Straight through your nose to your neocortex, no waiting! - Page 2

jinx · 01-04-2007, 07:21 PM

Nose-stalgia.

Sundae · 01-04-2007, 01:54 PM

Next time I see niece I'll ask - although she's 12 and keen to please, so I might not get her true feelings.

I'm basing it on the things Mum does, compared to Nan. They are closer in type to the things I do and my niece does than anything Nan used to do. Mum I think it's attitude - Mum is open to new things. Food, places, technology, people etc. She embraces life.

Nan just used to stay at home and clean from what I remember. She would tell you all about what a hard life she'd had, but even as a child it didn't sound that hard to me - Mum worked harder and for longer, had more children and less family support.

Meh - maybe that's one of my fears, that I have Nan's genes and will eat myself up inside with bitterness if I start with the self-pity.

Oh, and it might not be bad, but goodness me - it can smell afterwards... You just get browned meat, we get squelchy farts that smell like wet dog.... TMI?

SteveDallas · 01-04-2007, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

TMI?

It's starting to look like there's no such thing around here! :p

student poop · 01-08-2007, 01:54 PM

wtf

Sundae · 01-08-2007, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by student poop

wtf

stfu

Flint · 01-08-2007, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by student poop

wtf

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

stfu

lol

lumberjim · 01-04-2007, 02:59 PM

no,no.....that's definitely right on the edge.

nice thread drift. Grammy would be horrified. and i started it. oh, the shame

Sundae · 01-04-2007, 03:02 PM

Meh, I just caught your drift is all.
Anyway, what would Grammy expect from a thread that started, "Oh my god, Oh my god , OhmygodOhmygod."

Clodfobble · 01-04-2007, 04:20 PM

My husband once decided to try a different deoderant--same brand, just a different smell in their line. But it happened to be the same deoderant an ex used to wear, and the minute he walked out of the bathroom it freaked me out. I made him throw out the entire used-only-once stick.

Beestie · 01-04-2007, 06:11 PM

I think you mean straight to the hippocampus - part of the limbic system - the ancient and most primitive part of our brain - where our inner caveman lives.

That must have been freaky. Same thing happens to me with certain scents. It hits you at a very deep level.

lumberjim · 01-04-2007, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Beestie

I think you mean straight to the hippocampus - part of the limbic system - the ancient and most primitive part of our brain - where our inner caveman lives.

That must have been freaky. Same thing happens to me with certain scents. It hits you at a very deep level.

thank yoooooo, mr smartiepants. of course i meant hippopotomus. what else would it be? googlejerk.

kerosene · 01-04-2007, 08:03 PM

There are some colognes that still take me back to moments from High school. I use to wear Clinique Aromatics Elixer and whenever I catch a whiff of that, it pulls all sorts of weird feelings in. I can't really access the memories, consciously, but I feel the way I did when they occurred.

monster · 01-04-2007, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by lumberjim

Smelled like what she smelt like when she was alive, that is, before all you wiseacres get going.

my office still smells like Grammy. wow.

Wee?

My MIL has just stopped smelling of her perfume and started to smell like wee unsuccesfully disguised by perfume (it doesn't help that she's changed her pefume from something bearable if not "me" to something cloyingly reminiscent of toilet air freshener spray on special at Kwik Save).

I wonder which of my darling children will comment first? Or perhaps they'll not notice and in 30 years time, they'll walk past a urinal and get all nostalgic?

Spexxvet · 01-05-2007, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by monster

Wee?

My MIL has just stopped smelling of her perfume and started to smell like wee unsuccesfully disguised by perfume ...

That's what I was expecting from LJ. "It smelled like Grammy - used diapers and drool!". Thank goodness it was the cologne.

Cut grass in August always reminds me of high school football camp.

SteveDallas · 01-04-2007, 09:23 PM

Or perhaps they'll just go post about it on some message board.

01-04-2007, 07:21 PM	#1
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Nose-stalgia. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

01-04-2007, 01:54 PM	#2
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Next time I see niece I'll ask - although she's 12 and keen to please, so I might not get her true feelings. I'm basing it on the things Mum does, compared to Nan. They are closer in type to the things I do and my niece does than anything Nan used to do. Mum I think it's attitude - Mum is open to new things. Food, places, technology, people etc. She embraces life. Nan just used to stay at home and clean from what I remember. She would tell you all about what a hard life she'd had, but even as a child it didn't sound that hard to me - Mum worked harder and for longer, had more children and less family support. Meh - maybe that's one of my fears, that I have Nan's genes and will eat myself up inside with bitterness if I start with the self-pity. Oh, and it might not be bad, but goodness me - it can smell afterwards... You just get browned meat, we get squelchy farts that smell like wet dog.... TMI? __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

01-04-2007, 02:59 PM	#7
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	no,no.....that's definitely right on the edge. nice thread drift. Grammy would be horrified. and i started it. oh, the shame __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

01-04-2007, 03:02 PM	#8
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Meh, I just caught your drift is all. Anyway, what would Grammy expect from a thread that started, "Oh my god, Oh my god , OhmygodOhmygod." __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

01-04-2007, 06:11 PM	#10
Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	I think you mean straight to the hippocampus - part of the limbic system - the ancient and most primitive part of our brain - where our inner caveman lives. That must have been freaky. Same thing happens to me with certain scents. It hits you at a very deep level. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

01-08-2007, 01:54 PM	#4
student poop I gotta wand all right. biggest one you've ever seen Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 6	wtf

01-04-2007, 04:20 PM	#9
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	My husband once decided to try a different deoderant--same brand, just a different smell in their line. But it happened to be the same deoderant an ex used to wear, and the minute he walked out of the bathroom it freaked me out. I made him throw out the entire used-only-once stick.

01-04-2007, 08:03 PM	#12
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	There are some colognes that still take me back to moments from High school. I use to wear Clinique Aromatics Elixer and whenever I catch a whiff of that, it pulls all sorts of weird feelings in. I can't really access the memories, consciously, but I feel the way I did when they occurred.

01-04-2007, 09:23 PM	#15
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Or perhaps they'll just go post about it on some message board.

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