Submitted 15 hours ago by SSUPII@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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Ha ha lol lets insult customers!
Seriously I do not understand signs like this.
They only scold the very customers they want, while they will bounce off the customers they don’t want.
These signs are self masturbatory in nature. Just someone who wants to rant and feel better than others in a public fashion.
That’s not a sign that just gets put up. That’s a response to a problem.
Im not arguing about whether it is or isn’t. Im saying no sensible person thinks this is actually a solution and this is 100% a narcissism play.
I get it, personal hygiene isn’t always a big priority for us nerdy types. But it’s reaaaally not hard to do the bare minimum to keep from stinking, guys. Have some consideration for others when emerging from your cave.
I came here just to check out if somebody already did it and I was not disappointed xD
LOL, had to do it! Template for anyone who wants to add Sid to a shameful situation (low-rez, sadly):
OMG that man is a legend!
Plenty of people don’t start to smell bad 24h after a shower, with or without deodorant. In winter, I’d guess it’s actually most people.
I try to shower as infrequently as I can without stinking because it fucks up my skin every single time.
Plenty of people don’t start to smell bad 24h after a shower, with or without deodorant. In winter, I’d guess it’s actually most people.
I’ve learned for my own body the sweet spot is to use deodorant every day first thing in the morning and once per 48 hours take a full shower but if I do anything that causes me to sweat on an off day then I need to take a quick shower without any soaps. This keeps my body appropriately not-smelly and my hair doesn’t get greasy from over-washing like it does if I do a full shower daily. This regime also survives both running 5ks and biking 20+ miles in the summer, even if the day of the race/ride falls on an off-day!
Regarding deodorant I get smelly by the end of the day if I do not use deodorant regardless of the temperature. Also, some deodorants are apparently really good for larger folks who have chaffing issues. A friend of a friend specifically recommended slathering it anywhere that chafes first thing in the morning and that can help significantly
LMAO.
And plenty of people do start smelling bad 24 hours after not showering with or without deodorant. Out is actually most people…
Idk, humans have lots of different smells and some are more tolerable than others. Like if you don’t sweat much (not me unfortunately) you can definitely go a day without showering. The worst human smell might be a rotting tooth though, that’s really difficult to be around.
I’m sure plenty of people do, maybe you’re even one of them, but turning this into blanket statements is weird and annoying. How many people think, because of the culture embodied in this sign, that they must shower every day, and never even check?
So that’s why they have those 48 hour protection deodorants, it’s for the Magic players!
To add: It’s a good idea to occasionally check with someone else how you smell, because we notice our own smell less than others.
Yep. I developed eczema and soap/chemicals are not my friend, I will forgo deodorant in the winter and use it lightly during the summer - you’d be surprised how little you really need - but I am checking with people about it regularly. I had a friend tell me I smelled like “outside” which made me realize the crystal deodorant wasn’t working right.
Yeah, my partner can be trusted to advise me of the situation lol
Body moisturizer after shower is a game changer. I wish I’d known about it sooner.
You probably smell really bad. Olfactory fatigue might make you think otherwise. Just shower and moisturize. Find skin friendly soap.
I use the skin friendliest soap I know of, and can smell when I need a shower, and have trusted other people who validate my own sense. Olfactory fatigue makes no sense unless you shower really infrequently.
Thanks for your fake, ill-informed concern though. Sucks that on Lemmy people are so closed minded they can’t understand that people sweat less than they do.
Are you made from sugar? I’m part of the two-a-day club. When I wake up and after the gym.
Yeah, but this is a shop for MTG nerds. They ain’t most people.
You probably need to find a good moisturizer and leave it on for a while in the shower.
Oh fuck, moisturiser!! Thank god someone has finally suggested MOISTURISER to me! And here I’d been covering my body in salt and ash. Truly I am saved.
I try to shower as infrequently as I can without stinking because it fucks up my skin every single time.
Could you go into detail? Is it the soap, or the water that fucks up your skin? And how does it get “fucked up”?
I don’t want to go into too much detail about medical stuff in public but I don’t believe it is about soap alone because it also affects skin that i don’t soap up in the shower.
Are you, by any chance, showering with hot water? It’s said that warmer/hotter water dries out the skin more.
Well I’m certainly not taking a cold shower in winter! I don’t have a thermostatic shower tap so don’t know what temperature it is, but I guess I have it at about body temperature… Not sure if that is as hot as you mean.
“Hey, Skinx, yer on Door Sniffing Duty tonight.”
“Aw, I always get Door Sniffing Duty, make Plug do it, he never does it.”
“Plug has allergies, he can’t smell so good. You got a good nose.”
“You don’t need a good nose for these dudes. You can smell Fat Tony from a block away.”
“Speaking of, it’s Wednesday.”
“Wednesday? OH! Fat Tony always comes in on Tuesday!”
“Yep, you’ll be getting a schnozzful of Fat Tony’s unique gamey fragrance, before you send him home for his shower. Get at it!”
“Fuck…”
When you go to cons you always see these guys who are clearly spending mad cash, but they’re in a ratty t shirt and sweat pants, and they smell like unwashed ass covered in baby powder. You can play magic for 10 hours but you can’t go take a 15 minute shower???
I heard it’s a strategy to make other people disgusted and sk they are less concentrated
thats quite the commitment
From my reading of social media there are two kinds of neurodivergents: 1) hates showing, most unpleasant experience, sensory overload 2) loves showing, could live in the shower, sometimes exits the shower and realises that they forgot to wash their hair or soap up or something. Only misses their daily shower when they are very busy and can’t find an hour in their schedules.
You may be a neurotypical if you:
This is way too general. Like I get its a joke, but I don’t think anyone showers super quickly unless they are time pressed
I’ve been known to shower until the hot water runs out. I’ve been known to fall asleep in the shower. I love showers.
Sleeping in the shower! Do you then wake up when you start gurgling?
If you want a good night’s sleep in the shower then get one of those continuous water heaters, or a recirculation shower to save on the water and energy.
10 minutes
How do you wash in that time? That’s just enough to get wet.
5 minutes baby. Military taught me to eat fast, shower fast, fall asleep fast, and clean like i have OCD
I shower in less than 10:
That’s like 8 mins, maybe 9 because I spend 2 with my hair, maybe 10 because I spend 2 mins wetting my body to heat it up.
Ofc, if I’m feeling cold I end up spending way longer in the wet body phase.
I had a boyfriend that HAD to shower everytime he pooped. He couldn’t poop anywhere he wouldn’t be able to shower or he would be annoying until we got home. He also had IBS. Lovely time I had
You should’ve bought that boy a bidet. That’s probably what he wanted.
Rather than shit steam your bathroom
Lol, I love the PSA-style “You may be neurotypical if…”
Nah cause I’m both of those. I want nothing to do with a shower until I get in and then I’ll stay there until I run through 50 gallons of near boiling water. And then as the water starts turning cold I realize I haven’t even washed yet.
You may be a neurotypical if you:
Showering properly is one of the few things I do consistently, because if I'm not doing something outdoors like hiking or camping then my stinky bits annoy me.
In the mid 90’s I was with a group of union apprentices attending the mandatory four week training at our headquarters in the Midwest. They put us up at a decent hotel in the downtown area. During our stay one year they had some kind of magic/fantasy con. Many of these people were foul smelling. They were not used to being told they couldn’t enter the elevator without getting fucked up. Some of my fellow apprentices were how shall we say it. Impulsively violent toward people who smelled like unwashed ass. After all nearly everyone of us would shower once or twice daily due to the job. The con attendees quickly learned how to use the back elevator away from our floor.
It was really kinda sad but the Navy also had a floor for their recruits to stay at while they were being processed in. Many were young women all of legal age with the navy personnel trying but not always succeeding in keeping those ladies away from forty or so young construction workers. One of their main tactics was to encourage the navy recruits to use the back elevator. In forcing those unwashed losers to the back we inflicted them on those recruits.
Like most signs, this will be ignored by the people it’s intended for.
The point of the sign is to avoid them getting angry when you throw them out. They will, but others in the store will back you up.
That’s just not how interacting with humans works though.
Chances are there are several individuals who visit this shop with “offensive” hygiene.
The sign isn’t going to stop them coming in.
When you say “hey fuck off stinky”, they’re going to react badly. Pointing to the sign isn’t going to make them any less reactive or defensive.
The correct way to handle this is to pull them aside, tell them you really appreciate them visiting the store, they’re really into the hobby and a key part of the local scene or whatever, but last time they came in a few other customers mentioned their hygiene.
I totally understand that most people don’t want to have that second interaction, that’s fine.
My point is, in either approach the sign doesn’t help.
You don’t need a sign for people to be happy that King Shit is getting kicked out.
They’re all going to be "dammit what time is it? Anyone got a calculator? "
I’d rather smell unwashed gamer than the overpowering perfume in these bloody deodorants.
You do know you can buy lighter scents…
I can buy it with no scent. I wish to fuck other people did. If you put this junk on yourself every day and do it until you can actually smell it after your olfactory nerves have been burned out by years of such abuse, think about what that’s doing to people that are actually sensitive to this shit.
Nah. They all suck. Id much rather shower more frequently and stay in a climate controlled environment than have some asthma activating supermarket washroom smelling crap making me itch.
Or even unscented.
Yeah but they can’t make other people wear it. There’s always that one person who thinks bathing in body spray is the same as actually bathing
Amazing? I have seen that sign at pretty much every games workshop I have been too,
This is my favorite thing to show people when they never ask.
So, what would you like to show us?
What’s wrong with not wearing deodorant? That shit has a ton of aluminum and other garbage in it. It ruins your clothes. You just need to wash and change your clothes regularly.
Antiperspirants contain aluminum, not deodorants.
The aluminium salts are the effective ingredient that stops us from sweating. Products that contain aluminium salts are called anti-transpirants because of that.
There is also no reason to call them garbage, because besides of being effective against sweat, they don’t harm us. That was a myth, disproven for years now.
The BO AOE cloud that follows not wearing deodorant is what’s wrong with not wearing it.
Lots of them do have aluminum, but more and more brands now have new formulations without it. Most of the mainstream ones in my area have variants. There are also more natural ones available like Dr. Squatch, but I haven’t had good luck with it (melted during summer, but was effective).
As far as ruining your clothes, do you mean staining the armpit area? I’ve only had that happen to a couple of tshirts years ago with Axe deodorant sticks.
good thing i don’t play card games anymore. stupid money pit.
Lmfaooooooooo
Magic the gathering store? Then why is there a Pokémon visible on the door?
Some LCS’s (local card shops) are more Magic focused, some are more Pokémon focused, as well as Yugioh focused. They’ll still sell other product, but most likely have a core group of players who show up to play one type of game.
The LCS I used to go to sold everything, but it was largely known to be the spot to play MTG/have tournaments consistently versus their Pokémon days.
The one in my city is really small and fun. Whenever you go in to buy a few cards there’s always a more autistic than me kid asking me if I know this card, if not, they’ll explain, and it goes on for 45min and you can’t get away. Or the owner is there and starts to complain about the economy, his autie customers not working, about politics, about how it used to be better back then, his experience in prison (ehm ok) etc. Again, can’t leave for at least 45min. Few years ago I came there with my partner, she needed a few lands. A hoard of people came onto us. “Ooh, a girl playing magic!” We stayed there for 2 hours as we couldn’t end the conversations even though we tried many times lol.
I love it so much, places like these are super rare and awesome which should never stop to exist. Support your local game stores! Whether it’s trading cards, miniature war gaming or regular boardgames.
Aliya@feddit.org 1 hour ago
This should be on every bus and train door.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
This sign should be posted in my bedroom right now too. I’m about to kick myself out.