My Theory
Perhaps it's the EU shitting on Microsoft again...
Malodorous Europe gasses UK
The Met Office has firmly pinned the blame for the foul stench hanging over the south of England - dubbed "Euro-whiff" - on our continental cousins, the BBC reports. Blighty is usually favoured by fragrant westerly breezes from the Atlantic, but an offending smell has over the past few days been carried by easterly winds …
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are you sure...
... it wasn't that pub's bathrooms backing up??
It's just...
...the smell of all the Southerners. I believe the French have been complaining about it for years.
A likely tale
Living near Brussels, as I do for the moment, I can report there's no smell here. On the other hand I feel I should rise to the level of the article and say that "he who smelt it dealt it". Let the games begin :-)
Just goes to show.......
..... no matter how hard they try to cover up and brush it under the carpet, you can smell the stench of NuLabour's activities everywhere.
Stop the BT/Virgin/TalkTalk/Phorm alliance!
It's not fair...
... it's not fair the blame ALL of the European land mass. Some clues as to the likely culprits:
1. Who's closest? France
2. Whose inhabitants are better known as garlic munching, cheese eating surrender monkeys? France
3. Just because
Mines the one with the clothes peg and the pair of air freshener sprays in the pocket.
It smells here...
I live in Berkshire and I could smell silage this morning. But then I do live on a farm.
Wind
Now you know why the French built all their nukes on the north coast. The prevailing winds are generally south-westerlies, but an easterly will have the same effect...
so that's what it was
i spent the whole journey to work this morning checking my shoes
Ahhhh.....
so it wasn't just me then? When I stepped out of the house in my sleepy Chilterns village this morning I assumed there were some farmers muck spreading nearby (hardly unusual in my neck of the woods), what baffled me was that I could still smell it when I emerged from Charing X tube station into Trafalgar square. Weird.
I can smell it now..
in Central London. Mind you I'm north of Oxford Street so it could be French tourists.
Re: It smells here...
I'm in Bracknell and it smells here in the office. I thought it was just the olfactory drift from the logjam in cubicle two down the corridor. A porcelain device full to the brim. And I don’t think it’s Brown Windsor soup.
The relief was indescribable
after having been backed up for 3 long months. You can't begin to imagine what it felt like.
// the brown (very) one
A solution?
Well, somebody could light a match. That usually gets rid of stuff in the bathroom. Be aware that at times (with proper mixture) those gases can be explosive.
One match not enough? Try two.
If you want REALLY bad smells, try the feedlot part way down I-5 in California's central valley. No amount of matches will solve that one.
Just a coincidence?
Lots of asthma attacks down here? Fluke?
Ohhhhh
I live in Whitley, and I thought it was the Whitley-Whiff back again. Surprising, given they concreted over the sewer works a year ago.
Glad I'm not going mad - thought I smelled something :(
It's Al Queda
Islamic warmongers trying to sabottage Ol'Blighty glorious morale. That, or someone REALY doesn't want to investigate the Phorm story and has to pretend they're busy.
Monty Python - French Taunter
"I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...
...and the smell has wafted over to our tiny hamlet.
Paris - Because the lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Nasty manure-like whiffs in darkest rural Devon?
How unusual!
The locals must have quite a nose for this sort of thing if they can distinguish a niff from hundreds of miles away from the stuff sticking to their tyres.
is it?
Is this the pong that smells like burnt hair ? I thought it might have been a natural hazard of quitting smoking and living in a big city but if it's some temporary euro-whiffery I'll be very happy!
It's the Germans ...
I heard on Radio 4 this morning that they think it came from German farmers near Hamburg.
There, I've mentioned it once and I think I've got away with it..
Nationalism
The Germans? Wrong nation, surely? Isn't it the old enemy - France - that has the reputation of being smelly? Yer Germans are stereotypically clean and smell of cologne (boom boom!)
I rather hoped the reek was K(u)nt Ertugrul shitting himself as Phorm's share price went into meltdown.
Nope, its London sewage in the Thames Estuary
Ever been to the thames estuary at 5am?
It stinks of amonia as the sluice gates release the sewage into the outgoing tide. It really stinks and popular holiday beaches can be observe condoms and toilet paper floating with the tide. I've seen it and smelt it myself.
Now i live inland; a long way inland
Can't smell anything myself...
But then again, I'm in New Zealand, a safe distance from any french above the high tide mark...
@It's not fair...
re : Whose inhabitants are better known as garlic munching, cheese eating surrender monkeys? France
As opposed to the blubbing sailors who keeled over when the nasty Iranians hijacked them.
Oh, those would be the Rosbif surrender monkeys, wouldn't they?
"When danger reared its ugly head
They bravely turned their tails and fled
Brave, brave, brave brave RN etc" (python arr AC)
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