It's like me figuring out after 23 years that most people don't sneeze looking at the sun
Same for me. If I feel a sneeze coming on I look at a bright light to hurry it up. I thought this was normal but appetite isn't.
Huh, TIL I can smell ants too.
I used to live in a basement that had regular cycles of ant infestations. I would know they had returned, because the room had started to smell a certain way. Kind of like, damp slightly sweaty skin, but also kind of woody?
Every time I smelt it, I'd always find fresh ant eggs along the wall in the room.
I never noticed this, but I'm not around ants that much as a software engineer. :)
As a software developer and a few of my colleagues are ants. You might need to find a new job, somewhere more inclusive.
I agree it's surprising that people can smell ants as a genetic quirk, but it's not typing-what-the-fuck-in-all-caps surprising.
I used to be able to smell spiders when I was a kid. The spider web, to be exact. It has a quite specific but not unpleasant smell to it.
Yeah same, I've been trying to find less stinky ants for my morning ant snort
But... How do you even know you can smell ants? Why did you try it? Or can you smell them from meters away?
