does that make me a good gaurdsman?

Scrazza wrote:Gamers should try and think like he army they play.

for example, the Imperial guard

"Give me thirty push ups for the Emperor!"

etc...

I play Orks.

Does this mean I need to punch everything in sight for hours on end?

chowderhead13 wrote:

Scrazza wrote:Gamers should try and think like he army they play.

for example, the Imperial guard

"Give me thirty push ups for the Emperor!"

etc...

I play Orks.

Does this mean I need to punch everything in sight for hours on end?

Yes. And yell waaagh a lot.

So you are an ork player. That doesn't solve the stink problem, me thinks...

I'm afraid to wonder what the Dark Eldar players would have to do...

Scrazza wrote:

chowderhead13 wrote:

Scrazza wrote:Gamers should try and think like he army they play.

for example, the Imperial guard

"Give me thirty push ups for the Emperor!"

etc...

I play Orks.

Does this mean I need to punch everything in sight for hours on end?

Yes. And yell waaagh a lot.

So you are an ork player. That doesn't solve the stink problem, me thinks...

Yes it does. I shower daily.

IN THE BLOOD OF MY ENEMIES!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!

chowderhead13 wrote:

Scrazza wrote:

chowderhead13 wrote:

Scrazza wrote:Gamers should try and think like he army they play.

for example, the Imperial guard

"Give me thirty push ups for the Emperor!"

etc...

I play Orks.

Does this mean I need to punch everything in sight for hours on end?

Yes. And yell waaagh a lot.

So you are an ork player. That doesn't solve the stink problem, me thinks...

Yes it does. I shower daily.

IN THE BLOOD OF MY ENEMIES!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!

ahh, eldar blood. the ladies will love you.

Scrazza wrote:

chowderhead13 wrote:

Scrazza wrote:

chowderhead13 wrote:

Scrazza wrote:Gamers should try and think like he army they play.

for example, the Imperial guard

"Give me thirty push ups for the Emperor!"

etc...

I play Orks.

Does this mean I need to punch everything in sight for hours on end?

Yes. And yell waaagh a lot.

So you are an ork player. That doesn't solve the stink problem, me thinks...

Yes it does. I shower daily.

IN THE BLOOD OF MY ENEMIES!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!

ahh, eldar blood. the ladies will love you.

Pah! Eldar blood smells like flowers.

THE BLOOD OF SPACE MARINES SMELLS LIKE VICTORY!

I need to add to the fluff of my DIY chapter that a flaw in their geneseed makes their blood smell like cinnamon rolls...

Except for the Chapter Master, what with the whole poisoned and all... His blood will smell like oatmeal.

Fafnir wrote:I need to add to the fluff of my DIY chapter that a flaw in their geneseed makes their blood smell like cinnamon rolls...

Except for the Chapter Master, what with the whole poisoned and all... His blood will smell like oatmeal.

So, that proves my point. Cinnamon rolls smell like victory. I play against a metagame where 3/4 of the players play some form of Power Armor. Thus, using the law of syllogism,

I SMELL LIKE VICTORY!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!

"Drop your bolters marines, it's time we brought out raw, store-bought victory."
"Does that mean...?"
"Yes. Cinnamon rolls."

I've noticed that with war gamers in my store. The 40k crowd tends to have a few "odoriferous" players; whereas the people that play MtG down there at the store are for the most part very well groomed and kept.

Both involve socializing and interacting and yet one crowd has less olfactory offenders than the other.

Odd that seems.

ShumaGorath wrote:

Soladrin wrote:Wait.. people care about farts? It's just a bodily function, I'd rather let one rip in a full elevator then squeeze my cheeks and get a tummy ache.

Ladies and gentlemen: The wargamer

I'll take that as a complement.

Soladrin wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:

Soladrin wrote:Wait.. people care about farts? It's just a bodily function, I'd rather let one rip in a full elevator then squeeze my cheeks and get a tummy ache.

Ladies and gentlemen: The wargamer

I'll take that as a complement.

I would advise against that.

Why?

Are you seriously saying I should prefer getting stomach aches over letting people I don't know smell something?

I honestly could not care less.

I'm not ashamed for normal bodily functions.

So's beating off, but I'm not pleasing my bishop in public. Use the toilet before you go out, and if you have to pass gas while playing, go to the toilet in the store.

It's called common courtesy.

How do you misread normal bodily function?

Also, EVERYONE in my LFGS is a good friend of mine, and everyone just lets rip. Heck it's one big sausage fest anyway so it kind of turns into a seperate competition anyway.

If someone is stinking up your store, just approach them and say,

"Do you praise Nurgle?"

"...no?"

"Get out."

Goddard wrote:If someone is stinking up your store, just approach them and say,

"Do you praise Nurgle?"

"...no?"

"Get out."

What if they say yes?