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Weird ghost smell in our room
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Weird ghost smell in our room

There is a thing here in India; ghosts have a pretty distinct odour. Some people compare it to a baked-potato kind of smell. As with any smell related to ghosts, I am sure it wasn't coming from any ordinary source (Who the hell cooks potatoes at one in the morning??) It was concentrated in a spot next to the entrance to the bathroom..I am pretty spooked even though nothing else has happened to indicate the presence of anything weird. My cat is acting fine, thankfully.

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Stop fapping so much
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Stop doing drugs

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Stop showering in the rivers.

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Start eating baked potatoes.

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Never ever sing in the rain. Even better, never have it rain.

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What the fuck....?

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It might be some lethal chemical that smells like potatos.

I know some nerve gas, or chemical poison, smells like roasted almonds or something.

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Hydrogen cyanide smells like almonds. And i am still alive, by the way.

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Really?

Wait till you find that third arm growing out from your spleen!

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(12-13-2014 02:25 AM)Rule_BreakerXVIII Wrote:  And i am still alive, by the way.

You won't be.

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(12-13-2014 02:25 AM)Rule_BreakerXVIII Wrote:  And i am still alive, by the way.

Sorry about.... teehee.... Bringing this thread back from the dead, but perhaps the baked potato smell is coming from yourself. It's not an uncommon trope for somebody to not realize that they're the ghost/vampire/other that is being hinted at.
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Stop eatting ass. (Click to View)
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Weird ghost smell in our room

That's something I've never heard before.

Are you sure it's a ghost? I don't want to be offensive but have you considered all the possibilities? I don't know your situation so I don't know all your reasons for thinking that it is...

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RE: Weird ghost smell in our room

Try curse. Praise the sun!

Hello, traveler.

This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.

Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"

Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.

People are allowed to change their views.

Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.

If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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