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 wowsmash wrote:
Are you allowed to just spray people though. I thought that could be considered a form of assualt?

Wouldn't surprise me in the least

 Jacobshepard wrote:

 wowsmash wrote:
Are you allowed to just spray people though. I thought that could be considered a form of assualt?

Wouldn't surprise me in the least

I don't know, I'm checking on the legality of that...

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I don't know, I'm checking on the legality of that...

Whether or not it's legally assault or not it's certainly being a . You have the right to leave because you don't like how someone smells and take your money with you, but you do NOT have the right to spray someone with your chosen scent (especially when many people find those sprays repulsive). You will absolutely deserve it when someone punches you in the face for doing it.

I go to a college where it's nearly all girls, so having decent personal hygiene is like as second nature to me now lol

The only local game shop in Tucson is absolutely horrible with this issue. The problem is two-fold however, gamers with extremely poor hygiene and owners who are just outright slobs. The smelly gamers never have to really worry about getting called out by the owners as they keep the place just shy of looking and smelling like a pig sty. The shop keeps their trash cans inside. I am not talking about a wastebasket, I am talking about the big 55 gallon, waste disposal sized, trash bins. So if they all eat pizza the day after trash pick-up, that leftover pizza and whatever else was shoved into their mouths stays there for the whole week. The smelly ass gamers just take their cue from the owners and the whole place smells like rotten swamp ass all the time.

I remember one of their smellier gamers traveled to Phoenix for a big 2 day tournament and he literally slept in his car from one day to the next. The first day he already reeked, the second day he was pretty much unbearable.

 Peregrine wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
I don't know, I'm checking on the legality of that...

Whether or not it's legally assault or not it's certainly being a . You have the right to leave because you don't like how someone smells and take your money with you, but you do NOT have the right to spray someone with your chosen scent (especially when many people find those sprays repulsive). You will absolutely deserve it when someone punches you in the face for doing it.

Whoa now tiger, take a deep breath. Let your jimmies de-rustle. Everyone was having fun mocking people who fear soap till you got your panties in a twist, are you perhaps a GUO yourself?

It makes sense though, asthma or allergy can make spraying random people a bad idea. That doesn't mean they suddenly have an excuse to ignore the idea of hygiene entirely however.

 n0t_u wrote:
It makes sense though, asthma or allergy can make spraying random people a bad idea.

This is true.

It's a funny idea, but some people have serious allergies, and you DO NOT want to be that guy stuck with his hospital bill.

Just call them out on it as respectfully as you can.

The unwashed gamers give the hobby a bad name. I have no objections if people decide to grow long hair, or a beard, or grow their nails long. That doesn't bother me in the slightest. What makes me almost retch is their disregard for basic hygiene. They might care passionately about the hobby, or computer gaming, and want to spend every minute of their waking day on painting/gaming/whatever but surely they can spend 10 minutes under a shower with a bar of soap. And then put on some clean clothes.

If you can't tell then wash every day just to be sure!

 MetalOxide wrote:
I go to a college where it's nearly all girls, so having decent personal hygiene is like as second nature to me now lol

And these people wonder why they don't have girlfriends...

I once started stuffing my figures manically into my carry case once to avoid a post game handshake. I'm all for good manners, but they go out of the window when I am likely to contract something.

It does irk me though when people don't take personal hygene seriously, I mean it's not that hard to shower once or twice a day, wash your hair a couple of days a week, brush your teeth twice a day and not wear the same clothes days on end.

I bet any money that the GUO is the reason you don't see many female gamers.

Thankfully my local store has a air deodorizer. It's a hardcore air freshener that has a little fan in it and there's changeable scent things that go in it to cut down on the reek. We have them at Lowe's as well, but the recreated scent of fresh cut grass smells more like fresh ripe ass.

I agree with the MTG and card players represent the majority of the GUO's around my area and regardless of when you go into the store there's at least 6-10 people playing.