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Thread: The Great Ship of Fools Hygiene Poll!
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Inspired by this now-closed Heaven thread, this poll seeks to answer the pressing questions about Shipmate hygiene - including the immortal "how often do you change your towel?" question.
All responses are anonymous, so do feel free to be honest. It will be interesting to see what a clean bunch we all are (if, indeed, we really are...)
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Hail Gallaxhar
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Ann
Curious
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The aforesaid now closed heaven thread reminded me of this:-
Dilbert
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Uncle Pete
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I seem to be average. One of the few times in my life.
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Welease Woderwick
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When I say that I never do some stuff may I point out that it is because I am prevented from so doing by being a completely and totally spoilt brat.
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kingsfold
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I answered based on how often I run the dishwasher.......
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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I hate baths, ever since I was a kid. I don't see the point. The longer you stay, the colder and dirtier the water gets.
I don't use a teatowel, I just leave my dishes to dry.
I don't know if vacuum cleaners exist in Brazil, if they do they must be rare.
And there isn't much of a point in washing my car. I might wash it today and drive into the rain forest again tomorrow.
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Ann: The aforesaid now closed heaven thread reminded me of this:-
Dilbert
You remembered Dilbert comic from 1995? Wow.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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I much prefer a bath to a shower. Relaxing in the warm bubbly water is a treat conceived in heaven. The best investment I ever made was one of those walk-in tubs.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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quote:
Originally posted by kingsfold:
I answered based on how often I run the dishwasher.......
I remembered that some people don't have cars, but forgot that some people don't need teatowels because they have dishwashers. My bad ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) .
But yeah, I'd count using the dishwasher as doing the dishes. Just like I count using a clothes washing machine as doing the clothes, even though some people probably do still do them by hand.
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Hail Gallaxhar
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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Re internet temporary files. There are none to clean up with a Linux system. Everything goes on shutdown / restart.
Re vacuuming. The dog does much of the floor cleaning. She'd wash the dishes too if we let her.
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L'organist
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Only 26% of shippies change their bedlinen weekly ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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Lamb Chopped
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The hoovering thing is going to be wrong because some of us sweep and mop only. (all wood floors plus a hatred of loud noises)
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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The problem is, some of them I don't do, they get done by others in the household, and the frequency is variable. How often do I do the dishes - every few days. But someone else does them more often.
Also, I don't like showers - I fear slipping if I am trying to stand with water around me. I wash daily, but it could look as if I don't. I do like baths, sitting and soaking the aches and dirt away.
And lets not talk about bedlinen - which is not my responsibility to change and wash.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
Only 26% of shippies change their bedlinen weekly
Alternately, 26% of shippies unnecessarily waste water and time compulsively changing things that don't need changing.
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Adam.
Like as the
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Dishes are washed after every meal in my house, just not necessarily by me. For dinner, I tend to be on left-over--tupperwearing detail followed by drying detail most days.
Also, for the showering, for me it's every morning (or I don't feel like I've properly gotten up), plus after each workout (hence the more than once per day).
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la vie en rouge
Parisienne
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I have been bathtub-less for ten years, having always lived in apartments with small bathrooms that only have space for a walk-in shower. It is a source of great sadness to me. Bathing is one of life’s pleasures. I do wash daily though (or more depending on my exercise schedule).
I agree that bedding needs to be changed weekly. What would Kim and Aggie say to you all ![[Biased]](wink.gif) ?
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Boogie
Boogie on down!
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I have a quick shower when I get up and a long, muscle relaxing bath after my workout every day.
I wash clothes more than once a day due to long dog walks and sweaty workouts.
All bedlinen is washed once a week just as my Mum taught me.
I change the tea towel more than once a day because OH is the cook and he's forever wiping garlicy and oniony hands on them!
I hoover about 3 times a day as I have two big dogs.
Computer clean up stuff I only do when it shouts at me.
My car is by far and away the dirtiest thing I own - totally neglected.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
The problem is, some of them I don't do, they get done by others in the household
I envisaged the "you" being treated as shorthand for "your household". I guess I should have been more specific!
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Hail Gallaxhar
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Schroedinger's cat: The problem is, some of them I don't do, they get done by others in the household
That's a problem?
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Heavenly Anarchist
Shipmate
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I'm claustrophobic and don't usually shower as I don't like water spraying on my face. I do love a good soaking bath though.
But anyway, don't only dirty people wash?
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Schroedinger's cat: The problem is, some of them I don't do, they get done by others in the household
That's a problem?
It is a problem in answering the question as "me". And I actually don't know how often some things get changed.
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leo
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
I hate baths, ever since I was a kid. I don't see the point. The longer you stay, the colder and dirtier the water gets.
Not if you keep the hot water tap running gentle throughout
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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leo: Not if you keep the hot water tap running gentle throughout
How do you keep the bath from overflowing? Do you open the drain too? Or do you open the tap so gently that the bath won't overflow?
(LOL, no hot taps in Brazil . I think I've seen baths here, I guess what people do is boil water and mix it with cold water.)
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I know why God made the rhinoceros, it's because He couldn't see the rhinoceros, so He made the rhinoceros to be able to see it. (Clarice Lispector)
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I wonder what the longest anyone has gone without a bath? Mine is 43 days.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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Is that without a bath specifically, or without washing ?
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Without a bath I've gone for several decades I sometimes go without a shower for up to 2–3 weeks, when I have to wash myself in rivers etc.
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I know why God made the rhinoceros, it's because He couldn't see the rhinoceros, so He made the rhinoceros to be able to see it. (Clarice Lispector)
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Is that without a bath specifically, or without washing ?
Without showering, without bathing, except for washing hands and a little bit of face. The 43 days were on a canoe trip during cold conditions.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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OK, who never changes their underwear? Ewww! Sounds like time for a G.I Scrub!
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RuthW
liberal "peace first" hankie squeezer
# 13
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Maybe they go commando?
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
I much prefer a bath to a shower. Relaxing in the warm bubbly water is a treat conceived in heaven. The best investment I ever made was one of those walk-in tubs.
Me, too. But drought! ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
Maybe they go commando?
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Well done Ruth!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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MSHB
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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
The problem is, some of them I don't do, they get done by others in the household
I envisaged the "you" being treated as shorthand for "your household". I guess I should have been more specific!
If I am not the person doing something, I have no idea how often it is done. I don't notice such things.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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The whole point of having staff is not having to notice these things!
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Which brings me to one of my favourite eavesdroppings.
We were a party going round Herrenchiemsee. We were being shown the royal bathroom - a replica of a Roman bath and so large you go down steps and walk across it. The guide was explaining that during the nine days King Ludwig had spent at the Palace, it had never actually been used (probably because you would need to drain a fair portion of the lake to fill it). Cue horrified American lady behind me - Nine days without a bath!
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Ad Orientem
Shipmate
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You forgot to add sauna into the poll. Beats baths and showers.
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Ad Orientem
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
I agree that bedding needs to be changed weekly. What would Kim and Aggie say to you all ?
Aye! Clean sheets on a Sunday for a good night's kip before the week.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
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Originally posted by RuthW:
Maybe they go commando?
Well done Ruth!
![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) I shoulda known.
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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I am pretty lackadaisical about most cleaning: I do tend to wash my new black Focus on weeks when it doesn't rain!
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by Ann:
The aforesaid now closed heaven thread reminded me of this:-
Dilbert
That is sooo disgusting.
We'll assume for a moment that people properly wash and have nor grime left on their body. The skin cells exfoliated onto the towel feed bacteria. If that isn't gross enough, is your toilet in the same room as your bath? If so, you are essentially wiping your clean body with dirty loo roll.
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Ad Orientem
Shipmate
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
If that isn't gross enough, is your toilet in the same room as your bath? If so, you are essentially wiping your clean body with dirty loo roll.
How does that work then?
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Ad Orientem: How does that work then?
I think it mostly happens if you flush the toilet without putting the lid down. And that's the most I want to say about it half an hour before having lunch.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Way to get a cast iron immune system though.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Firenze: Way to get a cast iron immune system though.
If you want to have that, then I suggest to guard your toothbrush in the close neighbourhood of your toilet. (It also gives a nice extra taste.)
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I know why God made the rhinoceros, it's because He couldn't see the rhinoceros, so He made the rhinoceros to be able to see it. (Clarice Lispector)
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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My toothbrush lives in a cup about four or five feet away from the toilet. Can't say I've ever noticed any "extra taste" to it, or for that matter any particular tendency towards the sort of illnesses one might expect to get were the scaremongering about such things true...
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Hail Gallaxhar
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MrsBeaky
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I shower to get clean and bathe to relax and when I'm feeling decadent I might do both on the same day.
But only when I'm in the UK.
Here, it's a temperamental shower only, with a dodgy electricity supply which makes for an interesting experience. Someone we know here got electrocuted in the shower....best not to dwell on that or we'd never be clean!
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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One of the livelier showers I've encountered was fitted to the exterior wall of a cabin we were renting. Nothing like standing on a late September morning with nothing between you and the Great Canadian Outdoors bar a couple of planks and a film of hot, soapy water.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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So apparently, I'm a pig.
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Originally posted by no prophet:
I wonder what the longest anyone has gone without a bath? Mine is 43 days.
you've got me beat - my longest backcountry trip (and therefore time spent "bathing" only in open streams or out of a morning kettle) was 25 days.
Fun fact! If you're in the backcountry with a group of people, it's best to make a "no soap" pact. thing is, if everyone is stinky together, no one notices it. But if one member of the team goes and scrubs up, suddenly everyone else can smell themselves and each other. It's best to co-ordinate bathing activities, then no one gets attacked by the smell.
as for washing the outside of my car - I'm in a rainforest. I think I've done it once. grand total. in the whole life of the car.
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