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I really want to go down to one of the local spots and play, but I’m kind of terrified of what I’ll find there.
Love Lemmy going full nerdstank in the comments.
Don’t take life advice from Redditor types example #353257774
The card “Cleanse” was banned for being “culturally insensitive”…
IIRC, it was Yu-Gi-Oh! players that were infamous for weaponizing their smell to distract their opponents.
My local store just smells like cardboard, ink, and paint, even during the MtG tournaments.
Usually these signs exist for that one depressed dude who no one wants to say anything directly to but desperately needs someone to tell them it’s a problem.
Attend a LEGO convention every year and they always post a reminder as it gets closer to bathe and wear deodorant.
This is fresh in my mind because I just took my kids to a game store to buy a gift for someone who wanted Pokemon cards. Big mistake.
Unfortunately I picked the day they had a MTG tournament. We barely got inside when the wall of stench hit us. One of them noticed a guys hairy ass crack hanging out as well. They were very verbal about both and I don’t blame them.
Decided to just go somewhere else because it was unbearable. The whole ride they couldn’t stop talking about how it smelled like unwashed ass, BO, and sour milk.
I used to have a job adjacent to the gaming industry, I went in a number of gaming stores to try to find partners for the products we were selling.
I could talk at length how sad and strange gaming stores are, but I just wanted to share one incident where I was in Phoenix in August and entered a small shop in a business plaza that looked relatively clean and new on the outside.
On opening the door I was hit with the worst BO wave that has ever crashed over me, and having been in gaming stores before, this says a lot. There were some young guys sitting at tables surrounded by backpacks, which I can only assume were full of fermented roadkill, and playing various games, looking up curiously as I tried my best to smile and nod a greeting. My eyes watered and I left immediately because I felt like I was going to vomit.
I checked up on the store 6 months later and it had closed doors pretty fast. I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t get business.
The memes and jokes are not an exaggeration. Gamer boys are TERRIBLE at self-care and hygiene. I don’t know why it’s so hard to reinforce the concept to people that just because you can’t smell yourself, it doesn’t mean you don’t smell, you NEED to shower, change clothes, all of them, including and especially socks and underwear, and you need to clean your fucking rooms, your rooms are stink nests and that smell seeps into EVERYTHING.
You know how angry incels will vomit spiels online how frustrated they are that they get the advice to “just shower?” I love this common exchange because I know for a fact that probably more than half of these boys screaming online how nobody wants to touch their weewee are also completely disgusting and do nothing to maintain and manage themselves.
Went to PAX, the rest of the convention floor smelled fine. The smell at the tabletop game floor hit hard.
My theory was that it was so many teenagers traveling a long way to a big tournament who couldn’t afford to just get a hotel room the night before. So they’d sleep at their friends house or whatever, and then just show up in whatever condition.
But having the problem at the local game shop kind of defeats that theory.
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The bathroom in my LGS literally has free deodorant openly available for use, and the owner reminds everyone whenever the store is really packed for an event. Unfortunately some people still do not get the hint.
a magic the gathering store…that requires basic hygiene before coming in? that shit gonna be empty
I love the feeling of being showered, wearing deodorant, cologne, and putting on freshly washed clothes. Along with having fresh breath after brushing my teeth.
It’s just so much more pleasant for everyone. Smell good, look good, feel good. It does wonders for your confidence.
And if you’re sweating in the shower, take a colder shower.
Raggardusch (Swedish, trans. Greaser shower): a shower taken in deodorant spray
That’s a pretty great description for the Axe body spray target demographic. A raged douch, if you will.
In the Netherlands we call it a French shower, I don’t know why. (But i can guess)
French shower
Or French bath, is basically washing your chest and arms and face with only soap and water from the washbasin.
Is it because the French term for shower is “douche”?
I’ve never heard that one before, in my circle we call it a military shower.
Uh… I have the ABCC11 gene so I don’t have body odour and don’t wear deodorant. Can I come in?
I don’t know about her genes, but I once had a coworker who you could tell didn’t use deodorant, but in a clean, freshly-showered way. I absolutely adored her smell when we got into a situation where she was reaching up very near me. It wasn’t like the nothing or soap smell you get after a shower, but a human smell. It made me feel very content.
you have the ABCC11 gene so you can’t smell your body odour. go shower
No, ABCC11 means you have no body odour and dry ear wax. It’s very common in the descendents of Ghengis Khan but far less common among Caucasians. It’s very common in Korea.
You don’t produce the smell from your own glands, but sweating can still make you smell.
Are you mansplaining the ABCC11 gene to someone with the ABCC11 gene?
I have it too and I shower because I’m not gross like you.
I mean, you just said it’s about being a decendant of Genghis so you’re clearly not that knowledgeable about it
Bazinga
(Wash your ass anyways, ya filthy animal, you still get dirty and produce other skin oils even if you’re not quite as smelly)
24? who gets smelly after a day?
I have a friend who has to shower twice a day because she has severe hyperhidrosis, a condition that causes excessive sweating
FYI - you do not need to shower daily.
Although you can never admit this publically, as it has become the social expectation. But feel free to move to an alternate day shower routine if you haven’t had a sweaty day. I guarantee no one will notice. Your skin will be less dried out. You’ll save a not-insignificant-amount in water and energy and time.
Body odour comes from not showering for very many days, and more so from wearing unwashed smelly clothes.
You don’t need to shower daily. You absolutely do need to wash yourself in some other way, like with a washcloth. Unless you have no BO at all, more likely than not that bacteria colony under the armpits will make you smell bad regardless of if you had a “sweaty day” or not. Plus, wearing clean clothes helps a lot.
Anecdotally, I went to a gaming convention once and that taught me to never do it again. The smell was so bad. Living the stereotype. And on a recent concert I had someone stink so bad in front of me, it ruined the experience.
Also, as a side note. The article giving an example about why someone doesn’t shower being not liking having wet hair. I’ve heard this once. Do people not know they can just… tie their hair in a bun if it’s longer or just avoid wetting it if it’s short?
If your hair needs to be treated with a straightener or something, the humidity will mess it up. This is exactly why I cut off all my hair even though I love long hair, so I understand the complaint completely.
Whether or not you need to shower daily comes down to personal body chemistry and activity though. I have to shower one or twice a day since going on testosterone, but I could get away with every third day prior to that. The difference in smell is so staggering. I have to wash my face multiple times throughout the day now as well, but I’ve got fully make-up’d coworkers who are fine all day. It’s just that our bodies are different.
I don’t mean to complain about the sign’s wording though; I think it’s meant to give hygienic advice rather than actually police what products everyone is using and how often.
you might not need to but i do. my musk is potent.
Likewise. Due to a medical issue, I have a heightened amount of ammonia in my blood, so anyone with a functioning sniffer can tell if I skip a day.
A little nagchampa or scottish heather can go a long way in a pinch, I’ve found. Always keep a little in my travel bag just in case.
Oh great, more health advice from unqualified randos online.
Not everyone’s bodies have the same needs and people should be cautious about blindly following whatever advice someone confidently suggests. If you want to shower less, please talk to a doctor/dermatologist first.
My sensitive skin has a maybe 36 hour limit without washing before it gets distractingly itchy. There’s no way this advice could work for everyone.
Just be careful out there, people.
There was no need to get confrontational.
If you are itchy, shower, no one forbade you. Just, it’s not needed by the vast majority of people. It is but a social norm.
It is also detrimental to shower everyday with soaps.
Almost everyone. Especially those who don’t think they do. Ah hem.
Yous be surprised.
And this is clearly on a door to a card shop. Magic tournaments are infamous for individuals that have terrible hygiene.
Everyone, trust
Pretty sure you should be paying attention to the spirit of the rule, not the letter.
You do, Dave. Everyone does.
How’d you get smelly mate? Either your home’s in need of a cleaning or your skin clogs easily (like the other guy said). Most folks I know usually take a shower once every 2 days or if they workout, so really shocked by how everyone’s responding here.
Try living in the equator, mate.
that would do it yeah
To back Dave up here, you don’t need to shower every day as long as you keep your follicles clean. All of your folloclees
Honestly, I can go two days, but that’s all I’ll do. And it’s gotta be certain situations. like if I’m home all weekend in pajama mode. Definitely need a shower the morning of day three though.
By the end of the second day, I feel the grease in my hair. I can “get away with” the second day, assuming I’m not at work or something. But do that regularly? People notice, even when they don’t say it.
I put deodorant on but you can’t force me to shower!!
Baths are just more fun.
This. I have total greaseballs tell me im unhygienic if i share that I don’t shower despite bathing daily
“Your just sitting in your own filth” motherfucker you clearlyhave not showered in 3 days.
i was already sitting in my own filth. now i’m bathing in it. try to keep up Jan you have no style
This guy paid by the letter?
