Posted on 11/04/2010 1:11:38 PM PDT by Wile E Coyote Genius
A growing number of people are cutting down on daily showering and hair-washing. So could you join the extreme soap-dodgers? If you are reading this article over breakfast, the chances are you have recently stepped into the shower, lathered up your hair and torso, rinsed off, towelled and blow-dried, before dousing your armpits with deodorant, and wafting on a fog of perfume or aftershave.
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“A growing number of people are cutting down on daily showering and hair-washing.”
Middle-Eastern cab drivers in NYC have been doing it for years.
And the French have been doing it for centuries.
I have OCD. I don’t just over-shower but I also wash my hands often and then slather on hand sanitizer.
I must have a hot morning shower otherwise I don’t feel human.
I don’t see how anyone could not bathe on a regular basis....that’s just gross!!!
Oookay....
OCD? What is it?
There are, of course, environmental benefits. In a bid to reduce his carbon footprint to the absolute minimum, environmentalist Donnachadh McCarthy, 51, limits his showers to about twice a week. "The rest of the time I have a sink wash," he says. "I believe that I'm as clean as everyone else." It has helped him to get his water consumption down to around 20 litres a day – well below the 100 to 150 average in the UK.Maybe he should start drinking his own urine, that will cut down on his water consumption, and eating his own crap. In a short while, his carbon footprint will go way, way down.
“In a bid to reduce his carbon footprint to the absolute minimum, environmentalist Donnachadh McCarthy, 51, limits his showers to about twice a week.”
The problem is that using this techinque, the carbon footprint is inversely proportional to the skivvy skidmark.
I refuse to dry shave my back.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Nice clean article. Thanks for posting it.
Not at all like that “horrible vaginal odor” thread that was yanked earlier today.
~snort!~
the carbon footprint is inversely proportional to the skivvy skidmarkLOL!
These f*ing people are totally round the bend insane.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Some people who have it wash their hands over and over, or do other things over and over.
When ever I shop at Wal Mart I often feel I have OCD because when I get home I want to bathe for hours after smelling some of the people in the store!
I live in a freakin’ Middle Eastern desert. I shower twice a day - even when it’s not 125-degree summer.
“Could you give up washing”?
...according to liberals, we already have.
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety, or by a combination of such thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions). Symptoms may include repetitive handwashing; extensive hoarding; preoccupation with sexual or aggressive impulses, or with particular religious beliefs; aversion to odd numbers; and nervous habits, such as opening a door and closing it a certain number of times before one enters or leaves a room. These symptoms can be alienating and time-consuming, and often cause severe emotional and financial distress. The acts of those who have OCD may appear paranoid and come across to others as psychotic. However, OCD sufferers generally recognize their thoughts and subsequent actions as irrational, and they may become further distressed by this realization.
My cousin lived on a farm/ranch in the middle of nowhere...in S.E. Kansas. I used to visit when I was in H.S.
One visit...they hadn't had a lot of rain...they had a cistern..and depended on rain water for their water.
We had been working on the place...and got dirty of course..I took a bath, and my cousin asked me not to empty the tub after I bathed.
The water was brown!! LOL!!
My cousin's husband took a bath in my leftover water!!
I'll never forget that!! LOL!!
No, I won’t give up washing. I disagree with the major premise of this article, anyway.
It should soon be easier to instantly distinguish the conservatives from the libs, since they are already down to one square of tp and now are cutting back on bathing.
Some people are worse. They have CDO.
That’s OCD in alphabetical order, as it should be.
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