Why do old people have THAT smell?

[yvr girl]

What happens to them?

[phaseolus]

1. here's my guess --

since falls can be harmful if not fatal, many don't bathe or shower as often... probably relying on sponge baths instead.

One reason I've started strength training in middle age & will probably have to keep at it the rest of my life -- I want strong bones.

[madeline_con]

5. I want strong bones.

Finish that glass of milk. :)

[Arugula Latte]

24. My doctor was saying that research is showing that

Vitamin D, rather than weight-bearing exercise or calcium, seems to be what really staves off osteoperosis.

[LiberalFighter]

2. From sitting around too much.. don't get aired out

[billybob537]

3. You

are starting to smell like that.....

[bertha katzenengel]

4. I don't know, but you will too, one day.

Unless you're planning to die young.

[CanuckAmok]

6. Formaldehyde.

Wait... how old are we talking, here... like under 150?

[Swede]

7. Probably liver and kidneys etc not cleaning out the system like it used to

More impurities in the sweat.

[Droopy]

8. I haven't smelled anything different about old people

Then again I don't usually go around sniffing people.

[yvr girl]

9. I have a very sensitive nose

I smell when someone is smoking in the car in front of me on the highway.

[nytemare]

12. I do too, that irritates the crap outta me!

I will sniff, and then look around to see where the smoke is coming from. And I hate when it is the car right in front of me, and I am at a long light!

[illini]

14. Your full of it too.

nt

[nytemare]

28. I don't own a "full of it"

If you are going to tell someone they are full of it, you can at least use proper English.

"Your" is possessive. You're means you are. I think that is what you are looking for.

And I can smell when people driving near me are smoking.

My sister smokes, so I do not have an issue with people who smoke. My issue is with smelling it at a traffic light when I can't go anywhere.

[illini]

31. My appologies "You Are Full of It."

nt

[nytemare]

33. You spelled apology wrong.

When trying to present an air of superiority, the button below the text box that says "check spelling" can be a great help.

[illini]

34. OOH you are a dictionary as well as a grammar nazi.

I am impressed with your air of superiority.


Speeling checked.

[nytemare]

35. No, just when people feel the need to insult when unprovoked.

Or, did I somehow just rub a nerve when I said smelling cigarette smoke in traffic is irritating?

I didn't set out to do that, but you did set out to say "your full of it". I simply responded to that.

Have a nice night, and a nice life if you go through it with an attitude like that.

[Demonaut]

42. lol, go get im

mispeled on porpoise

[nytemare]

43. I should have just let it go after my first response.

Could just be a bad day for him. I have fallen to the dark side..lol. I shouldn't allow myself to be provoked.

:shrug:

[Demonaut]

45. no worries, you're both good peeps

[nytemare]

46. Some days things just bug you more.

Could be it is one of those days for both of us.

[illini]

47. Yes you did rub a nerve. I am tired of people crying about cigarette...

smoke. I try to limit my smoking to appropriate places. Yet, I still get harassed by people with their ooh I can smell your smoke from 50' away looks. I have tried to be considerate. I don't but out the window of my car. I twist out the tobacco and put the butt in my pocket. I go outside even where it is permissible to smoke. But No thats not good enough. So now apparently I'm even pissing off the smoking is evil crowd in my own freaking car. :banghead:

Oh and BTW nit picking someone's grammar and spelling abilities can be construed as insulting.


You know it nothing personal but I smoke and get tired of being harassed about it. So, when I see a post that implies that I'm doing something annoying by smoking in my own car I take some insult.

I am sorry if I offended you. But I also felt insulted.
My sincerest apologies.

[nytemare]

48. It's all good, Illini.

:hug:

I understand how it would be hard for you. It seems you are considerate, and I am sure there is no pleasing some people. I didn't mean to seem like one of those folks, and I am sorry for being insulting.

Take care. :)

[progmom]

40. everything ok, illini?

are you having a rough night?

[illini]

49. I'm fine progmom. Thank you for asking.

I just get a little touchy about smoking. I realize smoking is an not to nice habit. I don't smoke in the house or van. Children. I go outside to smoke at restaurants. I don't throw my butts on the ground or out the window of my car. I try to be considerate. But, know I read that people are annoyed about me smoking in my own freaking car. I apologize for my acerbic replies but I feel like I have been backed into a corner.

[progmom]

50. gotcha

i don't think anyone meant it wasn't cool for you to smoke in your car. really. yvr was just using that to show that she has a really really well-developed sense of smell. :hug:

thanks for being so considerate about smoking. really! :)

it's funny - after i read one of your replies, i started to write something snarky...then i saw it was you. i don't want to be snarky to you!!

[Radio_Lady]

53. How about hearing music from some other car for the length of that

light? I always wonder if someone realizes he/she is damaging the tender mechanism by which we HEAR when doing that!

Yeah, I hate side stream smoking -- make that next-lane smoking that I can smell. It's almost as bad as the smoking area in front of almost every doorway of every large building. That's disgusting.

[illini]

13. I'm sorry but your full of it.

"I smell when someone is smoking in the car in front of me on the highway." Thats freaking impossible. Either that or you are some kind of olfactory mutant. You just don't like smoking and are looking for a reason to gripe about it.


Oh ya what do you have against old people.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. not impossible, it happens to me too on occasion. nt

[yvr girl]

16. I can too

It comes in through the fresh air vent.

[progmom]

17. i can smell it too

:shrug:

[JimmyJazz]

18. I hate to break it to you, but I can smell smoke if someone is

smoking in the car in front of me - only if both of our windows are down, but it does happen. BTW - telling someone they are "full of it" when you don't agree with them isn't very nice - IMHO, of course.

[Rabrrrrrr]

38. Ah, sod off - I can smell a car ahead of me if it's smoking, too,

even on the Interstate. Especially when I have the top down.

[Burma Jones]

39. Nope, I can smell it too - It Started when I quit Smoking

I got my sense of smell restored after 15 years of smoking.

[Radio_Lady]

52. Oh, that brings back a memory! Once, a guy was smoking a cigar

in a ragtop (convertible) in front of me! It stank like crazy!

I passed him and gave him the finger!

I shouldn't have done that -- it really made him mad and he followed me for miles, flashing his lights, honking his horn, etc. etc.

I'll never do that again....................

[purr]

10. I always thought it was medication...

I remember my grandfather taking certain meds and boy... they made him stink.

I know it wasnt hygiene - he showered on a daily basis so it HAD to be the meds he was on.

[smirkymonkey]

26. I think meds might be a big part of it - most medication is toxic

to the liver and kidneys and by the time you reach a certain age, thier ability to filter out toxins has greatly diminished so it comes out through the pores. Also could be poor hygeine due to limited mobility.

However, it doesn't have to happen - my grandmother is 93 years old, never took meds, is active, heatlhy and only occasionally smells like perfume. Her house is spotless too - there is no "old person" smell at all around her.

[zbird]

11. I think a combination of a degree of incontinence and...

muscle/tissue/organ atrophy or wasting. My uncle had MS, and had that same sour smell that many elderly have. I always attributed that smell to the wasting process.

[Jara sang]

19. I will never grow old...

I'm a vampire.

[greeneyedpookie]

20. I never knew "that smell"

the only grandparents that I knew were on my mother's side. I was a grandpa's girl. The smell that I remember was a mix of "English Lavender and Old Spice." After he had passed, the "English Lavender" and "Old Spice" mixed stayed, because it was the smell that the house had. That is the only memory that I have of "old people" smell. Granted, the two were not "old" when they had passed, however I will never forget the smell that my grandparent's had. It is a comfort smell to me. My grandfather passed when I was 18 and my grandmother just recently 3 days before my birthday this past year. My grandfather from a disease that was misdiagnosed to begin with and my grandmother from a an accident from falling asleep with a lit cigarette.

GEP

:bounce:

[Elidor]

21. The real question is

What are you going to do when your turn comes and YOU smell like that?

[Lex]

22. . . . and then wonder if other people are talking about it too.

Sheesh.

[Skittles]

29. come on, it's a legit question

I don't think they are trying to be mean

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Because old people suck, and I can prove it

Just give me an etch a sketch or a piece of paper and a crayon, and I'll map it out.

:P

Nah, I think it's just a mix of mothballs (which they love, even though they're poisonous), difficulty with daily washing/showering, excessive buildup of perfumes and other things, being in the same home, quite likely, for a long time, lack of an ability to smell on their part so they don't necessarily even notice any smells, and also the effects of some diseases and illnesses that make smells exude from the body.

But yeah, there is an "old person", that's for sure.

[GalleryGod]

25. Sleep through Bio Class?

:shrug:

[foreigncorrespondent]

27. What smell would that be?

The only smell I know and relate to is my grandpas aftershave and my grandmas face cream.

In more recent times it would be my partners mothers perfume.

And in very recent times little old ladies who have bathed in lux velvet soap.

So I don't know what smell you are talking about, but the things I know and associate with older people isn't bad.

[New Earth]

30. mothballs

[LeftyMom]

32. I think it's just what happens when the body isn't working well

When I went to visit my grandmother at the old folks home where she spent the last week or two of her life the smell was much more pronounced in the wing where they kept the people who were dying than in the long term care area, although both smelled of old people and cleaning products.

To me it's a sweet smell, but unpleasant, like decay. Reminds me a bit of my compost pile.

[name not needed]

36. They can't clean the wrinkled areas that well.

[Gemini Cat]

37. Huh?

What smell?

[Burma Jones]

41. It's the stink of Mortality

King Lear, Act 4, Scene 6

[Demonaut]

44. I know that smell, it's an accumulation of wisdom and knowledge

similar to the smell of old books,












and sometimes it's the paste used to hold in the dentures

[Hand]

51. Insh'Allah... nt

[brainshrub]

54. Locking.

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