The stuff at Truck Stops to make life on the road doable is really kind of interesting. The most interesting to me is "Idle Air," this set of gantries in the lot with tubes hanging down that mate with one of the side windows to provide AC, electric, TV, and internet without having the truck idle all night. It's an impressively large amount of infrastructure.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Damn that is pretty cool. I don't know if I've ever seen or heard about that before

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

I guess they're not as popular now, as trucks have become smarter and more electrified so they don't have to idle as much while still being able to power increasingly efficient devices, plus I guess people just abused the everliving fuck out of them, but it's such an interesting solution to a problem "normal" people wouldn't think about, and one with very visible infrastructure.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They would have made a fortune on placing these in high school locker rooms.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What's funny is that you (and I) associate cologne with high school, but adult men were spraying that shit on themselves from like the 50s to the 90s. Then Axe Body Spray took over the youth market, and a lot of boys coming of age started reevaluating their life choices. Smoking in public also became rare, and generally people started smelling better without the need for fragrances.

I can't remember the last time I used cologne or smelled it on another person. But my laundry, shampoo, body wash, and beard balm all have their own fragrances.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Smoking in public also became rare, and generally people started smelling better without the need for fragrances.

This has got to be a big part of it in two different ways: smokers wanting to cover their own stink, but also smokers having reduced sense of smell!

[–] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

also smokers having reduced sense of smell!

Nowadays I feel like people have nuked their sense of smell with fragrance generally. I trip to anyone else's house and I get headaches from the amount of automatic fragrance despensers, reed diffusers, essential oil atomisers, scented this that and the other on top of bombing themselves with strongly scented body products and sprays.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 44 minutes ago

In my experience, it's fortunately not too common. I disliked potpourri (headaches...) but the essential oil diffusers are so much worse.

I feel like people have scented things for as long as I can remember, but maybe how we're doing it has changed.

I personally like it when my home smells like "nothing," even when I come back to it after being gone a while. Smelling changes in humidity, level of dust, or anything else is pretty great.

[–] NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago

Where are you if you don’t mind me asking? I feel like I’m not running into this on the US west coast

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It feels mostly regional to me. The vibe I get is that Americans especially don’t really care for fragrances while here in the Middle East it’s a goddamn stereotype of us Lebanese men that we wear too much cologne.

(Or as I have grown up to understand it, just about enough cologne)

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Good point, I'm only speaking from my experience in the Mid-Atlantic US region. It's probably different everywhere.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Very regional. I live in Colombia and literally every single person wears perfume or cologne. I’m the odd one for not wearing scents like that.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't remember the last time I used cologne or smelled it on another person.

God, I wish that was me. For whatever reason a bunch of people here (but especially people 50 and up as you noted) wear heavy perfume/cologne. I’ll admit to being moderately smell-sensitive, but sometimes even walking 15 or 20 feet behind them will leave me STILL smelling it!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Sorry, that was my wife and I.

[–] somewhiteguy@infosec.pub 2 points 22 hours ago

I find it's very regional inside of the US. It depends on a few factors, but age, prominance, and locality to a "night-life" tends to be the primary ones I find. I live very rural in Southern US, and it's hit or miss if I ever smell a guy with cologne, but when I do it's the guy I know goes out a lot and lives in-town or much older.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

They would have been exclusively filled with axe though.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 day ago

Fools would spray themselves in the eyes.

[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is this new or novel? Every gas station I remember from growing up had these next to the condom vending dispensers. Even Wal-Mart had them.

[–] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

I remember those being in bars forever, the vending machine with the massive knob on top to turn for all the options, but I always thought they dispensed tiny bottles, not a spray out of the machine like this

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Find me one irl I’ll wait

Haven’t seen them in nearly twenty years. Especially one not next to a condom dispenser.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

First time I'm seeing this. Didn't even know something like this existed, though, I guess it does make sense.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Find me one irl I’ll wait

How are you being so snobby in claiming that they cannot find something that you literally have just shown exists in the wild, especially when they're implying they've seen them before..?

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Think you’re taking my comment a bit too seriously if you think I’m being snobby lol.

The dude came into a mildly interesting post and was like “ugh seen it (years ago)” which I found hilarious bc once again it’s mildly interesting post

I haven’t seen one of these bad boys in a while so yeah to me it’s a bit interesting this one’s still kicking when it was probably installed 20 years ago

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

"Do XYZ I'll wait" is always gonna sound snobby, even if it's just a joke 🤷🏾‍♂️ to be clear I'm completely on your side. Even if these were super common in one area or another, if you find it at least mildly interesting, it's in the right place. The opener to your comment just read as super defensive to me.

[–] Graphy@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Hah I think I’d call it snarky instead of snobby then since my goal was to be snarky.

The dude came into a post asking insincerely if something was new because their childhood was raining cologne dispensers and condoms like that’s supposed to still be the case twenty years later.

Like be real with me dawg

[–] FahrenheitGhost@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Now we know where all the overstock from the early 90s went.....

[–] perniciousanteater@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Too bad it's missing Cool Water

[–] cdf12345@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

And if you step into mine, you know it’s Drakkar Noir

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago

> trying to pay for the smell of water

Oh Americans!

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I love that drakkar is in there. Didn't know that was still a thing, but I would do that one just for Nostalgia.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's funny that's the only one that caught my eyes and I have no idea what it is. All I can think is you would smell like burnt offerings and dragon blood?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

I wonder what thay would smell like.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

Seriously. Game of Thrones is over. No one wants to smell like horse folk anymore.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Me too, then we'd head over to the nearest target/walmart to pick up chicks.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Surprised it doesn't have a QR code for grindr lol

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Cologne is nasty to begin with, but these truck stop "replicas" are probably even worse!

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The lot lizards seem to love it and that's all that matters.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These are for guys who think they’re masking their BO, but aren’t. There’s no substitute for a shower, dude.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those same truck stops have showers and truckers use them all the time.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 23 hours ago

Oh, I know. I’m talking about the gross few who don’t use them.