2007-03-19 11:03:15 · 21 answers · asked by : 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Good Lord yes, you'll wash away all the protective healthful dirt, get cold, catch a chill and die!
Rub a thick layer of goose grease and rosemary on your chest to ward off germs and slap a nice thick woollen vest over it. You shouldn't really bathe more than three times in your life, and two of those'll be done for you...
;)
It was a widely held belief in the Middle ages, that the dirt and grease you collected over the passage of years was a good way to keep yourself protected from germs. I suspect this was becasue they didn't realise that it was the being cold and damp in a draughty old house that would reduce the immune system's ability to deal with germs. So they were bathed three times - once at birth, once before their wedding, and once as part of the laying-out for the funeral. I suspect that women may have taken sponge baths a little more frequently than that, and there'd have been dips in rivers and the sea, but bathing wasn't an essential part of life back then.
Mind you, the idea of a tin bath by a roaring fire is vaguely appealing... ;)
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Enjoy!
2007-03-20 03:09:21 · answer #1 · answered by SilverSongster 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Way too much!!!! I was 6, living at my Nan's and we had to bathe , in a tin bath, in the living room in 1951. I climbed out one day and 'caught' myself on the edge of the bath. I will never get in a ti bath again!
2007-03-19 18:19:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
dude, bathing in tin is mui peligroso!
if you have to bathe in tin make sure you exercise at least a ten year span between baths. This way the electrolytic effect of the saline in your bloodstream and the conductive properties of the tin and water will be minimised to reduce the number of free radicals and thereby limit the carcenogenic implications of not stinking of horse poo
2007-03-19 18:13:09 · answer #3 · answered by Icarus 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You say a bath? God God woman, don't you know there are wars breaking out across the globe because of water? A half pint of water -shared with a family of five - should be more than enough every other day - even to clean women's bits.
2007-03-20 03:51:48 · answer #4 · answered by I'm Sparticus 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Anglo-Saxons only bathed to get rid of their lice and fleas. They believed that water would enter the blood through the skin and therefore weaken the blood. So only get a bath when you spot the first louse.
2007-03-20 16:02:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Queen Elizabeth the First used to take a bath once a year 'whether she needed one or not', so its probably over doing it. If you're worried you smell, move the pig down the end of the garden and invest in a hat stuffed with pot porri.
2007-03-19 18:12:45 · answer #6 · answered by sarah c 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
How Big? Mrs Salad Dodger
2007-03-20 15:46:45 · answer #7 · answered by eyvind 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
6 months! With the price of todays water rates! Show off!
2007-03-19 18:08:34 · answer #8 · answered by Wattsie 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Since I don't know you 6 months is fine.
2007-03-19 19:08:53 · answer #9 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well mrs badg, so your the great unwashed, i have heard of you. You can always say you are saving energy for the environment i suppose. dont bother bathing just wash where you can see.
2007-03-19 18:17:49 · answer #10 · answered by trucker 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋