Help with a smelly friend

VernD said:
Maybe just take out this part? Most of the time, just by talking about body odour, offensive is kind of implied because we hardly talk about BO is someone is smelling good. It's also less emotive and more subtle.
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Re-read it and you're right.
 
Wezzy777 said:
Hey guys

I have a friend that smells really bad but don't know if I should tell him because he will most likely be offended. He never used to smell this bad but recently he smells disgusting, it's like this smelly cloud hangs over him. One day he stayed over at my house and I had to literally wash everything he touched, now I make up lies why he can't come visit because I'm scared it won't come out next time.

So what you guys think is the best thing to do? Don't want to lose him as friend but I can't live with it any longer.
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How is it possible for someone to stink so much that their fingers can instantly impose smelliness on objects just by touching them? The only other thing I can imagine having the same effect is actual s**t.
 
There was a guy at my previous workplace that smelled bad, as in no showers and no fresh clothes.The manager came up to me and asked to go chat to him.I just bought a sixpack of ego roll on and left it on his desk when he left.He was fuming the next day....but still stank.
 
bokdrol said:
I think this is the best idea. No need to humiliate the guy with hallmarks cards and getting others involved.
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Not necessarily. Not everyone has a thick skin and is able to think rationally when put on the spot. There is a chance that he might see it as an insult or a personal attack due to him not being able to smell himself.

There is nothing wrong with the anonymous route. If he doesn't know who it's coming from, he'd be forced to think about it rationally...
 
Batista said:
There was a guy at my previous workplace that smelled bad, as in no showers and no fresh clothes.The manager came up to me and asked to go chat to him.I just bought a sixpack of ego roll on and left it on his desk when he left.He was fuming the next day....but still stank.
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I would also fume...imagine Ego...wtf?


:p
 
bromster said:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/699184-Help-with-a-smelly-friend
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Nothing says you care like a thread about how to go about it in the nicest way possible.
 
did he recently take up smoking weed?

The 3 people with the worst BO I know smoke that. Apparently it comes out in their sweat.
 
Bryn said:
How is it possible for someone to stink so much that their fingers can instantly impose smelliness on objects just by touching them? The only other thing I can imagine having the same effect is actual s**t.
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My mom's neighbour, a case in point. In her defense though, she is an 84-year old woman and her nephew, and his wife, isn't looking properly after her, as in not washing her clothes and keeping her house generally clean; in general, filthy and unsavoury habits.
 
just bought a sixpack of ego roll on and left it on his desk when he left.He was fuming the next day....but still stank.
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I would also be fuming if you gave me that
 
Maybe time to re-evaluate your friendships or the manner in which you engage in them, something as basic as clearly smelling like sht should be a simple one to address directly at a friend, the smell is terrible bud what's happening? Jaaislik buddy you are smelling rank, what's up, water been cut?! Geez man when did you become a plumber, smells like you have been working on the sht pipes! It's a caring thing to address directly, obviously something going on and its the people around him that care that need to step up and right the boat. Just imagine how people who don't know the guy must think when encountering him.

Whether they change their habits or not is another thing but the dialog about it shouldn't be hard to enter into.

Just consider as well the level of unhealthy denial you are entertaining, the guy is so filthy you have to waste a few hours of your life cleaning after he's visited yet you think it's inappropriate to confront the guy with reality?
 
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