Are you a dirty minger?
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That was all for the benefit of a certain poster who takes everything in if you're referring to an older post
I shower every day and clean my arse with wet wipes.
I also have my own towels.
I also shave my bits every week.
I change my pants and socks everyday because I cycle.
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The 14 years i spent working at Morrisons, the various stores i worked at and many different cleaners i spoke too, all said the womens toilets were worse than the mens
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Women's toilets are grim, maybe even worse then mens.
Back where I used to work we had to call out plumbers to the women's toilets significantly more than the mens, sometimes they were so bad the cleaners complained.
Even at uni I remember girls using the co-ed toilets (which were pretty grim) instead of the girls only ones because of various works of art on the walls and floors
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We have mix sex toilets at work and the amount of times I've gone in one and there has been fanny blood on the seat. Yet if a man left **** all over the seat it would be all around the workplace pretty sharp.
I'm less convinced, when I was growing up I really don't remember people showing/bathing all that frequently. If anything I think there is more social pressure nowadays to smell good etc.
I'm a lot better than I used to be when it comes to showering/bathing but we have pretty poor discipline when it comes to bed linen. I reckon we only change it every six weeks or so. We probably over-wash machine washable clothing; most things get washed after being worn once, bit longer for jeans and jumpers. If I'm just going to be at home at the weekend I don't see any harm in wearing the same shirt two days running.
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If your skin gets dry then apply moisturiser. It exists for this very reason. or are you too manly for such un-manly things?
I shampoo my hair every day during a shower and this has been the case for as long as I can remember. My hair is thick and extremely high quality and grows back to its pre-barbershop length every 4-5 weeks. My barber says it's superb and secretly I think she mops it up and sells it to some wig based black market.
I'd assume ladies cubicles get more 'traffic' in the sense that if urinals are present, men will typically only use cubicles for a number two (unless they want to hide away for a while). Whereas women use them for #1 and menstruation etc as well so more risk of becoming dirty.
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There are no urinals. Just a bog and sink like a standalone disabled toilet set up. We only have 2 between 50 employees so hence they have to be unisex.
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Worked at a few bars in town. Got told to come to the ladies room by a cleaner whilst I was filling fridges one early morning. Wasn't because I was about to get lucky but because I was about to be shown just how disgusting women can be.
Dirty sanitary towels smeared across mirrors, blood stains all over the cubicles, absolutely grim.
Dirty sanitary towels smeared across mirrors, blood stains all over the cubicles, absolutely grim.
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When I was little, bath night was on a Sunday night just before the London Palladium. My Dad would get the tin bath down and my Mum & Dad would slowly fill it with water heated up with the kettle.
I would go in first and ordered not to wee in it, my Mum would go second and my Dad last. During the rest of the week my Mum would stand me in the sink and wash me down. I was 10 in 1968 when we moved house and had a proper bath.
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I am interested in how you think cleaning yourself adversely affects you immune system. I thought that idea died out centuries ago (and it wasn't very common even then).
There's a lot of misunderstanding involved in that. For a start, the person commenting on it was surprised at how often QE I bathed. The key point is bathing. In those days, people didn't usually bathe to clean themself. It was seen as more of a medicinal thing (think along the lines of a spa, with mineral baths). The foreign dignitary commenting on QE I's bathing habits was essentially saying that she was a hypochondriac. However, most people in those days cleaned themselves at least daily. There are even extant late medieval and early renaissance books on etiquette and cleaning yourself features heavily in them. In QE I's time, people generally rubbed themselves vigorously with a rough dry towel and used soap and scented water to wash their hands and face and probably their armpits and groin. That's not directly referred to in the extant etiquette manuals because it would have been seen as hugely impolite to mention such things in those days. Hands were to be washed frequently. Also common was bathing and/or swimming in moving water. It had to be moving - still water was seen as being unclean, impure and probably dangerous. People back then didn't understand the mechanisms of infections and infectious diseases, but they could make observations and they were well aware that unmoving water increased the risk of infection.
Not very well, on the whole. I have tried the dry rubdown and wet cloth washing as an experiment and it does work...but not as well as detergent and running hot water. Also, I'd miss books, electric lighting, central heating, microwaves, freezers, computers and, most of all, medicine that actually works. But it wouldn't be as bad as many people think unless you went back to be a poor person in an urban environment. That was very grim indeed, though not as grim as it became later.
Here's a sobering fact. In the 18th and most of the 19th century, the death rate in London (and most if not all other cities) significantly exceeded the birth rate. The only reason cities grew or even maintained their existing size and population was due to migration into cities from the countryside. Most of the deaths were due to disease, although the murder rate was extremely high.
Ah yes, in college someone recommended this. Burning gonads are not a nice feeling
I tried it too. I suppose it does feel clean, but the burning sensation isn't appealing to me and I know it's no more effective at cleaning that any other shower gel with the same type of detergent (which almost all of them have). I use Sanex sensitive because I'm a delicate princess.
I shower twice a day, brush me teeth twice a day, I suppose I also wash my hair twice a day, but I have very little hair on my head now so it doesn't really count. I have a lot more hair on my body, but the usual shower gel works just fine on it. I changed my clothes twice a day too, since I wouldn't get out of the shower and into clothes I'd already worn. I change my bedding when I decide to, which is probably about twice a week on average. None of that is much fuss, nor does it take much time, nor is it expensive. So why wouldn't I do it?
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The main source of germs isn't urine. Which, by the way, is not sterile.
The main source of germs is yourself. Your "wonka" is not sterile. None of you is sterile, but particularly so for anything close to your rectum.
Skimming over this thread I saw someone mention their shower takes them FOUR minutes.
What the heck? It takes me 5 minutes just to soap up my nether regions and 2 minutes just to clean behind my ears. Takes me 40 minutes to have a total shower.
Showering for 4 minutes is akin to splashing some water on your hands and thinking you've washed them.
What the heck? It takes me 5 minutes just to soap up my nether regions and 2 minutes just to clean behind my ears. Takes me 40 minutes to have a total shower.
Showering for 4 minutes is akin to splashing some water on your hands and thinking you've washed them.
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LOLasim.
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Urine is sterile when it is fresh and flowing out of your peepee pipe. It is stale urine that bacteria grows on and therefore no longer sterile.
This must be a joke.
What do you think people did in the 1800s or before? Hygiene has improved massively in the last 50 years. 50 years ago no one would have said they had a full wash twice a day.
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Just an FYI, not washing your hands after toileting is not only disgusting but also the #1 way to spread norovirus, which is incredibly infectious since it lives on most surfaces for up to a week.
Also if you work with food then potentially hepatitis B as well.
Also if you work with food then potentially hepatitis B as well.
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Grim Once a day minimum; every morning and/or afternoon gym/kickboxing. Without fail. Why on Earth would you not shower every day
Once a day minimum; every morning and/or afternoon gym/kickboxing. Without fail. Why on Earth would you not shower every day - Status