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What’s with these young people that rarely if ever take showers and baths?

Posted on 03/18/2019 10:19:15 AM PDT by Bigtigermike

Working with them at my job, I’ve notice a trend of millennials and young folks smelling awefull. In conversations when I ask in a round about way about showering and taking a bath, they pretty much say they do it every now and then or looking at it as some strange phenomenon! Even my nephew rarely takes baths and I have to get on him about it since he works in the public and deal with gasoline around him. What gives?


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: awefull; baths; filthy; millennials; youth
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To: carriage_hill

In a bath you sweat out toxins and can soak in magnesium of epsom salts or whatever herbs etc you put in the bath. Can’t get same health effect in shower water runing over you plus in shower you can potentially be breathing in or having spray back off walls of whatever germs etc on them, and how clean is that shower head you’re putting your face under? Bath and shower both have pros and cons.


61 posted on 03/18/2019 11:26:57 AM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: Bigtigermike

They Are Saving The Earth


62 posted on 03/18/2019 11:35:03 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Bigtigermike

My niece is like this.

She is a wonderful, smart, and pretty woman. Just stay upwind.


63 posted on 03/18/2019 11:37:29 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service? Why?)
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To: ifinnegan

As my late uncle used to say “When you can smell yourself other people have been smelling you for 3 days.”


64 posted on 03/18/2019 11:38:47 AM PDT by Terry Mross (I)
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To: ronniesgal

Lord my 19 year old daughter got in the shower yesterday morning before I did. 55 gallons of hot water later I attempted to shower and got nothing but cold water. I wish she would get a wild water conservation hair!

ps I did have an 80 gallon tank for a family of five and it crapped out in December. I found out quickly that Obumbler and his band of fascist decided that was too big for a family of five we only needed a max 55 gallon tank to save water and energy. A new 80 gallon tank was around $1200, just for the tank, ouch!


65 posted on 03/18/2019 11:38:52 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: TheDandyMan

“water-resistant” not waterproof.


66 posted on 03/18/2019 11:40:31 AM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: Responsibility2nd

You are going to drive yourself crazy. Correcting grammar these days is a full time job.


67 posted on 03/18/2019 11:40:35 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service? Why?)
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To: READINABLUESTATE
This is what it takes to “Save the planet”. /s

These kids are a product of their institutionalization. They are being told how much they are damaging "mother earth" by even existing.

68 posted on 03/18/2019 11:41:09 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: OrangeHoof
Originally, awful had the meaning of being awe-inspiring (including positive connotations), as well as "worthy of, or commanding, profound respect or reverential fear." It was not a far stretch to then use it also to mean "Causing dread; terrible, dreadful, appalling."

Awefull is an obsolete form of awful. 8>)

It's awfully hard to keep these words straight. 8>)

69 posted on 03/18/2019 11:41:39 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: sarge83

That sounds like the Millennials I know.

They find bar soap unsanitary and disgusting, but have two dozen fancy lotions and potions in the bath to help them get through their showers.


70 posted on 03/18/2019 11:42:05 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: carriage_hill
Why would anyone take a bath or use a hot tub? All you’re doing is sitting in your own grime, sweat and dirt. Take a shower.

Kramer is that you??

71 posted on 03/18/2019 11:42:59 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Bigtigermike
Not necessarily true. Sometime, take a sample of your bathwater,let it settle-out, have it analyzed, and get a printout of what's in it. You'll be surprised.

Bathwater is a less-than-appetizing cocktail of soap, shampoo, dead skin cells, bacteria and germs, often with a splash of urine thrown in. But as unpleasant as it sounds, a few sips probably won't make you sick — the amount of water in the tub typically dilutes anything potentially dangerous.

Do baths clean you?

The short answer: it depends on how clean your tub is. ... Of course, this isn't even including the bacteria and germs your body brings into the tub. If you aren't cleaning out your bathtub or rinsing yourself in the shower after you bathe, your bath is basically covering yourself in your own filth (yuck!).

72 posted on 03/18/2019 11:46:35 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: pfflier

Heh.


73 posted on 03/18/2019 11:47:32 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I knew a guy in early-60s HS, who wore Aramis Cologne, and you could smell him coming 1-2mins before even got into the classroom. Same when he wore Jade East. Phew.


74 posted on 03/18/2019 11:50:13 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Because showering takes time away from online porn?


75 posted on 03/18/2019 11:55:12 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: carriage_hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmBle0Dljw


76 posted on 03/18/2019 11:59:11 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Bigtigermike

I remember sitting next to someone on the airplane with a big head of dreds.

He was a millennial and he *stank!!*


77 posted on 03/18/2019 12:00:30 PM PDT by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: carriage_hill

I would assume anyone would typically clean their bathtub on a consistent basis. I know I do


78 posted on 03/18/2019 12:01:24 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Buckeye McFrog

These people LOVE their dirty clothes... dirt under your fingernails, no haircut, nothing is ironed, shoes over run at the heel... sheesh


79 posted on 03/18/2019 12:03:57 PM PDT by SMARTY (Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. Ortega y Gasset)
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To: Red Badger

Yes, in California I knew some that didn’t shower much and the women didn’t shave their legs or under their arms. They said if they shower all the time their body doesn’t put out some smell that attracts the opposite sex. Maybe that’s why so many turned gay.


80 posted on 03/18/2019 12:22:30 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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