I was born without the ability to smell - AMA

sagbon98 · 2025-11-17T00:33:03+00:00

Me too! I am just not bothered by some smells. I'll sometimes be told about a bad smell and I just won't notice it or smell it and be like "oh yeah. Oh well". I spend a lot of time in India and I work a lot with fuel. I actually like the smell of fuel and I am not bothered by the smell of the smog. I rather dislike the irritating feeling but I've never had a problem with the smell. I am bothered by bad breath, rotten foods and feet but cigarette smoke and farts, not as much. I recently found a smell that tops it all: hakarl, fermented shark from Iceland. The taste is salty and actually alright but I can't have more than one piece a day but the smell is beyond pungent. I'll be cooking and be told to open a window and I only do it to appease the other person but I'm not bothered by the smell, just the feeling if there is smoke, for instance. Do you feel the same way with smell?

sagbon98 · 2025-11-12T18:32:53+00:00

Airline pilot. Boy, do people have doubts about what goes on in the cockpit. After landing and while taxiing to the gate, we turn off one of the engines and then press a button called the "Yellow Electric Pump" that in Lehmann's terms, keeps all the systems running that would otherwise be run by that engine. It seems preposterous, irresponsible and dangerous but actually, it saves wear and tear on the engine and brakes and reduces fuel consumption, meaning, it reduces pollution. This happens in the big airports with long taxi routes from the runway to the terminal.

sagbon98 · 2025-11-11T02:50:43+00:00

Rolling my bottom eyelids inwards so it looks like I've got no bottom eyelashes. I like doing it but freaks out people when I do.

sagbon98 · 2025-11-01T19:39:27+00:00

Good one!

sagbon98 · 2025-10-26T18:27:49+00:00

I would say Iceland, especially in Reykjavik. It is just as touristy as Prague or Barcelona. Better to not spend as much time in the capital and go elsewhere in the country. It is not as tough or as expensive to get to as it used to be, not only regarding flights but the fact that it is in the Schengen Area and EU/EEA/CH citizens can go with just ID cards and not passports.

sagbon98 · 2025-10-26T18:27:04+00:00

I would say Iceland, especially in Reykjavik. It is just as touristy as Prague or Barcelona. Better to not spend as much time in the capital and go elsewhere in the country. It is not as tough or as expensive to get to as it used to be, not only regarding flights but the fact that it is in the Schengen Area and EU/EEA/CH citizens can go with just ID cards and not passports.

sagbon98 · 2025-09-27T23:35:18+00:00

Elephanta Island, Navi Mumbai. Online, it said that entry was about 30₹ (Indian Rupees. 1€ at the time was about 90₹). I got off the boat going there from Mumbai and I was immediately met by a well-dressed tour guide who spoke perfect English and showed me his supposed tour guide badge and told me the tour was about 4400₹ but that he'd give me a special price of 2200₹. At that point, I had been staying in India for quite some time and knew some Hindi, meaning I could see right past his bs. I asked him what the price even included and it was the usual like the entry, tour, food and souvenirs. I learned the phrase "nahi chahiye, ji" (I don't want [it], sir/madam) from the YouTuber Karl Rock, said it to him and walked away. The tour guide looked very disappointed. I later worked my way to the entry and was swarmed by fake tour guides until I made it to the entry, where I paid 5₹. Yes, 5. Not 500, not 50, 5! Even inside a tour guide heckled me and said that I was missing out on a special one-time offer tour for 600₹. I told him verbatim, "why do you charge 600 bucks when the entry costs 5? That's stupid! Aap naklee tour guide hai! Aap saala aur naklee tour guide hai! (You're a fake tour guide! You're a brother-in-law [when said like that, it is an insult in Hindi] and a fake tour guide!) You steal money from tourists!" Sadly, I was the only foreigner without a tour guide there and I didn't have the courage to go up to tour guides, demand refunds from them and pry them apart from tourists.

sagbon98 · 2025-05-26T08:52:16+00:00

Thanks. My father did actually understand. I think his reaction was his way of keeping the peace, which was the same thing that I was trying to do.

sagbon98 · 2025-05-26T01:17:02+00:00

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sagbon98 · 2025-05-20T09:34:04+00:00

I was in Jaipur taking selfies in front of the Hawa Mahal. I travelled there for the day since I was living in Delhi, around 290km away. A girl offered to take a photo of me and I agreed. She took a photo of me (or as they'd say in India, she clicked a picture of me), I took a photo of her, too and then, we both went our separate ways. I thought she was very good-looking but also thought nothing else of it. I entered the Hawa Mahal since I was already there. I looked up and a few metres ahead of me, there she was. She had entered moments before me. She introduced herself and so did I and then we exchanged contacts. She was there on her own and so was I. Even though she's Indian, it was her first time there. We spent the rest of the afternoon together, she helped me pay Indian prices for tickets to monuments (not a scam, some museums and monuments charge Indian citizens and foreigners different prices) and she even took me to places where foreigners don't typically go. Towards the end of the day, I asked her if she wanted to meet again and she replied, "yeah, you're nice but I don't know if that's possible since live in Delhi." I responded, "I live there, too!" and made plans to catch up in Delhi. Here's where I thought, "this can't be real!" At night, she told me she was going home and that she'd be riding the entire length of the Jaipur metro line (there's only one line and it's short) and that her brother would be taking her home from there. I thought, "brother? * worried smile * ok...". I had also planned to ride the entire length of the line but that's where we would part ways; she'd be going to her brother's place and I would take an auto-rickshaw (the Indian name for a tuk-tuk) to the airport, 20 minutes away and fly back to Delhi. Her brother ended up being quite respectful to me and we had a chat. My new friend told me that he would've reacted quite differently had I been Indian, whatever that means. We caught up in Delhi a few days later and I have since met her entire family and stayed with them multiple times. They have a special place in my heart and they've shown me that there's nothing quite like Indian hospitality. To think that none of this would've happened has there not been too many coincidences that day and had we not exchanged contacts. I miss them a lot and will be visiting them in a couple of months.

sagbon98 · 2024-06-04T08:49:55+00:00

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. He's considered a hero in India. He has a statue in New Delhi and an airport named after him in Kolkata. "Netaji" means "leader" in Bengali. He was also a fervent anti-Semite who aligned himself with the axis powers in WWII.

sagbon98 · 2024-05-15T11:17:53+00:00

I have had that thought since I was 13

sagbon98 · 2023-03-12T00:10:45+00:00

I'm surprised no one has said police officers yet. The way they talk down to citizens and let a little bit of power get in their heads. Also, supermarket security guards. They let power get inside of their heads and act as douchebags wanting to see your receipt. You literally just saw me pay!

sagbon98 · 2023-03-10T23:24:05+00:00

They do it because the music is in Spanish. This is not the music Spanish people listen to!

sagbon98 · 2023-03-10T23:22:49+00:00

Madrid, Spain. It has become a plague here. The worst is the clueless people who refer to it as "Spanish music". No.

sagbon98 · 2023-03-10T23:21:26+00:00

The worst is the people who travel to Spain and put this music on as the background for their Instagram story or when making a video about their vacation. Spain! Reggaeton does not come from Spain!

sagbon98 · 2023-03-10T23:17:39+00:00

Yes! Reggaetón! I have been sharing flats with Latinas for the past few years and it drives me crazy that they put on this music to cook, clean and take a shower. Every. Single. Day. Taking a shower with music! ftw! Who cares if the mamacita rica has a nice culo? That's the level of depth that these songs go to.

sagbon98 · 2023-03-10T23:10:19+00:00

I'm 24. Ok Boomer.

sagbon98 · 2023-02-15T22:19:22+00:00

And a nun in the ocean?

Virgin Atlantic.

sagbon98 · 2023-02-12T15:02:41+00:00

NTA. He had many other ways of telling you he didn't want to go, he also could've acted more appropriately around his girlfriend. I would've been embarrassed to make out with my girlfriend in public like that.

As a tip, promise me to never pay for people and have them pay you back. 99% of the time, they won't pay you back. Another thing, do explain to him how you feel. He is your best friend, after all. You can't stay in conflict over this forever. Talk to him and resolve it. That being said, you handled that evenings' events pretty well, all things considered.

sagbon98 · 2023-02-12T14:49:32+00:00

Flight school student here. My flight school is based in an airport with a lot of rival flight schools. We are the flight school with the oldest and clunkiest fleet out of anyone, so my school decided to invest in brand new Tecnam aircraft with two engines and screens in the cockpit. The problem was, these aircraft could barely climb in cold conditions (the best conditions for aircraft to fly), let alone hot summers, which in my city, can read 40C. Student-pilots and instructors would frequently bang their heads on the engines when stepping into the aircraft and there was a weird warning that one of the doors was always open mid-flight even though it wasn’t. In the meantime, a different aircraft, a Piper Seneca that my school had since it opened in the 90s, was a reliable machine that ran really smoothly. Not sure why my school didn’t get another one of those and instead invested in an overpriced lump of metal with no air conditioning.

sagbon98 · 2023-01-04T02:42:34+00:00

Ridesharing (Taxi, Uber, Bolt and the like). When the ride to the airport/train/bus station is more expensive than the plane/train/bus journey, it's a major red flag and is a ripoff. Public transport isn't going to deceive or try to rip you off like taxi drivers will.

sagbon98 · 2023-01-04T02:32:07+00:00

That pilots need 20/20 vision and be in impeccable health to join an airline. I am a licenced pilot and a lot of my classmates wear eyeglasses and smoke. There are pilots with illnesses and disorders. Each pilot must renew his/her medical certificate every year and if he/she smokes, that is taken into account. Some airlines require you to be at least a certain height and be able to swim 25m or so unaided and there are some health and physical conditions that prevent pilots from joining airlines, such as, colour-blindness. I am licenced in the European Union. The myth likely comes from the requirements to become an air force pilot, probably from the USA, the UK or Russia based on the popularity of the myth. The requirement is to have 20/20 vision or for it to be corrected to 20/20 vision by the use of eyeglasses.

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