Can I take a shower every day?

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Obviously you've never caught the #31 or #32 buses in Zurich on a summers day. Oh the humanity

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I have sholder long hair and I sick of shampooing every day.

Are you serious? Not washing hair for few weeks helps?

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That is just racist nonsense

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Yes, but it is a bit longer than a few weeks, if you can tie your hair back into a ponytail to hide the grease then i would do it if you hate washing your hair, and just think of all the money you will save on hair products in the future

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Indeed, I know a number of Frenchies and they hardly smell at all...

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I'm astonished at this thread for a few reasons:

1) I can't believe anyone actually gives a toss how many times a day a person takes a shower

2) How the thread has become a racist mud slinging round in less than two pages of posts

3) How some believe that having a shower is a planet-killing activity.

4) How some people clearly need to get a life and worry about something more important than other peoples' hygiene habits.

Relax people, there must be something more important to worry about

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it is not "bad" for your hair, you just have to use a "conditioner", or a "gel" that is no other thing that some grease to keep your hair from being too dry.

And yes, there are soaps and shampoos, that are more polluting than others, you have to do the right choice and use the most natural ones.

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How the hell can it be racist, when they lived in the house with her and she refused to shower my Uncle did not make this story up.

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The French are not a race. They are a nationality.

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Same with Labrador fur. Foster families of seeing-eye Labs are told not to shower the dog unnecessarily (especially not with pup shampoo). Just to rinse with water.

Something to do with the natural protective oils of the hairs/fur.

(Anyone surprised I brought up the canine angle?)

P.S. She's not greasy; she's just shiny.

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So you wouln't have any problem telling such a story about a black or asian person?

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OK. How about, "I hate smelly white people!"?

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I think the problem is that your hair produces its own delicate oils which washing with shampoo then strips away. Your hair then overproduces these oils in response to the daily attack of the shampoo and you get into a vicious circle of needing to control the oil by washing every day.

I have shoulder length thick hair and over the last couple of years have cut back on my shampoo use to using now only a tad of a really mild stuff and only washing it once or twice a week. This has helped get it back to a healthy shiny condition.

I always use a good blodge of conditioner, though, and this seems to help it further.

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I've never had such a misfortune but there may be people who have to share an office/bus/home with a soap dodger - which can't be too pleasant.

However, I can't understand either how it became a racist/xenophobic handbag fight. I don't think there is any nation immune to whiffy folk.

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It is not about showering, this thread is about something else... It is just here to portrait peoples's attitudes

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I used to work in an office with a soap dodger (great term btw, said individual was also a salad dodger). Things were not great until I had the balls to say "You smell, could you please do something about it". He wasn't offended, a little surprised and embarrased but didn't come into the office smelly again.

Maybe we should challenge tabboos more often rather than be paralised by politeness.

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Me too. They get right up my nose

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Let us keep one thing in mind here. These are all personal opinions or

otherwise known as stereotyping.

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Pssssssssssssst quiet on`t tell this to a quebecwa

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We are North American White Negroes.

P.S. The French DO smell.