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[QUOTE="kingkong0124"] It's true. Europeans, most notably the French and British, don't shower for days. kingkong0124
Lol what is this? Just because you for some reason think something doesn't make it true. Having Lived in Stoke-on-Trent as well as Indiana and Florida and visited numerous places in both countries; I can say that from what I have seen good hygiene and fitness was more prevalent in England than America. Of course that was merely my experience and my sense of smell. It would be both ignorant and dishonest to try to claim one country smells better as a whole than another, especially since sense of smell is entirely subjective.
I can't tell you the number of times I just want to plug my nose while waiting in a queue over here. I can't speak for France but i'd wager a bet that the "smelly Frenchman" insult is just that an insult, at best a stereotype. It is funny how easily people will create these ideas in their heads and truly believe them as fact without ever even going to more then one if any of the places they claim things about.
Saying, "Most notably the French and British don't shower for days", is a baseless opinion and trying to pass it as a truth does nothing but show how big of a moron you are. Why you believe the French and the British for some reason do not shower for days is beyond me. I wasn't even aware this stereotype existed.
I have been to England before, don't make assumptions. And the funny thing is, stereotypes, believe it or not, have a lot of truth in them! Also, there have been documented and highly researched cases about this problem!
Implying a poll = fact. Ignoring that polls can be and usually are bias and misconstrued.
EDIT: Ignoring the vaugeness of the article and how loosly the term "researchers" is used with no sources at the bottom of the article it says.
*The results incorporate research from a poll of 4,842 people in Mexico, Australia, the US, France, the UK, Russia, Sweden, Germany and China in 2008, and two further surveys of a total of 1,153 people in the UK.
Hardley enough people to say all of Britian stinks nor do I belive anything in that "article" to be accurate.
The thought that Brits don't shower often is a myth that grew from a lifestyle back in the colonial days. Well welcome to the 21st century, yea funny how time flys. Brits shower just as much as any other culture. Back in the days when the British navy ruled the world (yes that long ago), perfumes and spices were amongst the most traded commodity of merchant ships. Perfume for men and women was the in thing, back then. London was over crowded, people were generally poor and public infrastructure was almost non existent. Most men at the time spent a majority of their lives aboard a navy or merchant vessel, sometimes being at sea for months at a time. Hence, potable water was scarce and reserved for drinking water. This gave rise to the popular alternative, perfume, which soon became a way of life for sea dwelling men and city dwellers as well. Showers were for the aristocrats and the phrase personal hygiene had not yet entered the vocabulary. Europe is a modern continent and people shower, use deodorant and brush their teeth several times a day just like everybody else.
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