Mmmm-gasoline

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Okay-out with it-how many of you freaks fancy the scent of petrol? I kinda like it...

― turner, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

...my sneaking suspicion is that lots of people actually like the smell - or am i just trippin' on the octane?

― turner, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

if you could buy it it tiny little perfume bottles i would like it - it's a beautiful colour too. but the only opportunities for smelling it mean that it is always overwhelming and head-achey.

big fat textas - now there's a great smell.

― minna, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I wuv it.

― RickyT, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

My mum maintains that if she had a cold as a child her mother used to make her go and stand near a road that was being retarred as the fumes would help her congestion. The more I think about this the crueller it seems. I hate the smell of petrol but possibly it too has decongestant properties.

― Emma, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Perhaps the road tar has a similar effect to the creosote in the those anti-catarrh pastilles?

― RickyT, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Urgh I hate it and it makes me feel sick.

― Sarah, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think we should have an ILE health warning at this point: Kids, if you have a cold DO NOT go up to creosoted fences etc. and lick them. It will not help. Oh and don't use mobile phones on garage forecourts apparently.

― Emma, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Licking the fence, no, but giving it a good hard sniff will help.

― RickyT, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gorgeous.

― Anna, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

mmmm petrol smells. wouldn't want to smell of it myself, but i love going to petrol stations and smelling the lovely fuel. mmmm.

― katie, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

wretched. hedgehogs lick creosote, and look what happened to them.

― Alan T, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

There is something about being trapped in a car boot with petrol and exhaust fumes which takes me right back to my childhood.

― Pete, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

But now they've got rid of 4 star, it's just not the same; unleaded does quite hit the spot. Bloody environmentalists. Tsk.

― Nathan Barley, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

This reminds me. Metro was wibbling on this morning about how petrol prices have gone up & says that as the weather gets warmer sales of unleaded petrol increase.

I don't understand. Why specifically unleaded? Do people suddenly get environmentally conscious in the summer & buy new cars? Or are people just driving further? In which case presumably all petrol sales go up? Oh Metro you challenge my brain every morning and for this I thank you.

― Emma, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

One of the reasons for putting lead in petrol is to increase the temperature at which it vapourises. Unleaded petrol vapourise at approximately 62 degrees celcius as opposed to 80 degrees celcius for 4 star leaded. In summer the metal frames of a car heat up dramatically often making the petrol tank reach this vapourisation temperatur - and allows a small but nevertheless significant amount of petrol to be lost as them lovely vapours. Hence the sale of unleaded goes up by a disproportionate amount.

They said we could spread jam on CD's too.

― Pete, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's one hell of a good smell, so good in fact that konami put a scratch and sniff patch of gasoline/burned rubber on one of the cds tyhat made up Gran Turismo 2!!

― chris, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Petrol smells fantastic - don't be fooled by that cheap diesel imitation stuff.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

MMMM... creosote.

― misterjones, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

anyone ever been to Rio? what the frack is that smell?? do they use ethanol or diesel or what cause it smells NASHTY. of course they are all probably hooked on it.

― Tracer hand, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love it too. And creosote. An inordinate liking for it. I am wrong in the head.

― alix, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was looking up tips on how to remove smoke and soot from an apartment after a fire, and found this:

WARNING! DO NOT USE GASOLINE TO CLEAN.

Now I do like the smell of gasoline, but who in the hell uses it to do their housecleaning?

― Nicole, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

They use ethanol in Brazil. Just think: cars powered by booze!

― RickyT, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fag ash is very good at getting lipstick off ceilings and walls. PLease don't ask how I know this.

― alix, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I liked the smell of gasoline, until i tried to siphon gas with some tubing from a car to a gas can in order to refuel our lawnmower. I was like 12. Despite knowing better, I tried to start the siphon action by mouth, and as I lowered the end of the tubing down towards the gas can the siphon started spewing gas. I got a mouthful and faceful of it. And I stumbled a few steps and collapsed onto a portion of newly mown grass and lay there heaving, and overcome with the seemingly equally intense smells of gas and fresh cut grass, both overpowering, but together contradictory, chemical and herbal. Can you smell it, cause I can, right now? Um, gas tastes worse than it smells.

― Hunter, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

when i was five, and i had just started school, i once remarked in class that i enjoyed the smell of petrol and my teacher yelled at me so loud that i burst into tears.

― di, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Probably because it's used for huffing.

Trivia note: (Yes, yet another bit of weird trivia from me.) There used to be gasoline scratch-n-sniff stickers, but some parent got pissed off about them, because she thought that it would lead kids into huffing.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

alix: what is good for getting lipstick ONTO ceilings? i tried the upward pucker pogo but i am too fat

― mark s, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I want to have those kind of parties.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fag ash is very good at getting lipstick off ceilings and walls.

Ummm...how did the lipstick get onto the ceiling in the first place? Granted, when I was a child my family moved into a house where we found a footprint on a ceiling.

As for "do not clean using gasoline," I've read early-20th century references to gasoline or kerosene being used as a DIY dry-cleaning process. Then there are stories about this or that legendary beauty of the same period supposedly washing her hair using the stuff.

― j.lu, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mmmm-gasoline blonde

― turner, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The smell of gasoline is erotic. When I was small my aunt had a car with leather interior and always new smelling floor rugs - in the summertime when it was burning hot outside and she would start up the car in the garage - that new car, polished leather and new carpet aroma mixed with the smell of thick exhaust in the air. A succulent blend I kid you not! I remember being so tickled that I nearly slapped the crap out of my auntie! The fragrances blended and hung so thick in the heat of the summer that you could almost literally eat a chunk of the air! Oh I'm about to just piss all over myself just thinking about it!

― Don't YOU wanna know!, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gasoline cleans amazingly well if you dont mind the fact its flammable and you should probably just use Acetone instead which is also flammable.
After working in a gas station for five years all I'll say is it smells better then the shit we pump on your car in a car wash, the rust protection stuff is one of the raunchiest things I've ever had to take a whiff off.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

I work in a petrol station so i stink of the stuff all day long. Who wants to shag me?

― EMMA, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

seventeen years pass...

I want a scratch and sniff book that has gasoline and tar and whatnot in it.

― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Sunday, 23 February 2020 03:07 (four years ago) link

Great revive

― i am a horse girl (map), Sunday, 23 February 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link

ffs

― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Sunday, 23 February 2020 03:36 (four years ago) link

I work in a petrol station so i stink of the stuff all day long. Who wants to shag me?
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― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 23 February 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link

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― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 23 February 2020 03:44 (four years ago) link

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