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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No anime conventions for you unless you wear a gas mask!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In 95 I was staying at a hotel that had a D&D convention. I was with a group of union boilermakers and we got gripped at by the staff for refusing to allow some of those stinkers on the elevator with us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've never actually been to an anime convention and had no idea how common anime fans with poor hygiene actually existing was until I read some of the horror stories when this was posted before.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would guess it's just related to teenagers getting body odors and not knowing yet that they have to deal with them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe, but I don't remember everyone stinking when I was a teen. Or teenagers in general stinking any more than anyone else now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes it's a fact that obese people smell worse than fit people, so if it was a marathon runners convention and everyone actually bathed daily, I'm sure going without deodorant wouldn't be an issue. Too much fucking might be an issue if the majority of the women aren't on hormonal birth control.

But I think the issue with anime conventions isn't lack of deodorant, it's thinking a shower is something you take every 4-7 days, and 'eww don't touch your buttcrack to clean it, that's nasty!'

I may get flack from the twox crowd for this comment, but talking to my fiance was like talking to a guy when she got off hormonal birth control. Conversation is just... chill now.

That's probably the next big "oops, we fucked up bad the last 50 years, but men's birth control is hard!"