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I think his balls have a case of moisture secretion syndrome. It's a terrible thing where the membrane of your skin secrets a salt-rich liquid in hopes of keeping itself cool. Unfortunately, this unfortunate reaction was developed before pants were around, and such moisture can be absorbed through layers of cloth quite easily, even in small quantities. In most humans, this is normal.
However, this moisture often smells unpleasant, and while you may not have this moisture as much as others, the vast majority of humans sweat a fair amount daily, regardless of their environment. What I am trying to say is that your pants do, in fact, smell smell like balls, you silly goose. Maybe less than his do each day, but the smell is there and grows. You may be blessed with less body secretion than most people, however. If so, hats off to you.
Or, in this instance, pants off.
— Robert Heinlein
I shower once a day, on very rare occasions (such as when I wake up 10 minutes before I have to be at work), I will skip a shower, and I don't have problems. I always change my underwear once a day, no matter what. And I wash my jeans maybe once a week.
edit: Just saw Enc's post. So maybe that's it. Or maybe you just have cheap underwear! In any case I just smelled the crotch of my jeans (yep, shut my office door and did the no pants dance for a minute) and they don't smell bad, in fact they still smell like detergent. I think I washed them last Monday... maybe.
They wear down a lot faster through constantly washing them and throwing them in the dryer.
P.S. ALWAYS hang dry your jeans.
Just tell people you're really into football and hangin' out at the beach, please.
What's the big deal about showering at least once a day? A quick shower takes five minutes.
Rigorous Scholarship
Also Thanatos, I would appreciate if a man of your stature did the same.
I'm just saying that it takes little time and effort to shower. I don't see any good reason for people not to shower at least once a day, unless you happen to live somewhere without running water or whatever.
Rigorous Scholarship
I'll be fine, just give me a minute, a man's got a limit, I can't get a life if my heart's not in it.
It's not so much that I dislike baths as that I spent seven years having nothing but. When we finally had a shower installed, I enjoyed it thoroughly and felt that the concept of a bath equated to me stewing in my own dirty juices, leaving me not so much 'clean' as 'roasted'.
I need to install a shower in the new property as soon as possible.
And fuck, I need to stop posting drunk. It's too much effort to focus on the tiny, tiny letters.
Baths if the shower head is not available or has shit pressure (like my previous apartment), showers if the shower head is good or the tub is too small to actually use for baths (like my new apartment).
Also baths if in a house/building where it's like SURPRISE IT'S COLD WATER BITCH
Well, like I said, it's the closest thing to a bath I've done, since technically you bathe first, then soak in the baths, but dear God does it feel awesome! Especially outside ones when it's really cold, so you're hauling ass to get into the warm water and you don't get over heated because it's chilly outside and just feels great.
I dunno about some of you guys. Are you actually moving about during the day? Do you raise a sweat at any time? Do you leave the house at all? Just sitting on the couch all day will result in less sweating obviously, but still...
As I've said before, I shower at least twice a day, soap, scrub, rinse dealio, I use anti-perspirant, I know I smell good (especially after a shave in the morning with a teensy dash of eau de toilette), and at the end of the day, the 'sensitive' areas of my clothes are a teensy bit whiffy.
Ain't gonna be wearing that again without washing it, no sir.
"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
Check the SE++ fashion thread, there are people buying Levis premium range jeans at $35 instead of $168.
Also, you guys have Target, right? That's where I get nice black cotton dress pants for $10 on sale.
"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
This is my estimate too. I live in a temperate place now (came from northern MN), showers probably go up to every day in the summertime (or after a workout), but right now I have no problems not looking/smelling like a transient w/ just every other day. That's usually augmented with a privates scrub-down on the off days. Me, my brother, my dad, and I think many males up my paternal family are notoriously unstinky - even after vigorous activity. As in, there have been family conversations about this phenomenon at gatherings w/ significant others. We pretty much perspire like 10 year old girls.
Then again I am a slim bloke in a mild country.
I imagine many people here are like myself and work desk jobs where not a lot of moving is involved. So really spending 8 hours in your cubicle in your work pants doesn't get them that dirty, especially if your office is cool.
My office was freezing today. If I hadn't worked out after work and then worn my work clothes home I would have had no problem with wearing them another day before declaring them dirty. There's pretty much no chance that in my freezing office I was sweating anywhere or in enough of a quantity that my underwear and bra couldn't soak it up for me.
Depending how sweaty I get throughout the day I also shower in the evening sometimes.
Pants I'm on about a 3-4 day changeover point, with the biggest determinant being if they feel right. Never had a problem with smells.
Mine happens to be 0.8 showers per day.
Same with wearing clothes more than once. Unless I do somewhat rigorous work in them, they're still just as clean. The only parts that smell are the arm pits of my under shirt and the boxers which get tossed regardless, so there's not much point in also tossing the rest of my uniform.
Ultimately that leads to once a day maybe skipping one on the weekend, but it's not really something I have a routine for so much as I think it should be done.
I've done that, too. Some days taking a shower is the only way I can get warm. haha
I typically shower twice a day during the week: in the morning, and after I work out in the afternoon. On the weekends, just in the morning because I don't work out. I wash my hair every time because it gets weird and slightly greasy overnight, and it gets gross during workout.
When I was a teenager, I had a problem with my hair getting greasy. I tried that "space out your washes to every other day because washing every day actually makes it greasy" thing. Um no. Spacing out hair washes just made it even greasier than it was. Of course, I do live in south Louisiana, but still. Everyone's hair is different. You've got to try different shampoos, etc., and figure out what works best for you.
Dude, deodorant is for covering up any stank that results from normal daily activities or general sweatiness, not stank you've already got.
Damn.
I soap the hell out of my body, and I take care to rinse my hair thoroughly, but... I don't wash it any more. I stopped over Christmas break. I endured an awful week of greasiness, but now it's just really soft and smooth and extremely manageable.
>.>
I've heard people advocating this stance. It must work for some people because the first person who told me showed me her hair and it was fine, but I don't buy that it would work for me.
Now, maybe twice a week depending on dandruff.
Well again, there was an initial INCREDIBLY greasy stage that lasted for about a week. If I hadn't been on break I never would have gone through with it.
Glad I did though.
I think that once summer and daily sweating becomes a factor I may have to reassess this method.
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Positive. It actually happened again for a couple of days recently as well. It was literally so greasy (both times) that I had difficulty running my fingers through my hair, and water had difficulty penetrating to my scalp. Now it's just silky. The second time, I'm pretty sure, was because I only (initially) had four towels at college initially, and didn't wash the one I used to dry my hair with for about four days. (When I washed my hair with soap regularly, this was not a problem). Since then, I have stolen about ten towels and use a different one every two days, and my hair is back to the non-super-greasy-yet-unsoaped ideal.
I can juuust see my bangs if I pull them down in front of my eyes. I'll see about maybe taking a picture tomorrow. I could definitely use a haircut, but I want to grow my hair out a bit, and I wear a hat almost all the time given that it's winter up here.