Join the hairy armpit brigade!

OK, I've just tried it too. Not biscuity, but probably our sense of smell is better when we're young?

I have just forced my head down over the four marmalade sarnies I had for lunch my stomach, and my knees smell of bath foam. (little miss perfect emoticon]

Bizarre thread! Why would one smell one's knees anyway? I doubt if anyone else is going to! No shaving for me - body hair mostly gone and leg hair is pretty sparse. Eyebrows not so great either.

That's cheating. You have to smell them before they get washed! [rolleyes emoticon]

And I thought I was the maddest member - I have a lovely vision of grandmothers all over the world sniffing their knees! {smile}

Bags I'm a member of the knee cult .... as a child I used to lick mine before I smelled them!!

Oh right! Durrr!

One smells one's knees for the same reason that one climbs mountains – because they're there! In the case of knees, right under your nose just after you've sat down in the bath but before you immerse your legs. Besides, I expect I was sharing the bath with siblings some of the time. We used to take turns sliding down the sloping end..... until someone came up and bellowed at us for soaking the floor.

I've never smelled my knees (or any one elses) but my dogs' paws always smelled biscuity!

Oh no! Not a paw sniffer, as if knees weren't bad enough!

You are a funny lot, I have never in my life sniffed my knees. I did read an article about ageing where it said elderly people do give off a biscuit aroma

From hairy armpits to smelly knees - what a thread!

I have never smelt my knees, but did suck my flannel in the bath (errrgh!)

Butter, didn't everyone do that?

Anno - - but did you do it after 3 brothers had been in the bath-water first?!

Yuck ! Butter my mind is in overdrive

Anno As the younger generation might say, you really don't want to know.....!

butter TMI, I used to do it too urghhh.

Does anyone think that hairy armpits may look sexy to men? Would it remind them of other hairy bits? O Lord I am in stitches now.....
Can't stop laughing.

You're right, Butter, I really don't want to know.

Well its a relief its only your knees you sniff!!! Tried on my swimming costume today as I am off to sunny climes shortly. Wondered if I might have to get rid of any hairy bits, my pubic hair used to practically reach my knees, doesn't anymore so i will leave the straggly bits not worth the effort.

No, hattie.
Please make the effort. Straggly bits at our age are not the way forward, to use
an expression the youngsters use.

Plenty of defoliant ( is that the word ? ) creams available , from your local supermarket even.
Nothing wrong with looking old, but we should not look as if we have given up.

'Defoliant'! I love that, Johanna - think you mean 'exfoliant'!

No, no, no ana, I do mean defoliant, like agent orange. That will get rid of one's forest, LOL.
An exfoliant is something completely different.

Oh, you mean like weedkiller?