What's the longest you've gone without a bath/shower?

donfers · 18-05-2010 06:51PM #1

My personal best is about 2 months while I was volunteering in the Amazon basin to save the trees.

They didn't really have any baths/showers, fair enough you could take a dip in the river but I can't swim and in any case they've all sorts of creepie-crawlies just waiting for a chance to have a munch on your delicates.

Amazing stuff, first couple of weeks are a bit dodgy as people must adapt to your new scent but after a month or so (much as your hair washes itself if left alone long enough) the skin produces your own natural oils that really beat any perfume or deodorant hands down. If I could bottle that stuff I'd be a millionaire, 'twas musky and fierce and authoritative, a real man's smell and I'll tell you what, the tribal Amazonian women were throwing more than a few glances my way as the weeks passed and my scent wifted along the amazon riverbase . Funnily enough it's also a great deterrent to animal attacks as they, for some peculiar reason, are repulsed by the smell so double jeopardy there...I was as safe as houses and the hunk of the jungle all at the same time.

We did, eventually, save the trees, by the way in case you're interested.

Anyway I digress what's the longest you've gone without a shower or bath?

partyatmygaff · 18-05-2010 06:54PM

donfers wrote: »

My personal best is about 2 months while I was volunteering in the Amazon basin to save the trees.

They didn't really have any, fair enough you could take a dip in the river but I can't swim and in any case they've all sorts of creepie-crawlies just waiting for a chance to have a munch on my delicates.

Amazing stuff, first couple of weeks are a bit dodgy as people must adapt to your new scent but after a month or so (much as your hair washes itself if left alone logn enough) the skin produces your own natural oils that really beat any perfume or deodorant hands down. If I could bottle that stuff I'd be a millionaire, 'twas musky and fierce and authoritative, a real man's smell and I'll tell you what, the tribal Amazonian women were throwing more than a few glances my way as my scent wifted across the amazon. Funnily enough it's also a great deterrent to animal attacks as they, for some peculiar reason, are repulsed by the smell so double jeopardy there...I was as safe as houses and the hunk of the jungle all at the same time.

We did, eventually, save the trees, by the way in case you're interested.

Anyway I digress what's the longest you've gone without a shower or bath?

As much as I doubt most of that story I've only one thing to say...

In before the smelly "I once went a year without washing" brigade.

CrazyRabbit · 18-05-2010 06:57PM

I went 364 days without washing (behind my ears)

HA!

Gummy Panda · 18-05-2010 06:58PM

What did you do about the knob cheese?

let it ferment?

brummytom · 18-05-2010 06:58PM

Maybe a week, when I was younger. Couldn't go a day without one now though

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 18-05-2010 06:59PM

Well when I was a kid bath night was Saturday night and I dont think there was anything in between except for 'Wash those filthy paws before you come into the kitchen'

Midnight_EG · 18-05-2010 07:00PM

donfers wrote: »

My personal best is about 2 months while I was volunteering in the Amazon basin to save the trees.

They didn't really have any baths/showers, fair enough you could take a dip in the river but I can't swim and in any case they've all sorts of creepie-crawlies just waiting for a chance to have a munch on your delicates.

Amazing stuff, first couple of weeks are a bit dodgy as people must adapt to your new scent but after a month or so (much as your hair washes itself if left alone long enough) the skin produces your own natural oils that really beat any perfume or deodorant hands down. If I could bottle that stuff I'd be a millionaire, 'twas musky and fierce and authoritative, a real man's smell and I'll tell you what, the tribal Amazonian women were throwing more than a few glances my way as the weeks passed and my scent wifted along the amazon riverbase . Funnily enough it's also a great deterrent to animal attacks as they, for some peculiar reason, are repulsed by the smell so double jeopardy there...I was as safe as houses and the hunk of the jungle all at the same time.

We did, eventually, save the trees, by the way in case you're interested.

Anyway I digress what's the longest you've gone without a shower or bath?

Smelly fuck :P

Myself....A week while bedridden with a sickness

CrazyRabbit · 18-05-2010 07:00PM

brummytom wrote: »

Maybe a week, when I was younger. Couldn't go a day without one now though

<---sniffs brummytom.

Yup, he's clean.

storm2811 · 18-05-2010 07:01PM

My water's been broken for the past 4 days:(

El Siglo · 18-05-2010 07:01PM

About two weeks...

And no, it wasn't when I was younger...;)

FearDark · 18-05-2010 07:02PM

27 years 3 months and 2 weeks exactly.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 18-05-2010 07:02PM

storm2811 wrote: »

My water's been broken for the past 4 days:(

I thought you meant that your waters broke 4 days ago, ie had a kid, and still havent washed !

Hogzy · 18-05-2010 07:05PM

donfers wrote: »

I was volunteering in the Amazon basin to save the trees.

Anyone else stop reading after this?

we'llallhavetea_old · 18-05-2010 07:05PM

i suppose as a kid it would have been the sunday night routine. during the week it would be a "whures wash", ye know, facecloth and a bar of soap at the sink.

bazmaiden · 18-05-2010 07:10PM

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i suppose as a kid it would have been the sunday night routine. during the week it would be a "whures wash", ye know, facecloth and a bar of soap at the sink.

I'd say that face cloth was filthy!!

whadabouchasir · 18-05-2010 07:15PM

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i suppose as a kid it would have been the sunday night routine.

I was the same,just on a saturday night though,for mass on the Sunday.

xzanti · 18-05-2010 07:15PM

Hogzy wrote: »

Anyone else stop reading after this?

Yeah, novel way of bragging about your tree hugging OP

we'llallhavetea_old · 18-05-2010 07:16PM

bazmaiden wrote: »

I'd say that face cloth was filthy!!

:eek: WTF?!!

i was a child you pervert! :mad:

Duggy747 · 18-05-2010 07:18PM

What is this "Bath / Shower" of which you are all discussing about?

Probably some fancy, smancy Dublin word. :pac:

Tar.Aldarion · 18-05-2010 07:28PM

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

:eek: WTF?!!

i was a child you pervert! :mad:

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Dudess · 18-05-2010 07:29PM

A day - a music festival in France (right place or what?! :pac:) Couldn't bear it any longer than that.

we'llallhavetea_old · 18-05-2010 07:30PM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

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:eek: i thought better of you tar

/stomps out of thread

storm2811 · 18-05-2010 07:30PM

Jameson Tight Goon wrote: »

I thought you meant that your waters broke 4 days ago, ie had a kid, and still havent washed !

It did..and I haven't,theres litreally afterbirth everywhere!

:pac:

Tar.Aldarion · 18-05-2010 07:32PM

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

:eek: i thought better of you tar

/stomps out of thread

Oh wrong one, I meant to point this at him

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>_>

<_<

drakshug · 18-05-2010 07:33PM

5 days.
We were up the hills climbing in Knoydart on the west coast of Scotland. Didn't fancy the mountain burns for washing in.
Eventually stopped in Fort William on the way home for a wash at the swimming pool.............we did have a shower before going in the pool.

El Weirdo · 18-05-2010 07:49PM

In before Bob Geldof.

Cullen82 · 18-05-2010 08:01PM

2 days whilst travelling.

Don't know whats with some people but more than a handful I met while going through Africa thought it was okay (given the continent they were on?!!) not to wash for more than a week - Personally I found this disgusting, never mind consideration for others havin to smell ya... I couldnt bear the thought of not washing that long!

Giselle · 18-05-2010 08:23PM

10 days in hospital.

Luckily I was knocked out most of the time so my memory is vague.

Can't go more than a day without a shower, I hate that grimey feeling and begin to disgust myself long before anyone else would notice.