Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland

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

do eastern europeans use deodourent ?

I bet the poles will blame the russians like they always do for their problems.

yeah they have that


they have it i just don't know if it sees action in Polska :)

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

now now don't make excuses for them, work hard or not, you can still make the effort to be hygienic.

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

ok ok but there seems to be a general problem not just at the time or work. I mean there are plenty of other people around the world who 'work their ass off' as you put it but don't smell like that.

Don't get me wrong i'm not trying to pick on the Polish but when even the girls don't seem to notice their own smell something is wrong there. Girls are the most selfconsious breed on the planet!!

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

Those smelly pigs on the buses usually look like unemployed ones. Many of them are also too old to work. And, believe me: someone just got sweaty stinks different than someone who hasn't washed for a week.

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!

that's a different story... there is a closed ward in one of the Krakow's hospitals for mentally ill (women only) where odor is soooo bad you can hardly walk through it and not throw up... pretty sad view... but as i said, it's a different story then those about everyday people....

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

I work with a woman (Italian heritage) who has a veil of B.O.covered with cheap perfume following her as she walks by and that's in America. Poor hygiene knows no boundaries. I cringe every time she needs my help and I have to go to her desk to help her out and lean over her shoulder to see the computer screen.

Everybody knows it, but nobody wants to gently tell her...very uncomfortable.

You didn't get my joke... Posts: 3456 I'm happy I didn't have to read the rest of your inteligent posts...

And now I'm gonna be serious and say that I live in England and at my work place noticed only one smelly polish lad, 2 english smellys and about 25% of pakis who stink of swete like hell I've got habit of holding my bref when going past them...

I'm not saing that english guys are worse then polish 1<2 maybe its just coinsidens and I guess we are at same level with english but asians surly need to use soap mor often... end of subject

ok sorry i missed it, who says i have to make intellegent posts all the time :) i mean this thread isn't that serious is it :):)


well i must admit that there are, yes, more smelly people than the English and Polish :)

It's nothing to lol about - some jobs I've done I arrived home not beeing able to shower coz I was too tired. And the day after you leave for your job stinky not having enough time to shower - the jobs I speak of do not require you to be clean, you get sweaty after an half an hour anyway.

i'm not going to discuss your hygiene here...if you wanna go to sleep stinky, just make sure you are alone in bed...that's being lazy and nasty...

It is for the ones who use Polish public transport twice a day :P

Woah woah woah! Hold on! You must go without a shower for about 5 days? It takes 5 mins to have a shower mate. That's nothing. Everyone should wash everyday. Yeah ok after half an hour of work you're already sweating but had you had a wash and put on some deoderant you wouldn't smell no matter how much you sweat. You only smell if you haven't cleaned and put on deoderant. Here in the UK you actually get warned about your hygiene and if you don't listen and take a shower you can get sacked. I've known one or two to get sacked for their lack of hygiene.


Asians if muslims do not use deoderant. It contains alcohol in the majority of deoderants. I don't know what they use instead...? Perhaps nothing.

this topic stinks..............................:)

now you're talking :)


that explains everything...

aint being funny or nuffing but this attitude explains why it can get kinda smelly in enclosed spaces in Poland

Barak Obama

Rubbish. They r not allowed to ingest alcohol (except medical reasons) otherwise all other uses of alcohol are permitted.

PJ

It depends. If the wind blows from south west it comes from portugal if from east it's from russia.

I don't know...I just always thought it was an East European thing. The Polish are not the only ones guilty of this...my old roommate was from former Yugoslavia...and he never would stink, but he would get to the point where...if it were just 3 or 4 more hours without a bath...he would be full stink going on. I told him about it and he said we bathe too much here in America. He would laugh at me because when I lived in TX I would bathe 2 or 3 times a day

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.

Maybe you don't use deodorant?

I haven't noticed it here...and I've spent plenty of time with villagers.

Ive noticed people from India have a distinct smell.