Posted on 11/04/2010 1:11:38 PM PDT by Wile E Coyote Genius
You can smell a homeless person before you see them. Did you see any animal life after 5 days without a shower? The only way caveman was a successful hunter is through brains and teamwork. They must have encircled their prey that ran in terror towards the center from our smell. Our signature rattlesnake rattler is our smell. For bears though, king of the forest, our smell may be attractant. There is evidence we ate a lot of bear.
Most human traits evolve in tribal warfare. Unlike all other animals where fight or flee is over in seconds, we need well lubricated armpits to work weapons in battle for hours at a time. An unwanted side effect is the smell, but this turned out to be an advantage for team hunting.
Agreed. We are all descended from the perpetrators of genocide.
we need well lubricated armpits to work weapons in battle for hours at a time.
Disagree. Tribal combat never consists of hours of stand up toe to toe fighting. It is raids and ambushes, remarkably like how you describe animal fighting.
At the very earliest, ranked infantry fighting didn't come in till agriculture forced people to defend particular territory. And in the sense you are using the term, probably not till the Greeks invented hoplite shock infantry warfare.
Actually I tend to use the word bathe even when I personally shower. I need to be more detailed in my posting!!
I’m well aware of the use of a wash pan and picture. We also did not bathe everyday because it was just to much trouble heating the water and such. We also did not heat new water for each child...being the youngest the water was getting pretty thick by the time it got to my turn!!
picture = pitcher
And then indulge in a late night winter shower for no reason at all!
Make sure that you drain the hot-water tank.
And coincidentally, his friends now limit their visits to about twice a week.
I almost never bathe. I take daily showers, twice when I get sweaty exercising or muddy gardening.
Exactly! These idiots seem to think that water just disappears. It is IMPOSSIBLE to run out of water.
You are using the water as a medical treatment. That’s different from the question in the article.
The trait of well lubricated armpits under stress from other humans is likely related to combat somehow, directly or indirectly. Agriculture is too new an invention to account for such a well developed trait different than other animals. Tribal warfare has been with us much longer than agriculture. A primitive surprise attack massacre of a competing tribe would take many hours preparation and execution. If not in actual fighting, the tribes with superior weapon manipulation endurance were selected somehow.
Fair enough.
My comment was strictly about the notion of primitive combat lasting for hours on end. There is little or no evidence this was ever the case.
Running down and massacring the fleeing losers might consume quite a bit of time, but the actual combat was more likely measured in minutes instead of hours.
You sound somewhat like me. I am a neat freak. Can’t stand smears on stuff—constantly cleaning and purging stuff out of the house. I’ve been told my house when it is messy is still a lot cleaner than most people’s ‘clean’ house. My husband both likes and loathes it at the same time. We’re trying to sell our house now, and our realtor is amazed at how clean it is compared to some of the places he has listed.
I also have 4 kids, including one 3 year old Tasmanian Devil, so that makes life a lot more difficult when you like clean as much as I do. I have learned to relax somewhat on what constitutes clean (especially in the kids’ rooms).
If you ever watch the TV show ‘Hoarders’ on A&E, it makes you want to go clean even more, LOL.
I don’t normally take a morning bath on weekends when I don’t get up at 4:30am or if I’m on vacation. If I have time to stretch and start my day moving slowly until I can move I don’t feel the need for a hot soak to get me going. I know all that soaking isn’t good for the skin but as far as water goes we have a well that is in an underground lake and we have plenty of excellent water so I don’t feel guilty about wasting water.
I don’t like to take meds and if a morning hot soak helps then I figure that’s better than popping a lot of pills. Once I’m moving I’m good the rest of the day as long as I don’t sit too long.
I’m looking forward to retirement and when I do I’ll be down to a more normal once a day bath.
In the case of two equals, where neither side succeeded in surprise or had a significant technological advantage like a sharp sword, hand to hand combat till death could take hours. It's possible the lubrication is more for swift sudden speed than hours endurance, but the advantage of extended repetitive tool manipulation action seems more likely. Equal killing equal takes much more time than a hunter killing prey.
LOL about the thick water....been there done that...these yung uns today don’t know how easy they got it...plus, they are so clean, they never get a change to build up immunity to dirt and what lives in it.....:O)
Freepers love you even if your weird, or maybe because your weird, not sure which it is so dont change....Ever watch the show Monk....bet he’s worse than you....:O)
LOL, I don't know. I've been called some pretty nasty names by some Freepers. I've learned to expect it and ignore it. I think we're all a little weird about something. :-) I get mad at myself over the numbers thing. I bake cookies and candies at Christmas to give to co-workers. When I bag them I count as I bag them. If I can only get 11 cookies in a bag I take one out or get a bigger bag. LOL
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