worst smell ever?

rtil · June 7, 2009 03:33 AM

what's the worst thing you've ever smelled?

for some reason i was thinking about this today while packing, probably because whenever i pack stuff i think about all the shit i've done in my life, usually stupid shit

this one was pretty stupid. a few years back i was doing demolition work in a strip mall. one of the last things left to do is carpet removal. carpet adhesive is some of the most toxic shit on the planet, but to remove it you need something even more toxic. carpet adhesive remover. this horrible green goo looks like liquid medical waste and smells like it too. you have to wear gas masks to use it and you have to use special brooms to move it around to live the adhesive.

so at the end of the day we had gotten it all off, and dumped all the by-products of our work in a plastic trash barrel. for some reason i walked up to it and put my head over it and got a whiff. it was so foul i ran outside as fast as possible just to get a breath of fresh air. i had to sit down because it felt like it was sloshing around in my head. i just sat there and enjoyed air for a good 15 minutes before i felt like i could work again. the remover smelled bad enough, but combined with the re-liquified adhesive.. it was something else. i'm sure it could kill you in no time

DrRumack · June 7, 2009 03:36 AM

YOU.

Alta Don · June 7, 2009 03:45 AM

Near an outhouse when I was camping as a kid. Never went it there.

whoareyou · June 7, 2009 04:20 AM

Nothing really can beat the smell of rotting animal flesh.

Fuzz · June 7, 2009 04:43 AM

Every single fucking day on my commute to school, I pass a MASSIVE chicken farm. On a nice warm summer day last year, I had gotten my car back from the garage. The AC still wasn't working so I had 2 windows down(the only two that go down). As I passed the farm, I just about threw up and passed out from the stench.

That is the worst smell that I have ever smelled.

99 · June 7, 2009 04:45 AM

The smell of burning flesh. I was on a field trip as a child and we got caught up in traffic because of a structural fire to a building in town. By the time we drove by, the building was consumed in flames and we came to a standstill again due to the ubbernecking of the drivers. We were there long enough to see a body bag being rolled by, and there was this overwhelming smell of death. It was a hot day, and the wind was efusing to blow, so the stench of the putrid smoke left by the burnt corpse just drifted over to our school bus. It was the most terrifying smell ever.

jjjjjjjjjj · June 7, 2009 04:49 AM

Quote from: whoareyouNothing really can beat the smell of rotting animal flesh.

Necronomitr0n · June 7, 2009 04:56 AM

this is even worse than the favorite breakfast thread

shura · June 7, 2009 06:20 AM

once i was in my friend's neighborhood, and the pipes for her septic tank had cracked leaking raw sewage all over her yard. she had to stay with me for the week because the stench was so unbearable. just being there for 5 minutes made me dizzy

ZekeySpaceyLizard · June 7, 2009 06:20 AM

Quote from: rtilthis one was pretty stupid. a few years back i was doing demolition work in a strip mall. one of the last things left to do is carpet removal. carpet adhesive is some of the most toxic shit on the planet, but to remove it you need something even more toxic. carpet adhesive remover. this horrible green goo looks like liquid medical waste and smells like it too. you have to wear gas masks to use it and you have to use special brooms to move it around to live the adhesive.

i too have done this.

however I have smelled something worse

for whatever reason my brother had some dead fish in a bucket. and poured the water into a gallon jug. then forgot about it for about 4 months. when we found it we opened it.

this came out:

xXChad_WardenXx · June 7, 2009 06:57 AM

you know how black people have their own smell?

that

fuck niggas man

Crabarms · June 7, 2009 08:18 AM

Moving a bunch of garbage that was sitting out in water for months.

Dagolith · June 7, 2009 08:37 AM

pffft pussy, whip out the razer scraper

zNelson24 · June 7, 2009 08:38 AM

The bathrooms at my school, or the anestetics the doctors used when I went to the hospital. Hmm..

Necronomitr0n · June 7, 2009 08:52 AM

actually one week i forgot to take out the trash and we had some leftover crab meat in there and it smelled awful

whoareyou · June 7, 2009 09:12 AM

Quote from: systechoactually one week i forgot to take out the trash and we had some leftover crab meat in there and it smelled awful

Ew... garbage.

Michelle · June 7, 2009 09:23 AM

i cant really compete with dead people or animals, but i think i've smelled enough unhealthy mouths to understand what that must feel like.

its so obvious when somebody does not keep their dental hygiene because you can smell them from 2-3 feet away.

mishkamash · June 7, 2009 10:28 AM

in my school someone in chemistry spilled some weird chem on the carpet and it caught of fire
the smell was horrible, and i was next door to what happened

ughh

Hammi · June 7, 2009 11:09 AM

sewage system where we went on a school trip once in 7th grade, i thought my nostrils were about to wrap out from the inside due to the strong smell and hell i wasnt even IN THERE

other than that, cow dung from large crops... its horrible especially when drivin with the windows down

Ashington · June 7, 2009 12:44 PM

Some offshoot of the river Nile when i went to egypt. It was seriously foul! But what really made it sickening was that people were bathing/swimming and washing clothes in it, then you'd go further for about a minute or two and see some sewage or a dead animal/man/child in it. They've got some stones on them going in that shit.