Poll of the Day > I should follow Marie Kondo's advice and throw myself out

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I do not spark joy

*sleeps in the dumpster*

Why do dumpsters smell like dumpsters and not, like, any identifiable piece of garbage?

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garbage actually has no natural odor. the "dumpster smell" is put there by man for safety purposes

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PunishedOni posted...

garbage actually has no natural odor. the "dumpster smell" is put there by man for safety purposes

Exactly. It's like Nintendo putting the chemicals on the Switch cartridges.

The dumpster smell is to prevent small children from swallowing dumpsters.
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Is that a real thing? I thought garbage all stank the same because the microbes in the air were roughly the same in most places

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Mead posted...

Is that a real thing? I thought garbage all stank the same because the microbes in the air were roughly the same in most places

no i was just quoting a line from king of the hill where hank explains to chris rock why his joke about the smell of propane doesnt make sense

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this topic was the most lol thing Ive seen all day until posts 4 and 5 came in with a dose of wha wha

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

The dumpster smell is to prevent small children from swallowing dumpsters.

As a former small child who almost swallowed a dumpster once I can confirm this

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