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Posted on 04/21/2022 5:06:20 AM PDT by blam
As energy costs continue to bite thanks to the sanctions on Russia, Germans are being told to take fewer showers.
Yes, really.
Amidst discussion in the country of a potential total energy embargo on Russia, articles about the supposed health benefits of showering less have begun to pop up.
In an article titled ‘‘It’s enough to wash THESE four body parts – Why the skin cleans itself if you let it’, Germany’s Bild newspaper cites advice by economy minister Robert Habeck, who has called on citizens to cut back on their heating, sauna visits, and showers to help the country reduce its dependence on Russian energy.
The piece claims that avoiding showers gives good bacteria a chance to propagate, helping with skin conditions and also consuming the substances responsible for body odor.
“This way, it [skin] cleans itself,” states the article, arguing dubiously that avoiding washing your body will actually make you smell better.
The article quotes dermatologist Yael Adler, who claims that avoiding showers for three weeks makes, “the odors disappear and the skin begins a kind of a self-cleaning process.”
According to Adler, Germans can save energy and keep themselves clean enough by washing just four areas of the body, bottom, armpits, feet, and groin.
In some countries, this is colloquially known as a “whore’s wash.”
The article was published after Klaus Mueller, the head of Germany’s Federal Network Agency, asked his fellow countrymen, “whether you really need to take a hot shower seven days a week – with gas heating.”
As we previously highlighted, government minister Peter Hauk also told Germans they should cope with soaring energy costs by merely turning off the heating and wearing warmer sweaters.
“You can withstand 15 degrees [Celsius] in winter in a sweater. No one dies of it. But people are dying elsewhere,” he said.
Before the war began, Germany imported 55 per cent of its gas from Russia along with a third of its oil and 45 per cent of its coal.
I’m sure government ministers, German technocrats and the rest will definitely take the lead in voluntarily reducing their own living standards in solidarity with those who can’t afford not to.
Or maybe not.
Germans won’t go for that. The French, on the other hand....
I’ve been on the U-Bahn in the summertime. Many Germans have already embraced this ethos.
Finally !
Justification to wear a mask …
RE: “Germans Told To Take Fewer Showers As Energy Costs Bite
By God, my Dad (8th Air Force, WW2) was right! He always referred to Germans as, “Those stinking Germans”.
I heard that this is another thing Hollyweird celebs have adopted.
Whoever has the soap/bodywash concession in Germany just got screwed. Just imagine ripe BO combined with Wurst, Sauerkraut, and Beer sweat not being “washed off.”
Gives whole new meaning to social distancing.
“You’ve had a long journey. Please, step into the showers...”
Germany’s policy circa 1940.
Up until the 1950s....this ‘short-wash’ thing was a normal thing for German households. Then hot-water heaters came out and bathing a couple times a week became the norm.
I will say that prior to this whole Ukraine/Russia thing...there were German health-experts saying a full-up bath every single night was absolutely not necessary.
On personal saunas? There just aren’t that many Germans around with their own sauna. I bet it’s only like one house out of a three-hundred with this feature.
Its coming to America....turn AC up to 80, in the winter turn thermostat down to 55, wear a sweater, 30 second showers, long gas lines, beans, rice and small amounts of meat, wheelbarrels of cash for purchases, and finally no guns for you.
A long time ago I worked at a company that had 90% of its sales in Europe. For one week, two people from Italy came to visit our site. When they got within ten feet, the stink was like a physical blow. We simply could not be in the same room with them. My boss called their boss on the first day and demanded that they immediately go back to their hotel and shower.
Maybe combat showers? Rinse, shut water off, lather, rinse, shut water off again. Done.
For a Euro that means every two weeks.
Yep. I lived in Germany for 2 years, the last people that should be told not to shower is Germans.
Wanna bet? My ex-wife's German parents, grandparents, aunts & uncles never showered daily. "Sink baths" were their every-other-day regimen.
So glad I don't have to smell them anymore. (or her for that matter.)
Stink a la French.
Don’t bet on it. While stationed in Germany in 1997, I had a German electrician in for a a week re-wiring the place. He had a stink on him that made grown men gag. I had to open all the windows to air the place out during the winter, and the smell stayed in the office for two weeks after. It was horrible!
Maybe don’t go full speed ahead with “green” energy.
Europe has screwed themselves. France is the smartest of the bunch.
Highest percentage of nuclear power in the world.
I know they are decommissioning some, but are building 6 more.
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