Comments on: Blogger defends bad smells

By: scratching up

scratching up — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:06:11 +0000

scratching up…

Stop Dog Aggression…

By: Howard Margolin

Howard Margolin — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:23:48 +0000

To add a further clarification to this whole thing, the incident that Glenn described (which actually only involved one actress, and her manager, but one is a number), occurred only about 7 hours into the first night of the convention, on a cool evening, in a well-ventilated, spacious Student Union building. So any stench generated by the LARPers had nothing to do with the external temperature, the enclosed space, or the length of the convention.

By: Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:29:24 +0000

What’s particularly nasty is when a fan who hasn’t showere is wearing leather in summer san diego heat… the leather soaks it all up and results in a very pungent…musk…or funk – take your pick.

By: Elayne Riggs

Elayne Riggs — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:27:57 +0000

At UK cons the pungent ones were called “Anaraks.” Don’t know if they still are.

I didn’t find as much of a hygiene problem at I-Con as Glenn did, but then we may have travelled in different circles.

By: Matthew High

Matthew High — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:33:22 +0000

There’s a word for stinky con funk — “FENCH” — which is a combination of fan (or the geeky-centric plural “fen”) and stench.

And it ain’t just comic book conventions or stinky larpers who malodorously reek, but just about every fannish convention has its share of smelly folk. I recall one anime convention that has actively promoted a sort-of “Got Soap?” campaign.

Yeah, everybody sweats and gets stinky after a while — especially the cosplayers in 100-degree Texas heat — but most conventioneers are savvy enough to shower at least once a day. They’re not the problem — nope, it’s the stinkers you see walking around on Sunday with the same ratty nerdy-themed t-shirt they were wearing earlier on Friday, scratching their greasy hair because they haven’t touched bathwater all weekend.

We’ve found one good temporarily solution to the fench problem – Vick’s Vaporub. Just dab a little bit below the nostrils for temporarily relief — it completely deadens the sense of smell for a short period of time. Gives you enough time to wade through the huge pile of stinky fans until you can reach open air.