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I was going to vote indifferent to try and start the sinking of this, but if you pull this off it may be epic. Do it. Your genitals will be so fucking smelly.
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* I can shampoo my hair approximately every other day.
* I can wash my hands/face with soap whenever.
What a cop out lol.
The point is the skin is healthier when it has it's natural oils, so if you constantly get rid of them, you're actually not doing yourself any favours, apart from that lemony scent.
I use soap when I'm dirty, and I try not to use it just cause.
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Say goodbye to whatever intimate relations you may be having.
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What about washing dishes?
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Hmm sounds like your not gonna be gettin laid for a while
:D
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On June 10 2008 06:47 PsycHOTemplar wrote:Show nested quote +
* I can shampoo my hair approximately every other day.
* I can wash my hands/face with soap whenever.
What a cop out lol. The point is the skin is healthier when it has it's natural oils, so if you constantly get rid of them, you're actually not doing yourself any favours, apart from that lemony scent. I use soap when I'm dirty, and I try not to use it just cause.
Yeah, I know that, but you also break out and shit if you don't lather up every once in a while. You've gotta have a happy balance between not using for a whole year and doing it daily.
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Here's an add on to make your challenge more interesting:
Carefully stitch the hole of your penis shut. Make sure to minimize bleeding as much as possible or you'll have to use soap to disinfect the area which is a BIG NONO according to your plan. Since your penis is shut, urine will have to find a different way out. Now there are 3 options: your mouth, your ears, or your anus. To make this experiment as efficient as possible, seal the non used soap in the anal opening and staple that shut as well, forcing the urine to gush out of your ears while being cleansed by the soap plugging your anus. To lower the pressure of the urine coming out your ears, cut your ears off and swallow them, and at the end of the experiment restitch them back to your skull. Measure how much urine comes out of your mouth and nose:
Total Flow = Flow_ears + Flow_mouth
and report it! Cmon guys, let's compare all of our Total Flow values and see whose is the largest!
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thedeadhaji
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do no shampoo for a yr instead.
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whats the point? >_>
you wont last haha.
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your social life will die...
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On June 10 2008 06:52 thedeadhaji wrote:
do no shampoo for a yr instead.
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Don't change your underwear for a year.
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Are you a goon? Seriously.
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Don't masturbate for a year!
Ok, 40 days challenge for you boy...
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If you can wash your hands and face there is no point in this challenge no one will notice ever.
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On June 10 2008 07:00 cava wrote:
If you can wash your hands and face there is no point in this challenge no one will notice ever.
-_-
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thedeadhaji
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On June 10 2008 06:47 PsycHOTemplar wrote:Show nested quote +
* I can shampoo my hair approximately every other day.
* I can wash my hands/face with soap whenever.
What a cop out lol. The point is the skin is healthier when it has it's natural oils, so if you constantly get rid of them, you're actually not doing yourself any favours, apart from that lemony scent. I use soap when I'm dirty, and I try not to use it just cause.
rly? shit I use soap every day 
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lol
Well obviously there's the dilemma between factually being healthier, and obeying society's conventional wisdom.
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
If you're going out, you might as well live up to the conventional wisdom of anything noticeable (basically someone sniffing your hands must be able to detect some kind of fruit), but if you're not, it's not a bad idea to lay off the cosmetic bull shit.
Also, I think that whenever you have to get your hands dirty, using soap isn't bad. But I don't know, everything I've said are only things I've heard.
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What about uh, Body wash?
and AcrossFiveJulys I think we could be good buddies :D
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Roffles
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Pointless when you can simply substitute body wash for soap.
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United States24747 Posts
On June 10 2008 07:37 Roffles wrote:
Pointless when you can simply substitute body wash for soap.
No body wash.
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Are you going to use deodorant?
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On June 10 2008 07:56 Falcynn wrote:
Are you going to use deodorant?
No.
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On June 10 2008 08:01 micronesia wrote:No.
This just became interesting.
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On June 10 2008 08:01 micronesia wrote:No. Well then I'll repeat what's already been said/thought by everyone here.
Say good bye to your social life.
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On June 10 2008 08:05 Falcynn wrote:Show nested quote +On June 10 2008 08:01 micronesia wrote:On June 10 2008 07:56 Falcynn wrote:
Are you going to use deodorant? No. Well then I'll repeat what's already been said/thought by everyone here. Say good bye to your social life.
Na, he just has to find some vegan physics buddies. There's more than you think.
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Yeah I should've rephrased that.
Say good bye to your current social life.
You can still hang out with the hippies and crust punks
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Snet
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I never used soap, never will. Who the fuck uses soap. Buncha nancy boys. Real men use
/push
/pull
/pick up
/give to
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On June 10 2008 08:16 HamerD wrote:
I never used soap, never will. Who the fuck uses soap. Buncha nancy boys. Real men use
/push
/pull
/pick up
/give to
Why am I your girlfriend?????!!! ><
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You could easily skip shampoo if you just shaved your head. If you went like one month or maybe two instead of a year, not soap-washing your hands or face would probably be more feasible. Your challenge would be more challenging and worth anything at all, if you were actually not using soap at all, even for a shorter period of time
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This is the stupidest idea I have heard all day. You will be so nasty smelling after just a week or two. Not to mention you will ITCH like crazy for a while. My ass itches like mad if I don't wash it every day. -_-
If you enjoy no human being wanting to be within 50 feet of you then go for it, otherwise find some other meaningless 'challenge' to follow. Maybe challenge yourself to do 1 hour of something meaningful every day for a year? Like saving kittens from trees and shit like that..
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that's sick ... -__- no point in this challenge
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On June 10 2008 06:49 Kingsp4de20 wrote:
Hmm sounds like your not gonna be gettin laid for a while
:D
prob not different from any other time
ZING
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Belgium6774 Posts
Heh! zero challenge
as easy as tvp on p2h!
...wait... im not doing this right
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What does it mean "I can shampoo my hair approximately every other day."
Since this is a challenge, this means that you'll have to find an alternative to clensing your body, either with the shampoo or some crazy Chinese recipe.
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Also if you want an extra challenge you can try washing your hair with baking soda instead of shampoo.
According to this
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1981-03-01/Keep-Clean-Without-Running-Water.aspx
It supposedly does a decent job. You might even be able to use the resulting lather as a substitute for body soap (this part I'm not actually sure of).
A SOAPLESS SHAMPOO
Hair washing presents a special problem . . . again, because it's very difficult to rinse off the suds. Leftover soap or shampoo is bound to make your scalp itch, but you can get your "crowning glory" clean — and avoid the "itches" — by using baking soda!
You see, all soaps are made by combining a fat and an alkali (usually lye) . . . and baking soda — itself a mild alkali — seems to react with hair oils to produce its own natural, mild washing product. Under the proper conditions, soda will even create a copious lather.
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Well i don't really see the problem in this.
So you still use shampoo for your hair and soap for your hands and shower every day. If you don't have a really dirty job or something i don't see why you would need soap. Shampoo and water will be enough as long as you shower every day like normal.
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On June 10 2008 08:53 Mischy wrote:Show nested quote +On June 10 2008 08:16 HamerD wrote:
I never used soap, never will. Who the fuck uses soap. Buncha nancy boys. Real men use
/push
/pull
/pick up
/give to Why am I your girlfriend?????!!! ><
WHOA THREAD STOPPER
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On June 10 2008 10:04 Falcynn wrote:Also if you want an extra challenge you can try washing your hair with baking soda instead of shampoo. According to this http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1981-03-01/Keep-Clean-Without-Running-Water.aspxIt supposedly does a decent job. You might even be able to use the resulting lather as a substitute for body soap (this part I'm not actually sure of). Show nested quote +A SOAPLESS SHAMPOO
Hair washing presents a special problem . . . again, because it's very difficult to rinse off the suds. Leftover soap or shampoo is bound to make your scalp itch, but you can get your "crowning glory" clean — and avoid the "itches" — by using baking soda!
You see, all soaps are made by combining a fat and an alkali (usually lye) . . . and baking soda — itself a mild alkali — seems to react with hair oils to produce its own natural, mild washing product. Under the proper conditions, soda will even create a copious lather. Alright, since I was bored I decided to try this out real quick since I was curious about it. It actually does work pretty well for your hair, however it doesn't really create enough of a lather (in fact there was hardly any at all) to use as a body wash. Although as I said, if you want an extra challenge you can try to substitute shampoo with baking soda for a year as well.
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Use baking soda as a deodorant too.
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On June 10 2008 10:15 DTF-ZeRo wrote:
Well i don't really see the problem in this.
So you still use shampoo for your hair and soap for your hands and shower every day. If you don't have a really dirty job or something i don't see why you would need soap. Shampoo and water will be enough as long as you shower every day like normal.
how can you not wash your nuts and ass every day with soap?
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On June 10 2008 10:24 Falcynn wrote:Show nested quote +On June 10 2008 10:04 Falcynn wrote:Also if you want an extra challenge you can try washing your hair with baking soda instead of shampoo. According to this http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1981-03-01/Keep-Clean-Without-Running-Water.aspxIt supposedly does a decent job. You might even be able to use the resulting lather as a substitute for body soap (this part I'm not actually sure of). A SOAPLESS SHAMPOO
Hair washing presents a special problem . . . again, because it's very difficult to rinse off the suds. Leftover soap or shampoo is bound to make your scalp itch, but you can get your "crowning glory" clean — and avoid the "itches" — by using baking soda!
You see, all soaps are made by combining a fat and an alkali (usually lye) . . . and baking soda — itself a mild alkali — seems to react with hair oils to produce its own natural, mild washing product. Under the proper conditions, soda will even create a copious lather. Alright, since I was bored I decided to try this out real quick since I was curious about it. It actually does work pretty well for your hair, however it doesn't really create enough of a lather (in fact there was hardly any at all) to use as a body wash. Although as I said, if you want an extra challenge you can try to substitute shampoo with baking soda for a year as well.
Long term baking soda will ruin your hair. But I think you should do it anyways.
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I bathe once a week at most, and often don't use soap, and never use shampoo (I've actually read it is potentially bad for hair, so I'm happy to not use it - and not to mention that shampoo often contains stuff that is linked to depression and other health issues). I also never wear deodorant (mainstream deodorants are linked to breast cancer and alzheimers, and I'm happy to dodge that little bullet). I'm fine. I work in an office, and that's fine. I've dated plenty of women, and they never complain - many are surprised to find out how little I bathe. Granted, I eat a much cleaner diet than most folks, so my smell is not as "intense" as it would be for someone who eats a lot of meat or junkfood.
I have a friend who is a college math professor who showers daily, but never uses soap or shampoo, and he does just fine. This is only a big deal to people in "modern" societies who are duped into believing they have to bathe every day and must buy all sorts of products in order to be a decent human being.
In short, I support your efforts.
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this actually makes me curious...
you know those kids in classes
that just stink? wtf? how why .. or those that do shampoo and soap and still stink? or do they not
wtf am i saying
imma blog
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On June 10 2008 06:50 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
Here's an add on to make your challenge more interesting:
Carefully stitch the hole of your penis shut. Make sure to minimize bleeding as much as possible or you'll have to use soap to disinfect the area which is a BIG NONO according to your plan. Since your penis is shut, urine will have to find a different way out. Now there are 3 options: your mouth, your ears, or your anus. To make this experiment as efficient as possible, seal the non used soap in the anal opening and staple that shut as well, forcing the urine to gush out of your ears while being cleansed by the soap plugging your anus. To lower the pressure of the urine coming out your ears, cut your ears off and swallow them, and at the end of the experiment restitch them back to your skull. Measure how much urine comes out of your mouth and nose:
Total Flow = Flow_ears + Flow_mouth
and report it! Cmon guys, let's compare all of our Total Flow values and see whose is the largest!
LMAO. !!!
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I'd like to have the important quotes compiled in one place so I'll post it here:
On November 09 2008 16:39 AttackZerg wrote:
Micro, quit now. Personally challenging yourself to be a bum is useless, go a year without watching 1 minute or tv or something productive .....
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On November 10 2008 05:34 CharlieMurphy wrote:
lol, give us an update.
I'm going to make a new blog when 1 year is up.
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I've done this for the past few years, but I'm doing it because my doctor told me to.
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On November 10 2008 10:13 Demoninja wrote:
I've done this for the past few years, but I'm doing it because my doctor told me to.
Results? Are you completely gross and disgusting now?
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can you use bodywash?
i forgot to ask that the first time around
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On November 10 2008 11:45 KOFgokuon wrote:
can you use bodywash?
i forgot to ask that the first time around
No bodywash.
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Wait, you're really doing this? I thought you posted another blog shortly after this claiming that this was some psychology test to see how the average TL.netter would react to this and some other blog you had.
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Well my skin is kinda gross to start with, that's why my doctor told me not to use soap because it would make it worse.
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On November 10 2008 21:33 Falcynn wrote:
Wait, you're really doing this? I thought you posted another blog shortly after this claiming that this was some psychology test to see how the average TL.netter would react to this and some other blog you had.
At no point did it claim that it wasn't real.
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Do you have before and after pictures?
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On November 11 2008 05:21 Chef wrote:
Do you have before and after pictures?
Lol very funny.
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I have never used soap before, never will. So ive been doing your experiment all my life basically, and I have not experienced any abnormal effects on my social life :0
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I think this is stupid.
The only times I use soap are to wash my hands...
Shampoo works as soap even if it's only every other day. And it's not like you don't use deoderant/ other hygiene tools such as shaving/shaving cream, et.c
This challenge is like saying from now on, I'm not going to use a fork when I eat dinner. but this doesn't mean you can't use a spoon/chopsticks / w/e.
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On March 10 2009 10:14 kdog3683 wrote:
I think this is stupid.
The only times I use soap are to wash my hands...
Shampoo works as soap even if it's only every other day. And it's not like you don't use deoderant/ other hygiene tools such as shaving/shaving cream, et.c
This challenge is like saying from now on, I'm not going to use a fork when I eat dinner. but this doesn't mean you can't use a spoon/chopsticks / w/e.
wtfbumpaque?
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I call for a temp ban for any sort of trickery micronesia might have done while this blog was tucked way.
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On March 10 2009 10:14 kdog3683 wrote:
I think this is stupid.
No you.
The only times I use soap are to wash my hands... Okay you are doing this with me.
Shampoo works as soap even if it's only every other day.
Agreed, as long as you don't do anything very dirty like roll around in the mud. And it's not like you don't use deoderant/ other hygiene tools such as shaving/shaving cream, et.c Actually I don't! Well I shave but it's dry with an electric shaver.
This challenge is like saying from now on, I'm not going to use a fork when I eat dinner. but this doesn't mean you can't use a spoon/chopsticks / w/e.
Most people would disagree with you.
edit: lol Faronel but I haven't cheated :D
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This seems too reasonable and easy. Do something more drastic for a shorter period of time.
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On March 10 2009 10:48 Mooga wrote:
This seems too reasonable and easy. Do something more drastic for a shorter period of time.
The whole point is that it is reasonable and easy... yet many people don't actually realize that.
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On March 10 2009 10:49 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2009 10:48 Mooga wrote:
This seems too reasonable and easy. Do something more drastic for a shorter period of time. The whole point is that it is reasonable and easy... yet many people don't actually realize that.
little does TL know he's been secretly doing this for not a year but .... the ENTIRETY OF HIS LIFE!!! wut
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On March 10 2009 15:52 HeavOnEarth wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2009 10:49 micronesia wrote:On March 10 2009 10:48 Mooga wrote:
This seems too reasonable and easy. Do something more drastic for a shorter period of time. The whole point is that it is reasonable and easy... yet many people don't actually realize that. little does TL know he's been secretly doing this for not a year but .... the ENTIRETY OF HIS LIFE!!! wut
lol I've been doing this for my entire life...no soap except for hands and face!
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What did people do before soap was invented?
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I wish this thread was never bumped so I didn't click it and read it....
Sounds disgusting...
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On March 10 2009 10:49 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2009 10:48 Mooga wrote:
This seems too reasonable and easy. Do something more drastic for a shorter period of time. The whole point is that it is reasonable and easy... yet many people don't actually realize that.
On March 11 2009 00:54 1a2a3aGG wrote:
I wish this thread was never bumped so I didn't click it and read it....
Sounds disgusting...
Lol I don't think you fully 'read it.' Either that or you completely ignored the claims made...
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I was just working outside a bit and my legs got kinda dirty so I am going to use soap for the first time in over a year lol
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...sick -_-
i bet your towels smell so bad
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what about for cleaning dishes? you would surely geat soap on ur person then.
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On June 30 2009 10:18 esla_sol wrote:
what about for cleaning dishes? you would surely geat soap on ur person then.
Getting soap on hands is okay.
Also, to those of you saying how gross this is, you are deluding yourself (unless you have unusual hygienic needs). I can assure you if I was gross I would be told about it.
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Told about it? At the risk of my grade? Nope. You smell great Mr. Micronesia! Is that some kind of expensive fragrance?
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On June 30 2009 11:16 Chef wrote:
Told about it? At the risk of my grade? Nope. If this described most of my students I'd happily use soap daily in exchange XD
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I think it's an interesting idea, and definitely do-able. I've known some ppl that are naturally non-fragrant and can go awhile without smelling bad (albiet they are all girls, but still...). As for me, if I go 3+ days without taking a shower my armpits start smelling awful, my crotch becomes stankonia and I start producing my own hair gel.
Best of luck.
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Soap is not essential, not in the least. I rarely use soap because of my dry skin, which my doctor recommended to not use more than once a week. If not using soap really made you smell that bad, I wonder how people in pre-modern Europe lived with their annual showers, or in China before 20th century or so when people took three showers in their entire life: birth, marriage, and death.
In daily situations you won't really need the power of soap to clean yourself thoroughly.
Or maybe it's cuz I'm Asian so I just naturally smell pretty fokkin good and don't body odor / sweat all over the place Anyways, it's funny how many people are like "no one will stand 50 feet from you" or "say goodbye to your social life". Unless you are really dirty you don't need soap at all. I use soap like a few times a year lol. I've been using lots of soap recently for my hands though since I've been working in a lab.
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PAPER! YOU LIAR! TASTIE TELLS ME YOU NEVER TAKE SHOWER AND NEVER WASH JEANS!!! That's what sj stevenz told him anyweyz
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On June 30 2009 11:32 TeNken.1 wrote:
I think it's an interesting idea, and definitely do-able. I've known some ppl that are naturally non-fragrant and can go awhile without smelling bad (albiet they are all girls, but still...). As for me, if I go 3+ days without taking a shower my armpits start smelling awful, my crotch becomes stankonia and I start producing my own hair gel.
Best of luck.
Check the date of the first post in this thread lol...
I don't need luck.
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What about your armpits dont you sweat? I cant believe this.
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On June 30 2009 11:57 Malongo wrote:
What about your armpits dont you sweat? I cant believe this.
Rinsing them is sufficient. Sweat has nothing in it that requires soap.
edit: If I had a gf shoving her nose directly into my armpit then it might be possible to notice, but that's about the only way.
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On June 30 2009 11:38 Superiorwolf wrote:
PAPER! YOU LIAR! TASTIE TELLS ME YOU NEVER TAKE SHOWER AND NEVER WASH JEANS!!! That's what sj stevenz told him anyweyz
uhhh sj is obviously joking lol :<
but the jeans.. ; )
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Sooo.. how many different kinds of bugs have you found on your body so far? Four? Five? Or more if you're hairy.
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On June 30 2009 12:37 Bub wrote:
Sooo.. how many different kinds of bugs have you found on your body so far? Four? Five? Or more if you're hairy.
None.
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Smix
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This just seems like an excuse for being too lazy to scrub down..
Really, what good is this challenge bringing you?
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Go a month without a shower instead. ::bleeeh::
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On June 30 2009 13:36 Smix wrote:
This just seems like an excuse for being too lazy to scrub down..
Really, what good is this challenge bringing you?
It wasn't actually a challenge. I was doing it anyway. However, the goal was to demonstrate that people tend to have misconceptions about soap. Scrubbing down if you have a good reason to makes sense, but most people think they have a good reason when they don't... and get offended when other people don't share their misguided view.
On June 30 2009 13:37 Lobbo wrote:
Go a month without a shower instead. ::bleeeh::
This is gross. No thank you.
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On June 30 2009 10:17 paper wrote:
...sick -_-
i bet your towels smell so bad
Yea because no soap = no washing towels -_-
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Smix
United States4549 Posts
I think wanting to smell like flowers is good enough reason =l
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On June 10 2008 06:45 LosingID8 wrote:
what's the point
I'm having flashbacks to Ghermination's sleep deprivation challenges.
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On June 30 2009 13:41 Smix wrote:
I think wanting to smell like flowers is good enough reason =l
Some people like the artificial smell of soap and other H&B products whereas others don't.
I don't have any problem with someone using soap or another product because they enjoy it or like the smell or w/e... I have have a problem with people making foolish claims about the role of body soap.
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I rarely use soap
sometimes i take my toothbrush (that i brush my teeth with) and use it to scratch my back while in the shower
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On June 30 2009 13:40 BanZu wrote:Yea because no soap = no washing towels -_-
are you gonna wash them once per use? that's an incredible waste of water
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good thing micronesia. I dont use soap, just for my hands. And i dont use regular shampoo, just an organic one that i buy to a hippie friend. And i dont use deodorant in winter unless i make some exercises.
And, if u use soap and deodorant everyday you will smell worst when skip it that if you dont do it so regulary.
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