Posted on 02/25/2015 12:21:22 PM PST by beaversmom
If cleanliness is next to godliness (which I doubt), then the following should also be true: the more you boast about it, the more suspect you are. I’m amazed by the number of people who insist on telling me they take two showers a day, as if they’re the Mother Teresa of personal hygiene. What manner of grime are they washing away? It’s hard not to think of Lady Macbeth’s frenzied attempts to scrub the blood from her hands. So when I read of a survey that stated 4 out of 5 British women don’t shower every day, I applauded our common sense. If you live in a cold climate, aren’t a fishmonger and do little more arduous of a day than pop to Sainsbury’s, why waste all that water? As my granny would say, “You’re just scrubbing off all your essential oils and replacing them with muck.”
The compilers of the survey, however, seemed scandalised. And horrified by the admission from two thirds of women that they tumble in to bed with their faces still slap-coated. The reaction is hardly surprising, when you realise the data was collated on behalf of the skincare range Flint + Flint. Manufacturers of unguents can’t flourish unless womankind is in a constant state of malodorous paranoia: lathering, toning and moisturising every last inch of their epidermis. Stubborn slatterns like me can halve their profits in an instant by simply going on soap strike.
But being grubby and proud is part of a British woman’s heritage. We are internationally famed for our insanitary ways. I was a guest once at a dinner party in California where the hostess was deploring the personal hygiene of her son’s latest girlfriend. At which point a friend said gallantly, “She can’t be worse than Rowan...
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I am reminded of the joke about the tomcat and the skunk
Related:
From 3 days ago:
Four out of five women don’t shower every day
www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3260423/posts
From 2007:
Six weeks without a wash: The soapless experiment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885792/posts
Could she at least brush her teeth?
Yes I noticed last time I was in the “underground” the vast odors. No place like Britain if you like the effervescence of hormonal glandular smells.
At least 2 showers a day please if we’re gong to be in an elevator together...
or walk up the stairs...
Could she at least brush her teeth?
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what teeth ???
OK.Could she at least soak her dentures?
That doesn’t fix gaps or Mr. Ed size overbites.
The curry and beer lingering from the night before is always a goody. :p
Ah yes, the guy who does “fire baths” and “sweats himself clean”.
Some funny comments to the article:
- “British hygiene is every bit the equal of British cooking and British dentistry.”
- “Thank god I married an American. You and yours can enjoy your smelly self.”
Why am I remined of the People in the Muck scene from Monty Python’s Holy Grail.....
Ever been to France? That being said, the most disgusting habit I’ve personally observed by a Brit was when a nanny we employed from Sheffield was washing our dishes and putting the soapy cups and plates into the drainer without rinsing them. She told us that’s how she was taught to do it back home.
I guess they have more in common with the French than I thought.
I am just a new boy,
Stranger in this town.
Where are all the good times?
Who’s gonna show this stranger around?
Ooooh, I need a dirty woman.
Ooooh, I need a dirty girl.
Will some cold woman in this desert land
Make me feel like a real man?
Take this rock and roll refugee
Oooh, baby set me free.
Ooooh, I need a dirty woman.
Ooooh, I need a dirty girl.
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