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Thread: The Great Ship of Fools Hygiene Poll!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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When we do Tudor recreations at Kentwell we are all encouraged not to wash for the week or two we are there for authenticity sake. Can't say I noticed it much, perhaps we should start the process a few weeks before.
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LeRoc
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MrsBeaky: 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!
I imagine that where you live, most electric showers are like this? One of these exploded above my head once, it's an interesting experience to stand naked in a rain of sparks. Since then, I shower cold.
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Heavenly Anarchist: When we do Tudor recreations at Kentwell we are all encouraged not to wash for the week or two we are there for authenticity sake.
How close is the audience to the stage?
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MrsBeaky
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
I imagine that where you live, most electric showers are like this? One of these exploded above my head once, it's an interesting experience to stand naked in a rain of sparks. Since then, I shower cold.
That is exactly what the showers are like, unless you are in a posh hotel. We choose hot or cold depending on the condition of the shower though that's probably a bit risky! Because we're at altitude here cold showers are a bit grim. When we visited Turkana and the temperature was above 30 both day and night a cold shower was most welcome.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by LeRoc:
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Heavenly Anarchist: When we do Tudor recreations at Kentwell we are all encouraged not to wash for the week or two we are there for authenticity sake.
How close is the audience to the stage?
We don't have a stage, the visitors walk among us as we get on with our daily lives. I work in the dairy making butter and cheese for the manor (which we really do eat at our meals) and the visitors come right up to me and ask what I am doing. I put on a clean shift every day though as I am a good honest woman.
Obviously those of us in the dairy are careful with handwashing etc, and we secretly sterilise everything we use with Milton and the aprons and cloths are machine washed daily. I'm not sure how often the vagabond washes though.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Originally posted by 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.
I gave this same speech to a nursing assistant I knew who said he never changed his towel because if someone washes themselves clean, the towel stays clean. Nursing assistant. I asked him what they had taught him about surface skin cells.
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Ricardus
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I'm new to car ownership. Can someone explain why I can buy products to clean my tyres? Isn't that like polishing the underside of my shoes?
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Ricardus
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Originally posted by PeteC:
I seem to be average. One of the few times in my life.
I'm quite relieved that, though I'm on the 'disgusting' side of the bell curve, I'm not the outlier I thought I was ...
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The5thMary
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I knew of a friend's ex-boyfriend who not only didn't wash his sheets on a regular basis but...oh why am I sharing this...he wiped his nose contents all over the sheets! ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
I can't believe my friend actually dated this pig. I didn't believe her about the sheets until I saw his bed one time...and promptly ran out of the room while he laughed and laughed. Probably became a serial killer!
Wash your bed-sheets in a timely fashion, people!
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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I can totally top that-- but I won't.
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Doublethink.
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Thank you
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Wet down, Soap Up, and Rinse?
And do all you ladies know about the PTA wash? "Nuff said.
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Welease Woderwick
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A friend who went to a Convent School many years says that the nun doing the hygiene bit told them to:
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wash down as far as possible, then wash up as far as possible - then wash possible.
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ChastMastr
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Wet down, Soap Up, and Rinse?
Isn't that how... oh, without a washcloth! Right, of course, though that wouldn't affect someone's underwear if they'd not been washing it, and so their nice comparatively cleanish body would get right back into the gross briefs or whatever. I thought maybe it was something in which the GIs would wash themselves with the underwear on, cleaning the underwear at the same time, which would at least be an improvement.
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And do all you ladies know about the PTA wash? "Nuff said.
I had to look that up. I suppose for men it would just be a PA wash, though not the other kind of PA (Prince Albert) wash. As it were.
I have absolutely no idea what "wash down as far as possible, then wash up as far as possible - then wash possible" means. But then again my notions of female human anatomy (since it was a nun at a convent school) have been in the past shown to be jarringly lacking, so ... Perhaps that's OK. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
At least the GI in GI wash did not stand for "gastro-intestinal," as I briefly imagined, though I suppose that would indeed be one of the more rigorous levels of cleanliness to aim for.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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(no, no no no no)
Wet Down --and turn the water off after you and your washcloth are wet.
Soap up-- take soapy wash cloth and do whatever you need to do, water still off.
Rinse-- rinse.
This was advice given to Californians in the 70's and some people called it the "army method," so I figured that's what GI wash meant.
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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mousethief
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I've heard it called a "Navy shower" and it's what you do when the ship is underway, fresh water then being at a severe premium. Once you're in port, you can take nice long luxurious showers.
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flags_fiend
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I'm intrigued by the person who apparently lost their car between questions 10 and 11...
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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I have been known to occasionally use a bath towel a second time.
Socks however get worn twice (once in hot weather). Is there a limit to how many times you wear socks for without washing them?
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Firenze
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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
I have absolutely no idea what "wash down as far as possible, then wash up as far as possible - then wash possible" means. But then again my notions of female human anatomy (since it was a nun at a convent school) have been in the past shown to be jarringly lacking, so ... Perhaps that's OK.
You're overthinking it, Chas. Just a joke (and one about use of language as much as anything).
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Ricardus
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The interesting follow-on poll would be 'How often do you suffer from these skin diseases, gastric troubles, etc?' and then (admittedly the Ship's technology won't allow it) correlate the results against the hygiene poll. I darkly suspect the result would show no correlation whatsoever.
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Then the dog ran before, and coming as if he had brought the news, shewed his joy by his fawning and wagging his tail. -- Tobit 11:9 (Douai-Rheims)
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Carex
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Relatively normal it appears, at this stage of my life.
But there have been times with more primitive conditions when a cold mountain stream was the only washing facility. As well as: a waterfall with soap holders carved into the rock; a shower sprinkler in the garden with just a row of flowers for privacy in one direction (and expansive vistas in others); bathwater heated on the stove, then used by 5 people sequentially before it was used to flush the toilets; home-made sweat lodges with a cold river nearby; a home-made wood-fired water heater, with the water hauled in buckets from a nearby stream; and the refreshing aroma of rotting salmon with your shower when your water supply comes from a stream during spawning season.
Yes, modern plumbing certainly has its advantages! But the views from the waterfall and the garden while showering were truly spectacular...
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by balaam:
...Socks however get worn twice (once in hot weather). Is there a limit to how many times you wear socks for without washing them?
Bearing in mind conditions of anonymity I know a certain unnamed gentleman, incidentally he hails from Canada and is an annual visitor to these shores, who used to teach his scouts a song that begins:
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Black socks never need washing
the longer you wear them the stronger they get...
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ChastMastr
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
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Originally posted by balaam:
...Socks however get worn twice (once in hot weather). Is there a limit to how many times you wear socks for without washing them?
Bearing in mind conditions of anonymity I know a certain unnamed gentleman, incidentally he hails from Canada and is an annual visitor to these shores, who used to teach his scouts a song that begins:
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Black socks never need washing
the longer you wear them the stronger they get...
You haven't lived until you know people who want you to wear the same socks for a while deliberately, but to each their own...
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LeRoc
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balaam: Is there a limit to how many times you wear socks for without washing them?
Zero (I hardly ever wear socks).
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Sir Kevin
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I bought my new little sporty subcompact Ford on the 28th of February last year. I have not bothered to clean the inside of the car yet.
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Angel Wrestler
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Originally posted by Ariston:
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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.
I read something a long while back that the once-weekly bed linen washings are no longer needed as we bathe or shower more frequently and so they soil less than they did back in the olden days when people only got a once-a-week bath. It made sense to me, so I stopped doing it.
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Angel Wrestler
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# 13673
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Missed editing window: I mean I stopped washing them weekly, that is. Especially now that I have to use a Laundromat.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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In the tropics you usually sweat more at night. I just use a simple bed sheet, but I change it at least every week.
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Sir Kevin
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Whatever showers and baths and staying home!?
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LeRoc
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Sir Kevin: Whatever showers and baths and staying home!?
(Trying to parse the grammar of that sentence.)
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