Taking showers everyday is very American and unnecessary

[Freeper]

Star Member quinnox (16,883 posts)

Taking showers everyday is very American and unnecessary


 
I was reading articles about this, and it is even bad for your skin to take daily showers. Lots of Europeans apparently take a shower twice or even once a week. The rest of the time they do sponge baths. I do this as well. It is quick and easy. And I am a clean person, I don't smell. Some guys or people seem to have strong b.o., or they don't wear deodorant. I'm not one of them. Daily showers also waste huge amounts of water.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023402470

I bet you do smell. People are normally immune to their own body odor.

Star Member madokie (37,286 posts)
1. In the summer

some days I might take two or three showers a day. Always before I jump into the pool.
One thing I can't stand is to not take a shower after I do some work where it makes me sweat.
I'm 65 and been doing this for years.

Wow a DUmmy that does work and bathes. 

Star Member a la izquierda (7,779 posts)
6. I rarely shower daily...

And I wash my hair only twice a week. I rinse off before and after the pool or gym, but that's about it.

Gross.

Star Member RKP5637 (25,945 posts)
10. I don't really sweat and do not smell, it takes little deodorant for me. My dermatologist

said if one must shower daily, it is best not to use soap except on the hair and private parts ... the majority of soaps, he said, are way too drying, also he advised no hot showers. Anyway, he's one one the top rated dermatologists. That said, I think it varies a lot by the individual ... some people just plain easily smell.

Well if you don't bother to work I can see how you may not sweat much, but I bet you stink really bad. Imagine how horrible layers of deodorant after several days and no bathing must smell. It must smell like a GP medium tent after 2 weeks in the field.

magical thyme (4,536 posts)
11. I no longer have time to shower every day...

but in the summer, I tend to rinse off in the local lake while taking my dogs swimming. I only shower alternate days summer and winter, unless I've worked up a major, drenching sweat. My skin thanks me for it, I might add.

 

How does one not have 5 minutes to wash their ass every day?

[GOBUCKS]

Where do you find those dermatologist ratings?

You know, the ones that include the DUmmy's imaginary doctor.

[jukin]

Where do you find those dermatologist ratings?

You know, the ones that include the DUmmy's imaginary doctor.

Pretty sure that medicaid does not pay for the best doctors in any field or rather the best doctors in any field refuse to take medicaid.

[Aristotelian]

I always find it interesting that the DUmmies use 'American' as a negative thing.

Might be English, but wouldn't dream of going a day without showering.

[FlaGator]

I understand some of the people in Europe smell pretty ripe.

[GOBUCKS]

I understand some of the people in Europe smell pretty ripe.

Personal hygiene of the French is as legendary as British orthodontics.

[Dori]

I understand some of the people in Europe smell pretty ripe.

The French are known for their BO.  YUK

[Carl]

Never has their been a group so proud to be dirty,stinking pieces of crap as the left.

[obumazombie]

Riddle me this. Can you have no time to take a shower, but have time to take your dogs swimming in the lake ? magical thyme seems to think so.

[Mr Mannn]

Again and again, DUmmies present themselves as the pariah of society. No wonder even their own party relegates them to the DUmpster. No wonder Daily Kos gets the Democratic gatherings in Vegas and DU isn't invited.

[BlueStateSaint]

Again and again, DUmmies present themselves as the pariah of society. No wonder even their own party relegates them to the DUmpster. No wonder Daily Kos gets the Democratic gatherings in Vegas and DU isn't invited.

The Kossacks must wash at least every other day.

[Undies]

Daily showers also waste huge amounts of water.

Only if you are collecting it in drums and shooting it into outer space......otherwise, I think it's pretty much reused.

[obumazombie]

Only if you are collecting it in drums and shooting it into outer space......otherwise, I think it's pretty much reused.

You mean it's a renewable resource ?

[GOBUCKS]

Daily showers also waste huge amounts of water.

If you really want to see wasted water, go to New Orleans, where millions of gallons of fresh water are lost into the sea every second.

[DumbAss Tanker]

It depends on the individual body chemistry.  Some people could take three showers a day and barely be tolerable, others can go two or three days (If they don't work up a heavy sweat) and nobody notices.  It's an individual choice in a free country, the DUmmies have no business dictating to the populace what is 'Enough.'

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

So now we're supposed to also smell like the French as well.

[diesel driver]

It depends on the individual body chemistry.  Some people could take three showers a day and barely be tolerable, others can go two or three days (If they don't work up a heavy sweat) and nobody notices.  It's an individual choice in a free country, the DUmmies have no business dictating to the populace what is 'Enough.'

Yes, they do.

Just ask them.   

[jukin]

What is it about DUchebags that wants to take civilization back a hundred years? That is one reason i find the slogans "Forward" and "Progress" so hilarious when the left uses them.

[BattleHymn]

What is it about DUchebags that wants to take civilization back a hundred years? That is one reason i find the slogans "Forward" and "Progress" so hilarious when the left uses them.

Some things never change.  An excerpt from The Innocents Abroad, Chapter 19, when Mark Twain was traveling through Europe in 1867:

We have had a bath in Milan, in a public bath- house. They were going to put all three of us in one bath- tub, but we objected. Each of us had an Italian farm on his back. We could have felt affluent if we had been officially surveyed and fenced in. We chose to have three bathtubs, and large ones- tubs suited to the dignity of aristocrats who had real estate, and brought it with them. After we were stripped and had taken the first chilly dash, we discovered that haunting atrocity that has embittered our lives in so many cities and villages of Italy and France- there was no soap. I called. A woman answered, and I barely had time to throw myself against the door- she would have been in, in another second. I said:

"Beware, woman! Go away from here- go away, now, or it will be the worse for you. I am an unprotected male, but I will preserve my honor at the peril of my life!"

These words must have frightened her, for she skurried away very fast.

Dan's voice rose on the air:

"Oh, bring some soap, why don't you!"

The reply was Italian. Dan resumed:

"Soap, you know- soap. That is what I want- soap. S- o-a- p, soap; s- o-p- e, soap; s- o-u- p, soap. Hurry up! I don't know how you Irish spell it, but I want it. Spell it to suit yourself, but fetch it. I'm freezing."

I heard the doctor say impressively:

"Dan, how often have we told you that these foreigners cannot understand English? Why will you not depend upon us? Why will you not tell us what you want, and let us ask for it in the language of the country? It would save us a great deal of the humiliation your reprehensible ignorance causes us. I will address this person in his mother tongue: 'Here, cospetto! corpo di Bacco! Sacramento! Solferino!--Soap, you son of a gun!' Dan, if you would let us talk for you, you would never expose your ignorant vulgarity."

Even this fluent discharge of Italian did not bring the soap at once, but there was a good reason for it. There was not such an article about the establishment. It is my belief that there never had been. They had to send far up town, and to several different places before they finally got it, so they said. We had to wait twenty or thirty minutes. The same thing had occurred the evening before, at the hotel. I think I have divined the reason for this state of things at last. The English know how to travel comfortably, and they carry soap with them; other foreigners do not use the article.

At every hotel we stop at we always have to send out for soap, at the last moment, when we are grooming ourselves for dinner, and they put it in the bill along with the candles and other nonsense. In Marseilles they make half the fancy toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel, just as they have acquired an uncertain notion of clean shirts, and the peculiarities of the gorilla, and other curious matters.

[BlueStateSaint]

In Marseilles they make half the fancy toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel, just as they have acquired an uncertain notion of clean shirts, and the peculiarities of the gorilla, and other curious matters.

They're French--why am I not surprised?

[Undies]

You mean it's a renewable resource ?

We call them clouds.

[dandi]

Anyone who has ever been to Disney World in the summer months, and has been corralled into those 45-minute-long cattle pen lines, can attest to the "once or twice a week" bathing of many of the Euroweenies. After a while you can start playing "Guess The Country" with those in your party to pass the time.

[Celtic Rose]

If I don't have to wash my hair I can take a shower in 2-3 minutes, hardly a huge waste of water.  I think it would probably take me longer to do a really thorough sink bath than to take a quick shower.

[Undies]

If I don't have to wash my hair I can take a shower in 2-3 minutes, hardly a huge waste of water.  I think it would probably take me longer to do a really thorough sink bath than to take a quick shower.

It takes very little water to shower effectively.  DUmbasses and their ilk think they are being noble and better "earth stewards" by running around with their stinky asses.  It's also about control.  You shouldn't be able to do whatever you want because it's just not right.....that is unless you want to kill your unborn baby, then that's nobody's business.

But it boils down to the fact that people living in third-world hellholes don't get to shower hardly ever, so it's not fair that we Americans can be so clean with so little effort.  We need to suffer too. 

Equal misery and equal filth makes for a happier world.  Just ask a DUmbass liberal.

[Big Dog]

Knowing the DUmmies' aversion to regular bathing, I make a point to stay in the shower twice as long.