FishFace

But Yiddish is itself a Germanic language, and modern German dialects like Bavarian do have “Schof” = “Schaf” = “sheep”. Is there a better etymology for Schof here? And Seckl < Säckle < Sack would be perfect for scrotum too, and in high German you can call someone “du Sack” to mean they’re an idiot also.

All the time? Or only some of the time?

Just the word syntax? Sure. You teach coding at first by example, not from first principles. At some point, explaining the concepts helps in the teaching but not at first.

The sequel, salt lassie, left a bad taste in my mouth

Yeah. I guess you can analyse it as:

1. Denying the antecedent: “showering every day prevents smelling bad, therefore if you don’t shower every day, you will smell bad”
2. Confirmation & Selection bias: “that person smells bad, therefore they can’t shower every day, making them an example of not showering every day leading to smelling bad”
3. Bias of anecdotal evidence, presumably - at least, I’m assuming that most such people really do smell bad to themselves after only a day, which is treated as a reliable indicator of everyone’s condition.

It’s quite interesting to me, because it clearly becomes a very emotive topic when the difference between waiting one, two or three days to bathe is pretty abstract. I have developed a hypothesis that it’s the feeling of having a shower when one is feeling sticky and sweaty and dirty, and then coming out feeling nice and clean, that gets readily associated with bad odour. I then think that this link simply can’t form easily if your feeling when coming out of the shower is not “nice and clean” but “disgusting ball of skin-flakes held together only by paraffin and artificial grease”.

I have encountered this kind of attitude before but I was actually surprised to find it that prevalent here, because I expected more people to be sympathetic to conditions which require deviation from the norm.

Now this is the silliness I live for

I noticed that you didn’t reply to the following pretty important things:

How are you correlating the smells of all these people with how often they shower? How many people have you asked that question of?

and

people of different age, race and sex all smell different, with a common gene among Asian people resulting in little to know body odour.

So I’m not going to get into further personal details until you show some good faith there.

For that matter, you never said how you were able to know how you yourself start to smell so badly after merely 24 hours out of the shower if this information is so unavailable.

And just remember that it was you who used the word “delusional”, not me.

What parts of your body do you wash regularly outside the shower? Is it a non-zero amount? Then you understand what I mean, right?

How are you correlating the smells of all these people with how often they shower? How many people have you asked that question of, because I’m guessing it’s “none” and you’re simply assuming that everyone who showers every other day is detectable by your nose - rather than those being people who haven’t washed for a month.

My partner tells me on the rare occasion when I smell bad, so there’s no reason to think they’re saving my feelings. I can also smell the change.

You’re so keen to assume all these details about my life instead of believing what seems to me to be extremely unsurprising - that it takes at least one person a few days to start smelling bad.

people of different age, race and sex all smell different, with a common gene among Asian people resulting in little to know body odour. This shouldn’t be hard to believe.

I use the skin friendliest soap I know of, and can smell when I need a shower, and have trusted other people who validate my own sense. Olfactory fatigue makes no sense unless you shower really infrequently.

Thanks for your fake, ill-informed concern though. Sucks that on Lemmy people are so closed minded they can’t understand that people sweat less than they do.

I don’t wash in the shower what I wash out of the shower.

I am an adult and it’s weird you and others assume that I haven’t consulted a doctor about this in my entire life.

Not all health problems are curable, so actually doctors’ advice includes (or can include) “don’t shower every day if that exacerbates your condition”.

My partner wouldn’t lie to me about this, which I know because sometimes they do tell me I need a shower. Not often though. It’s weird that you think it’s so hard to tell, yet also are so adamant that it must be done every day - yet that’s my experience with most people online.

It seems pretty clear it just grosses people out who never questioned the habit.

I don’t want to go into too much detail about medical stuff in public but I don’t believe it is about soap alone because it also affects skin that i don’t soap up in the shower.

I can then run around the village and have people try and catch me

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Yeah, my partner can be trusted to advise me of the situation lol

Oh fuck, moisturiser!! Thank god someone has finally suggested MOISTURISER to me! And here I’d been covering my body in salt and ash. Truly I am saved.

I’m sorry about how rapidly you stink, have you experimented with different deodorants or consulted a doctor?

I can’t drag myself out of bed to the shower until I’m awake enough to do non-shower things anyway…

I’m sure plenty of people do, maybe you’re even one of them, but turning this into blanket statements is weird and annoying. How many people think, because of the culture embodied in this sign, that they must shower every day, and never even check?

Well I’m certainly not taking a cold shower in winter! I don’t have a thermostatic shower tap so don’t know what temperature it is, but I guess I have it at about body temperature… Not sure if that is as hot as you mean.

Plenty of people don’t start to smell bad 24h after a shower, with or without deodorant. In winter, I’d guess it’s actually most people.

I try to shower as infrequently as I can without stinking because it fucks up my skin every single time.