Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [112]

The Dekalog series is astounding! That's the only Polish cinema I've experienced so far but I strongly recommend it.

Hm... maybe I should have read the entire thread first.

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


Moving story. I cried.

How different can Polish deodorants be? We have thousands of deodorants over here but ya still get sweaty, stinky people all over the place. I don't think any nation is without it's hygienically challenged individuals. Worse are the towns that smell, primarily and more often than not, of human excrement. Even in England we have them! Especially when it rains hard and the drains back up.

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

I expect poor hygiene from my patients (and some of them are REAL f*ckin' stinky) but the average person really has no excuse. There's a fella on my bus route every morning after work who's stench is just overwhelming! And he has really long dirty fingernails too!! My first thought is that he's homeless... but then where is he going every morning? It's one of the bus route misteries I occupy my brain with to stay awake long enough to reach my bed.

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

Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Apparently. I'm a bit OCD with my personal hygiene but I sure as sh*t ain't no deity!

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

What gets me are the people who are blissfully unware that they stink. They MUST be able to tell! I know when I'm gettin' a sweat on and I get very self conscious at the end of a long day!

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


Thank you, I just pissed myself!!

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

And the sudden realisation that possibly only you know what "pissed myself" means. Everyone probably thinks I'm disgusting now :D

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


See!!! Nah, it means to laugh heartily! I think it's a regional expression? I haven't urinated all over myself in days.

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

Incidentally, I find the folk on the public transports that tend to stink the most are suit wearing, brief-case carrying office types! Definitely no excuse!!

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


I'm not making fun, I'm voicing my opinion and I'm not offending anybody. Why so defensive? Or do you agree with poor hygiene?

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


You find what sad, exactly? That I believe people should wash themselves? I don't understand where you're coming from. You seem to have taken this most personally? I'm a little more diplomatic than to pull a complete stranger to one side and tell them they smell and incase you've never been to Manchester, that's how you get stabbed here!

Sometimes body odour can't be helped, at the end of a long, hard day for instance. But some people just do not make the effort!!

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

Yep! Unfortunately our youth is comprised of cowards who hunt in packs with knives. A friend of mine was stabbed AND shot on seperate occasions in Little Hulton, the brother of a work colleague was carved up good and proper in Manchester but the worst is the neighbour of one of my friends...

He arranged a night in with his sweetheart. Some local sh*theads were setting off fireworks outside. He made the mistake of going out to comfront them, at which point they stormed into his flat, tried to rape his girlfriend, wherein he went upstairs and got an axe, which they then used to cut most of the way through both his legs, his arms and the top of his head. He's still alive though.

And these ain't stories I read about, man. This ain't newspaper propaganda! This **** happens all the time.

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


That would be a neat trick... providing you could control it!!

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


I couldn't live like that!!! But I do work with some dirty dirty people, bless 'em. I have to keep clean and I'm forever washing my hands.

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


All appologies. That being the case... SHOULDN'T YOU BE WORKING??!! Heh heh!

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

Heh heh! I get away with it too. Tis great, innit?

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

Come to think of it, my girlfriend also had a slight scent of sweat about her come the end of the day but I found it kinda cute. She wasn't smelly though.

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

Yep. I liked it, actually... in a weird kinda way. It was kind of a nice body oder. I found it kinda sexy.

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

I never sniffed my parents. Heh heh!

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

Nah, she wasn't stinky. Just... well... I suppose I'm tip-toeing around saying she was a bit... well... sweaty. But not in a bad way and not stinky. She worked hard, bless her. She earned her sweat!

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


Heh Heh!

Comedy!!

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

Maybe we should let this go now? Everbody smells. The end.


Sh*t-hot username, by the way!!

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


Hate to disappoint fella... but he was Palastinian. We knicked him because we liked him.

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

I would imagine countries without, say, running water, soap or deodorant would smell the worst.

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

I've never been so I couldn't say. Maybe it's because Polish people work their arses off?

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

Fair enough. But then there is always the transitional period between having just finished a hard graft and getting to the shower/deordoriser.

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


Haha! As per my Polish girlfriend. But her smell wasn't offensive. Maybe it's genetic. Mind you, I've been sat on my arse all day, sweating out a session on the sauce, and I smell worse than my own arsehole right now! :D

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

That is definitely true! Some of our patients don't wash for weeks and they REEK!! They're mentally ill though so it ain't really their fault. Some of them we have to pretty much force into the shower but we can't do that with the patients who have capacity. Some people are just plain dirty!

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

Yep. I think we're flogging a dead horse with this thread though. We're all just going round in circles, talking about people who smell over and over again :D