A little older, a little wiser … a little smellier
So I turned 22 a while ago (in March, to be precise). 21 was quite strange, a little bit older, but 22 feels like I am now a bone fide adult; it just sounds more mature.
Accompanying this entrance in to adulthood are some changes. Namely BO and halitosis. (This is one of those gross, personal posts, by the way.)
Until now, I haven’t needed to use deodorant. SHOCK HORROR: I haven’t used deodorant regularly in the past! Seriously though, the worst I ever smelt like was baked beans, and that was on a hot day, and only after I’d been walking outside for a while.
I have noticed, however, that of late, personal odour has become more of a concern for me. What is more, it has, so far, affected solely my left armpit. Perhaps I am some sort of horrible freak.
As mentioned above, also on the list of new bodily odours is a spot of the old halitosis. I’m still hopeful that this will pass, but if not I will take a good look at my diet and lifestyle and see what needs changing. Probably, eating more fruit will do the trick.
You will most likely be pleased to hear that I am done with writing this post now.
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Oi, smelly boy!
Where did all the links go to?
…Well, no, that’s not really the question I need to ask, since you’ve answered that one.
No, the question really needs to be: Why?
And it should be accompanied by waving of papers, MP-style, and the occasional cry of: Shame!
Well, I guess I was depressed. I tend to destroy things when I get depressed.
Also, I felt it was all messy and disorganised, destroying it helps me to recreate it with more freedom. I can start afresh now (I saved all the stuff, will be putting selected bits back).
BTW: I changed your markup to be more semantic. You want to use the
strongtag!Oh, that’s OK then.
Strong tag? Guess what - I just knew you would do that. I actually thought about it as I was using all those meaningless tags. The problem is, in my head, as I think about how I [want to] communicate, I actually do think about things as being either in italics or in bold. For me, I’m afraid, “strong” seems less meaningful than “i” or “b”. Clearly not in this silly example, but generally it’s the case.
You can bet your ass I’ve corrected your semantics again.
I’m also disallowing
bandifor the future! The whole point about markup (i.e. X/HTML) is that you are literally “marking” bits of text as having different functions. So, you want bold/italic text for emphasis.strongandemare the tags for you in that case! Remember that search engines don’t see things in bold/italic, and I think screen readers renderstrongandbdifferently.Right. So this means I want this word in bold, but if someone decides they want to render “strong” things with a line underneath them instead of in bold, there’s nothing I can do about it?
Might as well not bother with specifying fonts, colours, sizes or anything in that case!
Generally I’m for semantic mark-up. Really I am. But for some reason I still prefer “b” and “i”. And I probably always will. Face it, there’s no hope for me.
Oh, and my ass is not available to be brought into any betting arrangements, future or past. :)
Well,
bis completely absent in XHTML 2 anyway, you’ll have to do something usingspantags with a styledclass— I don’t even think you can use thestyleattribute in XHTML 2.And if someone think that strong text should be underlined they should be shot! On the web, underlining means a link, and should only ever be used so. And I don’t let you specify colours and sizes in my comments anyway!
I guess b and i will always have a sort of primitive charm …