Are we too clean?

**rich** · 30-Nov-07, 17:14

Recent historical investigations support the idea that being too clean can sap your strength and undermine your immune system.
So how often do my fellow orgers bathe????

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/200...rce=newsletter

**Thumper** · 30-Nov-07, 17:17

OOps well thats me done for then...I shower twice a day and wash my hands the whole time!My Mum is always telling me that I have OCD but I just like to be clean and fresh

x

karia · 30-Nov-07, 17:19

I couldn't function without my daily bath, it eases me gently into the day!

However, I am far from super mad hygienic around the house.

karia

karia · 30-Nov-07, 17:22

Originally Posted by Thumper

OOps well thats me done for then...I shower twice a day and wash my hands the whole time!My Mum is always telling me that I have OCD but I just like to be clean and fresh

x

I'm guessing you won't be coming to mine for Christmas dinner Thumper ..
welcome though you would surely be!

**NickInTheNorth** · 30-Nov-07, 17:24

I last bathed on 19th November 2007. Prior to that the last bath was sometime in 1999. I try to make sure I have one in every millennium, whether I need one or not

**Thumper** · 30-Nov-07, 17:28

Aww bless you Karia!What a lovely thing to say!I would love to "pop" down for dinner sometime....messy or not

x

**emszxr** · 30-Nov-07, 17:33

i am sae as thumper. 2 showers a day, in fact yesterday i had 3. and my hubby thinks i clean too much and i do have ocd.

**NickInTheNorth** · 30-Nov-07, 17:41

showers however are fairly frequent, but definitely not every day.

karia · 30-Nov-07, 17:59

Originally Posted by Thumper

Aww bless you Karia!What a lovely thing to say!I would love to "pop" down for dinner sometime....messy or not

x

For you thumper..I'll get the marigolds on!

kariax

**bekisman** · 30-Nov-07, 18:16

Seems this is a favourite with forums;

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=663312

Me? not had a bath since 1988 (but have a shower daily if possible)

**rich** · 30-Nov-07, 20:11

It must be wonderful to be a historian and research stuff like this.
I am not too sure about the latest findings about underpants throughout the ages. But a historian friend told me that until the advent of cheap cotton people just itched and stank.
Unless, of course you were rich and could afford linen.
Interestingly the great bulk of linen seems to have come from Ulster. Maybe the need for unscratchy briefs was behind the English invasions.
The Highlanders in their plaids may have been slightly more comfortable than their trousered confreres south of the Highland line.
And what about the Kiess corpse from the 17th century - he was wearing leather trousers! Leather might seem to be an answer. But if that is the case why was the Kiess man left with his leather pants? I would have expected them to have been nicked!

**northener** · 30-Nov-07, 20:17

Originally Posted by rich

And what about the Kiess corpse from the 17th century - he was wearing leather trousers! Leather might seem to be an answer. But if that is the case why was the Kiess man left with his leather pants? I would have expected them to have been nicked!

Everybody in Keiss wears leather trousers

karia · 30-Nov-07, 20:24

Originally Posted by northener

Everybody in Keiss wears leather trousers

That's why it is the home of Scottish 'mince'!

karia

**Cattach** · 30-Nov-07, 20:56

Originally Posted by karia

That's why it is the home of Scottish 'mince'!

karia

I am not sure if you are referring to the Mackay clan from Keiss who were almost all butchers or just insulting the intelligence of the Keissers. Or maybe you are doing both at the same time!!

**thebigman** · 30-Nov-07, 21:03

Originally Posted by karia

That's why it is the home of Scottish 'mince'!

karia

Nice one, made me laugh.

**gem1982** · 30-Nov-07, 21:05

I have a shower every morning and then a bath at night. I wash my hair every morning in the shower cant go 2 days without washing my hair! I do worry about germs and I am conscious about always washing my hands the whole time but I would not say I was OCD or anything just if I touch certain things I am like eugh must wash my hands. My house I try to keep clean I have laminate floors throughtout my downstairs and some upstairs and I mop my bottom floors twice a day with antibacterial flash wipes but I have small children and animals so like to make sure the kids cant catch anything.

I have a friend who rather grossly insists that picking your nose and eating it is not a bad thing cos it puts germs in your body to help keep your immune system boosted!!!

karia · 30-Nov-07, 21:07

Originally Posted by Cattach

I am not sure if you are referring to the Mackay clan from Keiss who were almost all butchers or just insulting the intelligence of the Keissers. Or maybe you are doing both at the same time!!

I am not referring to anyone!

Was just sharing a joke with northener about the inferences' drawn by the wearing of leather trousers to small minded people!

You would have to ask northener about that as he was the one who mentioned Keiss..I am sure that he was making historical reference and will be able and happy to enlighten.

Karia

**rich** · 30-Nov-07, 21:08

Have any Orgers lived in places WITHOUT a bathroom of any description?
I did for years.

karia · 30-Nov-07, 21:16

Originally Posted by rich

Have any Orgers lived in places WITHOUT a bathroom of any description?
I did for years.

Lived in a 'room and kitchen' as it is called for 9 horrible months when first married...you had to open the outside loo with a mangled fork..and sometimes there was someone in there!

Must have been a market for mangled forks in those days..but they weren't even Polish!

karia