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People Who Don't Wear Deodorant or Seemingly Bathe Regularly, Why? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Like, I travel around for work and I've met plenty of people from all backgrounds.

Why is there a demographic of people who don't seemingly bathe regularly, or at the very least wear something to cover up their BO? I could understand if it's an allergy, or even religious reasons (though the people I've met that smell bad are usually you're average American young adult man) but recently (like in the past week, recently) I've met a concerning number of people who don't seem to wear any kind of deodorant or possibly don't even bathe regularly; it's starting to become an issue for me, as I don't even want to interact with them when I can smell them walking up from 3+ feet away yet I need to for work.

Does anyone have any possible insight?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Regular bathing isn't what you want, frequent bathing, that's important. What good is it if someone bathes with great regularity on the first of every month?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

One of the common definitions of “regularly” is “frequently”. E.g. “We used to meet regularly, but less and less as time went on.” This is also why frequent customers are called “regulars”.

edit: "Happening or doing something often" is even the first definition of the Cambridge English dictionary. Misinterpreting OP's use of "regular" just feels like Stack Overflow level pedantry.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

I bet you are great fun at parties

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I shower every 2nd day. The 2nd day of Christmas and Easter.