... it wasn't that pub's bathrooms backing up??

...the smell of all the Southerners. I believe the French have been complaining about it for years.

Perhaps it's the EU shitting on Microsoft again...

..... no matter how hard they try to cover up and brush it under the carpet, you can smell the stench of NuLabour's activities everywhere.

Stop the BT/Virgin/TalkTalk/Phorm alliance!

Living near Brussels, as I do for the moment, I can report there's no smell here. On the other hand I feel I should rise to the level of the article and say that "he who smelt it dealt it". Let the games begin :-)

... it's not fair the blame ALL of the European land mass. Some clues as to the likely culprits:

1. Who's closest? France

2. Whose inhabitants are better known as garlic munching, cheese eating surrender monkeys? France

3. Just because

Mines the one with the clothes peg and the pair of air freshener sprays in the pocket.

I live in Berkshire and I could smell silage this morning. But then I do live on a farm.

Yer but whoever said the rhyme did the crime.

eau du paris

:D

Now you know why the French built all their nukes on the north coast. The prevailing winds are generally south-westerlies, but an easterly will have the same effect...

That's one long distance cupcake

i spent the whole journey to work this morning checking my shoes

I'm sorry about that - I've got a poorly stomach.

so it wasn't just me then? When I stepped out of the house in my sleepy Chilterns village this morning I assumed there were some farmers muck spreading nearby (hardly unusual in my neck of the woods), what baffled me was that I could still smell it when I emerged from Charing X tube station into Trafalgar square. Weird.

in Central London. Mind you I'm north of Oxford Street so it could be French tourists.

I hope you werent driving

I'm in Bracknell and it smells here in the office. I thought it was just the olfactory drift from the logjam in cubicle two down the corridor. A porcelain device full to the brim. And I don’t think it’s Brown Windsor soup.

after having been backed up for 3 long months. You can't begin to imagine what it felt like.

// the brown (very) one

You've now been restored?

Well, somebody could light a match. That usually gets rid of stuff in the bathroom. Be aware that at times (with proper mixture) those gases can be explosive.

One match not enough? Try two.

If you want REALLY bad smells, try the feedlot part way down I-5 in California's central valley. No amount of matches will solve that one.

Lots of asthma attacks down here? Fluke?

I live in Whitley, and I thought it was the Whitley-Whiff back again. Surprising, given they concreted over the sewer works a year ago.

Glad I'm not going mad - thought I smelled something :(

Islamic warmongers trying to sabottage Ol'Blighty glorious morale. That, or someone REALY doesn't want to investigate the Phorm story and has to pretend they're busy.

"I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."

...and the smell has wafted over to our tiny hamlet.

Paris - Because the lady doth protest too much, methinks.

How unusual!

The locals must have quite a nose for this sort of thing if they can distinguish a niff from hundreds of miles away from the stuff sticking to their tyres.

Is this the pong that smells like burnt hair ? I thought it might have been a natural hazard of quitting smoking and living in a big city but if it's some temporary euro-whiffery I'll be very happy!

I heard on Radio 4 this morning that they think it came from German farmers near Hamburg.

There, I've mentioned it once and I think I've got away with it..

The Germans? Wrong nation, surely? Isn't it the old enemy - France - that has the reputation of being smelly? Yer Germans are stereotypically clean and smell of cologne (boom boom!)

I rather hoped the reek was K(u)nt Ertugrul shitting himself as Phorm's share price went into meltdown.

Eee, it don't 'alf pen and ink!

Ever been to the thames estuary at 5am?

It stinks of amonia as the sluice gates release the sewage into the outgoing tide. It really stinks and popular holiday beaches can be observe condoms and toilet paper floating with the tide. I've seen it and smelt it myself.

Now i live inland; a long way inland

re : Whose inhabitants are better known as garlic munching, cheese eating surrender monkeys? France

As opposed to the blubbing sailors who keeled over when the nasty Iranians hijacked them.

Oh, those would be the Rosbif surrender monkeys, wouldn't they?

"When danger reared its ugly head

They bravely turned their tails and fled

Brave, brave, brave brave RN etc" (python arr AC)

But then again, I'm in New Zealand, a safe distance from any french above the high tide mark...