Live like your ancestors: eat paleo, bathe neandertal, die by 35.
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According to urban legend cowboys only bathe once a year; whether they need it or not. Wild horses bathe when it rains.
Get back to nature, and eat a dirt sandwich!
Where are all those romantic advertisements for underarm products going to go, when we all run around with hairy and smelly armpits? Oh the horror!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
“I don’t smell,” is what a couple of them said.
They don’t smell themselves but I’ll bet they stink. There is a difference.
It’s actually: “You’re right. You don’t smell. I do smell and you stink.”
Betcha they all smell like one does after taking off a cast after 3 weeks.
To paraphrase Jacob Bronowski from one of the essays in his TV series The Ascent of Man, soap and the iron bedframe were as important in saving people’s lives during the Industrial Revolution as what physicians carried in their black bags. His contention was that those two items became essential to public health by preventing disease, which was a major problem for the working class during those times.
That aspect appears to have escaped the “no-wash” crowd.
One dummy twittered that fossil fuels have disrupted the the balance and harmony of the last 10,000 years of humanity.
Patrick Moore noted that harmony was starvation and depravity, with life expectancies at 35, for 9800 of those 10,000 years.
The rapid improvement from there to where we are today started with the use of fossils fuels. Probably a coincidence.
We are a scientifically illiterate and mathematically challenged society. Add enough zeroes and eyes glaze over.
Knowing if you stink or not is pretty subjective. The sense of smell is unreliable.
I used to work in a Kraft pulp mill. I had two lockers: one for street clothes; the other for work clothes. Each morning I would open the street clothes locker, undress, hang my street clothes on the hooks and close the door.
Opening the work clothes locker I would gag and turn my head at the stench of my coveralls before putting them on. Ten minutes later I would be drinking coffee with my equally stinky co-workers, all of oblivious to our aroma.
The days I went up to the bank at lunch time people gave me lots of room in the teller line.
I know what you’re referring to. I spent my undergrad summers working in a petrochemical facility which included a refinery and a gas plant. Most of us lived in a nearby town, so we drove to the plant each day. It wasn’t until we went into the valley where that plant was located that we could smell it, some of it being dilute traces of hydrogen sulphide.
It didn’t take long before we didn’t notice the odour because the H2S dulled our sense of smell. That characteristic is what makes that gas one of the most deadly compounds known to man. It doesn’t take much of it to quickly paralyze one’s respiratory system, which is what makes working in natural gas plants so dangerous. Nobody went into a building where it might be present without wearing an air mask.
During my second summer there, I worked with the maintenance crews and, when I went home for the day, I was often so filthy that a daily bath was necessary.
So, why do homeless people smell? Too much bathing and soap?
Also, I’m betting most of the no bathing crowd don’t have physically demanding jobs. Being a desk jockey or in a climate controlled office jobs isn’t a job that makes you sweat or dirty.
Perfect. Since the progressive smart set embraces and believes every piece of dumb shit that’s making the rounds out there, they may as well smell like it too.
Many years ago, Bertrand Russel was confronted by a woman on a bus who said to him: ” You smell!”
Russel countered “No! You smell. I stink.”
A little off topic but the Guardian’s pitch for funds refers to the “escalating climate crisis”. Climate emergency or crisis is no longer operative -it’s now escalating as well.
Yes, and that “escalating climate crisis” doesn’t seem to have stopped their travel section from showcasing all sorts of holiday destinations across the globe.
My definition of a hippy: Somebody who makes soap but doesn’t use it.
I don’t care who you are or what your diet is, but if you’re not washing the backhole and the fronthole with soap and water then you’re a dirty stink pants.
These people can’t possibly work in the trades.
Not sure I’d be trusting my skin care needs to a Dr. Ivan Afulitch.
⊙¿⊙ He’d give you:
The Miracle Drug: Penny Cillin
So would a movie made about him be entitled The Seven-Year Itch?
Or a movie made about him could be entitled and directed ….
” Clothes for Germ Kings” : Mike Robes.
In days of yore one only bathed once a year usually in May. Most weddings were after that bath. Flowers were the carried by new brides so the smell wasn’t noticed.
Great! Not only will the new generation be mired in college debt and unemployed because they took useless courses, but they won’t even get the jobs where they have to ask, “Would you like fries with that?” because they have bad hygiene. Perfect!
Filthy, unemployable and riddled with measles while they scarf Tide pods and shove gin soaked tampons up their butts to get drunk.
It’s all going according to plan.
Now we know where the phrase HE SMELLS LIKE ASS comes from.
Asking for myself. Is there a connection between anti-bathers and anti-vaxers?
Is there a connection between anti-bathers and anti-vaxers?
Do you mean beyond shortened life expectancy?
And lack of intelligence?
Shortened life expectancy due to committing suicide because they can’t figure out why they’re unable to have successful, lasting relationships with anyone.
At the very least, rinse and clean yourself off with water.
That’s what God told the people of Israel to do in preparation for their visits to his home.
In other words, “Since you have body odours, don’t come to my home until you clean yourself off.”
Second, wasn’t it because Jews had (and still have) a habit of rinsing and cleaning their kitchen utensils and dishes that they avoided some of the diseases that other Europeans had in the Middle Ages? Weren’t they accused of being witches because of they didn’t get as sick?
“Second, wasn’t it because Jews had (and still have) a habit of rinsing and cleaning their kitchen utensils and dishes that they avoided some of the diseases that other Europeans had in the Middle Ages?”
Quite so.
Gary D.~”Weren’t they accused of being witches because of they didn’t get as sick?”
They(Jews) didn’t get ‘the Plague’ because of their ritual cleanliness. They were then accused of causing the Plague.
They also might have had genetic immunity or partial immunity, all of them being descended from Abraham.
Secrets of the Dead S03E02 Mystery Of The Black Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m7NoSmAqcQ
I thought it was the control of fire (AKA combustion, or CO2 evil) that brought about the increase in brain size. Humans had been scavangeres for ages before but the use of fire made the food they scavanged much more beneficial as more of its nutrients could be absorbed.
Going to be interesting to see how the “I-don’t-wash” people handle things like communicable diseases. Typhus, dyptheria, tuberculosis, plague. Sh1t that can kill you.
My guess is they’ll maintain their “I-don’t-wash” lie while furiously scrubbing with anti-bacterials when no one is looking. Because Lefties lie.
Just wait till not using soap will be declared cultural appropriation.
Nah. Someone will just figure how to make full body condoms out of soy and we won’t touch anyone/anything while our level of hygiene will become, like fleeting gender identities, subject to choice as we all flit about in self-driving cars.
Watched any Zombie shows lately? I mean, just for fun. A foretaste of of out future?
There was a spot on the TV the other night about “toilet use etiquette” in the pristine Rocky Mountain Parks. Something about not standing on the toilet seat, a while doing your business, in some of the more “water challenged” parts.
Nope. If a bear can $h1+ in the woods, then so can I. Trick is to avoid exposing myself to noxious plants or scaring the wildlife.
A friend is in hospital with sores three times the size of a fried egg.
Test indicate not HIV.
Out in a week or so, once his antibiotics are done.
He followed the same none shower regimen.
Just saying.
I guess the moral preening that accompanies veganism is getting a bit stale, on to the new thing.
According to urban legend cowboys only bathe once a year; whether they need it or not. Wild horses bathe when it rains.
Get back to nature, and eat a dirt sandwich!
Where are all those romantic advertisements for underarm products going to go, when we all run around with hairy and smelly armpits? Oh the horror!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
“I don’t smell,” is what a couple of them said.
They don’t smell themselves but I’ll bet they stink. There is a difference.
It’s actually: “You’re right. You don’t smell. I do smell and you stink.”
Betcha they all smell like one does after taking off a cast after 3 weeks.
To paraphrase Jacob Bronowski from one of the essays in his TV series The Ascent of Man, soap and the iron bedframe were as important in saving people’s lives during the Industrial Revolution as what physicians carried in their black bags. His contention was that those two items became essential to public health by preventing disease, which was a major problem for the working class during those times.
That aspect appears to have escaped the “no-wash” crowd.
One dummy twittered that fossil fuels have disrupted the the balance and harmony of the last 10,000 years of humanity.
Patrick Moore noted that harmony was starvation and depravity, with life expectancies at 35, for 9800 of those 10,000 years.
The rapid improvement from there to where we are today started with the use of fossils fuels. Probably a coincidence.
We are a scientifically illiterate and mathematically challenged society. Add enough zeroes and eyes glaze over.
Knowing if you stink or not is pretty subjective. The sense of smell is unreliable.
I used to work in a Kraft pulp mill. I had two lockers: one for street clothes; the other for work clothes. Each morning I would open the street clothes locker, undress, hang my street clothes on the hooks and close the door.
Opening the work clothes locker I would gag and turn my head at the stench of my coveralls before putting them on. Ten minutes later I would be drinking coffee with my equally stinky co-workers, all of oblivious to our aroma.
The days I went up to the bank at lunch time people gave me lots of room in the teller line.
I know what you’re referring to. I spent my undergrad summers working in a petrochemical facility which included a refinery and a gas plant. Most of us lived in a nearby town, so we drove to the plant each day. It wasn’t until we went into the valley where that plant was located that we could smell it, some of it being dilute traces of hydrogen sulphide.
It didn’t take long before we didn’t notice the odour because the H2S dulled our sense of smell. That characteristic is what makes that gas one of the most deadly compounds known to man. It doesn’t take much of it to quickly paralyze one’s respiratory system, which is what makes working in natural gas plants so dangerous. Nobody went into a building where it might be present without wearing an air mask.
During my second summer there, I worked with the maintenance crews and, when I went home for the day, I was often so filthy that a daily bath was necessary.
So, why do homeless people smell? Too much bathing and soap?
Also, I’m betting most of the no bathing crowd don’t have physically demanding jobs. Being a desk jockey or in a climate controlled office jobs isn’t a job that makes you sweat or dirty.
Perfect. Since the progressive smart set embraces and believes every piece of dumb shit that’s making the rounds out there, they may as well smell like it too.
Many years ago, Bertrand Russel was confronted by a woman on a bus who said to him: ” You smell!”
Russel countered “No! You smell. I stink.”
A little off topic but the Guardian’s pitch for funds refers to the “escalating climate crisis”. Climate emergency or crisis is no longer operative -it’s now escalating as well.
Yes, and that “escalating climate crisis” doesn’t seem to have stopped their travel section from showcasing all sorts of holiday destinations across the globe.
My definition of a hippy: Somebody who makes soap but doesn’t use it.
I don’t care who you are or what your diet is, but if you’re not washing the backhole and the fronthole with soap and water then you’re a dirty stink pants.
These people can’t possibly work in the trades.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/news/parks-put-up-toilet-etiquette-signs-in-outhouses/vi-AAFcbsG?ocid=spartandhp
They should be told to go join the bears.
Not sure I’d be trusting my skin care needs to a Dr. Ivan Afulitch.
⊙¿⊙ He’d give you:
The Miracle Drug: Penny Cillin
So would a movie made about him be entitled The Seven-Year Itch?
Or a movie made about him could be entitled and directed ….
” Clothes for Germ Kings” : Mike Robes.
In days of yore one only bathed once a year usually in May. Most weddings were after that bath. Flowers were the carried by new brides so the smell wasn’t noticed.
Great! Not only will the new generation be mired in college debt and unemployed because they took useless courses, but they won’t even get the jobs where they have to ask, “Would you like fries with that?” because they have bad hygiene. Perfect!
Filthy, unemployable and riddled with measles while they scarf Tide pods and shove gin soaked tampons up their butts to get drunk.
It’s all going according to plan.
Now we know where the phrase HE SMELLS LIKE ASS comes from.
Asking for myself. Is there a connection between anti-bathers and anti-vaxers?
Is there a connection between anti-bathers and anti-vaxers?
Do you mean beyond shortened life expectancy?
And lack of intelligence?
Shortened life expectancy due to committing suicide because they can’t figure out why they’re unable to have successful, lasting relationships with anyone.
At the very least, rinse and clean yourself off with water.
That’s what God told the people of Israel to do in preparation for their visits to his home.
In other words, “Since you have body odours, don’t come to my home until you clean yourself off.”
Second, wasn’t it because Jews had (and still have) a habit of rinsing and cleaning their kitchen utensils and dishes that they avoided some of the diseases that other Europeans had in the Middle Ages? Weren’t they accused of being witches because of they didn’t get as sick?
“Second, wasn’t it because Jews had (and still have) a habit of rinsing and cleaning their kitchen utensils and dishes that they avoided some of the diseases that other Europeans had in the Middle Ages?”
Quite so.
Gary D.~”Weren’t they accused of being witches because of they didn’t get as sick?”
They(Jews) didn’t get ‘the Plague’ because of their ritual cleanliness. They were then accused of causing the Plague.
They also might have had genetic immunity or partial immunity, all of them being descended from Abraham.
Secrets of the Dead S03E02 Mystery Of The Black Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m7NoSmAqcQ
I thought it was the control of fire (AKA combustion, or CO2 evil) that brought about the increase in brain size. Humans had been scavangeres for ages before but the use of fire made the food they scavanged much more beneficial as more of its nutrients could be absorbed.
Going to be interesting to see how the “I-don’t-wash” people handle things like communicable diseases. Typhus, dyptheria, tuberculosis, plague. Sh1t that can kill you.
My guess is they’ll maintain their “I-don’t-wash” lie while furiously scrubbing with anti-bacterials when no one is looking. Because Lefties lie.
Just wait till not using soap will be declared cultural appropriation.
Nah. Someone will just figure how to make full body condoms out of soy and we won’t touch anyone/anything while our level of hygiene will become, like fleeting gender identities, subject to choice as we all flit about in self-driving cars.
Watched any Zombie shows lately? I mean, just for fun. A foretaste of of out future?
There was a spot on the TV the other night about “toilet use etiquette” in the pristine Rocky Mountain Parks. Something about not standing on the toilet seat, a while doing your business, in some of the more “water challenged” parts.
Nope. If a bear can $h1+ in the woods, then so can I. Trick is to avoid exposing myself to noxious plants or scaring the wildlife.
A friend is in hospital with sores three times the size of a fried egg.
Test indicate not HIV.
Out in a week or so, once his antibiotics are done.
He followed the same none shower regimen.
Just saying.
I guess the moral preening that accompanies veganism is getting a bit stale, on to the new thing.
Only in the Grauniad.