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)

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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)

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.

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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