"could knock a buzzard..."
 

One of my colleagues has just been in my office to discuss something and for not the first time she has severe bad breath... or as a friend years ago used to say ( referring to someone else )

"her breath was so bad it could knock a buzzard off of a sh*te wagon"

would any of you kind souls have perhaps a gentler way to break this to her?

oh, Mary, are they serving shit sandwiches in the cantene again today?

Ignore everything she says and does.

Eventually, you'll hurt her feelings so badly she'll quit and slice her own throat.

Keep offering her a piece of gum.

Or say "Happy Unbirthday!!" and give her a bottle of scope tied with a bow. :lol: Or a more constructive advice would be, do what Pico suggested. Or do as I do sometimes, or often, hold your breath. Yeah, I'm not very tactful so I just don't say anything at all. :p:

Always a delicate matter. Be careful with the gum / freshening sweet option or you may end up with: "Smells like someone took a dump behind a pine tree".

I had the same kind of problem years ago. Very strong body odor, same clothes day in day out for more than a month. We tried being nice, nothing happened. Even the boss talked to him, nada. He finally resigned with a lot of theatrics about not being appreciated, etc... I believe that he didn't take too well the 3 bars of toilet soap someone left on his desk along with a scrubbing brush.





That someone being yours truly ;)

She may know. I worked with a woman who had some sort of medical condition that caused her to have alarmingly bad breath.

check out this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halitosis

My daughter told me my voice smelled bad once. i Lolled


If you like her, I would actually just tell her.

"Hey, Mary.. your breath is bumpin' .... just thought you should know. are you drinking enough water?"

or, if you want to be subversive, ask her if your breath smells

or give us her email address and we could all send her emails telling her about it.

tempting... but you'd all say "grynch said...."

:rolleyes:

Ask her if she needs you to call an undertaker cuz it smells like something died in there?

This.

First you'll need a shit wagon...

See this is why I don't play well with others -I don't want to be so close to someone I can smell their breath. Me, I would move back. and back and back and back.


You could say, I'm really sorry, but you must've eaten something I'm allergic to.....

When I used to go to my old gym, I had a session or two with a trainer ....let's call him Hal

Hal Itosis.

yeah.

so... i gave him a piece of gum. he thanked me for it and set it on his desk. then he blew ass breath on me for an hour.... and when I saw him with his next appointment.... fucker was chewing my gum.

reminds me of one of my favorite scout skits

two young scouts are arguing about Super Sugar Blasters! or some such imaginary candy thing. They are facing each other and one says "It's candy!" and the other replies "It's a breath mint!" "Candy!" "Breath mint!" "CANDY!" "BREATH MINT!" as they approach each other until they're practically nose to nose. Then one of them backs up a step and waves his hand in front of his nose as he makes a face and says "You're right. It's candy."

I lol every time.

Anyhow, it's my policy to *always* say, "Yes, thanks" when offered a breath mint or a piece of gum. I might not know my breath offends them, and even if it doesn't, hey, *free candy*!

Shit, just tell her, in an unmean way. She really might not be aware of it. As uptight as a lot of women are about their appearance, I can't imagine she'd willingly walk around with the stank-breath.

Can't certain circumstances w/diebeetus cause funky breath?

Also, not flossing. Had to remind my (21 yr old) stepson to start flossing again the other day - his breath smelled like death.

Diabetes breath tends to smell fruity.

She might just like garlic, onions, and pickled eggs for lunch or something.

Try making the gum offer look natural, like have some yourself and then offer, after a few times you can just offer.

Or you can ask a supervisor HR to handle it. When in doubt, delegate.

My younger sister and her friend once told me that the friend used to have really, really breath. They said she had "doo doo breath." :lol: It turned out that she needed to scrap her tongue. I think it was her dentist who taught her that she needed to scrap her tongue, especially the far back part. Her breath has not smelled like doo doo since. :D

She scrapped her tongue? Seems rather drastic.

Haggis.

you just leave haggis alone or I'll have to whip you with my sporran !

George Carlin did a bit about bad breath. It ended with the guy who got scope in his locker going berzerk, climbing a bell tower with a rifle and shooting people.

"and they blamed marine training"

does she have an internet connection? send this link to her.


http://www.cnbc.com/id/44232844

Or this one:
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?p=752380