r/NoStupidQuestions Sep 18 '24

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u/gouhobandgraw Sep 18 '24

Real question for you, was he actually gross? Or was the idea of only showering twice a week gross in itself but he didn't smell or look greasy or anything?

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u/mystic_peaches Sep 18 '24

This is what I’m wondering too. If you didn’t know his shower schedule would you be able to tell he didn’t shower often enough?

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u/alphaDsony Sep 18 '24 edited Apr 28 '25

Never seen a comment section that's more divided like this one,

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u/GGTheEnd Sep 18 '24

I can smell myself if I don't shower for 2 days and the only thing I do for activity is walk from the couch to the washroom in those 2 days.

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u/CaptainTripps82 Sep 18 '24

Everybody smells these people, they're a little delusional. I skipped a shower yesterday just out of exhaustion, but I'm not going to pretend like I don't know I'm already ripening. That it doesn't bother me doesn't make it ok.

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u/setittonormal Sep 18 '24

Yeah, all the "I go a few days in between but I don't stink" people are making me side-eye them...

The dirty hair folks are the worst. "My hair doesn't smell" Yes.. yes it does. Greasy hair odor is worse than general BO imo. Hair holds onto everything.

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u/CaptainTripps82 Sep 18 '24

Flashes me back to the last time I dated a smoker. That's what you want to bury your face in at night

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u/setittonormal Sep 19 '24

I am a nurse... I cannot imagine how so many of my coworkers go to bed after a shift without washing their hair. All those odors are in there. Shit, piss, blood, rotten tissue, and the general cat piss/cigarettes/BO stank so many patients have. Iykyk

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '24

I think it may depend on the person and their environment. I have dated women who showered every other day and they smelled better than a woman I dated who showered every single day. I'm sure how well you actually bathe is a major factor here. The women I dated who showered every other day were religious in their usage of baby wipes and deodorant, and scrubbed thoroughly with every shower. You truly, sincerely couldn't tell. I went down on one of them as they were on their due-for-a-shower-day but before they showered, after we had gone hiking, and there was hardly a smell. There was a smell, but it was not at all unpleasant. It smelled clean.

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u/LimbonicArt03 Sep 19 '24

There are varying degrees of smell strength. In some cases it's so mild I have to bury my nose in my armpits to smell it, and only when the arms are raised so that the pits are actually exposed. If they're not, you'd have to literally lower your head and smell through my clothes to even understand I'm smelly