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Smelly houses. It can be hard to realise you're in one since your sense of smell becomes de-sensitized and visitors are simply too polite to tell you.
I propose a small alarm that you put near the smoke alarm. It is capable of analysing the components of smells and categorising them with a suitable
warning sound and a readout.
I imagine a number of categories
-Smelly cat woman
-Wet dog
-Mouldy pet food
-Inexplicable lingering fish
-Fetid underwear
-Dead mouse
-Nasty toilet
-Dreadful scented candle
and many others as yet undetermined.
You can't manage what you don't measure.
Very similar but not alarming
Smell-to-Voice_20Translator
This idea is only just different [DenholmRicshaw, Jan 15 2009]
Ambi Pur changes fragrances
http://www.visit4in...ir-Fresheners/62759
I appear to have been de-sensitised to it - cannot smell it at all now. [po, Jan 16 2009]
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"Buy Soap! Buy Soap! Buy Soap! Buy Soap!" |
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Get rid of the cat! Get rid of the cat! |
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Surely the cat would get rid of the lingering fish? |
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Only if it can explain it. |
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I remember reading somewhere about a person with congenitally blocked sinuses who was employed as a bill collector. |
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He would douse himself with fishwash and then go sit in the client's office till they paid up. |
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Counterattack: release the cats. |
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Did the guy get paid by the hour? If the debtor happened to be, say, a fishmonger, then that would be a very lucrative stalemate. |
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I noticed that houses in the UK were very smelly in winter. Opening windows usually helps but the occupiers all seemed to be determined to keep them at abnormally high temperatures so they were kept shut up and stuffy. |
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//shut up and stuffy// sp. thermally efficient |
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//houses in the UK were very smelly in winter// |
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I have a theory; it's all the milky tea that gets spilt into the carpet. |
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Every place I've ever been to in Vancouver smells mouldy to me.
(+), but this thing would just ring off the hook there unless individual odors could be deactivated. |
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Use it as a fridge sensor to detect brie thats finally ready to eat or things you really don't want left in there for another month. |
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Hmmm... thermally efficient, huh? When the central heating is turned up so high that you wake up with a dehydration headache every morning that seems to be a little more "thermal" than "efficient". |
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I thought it might be the soggy carpet on the bathroom floors. <muttering> ... fucking weirdness... everywhere... no floor drainage in bathrooms... </m> |
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Bathrooms - what are they? |
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Bathrooms are chambers which contain either: |
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1: A bath tub (Australian usage) |
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2: A toilet (American usage) |
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This idea should definitely include the "Not enough soap, deodorant, and foot powder" alarm. |
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Bathrooms are chambers which contain either: |
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1: A shower (Australian usage) |
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2: A bath tub (Reasonably universal usgae) |
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3: A toilet (US American usage, because they have trouble saying certain words or elucidating certain concepts) |
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4: Or sometimes all three. |
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//Not enough soap, deodorant, and foot powder// |
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[+] I admit that I am too polite to tell someone yet I want to be told if it is my house that smells. |
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I simply provide each visitor with a wooden clothespin to put over their nose. |
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Wet Dog is right up there. I guess the devil is in the atomised detail.
My problem comes with dirtily washed Tea mugs. It happened and I told them. |
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