The case for not bathing (3 Viewers)

[Suavecito8]

After spending 2 months in Iraq during the invasion and not having a shower, I will shower any time I have the chance.

I remember returning to the ships of the MEU I was on and going into berthing. I immediately smelled something that can only be described as dirty feet and old cheese. That smell was coming from me. I immediately stripped buck *** naked and jumped in the shower. I've never had a better one before or since.

I was in the Marines and in Iraq at that time as well. What ship were you on? I was on the Bataan.

 

[The Mongoose]

@thisthread

We want the Three Degrees!

 

[superchuck500]

Today I Learned (Something I didn't need to know)

We should start calling Chuck "Powder".

We’ll call you Groin Funk

 

[Madmarsha]

My hair is so greasy that my pillowcase looks like a paper towel that Ruffles has been sitting on after about three nights. I don't think any frequency of shampooing is damaging my hair at all...

Actually -- hear me out here and, yes, being totally serious about this on a FOOTBALL site -- you may be making it worse. I also have very oily hair. What the sulfates in shampoo do is strip your scalp of its natural oils. What's wrong with that? This signals your sebaceous glands to start making more oil because it's reading your skin as dry. We think, oh, more suds, more better. I have used over the years a baking soda solution (this is really tough on hair), liquid castille soap (Dr. Bronner), but mostly I use a large amount of [cheap] conditioner as my cleansing agent. And then you have to use a technique of getting in there with your hot water and massaging your scalp to loosen the dirt because you don't have all the sudsy damaging lather doing the dirty work. Google "no poo".



ETA: I never understood that "I just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it" ad campaign YEARS ago or people that, while they take daily showers, don't wash their hair every day. After one day, my hair feels dirty; and if I just took a shower and not washed my hair, I will still FEEL dirty. That's why I can't take night showers in lieu of showering in the morning for the day and expect to feel clean.

 

[Madmarsha]

This is the one instance in which I will disregard science. The Austin hippies apply this theory to their every day lives and I'm telling you the stench does not go away after a few days.

Maybe they're just really stinky people.

 

[SaintInBucLand]

If you are serious about protecting our environment, it would be wise to consider the advice in the opening video.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

If you are serious about protecting our environment, it would be wise to consider the advice in the opening video.

what if we want to keep making jokes about body funk?

 

[Saint_Ward]

Actually for when I feel greasy, I like Bed Head Self Absorbed.

 

[Saint_Ward]

We’ll call you Groin Funk

Don't be all lightning mad at me bruh.

 

[Saintshizzle]

If you are serious about protecting our environment, it would be wise to consider the advice in the opening video.

When all vehicles are electric vehicles, then and only then, will I consider dropping down to 1 shower a day. As it is...

~~~Shower to Shower each day [and night], helps keeps ODOR away...Have you Shower to Shower today??~~~

 

[HoustonSaint68]

Well my wife is not a morning person, so the frequency of the above event is so limited as to be very anecdotal in nature. Like it's happened maybe once or twice in our 17 years together

Oh, here and there is completely understandable and acceptable! Our work situation was an everyday thing.

My guy had a wife that was a night shift nurse - we only worked 5pm until 2am. When I confronted him with the office's ultimatum, he said he left for work before his wife, met his lady friend for a quick encounter before coming to work, and showered when he got home from work so his wife would be none the wiser. Claimed he didn't have time to break one off AND shower AND still get to work on time.

When I responded "We don't care", he offered an alternative: he would tell his lady friend that SHE needed to start showering "real good" before he came over. I almost swallowed my tongue thinking "Well, that solves that because she's gonna kick his *** to the curb after he tells her that". But, no, she didn't --- and sadly for us (and, presumably at some level, him) her showering "real good" didn't help the situation in the slightest.

We finally had to threaten to tell his wife if he didn't start showering. Not sure if anyone would actually have done that but the stank was bad enough that I think someone eventually would have broken down and broken the code.

 

[Bill]

Actually -- hear me out here and, yes, being totally serious about this on a FOOTBALL site -- you may be making it worse. I also have very oily hair. What the sulfates in shampoo do is strip your scalp of its natural oils. What's wrong with that? This signals your sebaceous glands to start making more oil because it's reading your skin as dry. We think, oh, more suds, more better. I have used over the years a baking soda solution (this is really tough on hair), liquid castille soap (Dr. Bronner), but mostly I use a large amount of [cheap] conditioner as my cleansing agent. And then you have to use a technique of getting in there with your hot water and massaging your scalp to loosen the dirt because you don't have all the sudsy damaging lather doing the dirty work. Google "no poo".

Hmmmmm... So,... is this your secret to your total babeness, or is this the procedure that contributes to the "mad" thing?

 

[mt15]

We have had Amish folks come in to my husband’s business. Presumably they have the same hygiene habits as 200 years or so ago. A weekly bath, I’m guessing. No electricity and no running water.

The smell is noticeable in most cases. Not every single one, but a fair proportion smell bad. Even in winter.

 

[cdogg]

Of course you don't notice the smell if you don't bathe after a few days. It's like living next to a paper mill. Sure it smells awful, but after a few days you adjust and don't smell it anymore. Everyone else still smells it, you really do stink, but you can't anymore. Bathe people, please.

 

[superchuck500]

We have had Amish folks come in to my husband’s business. Presumably they have the same hygiene habits as 200 years or so ago. A weekly bath, I’m guessing. No electricity and no running water.

The smell is noticeable in most cases. Not every single one, but a fair proportion smell bad. Even in winter.

Could also be that their primary mode of transportation involves livestock?