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DowntownSteve28 wrote:
I\'ve actually heard of people who don\'t use deoderant because they think it\'s poison. Something about magnesium or aluminum soaking into your skin and killing you? It takes all kinds, it really does.

There\'s some pretty reasonable evidence for this. Did you do any research before coming to this conclusion? Regardless of the health risks, deodorant is pretty unnatural if you think about it.

But the population of JC that smells the worst is the rapidly growing set of Indians on work visas. Showering regularly is not part of the culture there, and it\'s not like they are given a handbook on local hygiene at the border. Even Indians who have been here a while still don\'t use toilet paper. Really.

When I worked at an office that had a lot of H1Bs, we regularly had to have new employees informed of our culture of showering daily. We\'d always have an Indian who had been here do the dirty work, but I think there isn\'t much of a stigma towards smelling bad in India, so you can tell someone that they smell bad without creating much offense.

I don\'t think they were ever asked to use deodorant, just to shower daily (or even every other day). You can still smell someone who showers daily but doesn\'t use deodorant, but only if they\'re right next to you, and it\'s just unpleasant.

I once walked into a conference room to interview a candidate, and didn\'t make it all the way to the table before turning around, running out, and throwing up in the bathroom. They got the job anyway.

JadedJC wrote:
*SIGH* Since people are on a roll bashing brown-skinned people again, I'd like to point out that the Paris Metro on a hot summer day smells much, much worse than anything the PATH dishes out. Combine the lack of AC in the cars with people who haven't bathed or showered in a day or two and who have doused themselves with cologne, and it's pretty noxious in there. They're also wearing clothes that have cigarette smoke clinging to them along with the sweat and perfume. Get the idea??? It's not just a stereotype - the French really do believe that frequent bathing is "unhealthy" and sneer at our Anglo-Saxon obsession with hygiene. One day at work at work, one of my French co-workers looked a bit different. "Thierry," I asked, "Did you do something different with your hair?" "Non," he replied with a puzzled look, "I just washed it." Whereupon my face turned red and I never asked about anyone's hair again as long as I lived there.

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JadedJC wrote:
*SIGH* Since people are on a roll bashing brown-skinned people again, I'd like to point out that the Paris Metro on a hot summer day smells much, much worse than anything the PATH dishes out. Combine the lack of AC in the cars with people who haven't bathed or showered in a day or two and who have doused themselves with cologne, and it's pretty noxious in there. They're also wearing clothes that have cigarette smoke clinging to them along with the sweat and perfume. Get the idea??? It's not just a stereotype - the French really do believe that frequent bathing is "unhealthy" and sneer at our Anglo-Saxon obsession with hygiene. One day at work at work, one of my French co-workers looked a bit different. "Thierry," I asked, "Did you do something different with your hair?" "Non," he replied with a puzzled look, "I just washed it." Whereupon my face turned red and I never asked about anyone's hair again as long as I lived there.

Not all brown skinned as some are less shady then others. Also do not judge all for the actions of a few.

ianmac47 wrote:
When its 87 degrees outside with 70% humidity and the subway platform is 147 degrees without any ventilation, people on the subway are probably going perspire, and they probably aren't going to smell very nice either, whether they are wearing deodorant or not.

PathPathPath wrote:
Rule #7...Men give up your seat to anyone who is A: most if not all women past the age range of 45, B: Children under the age of six, C: pregnant women regardless if they are going to work or just out for a shopping trip in the city, D: Older gentlemen who seem to struggle with the motion of the train...That' the damn rule idiot;

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August 5th With my son firmly gripping the handle I noticed a clearly pregnant passenger (6-months, i\'m guessing) looking for a seat; none of the healthy/young \"seated\" passengers even looked once. At Pavonia the car added two more pregnant passengers; one that was clearly at 8-months or better...Again no passenger moved. Finally after a group of fellow passengers began to get make some noise one young man stood up just before we reached speed in the tunnel. Awful, really awful...Can\'t stand for three or four stops.

The trip home which started at 5:30 from 9th Street after picking up my five-year old who enjoys sitting up front and looking out the window. Normally this is no issue what-so-ever, but not August 5th; not today. Today standing with legs spread around two bags of workout gear and reading a copy of Runners World with a pair of horn rimmed glasses, plaid long-shorts, button down short sleeved shirt, a smattering of \"tough guy tattoos\" a very androgynous looking fellow with frosted spiked hair wearing \"ladies\" NB running shoes would not allow my 5-year old to grab the handle and look out the window of a nearly empty train car. Four feet of space to his/her left would have allowed for this person to move the needed five inches to let a little boy have a little summer fun! This dude would not even budge for one second...had my 5 year old not been there I would have flipped, but I thought of how that might look to my growing boy; road rage in a train car...not cool. The passengers that saw this were equally upset as I found out after the ride, somehow I should have have just done something; so next time I see this type of behavior I will.

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Do pregnant women going to work deserve special rights on trains? Do they deserve special rights at WORK? Do they deserve more consideration than an 80 year old?

regulator wrote:
and along the same lines, make it a habit to stand whenever youre on the path. it's a 15 min ride FFS... standing during that time won't kill you. this way you wont have to get your panties in a bunch when a prego mommy to be looks at you longingly for your cherished seat.

sam2goody wrote:
With the newly designed cars, why did they remove the center pole? We should've got more standing space and fewer seats and also some more poles to hold on to.

heights wrote:
So no one would crowd the train near the doors, another reason they have the 3 door cars.

sam2goody wrote:

I still do give my seat to a disabled person, except at 33rd street. I feel if someone is disabled and they needed a seat, they could wait for the next train instead of getting into a crowded one.

sam2goody wrote:
With the newly designed cars, why did they remove the center pole?

kitten wrote:
This totally cute young man, maybe 19 or 20 got up from his seat and asked me to sit down... like a gentleman. He did not want to have sex me...

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kitten wrote:
This totally cute young man, maybe 19 or 20 got up from his seat and asked me to sit down... like a gentleman. He did not want to have sex me...

!!

What makes you think that??