"What if we showered/bathed only once a week?"
© Image cropped from ZDF kugelzwei.You won’t shower any more, and you’ll be happy, German ZDF broadcaster suggests.
Just some weeks ago, the Instagram site of WDR kugelzwei presented some tips that save heat and energy for citizens to consider: showering only once a week.
After all: "Around 100 years ago, it was still customary to bathe only once a week," wrote kugelzwei. "Today, people almost look at you strangely if you tell them you don't shower several times a week."
The "benefits" of showering only once a week
Supposedly, there are in fact numerous benefits from showering much less frequently, according to ZDF's kugelzwei. For example, people would maybe learn to become "a little more tolerant of body odor", and the unwashed would save time in the bathroom every morning.
Use sinks, not showers
Moreover, fitness studios could replace showers with just plain sinks. After a sweaty workout, one could freshen up in cubicle with with a simple sink and a washcloth instead of using a shower cubicle.
Make the weekly shower a public social event
Another idea proposed by the WDR's kugelzwei is public bathing: "Maybe showering or bathing could become a weekly highlight," they suggest. "We would celebrate this in public bathhouses - perhaps also in the company of others."
WDR also cited research from Great Britain on the impacts that lockdowns had on showering. "In a YouGov survey, 17% of Britons said they shower less since the lockdowns. Among younger people aged 18 to 24, as many as 27% skip showering sometimes."
Hat-tip: Pleiteticker.de
Reader Comments
One communal bar of soap as well?
I can see it now…
All men (women, trannies, etc.,) are equal.
What does this mean?
This means that, regardless of their so-called 'intelligence', they obey the 'god' that they believe.
Whichever 'god' that is.
Which is, in turn, some variant of civilization. Of society.
Because there was no god before civilization. Before there were people: THERE WAS NO GOD'!
Until civilization came along, there was nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
See?
ned,
OUT
(sarcasm)
The first step is to have courage. Then bring reason and common sense as to what you can do. What is the game? The Nord stream pipeline and sanctions to Russia have been engineered to CREATE energy shortages in the EU, so that the EU people will suffer, die or become compliant. The problem is corrupt and psychopathic leadership in the EU.
Actually, I was laughing out loud by the end of this article. Which is just as healthy as showering.
Tell some of your old-time pals if you can, that their days are numbered if they don't get some awareness....
tell them some peasants are coming to get them - one at a time.
Happy New Year,
Ken
ps - all this is assuming you are the same Ragnar I've communicated with elsewhere, if not, then please just disregard it as the ramblings of a random buffalo on the plains....
Not a fan of a LBGT - Gender Fluid freak show attention whore syndrome @ public bath house.
Are we going to start using a Roman Tersorium/Xylospongium (Sea Sponge tied to the end of a stick) Shit on a Stick/Short End of the Stick meanings & a bucket of Salt Water or Vinegar next ?
When taken on its own the reduced bathing approach can be good advice. However as you noted this must be taken in the larger context of what is happening to European society.
Rationed gas, rationed electricity, expensive food, restricted travel, aggressive medical establishment and an un-elected 'parliament' telling people when to go to the bathroom. Sounds like paradise, doesn't it?
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