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[smick]

This is a really stupid and ignorant question, but is it true that many folks in France don't wear deodorant? I'm sure that the vast majority of the world's 6.6 billion people do not...

Shhhhh You're going to get KH riled up again...

[KeithHernandez]

You know, I almost put "Deodorant is killing us and our environment, which is a good reason not to wear it," but then I didn't.

[Doc]

urine puddles

Seriously? Seems something should be done about that.

[Popegeorgeringo]

There is no way anyone should avoid France for their different hygiene standards.  It would be like the French avoiding all of America because our everyday food is inferior to theirs.

Seriously, hygiene standards are different overseas.  Not so much deodorant, but less frequent bathing and wearing clothes for longer (multiple days) between washing are big factors.  You encounter all of these overseas, but by and large this is just an occasional phenom.  The French are not that bad.  The Germans on the other hand.....   Many years ago I was at the Stuttgart Zoo, when a sudden heavy rain broke out.  Everybody crowded into the aquarium building to stay dry.  A couple whiffs and I decided that getting wet was the least worst option.

The Germans excuse to avoid America could be that we allow junker cars to run on the road or that slow vehicles operate in the left lane on multi-lane freeways.  They would have a point.

[Lister]

It's strange.  The Metro looked as clean as any other heavily-trafficked public space could be, but there was just this... sourceless stench.  The worst stations were the lines with cars that ran on rubber tires and not metal wheels.  The 'heated rubber' smell just layered on top of all the others.  Maybe it's just that they weren't built with ventilation in mind.  Eh.  The people didn't seem that much worse than anywhere else... and there were fewer people making the metro cars their home, so it probably averaged out as far as that goes.

I'm certainly not the world's foremost expert on stench or underground transit.

[KeithHernandez]

The Germans excuse to avoid America could be that we allow junker cars to run on the road or that slow vehicles operate in the left lane on multi-lane freeways.  They would have a point.

The best.  Smell all you want to, but don't drive slow in the fast lane.  I don't even speed over 5 over but they fuck up the whole system man.