• Humana@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have a friend who can smell cockroaches no joke. We always take her restaurant suggestions very seriously.

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      1 year ago

      I can smell ants and cockroaches. I can also smell when someone has been in my house hours after they leave. Its annoying as hell to have this sense of smell since its considered rude to point out that someone stinks. To me its like they are screaming in a small room.

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        1 year ago

        I recently had to close my store for an hour, because I was the only one working and couldn’t breath due to one customers bad hygiene. People treat me like I’m overly sensitive or making up my discomfort, but to me it feels like being suffocated.

        Also I can totally smell roaches, they smell worse than any other thing in existence. Never smelled an ant though. Did not know that was possible.

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      1 year ago

      I assume people just can’t identify the smell of cockroaches until they learned it? Similar to people being oblivious to the smell of marijuana when not familiar with it.

      I’m not sure I would recognize the smell of roaches if I didn’t keep them as food for other animals. Stinky little buggers.

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        1 year ago

        Weird. Marijuana has an iconic, skunk-like / rotten bologna smell to me. I can smell someone smoking up to maybe 500 feet away, sometimes from the inside of my car. It’s a deeply repugnant smell.

        The strange thing being, I’ve smelled the actual flowers and the plant up close, and it just smells like grass. It only smells like shit when it’s burning, oddly enough.

        No idea why. Everything about the “natural smell” up close screams “this is a plant and can’t harm you in any way shape or form”. That specific experience made me in favor of decriminalization.

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          1 year ago

          You should be able to smell a female plant in full (oily) bloom. I’ve read that smell is one of the problems that illegal farms/grow box owners have when tyring to stay undetected.

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      1 year ago

      “What’s your mutation? Teleportation? Laser Eyes? Weaponized Tornadoes?”

      “…I… I can smell ants… how about yours?”

      “Oh… well… my mutation is that cilantro tastes like chalk to me.”