Posted on 03/18/2019 10:19:15 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
Honestly I think a lot of it has to do with depression.
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What you think has already been corroborated by several scientific studies, and the depression, not surprisingly, has resulted in an increase of suicides.
Hi, AppyPappy-!
Snake Skin Sonny’s daughter may have a sharp sense of smell.
I’ve known women who can smell a scent from down the hallway and advise us when someone was heading our way and we other women couldn’t smell any scent.
And, on the other hand, I’ve worked with both men and women who smelled like they bathed in a terrible soap bath.
I had to explain to one young man that I didn’t care what his man’s cologne cost: It Stunk.
Yeah I’m a millennial myself and I see a lot of people my age are absolutely miserable and usually have depression or anxiety problems. The mental health of this country is in terrible shape and life expectancy for white males has been dropping for several years because of suicide. There’s a lot of debt laden people stuck in dead end jobs underemployed and have no friends or community to be a part of. 2019 America is a pretty alienating and miserable place to be in many cases.
Reminds me of how I was taught to prepare for a good soak.
1. Shower thoroughly.
2. Clean the shower thoroughly.
3. Run the bath and ensure bath soaps are mixed thoroughly.
4. Rinse after your bath; yep...thoroughly.
Never forgot. LOL
Two [types] of rooms in the house need to be clean at all times: Bathroom/s and Kitchen/s.
I’m not as bad as my one of my younger sisters, thankfully. She’d make a dust bunny run for its life! When we were being raised my father would have Inspections. We learned to wipe the underside of all the beds, the sliding portion of any window and sliding closet door. She still keeps her home spotless. I mean, SPOTLESS.
LOL
>>>Even my nephew rarely takes baths<<<
Men take Showers, Women take Baths, but I assume there are exceptions to every rule.
Most Men will participate in taking a Bath if a Woman invites him to join her. Then again, to the Man it isn’t a Bath, it’s foreplay. #;^)
As for me, I never understood sitting in a Tub full of dirty soapy Water, unless you take a Shower right after to get really clean.
“I’m too old to smell accurately anymore...”
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You’re not alone, Texicanus-
Several decades ago I was part of a Cookie Ministry at my church. I was appalled at how many older women would bring in burnt cookies. I’m not talking ‘browned,’ either. Burnt like toast. They would tell me that they smelled just fine to them. I was able to encourage some to use those nifty things called ‘timers’ and the others, I encouraged to resign.
Lack of smell, I’ll buy that as an excuse. These women were not blind, though and knew better.
Every one of my recipes has the exact minute and seconds written or typed next to them. Seconds count, for the Shortbread!
My beloved is retired and one-track minded. There are days I’ll ask him if he’s showered yet. I can tell he hasn’t, of course. It always brings him up short when he realizes he forgot to shower. LOL
But...she is just helping you do preventative maintenance by flushing the heater ;-)
Yeah I’m a millennial myself and I see a lot of people my age are absolutely miserable and usually have depression or anxiety problems. The mental health of this country is in terrible shape and life expectancy for white males has been dropping for several years because of suicide. There’s a lot of debt laden people stuck in dead end jobs underemployed and have no friends or community to be a part of. 2019 America is a pretty alienating and miserable place to be in many cases.
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As to your first observation, I would ask you to consider why these people are miserable and have depression or anxiety problems? I believe it’s because they have a terribly unrealistic understanding of reality. What they desperately need to learn is that absolutely no one owes them a damn thing. I’ve personally known young people, and many of them who, instead of whining and bitching and sitting on their asses playing with their smartphones, worked part-time jobs, paid their own way through college, or got full-time jobs and worked their way up to higher positions and better salaries. As to the debt-laden people stuck in dead-end jobs, most all of them are debt-laden because they are self-spoiled spendthrifts who should be grateful they have so-called dead-end jobs. The Labor Department reported last Friday that there are now one million more jobs available than the number of unemployed! And finally, there are countless organizations around the country where young people who are moaning because they have no friends can go to find friends. Bottom line: The self-indulgent introverts you’re referring to need to stop acting like spoiled brats and get a life. They could begin by looking for places to volunteer their idle time helping people who really are physically and/or mentally in need of a helping hand.
It’s a part of aging, The loss of smell, sight, hearing, etc. can be problematic to many that refuse to accept their limitations as they get older.
I experienced it with my parents and grandparents and swore it would never happen to me. But it has. And now I am learning to cope with it as best I can.
I was raised in a family where mother always said: Cleanliness is next to Godliness. My wife of 40+ years also believes this. I have her to remind me when I have fallen short. But with age I have had to be mindful of slips and falls, colds (or worse pneumonia), and other risks. Yes, I don’t bathe every day based on various circumstances. But I don’t smell like a goat either. I never leave home without a shower, a crap, and the appropriate attire for the occasion soused in some high dollar cologne the kids gave me last birthday.
OTOH, she lives to bathe and I have no complaints in that area with her. But in other areas, I do. So we give and take our criticism within limits so as not to offend one another too much.
As for your Cookie Ministry experience - been there, done that. My rule is take a little of everything that looks good on the first pass through the line and check it out to see if you like it. Then score big time on the second pass. No one is offended if you want seconds especially if you complement the cooks on how good their dish is. But let me tell you, some of the first pass food that I have seen and tasted was 911 quality stuff. It may look good but it may have a consistency of rubber or cement, or maybe just an off-taste like Dawn or Tide. If in doubt don’t eat it. Cover it with a napkin and dump it.
One thing I have learned is that a recipe committed to memory is a disaster waiting to happen. And a lot of cooks are having memory failures, which is why I always recheck the my recipe from my recipe filebox before cooking anything special.
My millenials male and female shower twice a day. I have water bills to prove it. In there a long time removing every hair on their bodies. Ouch!
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Question: Why are your millennials still living with their mommy? Isn’t it time they got bold and struck out on their own?
I don’t owe you an explanation. If 21 22 still in school or recent grad if 3 months you think I should throw them out. Is that what you did to yours? Rents are 4k a month where I live. They are young. Not like they are 30 and living in the basement.
She is a wonderful, smart, and pretty woman. Just stay upwind.
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Methinks there’s an oxymoron somewhere in the statement!
You are going to drive yourself crazy. Correcting grammar these days is a full time job.
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It’s especially egregious on the internet new sites.
Interesting. First I’ve heard of this phenomenon, but then, come to think of it, I’m not around young people much; not at all actually.
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Here’s a point I haven’t seen any mention of on this thread. I personally have found that as I’ve gotten older (now in the serene 70s), I simply do not generate the same degree of body odor that I did when I was much younger. Consequently, I discovered that I could simply dispense with deodorants without fear of smelling like an old goat between monthly showers!
If you don’t shower every day, it is kind of nasty.
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My father used to say if you’re short on time at least take a quick whore’s bath!
Who are these young people. Have had kids friends in my home years. Not one of them smelled unless they came from sports. Rather were fanatical about cleanliness using Axe etc. I Get a whiff on railroads subways usually immigrants and curry makes you stink
Ping
The French way.....
It was my mom who taught me a lot, though I wasn’t smart enough to know it. Amazing, how we really don’t appreciate moms until it’s too late.
She always said to read the recipe every single line every single time. LOL
My beloved’s sense of smell and sight is as sharp as when he was young. I keep telling him that it must be nice. LOL It’s just his getting distracted that does any damage. LOLOL
Compared to other countries, we are blessed to be able to have these types of problems.
Take care!
Yes, I always took Mom for granted until she was gone.
Mom had medical conditions that kept her off her feet and out of the kitchen so I had to rely on Dad’s cooking. Dad couldn’t boil water. He could only cook eggs over easy (runny yolks which stuck to the plates I had to hand wash). Plus I hope I never see a can of pork and beans (Dad’s favorite, he could eat them at every meal) again. So I had learn to cook in self defense. I was around 12 y.o. at the time and take out food didn’t yet exist in my Podunk town. Colonel Sanders was not around when I needed him in the early years.
I learned to write down my recipes and always review them again, especially the footnotes I had added over time so as to avoid a cooking disaster. I learned to assemble the needed utensils and ingredients before hand. I developed a sense of proportion which enabled me to make a large/small batch of anything. I learned not to over season things. And much much more.
I struggled but eventually learned to survive in the kitchen. And Dad lived to be 87 despite my cooking and the Colonel’s KFC.
Have blessed day and say a prayer for the ladies and older guys who have fallen short(cake).
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