Comments on: Washing – Society Made Me Do It

By: sig94

sig94 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:37:12 +0000

My daughter had several very interesting experiences riding for ten or more hours in a non-air conditioned bus full of unbathed Egyptians.

You could actually walk on the stench.

By: Juvenal

Juvenal — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:40:39 +0000

bunghole: 1. n. a hole for emptying or filling a large cask. 2. n. the cecum or anus, esp. of a slaughtered animal.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:14:59 +0000

I cannot go more than 24 hours without a shower. No way….

In fact, when I travel I get absolutely OCD about the number of showers I take. Ride in an airplane…I feel gross. Subway…I feel gross.

And about the “bunghole” thing…washing there is the only thing I agree with those Musleems about.

By: michele

michele — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:31:41 +0000

Yesterday at the dinner table, I was actually told what a “bunghole” was. It’s the opening on one of those big oil drums. I think there’s something called a “bung siphon” too. The conversation went great with chili and cornbread.

I know too much.

Yes. I must clarify, one should always wash the necessary things.

By: Preston Taylor Holmes

Preston Taylor Holmes — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:24:13 +0000

Heh – bunghole.

By: Juvenal

Juvenal — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:58:28 +0000

I’m not ashamed to admit that, if I don’t bathe for a couple days, my bunghole gets to feeling…well, to avoid being any more explicit about it, it gets that “not so fresh feeling.” I don’t give a rat’s ass if I destroy the world and everybody in it by showering: When I get that feelin’ I need soap and water healin. And I refuse to believe that cavemen didn’t bathe their filthy asses, in their own primitive way, when they felt that. If the whole thing’s a marketing conspiracy, it’s the most helpful and humane one ever perpetrated on a grateful world.

By: michele

michele — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:38:56 +0000

Okay, confession. When my kids were babies, I hardly ever bathed them. I figured with all the butt wiping, and all the chin dabbing I was doing, that they didn’t need to be dunked. Every time I changed their diaper, I wiped down what was dirty. They also played in the dirt, I’m sure they digested a few handfuls, and I never used anything specifically anti-bacterial. Neither got sick before about 10 months old. I think my son was fully a year old.

I think soap is very drying, and causes the skin to become oilier and stinkier. Ask the dermatologists.

Screw global warming though. I do love a long bubbly bath.

By: Cranky

Cranky — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:33:09 +0000

Point taken TBird, but…

You’ll take my shower away from me when you pry my soap from my cold dead hands.

By: Swamp Rabbit

Swamp Rabbit — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:50:07 +0000

“washedness”? Is that even a word?

By: Tbird

Tbird — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:28:11 +0000

Some say we try too hard to be clean.
There’s a theory out there that the rise in childhood allergies is due in part to the more closed environment in which today’s children are raised. They’ve never had the chance to build up a natural immunity to a lot of common types of pollen, dust, etc….