People who eat lots of garlic stink. Their breath is gross and the smell oozes from their pores.

[boston bean]

And then people who run at lunch or go to the gym and don't shower after, really offend me. I can barely breath the air in the same room, feeling like I'm going to pass out.

Then there are the fat people at work, and sometimes I have to stop in the hall way to let them get by. It's really inconvenient. And every time that happens, I think about the cost of my health insurance premiums. Makes me sick. Having to pay that so they can choose to eat unhealthy. I know, I know, maybe they have a thyroid condition or some other physical ailment, but it is their choice to put any food in their mouth, and they are infringing on my lifestyle. A life style, that is purely moral, whole and without defect.

Then there are the ones, I know have had a rough night. Out all night with their friends, drinking the finest wine and coming to work looking like hell! I bet most of these people have a few glasses of wine each night. What are they doing to their liver! Adding again to my health insurance costs. And costing the company $$ while they are taking the morning to recover from their hang over.

If it were up to me, I'd hire only people like me!




and for the sarcasm deficient :sarcasm:

[Fumesucker]

1. After the third or fourth glass the wine might as well come out of a box.. n/t

[RebelOne]

8. I drink boxed wine. Nothing wrong with that.

One reason is that I prefer Chablis and you can't find it in anything but a box.

[Broderick]

56. I think box wine tastes better anyway

[seabeyond]

58. box wine use to be cheap and not so good. recently i had some and much better

becoming the new thing.

was on a vacation a year ago and had forgotten about that

[Broderick]

65. Easy to handle, relatively inexpensive

I don't mind it. Paid good money for bottled wines over the years and I have been very disappointed.

It is what it is. I think they are pretty tasty. HAHA.

[seabeyond]

68. years ago, i noticed the more expensive did not mean a better taste.

i let go of price and look more at the cheaper, ... makers. i like different brands, too. actually, i like drinking it and don't know shit. hubby doesnt drink it, but buys it for me. lol.

i will have to check out the box. but damn.... i forget to drink, unless family come over. lol.

[Broderick]

69. Forget to drink? LOL

I don't suffer from that ailment.

[seabeyond]

71. lol. i know. i bought a bottle two weeks ago. said a glass a night, cause healthy

sat there for over a week. had my glass... ok, almost two. put in fridge and have forgotten last 3 nights. but damn, i swear, tonight i am pulling it out again.

[Broderick]

72. Gitty up on that course of action

That is alcohol abuse to let it go to waste. Shameful!


lol

[nilram]

101. they've got the bioflavinoids in a pill

there might be some benefit to having a bit of actual alcohol, but it's probably just as good or better to go for a walk a few days a week.

[seabeyond]

102. good to know, cause i forgot to drink again tonight, lol. nt

[hlthe2b]

2. and your point?

[boston bean]

11. did you have one to make? nt

[hlthe2b]

15. Your thread, not mine...

Your sarcasm emoticon aside, you must have had some point. :shrug:

[boston bean]

16. I've made it. Can't help it if you don't get it. scroll around and read.

you do seem intelligent enough to figure it out. You can type afterall.

[hlthe2b]

23. Nasty bit of derision....

boston bean... Totally NOT warranted, but noted. It is really small minds that feel the need to resort to such behavior.

[boston bean]

24. you really can't figure out the point?

I don't take kindly to people asking me derisively "and your point", when I think it is pretty clear. You might not have noticed, but you were the only one who couldn't realize what it was. Fair to assume that you were trying to say that my post was pointless. When in fact, it is only you, who can't seem to figure it out.

[hlthe2b]

31. Once again..

You seem to only wish to be abusive towards others. I don't deserve nor need that. If it makes you feel important, though, so be it..:eyes:

[boston bean]

32. whatever..... feel victimized.

[hlthe2b]

34. whatever....

feel superior... (guess what, you are not-- just incredibly rude)

[boston bean]

35. And i thought your original reply was incredibly rude. so there! nt

[hlthe2b]

36. It was an honest question...

It is you who reacted so badly... Pity.

[boston bean]

38. yes, an honest question. keep telling yourself that. Pity,......

[hlthe2b]

39. Are you still in high school?

Your behavior suggests so.

[boston bean]

40. Woo, stooping to my level of derision! Who woulda thunk it? nt

[hlthe2b]

41. Nope... just another sincere question..

Giving you benefit of the doubt for your behavior, tone, and defensiveness.

[boston bean]

42. yes, your so honest and sincere questions....

passive aggressive much?

You will not have the last word here. Childish yes, but you already know that about me, don't you?

Give it up. You have shown yourself. No more poor widdle victim, just asking sincere questions.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Actually, I really appreciate your point. :) n/t

[ixion]

4. k/r. spot on!

:applause:

[RSillsbee]

5. I used to have a Tae Kwon Do teacher

that always smelled like garlic (Kim Chee) and of course becuase of the stting we all smelled like Gym.

Any way this guy liked to teach us situational awareness by walking up behind us at times and throwing us to the ground. He was quick enough that we couldn't stop him from doing it but we (or I) always smelled him coming

[Bonobo]

6. I wouldn't hire people that have that "tooth breath" thing either!

Everyone should smell of roses or cloves or something.

[NYC_SKP]

37. That made me laugh out loud.

People with teeth in their mouth, they have that "tooth breath".

Tooth breath really annoys me.

:rofl:

[Generic Other]

83. Tooth breath? That's tongue slime you smell

Tooth breath! hehehe

[XanaDUer]

7. I don't smoke, but I have a problem with these policies

it's a slippery slope- next? Who are your sex partners? After all, you don't want someone screwing around who may catch HIV or Hep C, or even the clap.

Food?- Hospitals serve some of the grossest, most-unhealthy foods, and a lot of staff are overweight. Will there be food police next?

[JoeyT]

10. +1

I oppose any policy that gives employers more control over their employees outside of work.

Who are your sex partners is easily justified using the same "logic". After all, if you eliminate everyone that's having sex outside marriage, you drastically eliminate the chances of STDs, and should be able to bargain for a cheaper insurance rate, which is the usual justification given.

[XanaDUer]

12. They scan your lipids

to see what your cholesterol is. And, since everyone is terrified about their jobs, no one says anything.

[Odin2005]

57. It's the New Serfdom.

In the Old Serfdom the peasants were not slaves, but they had to get their lord's permission to marry or to leave the manor's territory or other aspects of their personal lives. I fear we are returning to that.

[mmonk]

9. My wife uses the garlic lines on me.

Maybe I should go out to eat alone.

[CTyankee]

13. I cook with garlic all the time. No problems ever.

If you brush and floss and shower daily, there's little chance of having problems, IMO. Garlic is an excellent food. I go through one bunch of garlic cloves every two weeks and that's just cooking for two people. Olive oil, wine, lemon, parsley, chicken broth, balsamic and red wine vinegar comprise my basic "tool set" in the kitchen...

[boston bean]

14. You can never smell garlic on yourself. Maybe you don't smell, or maybe people have been kind

enough to not point it out.

[CTyankee]

20. I think my husband would say something!

But then, he eats the same food so maybe not!

Everybody else in my family cooks with garlic a lot. I guess we are all a bunch of stinkies...

[boston bean]

21. Never know!

:D

[pipi_k]

55. Mine never misses an opportunity to tell me how stinky I am...

but I just tell him to deal with it.

He's out of the house a lot more than I am, and it's sort of unfair that I get sick more than he does. I'm careful about washing my hands and all of that. Somehow he ends up bringing home the germs that jump on me but don't affect him.

If an un-sick Pipi is the price of having to smell garlic for five months, then that's how it is... :7

[seabeyond]

61. you are a nonsmoker and get sick? gasp. i thought it was only smokers that got sick.

eat your garlic, does a body good.

[pipi_k]

79. I know...amazing, isn't it?

Fifteen years without a cigarette.

Still getting sick...


Last fall I didn't start the garlic regimen until the end of October, unfortunately, ten days after I had caught a head cold. After that, I didn't get sick again the rest of the season.

There's got to be something to this whole garlic thing, I figure... :7

[nilram]

103. What's "the garlic regimen"?

[badtoworse]

22. Do you mean a head of garlic in two weeks? That's not that much

I'll do that in a weekend. Sometimes we cut off the bottom of the head, drizzle it with olive oil, wrap it in foil and roast it on the grill (be careful not to burn it). When it's done, the garlic is soft and caramelized and you can squeeze the individual cloves out. I'll mash up a few in a baked potato with a little butter - yum!!

[CTyankee]

43. That sounds good!

I think I just balance out the garlic with the other ingredients I like to combine. We particularly love coarse Dijon mustard and cook with it a lot...

[Generic Other]

84. I would easily do this if I dared

Why does garlic have to taste so good and smell so bad? My vices include roasted garlic on anything, chopped garlic and onion vinagrette on tomatoes, bruschetta, garlic bread, even kimchee...my mouth started watering as I was writing...

Seemingly, no way though to disguise one's love of this perfect food. Everyone will know.

[TwilightGardener]

99. It shows up on some people worse than others, IMO. My husband's breath reeks

for days after one of my more garlic-laden dishes, yet my sons eat the same food and they're not stinking up the car. All have good oral hygiene, my husband uses mouthwash religiously. It's just an individual problem.

[mmonk]

29. I brush and shower every day. We even cook with garlic.

But it doesn't stop her.
:shrug:

:-)

[CTyankee]

44. That's funny. I do know my fingertips retain garlic odor for a bit after I've been chopping it.

But it goes away...maybe it's just some people's natural chemistry interacting with the garlic. Everybody's different...

[boston bean]

47. I think thou doth prostest to much.

:dilemma:

[WinkyDink]

82. Rub them on stainless steel (I use my sink); it totally removes the garlic odor.

[CTyankee]

98. Inever thought of that! Thanks!

[nebenaube]

17. well, here's the deal see?

If the garlic juice oozing out from between my toes offends you then it's probably keeping your flu infected ass at a safe distance.

[boston bean]

25. true, anyone who catches the flu is costing $$ and infecting others!

Off with their heads!!!

[get the red out]

18. When it gets right down to it

There's something "wrong" with everyone! Good OP. Should I lose my health insurance because my Dad died of heart disease or because I run every morning to try to prevent the same fate and could get hit by a car?

I hate the idea that employers try to know too much. That's a big worry I have about genetic testing, so you have a bad genetic test then you lose your job, health insurance, home, car, family....... Very slippery slope!

[SpiralHawk]

19. Freaking Bean eaters are always farting all over the whole damn place

They are the worst.

Plug the steenkin Bean eaters now before they destroy the whole damn planet!

[pipi_k]

59. Those things are scary...

the corks, I mean.

They could put someone's eye out.


How about a nice soft pair of underpants with a charcoal liner?



:+

[Generic Other]

85. Please explain

for us stupids. Why? For god sake. Why do I want to filter anything coming out of me through charcoal? I am seriously perplexed by this product.

OK, I went and googled. YOU WEREN'T EVEN MAKING IT UP!!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Douglas Carpenter]

26. thank you

[seabeyond]

27. perfume and cologne. i cannot breathe with some of the heavy uses. had to walk out of restaurant

once, without getting my food because a woman sat next to me and she had so much perfume on, i thought i was going to throw up. i was well along in pregnancy, starving, and couldn't eat.

she deprived me of my right to eat, by her right to wear.

didn't even think to be pissy, mad, accusatory. just left, without ordering. and picked up food somewhere else.

[Odin2005]

60. I am extremely sensitive to smell and I cannot STAND certain perfumes.

Even a little bit makes me want to throw up.

I swear it's a Boomer thing, Every woman I have seen that uses too much perfume is a Boomer. I think it goes with the heavy makeup that makes them look like they are still in 1980.

[seabeyond]

63. walking around people, i get hit and have to hold my breath to move out of the space

thankfully, lots of people have stopped wearing the shit. men and women perfume, doesnt matter.

[madmom]

117. I left a restaurant once because a lady had so much perfume my

food tasted like it smelled. We paid the bill and left,informing the manager why doggie bags were not wanted.

[badtoworse]

28. Garlic has substantial health benefits that lower your health insurance costs

How do you resolve the conflict?

[boston bean]

30. garlic can cause bleeding, and digestive tract issues. and some people are allergic to it.

No one should eat garlic anymore!

:silly:

Plus i don't want to smell people who smell like garlic!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

33. I use Garlic in everything and have NEVER been bitten by a Vampire!

SO THERE!

[Jack Rabbit]

62. Koreans use a lot of garlic in their cuisine. Have you ever heard of a Korean vampire?

See, it works.

[Generic Other]

86. There used to be this Japanese TV show

with Japanese vampires who wore sunglasses. When you looked at their blood under a microscope, they had bats in it. And they hated intersections with crosswalks. One time, one of the vamps spotted a crime scene with a body outline drawn on the cement with a pool of blood in it. He got on his knees and started licking the pavement. It was kind of a funny vampire series.

Funny to imagine Korean vampires freaking out at kimchee. We always buy it from our local Korean grocers who make it fresh. We also always end up leaving it on the back porch at some point in its shelflife. Glad to know I am safe from vampires now!

[DCBob]

45. Havent you heard of the benefits of secondhand garlic exposure?

Garlic has amazing health benefits so no doubt the "stink" from those within your smelling distance will benefit you as well. You should thank them.

[Tsiyu]

46. yeah, but at least they don't have fleas

;)

Honestly, I see your point.

I might add that we should begin incarcerating people who abuse fast food substances, for their own good, of course. They are costing us billions in health care expenses related to obesity and poor eating habits.

[pipi_k]

48. I stink from October to March every year

It's all the raw garlic each day, which I use to fend off head colds, and, more importantly to me, bronchitis.

My breath stinks and it really does ooze from every pore.


On top of that, I also have something called "fish odor syndrome"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimethylaminuria

which causes my urine to smell like a chum bucket, rotting chicken, or garbage, depending on what I've eaten. Fortunately, the odor only lasts about 24 hours at the most.

[boston bean]

49. do you hold a job?

LOL

[pipi_k]

50. No...retired....

I only started the raw garlic about five years ago after getting a really bad case of bronchitis in 2005. Haven't had it since.


The other thing...the fish odor disease...I've always had that. It could get pretty embarrassing at times when I did work... :cry:

[boston bean]

51. Nothing to be embarassed about.

That is really the point of this thread. Everyone has issues/problems or something that another might find offensive. We shouldn't be denying qualified people jobs because of it.

[pipi_k]

66. Oh, I know that now...

but back 20 years ago before I knew what "fish odor disease" was, I was with a guy who made fun of me all the time over it.


And you know how women have been made to feel unclean all these years...douches, creams, wipes, sprays...to get rid of those "foul odors" emanating from our nether regions.


When someone smells fish or garbage coming from your crotch (from leaking urine), they tend to think you're dirty.


Anyway, if I ever saw him again, I'd be happy to tell him what a shit he was over something I couldn't control.

[beac]

90. Have you tried adding raw parsley to your diet?

Parsley is a natural blood "deodorizer" and really helps with garlic breath (which comes from the garlic in your bloodstream, not in your mouth, as you probably know.)

You can also buy parsley pills, but I've found the raw stuff works best.

[Odin2005]

52. I love garlic, and I've never had anybody mention BO to me.

Then again, I am quite meticulous in showering every day and after I work out.

[boston bean]

54. most people would be too kind to mention it. I know I never have and I've smelled it hundred if not

thousands of times.

And yes, many were showered and clean, but still stunk!

Yet no one feels any uneasiness when talking about filthy dirty rotten smokers.

[seabeyond]

64. +1. exactly. point. nt

[Broderick]

53. This is why I smoke

So I don't have to smell other people and their garlic breath. Just light up.

[TwilightGardener]

67. Well, I don't think garlic eaters and fat people are going to set my yard and house on fire.

Apparently, the smokers who live in my neighborhood seem to think my front yard is THE PLACE to toss out their cigarette butts--and I live in a high-fire-risk area. I curse smokers every time I go and clean up the butts--they do seem kinda filthy. The world is their ashtray.

[seabeyond]

70. i am on a corner lot, at a stop sign. damn beer drinkers taht throw their bottles into my yard

and i have to pick up broken glass so my kids, and others in the neighborhood dont step on broken glass while playing barefoot in my yard. having to take a broom and dust pan out to get every shard.

[TwilightGardener]

75. Yes, I think you and I discussed this before. I think the drinkers and the smokers

who toss their bottles, cans, and butts in my corner yard are probably all the same people.

[seabeyond]

76. i thought we had. not to mention mcdonald bags ect.... dont want them in their car, after all. nt

[Broderick]

73. They are biodegradable

takes a few decades, so learn patience.


:)

[Little Star]

74. Same goes for fast food trash tossed out a car window... or

soda/liquor bottles, etc. SOME people think the world is their trash bucket.

[bvar22]

77. My wife & I can't get enough Garlic.

We grow our own, several varieties.

More Cowbell,
and MORE GARLIC!
(Hot Peppers & Onion too!)


We may live forever,
AND we don't have any problems with Vampires!
WIN/WIN

Luckily, we live in The Woods, and seldom Go to Town.

[Generic Other]

91. Awesome beauties!!

Onions too! Yum.

[Shagbark Hickory]

78. A post on DU should cost $0.67

[Generic Other]

87. Hey! Mine aren't worth two cents!

Can't I get a discount?

[Shagbark Hickory]

89. No. The point is to discourage worthless posts. Of course replies should be free and

lounge posts would be free.

[Generic Other]

93. This will make Skinner very very rich

Are you getting a kickback? LOL.

[nilram]

104. then maybe no ads!

[Make7]

94. Perhaps it would be easier to only allow DU donors to start threads.

Oh, wait...
 

[Shagbark Hickory]

96. Currently there's a lot of donors posting every random thought that crosses their mind and

who can forget our Loco friend?

[B Calm]

80. Eating garlic is a good mosquito repellent.

[TheCowsCameHome]

81. Nothing like a serving of boston beans to create world-class farts

don't forget those smokin' beauties.

[bengalherder]

88. I live around cooks

Garlic and lots of it is a way of life.

Perhaps we all stink of it, but everyone else in this big city eats garlic except for those allergic and transplanted midwesterners who have a hard time with anything spicier than kraft dinners.


Anyone bothered should either shut up or broaden your tastes. Garlic is good for you.


(PS I grew up in the midwest and didn't taste a real clove of garlic until I was working in kitchens at 21. All the 'garlic' was garlic powder, and not much of it.)

[pokerfan]

92. So you're saying I need to choose between garlic and sex?

That's a conundrum...

[reggie the dog]

111. choose between garlic and sex??? i guess we dont have sex

in france or in italy or in spain....... seriously everyone i know in france eats garlic, raw, cooked, it is used to season many dishes here on the Med and i can assure you that eating garlic has never given me any problems picking up french women and has never turned me off. to combat garlic breath people just have a glass of wine, i chew gum for 10 minutes after the meal.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

95. When you say shit like that...

...it makes me think that smokers just don't fucking get it. I don't dislike you because you're different than me. I dislike you because you're a threat to my health. I resent my father for choosing cigarettes over his own LIFE and depriving me of a father! You aren't just hurting yourself. You're hurting those around you who have to breathe your filth. You ruin the fresh air. You smell bad and I know a lot of smokers who are impolite, littering assholes. So yes. I wouldn't want to hire you for a job when I know you're just going pollute my air and dirty my landscaping. Fat people aren't all fat because they eat too much or are inactive. There are people who had serious health problems that made them fat. Thyroid conditions, sleep apnea and metabolic disorders, to name a few.
And if you drink and drive or text and drive, they need to take away your license and charge you with attempted murder because by driving a car doing either of those, you are just looking to murder someone.
Now, can we get back to the important shit and stop running this into the fucking ground and breaking it off?
Thanks!

[seabeyond]

100. resent away.

both parents smoked. still have dad at 74. he is healthy, well, and active. my mom though, killed herself. really had nothing to do with her smoking. yet, the best damn mom and thankful i had her in my life the time i had her. smoking, pfff. not who she was. a very small part of the whole of her.

selfishly taking her life? why even waste negative energy on that. she was where she was that allowed her mind to reason suicide the answer. jsut as the understanding that smoking goes beyond a mere choice.

part of love is understanding the other even in their weakness and loving them anyway.

so though you chose, and yes, damnit, it is a choice, to resent that your father chose cigs over you, i chose to value every fuckin second i had with my mom to be loved and to love.

[nilram]

106. to love -- and to joy. thanks for sharing that.

[LooseWilly]

112. Both my parents quit smoking— and they died anyway.

I've quit smoking, and that just means that something else will kill me.

My grandfather died in an auto accident— should I hold a grudge against everyone who drives? Everyone involved in the manufacture of automobiles?

Should I feel like he chose driving to the store to shop over his own life... and deprived me of a grandfather?

The stresses of working killed my mother... should I feel anger toward employment?... toward employers, who remind me that my mom chose to work for a wage over her own life (and deprived me of a mother)?

The basic structure of your argument, when stripped of the fashionable anti-tobacco underpinnings, is non-sensical... as substitution of other "killers" makes so painfully obvious.

Demanding that those around us behave in some manner chosen by us, simply in order to make us happy, is essentially selfish... and that includes making those same demands on parents.

[fascisthunter]

97. Oh, I LOVE Garlic!!!

[DemoTex]

105. The NVA who had come down "The Trail," eating nothing but rice & dried fish ..

The NVA who had come down the HCM Trail, eating nothing but rice & dried fish, could - putatively - smell the garlic-eating, beer-drinking, cigarette-smoking US GIs in the bush. Putatively is the operational word here.

But I would think that the same NVA soldier - after a week at the VC R&R spa on Hill 241, eight miles north-west of Quang Ngai City eating spicy southern food (southern Viet Nam), with lots of spicy nước mắm - could not smell his own farts.

It is all relative. Know what I mean, Vern?

[RSillsbee]

107. During certain times of the year I can smell bears before I see them

on the trails around Colorado Springs

[DemoTex]

108. I can smell copperheads and rattlesnakes ..

It saved my ass in my mountain garden once. The carion smell was not a dead animal, but a very live Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake!

[RSillsbee]

118. Smelling a snake is like defining porn.

I can't describe the smell but when I smell it I know it

[Texasgal]

109. Hot Yoga

with a garlic/onion eater is hell!

Maybe we should ban them all!

[reggie the dog]

110. people are no longing hiring garlic eaters?????

wow, if they do that here in france we will all be unemployed. imagine italy or france without garlic.... that would be horrible. i eat garlic in dishes at least 3 times a week living on the med....

[B Calm]

113. People who eat Boston Beans smell too. . .

[boston bean]

114. true, people who eat beans should not be offered jobs.

right?

[Vinca]

115. Years ago I went to an optometrist and he smelled like a garlic factory.

Haven't been back since.

[SidDithers]

116. Poor, poor smokers...

Leave smokers alone!!

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Sid