Please take a Shower

kshapero

kshapero

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Today I took a walk near my house. I spoke to a resident a block down from me. Even from 6 feet away he really stunk. He mentioned being laid off. I get it but for your own self respect, don't go rogue. Please take a shower.
 
Sounds like regular day in GTA. Some are using perfume as shower liquid, some just stinks naturally.
Don't know what it has to do with photography and here.
 
nickthetasmaniac said:
‘Photography General Interest’

I’m trying to figure out the connection but I just don’t see it?
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I don't know, Nick. I swear that sometimes people can stink so much that I swear I could photograph the miasma coming off them like a swampy slime-green funk that you see in cartoons. :)

Now this bit is not connected.....If it is honest sweat I don't mind so much but that stale stink of unsanitary consistently unwashed bodies.........good grief! I am and have always been a neat freak in the manner of Jerry Seinfeld who showers daily at least and carefully. I have also had the habit for a few years now of carrying a small bottle of hand sanitizer with me. Too many times I have seen people leave a cubicle in a public toilet and depart without hand washing no way do I want to touch the door handle when I see that at least without cleaning my hands afterwards. Makes me want to puke. Some people really are pigs. So I am with the OP on this one.

PS I suppose not washing and emitting a disgusting funk is an interesting and effective way of forcing others to keep their distance. A new and weaponized form of "social distancing" perhaps. On the Pepe Le Pew model.

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Larry Cloetta said:
I was interested. Even the thread title was interesting. It’s Public service announcement; those are appropriate anywhere:)
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I am reminded of the time I was a free lancer during the late 80's and early 90's with Knight-Ridder. Those BBC guys stunk like Hell. The reasoning behind was if you were racing to get in front of the mass of Photogs to get the shot and you paused for even a second because of their odor then puff they would race ahead of you and get the shot. Happen to me many a time until I got "wind" of it. :eek:
 
Slobs will always be slobs. It may be a matter of poor education, low self-esteem, or despair. These are desperate times, and many just do not have the education, life skills, or social training to cope.

The OP's encounter may have been with someone who just smelled more rank than usual. I wonder about their partners (if they have one). Even our cats would leave home if we didn't shower at least once every day...

One of our neighbors showers once a week. He told us this recently at the pub, in a tone and with a face as if he is proud of it. He smells like he sleeps in a horse manure pile. He also looks like a horse, but we were all too polite to say this. No need to put up with him now, as here in Victoria (Australia) all our pubs closed at noon today. The local alcoholics will be rioting in the streets. Lots of those here, mostly middle class, quiet, usually well-behaved home drinkers, fortunately, so we may be spared a mass movement (liver if not bowels) in the next few days. We lie in hope, but the baseball bats are stacked next to the front door, just in case.

Yes, this is a photo site, we all know that!! Lighten up, gophers... Go to the kitchen and count the cutlery, wipe down the leaves on the windowsill plants, wash the windows (again), dust your bookshelves, brush the cat/dog, disinfect your keyboard, trim your fingernails. Scoop the litter tray often.

Remember to wash our hands often and wipe our bottoms well after, well, you know. Numbers One and Two. And chill.

Let's all disinfectct our cameras!! I did. How about you? (My partner has suggested I should boil mine in our stock pot on the stove for ten minutes. No, I didn't.)

A (maybe) useful tip. My GP recommended the following spray for household use as a nifty (and cheap) surface-spray disinfectant. Non-alcohol, but still effective, she said.

In a clean spray bottle, 30 ml of dish detergent, 20 ml of Dettol, 20 ml of eucalyptus or tea tree oil. Cap, shake well. Use. Smells real nice on hands. But don't use on cats or dogs as the oils are somewhat toxic.

My contribution to the global crisis. Others please post accordingly. We are all in this together. A sense of humor helps, as someone named Lord Haw Haw once said on the radio, a long, long time ago. Some things never change.
 
ozmoose said:
Slobs will always be slobs. It may be a matter of poor education, low self-esteem, or despair. These are desperate times, and many just do not have the education, life skills, or social training to cope.

The OP's encounter may have been with someone who just smelled more rank than usual. I wonder about their partners (if they have one). Even our cats would leave home if we didn't shower at least once every day...

One of our neighbors showers once a week. He told us this recently at the pub, in a tone and with a face as if he is proud of it. He smells like he sleeps in a horse manure pile. He also looks like a horse, but we were all too polite to say this. No need to put up with him now, as here in Victoria (Australia) all our pubs closed at noon today. The local alcoholics will be rioting in the streets. Lots of those here, mostly middle class, quiet, usually well-behaved home drinkers, fortunately, so we may be spared a mass movement (liver if not bowels) in the next few days. We lie in hope, but the baseball bats are stacked next to the front door, just in case.

Yes, this is a photo site, we all know that!! Lighten up, gophers... Go to the kitchen and count the cutlery, wipe down the leaves on the windowsill plants, wash the windows (again), dust your bookshelves, brush the cat/dog, disinfect your keyboard, trim your fingernails. Scoop the litter tray often.

Remember to wash our hands often and wipe our bottoms well after, well, you know. Numbers One and Two. And chill.

Let's all disinfectct our cameras!! I did. How about you? (My partner has suggested I should boil mine in our stock pot on the stove for ten minutes. No, I didn't.)

A (maybe) useful tip. My GP recommended the following spray for household use as a nifty (and cheap) surface-spray disinfectant. Non-alcohol, but still effective, she said.

In a clean spray bottle, 30 ml of dish detergent, 20 ml of Dettol, 20 ml of eucalyptus or tea tree oil. Cap, shake well. Use. Smells real nice on hands. But don't use on cats or dogs as the oils are somewhat toxic.

My contribution to the global crisis. Others please post accordingly. We are all in this together. A sense of humor helps, as someone named Lord Haw Haw once said on the radio, a long, long time ago. Some things never change.
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" Slobs will always be slobs. It may be a matter of poor education, low self-esteem, or despair. These are desperate times, and many just do not have the education, life skills, or social training to cope."

Sorry, maybe I am intolerant but I do not make excuses for peoples' bad behaviour. They need to get with the program.

As to cats. Cats are clean animals who are very clean as they always bathe themselves. I tried bathing my cat once but my tongue got covered in fur so I had to give up. (Sorry - old Steve Martin joke).
 
Peter,

I wasn't making excuses. Only stating a sad fact. You and I are citizens of a country where half the males now suddenly realize they MUST wash their hands after using the WC. I read this in the Guardian OL, so it must be true...

As for cats, I couldn't agree more. Double negative otherwise, the last time I had to wash a cat (it went out larking and somehow got covered in tar), the resulting stoush had me racing to my GP for emergency treatment (four stitches and a tetanus injection). And yes, we still have the cat, in fact it's now purring contentedly on my lap as I type this. Silk and steel.

I've always said cats are so obviously a superior life form that it is it is an injustice to compare them to low-life humans.

Now about disinfecting those cameras... Next week I'll be resurrecting my darkroom at home and my beloved Leitz Focomat 1c will be next. It has been in mothballs for the last decade and my greatest hope is the lamps will light when I plug the thing in and hit the timer switch.
 
I'm within a day or two of finally having caught up with everything and it's into
the dark room for some silent satisfaction ! Peter
 
ozmoose said:
Slobs will always be slobs. It may be a matter of poor education, low self-esteem, or despair. These are desperate times, and many just do not have the education, life skills, or social training to cope.

The OP's encounter may have been with someone who just smelled more rank than usual. I wonder about their partners (if they have one). Even our cats would leave home if we didn't shower at least once every day...

One of our neighbors showers once a week. He told us this recently at the pub, in a tone and with a face as if he is proud of it. He smells like he sleeps in a horse manure pile. He also looks like a horse, but we were all too polite to say this. No need to put up with him now, as here in Victoria (Australia) all our pubs closed at noon today. The local alcoholics will be rioting in the streets. Lots of those here, mostly middle class, quiet, usually well-behaved home drinkers, fortunately, so we may be spared a mass movement (liver if not bowels) in the next few days. We lie in hope, but the baseball bats are stacked next to the front door, just in case.

Yes, this is a photo site, we all know that!! Lighten up, gophers... Go to the kitchen and count the cutlery, wipe down the leaves on the windowsill plants, wash the windows (again), dust your bookshelves, brush the cat/dog, disinfect your keyboard, trim your fingernails. Scoop the litter tray often.

Remember to wash our hands often and wipe our bottoms well after, well, you know. Numbers One and Two. And chill.

Let's all disinfectct our cameras!! I did. How about you? (My partner has suggested I should boil mine in our stock pot on the stove for ten minutes. No, I didn't.)

A (maybe) useful tip. My GP recommended the following spray for household use as a nifty (and cheap) surface-spray disinfectant. Non-alcohol, but still effective, she said.

In a clean spray bottle, 30 ml of dish detergent, 20 ml of Dettol, 20 ml of eucalyptus or tea tree oil. Cap, shake well. Use. Smells real nice on hands. But don't use on cats or dogs as the oils are somewhat toxic.

My contribution to the global crisis. Others please post accordingly. We are all in this together. A sense of humor helps, as someone named Lord Haw Haw once said on the radio, a long, long time ago. Some things never change.
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Love this post. Are we using RFF as a bit of an escape valve? Hell Yes!!
 
ozmoose said:
Peter,

I wasn't making excuses. Only stating a sad fact. You and I are citizens of a country where half the males now suddenly realize they MUST wash their hands after using the WC. I read this in the Guardian OL, so it must be true...

As for cats, I couldn't agree more. Double negative otherwise, the last time I had to wash a cat (it went out larking and somehow got covered in tar), the resulting stoush had me racing to my GP for emergency treatment (four stitches and a tetanus injection). And yes, we still have the cat, in fact it's now purring contentedly on my lap as I type this. Silk and steel.

I've always said cats are so obviously a superior life form that it is it is an injustice to compare them to low-life humans.

Now about disinfecting those cameras... Next week I'll be resurrecting my darkroom at home and my beloved Leitz Focomat 1c will be next. It has been in mothballs for the last decade and my greatest hope is the lamps will light when I plug the thing in and hit the timer switch.
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Sorry Ozmoose I was thoughtless, however not intending to comment about you though it may have sounded that I was.

I was just meaning I suppose, that these days in general, we are all so civilized that we are in my opinion too inclined to say soft words about and make excuses on behalf of people who do not behave in a socially acceptable manner (such as basic hygiene which is basically about being socially responsible as much as anything). I am less inclined to be so tolerant of such foibles especially during a pandemic when other peoples' safety is at stake.

As to cats, I love them though they are cuddle bunnies with claws and teeth. Specifically I love mine to pieces and as far as I can tell she loves me. But it does not stop her from sinking her teeth into me occasionally when I displease her (usually my fault for failing to read the signs in her body language that she is getting over stimulated or p**d off). They are miniature tigers. And my cat would agree they are the superior animals.
 
kshapero said:
Today I took a walk near my house. I spoke to a resident a block down from me. Even from 6 feet away he really stunk. He mentioned being laid off. I get it but for your own self respect, don't go rogue. Please take a shower.
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Has he always been that way? Or is this something new, perhaps since he was laid off? It's possible he is clinically depressed. Seriously depressed people may not keep up their ADL's ( Activities of Daily Living). He might need a mental health referral.
 
From the thread title I thought it was about stock prices - my pension fund has certainly taken a bath!
Edit: and yes, that stinks too :D
 
There is a youth subculture called "Crusty" where they try to obtain a sweet body oder through diet, natural herb inhalation and because they usually camp or squat in abandoned buildings no real bathes or showers. They have hand etiquette but they also like to show off by eating or drinking disgusting things to "boost their immunity".

Basically Hobos of the Great Depression with more women and drugs.

Last Fall I spent the day with a girl who rode trains and smoked weed all day, photos on my blog. She was a lost cause and in another world she'd be under care.
 
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