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http://www.news.com.au/technology/australian-company-releases-work-shirts-that-neutralise-body-odour/story-e6frfro0-1225830028614

lol I completely agree with you.

As washing is apparently too hard for many they should have a large pile by the door for everyone coming in.

Hah, put me down for five! Sorry, I'm just mocking my slow reaction to proper hygene.

Odour eliminating shirts.....maybe they could do it for underwear...then that fart you always needed to hold in whilst in a packed room can come out with no consequences....but then you could always let it out for the reaction of colleagues and co-workers...

Roleplayer wrote:http://www.news.com.au/technology/australian-company-releases-work-shirts-that-neutralise-body-odour/story-e6frfro0-1225830028614

Man 2nd that! We need those for lan parties too

I think they should be made compulsory for most gamers. My local store's gaming room absolutely stinks of sweaty unwashed bodies. Foul.

Body odor isn't as much of a problem at my LGS. Flatulence is a friggin' epidemic though.

Forget the shirts, how about people just be decent and shower and use deodorant.

Vengis wrote:Forget the shirts, how about people just be decent and shower and use deodorant.

There's a novel concept!

If you come up out of the basement to shower though, your mom starts hassling you to get a job.

Pft.

Incorporate a "smell test" at the door.

If you can't maintain proper hygeine, GTFO my hobby.

I carry a can of room deodoriser spray with me at larger tournaments. If my opponent is that rank, he gets a spray.

A female friend carries a small can of "impulse"* for the same reason - but tends to provoke horrid flashbacks of highschool in most guys our age - so they get the point.

* It's a feminine deodorant/perfume spray primarily marketed at the late teens/early 20s. The girl's change rooms in highschool tended to reek of the stuff - so much so that the males renamed it "RE-pulse".

Hmm. I'm running the lan and tabletop game rooms at a convention next month. I need to order a few dozen of those to force people to wear. I will have fabreeze and oust on hand though. I go by the rule of "if you can't wash it I can spray it" when I run something.

Screw that noise.

If they can't wash it, they can't enter.

Period. You shouldn't have to put up with that kind of crap.

Unfortunately I couldn't talk the hosts of the convention into authorizing that. I did get them to agree to pay for the spray though. If anybody says they didn't wash their butt I'm spraying them in the face with the third grade insult of I couldn't tell the difference.

rocklord2004 wrote:Unfortunately I couldn't talk the hosts of the convention into authorizing that. I did get them to agree to pay for the spray though. If anybody says they didn't wash their butt I'm spraying them in the face with the third grade insult of I couldn't tell the difference.

Ha! Third grade or not, that's funny.

It all boils down to a lack of personal pride. If someone doesn't care enough about themselves to put on some deodorant and brush their teeth, they're not likely to care about your opinion on the subject unfortunately. The 40k players at my LGS are all pretty good about this, but there are a few other game systems down there in which the players aren't so observant of hygenic conventions.

Careful... these odor reducing clothing articles have "micro" particles of silver all over them to neutralize/kill the odor causing bacteria. Studies have shown that this works... but once washed, the silver mostly leaves the shirts making them less effective AND these Bacteria killing silver particles are then in the environment, killing bacteria necessary for the food chain we rely on....

Just a heads up.

Personally... I carry deodorant with me....

Most of these odor reducing clothing articles are being designed for the armed forces in the field, from what I recall.

Not much need to wash undershirts out there, but handy to have one less thing potentially giving away your position.

frgsinwntr wrote:Careful... these odor reducing clothing articles have "micro" particles of silver all over them to neutralize/kill the odor causing bacteria. Studies have shown that this works... but once washed, the silver mostly leaves the shirts making them less effective AND these Bacteria killing silver particles are then in the environment, killing bacteria necessary for the food chain we rely on....

Just a heads up.

Personally... I carry deodorant with me....

Silly environment. What did it ever give us?

Cool product. However, I do like the idea of carrying some febreeze or odor neutralizer with me as I've endured too many cheeto/sweat gear/unwashed types while trying to play.

Now I just won't play or hang out at places where adults (and I use that term loosely) should know and use the skills of basic hygiene.

The bad side is that it eliminates many players. The good side is that the few I do play against also have matured and know that being clean and fresh (not just covered with whatever deoderant/axe spray you could find yet still unshowered) is a social skill that actually attracts the ladies! Who'd a thunk it?

I'd like for belts also to keep the fat guys with very loose sweat pants so I don't have ass-cracks everywhere I look =/

YOu guys raise interesting points.

I think if you go to a public event, then you you should be washed and ready to meet the public. Even in my early teens I always left the house showered and teeth brushed.

The LAN party situation is our buddy that normally hosts them is pretty laxed on who can come. He is a kind person and wants everyone to come, but eventually we get that one smelly friend of a friend that does nothing more but watch and eat all the food. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does it can suck lol. I usually play the bad guy in those cases and ask them to ante up or take a hike.