I’m gonna feel bad if meat smells are the sign of a brain tumor.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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You joke but your comment brings to mind the reddit post where some guy was not only positive that stuff was missing from his (shared) apartment, but that one of the closets had become a room (or the opposite, I can't remember exactly). They followed up after a while to tell everyone that they had a brain tumour.
I recall a story about someone being wary of their landlord spying on them and hiding small hand-written notes in their room (with their own hand writing even). Someone immediately diagnosed CO poisoning and was spot on.
I remember that one too. Turns out that carbon monoxide is the real brain-fog inducer.
Worst case: Someone's got their heating way too high, they're literally roasting themselves and you can smell that.
Next worse case: It's someone's particularly meaty body odour.
Next next worst case: You have Zuck in your building and he's smoking some meats.
Worst case: Someone’s got their heating way too high, they’re literally roasting themselves and you can smell that.
Oh God, there had better not be. I'm not a bloated corpse expert, but if that's what's been stinking up my place I'm going to have to leave for at least a week just to decompress from having huffed it in all day...
Your landlord buys his air filters at the Freeze & Breeze where they sell frozen meats and HVAC supplies and their freezers have failed
You know what? I wouldn't put it past them.
Somebody is farting outside. Or maybe something dead in there. Would smell more like fish.
Not fishy or dried fish, we're talking pork sausage kind of a smell. Pure deli vibes RN.
Refrigerant slow leak?
Punch a hole in your refrigerant line and if the escaping gas smells the same then you know that's what it was.
Hard pass, I'm not filling my home with any additional gasses beyond the ones I'm farting out.
Two possibilities:
- Theory confirmed
- Can no longer smell meats over the smell of refrigerant.