Colon, Germany

Wait, this is a boneapple tea! Don't we have a community for this?

Oh shit that took me far too long.

But when did this horrible trend start with young men putting like half a bottle of cologne on them?

(it's a major issue for me due to sensory overload)

It's not just young men. There are men and women of all ages who wear too much perfume or cologne. I seem to be allergic to some of them, because I will often have my sinuses suddenly clog up, get a massive headache and swelling in my throat from smelling them.
On multiple occasions at work, it's been so bad that I have to go ask a coworker to take over helping a customer because their perfume is giving me such a severe reaction. Then the perfume continues to linger for hours after they are gone.
I’m pretty sure it’s been a thing since cologne was invented.
FWIW I went to high school in the early-mid 00s, and during those days, it wasn’t cologne - it was Axe body spray. My friends and I would joke about there being ads in the future similar to the, “Did you work at such-and-such and develop mesothelioma? You may be entitled to compensation.” Except instead of asbestos filling your lungs and giving you a disease, it’s Axe. That crap was in the air perpetually.
- Oh god, the smell of the middle school side of the building... it was putrid. Axe mixed with with misted body odor from the boys who had gym in the morning.
- It was always Lynx/Axe Africa as well
1200BCE Mesopotamia?
- Fair, but we're noticing a huge rise in the city in the last months.
  Seems to be a 'recent' trend for young mens to overdo it.
I remember in highschool that some of the other boys seemed to think AXE body spray was an adequate substitute for showering regularly.
It's not. It just makes you smell like AXE and BO.
holy shit, cologne !!! thank you. damn
I would say it probably started sometime in the 17 or 1800s when they first started powdering their noses and throwing a ton of perfume and cologne.
When they stopped washing their assholes.

It took reading the comments for me to realise this was about cologne.

I thought this was a meme about guys not washing their asses because it makes them gay.

It’s a meme on pegging.

Women : Ew, he looked at pictures of feet? That gives me the ick!
Also women : Oh, that guy is coming by...

This might come as a shock, but women have a wide variety of opinion on different things, much like men do.

Colon should be discovered, never announced

Silent but violent.

Köln*

Colon is closer in spelling than Cologne

I'm so spelling pilled I thought that was the joke

No joke, those women are just into pegging.
- Magnificent

Shout out to Colon, Michigan, magic capital of the world.

I hope it's a sister city of Darmstadt, Germany.

How much cologne do these guys spray on? It’s the least concentrated scent, it’s 90% alcohol. Shouldn’t last longer than an hour or two.

Or do these people think cologne is what parfum for men is called?

I mean they obviously don't know what colon is, how do you expect them to know the difference between cologne (a word they don't know) and parfum?
These terms are interchangeable from a product sales perspective.
- Are they? If I'm in a perfume store and ask for cologne the store clerk will hand me eau de cologne and not parfum. Parfum, eau de parfum, eau de toilette and eau de cologne are different perfume categories that are also priced differently.
Yes that is what they think.
I just call them all “toxic VOC pollutants” and don’t worry about the arbitrary details.
Cologne is for drinking, they're probably spraying parfume.
No, jokes aside, cheap cologne was called "odekolonn" (VERY bastardized and estonianized pronunciation of eau de cologne) and bums would drink it. Since there's no excise tax, troinoi was apparently cheaper than vodka.

Would any of you like to try my colon?

Or a bunch of us get together and try each others colons, like a gang?
Wow, imagine how eye opening that would be. The lovely fumes of all those used colons just hanging in the air...

Hey, don't kink shame.

TIL I should eat beans before a date.

This is lemmy, we'll encourage you to eat beans for all scenarios
- Beans are very nutritious high in both protien and fiber. Truly a great food

Jokes on you, these were actually written by dogs enjoying the sweet scent of manass.

Well. That's all very unfortunate.

Find a colon scent that works for you. You'll be surprised how women respond to it and it'll make you feel more confident! One of my favorites smells like wood and leather, for example.

Love to know what your diet is.
- They're actually a beaver.

that's how you know she's a keeper

If "Bologna" is "baloney", should "Cologne" be "caloney" or "calonay"? Or colony, it's a cognate of the roman place name "Colonia Agrippina".

If "Bologna" is "baloney"
It's not
- Buh-log-nuh
- USians have decided so, and they're certainly not going to start using the Italian pronunciation! If they were that smart, they'd already do it (it's not hard to say 'Bolonya').
I defend with "Colonia Agrippina" only if the enemy knows both Capo Ferro and Thibault. Of course they rarely realize I'm not left handed.
Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium or CCAA was the name. Today it's Köln tho so good luck with that :p
- And people make fun of Germans for using long words Ü
Bologna is pronounced more like "boh-loh-nya" in italian
- Trying to describe vowels of other languages accurately in English is kind of a lost cause. "Bolonya" is a hell of a lot closer than "baloney".

At least put an "e" on the end, goddamn