No wonder I'm an atheist then.

Still, I feel more secure about my rights of worship (or non-worship) in a modern christian regime than in a modern islamic one.

Ideally, I'd prefer to live in a secular regime, but since the western nations have become more religious in response to a perceived religious threat, that's not likely to happen now.

The christian nations mostly gave up their expansion on religous grounds after the 30 years war (though happily finding other reasons to wage war); islamic nations are still expanding on the basis of religion. They're pushing out in Africa (Chad and Sudan), south (Thailand) and central Asia (that would be the chechin part, right across central Asia up to Mongolia) and Australasia (specifically the southern part of the Philippines). In all western nations, they're pushing out from the inside attempting to get sharia law established in all nations that have a significant islamic minority.

I do not want to live under sharia law. I'm atheist, not anti-theist, but islam as a nation truly does scare me.

What is your take on the muslims pushing out the boundries of the islamic nation in Sudan, Chad, Thailand, and the Philippines?

Is it that Islam is a peaceful religion and all these places are traditionally muslim, so the muslims there are merely defending themselves?

Ammonia's about all it takes.

Are you saying that if one has access to ammonia, one should be investigated more closely?

Do you have access to ammonia?

Except, again, the christian book does not tell them it's okay to do these things while the islamic one does.

Those christians killing "in the name of God" are going against their religion's teachings (for instance "Those who live by the sword die by the sword" and the requirement to turn one's cheek and offer the other one when slapped), while those muslims doing so are doing so with the blessing of their book which tells them it is okay to lie, cheat, steal and kill non-believers along with those who actively oppose Islam. (I give you Sura 9 if you doubt me, try 9:5 and 9:29 for example.)

Good point, except that the crusades were 800 years ago and this is going on now...

The fact that Sudanese animists, Thai buddhists, and Philippine christians are all currently fighting for their lives against muslim invaders makes the comparison justified.

As a matter of fact, yes... I can always tell when I had Mini-wheats the night before by the scent of wheat wafting up from the morning pee.

Or like one of the other replies, asparagus is well known for carrying its smell through to your urine.

Trained dogs are used to detect cancer in people - so the idea of smelling out disease is not new.

After a really good steak, I smell like prime beef (sweating gravy?). Hence the vegetarians complaining about "meat stink".

It's amazing what a person can observe if one pays attention.

The adage you're looking for is: "It's always easier to apologise than to ask permission."

If noone catches you for not asking permission, then you're free and clear; but if someone does catch you, it's a second opportunity to look good and you've saved all the time from asking permission for all the times you weren't caught.

Not only urine, but mere sweat contains uric acid and so the jeans must have developed that distinctive ammonia based "stale urine" scent.

Urine being sterile or not, still stinks. And old urine stinks more.

...When they were scrabbling to find exoplanets one at a time?

I'll say it again: we live in interesting times.