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I've been a heavy M:tG player for a few years now and they rank at least 40% of the time. I walk into my shop on a weekend and just take a wif, if I was blind and couldn't hear I'd know a magic tournament is taking place. 40 neckbeards just mouthbreathing all day long... 40k people stink as well I dunno how shopkeepers don't make a fortune on deoderant. Obviously not from the smellers buying it but average joes buying it and throwing them at their foreheads. Some people just need a lesson in self worth. As a side note, this doesn't even go straight to obese people. The fattest dude in my place is probably one of the best smelling.

Kevlar wrote:Why should I waste time taking a shower if I am headed to nerd-o-rama? It isn't like there are any women there to impress, and my stink might throw the other guy off his game.

I'd hate to see you nancy boys after a month long deployment to a nice tropical locale.

Last guy who didn't shower after coming on our destroyer got thrown into the bathroom and scrubbed with those hard floor scrubbing brushes by the whole berthing.

I tend to shower every other day (every day when it's hot, mmm cool showers on hot days.)

I also dress smart, always in business cut trousers and nice shirts.
When I've repaired my waistcoat and overcoat ( both sadly got a bit.. ripped up when I caught the coat on wire sticking out of a fence :( ) I'll be wearing those daily too.
With a pocket watch.
And I wear Old Spice Deoderant...
Nope, I'm not eccentric at all.

Furthermore, at our local store I've known it to happen where people too smelly or unkempt get asked to leave.

I smell warhammer deodorant line coming soon!

Think of some taglines. "Want to smell like you just fought off an Ork Waaaagh!? Games Workshop Ork-odorant. Get mean, smell Green!"

LoL

In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium, there is only body odor.

Ovion wrote:I tend to shower every other day (every day when it's hot, mmm cool showers on hot days.)

I also dress smart, always in business cut trousers and nice shirts.
When I've repaired my waistcoat and overcoat ( both sadly got a bit.. ripped up when I caught the coat on wire sticking out of a fence :( ) I'll be wearing those daily too.
With a pocket watch.
And I wear Old Spice Deoderant...
Nope, I'm not eccentric at all.

Furthermore, at our local store I've known it to happen where people too smelly or unkempt get asked to leave.

Heh, I am fashionably blind, camo shorts, blue tshirt, open carrying a Smith&wesson

Wardragoon wrote:

Ovion wrote:I tend to shower every other day (every day when it's hot, mmm cool showers on hot days.)

I also dress smart, always in business cut trousers and nice shirts.
When I've repaired my waistcoat and overcoat ( both sadly got a bit.. ripped up when I caught the coat on wire sticking out of a fence :( ) I'll be wearing those daily too.
With a pocket watch.
And I wear Old Spice Deoderant...
Nope, I'm not eccentric at all.

Furthermore, at our local store I've known it to happen where people too smelly or unkempt get asked to leave.

Heh, I am fashionably blind, camo shorts, blue tshirt, open carrying a Smith&wesson

heh, if I was in the US, I'd likely get myself a CC and have something nice and hidden.
Probably a Browning.

Ruger all the way. I want a revolver that can fire 1000 rounds one day and hammer nails the next.

"Shower the people you game with soap,
tell them the way that the reek.
Things are gonna' smell much better if they only will."

Ha ha my wife refuses to go in to the Manchester GW, she got me a stormtalon for fathers day and made my eldest daughter go in as the smell was that bad!

Maybe get them a Fish n'Chips scented candle or something.

Hey, there we go. Scented candles for game shops..........I know I'd do it if I was an owner.

Or some of those glade plug ins. Or just a sign out front "No hygenie no service!"

I tend to be in jeans and a t-shirt of some variety, my carry is a 1911 though.

When I used to do the tournament scene I carry my 8 Ball Cane and a can of Lysol. The Lysol was used when my opponent across from me had the funk. Could care less if I pissed off the TO, Judges, or my opponent. You are going to offend? I am going to offend and kill the Nurgle with my can of disinfectant. There is no effing reason why people should not shower. None!

The 8 Ball cane is another story. Anyhow with cane and can in hand I beat back the funk where ever it was for many, many, years.

KalashnikovMarine wrote:Or some of those glade plug ins. Or just a sign out front "No hygenie no service!"

I tend to be in jeans and a t-shirt of some variety, my carry is a 1911 though.

Gotta love the good ole' .45 ACP.

And brilliant idea for a sign.

Or some of those glade plug ins. Or just a sign out front "No hygenie no service!"

Ahh, but big tower candles will fit the 40K motif.

AegisGrimm wrote:

Or some of those glade plug ins. Or just a sign out front "No hygenie no service!"

Ahh, but big tower candles will fit the 40K motif.

Pray to the machine spirits of the glade plugins if it'll make you feel better

We had a GUO in our gaming group, he had a major dandriff problem and in the 2 years I knew him he only showered a half dozen times. We went into a room he had been in 3 hours before and you could still tell he had been in there.

Kevlar wrote:Why should I waste time taking a shower if I am headed to nerd-o-rama? It isn't like there are any women there to impress,

Who says

You going to the wrong Tournies boy

I'm taking part in a tournament on the 18th. I'm tempted to bring one of those glade scented whatever they are in the event I deal with some stink ass dude.

Hello Space Marines.
Look at your tank, now look at mine, now back to yours, now back to mine.
Sadly, yours is not a Baneblade.
but if you stopped using xeno scented body washes and switch to Emperor Spice, you could drive a tank like this *chorus*
Look Down, Back up, Where are you?
Your on a Battleship with a Soldier your Space Marine could smell like.
Whats in your hand, back to me. I have it, The Bolter with two tickets to the killing heretics you love.
Look again. The Bolter is a now a Battle Cannon.
Anthing is possible when your soldier smells like a Emperor Spice man and not like a Xeno.

Im on a Chimera.


paid for my the Munitorium and the Emperor Spice company of Terra.
manufactured by the Adeptus Mechanicus

SpiritOfKantor wrote:Ha ha my wife refuses to go in to the Manchester GW, she got me a stormtalon for fathers day and made my eldest daughter go in as the smell was that bad!

I can't say that I have ever noticed a bad smell in there. I avoid going on the weekends though, I imagine that it is much worse then. Of course, I remember back when it didn't have any sort of air conditioning. That was bad.

People nee to read their Primer some more. Chapter 3, section 18, subsection (ii), clause c clearly states:

Bath as often as possible: at least once a week. Pay particular attention to the armpits, genitals and feet. If bathing facilities are unavailable scrub your body with a damp cloth.

However, I must say that I absolutely hate it when people use a product like Lynx (I believe it is called Axe in the US). That stuff smells vile and makes me wretch. On its own it is bad enough, when people use it as a washing substitute it is much worse.

It's not only that Axe smells bad, it's that the people that use it generally use 5x more than they need.

Also, there are people that use Axe and similar products INSTEAD of showering instead of AFTER showering.

Remember kids, prepositions are important!

Trickstick wrote:

SpiritOfKantor wrote:Ha ha my wife refuses to go in to the Manchester GW, she got me a stormtalon for fathers day and made my eldest daughter go in as the smell was that bad!

I can't say that I have ever noticed a bad smell in there. I avoid going on the weekends though, I imagine that it is much worse then. Of course, I remember back when it didn't have any sort of air conditioning. That was bad.

People nee to read their Primer some more. Chapter 3, section 18, subsection (ii), clause c clearly states:

Bath as often as possible: at least once a week. Pay particular attention to the armpits, genitals and feet. If bathing facilities are unavailable scrub your body with a damp cloth.

However, I must say that I absolutely hate it when people use a product like Lynx (I believe it is called Axe in the US). That stuff smells vile and makes me wretch. On its own it is bad enough, when people use it as a washing substitute it is much worse.

The company has a primer? As to the axe thing, I used to use it for that on the occasions that were unavoidable, airsoft for a weekend then the group decides to snag a sunday dinner before we all go our seperate ways. So inevitably we all smell like GUOs, but we do try to mitigate the smell as much as possible.

Wardragoon wrote:The company has a primer? As to the axe thing, I used to use it for that on the occasions that were unavoidable, airsoft for a weekend then the group decides to snag a sunday dinner before we all go our seperate ways. So inevitably we all smell like GUOs, but we do try to mitigate the smell as much as possible.

Well there is a very large difference between smelling like you were out running around and smelling like you haven't bathed in several days, I personally can't stand the thought of going out anywhere before I have showered for the day. Though at the college I attend it is clear that there are people who do not bathe everyday and I always feel sorry for their roommates, the one GUO I mentioned in a previous post in this thread got a single room every year because after the first day their roommate would go to the housing staff and complain and the roomate got a new room.

TheAvengingKnee wrote:

Wardragoon wrote:The company has a primer? As to the axe thing, I used to use it for that on the occasions that were unavoidable, airsoft for a weekend then the group decides to snag a sunday dinner before we all go our seperate ways. So inevitably we all smell like GUOs, but we do try to mitigate the smell as much as possible.

Well there is a very large difference between smelling like you were out running around and smelling like you haven't bathed in several days, I personally can't stand the thought of going out anywhere before I have showered for the day. Though at the college I attend it is clear that there are people who do not bathe everyday and I always feel sorry for their roommates, the one GUO I mentioned in a previous post in this thread got a single room every year because after the first day their roommate would go to the housing staff and complain and the roomate got a new room.

Heh, combine running with not showering for a few days, you can clear out a room pretty damn quickly. And the last part sounds almost intentional XD.

I wish it was intentional but it was not, he just refused to bathe he also had severe dandruff to the point when he turned in his laptop at the end of one school year he got fined heavily because they had to just throw the keyboard out. His GUO aura would hang around in a room for hours after he had left and it was clear that he had been in there at some point from the smell alone.

SilverMK2 wrote:Sometimes it is not people that smell, but their clothes. When clothes are not dried and aired properly they can really smell - when someone lives with that they tend not to be able to tell that their freshly washed clothes don't smell of washing powder, but of damp horribleness.

Have to say that the GM's of two of the gaming groups I have been in had houses/clothes that just stank of damp.

You can be clean in every way but still stink - it is not always because of bad hygiene.

Yep not to mention the people who shower too much smell as well, it's something about destroying your natural bacterial flora and acid sweating to kill new germs attacking you afair (so stay proud, GUOs, you have science behind you). Mouth smell also rarely comes from lack of hygiene but mostly from stomach problems or teeth in the state unfixable by brushing. Calling out on the smell, there's a big chance you will call out on somebody who is physicaly or psychicaly sick. Not saying that there are no real smelly swines who like to think they're venomthropes but most of the time it's something hard to combat for those people either because of overperspiring or sth. Being fat doesn't help too, I'm rarely delicate with fat people especialy seeing them with a big pack of chips or some gakky sweats but truth is some of them have real trouble keeping fresh in the warm environment and have bad natural smell from the start.

Grey Templar wrote:Our local group is clean. Its the MTG and Yu-gi-o players that stink, and leave tons of trash.

Nerd elitism ftw. Not that I disagrre or don't think 40k crowd is elite but it's funny to see the nerddom divided and layered.

Ailaros wrote:In any case, this is a moment for pity, not scorn. If a person is really that broken that they behave in such a fashion, it's likely because there's something actually wrong with them. I may be able to achieve a semblance of normalcy despite my own thankless autism problems swimming around in my genes, but that's only because I've had a lot of time to work hard to act normal, and I very likely didn't have as bad of a starting position as others certainly have.

So take pity on the lonely, stinky people who have to cheat to win at a game. It might be the closest thing they have to personal contact or general success in their entire week...

Good post, I also think it's rare for normal people to accept being an unwashed mess or sth similar.

TheAvengingKnee wrote:I wish it was intentional but it was not, he just refused to bathe he also had severe dandruff to the point when he turned in his laptop at the end of one school year he got fined heavily because they had to just throw the keyboard out. His GUO aura would hang around in a room for hours after he had left and it was clear that he had been in there at some point from the smell alone.

*Gag* That is attrocious, I am probably the closest thing to a GUO in my store, and thats just because of my fashion sense, or lack thereof

FOR THE EMPRAH

Davor, #1: If you say you're not going to a store and you show up there anyways, you're lying to this forum. #2 Don't use your actual name as a forum name, because now a lot of people happen to know who you are #3 Neither the MTG or 40k communities smell bad, and i play them all the time #4 If you have something bad to say about a store, SAY IT TO THE EMPLOYEES!!!! Not to a forum. Because forums can't fix your problems. So, I believe you owe Jay, Rob and the rest of the employees a sincere apology.

Sincerely,
Red, Hero to the people of Black Knight Games