I'm trying to think of what else smells like kero. Regular gas, nsm. Natural gas doesn't actually smell like much, they add something akin to skunk to it. Are there renovations going on in your building? If someone is using a solvent, that could be it. Or if someone is burning torches/cintronella candles outside?
We'll be in our bunk.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Aug 02, 2013 5:02:13 pm PDT #1211 of 30000
Sophia Brooks - Aug 02, 2013 5:06:07 pm PDT #1212 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Can you ask a neighbor to come sniff?
NoiseDesign - Aug 02, 2013 5:08:56 pm PDT #1213 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
Can you ask a neighbor to come sniff?
Out of context this could be a rather disturbing sentence.
Jesse - Aug 02, 2013 5:16:30 pm PDT #1214 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
They are doing renovations on a couple of units downstairs, but now? That seems weird. I think it's dissipating, at any rate.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2013 5:17:54 pm PDT #1215 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe you should light a candle to get a better look?
-t - Aug 02, 2013 5:24:43 pm PDT #1216 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Maybe someone spilled something.
I know they add garlic odorant to propane (that was sort of part of my dad's job for a while, he has a big old story about the time some not-yet-odorated propane got out into the pipeline and he was getting flown around in helicopters to literally sniff out how far the problem had gotten) but I don't know about natural gas, except that something is added because otherwise no smell and that would be very dangerous. I don't think I even know what kerosene smells like, which is hamstringing me in brainstorming what else could cause that smell.
Jesse - Aug 02, 2013 5:26:37 pm PDT #1217 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It definitely smells like paint thinner out in the hall, so maybe they left supplies outside the unit or something. It's a mystery! But one I am not going to worry about.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2013 6:07:25 pm PDT #1218 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Every time I try to explain to someone (in person) that one of my cousins was used as a "hook" in a Nigerian-style scam, they interrupt me and say "Yeah! They hack your address book and..." NO. "She got hacked, that's awful!" NO. I mean she's the Nigerian.
My Dear Friend,
My name is Mr. Diane Abbott I am a member of parliament...
And it even uses the Houses of Parliament logo. That's her.
But no one lets me finish explaining.
Except you!
-t - Aug 02, 2013 6:11:32 pm PDT #1219 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In person people are missing out, that's fascinating. What a peculiar type of fame to have thrust upon you - not you, her, but more broadly all the hooks out there.
Burrell - Aug 02, 2013 6:26:36 pm PDT #1220 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Egad, ita, does she have any kind of recourse over that?