Expel Of Body Gasses?

[Davypops]

Is there a reason why one's own body gas releases do not smell obnoxious to yourself? Is it a similar reason to why you cannot tickle yourself?

[Hypognosis]

The brain is more interested in changes in sensory stimuli than signals that have been at a steady level for a long time. If you live near a busy dual carriageway/motorway for long enough you will grow accusomed to tyre roar and engine noise and, next time you take a break at a quiet hotel in the countryside you will find that you can't get to sleep because the noise isn't there any more.

Likewise, people with body odour problems usually don't realise it and everyone else is too polite to say anything, for fear of causing offence.

[murraymints]

Oooo Davy ..what's that ponk ? Lol

[LyndaB]

I think that Johnny Vegas once said that trumps are like children - you hate other peoples but you relish your own!!

[EDDIE51]

I can smell mine they stink!

[Davypops]

See what you mean Hypognosis..but it doesn't explain why one's own smell is OK'ish but anothers is horrible. (The noise from any motorway is the same - but not the smell of different people).

[Sqad]

"Biological Adaptation"

From a very early age an organism smells and adapts itself to it's own smells.

A pig is not put off by the smell of it's environment because it has adapted to the smell since it was a piglet.

Some organism flourish in the smell of hydrogen sulphide.......the smell of rotting cabbage......all normal to the host but alien and offensive to the "outsider."

P.S I have made it all up......;-)

[Old_Geezer]

It does smell obnoxious to oneself. You personally may just have developed the mental ability to tolerate it since you know your body caused it.

[Baldric]

Just don't do it in Asda!

[piggynose]

well mine stinks, and i know it, thats why i leg it when it happens

[Mamyalynne]

If folk don't smell their own , then why do they say " I wouldn't go in there for half an hour"?

[cupid04]

Those who smelt it dealt it!

[McMouse]

I recently farted and vacated the room in a hurry.

[grasscarp]

LOL Baldric

[baza]

a fpx smells his own hole first as they say.

[ClaryS]

I went vegetarian for a couple of weeks and my farts nearly made me faint :-/

[baza]

^^^ fox.
never bend down after eating sprouts.

[sandyRoe]

Was it the late Princess Margaret who famously broke wind in a restaurant and turned to a waiter with a glare and asked: 'Will you stop that?'
'Certainly, Ma'am,' he replied. 'Which way did it go?'

[pixie373]

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I'm a laydee :-)

[boxtops]

Davy (nice username, btw :-)

What do you mean, you can't smell your own emissions? How odd.

[Hypognosis]

No Q.I. fans among you then?

B.O. (Body Odour) was apparently the invention of an American advertising company who were marketing anti-perspirant products. So it's a myth.

No Viz fans here either?