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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tess Anderson on November 19, 2010, 08:05:53 PM
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Okay, I take it "Axe" is some kind of man's perfume that "Burtworm" here thinks he's allergic to and should be banned, even though Burt is generally not "pro-BO":
link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9577314)
BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-17-10 03:04 PM
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I don't think of myself as having mulitple chemical sensitivity, but I'm near an Axe wearer
Edited on Wed Nov-17-10 03:06 PM by BurtWorm
and I feel like I'm going to pass out. How do I know this is Axe? Because I remember the last time I smelled a sample of it and I had a similar reaction. My eyes are tearing, my throat is tightening, my lips feel like they're about to peel off. In short, it's as though I'm in the middle of a mustard gas attack. Looking on line, I see that that is exactly how people who describe themselves as susceptible to MCS talk about Axe.
I wear deodorant and eau de toilette, so I don't consider myself pro-BO, so to speak. (There was one of those life-style pieces in the NY Times style section a couple of weeks ago about people who've stopped showering, shampooing and rolling on. Anyone see that?) But I'm thinking I wouldn't mind it if the Feds, while they're cracking down on Four Loko, would go after Axe as well. I really think it might be toxic. Does anyone but teenage boys think that shit is sexy? If not, can we start a campaign to disabuse them of that notion?
PS: I'm not even that near the Axe wearer (I almost typed Axe murderer!), and I'm suffering!
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There was one of those life-style pieces in the NY Times style section a couple of weeks ago about people who've stopped showering, shampooing and rolling on. Anyone see that?
How about a show of hands of you DUmmies that are living that lifestyle?
On second thought, that might not be such a good idea.
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:gay: This is obviously important and must be discussed.
The only time I have ever complained about someone wearing perfume was when I was trying to eat in a restaurant. The waitstaff smelled like a vertical whorehouse. The bad part? I worked there.
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I work with a guy that marinates in perfume.
One time, while the wife and myself were out poking around in a flea market, I caught a whiff of this terrible stench.
Two minutes later, I ran into the guy I work with TWO AISLES from where I smelled him.
There has got to be a happy medium between taking a bath in cologne, or, as HollywoodNeoCon coined yesterday, smelling like a pot roast.
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I work with a guy that marinates in perfume.
One time, while the wife and myself were out poking around in a flea market, I caught a whiff of this terrible stench.
Two minutes later, I ran into the guy I work with TWO AISLES from where I smelled him.
There has got to be a happy medium between taking a bath in cologne, or, as HollywoodNeoCon coined yesterday, smelling like a pot roast.
When I used to work in the lab, we had a guy come around twice a year to check the calibration on all of the balances we had. He used to apply his cologne with a firehose, it seemed. You knew if he was in your area if you could smell the cologne in the hallway--and you'd be in your lab. I tried to convince my supervisor that my gas chromatographs were actually pciking up that stuff out of the air, and there was some haze on a couple of the detectors, but it was so low-level that it was below our reporting thresholds (we're talking parts per trillion here). I figured that if I could smell it, the GCs could damned well pick it out of the air. It was a matter of keeping him away from our blank water.
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Well, it IS Axe, which is used by 20-something douchenozzles who actually think wearing it makes one appealing rather than, say, a personality.
I don't think of myself as having mulitple chemical sensitivity DEPENDENCIES
Fixt. You're a DUmmie. It's assumed--and almost always correct.
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-17-10 03:04 PM
Original message
I don't think of myself as having mulitple chemical sensitivity, but I'm near an Axe wearer
Edited on Wed Nov-17-10 03:06 PM by BurtWorm
and I feel like I'm going to pass out. How do I know this is Axe? Because I remember the last time I smelled a sample of it and I had a similar reaction. My eyes are tearing, my throat is tightening, my lips feel like they're about to peel off. In short, it's as though I'm in the middle of a mustard gas attack.
I wear deodorant and eau de toilette, so I don't consider myself pro-BO, so to speak. But I'm thinking I wouldn't mind it if the Feds, while they're cracking down on Four Loko, would go after Axe as well. I really think it might be toxic.
:lol: :mental: