Teenage Lads

[corylus]

Just been reading an article about pre-pubescent lads spraying L??X deodorants all over themselves. (NB Other deodorants are available) we suffered this with No. One Son, the fumes from this stuff used to roll down the stairs like nerve gas resulting in the cats and dog suffering paroxysmal coughing. Having him in the car necessitated having all the windows open so that we too could breathe. Has anybody else experienced this?

How on earth the teachers coped with the fumes from a classroom full of this from a load of lads I don't know.

In my teenage schooldays most teachers used to stride into the room and immediately order all windows to be opened, it may have been BO or the smell of the hair lacquer (look it up) that we were all plastered with.

I'm a bit keen on keeping windows open myself now......

[Cloverjo]

When mine was a teenager I had trouble trying to get him to use deo at all.

[wolf63]

My parents used to say that the bathroom smelled of a wh0re house when he was getting ready to go out at the weekend. Breathing was difficult as was fighting through the fog of whatever he was spraying.

[corylus]

I know what you mean!

[craft1948]

I remember my first night as a trainee youth club leader. At 7pm when the doors were opened there was a rush to get in by a crowd of 14-17 year olds, the smell of adolescent BO was overpowering...

[Sparkles62]

A few years ago, Baby S, now 23, used to nearly knock me out with the Lynx fumes, this went on for ages until I spotted him putting it on one morning,
about half a can sprayed all over the top of his clothes,
I told him that he should be sprayed on him, not on his clothes,
and it should be just enough to make the girls step closer to you because you smell nice,
not so much that you knock them unconcious every time you step in the room. Lol

[Fanriffic]

All Lynx sprays are honking. The teens only buy it because of the slick marketing & advertising campaigns. They would stop wearing it if all the girls started telling them that it's smells absolutely awful.

The worst smelling one is Africa - really, really honking. It's so bad that if I smell it on someone, I tell them that I can't stand to close incase it triggers my asthma. Get this poison off the shelves. Stop buying it guys - it's rank.

[Mosaic]

The Stynx craze reminds me very much of the Brut craze in the 1970s. Crombie-clad youths with Ben Sherman shirts and a gallon of Brut applied to mask their manly muskiness, or indifferent hygiene.

The girls would anoint Avon solid perfume onto their wrists in an attempt at sophistication.

But both these smells were preferable to a class full of sweaty unwashed kids, especially if one was a bedwetter with no washing machine at home.

[tonyav]

Brut craze in the 1970s. Crombie-clad youths with Ben Sherman shirts and a gallon of Brut applied to mask their manly muskiness, or indifferent hygiene.


Oi.

[SlackAlice]

tonyav ^^^^

Do you mind. I had a bath at least once a week ☺☺☺

[Obiter]

When I was 15 I once applied aftershave to a delicate part of my anatomy. Never again!

[tonyav]

Did you take your Crombie off though SA ;-)

[tonyav]

B l o o d y stings doesn't it, Obiter.

[SlackAlice]

The only time the Crombie wasn't worn was when I was on my Lambretta GT. It didn't go with my American Parka with the Fox fur edging.

[tonyav]

Same here SL, SX 200 though and then a GP 150.

[Mosaic]

You could have worn your harrington jacket in the warmer weather on a scooter.

[corylus]

Fanriffic, please explain what 'Africa' the body spray smells like if you can. Animals, dung, corpses or whatever.

[tonyav]

Mosaic
You could have worn your harrington jacket in the warmer weather on a scooter.


Correct, Mosaic. Or just a Ben Sherman shirt if particularly warm weather.

[Mosaic]

What would preserve your modesty though?

[tonyav]

My Levi sta pressed, Mosaic ;-)

[Daffy6543]

My teenage (17) son has to be ordered to put deodorant and body spray on. It is one of the 'symptoms' of his Asperger's Syndrome that he has no awareness of his own hygiene and how offensive stale body odour is to those around him. He also has to be told to shower and clean his teeth.