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There's no need to shower every day – here's why
- Thread starter Teusery
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I saw you before you practiced and you didn't kill the viruses and I overdosed on pills as you didn't correctly fit them together.
Dressing in white clothes with no Cheeto stains/handwashing after masturbation/using napkins to mop up milk instead of body hair/refusing to cover one's body in bear piss declared purely 'performative' and has no real health benefit, experts insist
Lol should have prefaced with "I personally shower every day"!
I'm just saying I can't smell people that don't. Seems like surveys are saying around 60% of people shower every day, which means 40% don't. I interact with, I dunno, 50 people a day, meaning about 20 probably aren't daily showerers, and I don't noticeably smell any of them. I guess I'm blessed.
I'm just saying I can't smell people that don't. Seems like surveys are saying around 60% of people shower every day, which means 40% don't. I interact with, I dunno, 50 people a day, meaning about 20 probably aren't daily showerers, and I don't noticeably smell any of them. I guess I'm blessed.
The attitude in this thread is still so weird. Like I think the big idea is if you're having at an-home day and don't wanna do fuck all with it, you'll fine skipping your shower.
Instead we get people assuming you're going out to parties or cons, or apparently fucking someone, or doing literally everything besides sitting on your butt and playing video games (like I know a bunch of y'all might if you're on this forum lol).
Do whatever you want. But the point is: You won't die or turn into Pig-Pen missing a shower for a few hours
If you produce sweat easily or live in a warm/humid country, that's probably a different story. Showering for your own enjoyment and part of a routine is fine too.
But instead it's people getting personally offended because you smelt someone SO DISGUSTINGLY BAD it made you NAUSEOUS (a few of these responses in here...and I have never had this experience)
Yes! Like I've said it before... the worst I've smelt someone is in the middle of Summer and after a long day. But whatever, that's...biology at that point. SURELY THEY will shower at that point. But I can't say I've ever smelt a person REEK that wasn't (sorry to say) someone less fortunate. And I've used to go to former nerd capital E3. 🙄
Not to throw keep comparisons around but: I think I notice smokers way before BO.
I genuinely don't know this, but is this going to be a problem one day? Or at that point do we just use salt water for general cleaning (i.e. not drinking/eating).
Instead we get people assuming you're going out to parties or cons, or apparently fucking someone, or doing literally everything besides sitting on your butt and playing video games (like I know a bunch of y'all might if you're on this forum lol).
Do whatever you want. But the point is: You won't die or turn into Pig-Pen missing a shower for a few hours
If you produce sweat easily or live in a warm/humid country, that's probably a different story. Showering for your own enjoyment and part of a routine is fine too.
But instead it's people getting personally offended because you smelt someone SO DISGUSTINGLY BAD it made you NAUSEOUS (a few of these responses in here...and I have never had this experience)
Yes! Like I've said it before... the worst I've smelt someone is in the middle of Summer and after a long day. But whatever, that's...biology at that point. SURELY THEY will shower at that point. But I can't say I've ever smelt a person REEK that wasn't (sorry to say) someone less fortunate. And I've used to go to former nerd capital E3. 🙄
Not to throw keep comparisons around but: I think I notice smokers way before BO.
I genuinely don't know this, but is this going to be a problem one day? Or at that point do we just use salt water for general cleaning (i.e. not drinking/eating).
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HIghly doubt that. This isn't evenly distributed. How much of these 40% are people who can't shower every day, such as homeless people or families without access to basic sanitation?
That just reminds me of the sinkpisser movement
Oh I certainly have no idea
Unless you have super oily hair, or are doing something daily that causes you to sweat so much that your head is soaking, you shouldn't wash your hair with soap more than every 2 - 3 days.
I shower, but baths are fucking gross. They made sense before showers were a thing, and they were fine in streams or lakes, but not in a container. The only time I would intentionally take a bath is after I've already taken a shower, and that's just a waste of water. If you don't actually have a shower, then a bath is your only option and better than nothing...but still gross.
I embellish more than I shower.
(Now that one is a joke. Wife would kick me out)
Didn't know that was a thing, thought I was just a genius at home with the laundry room sink lol
Actually, it might not be. I live in an apartment, and have a neighbor that you can smell coming from about twenty feet away. Any time he opens his door, the entire hallway reeks of body odor. It gets so bad sometimes that when he actually walks past me, there have been a few times where my gag reflex started acting up.
Maybe they need prescription strength deodorant.
And I dunno, I've lived in a "big city"; you tend to smell people on the street a lot. I just move on; it's not my business why someone smells if they're not a friend or relative I can talk to about it. If it bugs me, it's maybe for a few seconds -- I'll live.
I suspect people who are fervent showers and are hellbent being as hygienic as possible also dump a gallon of stinky cologne or perfume on themselves.
I generally agree with this. I only shower daily when I'm doing a daily exercise routine. It's simple enough to only shower every other day as long as you sponge off, so I guess you could say I'm still washing. Started doing this because my well was not recharging well and it has massively curbed my water use.
I couldn't imagine being able to smell someone's balls from across the room and thinking "boy, they must have really healthy skin!"
I don't really understand. Is the definition of shower used here to mean the use of soap/shampoo/etc??
Because it goes on to say "He sink washes daily, using a cloth to clean his entire body" and I mean, that's a shower right there. That's a person cleaning themselves with water.
So really this is about the method of bathing oneself, which everyone seems to agree is good and does it (and also water conservation). The article is saying we don't have to use the physical shower every time and that there are other methods to bathe.
Because it goes on to say "He sink washes daily, using a cloth to clean his entire body" and I mean, that's a shower right there. That's a person cleaning themselves with water.
So really this is about the method of bathing oneself, which everyone seems to agree is good and does it (and also water conservation). The article is saying we don't have to use the physical shower every time and that there are other methods to bathe.
I train every day, some sessions literally putting out the best part of a litre or more of sweat.
Whilst I'm cautious to not waste water (not least because I'm on a meter and it costs me a fortune)... I'm showering every day, thanks.
Whilst I'm cautious to not waste water (not least because I'm on a meter and it costs me a fortune)... I'm showering every day, thanks.
I interpret "shower" as washing the entire body with a continuously running source of water. A sponge bath or washing just your hair in the sink wouldn't count.
Pretty rich saying the unwashed masses are the ones being holier than thou.
You're one of the leadership figures of the daily-or-die shower zealots, of course *you're* doing it properly. Not necessarily the case with the rest of your flock.
You're just used to her smell and don't realize she's actually making your life worse. At least according to some of the galaxy brain takes in this thread.
I can't imagine smelling someone from across a room and thinking "Wow, a lot goes wrong in two days!" and not "that fucker hasn't showered in two weeks".
A whole thread full of incredibly polite bloodhounds who can smell past someone's deodorant and tell that it's been 36 hours since a shower and not 24. Sounds incredibly believable. I'm convinced.
See, the mistake you made was reading the OP. That's a light suggestion at best and completely unnecessary for general discourse. This isn't a thread about "Is showering the only way to clean yourself, and is a water conserving bird bath sufficient?", it's a thread about debating the exact second past 24 hours that your disgusting pig manure scent ratchets up to 11 while you burn the sinuses out of the good natured people around you who won't tell you that you smell because they're busy gagging on your onion and garlic scent trying not to violently puke all over themselves.
For the record I shower everyday yes there's reports you don't need to but I'm sorry 3 mins a day to remove bad smells is worth it.
I mean, it's ultimately semantics.
We live in different climates and do different things with our days.
I remember in college we were often in and out of each other's dorm rooms and it was highly likely you caught someone before they showered that day. Which sometimes they would admit to or ask if they smelled and it was nothing because they didn't do anything that day. But that's me speaking as someone that stayed in an air conditioned dorm during cooler months. Someone more active that worked out that same day or worked outside would have a different experience.
But generally speaking, you can skip a day without it being a big deal if you're just chilling in close proximity. People regularly get away with just keeping a toothbrush, change of clothes and deodorant in an overnight bag (realizing now that my friends really overshare with their hookups) and just go to work and then they're telling me this all after the fact still having not showered for a day.
So I don't know why we keep going in these circles.
Obviously when we get to multiple days, it's a different story.
I'm not defending people that are like 3 days or less, but are we really gonna act like if someone only showers 5 or 6 days a week, you'd notice. The absolutism just feels like it's meant to bait people.
Personally, I'm starting to workout more so daily is necessary for me. When I was more of a homebody, I'd easily skip a Saturday or Sunday if I was doing nothing that whole weekend.
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Showers are nice. Can't imagine not wanting to take one at least once a day. Like, why do that to yourself if you can help it? Love yourself and shower daily Era. Please. Join the flock and be a nice pure sheep with me.
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Rather be a clean sheep than feeling like a gross one, I guess. A shower also helps wake me up in the mornings too.
I think it's less the idea of showering and more the bizarre attitude people have. Like, you'd think people on this forum (especially lol) are going out every day, sweating every day, going to cons, and hooking up every single night (in which case I'd HOPE even non-daily showerers can see why these are important times to do so).
My mum has mobility issues and has difficulty getting up stairs let alone getting her showering daily (it's unfortunate, but she's had to resort to "the sink method" or using baby wipes). Not sure what noses y'all have, she smells like her bed sometimes, but people here saying "I can smell BO across the hall" just sounds incredibly hyperbolic, uppity, and presumptuous that people's health is 100%.
Keep yourselves clean, and if you're active it's a good thing (and again, especially when people sweat differently or live in different climates that might necessitate it). But I think it's very nose-in-the-air to assume everyone can and should have the exact same habits even when freaking science is saying "it's okay to skip for some hours". 🤷♀️
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