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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: GraceG

“Showering once a day is a bit excessive if you are an office worker”

Office worker here. I shower twice a day at least.

Do you go to the Gym or have sex? Showering after those things is a good idea.


61 posted on 11/05/2010 10:59:32 AM PDT by Eyes Unclouded ("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
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To: Paladins Prayer
And they call us ,"the great unwashed". They seemed to be determined to make life for us as unpleasant as possible.
62 posted on 11/05/2010 11:57:12 AM PDT by jmcenanly
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To: AbolishCSEU

That’s crazy.


63 posted on 11/05/2010 1:19:59 PM PDT by Warthog-2 (CONGRATS TO GOV. CORBETT and SENATOR TOOMEY!)
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To: AbolishCSEU

What I meant was That those parents and their laissez-faire attitudes are crazy.


64 posted on 11/05/2010 1:21:53 PM PDT by Warthog-2 (CONGRATS TO GOV. CORBETT and SENATOR TOOMEY!)
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To: rahbert

Thank you very much for your input; it is deeply appreciated.


65 posted on 11/05/2010 1:24:35 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Paladins Prayer
My Daddy used to tell me a joke about a couple of hippies who meet a nun in a leg cast navigating her way down the street.

The hippies are sympathetic and ask the sister how she broke her leg.

"Oh," she said, "I had a fall getting out of the bath tub."

As they continue on their way, one hippie turns to the other and says "What in the hell is a bath tub?"

The other gives him a blank stare and says "How do you expect me to know, I'm not Catholic!"

66 posted on 11/05/2010 2:22:16 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

***They prided themselves on being unclean, unshaven, rejecting materialism, torn jeans, etc.***

I remember when some Hippies began to wear flea collars to keep the vermin down.


67 posted on 11/05/2010 4:44:06 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
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To: Gabrial

I smell perfume, it’s strong I think,

It’s really there to mask the stink.

It burns my nose, my eyes they itch!

I really must, get away from that witch!


68 posted on 11/05/2010 4:52:16 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
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To: Warthog-2

Believe me it’s SO prevalent it’s unreal. . .

Children call the shots and the parents obey.


69 posted on 11/05/2010 5:45:42 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
LOL

You're a poet who don't know it!

70 posted on 11/05/2010 6:48:13 PM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: Paladins Prayer

The Beaver and Wally wet their towels in the tub to make it look like they washed, then let the water drain out.


71 posted on 11/05/2010 7:52:48 PM PDT by Ciexyz
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To: Brett66
Why don't they just wash and get a bottle of Eau de Merde?? I'm sure someone will bottle it for them and they can stink with no other ill effects...

(Just watch, some fool will make a killing selling that sh*t).

72 posted on 11/06/2010 9:52:49 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Did you see that ad for an SUV where a snotty blond-haired brat tells his parents what kind of car to buy? So he won’t be embarrassed at school?

So they buy it, and then he mocks all the other kids who get driven home in old cars.

It is so obnoxious!

I permanently blotted out the brand of auto in my mind. Some crap from Honda or Toyota or some similar obnoxious company—maybe Obama Motors.


73 posted on 11/06/2010 11:41:00 AM PDT by Warthog-2 (CONGRATS TO GOV. CORBETT and SENATOR TOOMEY!)
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To: Warthog-2

Yep. And there’s NO WAY I’d consider buying any of their products based on those commercials alone.

But it is really a window into today’s non-parenting. Most 20 and 30 something parents let their children run the show.


74 posted on 11/06/2010 5:29:28 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU
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To: AbolishCSEU
Believe me it’s SO prevalent it’s unreal. . .Children call the shots and the parents obey.

A former co-worker of mine is a prime example. She was fired last week for, among other reasons, excessive absences.

Her son just started college at U. Maryland, College Park. She drives him to school. She keeps saying that the train drops him off just 1/4 mile from class, but he doesn't want to walk if it's hot or it's cold or it's raining.

75 posted on 11/07/2010 4:24:38 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: jimtorr

Used to be you had a school “bus stop” where a bunch of school kids would WALK (insert loud GASP) to the bus stop and therefore the bus could EFFICIENTLY pick up several children at once.

Now children are driven down their driveways waiting for school in their parents heated/air conditioned vans with dvds playing in the back AND

the bus stops at EVERY driveway. I watched in horror as a school bus literally stopped at EVERY DRIVEWAY on a residential street, for MIDDLE SCHOOL students who were perfectly capable of walking more than ten steps to the next driveway or heaven forbid a few yards to an actual BUS STOP!!

Then they have bus matrons and children who are not waiting to be picked up. The bus has to stop, honk several times the matron gets out and personally walks up the driveway to give said child a celebrity style escort. The child slowly saunters out of the house making a chain of cars wait behind the bus as mom, in her p.j.s waves and kisses Junior as though he’s off to Fallujah.

No wonder why these kids today are so pampered, coddled and entitled.


76 posted on 11/07/2010 3:39:28 PM PST by AbolishCSEU
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