Stinking rich
The billionaire backing efforts to perfume the world’s problem pongs
Last November, Bill Gates knowingly gifted the world’s caption writers an open goal by holding a flask under his nostrils and breathing in the worst smell in the world. Manfully keeping a straight face under extreme olfactory duress, he described it as ‘a potent combination of sewage stink, barnyard sweat, and bitter ammonia topped off with vomit – or was it parmesan cheese?’