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hedgehog

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4. I've never understood how staying inside is supposed to

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2014, 02:31 PM

Nov 2014

protect you from pollution.

The description of the smell reminds me of how the steel mills smelled in the old days. Maybe some plant lost its baghouse (if such anti-pollution equipment is used in Russia).

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Russian capital Moscow shrouded in noxious gas [View all] Bosonic Nov 2014 OP

Another reason to invade Ukraine. ChairmanAgnostic Nov 2014 #1

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I've never understood how staying inside is supposed to hedgehog Nov 2014 #4

It's how paper mills smell now. JoeyT Nov 2014 #8

Thanks for that info. Why is it worse if you know it's there but can't smell it? mahina Nov 2014 #9

IIRC it causes olfactory fatigue JoeyT Nov 2014 #13

whoa! mahina Nov 2014 #16

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went to school up there years ago-some mornings when leaving the dorm dembotoz Nov 2014 #17

I drive everyday right by a cardboard factory that never smells. NutmegYankee Nov 2014 #23

I think more of this Duckhunter935 Nov 2014 #5

Sounds More Like An Air Inversion DallasNE Nov 2014 #6

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Hehe. nt ZombieHorde Nov 2014 #21

Proof positive the hot air & propaganda Putin spews is toxic. Go figure! nt William769 Nov 2014 #10

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Putin farted. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #18

I knew I should have stayed away from this thread. DU approaches kindergarten level. Comrade Grumpy Nov 2014 #19

Speaking of kindergarten ... tabasco Nov 2014 #20

Don't mind him. ZombieHorde Nov 2014 #22

Obviously a Nuland/CIA plot. NT Adrahil Nov 2014 #25

maybe they opened a Chipotles in Moscow, their burritos always give me noxious gas. olddad56 Nov 2014 #26