Life / Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland [188]

I can't believe this ever got going as a thread, but it's sure as heck been a fun read.

There was one particularly revolting post early on which left me doubled up with fits of laughter (I'll not go into specifics, although it did mention fish, sh'-bumpy and a leading supermarket - where else but PF could one get such an eclectic combination).

Anyway, why should Poles ming more than anyone else? Get on any bus, anywhere, and you'll have your share of mingers.

The worst I've ever smelt, though, is my neighbour. He reeks like a camel's jockstrap. Lovely guy, but, feck, he pongs, even though he spends most of his non-working time in the shower.

Now, he's from Lithuania - but that doesn't mean I can conclude that everyone from Lithuania is a stinker.

We need some serious research on this one. A big nationality*pong questionnaire, complete with focus groups held on buses at going-home time.

Then, if we're going in that direction, why don't we branch out and have a Brussels-sponsored survey into the EU's fartiest country?

There could be categories for the smelliest, the loudest, the most colourful and the most musical. We could even make EU aid dependent on a good overall national score in all departments (or should that be de-fart-ments?).

Cabbage-eating countries might have an unfair advantage in some categories, so we'd need to have several qualifying groups, just like the Champions League. Drawing mud would equal instant disqualification in any section/category.

It could replace the Eurovision Song Contest...we might even call it the Eurovision Pong Contest.