Europeans on ILE: how often do you bathe?

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I trying to see the differance between the cleaning habits of americans and you guys from across the pond. Why do you guys bathe so little. would you find too much cleanliness repulsive?

― alucarda (aucarda), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck off.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

YUROWEENIES = PWN3D

― totally ken c ish (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you ever actually been here? Why do you guys own so few passports between you?

(We can stereotype too.)

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I bathe much less now that I live in the US, actually.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

In California we shower four times a day - before and after each soak in the hot tub.

― andy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Why do you guys bathe so little.

For some reason, the simple punctuation mistake in this question turns it into the greatest sentence ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

there will be tears by dinner

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.eurofaerie.org/images/beauty%20time%20in%20the%20loo.jpg

You don't want to know what goes on in European bathrooms.

― andy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

BREAKING NEWS! AMERICAN VILLAGE MISSING ITS IDIOT!

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

W doesn't have the day off today.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I know this is just idiot troll fodder and we should leave them to their own sad little games, but I am getting SICK of all the anti-Euro crap that's recently appeared here. Guys, this board was started by Europeans. Plus it's not just one country! Do we lump the US in with Canada and Mexico? No, we treat them as seperate entities. Iceland through to Greece, or Ireland through to Turkey will give you a massive range of different cultures, languages, political systems/ whatever. Just fuck off.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Every day is a vacation day for W.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

but al gore invented the internet

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Do we lump the US in with Canada and Mexico?

I actually think we SHOULD do this.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, Anna, you are a treat.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"seperate entities"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Anti-American stuff seems to be ok, though.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

as a proper american, i bathe twice daily in iraqi oil

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen any of this.

x-post

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

AND THE BLOOD OF THE INFIDELS WHO STAND IN OUR WAY

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

DAMNIT XPOST

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ignore that, it sounds way too much like (person who shall not be named) and therefore is wrong.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

voldemort?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i was under the impression that the anti-euro crap had decreased, but i've been spending more and more time on ILM

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Luna, I wasn't having a go at a whole country in general, just at the attitude of certain people. Most anti-US stuff around here is actually anti-Bush stuff posted by Americans. Hey, some of my best friends are American!

(Thanks NZA!)

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ma$e

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

nobody cares that adam is rotting in his california filth?

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.business-supply.com/product_images/image/EB030853.gif

Actually, I was talking with a buddy over the weekend about the problem of kids in America that are TOO clean. He says they're not able to develop adequate immune systems because they're shielded from dirt and germs, pummled with unneeded antibiotics and scrubbed with antibacterial soaps. They recommend sending kids out to play in the alley now as a cure.

― andy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Naw, Anna, I know - it was a stupid thing to say - I'm just feeling a little muddle-headed right now because of the meds I took this morning and things have been sounding (and making much more sense) in my head.

I meant it, really, ignore me.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

how much do uk-ers consider themselves a part of europe, anyway?

(note: honest question/nothing to do with bathing habits/etc)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"Most anti-US stuff around here is actually anti-Bush stuff posted by Americans." - haha, this is complete bullshit

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

IM THE POSTER THEY WAITING FOR YOU THE POSTER THEY TIRED OF

― alaconda, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I do consider myself European, but then I also consider myself British and English. It goes in layers.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Is cinniblount still bitter about getting sonned for saying Dizzee Rascal is hip hop?

― Grayce, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, every American you will ever meet can do you a pie chart of 'where they're from' and they always say "I'm part German" or whatever. Baudruillard said it was because American history, comparatively, is shorter and people tack on an extra bit for perspective and distance.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

haha - show me where i got 'sonned' (son)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(I think the "every American" part of that is suspect.)

― Remember slavery? (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really have much of a European identity to be honest, I don't think this is a good thing or a bad thing, just neutral.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Every American bathes more than every European. Fact.

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I say I say Baudruillard son

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't the Finnish invent bathing anyway?

― andy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

where is tuomas anyways?

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

getting naked i'm sure

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i believe the english invented it, at bath

xxp

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I was out to dinner this weekend with a table full of Caucasian associates and became unreasonably angry when they started comparing geneologies and mentioning which Presidents they could trace their family trees back to. I really wanted to scream at them to shut the fuck up.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

That was the Romans surely then?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I think that was the Romans.

(x-post with Jel)

Did you say anything to them Dan?

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

That reminds me of that "When Keepin' It Real" goes wrong sketch.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

shirley. i don't think the romans get credit for the word bath, though

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

dude you shoulda totally brought up reperations

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

You should've showed them your pie chart, Dan.

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm descended from Robin Hood, he was always having baths.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

jesse james is my tenth cousin or something; i don't think he bathed much

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(xposts galore!)

No, because my wife beat me to the punch with a "it's too bad that the records cut off at 1865 for most of us thanks to your forefathers" comment. Conversation then moved on to the ever delightful "How come white people are better at swimming and black people are better at running?" conversation.

I don't like spending time with these people but it is sometimes unavoidable.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't Spaniards dance in rooms full of foamy soap bubbles, high on goofballs? That's sort of bathesque.

― andy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually that's rather Basqueesque.

...What?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Queef, you mean.

I don't like spending time with these people but it is sometimes unavoidable.

Dan, you are showing far more patience than I would.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, I know exactly what you're saying but not all black Americans are descended from enslaved people; you don't have to be European to play the pie game.

I would be annoyed if I came to dinner and found the fucking DAR had taken over with that kind of conversation whoever was present.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually a black woman has just won an Olympic swimming medal - even better, she was FRENCH

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't think we didn't instantly bring that up, Dadaismus!

(Suzy: Word.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

nobody cares that adam is rotting in his california filth?

I AM POSTING THIS WHILE HOOKED UP TO A GRANOLA IV!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

California has changed me for the better, I'm sure. When I go back to London I intend to take orange leisurewear for ALL of my friends and family!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

What, a Granola III isn't good enough for you?

― HAHAHAHA sigh (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

do people still bathe? the SHOWER's been invented for a long time you know.. and it's cleaner!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

... plus a white woman won the 100m sprint. So much for racial stereotypes! Pah!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

to answer the original question, i never bathe

what is the correct answer to the 'question' regarding caucasian swimmers/negro runners frequency?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

My house has an original clawfoot tub.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

These two threads harmonize like sour cream and onions.

― andy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Your weird beard is in your soup.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

My best friend in middle school got me with that one. She swore up and down that she hadn't bathed in about 2 years. I thought it was bizarre because as far as I knew she'd never lied to me before. Plus, she never smelled bad. So, eventually she tells me it's because she takes showers instead. ha ha

I take both, showers for getting clean and baths for being lazy and cozy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I read comics in the bath.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I read novels in the shower

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember hearing that some europeans think that americans smell like sour milk cuzza all the soap and sprays and the like. makes sense. all that perfume on skin ain't natural. i like human smells. um, within reason.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I read PR one-sheets on the toilet.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I, for one, haven't showered in days and i live in the u.s. but i'm gonna take one now cuz my hair is itchy.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Then of course there's the not-washing-your-hair thing - supposedly it works

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

You live on some sort of island, though.

xpost

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost - adam, you read them?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I say "read"...

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/collection/lm_tanzania/images/kiRestroomsS4.gif

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

it's true that i do take a swim in the lagoon these days in lieu of bathing. i'm salty.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I drink beer in the shower.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I DID A COME IN THE BATH

― GARU G, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i wish gareth wuold stop chagning his name.

― :|, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

YUROWEENIES = PWN3D
-- totally ken c ish (or_mayb...)

Nicka, what the f are you trying to say?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

They were talking about what presidents they're related to? Who were you hanging out with, the Musty von Borderens of New Haven?

I can trace my whitesy roots back to central Tennessee, circa. 1890. Apparently, my family has a reputation for bad record-keeping.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm trying to say I LOVE YUO.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Also: I have drank faaaaaaaar too much coffee today.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

As someone who's English born and bred, I can trace one side of my family back as far as 1880s Brixton. And, um, that's it.

(although there is an ancient family tradition that we're all descended from 17th century SPANISH PIRATES. Woo!)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

every time my home country is accepted into the eu, i bathe
whereas
every time my home country sends a handful of our boys to support the us cause somewhere, i wash my hands

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't had a bath in at least five years.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I can trace back to 1620 on my grandmother's side (suck on that Mayflower madames) but really no earlier than 1870 anywhere else, and I don't have the geneaology my gran and her cousin had done in the '60s.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I wouldn't have gotten on this track of showering and washing my hair every day because now if I don't do both of these things I smell very badly and my hair looks like greasy and matted and weird. I actually dread showering in the morning, I try to put it off as long as possible.. once I'm finally IN and SCRUBBIN' I don't mind so much.

And - also - if you say you prefer 'human' smells to powdery lovely fruity musky faux smells, you need to GO BACK TO THE CIRCUS.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, so their genealogical stories were probably lies / shit their dumb parents told them / boring to listen to...but while we're on this genealogical tip:

Caucasia: area east of bulgaria, north of turkey etc that various social darwinists (inc. Hitler!) have nominated as the cradle of aryan civilisation.

The people there are brownish. White people are not caucasian. Either specify where their ancestors are actually from, or call 'em white.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I know a girl that was born and grew up in Caucaus Mountains in Russia and is actually very white. Milky white.

― andy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

God, "milky" is like one of the top 5 sexiest words ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread makes me wonder what i smell like.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"Caucasus!" I mean.

― andy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I get early-morning shower-hate as well. It ruins the pleasant just out of bed hair look/texture and makes it go all moist and twangy instead. Gah.

Baths are just rubbish.

― Fergal (Ferg), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I could get back to washing my hair less often, because once in awhile if I for some reason can't shower that day, my hair's gross and greasy by afternoon or early evening, and that's just not good. But I don't know how to fix that without running around with really disgusting hair for awhile.

Armenians are pretty white and from the Caucasus. (That side of my family can only trace back to 1900 due to not knowing of any relatives other than my great-grandparents, but the WASP side goes back pretty far, I think. Generations and generations of farmers, how exciting.)

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

My paternal grandfather's family in Virginia all claim to be of Irish descent, but when I looked up some of the family history, we're actually Welsh. Welsh-American blood doesn't seem to be a big point of pride.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

protozoans

― kephm (kephm), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never actually known where Semitic people were meant to lie in the old Negroid / Mongoloid / Caucasian system. I suspect we'd be considered Caucasian, no?

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

They were talking about what presidents they're related to? Who were you hanging out with, the Musty von Borderens of New Haven?

Haha actually it was two guys from pretty humble families! Basically anyone whose family has been in New England since before the Civil War is related to a President (usually Adams/JQAdams).

I should note the the asshats weren't the guys with the geneaology; it was everyone else going "Oh wow, that's so cool that you can trace back so far!" and esp. the guy who later asked "How come black people run like THIS and white people swim like THAT?" (One of his rules in their Olympic drinking game was that if a non-black sprinter won, everyone had to drink. This guy is seriously the end of the world.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, but Europeans trump us with their ingenious bidets.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Semitics are basically Caucasian? There's so much BS and myth about the Aryan migration, but what i've gleaned: Gypsies are the "purest" aryans because they tend not to intermarry, since the tribes swept down from the steppes into India. The Aryan invasion of India is still a hotly contested issue, but they find those crazy mummies in Western China with the blonde hair and plaid textiles... who knows?

― andy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

White people are not caucasian.

And Pocahontas wasn't an Indian, either. However, I understood Dan in what kind of people he was trying to describe.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

My Archeology TA actually pulled the "My ancestors came off the Mayflower" thing one time. Then he tried to act like it was ironic or something, but since it came totally out of context we all knew that was bullshit.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how people say that like it makes them special!

"My ancestors came over on the 'Mayflower'."
"That's nice. Could you Super-Size my Value Meal?"
"Of course, sir. Would you like anything else today?"

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha!

"Did you know that I'm related to a Choctaw Cherokee princess..."

"I didn't know that! Two for 'Open Water,' please."

― andy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

An Indian friend once told me that before she left for college in the states, her dad took her aside and told her something along the lines of "Don't you dare pick up their bad habits when you're there -- be sure to keep bathing twice a day. Americans are really dirty." Nice change from the tired dirty Europeans/clean Americans meme, I thought...

― the krza (krza), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole 'Caucasus' thing, whilst being based on mistaken ideas about race history, is still an accepted (perhaps not acceptable? I seem to hear it more on US TV than I do here in the UK) way of describing race. I have a funny old encyclopedia with a section of ethnology (a children's encyclopedia, mind you), and yes, Jewish people are considered caucasian, though it does mention their reputation for greed (which is slightly better than the Roma section - 'the strangest people in the world' which mentions that they are the laziest and most dishonest of the races.) Interestingly, apparently native Australians are considered caucasian, apparently.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

In my old Time book on Humans it said: Negroid-Caucasoid-Mongoloid-Australoid and showed an aboriginal man as the fourth race.

― andy, Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I just thought Caucasus was geographical, centered around the mountain range, and then the racial thing was out of scientific favor but "Caucasian" is still what shows up on bureaucratic forms because it sounds nicer than "white"

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(but I also get a large part of my "common usage" bias from studying Russian, and when they say Caucasian they mean "from the Caucasus region," so whatever)

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it's like when a non-American calls my Southern ass "a Yankee." Those people are from north of the Mason-Dixon. And New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians say that New Englanders are the Yanks.

In other words, I think we're all talking about the same thing in relation to this Caucasian thing.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sorry if I offended some of your sensibilities and thank you to those answered honestly. I was honestly trying out why some Europeans may not bathe as much as most in the United States. I don't consider this insulting or anti-American. The question popped in my head after I met some rather nice, intelligent European exchange students. While they didn't stink, they did have a strong body odor.

― alucarda (aucarda), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, you go to the University of UNO? Do you major in Draw Four?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Phase ten grand masters diploma

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

With a minor in mille bornes.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I just fancy a game of phase ten right now

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha actually I would major in Lunch Money.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm the queen of england on my mother's side.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus Dan, that's scary shit

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

And like where do Australians come into this? Bastard left us out.

I only wash my hair every 3 days or so, it gets too fluffy otherwise. And I think people wash way too much - all this antibacterial everything, kids gonna die from colds sometime in the future.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm the queen of england on my mother's side.

I will break into your palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

It doesn't seem like it should take Baudruillard to work this out.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

would you find too much cleanliness repulsive?

hmm. i snoged with soem girl last friday and i found that her hair smeling like shampoo and her skin tasting like washing lotion and nothign but was indeed a bit repulsive. i felt like i was kissign a drugstore.

― :| (....), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

This morning I was caught in between a few dozen sorority hoez in line for coffee -- it smelled like someone firebombed a bed bath and beyond

so many clashing odors of personal care products and perfume!

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It doesn't seem like it should take Baudruillard to work this out.

Baudrillard stating the bloody obvious, as usual.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Every evening. Grudgingly.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

But prettily. Go Bo Driddley.

xpsot, but it's funny.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anyone else catch "Too Posh To Wash" last night?

Ohmigod, if that girl was a boy, he would have been my dream man.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Euw no, she was awful. How can you find someone that does not wash & has manky teeth attractive? Oh & she hadn't washed her bra in a year!! It had to be incinerated!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

If that were a repulsive, posh, dirty dronerock boy, I'd have been all over him, grey pants or no.

I loved how she described her hair "It's natural, you see?"

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, I almost wished I had a TV so I could have seen that, it sounded ~~compellingly awful~~ great.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Baudrillard stating the bloody obvious, as usual.

Not every person in the U.S. who is of European descent is a 5th or 6th generation American.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked the way the girl sprayed herself between the legs with deoderant. Like that was really going to make any difference.

― Craig Gilchrist, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I am *so* going to end up addicted to this programme. I can just see it now. Strangely compelling...

xpost YESSS!!! That was hilarious! Impulse Body Spray. WOn't do you no good down there...

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Ouch, rather the reverse I'd think. Are all the people on the series going to be 'posh'? I wondered if they were just calling it that to avoid any 'great unwashed' implications?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

American guidos in axe body spray = dud

― Free the Bee (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

But I think that's the whole point. All those "how clean is your house" programmes seem to focus on council scum with cars up on blocks in their front gardens and thousands of cats... (well, at least the ones that I've seen) I just seeing the tables turned. The most disgusting filthy people I've ever had to deal with have mostly been posh.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, it's such a cliche! They don't even shower or wash their hair because the showers in boarding school are freezing cold to "build character" or whatever, and they're too afraid of chipping their great grandmother's china to actually WASH a bloody teacup occasionally...

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked the way that she said after they had sorted her out 'yeah i feel clean & it's really nice' well der you fucking dirty bitch!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I would have liked to see Kim and Aggie tackle a decaying stately home with 35 rooms all stinking of cat's wee and covered in 100-year-old dust.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The deportment school bit was the best. There she is learning how to walk in high heels with this posh bint shouting at her and putting books on her head, and she's dressed in nothing but a dressing gown that sais "SOAP DODGER!" in large letters on the back.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah like that house shown in the 'Fucking Fulfords'!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm seeing a whole new programme here... Kim and Aggie meets RESTORATION!!!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

This program sounds disgusting (and fascinating)!

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just imagining Ptolomy Dean throwing himself under their hoovers "No, no, don't attack that precious 18th century plasterwork with those horrible modern solvents!!!" "Oh no, into the DECONTAMINATION SHOWER with you, you soap-dodging public school twat!"

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

A lot of French people smell awful. That's not anti-French, it's just true. I've been there. I've smelled them. Oh, how I've smelt them.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

French boys are dirty and they SMELL??!?! Oh, I'm looking forward to going to Paris even more now!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if this is just a myth, but I heard that the majority of japanese think we (in the west) smell of cheese. Apparently it's because about 90% of Japanese don't have armpit glands. Like I say, I dunno if this is just bull i picked up from somewhere...

― Craig Gilchrist, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, and apparently they don't eat much in the way of dairy products either.

― Craig Gilchrist, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahahaha!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

French food is rich and smelly, maybe it's leaking through their pores. They like their coffee, and their garlic, onions and whiffy cheese.

Oh wait. So do I. Betcha I reek.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Germans spend less time in the bath than other nationalities cos they are so efficient. true fact!

― teh pow! (blueski), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it wrong of me to luuuuuuuv perfume?

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i never bathe. i shower.

I don't know if this is just a myth, but I heard that the majority of japanese think we (in the west) smell of cheese.

Well, I can attest to one exception: One of our Japanese colleagues smells of *stale sushi*. It's horrendous. She never showers/bathes in the morning, only in the evening. Bah.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

earthlings be smellin'

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I only shower in the evening! But that's so I don't have to wash my bedding as often. I suppose this would still work if I showered in both the morning AND the evening, but I'm kinda lazy.

― Craig Gilchrist, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

once at 5am and once at 5pm, im half italian so i get rank pits by 4pm.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

lineage is so over-rated as an american. jesus, i need a scantron/bingo card to mark my shit up. jewish, irish, dutch, french, german, english probably too... every ancestor adds a whole new ream of "where froms".

like all good wrestlers, "parts unknown" makes the most sense.

and that said, americans stink as much as anybody. body odor, ciggs, perfume, diapers, doritos... parts unknown.
m.

― msp (msp), Thursday, 23 September 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/the_matrix__reloaded/_group_photos/hugo_weaving15.jpg

You all STINK, you hear me? STINK!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 23 September 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

But what about pimples and ingrown toenails? Ethnic? Cultural?
My hairy armpits smell like BEEF.

― aimurchie, Thursday, 23 September 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

yooropeeans be stinkin'. they all be about the stank YO.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 23 September 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

A guy here just changed his name to Angus Harry Lebeef. My armpits smell like my mom's basement.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 23 September 2004 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

no eisbar, stank YOU

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

local legend him out of orlando smells... perfumed.

― HKM, Thursday, 23 September 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean Dickon? He has posted here on occasion you know.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I worry about him. His trousers are always too short.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

who wears short shorts?

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Ew mental image go away ew.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the suit always looks like the same one.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

answer the question, euroweenies

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 5 January 2007 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

twice a day you pathetic fat fuckface (3 if i didnt work a job that paid in real money)

― -- (688), Friday, 5 January 2007 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

humour, innit?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 5 January 2007 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

they have a town called BATH, wtf do you expect

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 5 January 2007 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

see also: every german town that ends in "-bad"

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 5 January 2007 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

still never

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

I had my annual shower this morning!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

At the moment I'm often bathing twice a day, but that's mainly because my back hurts.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

i miss andy :(

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

its spelled humor i thought?

― -- (688), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

now i bathe about twice a week. this is becaue ophelia has to take a bath. before ophelia i never took a bath. for the rest? shower about every day.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Holy crap, Dan.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've actually had a proper bath in about 8 years, possibly longer. They're time consuming and stop feeling fresh and clean about 5mins after you've got it. Also you get cleaner in the shower anyway.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

were you eating with Al Campanis & Jimmy "the Greek" ?
xpost

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have a bath once a week and a shower at least six times a week. Shaving legs is best in the bath because I don't go goosepimply and give myself the red bumps.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 5 January 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh Mad, you can prevent the bumps by exfoliating beforehand -- unless I am actually cold and goosebumpy because there's no hot water or something, in which case get the hell out of the shower and put yr biggest pot on the stove. But anyway, one of those nylon net shower scrub thingies with suds, scrub away, then shave. I find a gigantic improvement.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 January 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I need a new shaver. THEY DO NOT SELL THE REPLACEMENT KNIVES (?) ANYWHERE so I'll need to get myself an electric shaver. Any recommendations?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

KNIVES (?)

blades.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

It's the cold rather than the exfoliation - my flat is like a fridge. Submerging the legs in hot water sorts them out.

'Blades' is your word, Nath.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Holy crap, Dan.

Hahahaha yeah.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

ok, blades, whatever, they don't have'em! :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

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