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Probably smelling the ozone off the capacitors or something. Maybe it’s time to replace the TV. 🙂
yes. i am pregnant and i sit next to a soda machine at work and i can smell it. in fact – i called facilities in my building b/c it smelled like like this weird chemical burning ” electrical” smell that was like – undetectable to anyone else who sits near me – and sure enough they had to replace parts inside b/c it was going to short out.
That’s really cool!
Or maybe she’s smelling copper or something?
When I was pregnant I could smell what people ate for lunch on their clothes hours after they are from across the room. It was so weird. Why does Amanda Seyfried annoy me so much? but her dog is cute.
Is that an Australian Shepherd?
Yup, that is her famous dog, Finn. Seriously..google him.
Finn’s really going to be a great big brother.
WHY ISN’T THERE A MONTHLY CALENDAR OF FINN.
IF DRUMPF IS REALLY GOING TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN THE LEAST HE CAN GIVE US IS THIS.
*ahem* sorry y’all, I’m done now.
she got her ring and her man got her baby and doggie…. now how that happened ….cant tell her NOTHING lol
I can feel when things are on, just energy in the air. Like a TV or stereo on in the house somewhere drives me crazy! It’s not a sound, just energy if that makes any sense.
I hate cheap LED lights because they make me feel like I’m in a vibrating headache room of dizziness and my husband has no idea what in talking about. but i banished every LED Christmas light strand from our home, i cannot handle them.
Me too! It’s hard to explain. I tell my husband I can ‘hear’ it but it’s more of combination of senses or something. Idk.
+1
Not unlikely at all. Some people can be very sensitive to house circuitry in particular. They usually say it seems like noise, although the brain can interpret it in other ways as well. Maybe it’s a frequency thing and some people are just unusually sensitive to that frequency. Our sense of smell can also be quite sensitive sometimes, so I can believe that some people can pick up odors from overheated or burning circuit elements or even just the odor of heated plastic insulation around the wiring. I’m sensitive to volatiles out -gassed by certain soft plastics and used to have to place activated charcoal pads all over the offending equipment until the outgassing stopped. For one monitor, a really good air cleaner right next to it helped a lot to speed up the process. Apple products never bothered me (computers or monitors), I always assumed they used a much harder plastic.
Some people can’t stand fluorescent lights, possibly because the fluctuations are noticeable to them.
I’m one of those who can’t handle fluorescent lights. They give me a headache.
My mother seems to have a weird intermittent effect on electrics- she can’t wear digital watches because they stop working soon after she puts one on. She walks under streetlights and they go out, and come back on after she passes–not all of them, or all time, but frequently enough that it gives the appearance of more than coincidence. Batteries in her iPhone/iPad tend not to hold charge for very long. She’s had odd experiences like that her whole life, and she’s 86. Strange.
I’ve had a form of that, off and on, not so much lately but it used to happen a lot when I was younger. I worked in an office with a ton of electronic equipment and the machines “liked” me and no one else. I could always fix them and operate them but they would always jam and and die when others used them. It was the weirdest damn thing and everybody in the office, and there were about 45-50 people working there, knew about this weird effect I had. Anytime they had a problem with the machines, they would call me over to fix it, and I wasn’t the IT person or the service person for the various machines and computers, I just had the knack.
I wonder how having a baby is going to affect her relationship with her dog. She is so close to that dog…hopefully she can balance both equally so doggy doesn’t feel left out.
Aussies, as a breed, tend to be pretty protective of their people, and fairly maternal. I’m guessing there will be 3 parents in that family.
Can her breasts also tell when it’s raining?
My left one can!
Well all of me can tell when it is raining and I’ve never been pregnant.
lol!!!
Classic
When you are pregnant you can smell f*cking everything and it’s nasty. I believe her!
Absolutely! Intense smells during pregnancy are something I don’t miss. I was completely unable to cook red meat for my husband, as the smell nauseated me horribly. And shops that had heavily perfumed candles burning saw me leave as soon as I walked in.
Never been pregnant, but the smell of ground beef cooking makes me want to vomit. LOL damn I’m thinking I just have a naturally heightened sense of smell. I can’t even go into candle stores…the smell is too much.
First time I went to Ikea when I got to the candles bit I had to get away quickly because it affected my asthma straight away.
I had never had trouble with smells before pregnancy, but I had to leave the house when we were cooking ground beef, or anything with onions!
I could smell water boiling and the chemicals in my furniture when I was preggo. Had to sleep in a different bed because my armoire smelled like a chemical plant.
Hot Dumb Girl Thinks She Has Extra Sensory Perception
lol!
Cute, except that a heightened sense of smell is very common in pregnant women.
Yeah except electricity doesn’t have a smell….soooooooo that’s not what she’s smelling!
Pinetree- the brain interprets it as a smell but that doesn’t guarantee the source is olfactory. She could be hearing something when the circuit is active, or feeling it in her body.
It might actually be an odor from the materials used in the circuitry, however. If she definitely senses it only when the circuit is live, that could be due to heated metal or plastic. The materials still have an odor without electrical current running through the wires, however, just not as noticeable. Very definitely there are many odors in any electrical equipment, as I’ve observed both in the lab and elsewhere (I’m used to teach college-level electronic), and not just the ones from burning resistors due to students refusing to do the calculation before turning on the power…. There are also a lot of sounds that some people pick up better than others, depending on how sensitive they are to the frequencies.
I know when I was pregnant, I could smell weird things I could never smell before….but, never electricity. Like many have stated prior to my post, perhaps time to get a new television.
I couldn’t use public washrooms, the smell in them literally made me vomit. It was so embarrassing for me because at the time I worked at a cosmetics counter..at a freaking mall of all places!!
F.Y.I public washrooms smell bad to everyone, pregnant or not lol. I still have nightmares about this one washroom at a gas station…I never made it inside…just opened the door (which had no damn lock on it), saw the disaster someone left behind and ran for my life !
Oh geez I’m pregnant now and everyone farts!! Seriously two people I interacted with recently were just swimming in stench. A crowded restaurant or concert is my version of hell right now, people are so gross! Oh and so many people don’t wash their hair 🙁
When I was pregnant with my first I was still working outside the house and riding metro; a shocking number of people do not brush their teeth in the morning and I could only sense it so frequently when I was pregnant. God. awful.
Had the heightened sense of smell when pregnant. It is not a blessing! Couldn’t walk into the kitchen, even after the hubby wiped everything down with bleach, because it smelled rotten. Finally found a small piece of the wrapper from some ground beef at the bottom of the wastebasket, and that was enough to make me want to vomit. Cried one night because he was cooking something and used garlic powder. I remember thinking, I’ll have to move out of the house because I couldn’t live there anymore and it was so cold outside, there was no escape. He cooked broccoli one night, thinking to make me something healthy, and I couldn’t handle it. They poor guy! I actually have co-workers that work with air quality/odor complaints, and they would fetch me when they had a tough time finding the source of an odor. Fun times.
I remember the first time I was pregnant my sense of smell went up a zillion times, if someone drank alcohol the night before I could tell them exactly what! Cigarettes and beer smells were the worst, even though I thoroughly enjoyed both before getting knocked up. The second time around I didn’t know I was pregnant and my then fiancé had planned a surprise trip to vegas for us, I kept commenting on all the different smells, it was the craziest thing, I could pick out 5 different perfumes and each woman wearing them when we were in a crowded space, and the smell of the carpets or yes oddly even the electricity, lol. My sudden sense of smell and insane thirst for water(to the point of wanting to stop a stranger and ask for a sip of his) should’ve tipped me off to being pregnant.
I don’t want to imagine when I get pregnant because my sense of smell is already insane…
The heightened sense of smell is how I knew I was pregnant the second time. It’s not the actual electricity you can smell, it’s the almost imperceptible odors that products emanate when electricity passes through them.
I can believe this…my husband had surgery during my last pregnancy. I had a very hard time being around him after-like it changed his “smell” if that makes sense? Maybe the anesthesia? I would gag😷 I generally love his smell…
You were like a cat! Supposedly cats are infamous for hissing at their companions after the companion had a trip to the vet, and the rationale is that the companion smells different. I did see a little bit of gentle hissing after one cat came back from a rough spaying operation, but that also could have been due to other odors due to her stress level and altered behavior. The hisser sniffed her first. Senior cat was very sick with liver inflammation last year and his foster daughter hissed quietly at him (again, after sniffing) once before I took him to the vet. I think she was bugged by his behavior (hiding under a shelving unit), but she also might have picked up on the different odor due to the illness. She never did it again, but he responded fairly quickly to an antibiotic so his smell might have seemed more normal even though he was still camping out under the shelving.
Antibiotics. Two of my kids had antibiotics shortly after delivery and there was a marked, noticeable, disgusting smell once they were given the antibiotics vs prior to. That stuff smells heinous. Or at least it does when you’re pregnant/just not pregnant.
I’ve heard that heightened smell during pregnancy is a leftover evolutionary trait that we don’ really need anymore–something about smelling predators and protected the species and all that. All I know is it’s annoying as f*ck. I’m a librarian in a busy public library and I could hardly work thru each pregnancy because people STINK. And they return materials that STINK. Cigarette smoke was always the worst (along with cooking meat like others have mentioned).
Ok I gotta ask, so everyone would stink except you? You never smelled bad to yourself?
I can imagine two pregnant women coming up to each other and yelling you stink! No you stink! No you!
Btw babies smell worst of all since they’re always in diapers and shitting themselves. Luckily that heightened sense of smell goes away or some women would have serious problems while changing diapers lol
It’s not uncommon to not react to our own odors unless they are different from normal. The brain must just blank it out somehow.
Wow, unnecessarily rude (repeatedly even). We’re sharing humorous, anectdotal stories about how not fun heightened pregnancy smell can be. Big freaking deal. I’m guessing you’ve never been pregnant, because if you had you’d maybe be a bit more sympathetic and alot less snarky.
In my post I mentioned I work in a public library. I stand a foot away from hundreds of people a day from all walks of life. People that don’t bathe very frequently, people that wear a gallon of cologne/perfume, heavy smokers, people with poor dental hygiene, people who work in kitchens & carry the smell of cooking grease & stale food, lots of babies/children and the smells they can bring, etc. Some of those fragrances are difficult on a good day but are literally intolerable with a heightened sense of smell. Does literally every single person or scent ‘stink’? Of course not. Don’t be obtuse.
Also, one’s olfactory receptors become accustomed to frequent smells and doesn’t react the same way over time-hence why people don’t notice their ‘own brand.’ So, I may very well stink to some people but not to myself-altho I bathe frequently & don’t wear perfume). However, I don’t think I compare to people like the dude who hasn’t showered since who knows when with literally rotting teeth who reeks of pot and lord knows what else that likes to stand too close and laugh inappropriately.
Oh, and most babies for at least the first six months or so (until they start eating actual food) don’t usually ‘stink from sh*tting themselves.’ It’s also very tiny amounts. So, we can change diapers just fine.
Seriously, are you 14? This is a known condition in pregnancy and your hostility to this fact is… trumpian.
This is unrelated but does anyone know who made Amanda’a blue sweater in the first couple of photos? I really love it!
I tried searching everything I could think of. It no luck.
Oooohhhh I’m so pregnant and special now and I can do and feel and smell ALL THE THINGS like only pregnant ladies can #pleasestop
Well her career went down the drain, all she can do now is be famous for her personal life
My friend is like that during pregnancies. Her olfactory sense is so hypersensitive that I’ve seen her gag over food that the average person would still consider edible. Electricity has this weird, “ozone-y” smell to it if it’s running through a wire that’s hot enough to stir up the air around it. Not surprised a pregnant woman can smell it.
Another good reason not to get pregnant. Will menopause make me smell ghosts and hear rainbows too?
Menopause sucks, I hope it is easier for you than me, but it’s like reverse puberty. Your body changes, your moods swing, I won’t detail all the unpleasantness. Or you can be like my mother and sail through it, no problem.
That dog is everything. He needs his own reality show. He’s so beautiful
What I’ve gathered from this thread is that A. Keys farted and is super sensitive about it.
That’s what I was thinking too.
I have migraine, and my neurologist told me that a lot of these types of extreme sensitivities are common with people who have “migraine brains”. I’ve always been able to smell electricity, when I was little i drove my parents nuts because I would cry any time we went into certain stores because the combination of the smell, the high pitched sound and the effects of the fluorescent lights made it that much worse.
That being said, my hypersensitive nose has been useful in the past as well; I’ve detected 2 carbon monoxide leaks, both which I was told were “impossible to smell.” One of them was so bad, the gas man said that he was amazed my family was still alive. Thank God we live in a drafty old house!
I get migraines frequently (usually at least 6 a month, sometimes more) and honestly – my sense of smell is ALWAYS way better than most peoples. When I’m in migraine mode, it’s even more strong. It’s awful. There’s a guy at work that smokes a lot and drinks a lot of coffee. I swear it’s like he chews on cat litter or something; his breath is always so bad. I’ve almost thrown up multiple times when he’s standing at the cubicle next to mine talking to our team lead.
Last night I kept smelling smoke. Drove my husband crazy because he couldn’t smell it, and we had the wood stove going. But it wasn’t the smell from our stove. He took the dog out and sure enough down the road he saw a neighbour burning a pile of brush.
My sense of hearing is also pretty good – I don’t know if being decently near sighted has made me rely on other senses more, or what. But some days working in a large office is honestly the worst.
Same. Migraine brain and all, and I can almost always smell carbon monoxide (my grandparents’ farmhouse is from 19th century. Wood-oven heating, no indoors plumbing, you know the deal). I instantly know if there’s carbon monoxide in the hair because of how it smells.
My sense of smell used to make me really paranoid as a kid because I’d read from some pop-med magazine that the smelling of smells that no one else seems to be able to might point to a brain cancer. So for a few years as a pre-teen I genuinely thought I was gonna die. So there’s a fun story.
It’s also why I don’t eat any fish but herring slathered in sour cream, or a sprat sandwich with A LOT OF smell and taste-neutralising butter. Fish and seafood have, without fail, the worst of the worst of smells and I can’t understand how people can eat it without gagging.
Doesn’t surprise me to hear this; pregnancy does all sorts of crazy to you!