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People Who Feel Wrong

Hmm. I just think he's a shy nerd with a limited range of emotional expression. Probably is suffering from nerves, yes.
 
I went on a shopping tour yesterday and there was a young woman there with her mother.
Later at home my daughter spoke about her and said that she was the sister in law of my youngest's best friend and had been on drugs
I had never seen her before but had seen her two damaged children when her mother had brought them to the friend's place.
I asked my daughter if she was still using but she didn't know.
I wonder if drugs make some people seem not quite right.
She was a beautiful looking girl but dressed in a tatty woollen hat and shawl which is more like an older person and moved like one as well. She never met anyone's eyes and never spoke to anyone.
I had thought that maybe she was slow or had mental problems.
 
Perhaps this can shed light on the issue.

Studies have shown that your personality can effect the way you smell. Some goas far to say it's as "unique as a fingerprint." Likewise, we can smell people personalities and that subconsciously effects our judgement of them.

So maybe when we don't like someone, it's because we're smelling them out or picking up on other subconscious clues.

References:

http://www.livescience.com/17279-personality-traits-affect-smell.html
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/per.848/abstract
http://www.livescience.com/5188-odor-unique-fingerprint.html
 
TheInspector said:
Perhaps this can shed light on the issue.

Studies have shown that your personality can effect the way you smell. Some goas far to say it's as "unique as a fingerprint." Likewise, we can smell people personalities and that subconsciously effects our judgement of them.

So maybe when we don't like someone, it's because we're smelling them out or picking up on other subconscious clues.

References:

http://www.livescience.com/17279-personality-traits-affect-smell.html
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/per.848/abstract
http://www.livescience.com/5188-odor-unique-fingerprint.html
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People do have unique and recognisable smells. When I was younger I can recall being very aware of this - the sense of smell seems to diminish a little as we get older however.
 
Has it shown to be affected by your personality though?
 
It seems to be.

Shirts from the "odor donors" were collected and rated by 100 men and 100 women. Raters were asked to smell the shirts (placed in non-transparent plastic bags) and evaluate five personality traits of the donors, on a scale of one to 10. Each rater assessed six shirts, and each shirt was assessed by 20 raters.

The judges' ratings matched up with the self-assessments of the donors for three personality traits: extroversion (the tendency to be outgoing and sociable) neuroticism (the tendency to feel anxious and moody) and dominance (the urge to be a leader).

The matches were far from perfect. But the raters predicted the donor's level of extroversion and neuroticism through smell about as accurately as participants in a different study predicted personality traits based on a video depicting a person's behavior, Sorokowska said.
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TheInspector said:
Perhaps this can shed light on the issue.

Studies have shown that your personality can effect the way you smell. Some goas far to say it's as "unique as a fingerprint." Likewise, we can smell people personalities and that subconsciously effects our judgement of them.

So maybe when we don't like someone, it's because we're smelling them out or picking up on other subconscious clues.

References:

http://www.livescience.com/17279-personality-traits-affect-smell.html
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/per.848/abstract
http://www.livescience.com/5188-odor-unique-fingerprint.html
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Yeah, I think tnere's something to this, at least part of the time.
It was something I'd thought a lot about in my single years, having dated quite a bit, or been pursued by people who wanted to date me. (Hey, I'm not the Tart of Darkness for nothing :p)

Sometimes, I couldn't be attracted to someone because they had a smell that reminded me of my male relatives. This had nothing to do with cologne and I didn't even have to be very close to them to detect it. I figured back then this had something to do with a genetic similarity and therefore not good for mating. This is probably wrong, since we now know that biological relatives who were seperated at birth are sometimes attracted to each other when they meet as adults. Apparently that "ick" factor is not instinctual, but is developed by repeated exposure.
Whatever the reason, there was just something about that smell that killed any attraction dead.

On the other hand, when my Other Half and I met, we had a "love at first sight" scenario, through we didn't really see each other, exactly. I only had a distant half-glimpse of him and could only make out his general shape. He could only see the back of my head. By the time we actually got a look at each other, we were both blushing so horribly because we'd developed this instant infatuation. We eventually came to the conclusion that this must have had to do with some undectable scent. Unless of course it was fate or kismet. :D

Then again, I've had unfortunate encounters with some unsavory characters, and while some smelled "wrong", some didn't. So it was certainly not a foolproof system of judging character.
 
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My mother, who's a little odd, can smell when a man has recently had sex. She mentioned this to me some years ago and was surprised to learn that not everyone can do this. (I can't, anyway! Not that it'd be any of my business if a man has had sex unless he was supposed to be having it with me.)

She reckons it's an unmistakeable odour. Not a man's post-coital demeanour (smug, sheepish, whatever) but an actual smell.

It doesn't apply to women though, so if she meets a couple and he has the smell she can't tell whether or not he's been bonking the woman he's walked in.

I'd never come across this before and grilled her a bit, but when she started realising how weird it was she clammed up.

Incidentally I've met men who claim to be able to tell when a woman is menstruating, usually by a smell. I assumed it was an attempt to embarrass the woman and would challenge them to tell me whether or not I was, and ask them how they'd like me to prove it.

Great fun - men who are queasy enough about menstruation to want to humiliate women over it are sitting ducks for retaliation.
 
Quake42 said:
People do have unique and recognisable smells. When I was younger I can recall being very aware of this - the sense of smell seems to diminish a little as we get older however.
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...as opposite to the smell itself :)
 
escargot1 said:
Incidentally I've met men who claim to be able to tell when a woman is menstruating, usually by a smell. I assumed it was an attempt to embarrass the woman and would challenge them to tell me whether or not I was, and ask them how they'd like me to prove it.
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I could do this. I never spoke to women about it, as I didn't wish to embarrass anyone. But when I was in a relationship, or married, I was often able to confirm to myself that the faint metallic smell I could detect was linked to menstruation. I assumed I was detecting the smell of menstrual blood. There are probably evolutionary reasons for such a talent - don't waste ammo here, low chance of fatherhood at this time...!
 
rynner2 said:
I could do this. I never spoke to women about it, as I didn't wish to embarrass anyone. But when I was in a relationship, or married, I was often able to confirm to myself that the faint metallic smell I could detect was linked to menstruation. I assumed I was detecting the smell of menstrual blood. There are probably evolutionary reasons for such a talent - don't waste ammo here, low chance of fatherhood at this time...!
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Also could on occasion. Never mentioned it, never would. I otherwise have quite a poor sense of smell.
 
escargot1 said:
My mother, who's a little odd, can smell when a man has recently had sex. She mentioned this to me some years ago and was surprised to learn that not everyone can do this.
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Your Mums not odd. I'd say the same, but it's actually the woman that you can smell on the man. To me it's a combination of sex, perfume and soaps etc.

Sex has a smell, female scent first, male distant (sweaty) second and if it's recent a room really smells of it.

I don't meant sex stinks, it's just a smell.

I know not everyone can smell it, I can - ask my ex LOL.
 
Roland Deschain said:
Oh forgot to add. A colleague worked in porn (production) and he says the worst part is the smell.
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And still they continue to film porn without wearing clothespins on their noses.

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Roland Deschain said:
he says the worst part is the smell.
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I did once watch a vile clip in which the cameraman and soundman were violently and theatrically ill when presented with their subject for the day. It might all have been part of her humiliation, though it looked unrehearsed.

They did seem to be working in the bargain-basement of the genre, though there seemed to be a lot of them around.

I'd assume it could all be done with an iPad today. :eek:
 
Roland Deschain said:
Your Mums not odd. I'd say the same, but it's actually the woman that you can smell on the man. To me it's a combination of sex, perfume and soaps etc.

Sex has a smell, female scent first, male distant (sweaty) second and if it's recent a room really smells of it.

I don't meant sex stinks, it's just a smell.

I know not everyone can smell it, I can - ask my ex LOL.
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An unaired bedroom, after a robust session of rumpy pumpy, is unbearably foul. Unlike Roland, I do mean that sex stinks. It stinks so bad you want to get a skunk in there, having a good old spray, to mask the whiff followed by Rent-a-Ghost doing a full fumigation.

(Weirdly, I find it quite difficult to maintain a relationship; I just happen to have a highly sensitive nose: I think it's called hyperosmia, in posh words)
 
What you need is an ioniser. I was looking for one on the Argos website the other day, but sadly they don't sell them any more.
 
An ex-hotel manager once said to me that Cleo Lane was one of the ripest guests he had ever had the pleasure of meeting.
 
Rupert Everett mentioned in his memoir that Julia Roberts had quite a pong. He reckoned it was because she's an alpha female or something.

If Brad Pitt stinks (which I can imagine he does) I can only assume that Angelina Jolie has had a stuffed up nose for the last 12 years and that she somehow caught a sudden whiff of him resulting in her immediately filing for divorce. I would say the same for Amber Heard but sadly in her case the truth is much more ugly.

Ignoring Tom's unfortunate rhyming surname, I like to think that he smells of fresh linen and a warm Spring morning, not that I have any preconceived ideas about the man...!
 
min_bannister said:
Maybe it is all in the nose of the bewhiffer and she liked the smell?
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My fondness for Angelina Jolie is based on my assumption that she is bold and eccentric, so she may well have an affection for the riper body odour.

I have a long standing crush on the poet Byron and I was deeply disappointed when looking at one of his shirts to find that since the days when he wore it it had been cleaned and another man (David Essex, of all people) had used it. I had hoped that he (Byron) had taken it off and it was never touched again, thereby leaving some trace of the smell of his armpits! Considering the man died a hundred years before my dad was born, it was a forlorn hope but I have an active imagination, a very sensitive nose, and I live always in hope!!

Bewhiffer is a fabulous word!
 
Rerenny said:
I have a long standing crush on the poet Byron and I was deeply disappointed when looking at one of his shirts to find that since the days when he wore it it had been cleaned and another man (David Essex, of all people) had used it. I had hoped that he (Byron) had taken it off and it was never touched again, thereby leaving some trace of the smell of his armpits! Considering the man died a hundred years before my dad was born, it was a forlorn hope but I have an active imagination, a very sensitive nose, and I live always in hope!!
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Interesting thought. I have a huge crush on Sir Walter Scott and I know someone who owns a pair of his slippers. I think I draw the line at wanting to know what his feet smelt like though!

And I will try to use bewhiffer more often in conversation then. :D
 
It's good to hear that other Romantics are still receiving some love, additional to the love of their words!

I'll mention, but shan't go into, my interest in Lord Byron's feet...

As I'm here and thinking about Gorgeous George, I may as well note that I buy my wine from Berry Bros. only because he went there to be weighed (I hope he also bought some wine) in the dim and distant past.
Berry Bros.& Rudd
 
This may or may not apply, but this occurred about 7 years ago at around 6 in the morning. I was living with my grandmother, 2 uncles and a boarder in her house in a moderately sized city bordering another state. It was early morning and I was woken up by the weimeriener barking like crazy in front of the window. I laid there for a few minutes waiting for someone else to go quiet the dog down.
To my consternation, no one did. So I left my room and went to the living room window. The dog is still going nuts so I muscled in front of him to look out and I saw someone sitting in front of the house on the corner under the stop sign. I was completely awake and at this point was getting that 'wrong' feeling about the situation.
I opened the front door and stepped out onto the enclosed porch to get a better look at the person out front. He was sitting with his back to the house looking down the street. He looked like a really thin youn caucasian guy; white t-shirt and jeans. He looked normal but I still felt like everything was weird because no one else was hearing the dog and this guy was just sitting under a stop sign at 6 am.
He had his back turned to me but when I stepped out onto the porch he turned and looked right at me and I 'went cold'. This guy had HUGE black eyes, they took up half his face. But the weirdest thing was his nose. It was a beak and it curved down like a bird. His hair was short, pale and spiky-looking. I don't remember anything about his mouth.
Well, we stared at each other (he stared into my soul while I stood petrified) for what seemed like forever until I made my feet rush me back into the house. I locked the door, all 3 locks, and I looked around; still nobody to check what the dog was barking at! I made myself go make sure the other doors were locked and I went back to my room, resolved not to look back outside at the scary bird-guy.
Eventually the dog quit barking and I made myself go back to sleep. The next day I asked if anyone heard the dog going nuts and they hadn't so I kept it to myself, I was too freaked and it was so unbelievable. But the guy, his appearance and behavior (just staring down the street till he looked right at me into my soul) just felt unnatural, as well as everyone sleeping through the dog's loud barking.
I was wide awake and not under any influence when this happened.
 
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