Ew, but:

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 02/28/2018 at 12:49 • Filed to: None

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Some of my boy students smell like actual poop. And there’s a kid whose rotten sneakers smell so bad that once he walks by, the smell remains for five minutes.

WRXforScience > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 13:01

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You’ve got a couple of options: Febreeze, air fresheners, or deal with it. I try to keep enough of a distance from the kids that if they smell, I don’t have to deal with it. My closest students are a good 6-8ft away and if I had a smelly kid I’d make sure his seat was well clear of the front of the class and my desk.

An email home could do wonders too. I’m at a senior high, so I’ve only got 11-12th graders, so if they smell their peers point it out quickly (or it’s from weed and/or vaping).

vondon302 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 13:02

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Was at Costco with my 9th grade teacher wife when she put febreeze in the cart. I was like what the hell do we need all this febreeze for? She replied “we don’t but I sure do”

imadick > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 13:05

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What’s worse, the smelly kids or the kids that don’t shower and spray on tons of axe to cover it up?

Chariotoflove > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 13:08

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Putting cat litter in a sock and into the shoes at night does wonders for foot odor.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WRXforScience 02/28/2018 at 13:08

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I’ve got a class of students who are newcomers to this country for whom personal hygiene is at a different standard. On a hot day when they come directly from PE... Armpit smell is hellacious.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > vondon302 02/28/2018 at 13:09

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Perfumes and fragrances make me sneeze and get congested and immediate headache. Like those plug-in aroma things? I get physically ill. And it only masks the problem.

Open a window, more like.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Chariotoflove 02/28/2018 at 13:12

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Might try that on my own kicks.

Textured Soy Protein > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 13:16

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When I was a summer camp counselor, one of the kids in my bunk pooped his pants and would stash the clothes in various places. He’d randomly smell awful walking past us.

We couldn’t go rifling through his laundry, or straight up ask him if he pooped his pants, but we were working with the camp administrators to figure a way to bring up the topic and help the kid out.

Before we could do that, one day he left a bathing suit with a turd stuck to the lining on the clothesline that the kids used to dry their swim stuff. One of the other kids in the bunk picked it up off the clothesline with the end of a broom and brought it up to the front porch in front of the other kids, and yelled,

“(KID) POOPS HIS PANTS! WE HAVE EVIDENCE !”

The kid was of course mortified but it gave us the opportunity to talk with him about the subject and come up with some accommodations for him. After that the bunk smelled much better.

WRXforScience > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 13:17

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One of my previous schools had a similar situation, we organized a deodorant handout and personal hygiene info session and that helped, but there is only so much you can do.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 13:17

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Teenage boys are the worst smelling things in existence. They take their sweet-ass time learning about things like “deodorant” and “showers”.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > imadick 02/28/2018 at 13:17

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axe bath kid always

Svend > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 13:28

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when I worked for the Probation Service, we used to do some classes to try and get people back into work, dealing with presentation, manners and basic literacy and help with further education if they wanted it. There was one woman who was an alcoholic and burst blood vessels all over her face. She absolutely stank. We tried our hardest with her but you couldn’t sit in an office or training room with the doors or Windows shut. So many of the others would complained but other than march her our to the car park, and hose her down with Febreeze or hose pipe and shower gel there was nothing we could do.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Textured Soy Protein 02/28/2018 at 13:30

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Good times.

shop-teacher > imadick 02/28/2018 at 13:30

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Axe kid, by orders of magnitude. They still stink, but the ALSO reek of axe. It’s the kid equivalent of smokers who try to cover up the smell of smoke with gallons of perfume.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WRXforScience 02/28/2018 at 13:31

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Yup.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 02/28/2018 at 13:31

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I’ve had a girl or two that smelled pretty bad as well, but much less frequently. #onionarmpits

Klaus Schmoll > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 13:31

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One of my students comes from a small village and on random days smells like horse piss or whatever, a very strong and distinct farmyard animal smell. I’ve had our social worker talk to her, but to no avail. Even when sitting at home and grading papers, as soon as I see hers I get that smell in my nose.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Klaus Schmoll 02/28/2018 at 13:34

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At church, we have a couple of older sisters who wear diapers and sometimes, when I help them into the car, particularly after a church supper... But not really the same thing.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 13:45

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In this regard I can start to see the appeal of leather seats in cars, under the assumption that um, scents, won’t stay attached to the leather. We’ve got a girl at work who is seriously heavy and sometimes has an odor that stays attached to the cloth chairs we use. Since I’m in the office solo late at night I brought a bottle of Febreze to spray down the chairs, hoping that this will make the office a little more pleasant without having to confront her about the issue. She’s got enough problems in her life right now and doesn’t need to be beaten down by this as well.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/28/2018 at 13:51

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In a word: ew. You might also try beating some baking soda into the fabric of the seat. Regarding leather seats: I cannot think of a thing that might cause me to want them.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 14:17

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You never had a houseful of pubescent boys. I routinely have to open the windows to air the place out.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 14:18

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Our Civic has leather. It’s nice.

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 02/28/2018 at 14:20

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Axe should be banned by the Geneva Conventions

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shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 02/28/2018 at 14:21

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HERE, HERE!!!!

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 02/28/2018 at 14:24

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One of my 12-year-olds was chasing his brothers around the house and spraying it at them. It’s basically a chemical weapon.

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 02/28/2018 at 14:39

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Why in the world would you allow that ... STUFF ... into your house?!?!?!?!

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 02/28/2018 at 14:41

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I think it was given to my older son by a “friend.” I wish he had just given him a bag of weed.

Cé hé sin > Klaus Schmoll 02/28/2018 at 14:47

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Farmers always say that’s the smell of money.

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 02/28/2018 at 15:16

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It certainly would stink less.

Takuro Spirit > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 15:24

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My girls dance and thier bags full of shoes and leotards stink to high heaven, as does the inside of that studio, and thier rooms when they close the door and its winter so the windows aren’t open and..... I’m going to go into the garage and fill my nose with MAN SMELLS now.

diplodicus > ttyymmnn 02/28/2018 at 15:38

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Teach them that if you put a lighter in front of it it’s like a little flame thrower. The flames get rid of the smell.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/28/2018 at 15:57

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Ew.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/28/2018 at 15:57

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Ew.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Takuro Spirit 02/28/2018 at 16:00

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I’d say you need to move if you cannot open the windows.

Takuro Spirit > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 17:00

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We can... its just cold out.

And we are moving, actually. They’re getting a ‘play room’ in the basement. And ventilation.

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 18:49

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Had my share of poor hygiene students over the years. Always report them to the guidance counselors, since they’re the ones who usually deal with any sort of “anonymous” tip-offs...bullying, suicide threats, etc. So whenever they call a student in, the conversations always start with, “so, several people have mentioned to us that you have this problem...”

I just don’t know how the rest of that sentence goes when they do the hygiene talk. “They all say you smell really really bad. How often are you washing your clothes?”

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/28/2018 at 21:42

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I had a roommate junior year of college, with no clue on his smell. He’d come back from working part time outside and just start hanging out and we’d all be “what... the..fuck?”

One time I couldn’t find my phone charger, so he said “use mine its on my bed.” I moved the sheets, good god on top that stink, I don’t think he washed his sheets for the whole semester by that point a month.

In your case,. anyway to get a carbon airfilter in the classroom?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious 02/28/2018 at 22:57

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And some of them have no means to launder their clothing; there’s that.