Which of course raised the issue - is someone exercising an inalienable human right by flaunting bad body odour, or might they be contravening some (possibly less than explicit) behavioural code about What Is Acceptable In The Workplace?
Which led to the even more interesting discussion of... nipples. Are nipples allowed? Mostly, male nipples are allowed out in public - though possibly not in polite company - and female nipples are liable to be considered "publicly indecent", unless of course they're attached to nubile African dancers in traditional outfits luring Deutschmark out of the pockets of tourists on the Waterfront. However, the question here was not so much as allowing them out in public, but allowing their visibility through clothing. Should nipples be visible at all?
Carnivorous Cow failed to see the difference between the male and female varieties on this score - both genders had them, why should visibility be tolerated of one gender but not another, simply on the basis of, well, prominence?
But there was contention about even the first part of that - one of the males present argued that he had no nipples. Photographic evidence was sought - see "more", below - and a random sample of people consulted, and all agreed that, yes, those were nipples. And if their owner could walk around with them scantily covered, visible through a thin cotton shirt or a babygro, how could he object to a colleague similarly allowing hers to be visible?
Cows, of course, are used to their mammaries being commercially exploited, so are perhaps not best placed to make the call, but somewhere, in a department which is suffering through the thick fog of bad body odour, some line manager is currently facing the prospect of deciding Whether or Not Nipples Should Be Allowed.
And Carnivorous Cow is willing to bet that nothing in that person's job description prepared them for that!