Does James May Smell Terrible? I Earth Science
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- James May answers questions about his body odor in this extra scene of James May's Q&A!
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I really wish James would've continued doing HeadSqueeze. Of course, I have no idea who terminated the relationship, but these Q&A vids are some of my favorite James May-related things.
Agreed now that Top Gear is over were all crawling the Internet to get more of the 3 of them or at least I am
Hazen Grass I am too, don't worry
I think he was just paid to do a set number of videos during a gap in his other shows. If it was an ongoing job he probably wouldn't have done it as I imagine a presenter's schedule is very hectic and back then he was doing quite a lot of work with the BBC.
Experiments show that you like the smell of peoples natural scent when your immune systems differ, plus some other genetically things that can really help when reproducing. This makes sure that you get a diverse population. Vital to the survival on our race! :D
"Hey sexy, you're immune to stuff that I'm not. Let's make resilient babies together."
James May is so wonderful. He's a British national treasure without even trying! What a hero!
"You smell like a neglected French cheese" that's what i'm gonna say to people with unpleasant odor.
James, you have beautiful blue eyes and I love your smile, so don't think otherwise!
No - people didn't smell terribly in the 70's - or 60's for that matter.
We used deodorants - and mostly roll-on not aerosol.
But then the smell of cigarettes was everywhere.
Thinking of James May and fresh sweat will certainly keep me warm in the coming winter months.
After traveling around Europe in the 70s I then went to America and was amazed at how Americans smelt of nothing.
They are aliens. Thats why
Why am I watching James ramble on and on
That gold paint thing was debunked ages ago.
+Johnny Kronaz if by debunked you mean proven
Adam Oatmeal
When and where?
Oh right, never and nowhere.
James May for World President! Love this guy!
Exactly! Has been regularly disproved. It's an 'urban' film myth!
My understanding of the gold paint thing is that you need to keep a portion of the chest bare (ie the back) as the paint will not stretch and may therefore not allow for full expansion of the lungs. And, it doesn't matter if the paint is gold or not. Love your videos James.
When I put on deodorant I allways leave a large patch on my back
Why would you want to tell someone that they smell in public? it's not like it's going to help.
"They do a lot of baking in Germany."
Yup. The extent to which you have BO is determined by loads of different factors you can't really control. Showering helps obviously and so do antiperspirants because they remove bacteria and prevent you from sweating in the first place respectively, but my sweat stinks regardless of the fact I shower in the morning and at night and wear antiperspirant so I have to get prescribed deodorants to stop me sweating. P.S I'm underweight, but bacteria does thrive around fat which is why fat people...
Exactly. I think a combination of this and the fact that ultimately you are allowed to smell however you want; I may not like a perfume somebody is wearing, but who am I to say "I dislike your perfume". Then finally you don't know if there is a reason why they smell like that. They may have mental or physiological reasons as to why they sweat excessively, or they may have a disease/illness which makes them stink even if they aren't sweaty due to having lots of dead skin...
Lets put that together, a Suzuki jeep in a rain forest for three days.
Then its correct i believe.
''If she leaves that measuring tape underneath my arm pit any longer it will rot''
That is james may after four days on a honda 50 super cub in Vietnam in the rainy season.
If you're watching this is smell a vision viewers, i apologize.
The smell in here is disgusting, it me! i absolutely reek.
That's what james may said about him being stuck in a Suzuki jeep for 3 days.
P.S. Love the program, I learn quite a lot of interesting things, and I appreciate the sense of humor.
Its paint contracting while drying that is dangerous not it blocking up your pores.
You could probably die from Gold Paint, it would just need to be really hot outside. Sweat glands regulate body temperature, and people die all the time from heat stroke. So if paint is blocking the sweat glands... I doubt MythBusters would decide to go so far as to kill one of their cast members. It's something that they couldn't and shouldn't test completely. This whole idea about "skin suffocation" is silly though.
Diving and bathing don't block your pores; sweat still comes out, it just doesn't evaporate (and you're unlikely to overheat while doing either of those things, anyway, since cool water conducts heat away from your skin faster than evaporating sweat would).
I doubt anyone would die just from having blocked pores (the person would still lose heat through conduction, normal breathing, etc.), but it can certainly cause some skin cysts to develop.
Although if you will recall that episode, after 90% coverage, they did stop, as the paintees were feeling ill...
Also watch this vid to see how tightly the mythbusters are controlled. Adam admits here that he's "not sure how much of this he is supposed to tell but..." but he tells what little he knows anyway.
/watch?v=-St_ltH90Oc
Note at 1:40 how he admits, "now that its on discovery's radar, THEY WONT LET US GO NEAR IT!" -(emphasis mine)
May should watch american "Mythbusters" show for a gold paint thing,
also your nose can't compensate for your teeth because teeth have nothing to do with sense, probably your hearing is hurt by those loud cars
and you shouldn't mention to somebody on a public transport that they smell bad because it is a human right to smell as want until you start rubbing your sweat up someone's nose
Ist not so much that your skin can't breathe.
But if you caver the whole body with paint your body can overheat causing several unhealthy reactions. Mythbusters did an experiment on that.
An other reason is using the wrong kind of paint, which can contract on drying, which then constrict ones ribs and lungs, and thus interferre with normal breathing. Just cause ones lungs can't expand properly.
"the queen" I loled
To be fair, there are no studies about long-term effects of full-body pore blockage. Which means saying "it can't kill you" is as incorrect as saying "it will kill you". It certainly won't kill you immediately, but neither will smoking a cigarette (unless it was given to you by the Mossad or KGB, in which case it probably can).
At least he have facts... Considering the amount of electricity that went into lighting alone during various film scenes it is bad for a normal human. If you cannot cool yourself in such situation you will be in medical emergency within 5 hours, and I don't think they really wanted an actual deadline.
That's what wikipedia says which have dozens reference links.
As a person who has bad B.O, this is what you should do. Instead of just telling him that he stinks, give advise. Like recommend products to buy or give him/her tips. Show that you are not there just to insult them, be nice to the stranger and show genuine concern. Trust me. The person will feel greatful.
Some of us over here in the colonies have an expression "I need to piss like a Russian race horse." I always had the impression that it was from the cold war when lots of folks thought Russia and East Germany would drug up their athletes with steroids and many other things. So they'd be doing everything people do at an alarming rate. Same for shot putters (-sp) I suppose.
internal body temperature must be maintained to a very specific temperature, gold power or paint can act as an antiperspirant and that will make you very hot. it'll take a while though. if you want to try this out get some antiperspirant and put it on your neck after a few hours its unbearable.
Actually, though it's true you can't die from Skin Suffocation, it should have no impact on being underwater, since it's not air that needs to get in, but water that needs to get out. Just clearing that up. Overheating will probably be a problem with gold paint, just not deadly.
I was hoping he would talk about if there was a difference between sweating from lets say exercising and sweating from stress. I had a terrible phone interview once and I stank way more than I did after a 2 hr gym session. Anyone know if there is actually a difference?
It is said that when Europeans reached the tribes in the Amazon, centuries ago, they were repelled by how badly the visitors smelt in their clothes. It is also said tropical tribes peoples don't sweat as much but, even so, now they wear clothes they have had to adopt soap as well.
To be fair this is just an extras bit where James talks as himself, not from a script, so just because he says something doesn't mean it's true and quite often he'll say that he's not sure or he only thinks that something is the case. The main video is generally factual.
there is a particularly horrible condition where you smell of rotting fish but are completely unaware of this. i had a small trouser accident recently just before a 4 hour flight and didn't realise until i got home i was wondering why everybody was moving away from me all day
The issue is that once you've spent more than a few days there your nose gets used to it and you don't smell it at all. In teh same way white people smell like spoiled milk but we don't notice it because we're so used to the smell, while east Asians who consume very little dairy can smell it on us while we can't.
4:50 No it would not kill you quickly or even slowly if you are fully coverd in paint of any kind. The skin does not breath. Nobody ever died because of a long bath or a long swim in the sea. The Bond film is the origin of this myth.
I think the reason why it is awkward to tell someone they smell bad, is because it is pointless. What are they going to do about it? rush home and have a shower? It's a bit like telling someone 'watch that step' after they have fallen over it
What on earth makes you people connect "beeing able to put out sweat" with "skin suffocation". Deodorants which block your sweat pores make it harder for you to sweat and it is not helthy if done on the whole body (if only partly you only sweat elsewhere). Scuba diving does not block you from sweating.
Which facts are not in order? Please elaborate with specifics. Just FYI: opinions are useless otherwise. Specifics can be challenged... how is one supposed to challenge a statement like "this sucks" or "this is all wrong"?
Im not from the US or the UK. Garbage sounds worse thats why i used it even tho i know you use the word rubbish. Even tho the question was about England i dont see why you would have to correct me for using a US dialect word.
He mentions it in his most recent Top Gear column, too.
topgear.com/uk/james-may/james-may-top-gear-magazine-column-2013-10-09
Apparently it really is a documentary, recorded under the aegis of Top Gear.
The thing with the gold colour is a myth. Covering yourself head to toe in completel, airtight wrapping is no worse than blocking off one nostril, as long as you leave the moutg and otger nostril open
It´s curious that you meniton MythBusters, since they stated it didn´t kill the girl and didn´t kill Jamie, however they did advise not to do it, because it was potentially harmful.
And again they don't have their facts in order. I'm getting tired of the lack of professionality on this channel, only thing keeping me here is the fact that I like their topics..
Have you listened to the man?
IN REAL LIFE, they had to leave a patch, else her skin would suffocate to death, and it has happened to other people before, but with other materials.
It's kinda.
In Austria we had the following case(provement avaliable):
A bodypainter wanted to use a golden colour he just invented ,but it got hard and the skin of the person couldn't breathe ,dead.
When he was talking about being hot in Italy , All I could think of is when he was when there for top gear in the yellow Aston and he had to strip as it had no AC.
Well, to name a town that smells bad you could just name a town with a Paper mill. Town i live in got a biscuit factory so it smells of chocolate most of the time
Not true , you die from the heat , thus when you bath or scuba dive you can stay cold , i think the mythbusters should do it when its properly hot.
I thought that thing about the patch left on the gold girl in that Bond film was just a myth, as well as the thing about dying if your skin "can't breathe".
Mr May, please check your facts! Gold paint can't kill you like the Jame Bond film claims. Overheating would be a minor problem, but not fatal.
Im not British or American so i choose to use my own dialect that is a mix of both. Use the word that sounds more appropriate is my motto.
Thumbs up if you thought James was going to talk about Clarkson or Hammond when asked if he worked with a colleague with bad BO?.
now you got me confused, you werent being sarcastic? either way english evolved from a west germanic language so stop speaking german
Really want to trust James May, but there's a show in the US, called MythBusters, that specifically debunked the body paint myth.
That must be awesome and hell. Some things smell amazing, better than they taste. Like perfumes: smell amazing but taste disgusting.
About the paint - What about the Blue Man group. Maybe they aren't completely covered in paint
They are both the same thing, but when talking about England it is called rubbish because we have a different dialect from US.
Yeah, but who can really take Mythbusters seriously when they test things like "Is it easy to take candy from a baby?"
Well, you can't always know everything. These bonus Q&A's are not supposed to be accurate, they're just conversing.
You're just mad because you need a whole big bunch of carbonfilters to hide the scent of your secret weedstash.
Thanks!
To Gold Body myth... someone needs to get James May to watch Mythbusters. They disproved that a while ago.
That gold paint thing is wrong Mythbusters did test it. Its partialy true as you could die after few days.
JAMES MAY YOUR HAIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR is amazing
nice
I've never been England but I would imagine London smells quite different than the Salisbury Plain.
I work in New York and often tell offenders that they... well, offend. "You wreak!" works for me.
How can England smell like the Queen? The Queen doesn't smell. She's the Queen for god's sake ^^
I have Congenital anosmia (born without the sense of smell) and this doesnt make much sense to me
But what does The Queen smell like? What deodorant does she use, if she uses any at all. Hmmm.
James, you should visit Rotorua NZ, then you'll know what a smelly place is like hahaha : D
Sure there is a episode of QI that debunks that idea of the bare patch of skin in James Bond.
well then stop overdoing the sarcasm ... its sometimes hard to pick up when in typed form :S
no rubbish doesnt smell as awful and im not from england so it doesnt matter how i spell it
Why when do we stop smelling things like deodorant when we use the same ones for a while?
Hallo James what is insanity and how do you determine if you or an other are sane or not
@shraka factually a woman died during the filming of gold finger due to her body paint
Did someone smell Kosovo in summer?
Or China 500 meters off an rodden Tofu Restorant?
What causes oxidisation and what problems do yo have with it when yo weld or solder
James, really? The James Bond 'don't cover your whole body' thing is well known BS.
4:42 hmm.. no! It would not kill you. Mythbusters have done episode about this.
There's a need to edUcate the public of the previous use & misinformation about intact penis & smegma
Drive north on interstate 75 into Detroit. Smelliest place in the states.
In a rainforest, no less. I was wondering if that would be brought up
dude u kidding me i just went to Arab and they smelt perfectly fine
dude what? are you talking to yourself? go back and read my comment
The goldfinger thing is a myth and the mythbusters have busted it.
minute 1:45 and on, look at james face while describing the smell.
Terrible hair though! That's ok though, he's a national treasure.
Seen the mythbuster episode? The Walrus got sick pretty quickly.
Don't go to the panhandle of Texas, it smells like a cow fart.
Ugh my mom has a super-sensitive nose. It's annoying at times.
There was no indication of that in the film... at all. Lol
James, you should get a whiff of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
to prevent this, just do the dog, put your tongue out..
lmfao sweat and curry. that's what Canada smells like.