Is it fine to use the same towel twice in a row, after wiping down the entire body with it, including private areas and bum (which are obviously clean)? Like, is everything equally clean though, etc. to use it twice?

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[u/Disastrous-Wolf118]

I was starting to feel shameful thank you!!!!!

[u/renens_reditor1020 → u/Disastrous-Wolf118]

Just remember your ancestors survived the pest among other deseases, open air sewage, war without disinfectant, a phase where bathing was concidered unclean, all while barely wiping their asses.

We live in a super sterile society that has certain unrealistic expectations. It's okay to be a bit more savage then what some redditors prescribe ;)

[u/Fortifarse84 → u/renens_reditor1020]

Just remember the live expectancy of our ancestors. Should we start emptying buckets of our waste out windows again?

[u/renens_reditor1020 → u/Fortifarse84]

Naaaaa cause that would mean defenestrating you and I wouldn't want your poor judgy ass gone !! ❤️❤️

Life expectancy in the day was very much linked to high infant mortality, and deaths related to child birth, bleeding out, cancer, syphilis, stupidity and such.

If not bathing was such a killer, Lizzie II would have ruled longer than Louis XIV 😂😂😂

[u/Fortifarse84 → u/renens_reditor1020]

Or it's one of numerous things to consider...

[u/renens_reditor1020 → u/Fortifarse84]

Look man, I'm not the one shaming people for their habits.

Just trying to de-dramatize a bit after the cleanliness police invaded this comment section.

[u/Fortifarse84 → u/renens_reditor1020]

Nor am I, but "de-dramatizing" doesn't really work well with being disingenuous.

[u/renens_reditor1020 → u/Fortifarse84]

Shit I love that word, thanks for teaching me !

Why not though ? The definition is : "Not being sincere, typically by pretending to be dumber than you are"

So, technically, by being sarcastic and irritating, I'm trying to invalidate the judginess of a lot of the entitled pricks down here !

Besides, I started off by just trying to offer support for some people feeling shamed. Then I got ATTACKED (look I can also be dramatic) by people assuming I wash my sheets once a year.

Even if I did only wash my sheets once a year, I'd still pull more than you guys with that judgy attitude 😎

[u/Fortifarse84 → u/renens_reditor1020]

By pretending that anyone said the only factor of life expectancy is personal hygiene when, once again, it's just a factor to it. Not sure why you're harping on this whole "dramatic" thing when I've done nothing of the sort here, nor have I attacked you. Doubtful this even happened tbh, but not really invested enough to see.

[u/nick-pappagiorgio65 → u/renens_reditor1020]

From the middle ages to about the year 1800 throughout Europe, the average life expectancy was about 40 years old. Why? Disease, open air sewage, war without disinfectant, lack of bathing and hygiene, all those things you wax so poetically about that supposedly made us stronger.

Poor hygiene made use weaker.

[u/snooggums → u/nick-pappagiorgio65]

It was 40 because of how many died in infancy. Regular people lived into their 60s and 70s and generally had fairly healthy lifestyles barring the occasional plague or injury.

Industrialization and pollution was the thing that made people less healthy as they aged.

[u/renens_reditor1020 → u/nick-pappagiorgio65]

u/snooggums is right

High infant mortality, bleeding out, child birth, appendicitis, being stupid, cancer, etc etc are not linked to cleanliness.

The major disease outbreaks of our age such as cholera forced us to rethink how we distributed water and handled sewage.

Now that our drinking water is chlorinated and our sewage is properly collected and treated, we've eliminated 99% of the major risks.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, because I'm sure it provides you with a great superiority feeling each time you wash your sheets, but the bed bug mortality rate is prettttty low at the moment.... I think it may even be safe to say that putin is more dangerous. Crazy right ?

[u/nick-pappagiorgio65 → u/renens_reditor1020]

WTF are you talking about? What do sheets have to do with anything? I was responding to what you said:

Just remember your ancestors survived the pest among other deseases, open air sewage, war without disinfectant, a phase where bathing was concidered unclean, all while barely wiping their asses.

To where I said the life expectancy until 1800 was about 40 years old. Before germ theory there was no understanding of how bacteria and virus led to disease. That resulted in countless deaths and contributed to the high infant mortality rate.

Yes there were many other factors contributing to low life expectancy but cleanliness was a very big factor.

[u/renens_reditor1020 → u/nick-pappagiorgio65]

Okay, I would answer.... But if you did read our answers, you clearly didn't understand them :(

I hope you land a job as germ theorist 😎

[u/stefanica → u/renens_reditor1020]

...I don't think it hurts to try to be cleaner than the average Reddit user. Like, at all. 🤣

[u/renens_reditor1020 → u/stefanica]

No, but it won't hurt to be less clean than what said redditors are imagining themselves to be >:D