So I've never been to GenCon, but Smelly Gamers???
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Aris Dragonborn
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Darth K'Trava said:
Or: "Stinking Cloud is a 3rd level spell, not a lifestyle".
![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
Desdichado
Hero
Hey Xath--
This morning in the fog having just woken up, my subconscious mind made connections that my conscious mind did not, and I realized that I had responded --three times, in three separate threads-- yesterday to you with lame double entendre jokes, and that I might have come off a bit as Creepy Internet Stalker GuyTM.
I do profusely and sincerely apologize if I offended you in any way with that, and assure you that I wasn't even really paying too much attention to whom I was responding; I just saw an opportunity for a lame joke, and I jumped in an made it. I can only offer the excuse that I had an extremely slow day at work yesterday so I was bouncing back and forth from Nothingland to ENWorld repeatedly, and the taint of NTL must have still been clinging to me like cheap cologne. Anyway, I promise that I'll be a good little JD from now on.
reveal; whatever I say to you though--I mean it completely.
(cross-posted to all three threads)
This morning in the fog having just woken up, my subconscious mind made connections that my conscious mind did not, and I realized that I had responded --three times, in three separate threads-- yesterday to you with lame double entendre jokes, and that I might have come off a bit as Creepy Internet Stalker GuyTM.
I do profusely and sincerely apologize if I offended you in any way with that, and assure you that I wasn't even really paying too much attention to whom I was responding; I just saw an opportunity for a lame joke, and I jumped in an made it. I can only offer the excuse that I had an extremely slow day at work yesterday so I was bouncing back and forth from Nothingland to ENWorld repeatedly, and the taint of NTL must have still been clinging to me like cheap cologne. Anyway, I promise that I'll be a good little JD from now on.
reveal; whatever I say to you though--I mean it completely.
(cross-posted to all three threads)
Scribble
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Maybe everyone who goes to GENCON has to submit to going through one of those crazy shower things they use (at least in movies) to wash off after being in an area with crazy contaminents. Like in Outbreak. 
Can you imagine if the stinkiness was a problem for other conventions?
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Can you imagine if the stinkiness was a problem for other conventions?
Welcome to the anual Glaxo-Smith pharmaceuticle sales convention. Please remember to use soap EVERYDAY!
HiLiphNY
Explorer
Interestingly, the Law is on our side. Both the US and Canada have precidence that supports those who do not stink vs. those who do stink, in the workforce. Various companies have been able to fire customer service employees (in actual face to face service) who reek.
Personally, I have always confronted those who reek. I consider it selfish to not bathe and reek that bad, and if you're still going to do it, I'm gonna give you a really hard time about it.
There are those, however, who are so morbidly obese (many seen @ Gencon) who simply cannot help but stink. At that body mass, one cannot help but smell bad after an hour or so leaving the shower. I do feel a bit more sympathetic to those folks, but they're not excused either. Those folks need to address the larger issue at hand, for all our sakes.
Personally, I have always confronted those who reek. I consider it selfish to not bathe and reek that bad, and if you're still going to do it, I'm gonna give you a really hard time about it.
There are those, however, who are so morbidly obese (many seen @ Gencon) who simply cannot help but stink. At that body mass, one cannot help but smell bad after an hour or so leaving the shower. I do feel a bit more sympathetic to those folks, but they're not excused either. Those folks need to address the larger issue at hand, for all our sakes.
WillieW
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Yeah well tomcats smell, okay?Buttercup said:I didn't encounter any stinky EN Worlders this year, but perhaps we're a cut above?
However, Thursday at just after noon as I was walking through the exhibit hall, a guy wearing cat ears and a tail passed me and oh, man what a stink. If he smelled that bad on Thursday, I shudder to think what he was like by Sunday.
Chap was obviously getting into the role.The cure is a bit extreme though and involves a vet and a get-well-soon card.
sniffles
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Scribble said:Maybe everyone who goes to GENCON has to submit to going through one of those crazy shower things they use (at least in movies) to wash off after being in an area with crazy contaminents. Like in Outbreak.
Can you imagine if the stinkiness was a problem for other conventions?
Welcome to the anual Glaxo-Smith pharmaceuticle sales convention. Please remember to use soap EVERYDAY!
Stinkiness is a problem at *any* type of convention. I used to attend conventions for the Society for Photographic Education, and they were no different from sci fi or gaming cons (except no Klingons or storm troopers or elves
). For some reason some people seem to give up on personal hygeine at conventions, or perhaps its just all those bodies in such close proximity.
