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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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To: Paladins Prayer

What about saving water by not brushing their teeth? Every little bit counts while trying to “save the planet”.


21 posted on 11/05/2010 8:00:17 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: Warthog-2

It goes along with the success of ‘green’ jobs.


22 posted on 11/05/2010 8:00:29 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Paladins Prayer

A biology prof at college only bathed once a week. By Friday we all dreaded having to go ask him a question, he was pretty ripe.


23 posted on 11/05/2010 8:00:40 AM PDT by Spudx7
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To: Paladins Prayer

24 posted on 11/05/2010 8:01:22 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Paladins Prayer

I don’t care if it’s un-PC, I refuse to go around smelling like a Russian.


25 posted on 11/05/2010 8:02:34 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: Paladins Prayer

What else should you expect from a hippie?


26 posted on 11/05/2010 8:04:07 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Paladins Prayer
Liberals are fowl anyway, why not i.d. themselves with stench?......"LOOK!!!....ANOTHER STINKING LIBERAL!"
27 posted on 11/05/2010 8:04:14 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Paladins Prayer

This is just a sub-trend inside of a larger back-to-the-caves movement among the environazis, most of whom, by the way, will NOT be sharing the caves with us, once they push us into them.

At least they don’t ENVISION themselves as living in the fetid slave-camps with us. They envision themselves being the MASTERS, living in mansions (oops, ecologically friendly buildings ala Al Gore).

Of course, their vision is flawed. Most of them WILL be in the slave camps with us plebes... only the very top players, like Al Gore, for example, will actually get to live in mansions.

But it doesn’t matter. The army of environazis will continue to love their masters even as they become enslaved by them.

It’s only we plebes who will complain.


28 posted on 11/05/2010 8:04:14 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Paladins Prayer

“Stinking in America: Is Not Washing the New PC Trend?”

Makes it easier to pick out the liberals.


29 posted on 11/05/2010 8:07:11 AM PDT by Grunthor (I learned only after Obamas' election that I am a racist, SEXIST, homophobe, anarchist.)
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To: throwback

ROFL!!


30 posted on 11/05/2010 8:07:47 AM PDT by cartan
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To: Red Badger

My sister’s family hosted an exchange student from France. Her two kids also spent a summer in France while they were in highschool. All of them were appalled by the total lack of hygiene on the part of the french. MY sister couldn’t wait to get Francois out of her house. He wouldn’t shower, wouldn’t wash his clothes, and wouldn’t use deodorant. And people think WE should be like THEM?


31 posted on 11/05/2010 8:07:53 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (Let's party like it's 1773!)
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To: Warthog-2

I’d like to tell him that the way he can ultimately redeem himself of the sin of creating CO2 and be the greenest of them all is for him to cease breathing.


32 posted on 11/05/2010 8:10:22 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Paladins Prayer

We were so poor in my childhood we all had holes in our shoes. But my Mother was a clean addict. She washed clothes and hung them on the line outside even in the cold and ironed everything. She said our clothes may be worn but they would be clean. Everyone had showers every day.


33 posted on 11/05/2010 8:14:10 AM PDT by Hattie
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To: Trust but Verify

WHY DO YOU THINK FRANCE IS THE WORLD’S LEADING PERFUME MAKER?.......


34 posted on 11/05/2010 8:14:25 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: Gondring
And I do know someone who stopped his hair loss by reducing his shampooing to once a week.

NOW you tell me!

35 posted on 11/05/2010 8:20:50 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 653 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Paladins Prayer

I met a liberal chick at a party once.

She had long, thick, shiny, black hair.

It was under her arms.


36 posted on 11/05/2010 8:20:50 AM PDT by Iron Munro (This is our culture; fight for it. This is our flag; pick it up. This is our country; take it back.)
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To: Grunthor
Let's play: Find the unwashed liberal.....
37 posted on 11/05/2010 8:21:14 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Paladins Prayer
Not bathing is NOT political correctness...it's simply low class and bad hygiene.

Being brought to you by the same people that find everything else "offensive" is one of the most offensive things on the planet - body odor.

There are some middle easterners that bought a small grocery store near me, I've shopped their for ages, but now you can't stand to go in there; the owner, his wife and employees all stink to high heaven. The minute you walk in the door, it becomes hard to breathe it smells so bad. Needless to say, we don't go there any longer.


38 posted on 11/05/2010 8:27:27 AM PDT by FrankR (REPEAL Obamacare, or we'll vote you outta' there....)
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To: Paladins Prayer

I know several extreme enviro/liberals who do this sort of thing. They will only flush the toilet with number 2 and they only bathe once or twice a week (at most). Their kids have the greasiest hair you have ever seen and dirt under their fingernails. Disgusting to me. Don’t even ask me about the women: no hair color, no make-up, Birkenstock sandals... Yuck.


39 posted on 11/05/2010 8:27:32 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: Paladins Prayer

Not bathing is for the newly retarded and plague infested, lice ridden morons.


40 posted on 11/05/2010 8:27:51 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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