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Friday, June 01, 2012

Another Useless Survey/Experiment?

Or is it...

I know Mum never ever had a bad smell about her. Of course she washed and kept herself clean, used all the usual things like deodorant and perfume but never needed a lot of such things.

Now, I on the other hand perhaps because of my health problems and the very strong drugs that I take, they sometimes caused such a problem for me,| I also realised if I ate garlic, it actually caused a smell that comes through the pores of the skin. So those odourless garlic capsules are handy.

Could a serious medical condition be spotted by using smell, if it could, perhaps such an idea isn't such a daft idea. I remember reading stories in the past where it's been suggested that dogs can sometimes detect when someone has cancer.

And yet this particular experiment just seems to be concerned with deciding how old someone is by smell but  unless you don't see who is taking part, you know the age of someone by the way they look.

But if there is some truth in what they've found out, I guess in general the older we get we smell ok. The reason younger people may smell could be the obvious reasons(especially if it's a young man...)perhaps he's been to the gym, playing football or jogging etc...or if he's young and full of hormones it's a natural smell. Perhaps he needs to take more care of personal hygiene...and as the hormones drop and they get older and maybe don't do all those things young people do it settles down...

It still seems a bit pointless though...

Human's Can Smell Another's Age...

4 Comments:

Anonymous VQ said...

Well...........for as long as I can remember, just before I am ill, I have been able to detect a particular smell. Not a particularly bad smell but a definite smell.
For many years I just assumed that everyone experienced this - until I mentioned it to someone who didn't have a clue what I was talking about.
So I wouldn't be at all surprised if animals can detect such a smell too.

1 June 2012 at 14:01  
Blogger The Great Gildersleeve said...

Initially, the story seems a bit frivolous but that again could be the way the article has been written. what you say makes sense to me...

1 June 2012 at 14:12  
Blogger crl2amb said...

Best thing I heard on one of my LBC podcasts, James Whale show. They are going to have an enquiry about the security on the Leveson enquiry!! Ha ha, you couldn't make it up.

Cx

1 June 2012 at 19:25  
Blogger The Great Gildersleeve said...

Bit late now Carol...Its not likely to happen again and the one person who was targeted has appeared.

As for James Whale, he started on local commercial radio up here and off and on I have heard him unless he was in area which was not available to me but amazingly in two years time that will be 40 years! Where on earth does the time go?

1 June 2012 at 20:03  

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