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   desertdwlr said, 4 months ago

   yeesh—-like the sofa
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   Sisyphos said, 4 months ago

   Mona? A shower? This must portend The End of Days!
   Oh, go ahead, M. Smokey; do it, for this may be your last chance!
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   Peabody-Martini said, 4 months ago

   In the last nine years Mona has been depicted bathing at least 4 times, so it’s not that shocking. The frequency of her doing laundry on the hand is a different story.
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   coolhand000 said, 4 months ago

   Especially if they’re used on a regular basis . . .in unholy ways . . .
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

   Europeans take showers, they just don’t have a problem with normal human smells. Not many of them drown in sweet smelling stuff. Also nudity and “foul” language isn’t a bother either. However bloody violence does.
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

   The reduced hygiene is why when one gets on a German bus or train, the first thing noticed is the stink. The French fight it with perfumes, cologne, etc. Most nationalities have traditionally taken a bath daily, including many American Indian tribes, Africans, Indian subcontinent Indians, Chinese, etc.
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   One wonders how much the 11 liters average of pure alcohol equivalent affects the smells. Having a bender on the weekends like so many do and not cleaning up afterwards would not be pleasant. With headlines like “Europeans are drinking themselves to death”, European health agencies have published some pretty nasty stats on alcohol in the last couple of years, with Europeans having drastically upped their consumption in the last decade or so.
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   The great irony is that Europe has abundant water. (Compared to the southern two-thirds of California, or the east half of Oregon and Washington). But they don’t drink enough of it (as shown by the high rates of kidney stones). The averages for showers/baths and perfumes vs. Americans are supposedly 1/3 and 3, respectively.
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago

   re: Night Gaunt

   No, violence must not be a major worry for Europeans with a rate of violent crime in the UK 500+% of that of the U.S. and in the EU as a whole of 400+% of that of the U.S. Otherwise they would take violence seriously.
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   Rampage type shootings are approximately 50% greater in the EU than the U.S. Familicides are similarly greater in numbers than the U.S.
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   In looking at the CDC stats yesterday for causes of death, the top 30 or so are all health-related, with the exception of suicide. Violence is not a major cause of death, with 11,000 homicides (out of 300 million people) and almost all of those supported by street drug money. (The legalizations in Canada and California were an absolute windfall for the cartels, with massive increases in imports from Mexico. Too soon for Washington and Colorado statistics.) The Bureau of Justice Statistics has a publication tracking homicide trends and every time drug use went up, violence spiked. MJ was legal here and we experienced the explosion in violence and birth defects, finally having to recriminalize it in 1997.
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   Tantor said, 4 months ago

   secret pubic hair collection… stench from the french… hygiene issues… is clv regressing?
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   Ron said, 4 months ago

   Mona is going to take a shower!?!?!?!
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