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"richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> writes:
> While I don't bath absolutely every day, I rarely go more than three days
> without at least showering. Part of my full bathing technique includes
> periodically (once a week, sometimes only twice a month) soaking for at
> least 20 minutes in a tub of warm water so that I may properly slough off
> dead skin and oils with mildly abrasives cleansers and/or sponges. I
> usually follow up the bath with a short shower to rinse all the grungy bath
> stuff off of my person.
I shower at least twice a day, once in the morning (no shampoo) and
once when I come home (with shampoo). The main reason for the
afternoon shower is to get the pollens, animal dander, and other
allergens out of my hair and off my skin, so as to avoid any chance of
triggering my wife's allergies. In the morning I shower because I
need it to help wake up, it helps make my hair manageable, and I
sometimes sweat in the night.
> Tonight on the television program "60 Minutes" the final commentator opined
> that bathtubs were useless and should be gotten rid of. I couldn't help but
> feel that he was VERY misinformed about the benefits of a bathtub and proper
> bathing techniques.
>
> Am I crazed? Do other people REALLY not know why or how to bath? Am I some
> kind of super-clean freak?
It's bathe, not bath. Bath is a noun. And I think to most people,
"bathe" means to get clean by whatever means, includin showering. If
you want to restrict it to only tub baths, then I think you have to
say "take a bath."
But in any case, I haven't taken a bath in I don't know how many
years. I think I did take a bath once or twice about 8-10 years ago,
but other than that you'd have to go back to childhood bubble baths.
I just don't see the point. For one thing, bathtubs are way too
small. A hot tub is a different matter, but that's to relax, not to
get clean. I would much rather have a shower stall in my bathroom
than a tub - especially one that was wider but not as long as a
conventional tub.
Anyway, if you only shower every three days I would not call you a
super clean freak. Or even a regular clean freak.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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| (...) Ouch! Yeah, that's a bad error -- but then I rarely spell-check my posts. Thanks for the correction! But, I looked up "bathe" and only the intransitive verb allows for the idea of pouring water over something (the example was a wound), "bathe" (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Hey Y'all: I have some questions on bathing and I am having difficulty finding any information on the subject. Once, a long time ago, I read an article in Smithsonian magazine that gave both an historical overview of bathing practices around the (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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