Foreigners arrested - because Thais said they smelled bad

[ttrd]

6 hours ago, Old Croc said:

The combination of a long journey without access to bathing facilities, and the adrenaline produced by fear of consequences can produce powerful body odors.

I wouldn't have wanted to be on this bus. 

... construction workers are one thing and fishermen another ....

[puukao]

5 hours ago, KhunFred said:

I was complimented for being so clean.  My GF actually bragged to her relatives about how many showers I took. How incredibly bizarre.

until they found out why you took so many showers?  lol

[moontang]

7 hours ago, watcharacters said:

 

I wasn't expecting the culprits to be Asian.

The Brits taught them well.

[RandolphGB]

If you read the story, the complaint was because they were illegal Burmese. 

[Blue Muton]

6 hours ago, KhunFred said:

I was complimented for being so clean.  My GF actually bragged to her relatives about how many showers I took. How incredibly bizarre.

Well, Fred, you always did strike me as a wholesome chap.

[Blue Muton]

8 minutes ago, RandolphGB said:

If you read the story, the complaint was because they were illegal Burmese. 

If you read and comprehend the article you'll see that they were arrested for being in Thailand illegally, following complaints  about their smell.

[Briggsy]

I remember being on a bus in Hong Kong when 2 Pakistanis came on and sat 2 seats away from me. The smell was so overpowering. I couldn't take it. I felt like a competitor on "Endurance".

[ttrd]

1 minute ago, Briggsy said:

I remember being on a bus in Hong Kong when 2 Pakistanis came on and sat 2 seats away from me. The smell was so overpowering. I couldn't take it. I felt like a competitor on "Endurance".

How did you knew they were Pakistani's ...?...

[Briggsy]

1 minute ago, ttrd said:

How did you knew they were Pakistani's ...?...

They and I were going to the airport. What is the noun you have omitted after Pakistani's?

[Nsp64]

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

So did mine.. she told her siblings I took a shower every Friday night whether i needed one or not !

Show off.

Once a month is enough

[Nsp64]

31 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

They and I were going to the airport. What is the noun you have omitted after Pakistani's?

Stinky

[Sydebolle]

The stinky aliens again .......... 

[chama]

So they were arrested for smelling bad not because they were in the country illegally......is this a Thai thing?

[salavan]

It's OK to pick your nose and eat it though and snort and gob in waste bin perfectly acceptable

[Old Croc]

9 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Long journeys or adrenaline don't smell, stale unwashed sweat does.

I actually said "long journeys without access to bathing facilities". Changing a quote to give a different meaning is against the rules of this forum.

Also, to avoid making incorrect statements, you could try doing some research about the smell of adrenaline.  The smell is released when the person is stressed and sweating so you got something partially right. 

Your personal dislike of me shouldn't make you sink to making dumb posts.

[impulse]

10 hours ago, hotchilli said:

So did mine.. she told her siblings I took a shower every Friday night whether i needed one or not !

 

Year 'round, or just in the hot season?

 

[ChipButty]

So will the immigration give them access to a shower then let them on their way? 

[briansbiology]

22 hours ago, SammyT said:

When you go out of your way to take the piss out of someone's written language skills and then make a spelling mistake yourself.

More ironic than rain on your wedding day...

Whats ironic about rain on a wedding day???

which definition are you referring to? 

Dictionary.com

the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.

Literature .

1. a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
2. (especially in contemporary writing) a manner of organizing a work so as to give full expression to contradictory or complementary impulses, attitudes, etc., especially as a means of indicating detachment from a subject, theme, or emotion.

Socratic irony.

dramatic irony.

an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.

the incongruity of this.

 

 

looks like you are guilty of exactly what you are poking fun of.....(also not irony) 

and Alanis Morrisette is an idiot before you go there

https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/isnt-it-ironic-probably-not/

[tubby johnson]

They look (and smell) more like Indians in that photo.

[Mavideol]

44 minutes ago, tubby johnson said:

They look (and smell) more like Indians in that photo.

now we also smell photos!!!, that could be scapegoating ....

Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and consequent negative treatment.

[SteveK]

25 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

now we also smell photos!!!, that could be scapegoating ....

Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and consequent negative treatment.

No, I think he's just going from experience.

[mahtin]

20 hours ago, Briggsy said:

They and I were going to the airport. What is the noun you have omitted after Pakistani's?

In 2001, Richards won an Ig Nobel Prize for "his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the differences between plural and possessive".^[3]

[MyFriend You]

23 hours ago, Briggsy said:

I remember being on a bus in Hong Kong when 2 Pakistanis came on and sat 2 seats away from me. The smell was so overpowering. I couldn't take it. I felt like a competitor on "Endurance".

down, down, down, da da down, da da down, down down, da da down da da down, da da down.  I worked in a bldg in Abidjan, Ivory Coast West Africa in 1994, was escorting three laborers and about twenty cases of copy paper in an elevator, the elevator was overloaded and stopped halfway up, we were stuck and they started to sweat, then they started to panic and they sweated more, .........when security finally cranked that elevator up enough to pry the doors open the stench was enough to gag a maggot.   I rolled out, puked, said FuggIt, and went home for 3 days.  I tell people you haven't lived unless you have lived thru an episode like that, you can survive anything after that experience..............the only ones that will know what I am talking about are the ones that have lived and worked with Africans............????

[MyFriend You]

On 2/12/2019 at 11:01 PM, Bundooman said:

Sickening is the key word here.

Obviously, you have never been obliged to sit next to some one who stinks to high heaven - simply because he/she hasn't kept themselves clean. It is a foul, vomit inducing stench.

To have multiple people smelling the same would be horrendous!

I don't care if they're feeding family and kids - what's that got to do with hygeine?

 

I was on a plane from Frankfurt to Bangkok, stopped in New Delhi, Federali's escorted an Australian lady on the plane, lucky me, they put her right next to me - last row on airplane - that woman stinker to high heaven..........took off her shoes, and my god, I've smelled dead bodies that wasn't as bad as that...........she said she was a Hippy, and lived in India for 3 years in an ashram, and her parents demanded she be brought home  (she ran away at 15 to go with her boyfriend to India)  -  Australian embassy had her deported    -  I always travel with the little green bottle of eucalyptus Thai's rub under their nose, I passed to the German folks in from of me.  Stewardist came and got the gal and her stuff and we never saw her again, I joked they probably gave her a parachute over Pakistan.   I suspect she hadn't bathed in the three years she was in India.  ????????????????   

[Ebumbu]

On 2/12/2019 at 9:30 PM, KhunFred said:

I was complimented for being so clean.  My GF actually bragged to her relatives about how many showers I took. How incredibly bizarre.

 I mean, how many do you take? 

[watcharacters]

20 hours ago, salavan said:

It's OK to pick your nose and eat it though and snort and gob in waste bin perfectly acceptable

 

 

Topic is stench.   

 

Stench is stench, don't ya think?

[AlexRich]

I’ve been to India several times and as much as I like the place it did appear that many locals were oblivious to their own body odour ... the smell can be overpowering if you are stuck in a confined space like a lift. 

 

This story does not not surprise me at all, and the Indian tourists will be dumbfounded by it all.

 

 

 

 

[ttrd]

7 minutes ago, Ebumbu said:

 I mean, how many do you take? 

If at the village side 1 shower per week is considered as overkill ...

[watcharacters]

 

The biggest defenders of stinking are those opposed to using a proper deodorant.

 

Showers with soap are great but nothing combats the bacteria on the underarms like deodorant.

 

Of course,  if an adult hasn't figured that out on his own, he or she will never learn.

[ttrd]

8 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

The biggest defenders of stinking are those opposed to using a proper deodorant.

 

Showers with soap are great but nothing combats the bacteria on the underarms like deodorant.

 

Of course,  if an adult hasn't figured that out on his own, he or she will never learn.

Deodorant/parfume is just to cover:

 

French do not wash: official. But the British are smelly

 

Although the French do not wash very much, they are Europe's biggest consumers of perfume and deodorants...

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/french-do-not-wash-official-but-the-british-are-smelly-1186193.html