@SSteve Yeah! Also, transcontinental flights will cause you to "skip" at least one day. People who've never skipped a day obviously never engaged in the aforementioned activity! lol
I had Lyme disease for over a year, finally "cured" about a month ago. (You never are really cured of Lyme, I just feel a little better.) During that time I had a PICC line inserted which went into a vein in my upper arm, snaked into the subclavian vein and finally into the vena cava, ending half an inch above the entrance to my heart. I had to inject powerful antibiotics into it every day. It has a weekly-changed dressing but it cannot get wet. So showering involved wrapping many layers of Saran wrap around my arm and trying to keep it out of the shower stream. It was a huge PITA, and eventually, I just stopped showering for a week at a time. Luckily, it was winter, I don't smell much anyway and my wife was sympathetic.
Check yourself for ticks every day. You do NOT want Lyme.
@droopus I am so sorry you have had to endure this but happy for you that you are recovering. Deer ticks are so small most people don't even know they are on them. Where did you get your deer tick? Pulled 3 brown dog ticks out of my hair last week. I hate fuffin ticks.
@droopus A wise orthopedic told us about Glad Press n Seal. That stuff makes keeping things dry in showers or baths so easy. Lyme disease does indeed suck, and glad to hear that you have beat it into submission.
In 1999 the ex and I sold all but our 78 VW camper van and drove from Seattle to Acapulco and back. We took 9 months to do it and although we often got apartments here and there, there were some dodgey stretches as far as showers went. Although not too many, as people loved taking us in. We were the token gringos who didn't smoke weed and weren't flakes. By flakes I mean not members of the Rainbow Coalition or anything like that.
@jaremelz I still miss my '74 Westfalia. And yeah, while mostly sweet and harmless a lot of those Rainbow folks can be serious flakes and can be the douchiest of hippies.
@Bingo I'd love to own another camper. They are wonderful. We spent a hysterical night with some local friends, an old expat, anda guy they'd met earlier that day. A storm came in right after our two locals showed up and as they often do, knocked out the power. As we sat in the dark with them all blazing up, one of the locals started getting really animated and crazy like he usually did (dual Canadian/Mexican who spent time in the service doing god knows what) and rambling. He started going off on those Rainbow Coalition assholes and how much he'd like to mess one up. He was a rather on-edge guy, and high was borderline dangerous. The next day, to his compete delight, we told him that the gringo that was over the previous night was one, and that he'd gotten out of town just as fast as he could.
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Most people can go a day or two without anybody else figuring it out, and probably a week at a time without risking any health problems. More likely, we shower too often! That being said, I showered an hour ago. I'm not a troglodyte.
11 days, backpacking in NE New Mexico. After 3 days we almost stopped noticing the funk we had developed. After 9 days, it roared back and was worse than ever.
When my gallbladder went bad. I couldn't walk or sit up or anything for days before I went to the hospital and I was there for five days. Fed via an IV (couldn't drink anything, either).
Once babies came and time went out the window 3 day stretches isn't uncommon, but not much more than that. Trading sleep for showers is the common exchange, and sleep my friends is better in the end.
Six days for me, but I was river rafting and nearly constantly bombarded with active water. Still, the shower at the end of the trip was one of the best I can ever remember.
When a game once came out, I scheduled my appointments around so that I had a bit over a week off and I pretty much didn't leave my room but to use the toilet and obtain foodstuffs in that time. So Tuesday midnight 'til Thursday of the next week, then, no bathing. Not much sleep, either. I did brush my teeth and change my underwear every day, though. I'm not a savage.
@Tystix Sorry, dude, but it's truth. I get seriously squirrelly if I don't brush, floss, and have clean undies every day. Everything else is just a matter of perspective... and not raising my arms too high. There's a reason I have 87 pairs of panties, and it ain't just for "oooh, shiny" girliness.
@grum Mass Effect 2. Nearly the same happened with ME3, Skyrim, Borderlands 2, DA:I, and Pillars of Eternity, just that I couldn't rearrange more than 4/5-ish days off for each of those releases, Otherwise, it'd have been the same immersive, bathless, sleepless dreamworld-time. I have a tendency of losing my Self in games (and books, too, but I speed-read, which significantly curtails that end-stank).
@Al_Coholic Oh, honey. Dozens upon dozens of times. It's a sort of holy text for me. Got me through many difficult times. Back in the day, my main freestyle RP char was a Maia taken form under Laurelin. That char's morphed into the "goldenthorn" moniker of nowadays. Naive teenaged me of the 90s never understood why I got so many skeevy pms in ye olde chatrooms when I was originally "goldenlady". Sigh.
I'm a professional trucker. If I had a dispatch team that knew how to organize anything, I'd be able to shower at least every other day, as modern truckstops will let truckers take showers so long as we buy 50 gallons of fuel or more, but this an industry where 14 hour work days are the norm, and 18-25 consecutive days of work earns you three days at home. I keep baby wipes on the truck and use them for sponge baths every morning so I don't end up smelling like a landfill. When I go home I take a shower every day, and I'm counting the months til I can get off a truck and retire.
@Pamtha Not likely. It developed with my many food allergies about fifteen years ago as a teenager. I'm lucky that it's limited to those areas. Always the same spots, though..
Some people are definitely lying in this poll.
The distribution on these results is interesting.
Hell, I had to go 3 days last weekend due to surgery
Five days during SERE school. Had other things to worry about at the time.
Honestly, I have no idea. Do you really expect that I could remember this level of detail over the course of my entire adult life?
@SSteve Yeah! Also, transcontinental flights will cause you to "skip" at least one day. People who've never skipped a day obviously never engaged in the aforementioned activity! lol
I had Lyme disease for over a year, finally "cured" about a month ago. (You never are really cured of Lyme, I just feel a little better.) During that time I had a PICC line inserted which went into a vein in my upper arm, snaked into the subclavian vein and finally into the vena cava, ending half an inch above the entrance to my heart. I had to inject powerful antibiotics into it every day. It has a weekly-changed dressing but it cannot get wet. So showering involved wrapping many layers of Saran wrap around my arm and trying to keep it out of the shower stream. It was a huge PITA, and eventually, I just stopped showering for a week at a time. Luckily, it was winter, I don't smell much anyway and my wife was sympathetic.
Check yourself for ticks every day. You do NOT want Lyme.
@droopus I am so sorry you have had to endure this but happy for you that you are recovering. Deer ticks are so small most people don't even know they are on them. Where did you get your deer tick? Pulled 3 brown dog ticks out of my hair last week. I hate fuffin ticks.
@droopus A wise orthopedic told us about Glad Press n Seal. That stuff makes keeping things dry in showers or baths so easy. Lyme disease does indeed suck, and glad to hear that you have beat it into submission.
In 1999 the ex and I sold all but our 78 VW camper van and drove from Seattle to Acapulco and back. We took 9 months to do it and although we often got apartments here and there, there were some dodgey stretches as far as showers went. Although not too many, as people loved taking us in. We were the token gringos who didn't smoke weed and weren't flakes. By flakes I mean not members of the Rainbow Coalition or anything like that.
@jaremelz Did the rank body odor have anything to do with the fact that you're no longer married?
@eyewerks Naw, if anything that trip just masked all our issues. And it wasn't too rank, we had many nice Pacific ocean baths!
@jaremelz I still miss my '74 Westfalia. And yeah, while mostly sweet and harmless a lot of those Rainbow folks can be serious flakes and can be the douchiest of hippies.
@Bingo I'd love to own another camper. They are wonderful. We spent a hysterical night with some local friends, an old expat, anda guy they'd met earlier that day. A storm came in right after our two locals showed up and as they often do, knocked out the power. As we sat in the dark with them all blazing up, one of the locals started getting really animated and crazy like he usually did (dual Canadian/Mexican who spent time in the service doing god knows what) and rambling. He started going off on those Rainbow Coalition assholes and how much he'd like to mess one up. He was a rather on-edge guy, and high was borderline dangerous. The next day, to his compete delight, we told him that the gringo that was over the previous night was one, and that he'd gotten out of town just as fast as he could.
I haven't showered since my last meh click miss...177 days.
Meh Meh Meh Meh,
Meh Meh Meh Meh Meh Meh Meh Meh Meh,
We're talkin' fuckin' Meh.
I had a friend named Meh,
He cast a spell a spell on Meheh.
If meh and Meh and KGeh could be threh,
Flyin' freh Tenaciousleh,
Skinny-dippin' in a seh of Meh,
I'd propose on bended Kneh.
To Meh Meh Meh, Meh Meh Meh,
Meh Meh,
Meh Meh Meh, Meh Meh Meh,
Meh Meh,
Meh-Mut-Meh-Meh-Meh-Meh Meh Meh,
Meh-Mut-Meh-Meh-Meh-Meh Meh,
If meh, and Meh, and KGeh, (that's meh)
Could be threh, (could be threh)
Plant a treh, (plant a treh)
Just for Meh, (just for Meh)
Just for Meh, (Meh)
Just for Meh!
Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh,
Meeeh, Meeeh, Meeeh:
MEH!
Are you drunk? Or worse? I do lots of drunken mehhing myself. I just want to know are you ok?
Most people can go a day or two without anybody else figuring it out, and probably a week at a time without risking any health problems. More likely, we shower too often! That being said, I showered an hour ago. I'm not a troglodyte.
Back when I was in the military, we would go for 5 days at a time away from base, no showers, bathed and shaved out of a pot, if at all.
Does college count as being an adult?
11 days, backpacking in NE New Mexico. After 3 days we almost stopped noticing the funk we had developed. After 9 days, it roared back and was worse than ever.
When my gallbladder went bad. I couldn't walk or sit up or anything for days before I went to the hospital and I was there for five days. Fed via an IV (couldn't drink anything, either).
Once babies came and time went out the window 3 day stretches isn't uncommon, but not much more than that. Trading sleep for showers is the common exchange, and sleep my friends is better in the end.
Six days for me, but I was river rafting and nearly constantly bombarded with active water. Still, the shower at the end of the trip was one of the best I can ever remember.
When a game once came out, I scheduled my appointments around so that I had a bit over a week off and I pretty much didn't leave my room but to use the toilet and obtain foodstuffs in that time. So Tuesday midnight 'til Thursday of the next week, then, no bathing. Not much sleep, either. I did brush my teeth and change my underwear every day, though. I'm not a savage.
@goldenthorn I call bs on the brushing teeth and changing undies.
@Tystix Sorry, dude, but it's truth. I get seriously squirrelly if I don't brush, floss, and have clean undies every day. Everything else is just a matter of perspective... and not raising my arms too high. There's a reason I have 87 pairs of panties, and it ain't just for "oooh, shiny" girliness.
@goldenthorn Okay, spill: what game prompted nearly 10 days of no showering??
@grum Mass Effect 2. Nearly the same happened with ME3, Skyrim, Borderlands 2, DA:I, and Pillars of Eternity, just that I couldn't rearrange more than 4/5-ish days off for each of those releases, Otherwise, it'd have been the same immersive, bathless, sleepless dreamworld-time. I have a tendency of losing my Self in games (and books, too, but I speed-read, which significantly curtails that end-stank).
@goldenthorn It's good you remember to eat- I sometimes forget that one until I get really hungry and realize I should've eaten anything hours ago.
@goldenthorn Have you read The Silmarillion?
@Al_Coholic Oh, honey. Dozens upon dozens of times. It's a sort of holy text for me. Got me through many difficult times. Back in the day, my main freestyle RP char was a Maia taken form under Laurelin. That char's morphed into the "goldenthorn" moniker of nowadays. Naive teenaged me of the 90s never understood why I got so many skeevy pms in ye olde chatrooms when I was originally "goldenlady". Sigh.
@goldenthorn Awesome. :D
2 days. . . and even that seem unacceptable.
I like how there's almost a nice bell curve, and then you hit the "7 days or more" option.
I'm a professional trucker. If I had a dispatch team that knew how to organize anything, I'd be able to shower at least every other day, as modern truckstops will let truckers take showers so long as we buy 50 gallons of fuel or more, but this an industry where 14 hour work days are the norm, and 18-25 consecutive days of work earns you three days at home.
I keep baby wipes on the truck and use them for sponge baths every morning so I don't end up smelling like a landfill. When I go home I take a shower every day, and I'm counting the months til I can get off a truck and retire.
Weeks. I have aquagenic urticaria. I stay clean. I just don't bathe or shower. Even my own sweat causes painful hives on my stomach/back/chest.
@juststephen Sounds awful. Will it ever go away?
@Pamtha Not likely. It developed with my many food allergies about fifteen years ago as a teenager. I'm lucky that it's limited to those areas. Always the same spots, though..