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.
This goes on b/c the Germans are rule followers extrordinaire.
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I have Germans in my family. They do not need to be told not to shower.
Back in 1990 I went Zurich from Boston on Swiss Air, economy class. A pair of older German speaking people sat down in the seat right next to me before departing Boston. The lady stank like she had not showered in a week. It was mid July. She pulled out a bottle of perfume and sprayed herself, thankfully.
Later on in the same trip we were in Innsbruck Austria. We took a bus up to the Stubai glacier to go skiing. The guy in front of us on the bus smelled so bad my wife thought she was going to throw up.
Even when we stayed in Zurich, a worldwide center for banking and international commerce, the hotel room did NOT have a shower. It had a tub with a hand held shower nozzle.
Bathing regularly in Europe at least back then(1990) was not that popular.
BIG difference between 15C air and 15C water.
Back in 1982-83 one of my college buddies had a roommate in the dorm from Denmark. Lars was a great guy, but only showered about once every couple weeks, if that. After the first semester, Lars went back to Copenhagen. There was no saving of the mattress that Lars had slept on. It stank so bad, it went in the dumpster.
During the break we helped my buddy even move the dresser that Lars had kept his clothes in to another dorm room. His stench had permeated the wood/particleboard of the dresser. WE then sprayed down his closet with a couple cans of Lysol.
A lot of upper-middle class households have them.
There are namely prefabricated ones you can buy and set up in your basement in about an hour.
Yes, these are dry saunas I'm talking about.
Regards,
Lived in several different homes in Germany in 80s. None of them had showers, only tubs. One landlady was thinking of installing a shower because “Americans seemed to like to shower every day.” She thought this was unnecessary but wanted her properties to be attractive to Americans because she could charge them more for rent.
Translation: Hey, Germans, adapt to having the same hygiene habits as your new rapefugees.
Well, mebbe this is what Germany has come to; emulating froggies.
They are quite similar, both had ego-maniacal leaders too stupid to know that you don’t invade Russia — especially if it is so primitive it doesn’t have decent roads.
Exactly.
All I got to say is, punish your local leaders.
Severely.
It should not end well for them.
So… Just shower every other month, instead of their usual once a month scrubbing? German’s and European’s in general are typically unbathed and unkempt. Dirty buggers.
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.
Ich bin ein DeferCleaner
Germans told to take fewer showers and take one with a friend her mother will understand.
Why not just ask them to take short showers. In 2 minutes one can generally wash their pits, groin and hair, letting the rest of the body get rinsed.
“You can withstand 15 degrees [Celsius] in winter in a sweater. “ WOW...thats 59F....kinda cold without heat.
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