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Do you wash?

I shower every day, no matter what. Even this morning when I managed to sleep through all five alarms despite having gone to bed earlier than any other night this week, and I woke up a little over an hour late. I just have to be clean.

I know what you all mean about smelling other people, though. I take public transit everywhere (I've never learned how to drive). Tonight, on my way to my bowling league, I was checking out a cute guy on the bus who was reading A Lion Among Men (one of the sequels to Wicked). I was enjoying the view until the person sitting next to me got off the bus and he took their spot. He smelled like he'd been eating nothing but garlic for the last week. :eek: I've never been turned off so quickly in my life.

At conventions, there's what's called the 5-2-1 Rule - every day, you should get at least 5 hours of sleep, have 2 meals and take 1 shower. Honestly, for some people it should be a 5-2-3 rule. I'm running around constantly at cons where I'm working, and I don't think I've ever had fanboi funk. (If I did, I'm sure one of my friends would tell me, and I would immediately go to my room and shower.)
 
^ I'm going to the Chicago convention this month, so this is good to know. :D
 
I get bathed in cold water. I have the hot water tank switched off completely. In the summer, twice a day, it keeps you cool. In the winter, it keeps you warm. Though, you can't run directly off the cold water tank in the winter, and have to put in a kettle of boiling water, or it stuns you.

Trying to clean a pan covered with the remnants of spaghetti sauce, with cold water, isn't much fun, though. You need hot water for that.

If you get bathed or showered three times a day, and it isn't summer, you just get smellier more quickly, and you run out of deodorant.
 
Since I don't really produce that much body odour, I have gone for a few days without showering.
Usually I do it once per day (in the evening hours) ... or every other day (depends).

I never had complaints about body odour from other people.
It seems my 'limit' is going on 3 days without showering before I can smell the odour on myself (and I have a sensitive sense of smell in the first place).

But if I came from outside and I'm all sweaty, then sure, I'll wash up in order to clean out.
Minor amount of sweat aren't really that problematic.
 
I work at Walmart, and once in a while some customers come through, and they just smell plain awful. I was up front on a cash register a few days ago, and some folks came through like that. I was dealing with a customer before them, and even before they made it to the belt I could smell 'em coming. It smelled like they hadn't bathed in years. I guess I kind of wonder how they could handle being in the same room with themselves. There must be truth in the whole saying about folks not being able to smell themselves, but gee... a bath even once every month or two would probably be an improvement for some. :D
 
^ That video is simply awesome. I just had to repost it on my wall.

Shower every morning. And over the past few months I would wash my face before I go to bed.
 
A shower in the morning when i get in from work(and god do i need it after 8 hours nightshift of manual work), and a shower at night before i go back to work.
 
I don't know why people smell.

Soap is a few scents(?), or a few pence, and you can get bathed every day, in cold water if necessary.

If you're living on the streets, you would smell.
 
I was thinking about this thread on the bus this afternoon.

The guy behind me reeked of stale cigarette smoke. I almost got up and moved away, it was so bad. I wanted to say, "Jesus, man--take a shower and wash your clothes!"

Then he stopped talking, and the smell subsided. And I realized that the stench was coming from his mouth--not from his whole body as I had previously assumed. :ack:
 
Has anyone seen those deodorants with silver particles?

They stop your feet smelling.

Can you get silver poisoning?
 
It's one of the great mysteries of the world how some of these people actually manage to hold down jobs.

There's a personal support worker who helps some of the people in the building I live in and God he reeks. If he ever came through my door smelling like that I'd be telling him to the GFTO and on the phone to his boss ASAP. Beats me how the people he helps put up with it - as a PSW he can be required to get up very close to them and it must be struggle to keep you food down with the stench.
 
I used to live with someone, whom, i think, had a medical condition called 'stinking hide'. His room smelt so bad, no-one could stand in it for more than a minute. Poor man. Even the shower smelt, after he had used it. And he got washed.
 
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