Anonymous wrote:I doubt that any of the passengers complaining about them even knew that they were Jewish. They just didn't want to be stuck on a long plane ride with a horrible odor like that and they sure as heck didn't want to be seated next to them.

The man is wearing a yarmulke so that's identifying. Maybe some passengers aren't familiar with what that is.

I would have thought they were orthodox.

Anonymous wrote:A girl in my freshman dorm left a tampon in for almost two months, and had sex with her BF multiple times in the interim. She and her room smelled like putrid death until they figured out the cause.

Sometimes people really do have a horrible foul stench.

what the ...... what!

Anonymous wrote:A couple times in my life I've been around someone with such terrible body odor it made me physically sick. Once was at the library, once was a guy who came to the door begging.

For me, it was when I got in a gondola in the French Alps with a French couple. On the way up, they unzipped their parkas and the stench just about fogged up the windows. Made me gag.

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Anonymous wrote:The article said that AA didn't remove their luggage. So they went to a hotel and put the SAME clothes on the next morning!

What were their options ?

Hotel overnight dry cleaning!

Anonymous wrote:Maybe they didn't shower or put on clean clothes. Not everyone bathes every day....even though they really should.

Just plain old BO isn't enough to kick people off, if it was, half the planes would fly empty. And don't get me started on dirty feet/socks when people kick their shoes off on long flights, ewww!
That must have been some unique and powerful smell, whatever that was. Incense?

A couple times in my life I've been around someone with such terrible body odor it made me physically sick. Once was at the library, once was a guy who came to the door begging.

Also for smell - I was once on a 747 with THREE screaming/smelling babies at the midpoint between all of them. It was freaking horrible.

Does anyone remember a story that happened about 6 months ago when a plane had to make an emergency landing because a guy onboard smelled so awful other passengers were puking and fainting? After the plane landed and the man was taken off the flight, it turned out he had a raging case of gangrene and his limb was literally rotting, hence the terrible smell. He was hospitalized and died a couple of days later in the hospital.
Sad story, of course, but I also feel for the people on that flight. Ugh.

If it was ONE person and the baby, I'd say someone was wrong.

But it wasn't - it was two adult members of the family that smelled. Maybe it was just some sort of cultural miscommunication - a special type of incense or musk or spice.

Or maybe they were just funky. But if you're in a tightly confined space with other individuals its incumbent on you to smell clean with as neutral a scent as possible.

Anonymous wrote:A girl in my freshman dorm left a tampon in for almost two months, and had sex with her BF multiple times in the interim. She and her room smelled like putrid death until they figured out the cause.

Sometimes people really do have a horrible foul stench.

She could have died. I hate tampons because of this - there is a risk of forgetting it/not understand it needs to be replaced before it gets infected.

Anonymous wrote:Every time an article like this is written, I support the stench purge

Be clean before you get on a plane people

8 hours from Italy to NY - next to a smelly German man

I held back the vomit.

Anonymous wrote:The article said that AA didn't remove their luggage. So they went to a hotel and put the SAME clothes on the next morning!

What were their options ?

Read a similar story on the Teen forum this week. A DD's friend smelled terribly. Mom of the DD was advised to 1) Call the guidance counselor for some help/ideas and 2) Host a spa day for the girls. Delicate subject.

The article said that AA didn't remove their luggage. So they went to a hotel and put the SAME clothes on the next morning!

A girl in my freshman dorm left a tampon in for almost two months, and had sex with her BF multiple times in the interim. She and her room smelled like putrid death until they figured out the cause.

Sometimes people really do have a horrible foul stench.