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How often do you bathe ?

492 replies

AbacusBabacus · 04/11/2017 01:12

Sat on a night out with the girls discussing personal hygiene..... I wash twice a week. Some are saying this is too much , some too little ?! Thoughts please ?
New poster, this is light hearted. Grin

OP posts:
Bluntness100 · 04/11/2017 14:41

I would also agree, those who smell don’t know it in most instances,. I don’t know how you can put clean knickers on without washing your bits, and for three days running, unless you’re loading yourself up with toiletries to mask the smell, I’d assume, I’m sorry to say, you do not have a fresh clean smell about you, and that’s as polite as I can put it.

We collect grime and sweat during the day, we sweat at night. After three or four days, that’s not pleasant.

I also don’t understand why you don’t, it takes five mins to have a quick shower. It’s hardly onerous.

Do you have a partner? I’m struggling to imagine somone becoming intimate with a partner who hasn’t washed their genitalia for three or four days.

limon · 04/11/2017 14:45

I shower every day.

NoFuckingRoomOnMyBroom · 04/11/2017 14:45

Whaaaaat? Twice a week??? Shock Sorry but that is grim.
I either shower or have a bath daily.

ButchyRestingFace · 04/11/2017 14:46

Well done op you made the sun

The front fucking page, no less.

And a very photogenic model having a shower to (presumably) represent the OP.

squoosh · 04/11/2017 14:46

Grime troll

squoosh · 04/11/2017 14:47

someone who just wants to get people typing merrily away about smelly fannies.

NameChangeFamousFolk · 04/11/2017 14:51

Has anyone reported this thread?

Rachel0Greep · 04/11/2017 14:52

Keep them out of direct sunlight to avoid evaporation. Generally speaking, liquids last longer at lower temperatures so the fridge is a good place. Although do mark them not for human consumption as they have been known to induce heavy wind.

Thank you, I will keep this in mind Grin. Have over a year to wait for the next bath anyway...

HateHomework · 04/11/2017 14:58

OP mate hope you wash after intercourse at least Hmm

Capricorn76 · 04/11/2017 15:01

Twice a week?! Grim. Your vag must smell like boiled cabbage! Your mates were trying to give you the heads up. I wash twice a day. Once to wash the day off and once to wash the night off. I'm literally in the shower 5 minutes each time. Soap up, rinse off. It doesn't have to take long. I slather on some moisturiser. Job done.

Bluntness100 · 04/11/2017 15:02

OP mate hope you wash after intercourse at least

Or indeed before it Grin

HateHomework · 04/11/2017 15:06

Bluntness depends on the OH... some like the rough and smelly, some pay good cash for it Wink

Funnyonion17 · 04/11/2017 15:10

Yea I do agree about intimacy, I struggle to understand how some are so spontaneous as I couldn't have sex without having a wash first. Didn't want to get all grim about it but this has been debated many times on here and often concludes with many declaring that the vagina is self cleaning. Yes the vagina is self cleaning but the labia, inner thighs, backside etc isn't and I doubt it's pleasant for sexual partners.

Loctite · 04/11/2017 15:16

I don't understand it either Funnyonion but some people like it - look at Napoleon, writing home to Josephine from the war front that he was coming home in 2 weeks and for her to stop bathing immediately...!!

caughtintherain · 04/11/2017 15:20

This is absolutely disgusting :( How can anyone go three or four days without washing? You must absolutely stink, OP. I expect the conversation was a clumsy attempt by your friends to get you to wash more.

Madreputa · 04/11/2017 15:30

Some people have a bath twice a day? You kidding me? And then they complain that they have dry skin and use tonnes of body lotion. Numpties.

Rachel0Greep · 04/11/2017 15:54

Oh unicorn tears are (almost!) immortal. They last the same length as a contract with Scientology - one billion years.

Excellent. I probably won't need to use them for another couple of years. Have deferred bath now to Christmas 2020. Wink

PeiPeiPing · 04/11/2017 16:23

@AbacusBabacus

You WASH twice a week? Confused That is gross.

I shower every day (sometimes twice if I have been to the gym or for a walk or run.) And I wash my hair 2 or 3 times a week...

Is this a joke? No-one washes only twice a week. Surely..... Hmm

Coconutspongexo · 04/11/2017 16:24

I don’t for one minute believe any adult that is fully capable only washes once/twice a week Confused

ferrier · 04/11/2017 16:27

I shower or bath most days, sometimes twice according to need. But I do think we've gone over the top about it. In the 60s and 70s it was perfectly normal to have a once a week bath (most homes didnt have a shower) and I don't remember my classmates or teachers (with one notable exception) being smelly.

PeiPeiPing · 04/11/2017 16:33

@ferrier

The OP said she WASHES twice a week! Even if you did only have a bath once a week in the middle ages, you would still WASH every day!!! Hmm

maddiemookins16mum · 04/11/2017 16:34

Shower every day. Hairwash roughly 5/6 x week - by this I mean that I might just have a shower on a Saturday morning if stopping in all day. I also have a bath most Sunday evenings before bed as it's relaxing and I can defurr my legs at the same time.

sambo24 · 04/11/2017 16:59

Shower everyday, hair every other day and bath a few times a month

PortiaCastis · 04/11/2017 18:08

Well the fermenting fannies vile vag and acrid arses have made the rag media so yep goal achieved.
Is next year a leap year?

DiddlyDooWop · 04/11/2017 18:15

Shower every day.

Only washing twice a week is disgusting.

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