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Posted: May 17 2009 10:54 am

I've been sitting in this callcenter since 2am and because it's what us pale semi aquatic north westerners consider hot the one window in the building is open. Tacoma is know for a peculiar stink, I'll quote Wikipedia.

Wikipedia wrote:

Beginning in the 1930s, Tacoma became known for the "Tacoma Aroma", a distinctive, acrid odor produced by paper manufacturing on the industrial tide flats. In the late 1990s, Simpson Tacoma Kraft reduced total sulfur emissions by 90%. This largely eliminated the problem; where once the aroma was ever-present, it is now only noticeable occasionally, primarily when the wind is coming from the east.

The last part is BS btw, it usually smells funky downtown.

The entire office stinks of ass and burning garbage, but if we close the window the room will get all muggy. So grumpy callers + skeleton staff + too many calls + really tired and running out of caffeine + the reek of sulfur and the bay with the tide out. YAY! Mad

Anything stinky in your neck of the woods? Confused

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

We have a paper mill not too far from where I live and a chemical plant. There are also so swamp that are really horrible upwind.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

If you consider the smell of fresh mountain stream and the light fluffy dander of a baby deer to stink, then yes, it stinks here.

But there is a paper mill like 45 miles away, so when there is a bad storm then sometimes it smells kinda grody.

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

im not racist at all, in fact i live in the smallest city with the most diversity you've prob ever seen. plus im half spanish. that said, certain parts of lowell,ma stink because of cambodian food. i actually enjoy some of their food. but i dont know what the fuck theyre doin with fish to make that smell. its really only something u can know if u've smelled it.

Posted: May 17 2009 01:06 pm

Are you talking about that fermented cabbage they eat called Kim Chi? it is indeed stanky as all hell, but if you can ignore your nose the shit is damn tasty. Smile

Posted: May 17 2009 02:18 pm

Literally? No. Metaphorically? Oh yes.

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

Blackout wrote:

Are you talking about that fermented cabbage they eat called Kim Chi? it is indeed stanky as all hell, but if you can ignore your nose the shit is damn tasty. Smile

i dont think so. i think its the fish, they cook them like whole on a frying pan, and its actually pretty good if u can get past the fact that ur literally staring ur dinner in the eye. they have the best spicy food tho. i order thios spicy chicken and rice dish form this little place around here. soo fucking good, i dont know what im eating but its so damn good.

Posted: May 17 2009 03:28 pm

Roswell has a big dairy industry. So, when the wind hits wrong it smells to high heaven like cow shit.

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: May 17 2009 03:36 pm

Yes. This place stinks. First off, in the spring it usually stinks no matter what. I've heard its all the dogshit from the winter that finally gets to fling its aroma into the atmosphere. That is one theory. This year seems particularly stinky, probably due to the floodwaters. Kinda smells strongly of sewer in some areas... It doesn't matter what causes it, whether it be the river, the sugar beet processing plant or the dogshit, this place is a cesspool of stench.

Posted: May 17 2009 03:38 pm

I live near the fucking municipal garbage dump. Everytime it's incineration day it just infestates the air with the gunk.
On top of that, people throw away their garbage all around the town. When it rains and the floods take over the streets, the aftermath is always shit scattered everywhere.
Speaking of shit, horses come and go by all the time. You know what these guys do all the time while walking.

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

Chile Guy wrote:

I live near the fucking municipal garbage dump. Everytime it's incineration day it just infestates the air with the gunk.
On top of that, people throw away their garbage all around the town. When it rains and the floods take over the streets, the aftermath is always shit scattered everywhere.
Speaking of shit, horses come and go by all the time. You know what these guys do all the time while walking.

wow, you win

Posted: May 17 2009 06:25 pm

This is Pennsylvania, we are home to ALOT of farmland. Of course it smells, literally like cow ass.

Posted: May 17 2009 06:30 pm

In San Antonio, YES! Not so much down in Pflugerville. Every time I would walk on campus, it would just smell awful. Glad I'm away from that for a few months.

Posted: May 17 2009 06:32 pm

When spring rolls around or and there is strong wind, it smells like shit because of all the manuer that is being put down and spread around for the farmers in the country and the gardens around here.

Posted: May 17 2009 08:40 pm

My town is fairly clean. Most of the year round residents are really mindful of the environment. There are various clean up days in my town as well as the county where people get together to keep the towns clean.

Posted: May 17 2009 09:23 pm

Whenever the wind blows a certain way, all the smells of the meat packing plants and cattle farms in east Colorado come up into the rockies and stink everything up, including my town. We also have some sort of mine down the road, and it uses weird, sulfer-y stuff, so that doesn't help with the stink. Fortunitly, (Spelling?) we only get the cattle stench about a third of the year, though.

Posted: May 17 2009 10:10 pm

Eddie_Hyde wrote:

Whenever the wind blows a certain way, all the smells of the meat packing plants and cattle farms in east Colorado come up into the rockies and stink everything up, including my town. We also have some sort of mine down the road, and it uses weird, sulfer-y stuff, so that doesn't help with the stink. Fortunitly, (Spelling?) we only get the cattle stench about a third of the year, though.

Fortunately

Posted: May 17 2009 10:10 pm

Dr. Wily wrote:

Eddie_Hyde wrote:

Whenever the wind blows a certain way, all the smells of the meat packing plants and cattle farms in east Colorado come up into the rockies and stink everything up, including my town. We also have some sort of mine down the road, and it uses weird, sulfer-y stuff, so that doesn't help with the stink. Fortunitly, (Spelling?) we only get the cattle stench about a third of the year, though.

Fortunately

Thank you.

Posted: May 17 2009 10:42 pm

Eddie_Hyde wrote:

Dr. Wily wrote:

Eddie_Hyde wrote:

Whenever the wind blows a certain way, all the smells of the meat packing plants and cattle farms in east Colorado come up into the rockies and stink everything up, including my town. We also have some sort of mine down the road, and it uses weird, sulfer-y stuff, so that doesn't help with the stink. Fortunitly, (Spelling?) we only get the cattle stench about a third of the year, though.

Fortunately

Thank you.

Np, and the only stench I ever smelt was when I go up north to visit family and I smell some manuer.

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: May 18 2009 01:03 am

Dr. Wily wrote:

Eddie_Hyde wrote:

Dr. Wily wrote:

Eddie_Hyde wrote:

Whenever the wind blows a certain way, all the smells of the meat packing plants and cattle farms in east Colorado come up into the rockies and stink everything up, including my town. We also have some sort of mine down the road, and it uses weird, sulfer-y stuff, so that doesn't help with the stink. Fortunitly, (Spelling?) we only get the cattle stench about a third of the year, though.

Fortunately

Thank you.

Np, and the only stench I ever smelt was when I go up north to visit family and I smell some manuer.

The word you're looking for here is "manure".

Posted: May 18 2009 12:16 pm

docinsano wrote:

Dr. Wily wrote:

Eddie_Hyde wrote:

Dr. Wily wrote:

Eddie_Hyde wrote:

Whenever the wind blows a certain way, all the smells of the meat packing plants and cattle farms in east Colorado come up into the rockies and stink everything up, including my town. We also have some sort of mine down the road, and it uses weird, sulfer-y stuff, so that doesn't help with the stink. Fortunitly, (Spelling?) we only get the cattle stench about a third of the year, though.

Fortunately

Thank you.

Np, and the only stench I ever smelt was when I go up north to visit family and I smell some manuer.

The word you're looking for here is "manure".

As well as "smelled". Smelt is a fish.

Posted: May 18 2009 02:41 pm

Well part of my neighborhood (thankfully not terribly close to where I live) is by a chicken farm. Holy god that smells, only thing worse I've ever gotten a whiff of is a) raw sewage and b) pig farm.

We do live close to a couple horse ranches, and they smell. Some people say they stink, but I've been around horses all my life and I personally love the smell. I find it quite comforting actually.

Posted: May 18 2009 05:00 pm

Here's Chilliwack in a nutshell: If the wind comes from the East, it smells like cow shit. If the wind comes from the West, it smells like our shit (huge sewage plant). If it's from the South, it smells like the dog food factory. And if it's from the North it's just fucking cold. So all that stink, not counting all the drunks Natives walking around.

Posted: May 18 2009 05:28 pm

My town is fine. However my fucking neighborhood smells like poop and raisins. This because of a unique combo of farmland and a raw sewage refinery all within a two mile radius from my house.

Posted: May 19 2009 12:12 am

You know, I just realized something...as much as I hate Sullivan, at least I can say that the air here is clean and fresh, which is surprising, considering the odors of all the people here who simply refuse to bathe...