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| posted by life 1168 days ago |
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so in reality, asians have less of the sweat glands found in the arm pits and groin area. THe so called "make you stink area" glands. Apparently it is believe that Zinc will help eliminate the odor (although I do not understand how).
So here is an experiment. Someone who acknowledges there is a problem, should increase their zinc intake.
What about herbal soaps. (to fight the bacteria). Has anyone heard of "madame heng"?
I'm bored, I'm pi*sy, and, I have no shame.
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| posted by barbie 1168 days ago |
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Well, I have to laugh at the 'only gweilos sweat'!
For the past 2 days I've had to sit amongst local kids aged from 10 - 16.
I have never smelled kids who stink so badly in my life! Every single one of them who passed me by had body odour to some degree. I've never experienced Australian kids smelling as bad as that.
I wait for the day when schools have all the funding they need and the airforce has to have a cake stall to raise money for a new bomber.
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| posted by God de Vader 1168 days ago |
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barbie....maybe you are the one who is wrong? i mean body odour is a normal fenomenon, however i agree an unpleasant one.....try be a bit more....uhm how you call that....cant come on the word...sorry english not my native lingo
BTW i think in HK your only more aware of this as people have to be closer to each other as theres less space.....maybe?
I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get."
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| posted by barbie 1168 days ago |
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Life, I read that and I have to disagree! the writer hasn't been sitting where I have for the past few days! I know stinky sweat when I smell it!
G de V...I was responding to a few posters here who mentioned 'Only Gweilos smell sweaty', No, it wasn't that I was sitting closer to kids, I was the same distance from them that I always am. I know that in the west, personal hygiene is taught to kids in Primary school, and a teacher would speak to the parents of any kids who constantly smell, here it probably isn't done for that quaint custom of 'losing face'.
Better let a kid be smelly than make the parents lose face...in HK anyway.
I wait for the day when schools have all the funding they need and the airforce has to have a cake stall to raise money for a new bomber.
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| posted by Gum Tree 1167 days ago |
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I also wonder if the type of food has something to do with it and they type of living. If these people are living in a small apartment where a lot of cooking, especially frying, is going on, then they would capture those smells in their hair and on their skin too. And the smell of cigarette smoke etc. And if they are not showering everday or in the morning, then maybe that smell gets caught up with the other smells. I also wonder if the Chinese think Gweilos smell because we smell of different foods??? Maybe we should all start eating durian, lol.
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| posted by jaykay 1167 days ago |
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Not sure if that is right as well Gum Tree. I know it can have an affect but the food eaten isn't really strong enough to cause those sort of aromas! Myself and my wife eat the same foods, although we're both 2 showers a day people! I do remember a few years back in England, I used to weight train with a guy of hungarian decent who still lived with his mother. He used to eat traditional hungarian foods all the time which were laden with garlic. I have never known anywhere in my life that stunk of garlic like that gym after my mate had been sweating a good hour!
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing!
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| posted by Gum Tree 1167 days ago |
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I know some food like garlic can get caught up in sweat, but I was more thinking about it being on the skin and in the hair. I know if I cook french onion soup, my hands stink of onion and garlic for ages!!
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| posted by n/a 1167 days ago |
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I reckon i recall my Oz aerobics instructor saying you SHOULD be sweating MORE if you are fit /working hard but agree that being overweight and unfit promotes sweating also...don't think it really matters if you sweat when you have applied deodorant and showered before leaving for work...you don't smell unless you ate garlic the night before..but locals' clothes often smell of stale sweat/cologne/doedorant which is nearly as bad as BO ( clothes not drycleaned?washed?)on MTR and they do not usually shower in the mornings (my colleagues have told me " this is not the custom of Chinese people"who presumably shower at night)'Westernised 'ones however seem to have picked this up as a habit however,like a lot of other things...in Thailand even the poorest people spend a lot of time and money on keeping themselves and their clothes spotless ,and it is obvious ...pity it isn't more the go here ...but ,much worse elsewhere...Australians are said to be the most obsessed with showering in the world, causing some skin and hair problems...when i was in Paris I noticed the smwell of unwashed hair in the metro but everyone LOOKED really ?
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| posted by jaykay 1167 days ago |
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Here's a tip Gum Tree, when you cut onions or garlic instead of scrubbing your hands under the tap just water run over your hands for a while, it washes the fluid off instead of you rubbing it in to your skin!
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing!
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| posted by jaykay 1167 days ago |
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Miss P, a poll a few years back showed that the French bought less than pretty much any nationality of things like soap/shower gels, etc. Along with those other French traits - females who refer au natural hair growth under the arms, etc it certinly makes for an attractive nationality!!! hahahahah
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing!
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| posted by Waterslang 1166 days ago |
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Au naturel?
Under the arms?
Lol. Haven't seen that in France since the Cromagnon but admit that was a male.
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