Comments on: Another air freshener fracas

By: Katter

Katter — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:29:02 +0000

If the bathroom stinks, they should have it cleaned more often, not cover up the stink with air fresheners. Most of the time it just smells like crap + whatever scent they’re using, which is often worse than the scent of crap alone.

By: Katter

Katter — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:24:59 +0000

So what would she have done if the woman really had been allergic and the extra perfume had set off an attack? It’s possible to be allergic to some artificial scents and not others.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:15:27 +0000

At times this was a very funny thread, at others VERY disgusting.

By: Earp

Earp — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:36:42 +0000

Hey I don’t blame him, after all– Summer breeze makes me feel fine blowin’ with the jasmine in my mind

By: emcd

emcd — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:58:06 +0000

Can someone explain to me how flushing multiple times removes airborne fumes? Am I supposed to believe the majority of toilets will swirl water around at such a rate of speed as to create a vortex capable of sucking odors into the netherworld?
I find the multi-flush position liquid-ist. Harumph.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:41:02 +0000

I like some and put up with others. Most people (the vast majority) can handle such things with no ill effects.
You’re one of those people who make everyone else at your place of employment not wear scented deodorant or the slighted bit of cologne or perfume denying them a small piece of one of life’s simple pleasures.

Exhaust fans use electricity. Electricity costs money. Generating electricity most often creates pollution. Installing millions of bathroom fans so you don’t have to smell air fresheners?

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:37:29 +0000

Sorry, but I’d rather smell artificial flowers all day, than pure shit or chemically masked shit even part of the day. If you sit near a restroom, you’re going to smell the restroom sometimes.

Fact is, you’d get more complaints about shit and old urine smell if there were no air fresheners than you get for air freshener smells simply because the vast majority of people can actually handle the scent of an air freshener with no ill effects, but NO ONE wants to smell old urine and/or shit…EVER!!

By: Clarence

Clarence — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:19:41 +0000

Or using too much cologne:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/massive-tag-body-spray-slick-spreading-from-jersey,2048/

By: quat

quat — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:26:16 +0000

Jami, you have never had a migraine. Migraines make you afraid that you WON’T die and just be put out of your misery. You should try one sometime.

By: bookworm

bookworm — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:49:36 +0000

Since I’ve started eating more fresh fruits and vegetables and can tell you this from personal experience, vegetarians certainly DO have stinkier farts than people who eat a lot of meat. Louder, too.

By: redheadwglasses

redheadwglasses — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:47:24 +0000

Ooh, and I missed your “sizeism” accusation. Spoken like someone who’s 50% overweight.

By: redheadwglasses

redheadwglasses — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:46:16 +0000

You sound awfully defensive. Over 50 much?

FWIW, I’m 43.5. And the 50+yo women I’ve worked with who’ve been overweight DID have awful diets and stank up the bathroom, daily.

By: TheOnlySanePersonInTheWorld

TheOnlySanePersonInTheWorld — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:28:03 +0000

@ Canthz B: It’s not necessarily that either odor is more acceptable, they’re both unpleasant. As someone who suffers from this problem myself, I’ve been in situations like this where, it’s not really as cut-and-dry as everyone likes to think. For some people its worse than others, depending on varying health factors, like asthma, or breathing problems in general, as well as chemical sensitivities. I’m one of those people that can’t even walk down the air freshener aisle at WalMart without feeling like I’m about to pass out. And not only that, in 2004 a study was done actually VERIFYING that most of the air fresheners on the market at this time contain what at least 14 countries deem to be “unsafe” amounts of pthalates which can cause negative effects in both male, and female reproductive systems. Just read the extra credit link provided by PAN. And imho, I’d rather smell someones fart for 30 seconds than have to feel like I’m slowly choking and dying until the 6lbs of air freshener wafting out of the bathroom dissipates. All in all, it really comes down to personal preferences unfortunately. The point that I’m trying to make, however; is that I appreciate the fact that my previous workplace made an effort to keep this problem in check, and I was literally THE ONLY ONE who had an issue with it out of almost 200 employees. Take that, Terry. lol. I find certain fresheners less offensive than others, but they’re all pretty terrible. I mean, c’mon. Do YOU even like the way they smell? Or do you just like it better than somebody’s smelly feet/a**. More importantly, the total lack of WINDOWS in any of these situations leaves way too much to be desired. That would solve the whole issue in its self.

ps. Exhaust fans are fairly inexpensive, last time I checked at work you could buy one for less than 100$ CAN. Installation is beyond easy if you know what you’re looking at. Problem solved.

By: flaps

flaps — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:24:26 +0000

The thing is, air “freshener” doesn’t take away odours, it just adds more. The smell of shit is not pleasant, but the smell of shit PLUS smelly chemicals is worse. And in the case of air “fresheners” permanently hanging in the loo, the smell of intense chemical fake flowers is constant, whereas the smell of shit presumably is not.