Hi, friends! Happy Wednesday!
I was reading this article from The Guardian about the “no-wash” movement which is basically people washing clothing after more than 10 days of wearing them.
I definitely don’t wash a lot of clothes until after several wears. I don’t wash jeans until they stretch out too much which can be a lot of wears. A lot of things get worn more than once. My denim jacket typically gets the armpits spritzed with vodka as needed and washed only when it gets stuff spilled on it.
But this article just cracked me up. Software engineer Tim stopped doing his laundry except for like every 6 months, but don’t worry, he has so many clothes that he’s typically fine going through the rotation. His wife only complains sometimes about his smell.
Also wears his underwear for a week. I don’t know really how penises work, but with a vagina I don’t care how clean your ass is in those underwear, the discharge situation alone makes wearing them for a week straight a horrible idea.
Anyways, there’s a tiktok meme about what’s classy if you’re rich, trashy if you’re poor. Things like not seeing a dishwasher (rich people have custom cabinet covers for them, poor people just don’t have them). And this feels like that to me, when taken to this extent. Oh I am making a choice to not wash my clothes for weeks because of the value of my time/the environment. But a low income person who just can’t afford to wash clothes or make it to a laundromant? Eww, gross.
I don’t even know where to begin with this information… probably at the not washing your underwear for a week. It doesn’t matter what kind of genitalia you have, we all sweat and we all have assholes. That lifestyle choice is raunchy. If they can afford to wear clean underwear most people would choose to. Maybe that dude is neuroatypical and doesn’t “get” social hygiene norms.
There’s a certain type of person who never goes more than 30 seconds outside of 70 degree air conditioning. Straight from house to car (AC is preset by remote) to office to car to restaurant to car to house. Day after day. Their heartbeat never gets more than 10% over their resting rate. They never lift anything heavier than a binder, never walk more than 20 yards from one seat to another, never get excited by anything.
Sweat is not a part of their lives.
But they still urinate, defecate and fart.
I think they have people to take care of that for them.
Annoyingly, the more I read about it, the more it’s people who mention that they often wash their underwear in the shower with them. So like… it’s not no-wash, it’s just hand-washing.
in the cold season….i might get away with wearing my work jeans and sweater for the week
anything under them is changed daily
warm season sweaters dont exist and everything is changed daily…….when i have to peel my clothes off me…i am not putting them back on before they are washed
but i have enough work clothes to get me through a week….and its basically one full load of washing on a saturday….so…not a problem
my not at work clothing just goes in with the missus and daughters loads….. who actually…. need more washes in a week than i do as they wear like 4 outfits a day
I read that Brad Pitt is one of these guys who is too hot to bathe/shower/clean. Not sure if the rumor is true or just from someone jealous of his insane good looks.
I guess I’m just a regular dude, but I don’t like smelling funky or having funny lesions on my skin. I prefer doing laundry over that.
I will admit to occasionally re-wearing underwear, but only if I had only worn them for an hour or 2 previously. Jeans and hoodies get worn until they’re stained or stinky, everything else is pretty much a case by case basis. I do my laundry every couple weeks, but I also have far too many clothes and don’t leave the house all that often.
Anyway… hi! It appears that I can finally post again without it turning into gibberish!
@honeysmacks!!! Hooray!!! I missed you. How is everyone?
@elliecoo I missed you, too!
All kinds of crap going on around here lately, but I’m hopeful it will settle down soon. And we have a new kitty! BabySmacks’ partner’s grandma sent her kitty, Gizmo, to us because the dogs in the house made him so anxious he was yanking out clumps of fur. So, now he’s mine, and we’re going to get him healthy again 🙂
Good news!
On the baby animal front, while my wife was walking the dog a little while ago she saw a fawn nursing on mama doe a half block from our house.
Yay! So excited you’re back!
@brightersideoflife I’m excited to be back! I lurked some, but it was sooo frustrating to not be able to post, I ended up staying away.
Because our electrical grid is on the verge of collapsing I now get weekly emails from ConEd. That Green New Deal is working out swell. I get them because I pay the ConEd bills. It has very handy bar graphs about when my electrical usage peaks and what the usage was compared to the week previous and the same period the year previous. Inevitably our peak usage is like Tuesday from 8 am to 10 or 11 am. I didn’t understand this because we almost never run the a/c (not that we’ll ever be able to again, in a couple of years, the ways things are going) but then I remembered that’s when we/I kind of randomly decide to do a huge load of laundry (the sheets, the pillowcases, T-shirts I pull out of a drawer that smell kind of stale) and then there are always enough dirty dishes that you’d think we had the Eight is Enough gang living here, but no, it’s just the two of us, and the Hound’s bowl gets handwashed after every meal.
When the grid collapses and we move to rationing energy, I guess we will have to give up the dishwasher. I actually wouldn’t mind that, because BH overloads it and every so often you get a fork and it’s like, “Gross.” So being forced to handwash wouldn’t be the worst thing. That’s what we did for 45 years or something.
I have actually handwashed clothes in a bathtub, but that was under very strange circumstances, which need not concern us. And then I guess to dry the clothes we could set up clotheslines on the roof. That is strictly verboten right now, but if the Board could summarily shut it down for two years (still so furious, so very, very furious) we can call another emergency. And plus wash hanging on lines has a certain European charm.
This way, we can hoard our rationed electricity so we can charge our phones and have Internet access. For a couple of hours a day, at least. I assume by the time this doomsday scenario comes to pass Kath O’Lantern Hokum will have returned to Buffalo, or probably moved to a more civilized state or country, and will be laughing at us for desiring this nonsense, which she was more than happy to provide thanks to the donor dollars and the under the table deals that it allowed her to profit from.
Before NYC’s power goes, you’ll be flooded with refugees from Texas and the South.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sweltering-heat-tests-texas-power-grid-thousands-south-electricity-rcna90301
I’ll take ’em. I have a lot of really good friends from or living in Texas. Another place I’ve never been, but I love them.
The more I read/watch about the Titan submersible, the more I don’t understand why anyone though it was a good idea. This was pretty much it’s first actual dive to the Titanic and in cold deep Atlantic waters.
I don’t like the design either. A lot of people had the same shivers I did when I found out that it could only be opened from the outside and there was no rebreathing equipment evident in case of fire/acid leak/CO2 scrubber failure (which have all happened on submarines.)
The two engineering vlogs I watched about it both mentioned Apollo 1*. Who the fuck thought that a hatch that be ONLY opened on the outside was a good idea? The idea itself freaks me the fuck out.
*the crew died in a fire in an O2 rich atmosphere caused by an electrical spark. At the time, the Apollo capsule had a hatch that was designed only from the outside which prevented the crew AND launch room techs from opening it while the astronauts died a horrible death.
Like Daedelus, Stockton Rush took the risk like everyone else, but he was also that fool Icarus and went too close to the sun (melting his wings and falling to his death.)
I get risk taking is part of running a business, but those two rich guys had shit for brains when it comes to risk assessment. If I were in their place I would have run like fucking hell from that submersible, but I’m not a billionaire who thinks he’s master of the universe.
Yeah nothing about that mission reads like a good idea.
Really a blunt example of how rich people think other rich people are somehow magically smart.
Just adding, that for all the folks who watched The Right Stuff as we were growing up,or knew about Liberty Bell 7 (Which Gus was later vindicated & proved correct about!), Apollo 1 was the launchpad/test disaster that killed Gus Grissom. The other two astronauts who died were Roger Chaffee, and Ed White.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_4
That not being clean thing, to choose to be dirty is not cool. Dude is lucky his wife puts up with him, gross! (If one is unable to acquire access to laundry or showers, completely understandable.) My parents were of an age where, having lived through the depression and wars/rationing, having clean underwear/clothing was a statement of moving away from poverty. Were they alive today, they would give this “wallow in your own filth” concept serious side eye.
I’m giving it the side eye, or should I say stink eye, and I didn’t grow up in the depression.
Since you and @elliecoo are big dog lovers, you could give this the whale eye.
This article isn’t quite correct, I don’t think, but I’m not an animal behaviorist. Both Better Half and the Faithful Hound give me the whale eye all the time, but it’s not out of fear or uncertainty, it’s “O RLY?”
I feel like it’s *somewhat* correct about whale eye…
Lil would usually get it, when thunder storms or fireworks happened… any big “bangy” noises, really…
And *that* particular type of whale eye was *very* different from her “playful” version.
Do you (all) remember the Jezebel controversy that broke out when one of the writers talked about how she didn’t wash her legs when she showered? And how you didn’t need to? It was a completely idiotic “shape of things to come” Jezebel piece but the controversy went on for an incredibly long time. I still remember it, and I bet some of you do too.
I do remember that!
Also for the record unless there’s a mess from like yard work on my legs, I don’t wash them either usually.
I haven’t thought about Jezebel in a long time. Gosh there were some good times in the old Gawker days.
This is completely à propos of nothing but BH is now back from the Bay State and in an incredibly foul mood. One of the things that happened when he was up there was the client’s company is still enforcing indoor mask mandates. Madness. Total madness. And BH didn’t have one on him (why would he, at this point?) so they had to scramble to find him one but meanwhile he was put inside like a holding cell…
But it put me in mind of that great Covid-era Canadian hit, “Speaking Moistly.”
I went to bring it up to sing it to him. I’m sure he has no idea who Justin Trudeau is, and then to my unadulterated delight came across this Zoom-era relic of when no one was allowed to work and we were all on welfare:
“Lyrics by Justin Trudeau.” This is what I love about Canada. They’re just British and French enough to laugh at each other and laugh at themselves. It’s something this country needs to relearn, like, yesterday.
Omg David Usher is still so hawt!
*Swoons*