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Stinking in America: Is Not Washing the New PC Trend?
The New American ^ | 04 November 2010 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 11/05/2010 7:45:30 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer

People such as me are often accused of wanting to return to the 19th century. But, if the New York Times is right about a new trend, some on the Left want to go back to the Middle Ages. What is that trend? Avoiding soap, deodorant, and even bathing regularly. Today, though, it’s often for environmental reasons.

It seems that top-notch Western hygiene has now joined SUVs, Wal-Mart, tobacco (not the wacky kind — it’s in fashion), guns, McDonald’s, and white males in the Museum of Politically Incorrect Persons, Places, and Things.

For example, Guardian writer Kira Cochrane tells us about 51-year-old environmentalist Donnachadh McCarthy, who boasts that he’s gotten his water consumption down to about “20 litres a day,” that he’s “as clean as everyone else,” and that he’s trying to reduce his “carbon footprint.”

If I were Donnachadh, I’d be more concerned about my stink footprint.

McCarthy seems to bemoan what Cochrane calls the fetishizing of extreme cleanliness and says that when he was a lad “the normal thing was to bathe once a week.” I don’t know, perhaps he spent his youth as part of a head-hunting tribe in Papua New Guinea, but during my stateside childhood in the 1970s, a daily shower was expected. I mean, even in 1950s programs such as Leave it to Beaver, the little boy who tried to avoid his nightly bath was often the stuff of comedy fare.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: environmentalism; shampoo; soap; stink; washing
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This is a funny article. Brightened my day.
1 posted on 11/05/2010 7:45:33 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
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To: Paladins Prayer

Such wackos!

No wonder so many of them are jobless.


2 posted on 11/05/2010 7:47:41 AM PDT by Warthog-2 (CONGRATS TO GOV. CORBETT and SENATOR TOOMEY!)
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To: Paladins Prayer

So when Katie Couric talked about the great unwashed, she was actually talking about Liberals?

Huh....Makes sense now.


3 posted on 11/05/2010 7:52:00 AM PDT by Portnoy (Follow me on Twitter @gadsdenrattlers)
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To: Paladins Prayer
Bed bugs. No bathing. Economy in free-fall. Anti-American hippies in public office. Unenforced laws. (Shall I go on?)

Could there be more obvious signs of decadence? Or that Western Civilization is headed back to the Middle Ages?

4 posted on 11/05/2010 7:52:07 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Left is the quintessence of hate, greed, and envy. No wonder they're so miserable.)
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To: Paladins Prayer

Bad hygiene is retro-60s. All of their ideas are recycled failures from past decades.


5 posted on 11/05/2010 7:53:50 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (We are going to punish our enemies, get in their faces and punch back twice as hard.)
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To: Paladins Prayer
3 Nuts...starring Donnachadh McCarthy FRSA

I hope this UK nonsense stays there...though I do recall those in college who wouldn't wash some of their clothes because it would ruin them... "they got natural oils, man..."

And I do know someone who stopped his hair loss by reducing his shampooing to once a week.

6 posted on 11/05/2010 7:54:17 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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So Harry Reid was really smelling his constituents then. Instead of complaining he should have said something like, “Ah, I love the smell of BO in the morning, it’s the smell of my voters, it’s the smell of victory!”


7 posted on 11/05/2010 7:54:45 AM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: Warthog-2

Reminds me of the boast of Isabella of Spain that she supposedly had only two baths in her life - baptism, and on her wedding day.

On the more serious side, supposedly we left bad hygiene behind a hundred years ago. Just more ammo in that modern liberalism is leading us backwards in so many ways.


8 posted on 11/05/2010 7:55:15 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Paladins Prayer

A great way to save water is for Liberal women to shave their heads. This cuts shower time down to a few minutes and eliminates all that shampoo from being drained into the water supply.


9 posted on 11/05/2010 7:55:24 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama to Dems: 'Those GD American voters stole the election!')
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To: Paladins Prayer

That is sooooo French..............


10 posted on 11/05/2010 7:55:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE MEGHAN MCCAIN A BOX OF KRISPY KREMES SO SHE'LL SHUT THE HELL UP?!)
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To: Paladins Prayer

Big spending he wanted to sell
He thought it best just to yell
But returns came that night
voters went to the right
And now he thinks that he’ll smell


11 posted on 11/05/2010 7:56:14 AM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: Paladins Prayer

All we are sayyyyinnng is give soap a chance...


12 posted on 11/05/2010 7:56:49 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Pablo lives jubtabulously!)
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Stinking in America: Is Not Washing the New PC Trend?

Could be why bedbugs are taking over several cities.

13 posted on 11/05/2010 7:56:51 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Paladins Prayer

it took them a while, but them dirty hippies of the 60’s now have a cause they can really get into.
the good news is that leaves more water to wash my car with...


14 posted on 11/05/2010 7:57:01 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

That is why lib women all have short hair.............


15 posted on 11/05/2010 7:57:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE GIVE MEGHAN MCCAIN A BOX OF KRISPY KREMES SO SHE'LL SHUT THE HELL UP?!)
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To: Paladins Prayer

From article,

“Have you ever been around a restaurant worker who recently arrived from a nation (I’m thinking of one culture in particular, which shall remain nameless) in which deodorant isn’t high on the shopping list?”

Hmm. Can anyone guess the country? There are quite a few candidates.


16 posted on 11/05/2010 7:57:56 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
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To: Tijeras_Slim

This is actually revisiting an old trend from the hippies in the ‘60s. Many hippies stunk to high heaven. They prided themselves on being unclean, unshaven, rejecting materialism, torn jeans, etc.

But now today’s mindless liberals are doing it to save the planet. Ok, got it. (sarcasm)


17 posted on 11/05/2010 7:58:45 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Paladins Prayer

We have already been through this with the stinky hippies of the 60’s.....epic fail. Looks like we are in for another round of stinky people, this time to “save the world.” LOL!


18 posted on 11/05/2010 7:58:48 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Defund, repeal, investigate, impeach, convict, jail, celebrate.)
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To: Paladins Prayer

Leftists not washing is a new trend?


19 posted on 11/05/2010 7:59:18 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: Gondring

So I guess not shampooing kept the glue from washing off?
m’kay, that might work.

ROTFL!


20 posted on 11/05/2010 7:59:33 AM PDT by dforest
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