Plenty of people don’t start to smell bad 24h after a shower, with or without deodorant. In winter, I’d guess it’s actually most people.
I try to shower as infrequently as I can without stinking because it fucks up my skin every single time.
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FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
[deleted]greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Idk, humans have lots of different smells and some are more tolerable than others. Like if you don’t sweat much (not me unfortunately) you can definitely go a day without showering. The worst human smell might be a rotting tooth though, that’s really difficult to be around.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’m sure plenty of people do, maybe you’re even one of them, but turning this into blanket statements is weird and annoying. How many people think, because of the culture embodied in this sign, that they must shower every day, and never even check?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So that’s why they have those 48 hour protection deodorants, it’s for the Magic players!
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
To add: It’s a good idea to occasionally check with someone else how you smell, because we notice our own smell less than others.
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep. I developed eczema and soap/chemicals are not my friend, I will forgo deodorant in the winter and use it lightly during the summer - you’d be surprised how little you really need - but I am checking with people about it regularly. I had a friend tell me I smelled like “outside” which made me realize the crystal deodorant wasn’t working right.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yeah, my partner can be trusted to advise me of the situation lol
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Plenty of people don’t start to smell bad 24h after a shower, with or without deodorant. In winter, I’d guess it’s actually most people.
I’ve learned for my own body the sweet spot is to use deodorant every day first thing in the morning and once per 48 hours take a full shower but if I do anything that causes me to sweat on an off day then I need to take a quick shower without any soaps. This keeps my body appropriately not-smelly and my hair doesn’t get greasy from over-washing like it does if I do a full shower daily. This regime also survives both running 5ks and biking 20+ miles in the summer, even if the day of the race/ride falls on an off-day!
Regarding deodorant I get smelly by the end of the day if I do not use deodorant regardless of the temperature. Also, some deodorants are apparently really good for larger folks who have chaffing issues. A friend of a friend specifically recommended slathering it anywhere that chafes first thing in the morning and that can help significantly
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You probably need to find a good moisturizer and leave it on for a while in the shower.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Oh fuck, moisturiser!! Thank god someone has finally suggested MOISTURISER to me! And here I’d been covering my body in salt and ash. Truly I am saved.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Are you made from sugar? I’m part of the two-a-day club. When I wake up and after the gym.
Senseless@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Are you, by any chance, showering with hot water? It’s said that warmer/hotter water dries out the skin more.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Well I’m certainly not taking a cold shower in winter! I don’t have a thermostatic shower tap so don’t know what temperature it is, but I guess I have it at about body temperature… Not sure if that is as hot as you mean.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You probably smell really bad. Olfactory fatigue might make you think otherwise. Just shower and moisturize. Find skin friendly soap.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I use the skin friendliest soap I know of, and can smell when I need a shower, and have trusted other people who validate my own sense. Olfactory fatigue makes no sense unless you shower really infrequently.
Thanks for your fake, ill-informed concern though. Sucks that on Lemmy people are so closed minded they can’t understand that people sweat less than they do.
entwine@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I try to shower as infrequently as I can without stinking because it fucks up my skin every single time.
Could you go into detail? Is it the soap, or the water that fucks up your skin? And how does it get “fucked up”?
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I don’t want to go into too much detail about medical stuff in public but I don’t believe it is about soap alone because it also affects skin that i don’t soap up in the shower.
Ifera@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thank you for being the voice of reason and your patience with some people. A lot of people succumb to The Toupee Fallacy (A form of selection bias in which a thing whose quality is measured in terms of being difficult to detect is wrongly judged to be of poor quality in general, caused by the fact that most people only notice poor quality instances of it.).
I stopped showering every day for medical reasons and under medical supervision when I was young, and that really helped with my smell(Turns out I had both a fungal infection, and a hormonal disorder), and the habit stayed. My hair and my skin do a lot better, and due to the nature of my job, I would certainly know if I smelled, since I am often meeting clients and other team leads.
Having a bidet, applying deodorant daily and changing my clothes daily as well, added to working in climate controlled spaces, away from the sun, crowds and smelly habits like smoking are all factors that some people seem incapable of even considering.
But of course, this is Lemmy, where nuance often just fucking dies.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yeah. I guess you can analyse it as:
- Denying the antecedent: “showering every day prevents smelling bad, therefore if you don’t shower every day, you will smell bad”
- Confirmation & Selection bias: “that person smells bad, therefore they can’t shower every day, making them an example of not showering every day leading to smelling bad”
- Bias of anecdotal evidence, presumably - at least, I’m assuming that most such people really do smell bad to themselves after only a day, which is treated as a reliable indicator of everyone’s condition.
It’s quite interesting to me, because it clearly becomes a very emotive topic when the difference between waiting one, two or three days to bathe is pretty abstract. I have developed a hypothesis that it’s the feeling of having a shower when one is feeling sticky and sweaty and dirty, and then coming out feeling nice and clean, that gets readily associated with bad odour. I then think that this link simply can’t form easily if your feeling when coming out of the shower is not “nice and clean” but “disgusting ball of skin-flakes held together only by paraffin and artificial grease”.
I have encountered this kind of attitude before but I was actually surprised to find it that prevalent here, because I expected more people to be sympathetic to conditions which require deviation from the norm.
renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Body moisturizer after shower is a game changer. I wish I’d known about it sooner.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but this is a shop for MTG nerds. They ain’t most people.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
From my reading of social media there are two kinds of neurodivergents: 1) hates showing, most unpleasant experience, sensory overload 2) loves showing, could live in the shower, sometimes exits the shower and realises that they forgot to wash their hair or soap up or something. Only misses their daily shower when they are very busy and can’t find an hour in their schedules.
You may be a neurotypical if you:
- shower each day
- complete your shower in less than 10 minutes
- don’t forget any of the 1-3 things you are supposed to do in the shower
- have no strong feelings about showering
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been known to shower until the hot water runs out. I’ve been known to fall asleep in the shower. I love showers.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Sleeping in the shower! Do you then wake up when you start gurgling?
If you want a good night’s sleep in the shower then get one of those continuous water heaters, or a recirculation shower to save on the water and energy.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
10 minutes
How do you wash in that time? That’s just enough to get wet.
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
5 minutes baby. Military taught me to eat fast, shower fast, fall asleep fast, and clean like i have OCD
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I shower in less than 10:
- Heat water while I undress
- Change water to cold, wet my hair only (dyed hair is a pain, god bless it’s short)
- Shampoo hair, Clear, apply conditioner
- Change water to hot again, wet rest of body
- Stop water, apply gel in body
- Hot water, rinse body
- Cold water, rinse head
- Get out.
That’s like 8 mins, maybe 9 because I spend 2 with my hair, maybe 10 because I spend 2 mins wetting my body to heat it up.
Ofc, if I’m feeling cold I end up spending way longer in the wet body phase.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I had a boyfriend that HAD to shower everytime he pooped. He couldn’t poop anywhere he wouldn’t be able to shower or he would be annoying until we got home. He also had IBS. Lovely time I had
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
You should’ve bought that boy a bidet. That’s probably what he wanted.
Rather than shit steam your bathroom
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Lol, I love the PSA-style “You may be neurotypical if…”
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah cause I’m both of those. I want nothing to do with a shower until I get in and then I’ll stay there until I run through 50 gallons of near boiling water. And then as the water starts turning cold I realize I haven’t even washed yet.
mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
From this alone, I’ll diagnose you with ADHD.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is way too general. Like I get its a joke, but I don’t think anyone showers super quickly unless they are time pressed
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
You may be a neurotypical if you:
Showering properly is one of the few things I do consistently, because if I'm not doing something outdoors like hiking or camping then my stinky bits annoy me.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Like most signs, this will be ignored by the people it’s intended for.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
The point of the sign is to avoid them getting angry when you throw them out. They will, but others in the store will back you up.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That’s just not how interacting with humans works though.
Chances are there are several individuals who visit this shop with “offensive” hygiene.
The sign isn’t going to stop them coming in.
When you say “hey fuck off stinky”, they’re going to react badly. Pointing to the sign isn’t going to make them any less reactive or defensive.
The correct way to handle this is to pull them aside, tell them you really appreciate them visiting the store, they’re really into the hobby and a key part of the local scene or whatever, but last time they came in a few other customers mentioned their hygiene.
I totally understand that most people don’t want to have that second interaction, that’s fine.
My point is, in either approach the sign doesn’t help.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
You don’t need a sign for people to be happy that King Shit is getting kicked out.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re all going to be "dammit what time is it? Anyone got a calculator? "
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I get it, personal hygiene isn’t always a big priority for us nerdy types. But it’s reaaaally not hard to do the bare minimum to keep from stinking, guys. Have some consideration for others when emerging from your cave.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When you go to cons you always see these guys who are clearly spending mad cash, but they’re in a ratty t shirt and sweat pants, and they smell like unwashed ass covered in baby powder. You can play magic for 10 hours but you can’t go take a 15 minute shower???
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
I heard it’s a strategy to make other people disgusted and sk they are less concentrated
pulsey@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
thats quite the commitment
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
“Hey, Skinx, yer on Door Sniffing Duty tonight.”
“Aw, I always get Door Sniffing Duty, make Plug do it, he never does it.”
“Plug has allergies, he can’t smell so good. You got a good nose.”
“You don’t need a good nose for these dudes. You can smell Fat Tony from a block away.”
“Speaking of, it’s Wednesday.”
“Wednesday? OH! Fat Tony always comes in on Tuesday!”
“Yep, you’ll be getting a schnozzful of Fat Tony’s unique gamey fragrance, before you send him home for his shower. Get at it!”
“Fuck…”
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the mid 90’s I was with a group of union apprentices attending the mandatory four week training at our headquarters in the Midwest. They put us up at a decent hotel in the downtown area. During our stay one year they had some kind of magic/fantasy con. Many of these people were foul smelling. They were not used to being told they couldn’t enter the elevator without getting fucked up. Some of my fellow apprentices were how shall we say it. Impulsively violent toward people who smelled like unwashed ass. After all nearly everyone of us would shower once or twice daily due to the job. The con attendees quickly learned how to use the back elevator away from our floor.
It was really kinda sad but the Navy also had a floor for their recruits to stay at while they were being processed in. Many were young women all of legal age with the navy personnel trying but not always succeeding in keeping those ladies away from forty or so young construction workers. One of their main tactics was to encourage the navy recruits to use the back elevator. In forcing those unwashed losers to the back we inflicted them on those recruits.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is my favorite thing to show people when they never ask.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
So, what would you like to show us?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
its because CARD game players: yugioh pokemon, purposely not shower, and smell that way on purpose to distract other players from the game making them more likely to make mistake and lose a game. it has gotten so bad they have to implement the smell ban rule.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What’s wrong with not wearing deodorant? That shit has a ton of aluminum and other garbage in it. It ruins your clothes. You just need to wash and change your clothes regularly.
blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
The aluminium salts are the effective ingredient that stops us from sweating. Products that contain aluminium salts are called anti-transpirants because of that.
There is also no reason to call them garbage, because besides of being effective against sweat, they don’t harm us. That was a myth, disproven for years now.
dublet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The BO AOE cloud that follows not wearing deodorant is what’s wrong with not wearing it.
Lots of them do have aluminum, but more and more brands now have new formulations without it. Most of the mainstream ones in my area have variants. There are also more natural ones available like Dr. Squatch, but I haven’t had good luck with it (melted during summer, but was effective).
As far as ruining your clothes, do you mean staining the armpit area? I’ve only had that happen to a couple of tshirts years ago with Axe deodorant sticks.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I’ve only had that happen to a couple of tshirts years ago with Axe deodorant sticks.
I generally use Degree (there’s only like 4 deoderant options in my local stores and I can choose between Oldspice which my wife hates, Axe which smells like a middle school dance in all the worst ways, Suave which never lasted the full day when I tried it or Degree) and I’ve noticed some older shirts have gotten some minor staining on the inside, but its literally only visible on the inside and only if you really hunt for it
The BO AOE cloud that follows not wearing deodorant is what’s wrong with not wearing it.
SO MUCH THIS. My dad has refused to use deodorant my entire life. You don’t want to do anything around him after about 2PM because he showers every morning and reeks of BO by the end of the day (he also matches the meme about only using Head and Shoulders for literally everything in the shower just to complete the mental image for you)
ieGod@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Antiperspirants contain aluminum, not deodorants.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Amazing? I have seen that sign at pretty much every games workshop I have been too,
Aliya@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
This should be on every bus and train door.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This sign should be posted in my bedroom right now too. I’m about to kick myself out.
Aliya@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
As long as you’re alone in your bedroom…
Just please stay out of any crowded rooms till your next shower :o
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ha ha lol lets insult customers!
Seriously I do not understand signs like this.
They only scold the very customers they want, while they will bounce off the customers they don’t want.
These signs are self masturbatory in nature. Just someone who wants to rant and feel better than others in a public fashion.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s not a sign that just gets put up. That’s a response to a problem.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Im not arguing about whether it is or isn’t. Im saying no sensible person thinks this is actually a solution and this is 100% a narcissism play.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
No one wants the stinky customers. If you’re insulted by this you should stfu and take a bath.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I fear you might be able to read, but not able to comprehend.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes but do they actually enforce it is the biggest question. My game store most certainly does not.
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can we add brushing and flossing to this?
BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Our local bookshop used to have similar sign at the door. It’s a coffee shop now because people took that “do not enter” to heart.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d rather smell unwashed gamer than the overpowering perfume in these bloody deodorants.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
good thing i don’t play card games anymore. stupid money pit.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Lmfaooooooooo
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Magic the gathering store? Then why is there a Pokémon visible on the door?
sundray@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
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FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I came here just to check out if somebody already did it and I was not disappointed xD
sundray@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
LOL, had to do it! Template for anyone who wants to add Sid to a shameful situation (low-rez, sadly):
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IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
OMG that man is a legend!