What is up with people with poor hygiene habits?

[Skittles]

What the hell is wrong with them? The rules are simple enough:

1) Bathe daily
2) Wear clean clothes
3) Use a deodorant

It's not like it's a chore - being clean FEELS GOOD. I'm not talking about homeless folk whose basic needs are not being met - I'm talking about coworkers who have B.O. when they come to work. One guy's hair is so greasy it's obvious he doesn't consistently wash it. When I complain to him that he smells bad he laughs and says I TAKE A BATH ONCE A MONTH WHETHER I NEED IT OR NOT I don't know if he's kidding.

The men at work can name all the guys who don't wash their hands after using the restroom - WTF? Is this a man thing? I can honestly say I don't see women doing this.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. And FLOSS AND BRUSH

[Skittles]

8. and get those teefers cleaned twice a year!

that damn tartar takes hold now matter how vigilant we are!

[Lemmiwinks]

2. Some people just have bad BO

Even when they bathe daily and wear clean clothes and use a deodorant, they still start to smell bad after a few hours.

[Skittles]

4. LOL......Lemmiwinks

what a subject for your first post! :hi:

[Lemmiwinks]

6. I know, it's the first one I saw

And I used to work with people who smelled bad but I thought they had enough problems of their own(kid problems, lots of debt) that it would be incredibly rude of me to bring it up.

If you knew where my name came from, you might understand the irony of me posting on this thread. :) If you want to figure it out you can google it.

[Skittles]

17. is this a South Park thing?

HA HA HA

[Lemmiwinks]

19. Yeah

Lemmiwinks is a gerbil who's inserted into Mr. Garrison's slave's ass(who happens to be gay, but it's irrelevant to the story, except for the song..."must escape the ass of the man so gay"), and he has to find his way out of the ass before his time runs out(he dies).

[Skittles]

20. OMG

THAT EPISODE WAS HILARIOUS - Mr. Garrison's finest! :D

[Lemmiwinks]

21. I agree

:)

I posted about it in the congratulations thread and got a not very nice welcome because the song is about a gay man who gets a gerbil inserted into him, but I told the poster that it really had nothing to do with the story. It's all good.

[AlamoDemoc]

10. LOOL @ Skittles hahahahaa

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

3. Just don't pee on your hands

Simple, really

[Skittles]

5. no, no, no, no, no

you have to wash your hands, I don't care how clean you keep "IT".

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

12. The only thing cleaner is a dog's mouth

Scientific fact.

But people get squirrely if I wash IT in the sink at work.

[onebigbadwulf]

7. I feel the same way about fat people

it's so easy losing weight. what's the problem?!

[Skittles]

11. no, no, no

it is NOT easy losing weight for most people

[Lemmiwinks]

14. Yeah, it's not

And I say that as someone who lost 50 pounds in 3 months from May to August by going on a starvation diet.

I worked my ass off and it is nowhere as easy to lose weight as people think it is. I'm 5'9" and I weighed 196 pounds, and now I am a fine weight of 146. I only ate 600 calories a day and I worked out an hour a day, but I was able to drop 3 inches off my waist and go back to a size M t-shirt, so it's all good.

But to the original poster, please don't say it's easy for everyone.

It's hard work. So easy to put the weight on, so hard to take it off.

But now I've learned the value of drinking water and diet soda. It's amazing thinking about how many calories I wasted per day by drinking that sugary crap instead of water. Now I can eat more FOOD and fill up without pigging out.

[onebigbadwulf]

18. It's a simple two step process

1. stop putting crap in mouth
2. start putting vegetables in mouth

very easy. I lost 20 lbs in 4 weeks doing it.

[pagerbear]

25. If only we could all be like you!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

26. Here we go again

How old are you? Do you realize that your metabolism slows significantly if you're over 30? That most women have slower metabolisms than men because of hormonal differences? That most people are overweight because of food allergies, thyroid issues and genetic predisposition? That most overweight people are poor and lack access to fresh (re: expensive) foods?

I didn't think so...

:boring:

[Tsiyu]

33. Well, I'm forty five and it's not working

but then when people comment on my small frame ( some have even accused me of being a cranker) I just say, "Don't hate me cuz I'm skinny. I'm just hungry." That shuts them up.

The truth is, weight is hard to lose and the typical American diet doesn't help. I am teeny because I have PTSD and without certain appetite enhancing meds, I cannot eat. I have eaten only an English muffin and a few ginger snaps in the last two days. Too poor to afford my meds this weekend.

[smirkymonkey]

22. If it was that easy, there wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar

weight-loss industry.

[flamingyouth]

9. This is a huge pet peeve with me

I had to give a massage to a guy last week at school who'd spent three hours lifting weights at the gym that afternoon - without showering afterward. He smelled so bad, I thought I was going to vomit. :puke:

[Skittles]

13. but why did you have to give him a massage?

surely there are hygiene rules - no one should have to do that; no way.

[flamingyouth]

16. I should have just said no

But we were partnered and he worked on me first. Later in the program, I know they go through a whole program where you discuss this issue. In retrospect, I should have gone to an instructor. At first it wasn't so bad, but it became more noticable and uncomfortable as it went on. :(

[miss_kitty]

15. I have a friend whose kid is a computer genius

and he scored a job at MS when windblows 98 was coming out. or 96 whatever. Anyway this kid was the neatest of the neat. Pressed a clean white shirt to wear with his clean blue jeans every day, hair always neatly trimmed. Spent a few years at Nintendo first.

He came home after his first day on the job out of training and said "OMG Mom! You can't believe it! There are guys who are so smelly in the office it makes me gag if I have to go past their cubicle!"

Apparently Billy Gates has had to be told that a good scrub behind the ears would dislodge a few of the potatoes growing back there-in the past.

[Blue Gardener]

23. Oh no, there are women that don't wash their hands

I work with a couple of them. Even more disgusting, sometimes they don't flush, AND don't use TP. Ugh. Disgusting slobs.

[Mizmoon]

24. I always assume they're depressed

It's sad that they don't feel good enough about themselves to take care of their own personal needs.

[GingerSnaps]

27. I put someone out of my car one time

She was like a sister to me and I felt comfortable with her because I grew up with her and we went to School together. She would wear cheap perfume that would burn your eyes if your car windows were shut. It was raining out and I couldn't put my window down so I pulled up to her house and I told her to go wash the perfume off and then we would go out. I have allergies and if someone stinks I tend to get sick and :puke:.

[Skittles]

28. I would have bought her some nice perfume

:D

[GingerSnaps]

30. That's what Christmas is for

I gave her a bottle at Christmas and she loved it. She wasn't broke she was cheap so she didn't have a reason to wear horrible perfume.

[SarahB]

29. Maybe they never want to get laid.

:shrug:

[skygazer]

31. I shared a place with a guy like that

This was an intelligent guy, too (and it was his place so I couldn't throw him out and I couldnt' afford a place on my own).

He actually told me that he believes that the reason people get sick so easily is that they wash too much! That they're not acclimated to all the germs in the world or some such silly bullshit.

He would come home from working all night which was always slow so he'd work out in the gym at his office, then he'd do some yard work or go for a ride on one of the horses, then he'd come in the house stinking like crazy and go to bed. All smelly and sweaty. God, it was gross. :puke:

I could smell him from the living room. What a pig! I don't miss those days!

[SarahB]

32. There is something in part.

Antibacterial soaps do destroy most good bacteria leaving the "super bugs" (those resistant to antibiotics of all kind) to continue to multiply. From a public health perspective, antibacterial soaps shouldn't be as widely used. It doesn't mean people should smell or not wash themselves. That's just gross.

[wickerwoman]

34. I like you a lot Skittles,

but how much of the world's rapidly diminishing water supply do we need to use to satisfy arbitrary standards of cleanliness?

Professional athletes need to bathe daily- the average office drone doesn't. In the winter, I take a quick shower every three or four days and wash my hair once a week- maybe twice in summer. And I don't smell.

I never get sick because I exposed myself to all this shit when I was young. And people compliment me on my great complexion all the time. They ask me what the secret is and I say stop burning your face off with all that chemical cleansing shit. Stop wearing make-up and hairspray and your pores won't clog up so much.

I'm not buying into the whole beauty industry "You're a fat ugly smelly slob if you don't spend hundreds of dollars a month on our products" bullshit.

[Chovexani]

35. KICK THEIR ASS

:D