someone who has a degree in Not-Stupid explain this:

[amand_r]

1. Shower.
2. Smell towel: clean, downy fresh scent.
3. Smell hands: clean, bodywash scent.
4. Smell hands through towel: YESTERDAY'S ONION CHOPPING EXTRAVAGANZA.

EXPLAIN. EXPLAIN.

*Degree should be a BA or higher or equivalent. Assoc. Degree OK.

Comments

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

that is bizarre.

Good thing I don't have that degree, I'd be embarrassed!

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

GAAAAAAAAAAH. HELPME.

[kwanalicious.livejournal.com]

Rub with stainless steel to remove odor?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THE NUNION DOES NOTWORK!!

[neifile7.livejournal.com]

Coffee grounds get bad smells off hands pretty effectively, esp. garlic/onion/fish.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I shall try these things. But why can I only spell it through the towel?

[neifile7.livejournal.com]

"Onion" is hard enough to spell. The towel just makes it worse.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

dammit. DAMMIT! I'MON THE GIMP COMPUTER, ANYA!

[neifile7.livejournal.com]

IMMA TEEZE YA BB.

The towel plainly is an olfactory amplifier, disguised visually with a perception filter.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THE TOWELDIS.

[kwanalicious.livejournal.com]

HENCE WHY I AVOID ONIONS.

maybe wash towel with lemon juice? or better yet WEAR A SUIT OF STAINLESS STEEL ARMOR. TAKE THAT, ONIONS.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

i should hire iron man to chop all my onions.

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

Try washing your hands with lemon juice. That's what I used to do, to try and rid them of onion smell.

[epithetta.livejournal.com]

I know that works with fish!I need me some lemon juice.

[pommery.livejournal.com]

Spritz lemon juice on towel?
Acids from certain food stuffs can linger in very odd ways,almost like being invisibly stained like a dye. Take a q-tip doused in lemon juice or vinegar and rub underneath your fingernails and where the skin meets the nails.

SOMETIMES, it works. (But I'm betting you already knew that. :) )

(BA not applicable, Culinary school Grad + love/hate relationship with garlic acceptable?)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THIS IS ACCEPTABLE. OMG CULINARY PERSON YOU ARE AWESOME. I WISH I WAS A CULINARY SCHOOL GRAD.

[pommery.livejournal.com]

DUDE! I'VE SEEN YOUR RECIPE/PIC SPAM POSTS. YOU TOTALLY COULD BE. OMG FRIED CUCUMBERS.

Ahem.
:D

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

OMG I LOVE FRIED CUCUMBERS. I TOTES NEED TO MAKE THEM IN A NON SUCKY WAY.

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

fried cucumbers?

You already have me completely hooked on English cucumbers (now I find the regular ones disgusting!)

I had me some EngCuke tonight.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

i FIND THE REGULAR ONES BITTER FROM THE SEEDS. I HAVE TO SCRAPE THE SEEDS OUT AND WASH THEM BEFORE I CAN EAT THEM. BITTER!

I like that you can eat the skin of the english cuke.

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

The crunch is very satisfying!!! I brought half of one today, gonna cut it up and go next door and have CHili Pie w/cucumbers and chili, and endure the strange looks. LOL.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT!

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

the towel is a filter between yesterday and today. it is its own tardis.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

It's fluffier on the inside?

[opium-and-tea.livejournal.com]

Ok, I actually LOL'd at this.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

haaahaaahahaha.

[huesiemama.livejournal.com]

OK, srsly. This totally happened to me yesterday!

Me: In the morning, chopped huge onion for chili.
Washed hands vigorously immediately after, several times.

Me: Washing my face before bed. Grabbed washcloth and went to rub it on my face. Inhaling, and got the smell of onion, plain as day!

It makes no sense.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

DO YOU PULL HER HAND FROM THE WASHCLOTH AND SMELL IT AND IT SMELLS OKAY? AND THEN YOU SMELL THE WASHCLOTH AND IT SMELLS OKAY, BUT IF YOU TRY TO SMELL YOUR HANDS THROUGH THE WASHCLOTH, ONION! WTF!

[huesiemama.livejournal.com]

WTF Indeed.