RE: What's the worst scent you've ever smelled?
July 20, 2016 at 5:37 am
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2016 at 5:40 am by Regina.)
I lived in this neighbourhood while I was at university that stank. It was a student neighbourhood, that says it all...
There was a near-constant smell in the air of combined curry and bins, coming from (respectively) the plethora of takeaways and the rubbish that the bin-men never seemed to bother collecting. You didn't want to open the windows because the smell would get in, but if you didn't open the windows... the smell of damp would take over, because all the houses in said neighbourhood were badly built old Victorian terraces that really needed pulling down.
So we had a dilemma. Have your bedroom (and any clothes you hang up to dry in there) smelling of damp? Or smelling of curry and bins? Decisions, decisions...
God that was a rough neighbourhood. There was a park at the end of the street which the university had told us flatly "don't enter at night". I did once, and never again.
There was a near-constant smell in the air of combined curry and bins, coming from (respectively) the plethora of takeaways and the rubbish that the bin-men never seemed to bother collecting. You didn't want to open the windows because the smell would get in, but if you didn't open the windows... the smell of damp would take over, because all the houses in said neighbourhood were badly built old Victorian terraces that really needed pulling down.
So we had a dilemma. Have your bedroom (and any clothes you hang up to dry in there) smelling of damp? Or smelling of curry and bins? Decisions, decisions...
God that was a rough neighbourhood. There was a park at the end of the street which the university had told us flatly "don't enter at night". I did once, and never again.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
