• Stuarticus (unregistered) in reply to SoonerMatt

    It always amuses me that people with dreadful diets seem to find it shocking that people who eat garlic and onions smell terrible, you probably smell pretty odd to them as well, in an anaemic and unhealthy way.

  • magi (unregistered)

    What a nasty bunch of workplace bullies you lot are. If I came across any of you treating another human being in the way that you are abusing this man, I would kick the shit out of you. Wankers.

  • (cs) in reply to The Tingler
    The Tingler:
    Electrical current flow through the body is essentially limited by skin resistance. In a very simplified sense the human body can be considered a bag of salt water. Salt water is relatively conductive giving a resistance of only about 500 ohms between appendages. The major resistance of the body comes from the "bag", the outer layer of skin. The skin resistance can change considerably depending on environmental conditions. Clean dry skin can have a resistance of several hundred thousands of ohms. With wet dirty hands the skin resistance can drop almost to zero.

    [...]

    9 volts at 500 ohms the current is 18 mA which should be enough to cause muscle contraction, though I've never felt a voltage less than 48 volts.

    You have to consider a few other factors. First, on a 9 volt battery there's only a short path between the electrodes so the chance of something critical being in between is small anyway (if the skin resistivity is low, the majority of the current stays in the skin). Secondly, all batteries have internal resistance, and that's actually quite high for the PP3 type (which is why it is only suitable for low-current applications). About the only way to have a problem with a 9V battery involves also opening up the chest cavity and applying wires directly to the heart, but at that point you normally have other problems…

  • Rhialto (unregistered) in reply to AlpineR
    AlpineR:
    [The second paragraph in that Wikipedia article explains that the popular use of "begs the question" is to invite an obvious question. The citation given for why this is wrong is 25 years old.
    And of course, anything that is 25 years old must inevitably be wrong.
  • jussist (unregistered)

    Years back I helped in moving a government office, which was scattered to few locations. Unplugging computers for movers, and plugging them back on the other end.

    At one location there was horrific stench. It was not just in the one room, but in the corridor 10 metres to both directions. I had problems breathing, and in the end I just couldn't work even on that corridor.

    In The Room there was working a lady with a bit bad personal hygiene. She smelled like she hadn't taken a shower for few years. Seriously. I just cannot understand how they didn't or couldn't fire her.

  • (cs) in reply to The Tingler
    The Tingler:
    9 volts at 500 ohms the current is 18 mA which should be enough to cause muscle contraction, though I've never felt a voltage less than 48 volts.

    Touch a 9V battery to your tongue and tell me you don't feel it. :-)

  • Hayam Dakh (unregistered)

    FIRST!!!

  • Contractor.. (unregistered) in reply to An Onymous
    An Onymous:
    the nearby receptionist looked like ham
    That was pretty funny. Almost forgot about it when I read the rest of the narrative.

    Yep I agree!! Comdey genius! Really enjoyed reading this one! Although my seafood pizza nearly didn't make it!

  • Shocking (unregistered) in reply to Zemm
    Zemm:
    The Tingler:
    9 volts at 500 ohms the current is 18 mA which should be enough to cause muscle contraction, though I've never felt a voltage less than 48 volts.

    Touch a 9V battery to your tongue and tell me you don't feel it. :-)

    Ok. This is a fairly common way of testing to see if a 9v still has a charge. For me, at least, a charged battery tastes very sour, a dead one tastes of metal. It's a completely different sensation then say, opening the wrong breaker before doing electrical work and getting zapped. As such, I would not described it as feeling a shock.

    YMMV, but it's always amusing listening to people, especially people who have never been shocked, talk about how electricity could kill you. Makes you wonder why they had to use an electric chair for executions instead of a 9v battery.

  • (cs)

    Why is there a picture of logs to accommodate this story??

  • (cs) in reply to Rhialto
    Rhialto:
    AlpineR:
    [The second paragraph in that Wikipedia article explains that the popular use of "begs the question" is to invite an obvious question. The citation given for why this is wrong is 25 years old.
    And of course, anything that is 25 years old must inevitably be wrong.
    I'm 25 years old, you insensitive clod!
  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered)

    LOL, TEH GUY@S OFFICE CAN@T BE THAT BAD

    PLZ POST TEH PICS

  • OrginalIrishGirlFan (unregistered) in reply to rast
    rast:
    Awwwww hell yeah.

    [image]

    Off with her head! old Irish girl was better!!!

    I'm "OrginalIrishGirlFan" and I approve this message. This message brought to you by the committee to bring back the original Irish girl.

  • KKKoder (unregistered) in reply to Technical Thug
    Technical Thug:
    OhDear:
    I won't hire people who are fat just in case they smell.
    I'm the same way with Jews.

    The Jews always bring their nasty stink of cabbage and fresh money into my clean, white office, I stopped hiring them years ago. The fat people don't stink all the time but they're genetically inferior so they're out anyway. The niggers I will never hire because they're so lazy get grease from the fried chicken all over the door handles after they smoke crack in the bathrooms.

  • Adrian( Dante!) (unregistered)

    Wish my name was Dante!

  • (cs) in reply to John Muller
    John Muller:
    JamesQMurphy:
    Any conversation that begins with referring to a computer as a "she" ("She starts up maybe 25% of the time") never ends well.

    You should never anthropomorphize computers, they don't like it.

    How is John Muller's comment not featured?

  • Andi (unregistered)

    If I worked with him my exact words would be "listen mate, you're a repugnant stinky fuck and make me sick". We don't mess around over here.

  • laZee (unregistered) in reply to Leo
    Leo:
    Sounds like a bad time, and Dante wasn't even supposed to be there today.
    YMMD :D!
  • Wells (unregistered) in reply to SoonerMatt

    We had the same problem for a while with a guy who would douse himself daily in patchouli oil. The stuff was so bad that you could smell his path through the hallways half an hour after he had passed.

    He eventually got a talking to, and afterwards (and to this day, I think) the problem has not presented itself.

  • Gnubeutel (unregistered)

    "otomotopeia." WTF? It's spelled Onomatopoeia! Even Earl knows that.

  • K|O|G|I (unregistered)

    onomatopoeia

  • LookAtTheNastyRacist (unregistered) in reply to KKKoder
    KKKoder:
    Technical Thug:
    OhDear:
    I won't hire people who are fat just in case they smell.
    I'm the same way with Jews.

    The Jews always bring their nasty stink of cabbage and fresh money into my clean, white office, I stopped hiring them years ago. The fat people don't stink all the time but they're genetically inferior so they're out anyway. The niggers I will never hire because they're so lazy get grease from the fried chicken all over the door handles after they smoke crack in the bathrooms.

    How did this make it through?!

  • Joao (unregistered) in reply to Earl
    Earl:
    You guys may think I'm gross but how many of you have got your own office? My little "problem" has scored me my own office in a quiet corner of the building. And when I get home I just wash up before the wife gets back from her modelling job.

    Your wife works modelling databases?

  • Duke of New York (unregistered) in reply to jussist
    jussist:
    Years back I helped in moving a government office, which was scattered to few locations. Unplugging computers for movers, and plugging them back on the other end.

    At one location there was horrific stench. It was not just in the one room, but in the corridor 10 metres to both directions. I had problems breathing, and in the end I just couldn't work even on that corridor.

    In The Room there was working a lady with a bit bad personal hygiene. She smelled like she hadn't taken a shower for few years. Seriously. I just cannot understand how they didn't or couldn't fire her.

    I think I see the reason

  • haha (unregistered) in reply to Leo

    haha I hope I'm not the only one who got that.

  • Kevin (unregistered) in reply to Leo

    nice bro

  • Kevin (unregistered) in reply to My Name Is...?

    yeah put it right next to "your momma's so fat,"

  • Kevin (unregistered) in reply to haha
    haha:
    haha I hope I'm not the only one who got that.

    a million people got that, that's why the fg posted it

  • Dan (unregistered) in reply to retreved
  • fenway (unregistered) in reply to Leo

    Clerks reference... nice!

  • fenway (unregistered) in reply to Leo
    Leo:
    Sounds like a bad time, and Dante wasn't even supposed to be there today.

    Clerks reference... nice.!

  • Emtucifor (unregistered) in reply to Leo

    It's spelled onomatopoeia...

  • Emtucifor (unregistered) in reply to Emtucifor

    Oops, someone already posted that. I did search in the page, but missed there were 3 pages of comments. Sigh.

  • Molly (unregistered)

    ugh, this reaks of bad fanfic

  • Mike Woodfill (unregistered) in reply to Leo

    Nicely done, Kevin Smoth would be proud

    Captcha: vindico When Vindication meets disco

  • Geoff (unregistered) in reply to Sam B

    What if it's your own boss, and the boss is the President? I don't think he stinks because of how often he bathes (I hope, but it wouldn't surprise me at all either). I'm pretty sure it's what he eats (he's from Senegal). While I don't know what that is, every time he decides to hover over my shoulder I have to move my chair at least 3 feet to the right of him and lean to the right as much as possible to be even just slightly less surrounded by his revolting stench. I swear, my boss would make a flaming pile of corpses smell like daisies.

  • paul (unregistered) in reply to m0ffx

    Go swimming at the public pool. There's enough chlorine in the water there to kill almost any germ. Might get enough exercise to drop some weight. Or if really too fat for a bath, get a hot tub.

    There's no excuse.

    I had a huge teacher in 6th grade... big flaps on the back of knees and elbows... she sat down and pulled her desk to her. /Never/ smelled her. This was in a school in Mobile, AL, without A/C. (yeah, a few years ago) At the store I now work, there are several "too fat to walk" customers. So they ride the electric scooters around (and complain quite loudly if there is no scooter available). Smell? A few make me want to puke. I won't go near them, Customer Service be damned. The rest are ok, perhaps a bit smelly but no worse than the rest of us after a day of working.

    Take a bath. There's no excuse to not bathe.

  • SumOne (unregistered)

    You spelt otomotopeia wrong...lol

  • Submitter (unregistered) in reply to SomeCoder

    I'm the original submitter of the story.

    There was definitely a bit of embellishment in the disgust department but sadly not much. TDWTF changed some names and added their own flourish (though I like my original better ... they never asked permission to modify it).

    I can say "Earl" was very real and his "solution" was just as real. He was in the electronic tech support department of an industrial electronic control system (among other things0 manufacturer.

    I feel a LITTLE guilty because apparently he drank himself to death but it's still too good a story NOT to tell.

    (yes, again, the basics of the story were very real and I was the young IT guy to whom this happened)

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