Detroit bans perfume = big infight at DUmp

[jinxmchue]

This made me smile:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7927248

Cetacea
Tue Mar-16-10 07:55 AM
Original message
Perfume banned in Detroit.
   
Edited on Tue Mar-16-10 08:43 AM by Cetacea
edit: please indicate if you are pro/anti smoking bans in your replies if you like. Thanks


" Three Detroit city buildings will ban workers from wearing perfume, cologne, aftershave lotions and even deodorant.

This comes as a result of a settlement in a federal lawsuit.


In 2008, a city planner filed a lawsuit claiming a co-worker's perfume made it challenging for her to do her job. Susan McBride filed her lawsuit under the American with Disabilities Act, because she said he co-workers' fragrances make it hard for her to breath.

She was awarded $100,000.

"One of the things the city is going to have to figure out is how they enforce the policy they've agreed to," said attorney John Holmquist. "The city is going to have to get involved in hygiene, I'd guess you'd say, which no employer wants to get involved in."

A notice will also go in the new employee handbook and be written in the Americans with Disabilities Act training.."

I give them a month being around sweaty, smelly coworkers before they decide to retract the policy.

The_Commonist  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Tue Mar-16-10 08:27 AM
Response to Original message
1. ...perfume, cologne, aftershave lotions and even deodorant?
   
This sounds almost as dumb as the bill here in New York to ban all salt from restaurant cooking.
The solution is worse than the problem...

Just the tip of the iceberg.

NeedleCast  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Tue Mar-16-10 10:00 AM
Response to Reply #17
22. The fact that you don't think it's insane to tell other peopel what they can and can't wear
   
bothers me a great deal. But hey, it's all about you and your sensative nose. You're a special person and you should be able to dictate what other people around you smell like.

The hardcore liberals demand that no one tell them what they can or cannot wear, but they see nothing wrong with dictating to others what they can or cannot wear.

liberalhistorian  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Tue Mar-16-10 12:23 PM
Response to Reply #27
51. Exactly. People have the right to use and wear what
   
they want, but that right ends when it physically effects someone else. You do not have endless rights to do whatever you want regardless of the physical effects on others, period. It's mind-bogglingly selfish to think otherwise.

Everything you do physically affects (not "effects," nitwit) other people.  Breathing affects others.  Care to stop breathing?

The infighting continues for dozens and dozens of posts.  It's quite entertaining.

[GOBUCKS]

It makes me physically uncomfortable when I see someone like UGP, or the Las Vegas Lardass, or any limp-wristed swishy queer. Can I sue?

[USA4ME]

Three Detroit city buildings will ban workers from wearing ..... deodorant.

Next, expect people to sue because the the smell of people who don't wear dedorant makes it hard for them to breath.  Or even if they wear scentless dedorant, someone will get a doctor (or several) to testify their patient can still smell it and the fragrance makes it hard for them to breath.

Liberals are so stupid.

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[The Village Idiot]

libhist is a moron.

One person can force thousands to suffer from the ill effects of smelly people in order not to be effected by aftershave??

1 vs. thousands.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I considered bringing that thread over yesterday, but it was getting a little weird.  They even started throwing the smoking arguments into the mix.

[Duke Nukum]

This is an amazing story because I didn't know there were any workers left in Detroit.  Is this just a ploy to drive the few remaining workers out?

[The Village Idiot]

This is an amazing story because I didn't know there were any workers left in Detroit.  Is this just a ploy to drive the few remaining workers out?

City government workers.

[GOBUCKS]

This is an amazing story because I didn't know there were any workers left in Detroit.  Is this just a ploy to drive the few remaining workers out?

These are city employees. They still have tens of thousands of those. You are paying their salaries.

[diesel driver]

It makes me physically uncomfortable when I see someone like UGP, or the Las Vegas Lardass, or any limp-wristed swishy queer. Can I sue?

No, because that would be (fill in the blank:  racist, bigoted, homophobic, etc.)

[Karin]

I enjoy a good DUmmie fight, so I went over.  Right off the bat, at post #3, DB has to pile on a snarky attack:

DainBramaged  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-16-10 08:31 AM
Response to Reply #1
3. Try living with inhalant allergies or not being able to breathe wen a perfume laced
 coworker walks in a room and you have to use your inhaler to survive an attack.

Walk in our shoes before you so intelligently (?) criticize those who don't live as perfect a life as you do.

How can these people stand each other?  They willingly hang out together.

I have to say, for some reason, the spelling is atrocious on this particular thread.  

Something they can agree on, finally:

Odin2005  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-16-10 08:42 AM

8. Ban Axe body spray at least, that shit's awful.

 
  Cetacea  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-16-10 08:45 AM
Response to Reply #8
9. lol. true.

 
 mopinko  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-16-10 11:48 AM
Response to Reply #8
36. tru dat.
 one son was using that to cover up the smell of pot. i told him i liked the smell of pot a lot more than i liked that stuff, and that it didn't make me wheeze.  

 

Mother of the year.  

TSS weighs in with a comment he thinks is funny, because he follows it with an smiley:

The Straight Story  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-16-10 03:46 PM
Response to Original message
61. They should ban it in bars. People should not be forced to go to bars, sadly many are

Apropos of nothing.  I just brought it over because he's my pet DUmmie.  

Pronsyrup came in and mixed it up with a snarlfest.  Nothing resolved, everybody went away pissed off.  

[Tucker]

Next, expect people to sue because the the smell of people who don't wear dedorant makes it hard for them to breath.  Or even if they wear scentless dedorant, someone will get a doctor (or several) to testify their patient can still smell it and the fragrance makes it hard for them to breath.

Liberals are so stupid.

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Oh I don't know. One of em got 100 thou out of the deal.

[AprilRazz]

I think there should be a nation wide ban on Patchouli. I hate the smell of that crap and it would drive the primitives wild.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=patchouli

An annoying stank masking scent (commonly a scented oil) that subliminally causes internal cringing for members of the bathing community...A.K.A. - "Pseudo Bath", "Trustafarian Tramp Serum", "Hippie Stink" , "Soap Substitute", "Dopehead Dry-Clean", "Coward Shower", "Dank Stank", "Wanker-stank", "Hygiene Hi-jinks", "Greatful Dread", "Granola Grout", "Magnolia Mud-flap", "Drag-rat Sludge Fudge" ...Did I miss one?
"There goes another Trustafarian Granola. That patchouli scent almost ALWAYS precedes pretentious hygienic procrastination and self-righteous drivel !"

or

Hippie perfume.

An oil worn as perfume by dirty hippies in lieu of showering or bathing in any way. Used to mask the scent of marijuana and week old body odor, but usually it merely mixes with the scent to form a new, BO/Patchouli combo that can repulse even those who are olfactorally challenged, except for hippies, who love it.
Fred: I can't go to the war protest because of all the Patchouli oil. It makes me gag.

[dutch508]

The Straight Story  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-16-10 03:46 PM
Response to Original message
61. They should ban it in bars. People should not be forced to go to bars, sadly many are

WTF? Where are these people being forced to go to bars? Are they your dates people you conned to meet up with????

[USA4ME]

Oh I don't know. One of em got 100 thou out of the deal.

True.  But ask them and the one's who approve of this will tell you that is where the lawsuits ends.  They have no idea they just opened Pandora's Box.  They never do on any of the issues for which they press.  The idea of a slippery slope into unintended consequences doesn't even come into play with them.

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[The Village Idiot]

The Straight Story  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-16-10 03:46 PM
Response to Original message
61. They should ban it in bars. People should not be forced to go to bars, sadly many are

lol!!!

People are forced, FORCED, to go to bars??? What is this idiot talking about??

[USA4ME]

lol!!!

People are forced, FORCED, to go to bars??? What is this idiot talking about??

Believe it or not, he's trying to mock the ruling, but he's just not smart enough to know how.

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[The Village Idiot]

That is not even close to being good satire.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Perfumes, colognes, etc make me sneeze but I found a way to make it more manageable.


"Holy crap! You stink!"

[Celtic Rose]

I think there should be a nation wide ban on Patchouli. I hate the smell of that crap and it would drive the primitives wild.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=patchoulior

Agree 100%.  Nasty smelling stuff. 

[PatriotGame]

City government workers.

EMPLOYEES!!!!!
E-M-P-L-O-Y-E-E-S!
There are no such thing as a government worker, other than the Military. They are employees. I have worked with literally thousands of them and they are employes!

[Flame]

EMPLOYEES!!!!!
E-M-P-L-O-Y-E-E-S!
There are no such thing as a government worker, other than the Military. They are employees. I have worked with literally thousands of them and they are employes!

hmmm...guess I'll have to tell my husband that he isn't really working all those hours he spends at work then.

[The Village Idiot]

EMPLOYEES!!!!!
E-M-P-L-O-Y-E-E-S!
There are no such thing as a government worker, other than the Military. They are employees. I have worked with literally thousands of them and they are employes!

Your right these aren't workers, workers would WORK. These are government taxeating drones buzzing around their nests.

[JohnnyReb]

Perfume closes up my nose...I can't breath....can I get a disability check? [du/mode]

[MrsSmith]

Perfumes, colognes, etc make me sneeze but I found a way to make it more manageable.


"Holy crap! You stink!"

Some perfumes bother me a lot, too...fruit scented ones aren't too bad, but many of the flowery ones are horrible.

Everyone knows that we have a little tube from our ears to our throat...but when that thing itches, there is no way to scratch it.  Ditto with the rest of the mucous membranes in a person's head.  You've never been miserable until the INSIDE of your head itches like a thousand mosquito bites...and then all those membranes start to swell up, and then hurt.  Talk about a headache!  And toothache...in EVERY tooth.  

We have a couple employees that must bath in perfume...I swear you can smell them from 100 yards.    


Of course, I'm never going to sue my employer, or push for laws against wearing perfume...I'm perfectly capable of simply leaving the area when someone really reeks.   

[JohnnyReb]

OH NOES!!!!...just had a horrible thought....we'll all soon be.....French.