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Showering is wasteful and often unnecessary

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,842 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    I worked with a stinker in an office environment a few years ago. Sound as a pound but there was a bit of a pong off him alright. Quite noticeable at times. Didn't bother me much but it did bother someone else i'd say because he was pulled on it. There was a 'chat' with management I believe.

    I guess it was more than one person who complained. Talk about an awkward conversation …

    😨



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 Ozmodya


    I did a course once where there was a young man who had every disgusting smell imaginable emitting from him (down to ear wax) and stinking, stained clothes. Also he was obese which hardly helped. It was appalling - he needed a right bollocking tbh. You'd actually gag. The room was badly ventilated too. Although I saw him getting a lift from his mother once - maybe she was afraid of him.

    There is no way he didn't smell himself though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Yes, but on the other hand, someone who hasn’t been taught or is not aware of their smelliness might just be surprised, not feeling shame. Who knows?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,799 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    It is telling that not one poster has landed a decent punch on me or any of the other basin washers in this thread. "You smell" seems to be about as much as many can come up with.

    No wonder the Smell Industry is worth billions. On any given TV ad break, there will be products being marketed. Air fresheners for toilets, deodorant, ads that talk about "noseblind" or "boomerang smells".

    If someone needs to spray deodorant down their trousers as in a current ad, they are either not washing enough or are washing enough and have become obsessed with needing to smell of some artificial "fragrance". Which entails handing over their money to corporations.

    Anyhow, if a man smells and doesn't even wipe his arse but is a Chad Thundercock, it won't matter. Loads of posts on reddit from women complaining about how their bfs and husbands don't wash or wipe yet they still love him. These lads can leave sh*tty tracks on women's bed sheets and still be boning left, right and centre. I'm more of a Chadlite myself and my arse is always clean but some of the best success I've had with women was when I was unshaven and wearing dirty, sweaty T-shirts with holes in them. Which may be explained by this:

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070207172019.htm



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    I am in Canada, and the last time I smelled someone who stank was in a kebab takeout a couple years ago.

    There was this one guy who was serving who reeked of weeks old sweat, a lanky 6 1/2 ft fellow who had me spin and GTFO. I remember working with a guy who had just emigrated from Paris 20 years ago, who smelled as bad as that other guy, but mixed with cologne on top of the grime. Ouch.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,274 ✭✭✭amacca


    Surely you have better things to do in life than waste time composing paragraphs trying to convince yourself you are correct

    You do you, if you like the inconvenience of washing yourself out of a handbasin then grand but for most with a functioning shower it's much less labour intensive and much more convenient...

    I'm not sure why I'm even replying tbh, it's such an odd discussion....if you are achieving cleanliness and hygiene basin washing...Great.. I doubt you are going to convince many with a functioning shower to convert or see it your way or start diy-ing solar water heaters ... that's generally either an enthusiast or or s necessity thing

    Your knowledge, skills concerning personal hygiene and water conservation will no doubt come into to sharp focus as civilization starts to collapse and you can share your expertise with the thirsty waterless dirty profligate wastrels with their arid showers that survive by pure chance and perhaps put in place an education initiative that the abomination of showering will never again rear its liquidy showerhead in the society you found and shepherd in the ruins on this world!

    I on the other hand seem to have a lot of time on my hands on a Thursday evening.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,661 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Reading on Reddit that women love lads who don’t wipe their arse, is the definition of confirmation bias 😂

    That being said, the current tv advertisements you’re referring to are admittedly a long way short of the Old Spice ad -

    Although now I’m reminded of it, because I did block it out of my mind, the part where yer man sprays his hole and worse, yer one sniffing after him, that may be where lads on Reddit are getting their ideas 🤨



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,799 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    I forgot about that Lynx ad, this was the one I was thinking of. People scratching their holes, spraying their feet and balls etc..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 Ozmodya


    I think "You're just smelly" is a dumb response too @BrianD3 - plenty of hot water, soap and a scrubbing implement is all you need. One person pretended that that's not true, and then resorted to tedious trolling when I asked why.

    I'm a showering person but I love taking a bath when staying in a hotel. Not all hotel en-suites have baths. Obviously a bath cleans you (I need to be able to rinse off the bath products with the shower head before I get out though).

    But a shower is just a practical, convenient appliance, and not a status symbol unless you've e.g. a really flash power shower and wet room (and your intention is to be a show-off with it).

    Post edited by Ozmodya on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    In fairness, your claims that people who shower are significantly less environmentally friendly has been debunked. The rest of your nonsense is just pretty much silly contrarianism. Maybe there's some strange subreddit that you'd be more suited to?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    Only one other poster really seemed to agree with you and they themselves mentioned that they can notice bad smells on themselves from time to time.

    If they can notice the bad smell on themselves then certainly others can. If you enjoy smelling sweaty in order to get "success with women" good luck with that. I'd wager 99.9% of women would choose a man who smells nice than of BO.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,842 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Undersood but at the same time I can appreciate someone not wanting to work around someone who basically smells of BO and piss all day. Pong like a box of badgers all you want in your own company but if you're going to work around people you kind of need to be aware of your personal hygene.

    Oh and again … OP smells of wee wee



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    I can’t smell him from here, but I assure you I took a nice shower this a.m. in the land of a million lakes: Quebec. Lol



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,804 ✭✭✭✭nullzero
    °°°°°


    First it was the showers now it's the Jack's roll.

    Stop wiping your arses lads, the women love a sh1tty backside on a bloke. Particularly when they drag their hole along the beshseets like a golden retriever with a tapeworm.

    When did people get so obsessed with not smelling like sh1t exactly? It's a natural aphrodisiac after all.

    Glazers Out!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    A shower can help you relax and de-stress after a long day or get you going in the morning. You will not get the same effect with a basin and a sponge.



  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 7,462 Mod ✭✭✭✭pleasant Co.


    I’m sure wellness and mental care is just for “normies” or something



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,243 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    You will with a litre of coffee or wine, though.

    There ya go - just saved 20 litres of water. And if everyone started/finished their days like that, nobody'd be too worried about what anyone else smelt like. :D

    Post edited by CelticRambler on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Now, now; careful with the wine and coffee. They exude particular scents from those who partake wantonly of such.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,762 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    there's a new level of bat****tery in anti-perspirant advertising in the last year or two, to be fair. a while ago, it was products boasting 72 hour protection. which would beg the question, if you're worried about smelling after three days without showering, maybe you should actually shower more than twice a week.

    more recently it's been all-over-body anti-perspirants; we spotted in tesco earlier, a product for women which had a small cardboard stand which ran a 'worried about smelling?' line - with an outline graphic of a woman jogging, with 'hotspots' highlighted on her body that the product obviously targetted. but they were utterly random, like a nipple; or the side of her hip.

    who in god's name would worry about their nipples smelling while out exercising?

    if i don't raise a good healthy sweat while exercising, i'm clearly not doing it right. but i don't worry about the side of my hip smelling while i'm doing it.

    it's kinda absurd but slightly tragic at the same time, because this sort of messaging does shift the balance, even ever so slightly, about how people view what healthy cleanliness is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,786 ✭✭✭jd


    Well, I generally shower once a day. I suppose the routine is (Coffee) → Sh!t, Shower, Shave. Not always the last one. Always the first one (coffee) or I'm very unhappy.

    As an aside, I came across a reddit (or quora) discussion on cultural awareness in the workplace where a post mentioned that one particular ethnic group would bring bottles of water to the toilet. The reason being that they felt that toilet paper was not sufficient to get the job done! One of the (very bearded) lads in work was bemused by this, but a colleague pointed out using tissue to clean anything off his face would just rub it into his mush..



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,687 ✭✭✭Raichų


    you think that’s bad?

    I seen lynx for your genitals in Dunnes the other day. Why the hell do we need deodorant for that now?



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,762 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    That was one of the all over products I was alluding to. They are running a series of inane ads for it on telly at the moment. Almost looking fun at how ludicrous their own product is.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Bogey Lowenstein
    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    Think how long it took for the human race to accept hygiene, and how many diseases and such have been ko'd by it. Now these companies and their silly ads are trying to do away with it again. 🤷‍♀️



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