On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 18:33:13 +0900, "Pete"
<homepageREMOVE@zak.att.ne.jp> belched the alphabet and kept on going
with:

>
>"Rodney Webster" <rgw_news001@knot.mine.nu> wrote in message
>news:rgw_news001-A75FC4.17260829062003@news01.so-net.ne.jp...
>> In article <K4wLa.1644$t6.1178@news1.dion.ne.jp>,
>>  "Dave Fossett" <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote:
>>
>> > Ed wrote:
>> >
>> > > Bring underarm deoderant.
>> >
>> > Glad to hear I'm not the only one who stinks the same.
>>
>> I fixed your spelling for you.
>>
>> -- 
>> Rodney Webster
>> http://knot.mine.nu/
>
>I found this out when I arrived when first running out of pit spray ,
>apparently  the majority of Asian people
>don't produce the chemical that makes sweat 'smell' . (if you are in the 2%
>of Japanese whose sweat
>does stink you can get an Honourable Discharge from the army for the good of
>the unit apparently)

Almost correct.

It isn't that only 2% of Japanese produce the chemical that makes
sweat stink. It is that only 2% of Japanese have the chromosome that
allows them to smell it. Unfortunately, close to 100% of the
foreigners who visit Japan seem to have been born with the chromosome
that allows them to smell Japanese sweat.

On a more serious note, there *are* clinics in Japan which offer
surgical procedures to remove underarm sweat glands from people who
perspire too profusely.
>
>So therefore whilst you can buy plenty of anti-perspirant in the 7-11's

Not all of us are on some big phat expat expense account.

>(just as easy to dust your pits with flour
>and as effective)
>They've felt no need to develop or sell 'Deodorant'

Similar problem when they first tried selling "Sinex" here. Nobody
knew they had sinus problems....because nobody knew they had sinuses.
(Sinii? No....that's a desert). Anyway, the commercial had to first
inform the Japanese that they even have sinuses before they could sell
them medicine for sinus problems.





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