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The worst smell I ever encountered was actually burnt up truck transmissions that we picked up from a company that serviced and repaired them. It was unreal, you get within 10 feet of the pallet and you get an immediate piercing headache from the odor.
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Burning clutch smells like my wallet getting lighter.
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Any y'all ever been downwind of a chicken farm? drat We have some older pig farms in my area, been here over a century. In the past 25-years there's been real-estate pressure to try & shut them down. I feel only slightly badly for folks that buy in that area in the late winter, because hoo boy is the summer ever going to bring buyer's remorse. I drive through the area on hot days and wonder how it is even possible to prepare a meal, lete alone eat one. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Apr 16, 2020 |
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Apr 16, 2020 02:11
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There's a school in Washington that's across the street from a mushroom farm. You can smell that poo poo a mile away 
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wesleywillis posted:I was going to post this in the Cursed images thread, but then I was kinda like "gently caress geese I hate them fuckers". In other words, I don't find this to be cursed.
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PainterofCrap posted:Any y'all ever been upwind of a chicken farm? drat When I used to go visit friends in Virginia Beach for New Years, coming to and from NJ we always drove down the peninsula on Rt 13 instead of taking I95 through Richmond. There's a Tyson factory in Temperanceville that we would pass by and the first time we did we were shocked by that ungodly stench. It was bad enough for me to consider vegetarianism. And that was in the winter. I can only imagine getting worse during the summer. On subsequent trips, we would make sure the windows were rolled up and the climate control set to recirculate because Jesus Christ.
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when i was a quick lube stooge, there werent a lot of car-based fluids id give a poo poo about getting on me except for whatever the hell oil goes in and out of a trucks rear differential. literally smells like rancid hot garbage and requires the removal of a couple skin layers to get off.
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Muscle Wizard posted:smells like rancid hot garbage and requires the removal of a couple skin layers to get off. Hell, same.
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Yeah used diff oil smells like rancid bacon and eggs combined with a healthy serving of hot death.
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Memento posted:Yeah used diff oil smells like rancid bacon and eggs combined with a healthy serving of hot death. Still not as bad as draining a supercharger.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:The amount of time it took for the stuff to start raining down after the explosion is absurd. Napkin math I have neglecting any air resistance is like over 2000 ft high?
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depending on the time of year and the wind, within 5 miles of my current location i get to smell: paper mills cabbage fields livestock foundry (basically the same as burning clutch, and it gets me every time since i drive stick) lake winnebago (look up the etymology) the paper mill smell is an effect of the kraft process. sodium sulfide just sounds like something that smells bad, and guess what, it does.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I used to work at a deli and there was this guy who came in to clean the grease traps every few months. It stunk like hot wet death, I asked him if the smell bothered him and he said: Yeah the grease trap smell is the second-worst thing I've ever smelled in a kitchen, next to the time chef bought like 50lbs of pork and forgot about it in the fridge for a few weeks and I had to dispose of it.
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Piss Meridian posted:a CD in an american paper mill just exploded, no major injuries (somehow) Now it's gonna be even harder to get toilet paper
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Muscle Wizard posted:when i was a quick lube stooge, there werent a lot of car-based fluids id give a poo poo about getting on me except for whatever the hell oil goes in and out of a trucks rear differential. literally smells like rancid hot garbage and requires the removal of a couple skin layers to get off. You wanna know what's even worse than diff oil? Burnt diff oil. That's a smell that permeates every fiber of your being.
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I think the worst thing I have ever smelled was a mystery drum that had a bunch of water, glycol waste, and some random trash in it from a plastic cleaning process. I had to profile it which meant cracking open a drum that had been sitting in the sun for years and marinating all kinds of organic compounds in a nice hot environment. It was impressive.
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Number_6 posted:Now it's gonna be even harder to get toilet paper I might actually be able to find out which pulp grades it makes
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Dr.Smasher posted:You wanna know what's even worse than diff oil? Like if a baby robot poo poo its baby robot diapers after going on Hot Ones and doing anything but the Last Dab.
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Dr.Smasher posted:You wanna know what's even worse than diff oil? "Ahhh the smell of dead dinosaurs"
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Dr.Smasher posted:You wanna know what's even worse than diff oil? it dont leave either lol
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Muscle Wizard posted:it dont leave either lol I have a pair of coveralls I got diff oil on the left leg of seven loving years ago and it still smells to this day.
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Grease trap.
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Thioacetone sounds pretty bad. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2009/06/11/things_i_wont_work_with_thioacetone Things I won't work with is a fun read.
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Dannywilson posted:I have a pair of coveralls I got diff oil on the left leg of seven loving years ago and it still smells to this day. There's a really neat trick you can use to clean something like that. You get a little bit of methylated spirits, conservatively wet the area, generously soak the rest of the garment, then burn it in the street.
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Potential BFF posted:I think the worst thing I have ever smelled was a mystery drum that had a bunch of water, glycol waste, and some random trash in it from a plastic cleaning process. I had to profile it which meant cracking open a drum that had been sitting in the sun for years and marinating all kinds of organic compounds in a nice hot environment. It was impressive. did it achieve abiogenesis
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I'm still saying the most gross thing I've ever smelled is that offal truck that overturned on the road to my high school. In hot humid Austin. It was so bad it seemed like it penetrated the asphalt. They hosed it down with all sorts of chemicals but the rest of the week, you could still smell it as the day got warmer.
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there was this extremely weird smell coming from a feed mill i got near while doing commercial landscaping. i could tell it was somehow the product of the grain, and it was intolerably strong, like i couldn't stand to smell it and felt instinctual compulsion to leave the area. i didn't sense it to be dangerous, just extremely overpowering. after the first 2 passes on the mower i just resigned to holding my breath and flying past at full throttle. i'm sure there's some farmfucklers who can solve my mystery. is that normal or was i smelling something rotten?
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Dannywilson posted:I have a pair of coveralls I got diff oil on the left leg of seven loving years ago and it still smells to this day. better than getting it on your actual leg. then you gotta find a new leg.
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I was driving through a small rural town and I thought "wow this place really stinks like a loving cattle truck". Nope it was the evaporator in my HVAC cracking and dumping all its refrigerant gas into the cabin.
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VectorSigma posted:there was this extremely weird smell coming from a feed mill i got near while doing commercial landscaping. i could tell it was somehow the product of the grain, and it was intolerably strong, like i couldn't stand to smell it and felt instinctual compulsion to leave the area. i didn't sense it to be dangerous, just extremely overpowering. after the first 2 passes on the mower i just resigned to holding my breath and flying past at full throttle. Impossible to tell based on description, but preserved fodder can stink really powerfully. The gases can also cause suffocation in a poorly ventilated space, eg. a silo. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIV_fodder
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Humphreys posted:I was driving through a small rural town and I thought "wow this place really stinks like a loving cattle truck". Nope it was the evaporator in my HVAC cracking and dumping all its refrigerant gas into the cabin. Ain't that poo poo poison?
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Wasabi the J posted:Ain't that poo poo poison? Industrial systems use ammonia which is highly toxic, but as a result they have lots of controls and monitoring. Consumer grade refrigeration systems use hydrocarbons that give inferior performance but aren't dangerous unless they manage to actually asphyxiate you.
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Wasabi the J posted:Ain't that poo poo poison? I know 1234yf is flammable and expensive as gently caress. Thanks FCA! Glad your refrigerant got you the EPA credit that lets you have lovely fuel economy!
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sullat posted:
Jesus Christ, I’m going to hell for laughing so hard.
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The Lone Badger posted:Industrial systems use ammonia which is highly toxic, but as a result they have lots of controls and monitoring. Consumer grade refrigeration systems use hydrocarbons that give inferior performance but aren't dangerous unless they manage to actually asphyxiate you. Correct. They can be nasty though and some are flammable. Also for bonus fun, I'm fiddling with an Ammonia heater in a 3way refrigeration unit tomorrow after work.
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Muscle Wizard posted:better than getting it on your actual leg. then you gotta find a new leg. I got it in my hair once. I literally cut off my own hair because of that smell.
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https://i.imgur.com/36lyR3g.mp4
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haveblue posted:Also I'd probably wear gloves That would make things so much worse if you got your hand caught near the blade.
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Wasabi the J posted:Napkin math I have neglecting any air resistance is like over 2000 ft high? Thanks. I have no idea how to do that calculation I just knew it had to be hella high to be airborne for that long. Also why did there not seem to be a shockwave? Was the explosion just directed upward enough not to be felt there in the forums?
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A collection of classic OSHA https://imgur.com/gallery/MSqjT4B My favorite for shear pucker factor 
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