Timeline for Does Venice smell?
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| Oct 13, 2017 at 10:25 | comment | added | WGroleau | And yet, I too was in Venice the summer of 2013 and it did stink. However, I have smelt far worse outside of a bathroom at an unfortunate time. We quickly got used to it and it did not interfere with our enjoyment of our other senses. | |
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| Sep 2, 2014 at 7:57 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
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| Sep 2, 2014 at 6:48 | comment | added | techturtle | I visited Venice in 1997, and while the main canals had no discernible odors (aside from being seawater), many of the smaller canals did have a noticeable stink (especially the farther back you got from the main ones). Seems in the mid 1990s they started to step up the canal cleaning, and I believe they planned to keep it up as well. | |
| Sep 1, 2014 at 20:37 | comment | added | Prometheus | "...results can only be replicated by expanding some parameters of the myth by a realistic and reasonable margin." - start dumping sewage again to replicate the original smell. | |
| Sep 1, 2014 at 20:33 | comment | added | Fattie | Hmm, I don't see any connection to 'plausible'? It was completely true; and is now completely not true, due to a specific change. Is the tower of pisa falling over? It was; but not now. | |
| Sep 1, 2014 at 20:25 | comment | added | Prometheus | So the myth is Plausible (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters#Plausible)! | |
| Sep 1, 2014 at 20:12 | history | answered | Greg Hewgill | CC BY-SA 3.0 |