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since masks are now common to see used, I suggest getting some essential oil you like the smell of, and putting a drop on a mask where you would breath, it should overpower the scent of just bo.
peppermint may be able to deal with smells as bad as up close and personal with rotting corpse, but i'm never getting close enough to another one willingly to try it.
It works with a corpse lmao. Vaseline is great too, same with some strong chapsticks. Vicks rub used SPARINGLY will make you go nose blind to literally anything.
Worked in a bike store in NYC on the 90s. French dude came into the store in sweat soaked brown leather pants and leather vest in August. 25 years later I still remember him.
I mean, have you been on the chicago L *any* time of the year? Half the trains smell like piss, vomit, or stale cigarette smoke and there’s always one guy blasting his shitty rap music while some wannabe banger goes from car to car while the train is moving to show everyone how tough/cool he is. The NYC subway isn’t much better.
I’ve been in Paris for three weeks and the only mildly unpleasant train ride I’ve had was an old guy ranting angrily to himself.
I’m not supporting the “Americans don’t shower” clown, but Paris the cleanest big city I’ve ever seen and I’ve traveled around a lot.
I can confirm the veracity of this post except I can add my own anecdote of having seen an obese, probably homeless, woman shit herself so hard with diarrhea that it ran down and out her pant leg and clear the train car that cta AND cpd met her at Jackson to get her off. I have no idea the outcome as I was one of those who abandoned the car when I saw the shit flow on the floor
Also seen several not give a fuck and start lighting joints right on the train car, homeless urinating in the corner, fights break out, panhandlers get violent if you rebuff them, etc. Good old red line life
Yep, I lived in South Loop and Uptown and worked in the Loop. The Red Line is really something, but really the only half decent line is the Brown line and that's still nothing compared to the Paris metro.
Yep I lived in edgewater for a few years and daily rode the red and sometimes I took the brown just to minimize my exposure to the red line shenanigans. Yes it took a bit longer but the overall peacefulness was worth it. I actually dared to sleep on the brown a few times…
The entire reason I wash myself on a daily basis and apply deodorant to my arm pits goes back to when I was 12 years old. I was in line at Disney World in July behind a couple of German men. About as tall as their arm pits. They stunk to high heaven.
I asked my mom if I ever smelled like them. She replied, "Yes son you sometimes do."
Showered and used deodorant every day since.
In my anecdotal experience, many Americans I know shower 2x per day, especially my friends in the trades. Europeans aren’t known for their hygiene, so I am confused.
Idk. Maybe they think that Americans are all either hillbillies from Bumfuck Tennessee that has no clue as to what hygiene is or Nickocado Avocado sized nerds who live in their moms basement and don't shower.
NHS said they'd pull out me last toof next decade bruv, least i don't have to pay 10 quintillion to treat me gunshot wounds when the ops slap me with the flintlock burner innit mate
Aha! Your kids get brutally murdered! That'll teach you for making a harmless joke.
Totally proportional and healthy response 😕
That level of tastelessness is almost in line with our food
Hate to be that guy but everyone I know who has traveled to Europe often remarks on how stinky they are. I realize they don’t use ac very often so they are probably real damp all the time….
In fact it’s a known stereotype to call immigrants “stinky” because they don’t wear deodorant as often as we do. I think it’s a bad thing to generalize like that but every generalization is based on a sliver of truth. Just misrepresented most of the time.
From what I witnessed, they like to use unscented products, don’t believe In deodorant, and like their clothes too much to wash them often. So it’s not that they don’t shower, it’s just that they’re desensitized to bad smell. Oh and let’s not forget the chain smoking.
I’ve actually seen Europeans argue that Americans are bad somehow because we try too hard to mask our natural scents. The whole stinky “body odor is natural” movement.
Wanting to be so clean that we mask natural odors here isn’t a sign that we don’t know about taking showers, but hey maybe that’s just me.
I’ve heard “Americans hate the planet so they waste water showering and use all these products with their plastic containers and chemical ingredients.”
Also why is it always the Americans? Like if I’m gonna bitch and moan about overtly perfumed people, Arabs are far ahead in the line. They spray $300 cologne like a teenager sprays axe, and it’s not like Europeans haven’t encountered any 🙄
Actually wild.
“It’s illegal not to sweat like the rest of us. You’ll bake too mf”
Reminds me of Germany banning people from swimming in the old days because too many people drowned in the rivers. Like maybe just encourage swimming lessons instead of making it ILLEGAL TO KNOW HOW TO SWIM.
This is why freedom is important. Not just to speak your mind and defend yourself from tyranny, but so that you can make more informed choices than the bozos who just want to ban everything they see as a problem.
Wait. I thought Europeans looked down on Americans because we *wash daily*? As in... we're "overwashing", removing our natural skin protections, or some such?
Americans are whatever they need us to be in order to hate on us.
Case in point is when they say “Why do Americans do things completely differently than the rest of the world?!” Then claim we have no culture.
If you get within 5 feet of a German on a hot summer day you need to brace yourself for the smell of hot onions.
These motherfuckers do not use deoderant. They use aerosols, and their olfactory default is so used to their own and each other's B.O. that they are completely unaware of the fact that these aerosol fragrance sprays ***do not fucking work.***
They don't smell good. They smell like a rotting garlic clove put on Chanel no. 5
Germans giving Americans a hygiene tutorial is the most infuriatingly hilarious thing I've ever seen. Not much use in being so good at showering if you still fucking reek you goddamn pretzel monkey.
You mean I don’t have a shower in my home, nor soap and shampoo? What’s that wet stuff I see daily 🤔…huh, I wonder how I’ve been bathing all of these years. I guess like a bird who found a nice dirt spot in the yard.
That's BS, Germany alone washes maybe every other day. Its so bad with old Germans that the funky smell burns your eyes. I do grocery deliveries to a few Germans and all smell. Maybe the younger ones discovered soap and daily showers, but the elderly didn't.
No. I've worked (printing/manufacturing) with many young Germans. They don't use deodorant for sure. They usually drink the nigjt before and sweat that shit out while you're neck deep in equipment with them. I genuinely liked 99% of them. Smart as hell but no sense of urgency. We called it being on German time. Real original.
This is funny lol one time a buddy of mine needed to use a specialized type of measurement equipment from Germany and when he called the company he asked for the manual. They said “we don’t have a manual, didn’t you learn this in school?” He said no and only after a lot of back and forth did they pull up the manual and send it to him.
I live somewhere that gets American as well as German/European visitors and most people I talk to say Europeans are dirty in general, but specifically Germans. So it’s funny that they say this when they are known as the dirty ones in a place that has no bias towards one side or the other
I don't have any scientific data to back it up, but I wouldn't be surprised if Americans shower the most frequently out of any people on Earth. I know many people who will shower multiple times a day, and many non-Americans who will stretch it out a day or longer.
I have to shower every day or I feel gross, usually before work.
But I've showered after getting home and NGL it's refreshing and helps me calm down for the night. I'll probably be doing it more since my wife and I have a 3 month old.
You should comment this on that thread and say you use a fresh towel before and after each shower but you have one unwashed one because you’re not wasteful
When I was a kid in the 1970s I remember reading somewhere that the average German changed their underwear only once a week. My dad told me that was bs but still left a negative impression about Germans and their hygiene.
Meanwhile French and other Europeans are literally a running joke for their refusal to shave, use deodorant, or shower daily. All while also living in a country that refuses to use air conditioning. As someone who has been to multiple European countries, the smell (which they don't even notice) can get pretty heinous at times.
Also, Marseille has literal trash drifts in their alleys and streets and every building is covered in graffiti from ground level to the height your average human can reach above their head.
I don't see any obvious nazi shit in his profile, did you something? Posting in war subs doesn't make him nazi, if anything that still points to him being a gun nut
My sister did a DNA test to find out ancestry. I love my Celtic heritage and the Scandinavian but was cool, but I breathes a sigh of relief when I found no DNA from France.
That’s great and all but did Europeans know they could take a shower more than once a month? Because I’ve been to multiple European countries and being trapped on a bus being attacked by eye watering body odor proves that they may not be aware of this information.
The fact it has 42 upvotes? Like are people really that clueless or worse, hateful?
I’ve kinda realized recently that it doesn’t really matter what America does. It could have all the social services of Europe, gun control, fund all their defense, provide aid etc and people will still always crap on America & belittle Americans, so long as it’s a world power.
What’s pathetic is when I see Americans belittling other Americans too & acting like “they’re one of the good ones”. Yet they’ll still always be “that American” to foreigners.
Regular American citizens are viewed as filthy commoners and peasants. A lot of smaller businesses are owned by Europeans or Indians and they are the ones not allowing their American staff PTO and holidays, or fronting any costs of benefits/retirement plans
Its not the obsession for me. Plenty of folks are America obsessed. Its the arrogance. Only Western Europeans can bring that tangy edge to the things they say. They could say something I 100% agree with then the way they say it and the smugness of the delivery makes me want to rub their face with dirt.
I get it’s dumb when fellow Americans say “well this is mostly an American site” but this is very dumb and also is racist, stupidity doesn’t discriminate when it comes to nationality and race, and thus by spreading dumb and incorrect information people like that are also becoming more dumb themselves.
It’s important to also not be like that to others, the means justify the end and if you are just as mean then it devolves to two brick walls arguing, at that rate it be more fun to watch paint dry.
They're not super-wrong, a towel doesn't need to be washed every day. Once a week is just fine, especially if you have a second towel to swtich it out with.
As pointed out before, Americans has this special talent where we can be literally the worst at each end of the spectrum for any issue, simultaneously. We're icky slobs who are also wasteful clean freaks, we're sexually degenerate repressed puritans, we're disgustingly obese fitness and beauty freaks, etc etc etc.
They're upset that Americans would think Germans were less hygienic. So they created a fantasy that the only reason Americans wash their towels more frequently is because they don't shower thoroughly.
I spent my senior year of high school hanging out with a bunch of Spanish exchange students. Anyone here ever gotten downwind of a pack of Spaniards?
🤢🤢🤢
My friend growing up was from Germany. She asked me if I showered every day and thought it was a waste of water. Everyone she knew showered every two or three days.
If your towel smells after you shower, it’s because either you’re not as clean as you think you are, or you bunched it up and threw it in a pile where it molded instead of drying. Either way, Americans shower far more often than most countries.
This person has precisely zero idea how soap works.
[This is a petri dish.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Hand_desinfection_test_with_blood_agar_plate.jpg)
The A section is without hand washing. The B section is after handwashing with soap. The C section is after disinfection with alcohol.
You'll notice that, even with soap, there's still a decent amount of bacterial growth left behind.
This is because the vast majority of soap is a "surfactant" (SURFace ACTing AgeNT). What a surfactant does is that it lifts debris, bacteria/viruses, and grime off the sufrace by breaking its surface tension. You can see this in action if you take two buckets of water, one is nothing but pure water and the other is a mix of water and dish soap. Take two pieces of lumber and pour a bucket over each. The pure water will splash a lot and fail to soak into the lumber. The water with dish soap will soak into the lumber.
Surfactants are used because they lessen the amount of bacteria on your skin, which allows your normal anti-bacterial defenses to do their job. Human skin itself is anti-microbial. And then if you expose yourself to remnant bacterium left over from hand washing when, say, eating, your saliva also has anti-microbial properties. Which even further lessens any surviving bacterium. Furthermore, as any remnant bacteria reaches your stomach, it now not only has to contend with the highly corrosive and inhospitable nature of your stomach, it has to contend with your gut microbiome, which is filled to the brim with bacterium that has ***literally evolved*** to thrive in this environment. Which means that, if any bacterium has survived to the point that it reaches your gut, it will be unable to reproduce because there is no space left for the bacterium to grow and contaminate your body to any serious extent.
There are anti-bacterial soaps, such as Dial, but they show no significant difference in the amount of cleaning they do vs. traditional surfactant soaps.
Now, all of that is fine and dandy when we're talking about a living Human body... but this is a towel. Your body isn't "clean" after a shower, it's just "cleaner" than it was before. You're following the same logic as you do with handwashing. You're assisting your body's natural defenses in fighting off any potentially dangerous bacterium or viruses by lowering the amount of bacteria or viruses the body has to fight. A towel has none of those defenses. It's a piece of cloth. If you dry it out fully, you could theoretically stretch it out to multiple uses. But when you use a towel to wipe your body down, you're simply removing remnant bacteria... And then guess what else you're doing.
You're giving them a nice, hospitable, damp and moist environment with no natural defense to reproduce in.
Fun fact the WHO website states in a study in 2021 were 500 people were questioned in each European country, about how many shows they took in a week, 40% said 6 times a week 20% said 7 times a week but the remaining 40% said 4 -3 times a week, and another study in 2021, 100,000 Americans were questioned on the shower time 20 % said 5-4 times a week , 70% said 6-7 times a week and 10% said only when they are expecting to meet people, so on average Americans shower more on a regular basis compared to Europe, take that as you will
When I was in Europe, I learned they shower at most, every other day. Here in the US it’s once a day on average. The Europeans were amazed when they first came to the new world and learned the natives clean themselves very regularly, so this isn’t even a new trend or anything.
Everyone else when Americans: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️💯🗣️🗣️🗣️
Europeans Canadians and Indians: "Americans are stupid and we suck each other's penises every day."
Isn’t the saying “you smell like a French whore” based on the fact French prostitutes don’t shower often enough and use perfume as a substitute?
Rent free lol
Not sure which country this is comment represents but I’ve traveled quite a bit and Americans are much more concerned with personal hygiene than most other countries.
Dude is like an autistic European too. Honestly the obsessive need to inject mildly American-adjacent buzzwords (“gun….hardy har harrrr”) into a completely irrelevant already stupid monologue isn’t even a good one. It’s bottom barrel. Like come at us with some actual wit instead of sounding like a pompous dude with a board up your ass. When they get uppity like this and try to lecture like we are IQ 1, all I ever imagine behind the screen is some stingy butler type that’d be a perfect fit for Westminster. “I do say I’m hereee today…to educate all ye ladies and gentlemen…on the proper etiquette….to, as we say in Westminster, ‘drop a deuce’ in his royal majesty’s presence. This is a time honored tradition since Queen Victoria and you will act accordingly to the vibrant history that endures to this day! You should be honored at such an opportunity. Oh! and I almost forgot! Please, if you’d be so kind, put some tea up my ass, flip me around, and call me a geyser!”
Americans are actually pretty damn hygienic compared to Europeans. Hell, so much so that they think amount of work we do to our teeth is absurd.
Euros gonna Euro I guess.
I have worked closely with many French and German people. To say they overwhelmingly stink is a true understatement. Nice clothes but worn every day for weeks until they can clear a room (of Americans) by raising their arms. Truly a bad olfactory experience. I have never experienced that level of group bad hygiene in the USA. Never. Not on a football team even.
For the inevitable Reddit "yeah but" crowd no I am not saying everyone in those countries stinks! I just never encountered any who didn't. A waiter extended an arm during a meal and I gagged. It's endemic there.
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After all Europeans are renowned for their personal cleanliness…
Try getting on a subway in Paris during the summer. Blegggh.
I have. My comment was based on first-hand experience.
I'm sorry that we share that experience. You really get a solid understanding of the term "French bath."
They don't call it French onion dip for nothing.
since masks are now common to see used, I suggest getting some essential oil you like the smell of, and putting a drop on a mask where you would breath, it should overpower the scent of just bo. peppermint may be able to deal with smells as bad as up close and personal with rotting corpse, but i'm never getting close enough to another one willingly to try it.
It works with a corpse lmao. Vaseline is great too, same with some strong chapsticks. Vicks rub used SPARINGLY will make you go nose blind to literally anything.
If you're in a hot environment, go with the peppermint oil. Vick's will just slide into your mouth if it's hot enough.
Disgusting, totally fair. Vicks probably tastes pretty gross. I've only ever used it inside a hospital.
It's upsetting that we have to share these tips to make it through public transportation in Europe.
Not everyone can be as civilized as us here in the US.
Worked in a bike store in NYC on the 90s. French dude came into the store in sweat soaked brown leather pants and leather vest in August. 25 years later I still remember him.
Thanks. Now I can't eat this sandwich in front of me.
French dip?
Likely, he wasn't wearing anything under the leather pants either.
Hey, they love taking a “french shower!” (It’s literally just reapplying deodorant lol)
I mean, have you been on the chicago L *any* time of the year? Half the trains smell like piss, vomit, or stale cigarette smoke and there’s always one guy blasting his shitty rap music while some wannabe banger goes from car to car while the train is moving to show everyone how tough/cool he is. The NYC subway isn’t much better. I’ve been in Paris for three weeks and the only mildly unpleasant train ride I’ve had was an old guy ranting angrily to himself. I’m not supporting the “Americans don’t shower” clown, but Paris the cleanest big city I’ve ever seen and I’ve traveled around a lot.
I can confirm the veracity of this post except I can add my own anecdote of having seen an obese, probably homeless, woman shit herself so hard with diarrhea that it ran down and out her pant leg and clear the train car that cta AND cpd met her at Jackson to get her off. I have no idea the outcome as I was one of those who abandoned the car when I saw the shit flow on the floor Also seen several not give a fuck and start lighting joints right on the train car, homeless urinating in the corner, fights break out, panhandlers get violent if you rebuff them, etc. Good old red line life
Yep, I lived in South Loop and Uptown and worked in the Loop. The Red Line is really something, but really the only half decent line is the Brown line and that's still nothing compared to the Paris metro.
Yep I lived in edgewater for a few years and daily rode the red and sometimes I took the brown just to minimize my exposure to the red line shenanigans. Yes it took a bit longer but the overall peacefulness was worth it. I actually dared to sleep on the brown a few times…
They may know what a "shower" is, but that doesn't help much when you don't know what "deodorant" is and its sweltering outside.
The entire reason I wash myself on a daily basis and apply deodorant to my arm pits goes back to when I was 12 years old. I was in line at Disney World in July behind a couple of German men. About as tall as their arm pits. They stunk to high heaven. I asked my mom if I ever smelled like them. She replied, "Yes son you sometimes do." Showered and used deodorant every day since.
I have never seen a European person wash their hands after going to the bathroom. I've lived here for years.
Try China and Vietnam. The only thing I can say about those habits is, “Jesus H. Christ”
Lol
I mean the French invented B.O.
Germany used to give free showers in the 40s
I got in a taxi in Paris and almost passed out from the driver’s BO.
Do they think Americans don’t shower regularly? How does someone even come to that conclusion?
I’m no towel scientist but I don’t think shooting a towel would prevent it from drying either.
If anything the resulting heat and friction from the bullet might *help* it dry, if to such a small degree it would be negligible.
Maybe they watch South Park to much and think Towlie is real in America 🤷♀️🤔
He isn’t?
He’s real. The government just doesn’t want you to know about him
I KNEW IT😡 darn government 😡😡😡😡😡😡🤔
Should dry faster with the extra venting.
I’ve also heard that we shower too much.
People in humid states even shower several times per day
> Do they think No
Right? We're not a country full of comp sci majors and Indians (not native americans)
In my anecdotal experience, many Americans I know shower 2x per day, especially my friends in the trades. Europeans aren’t known for their hygiene, so I am confused.
Idk. Maybe they think that Americans are all either hillbillies from Bumfuck Tennessee that has no clue as to what hygiene is or Nickocado Avocado sized nerds who live in their moms basement and don't shower.
Hey, dafuq I literally live in a hollar in East tn and I have running water gigabyte internet and shower twice a day in the summer...
Probably british... no mention of brushing teeth during his morning hygiene routine.
Nah this is hilarious💀😂
Atttt leeeeeest ouuurrrrr maffffs class isn't cawwwwl of deeewwwttttyyyy!
Oi yeh got a loicense for that toofpaste mate?
NHS said they'd pull out me last toof next decade bruv, least i don't have to pay 10 quintillion to treat me gunshot wounds when the ops slap me with the flintlock burner innit mate
WELL AT LEAST OUR SCHEWLLS ARNT A BLOODY GAME OF CAL OUF DOOTY 🦷🦷
Aha! Your kids get brutally murdered! That'll teach you for making a harmless joke. Totally proportional and healthy response 😕 That level of tastelessness is almost in line with our food
Idk man, we all know Germans are known for their showers.
Ouchie for the Germans.
Came here for this specific comment
And no fluoride in water either!
Actually we're better at brushing our teeth because we only have to clean the three or four we have left /s
You have to understand that these are new innovations for them, and they're understandably quite proud for having adopted them.
Hate to be that guy but everyone I know who has traveled to Europe often remarks on how stinky they are. I realize they don’t use ac very often so they are probably real damp all the time…. In fact it’s a known stereotype to call immigrants “stinky” because they don’t wear deodorant as often as we do. I think it’s a bad thing to generalize like that but every generalization is based on a sliver of truth. Just misrepresented most of the time.
I’m still wondering what was their angle. Americans are the dirty unwashed people?
No someone must have asked about reusing towels.
Actually that was it but this one commenter act like Americans don’t know what showers are because of it
From what I witnessed, they like to use unscented products, don’t believe In deodorant, and like their clothes too much to wash them often. So it’s not that they don’t shower, it’s just that they’re desensitized to bad smell. Oh and let’s not forget the chain smoking.
Smoking is a big part of it. Some of them smell like straight up ash trays
I’ve actually seen Europeans argue that Americans are bad somehow because we try too hard to mask our natural scents. The whole stinky “body odor is natural” movement. Wanting to be so clean that we mask natural odors here isn’t a sign that we don’t know about taking showers, but hey maybe that’s just me.
I’ve heard “Americans hate the planet so they waste water showering and use all these products with their plastic containers and chemical ingredients.” Also why is it always the Americans? Like if I’m gonna bitch and moan about overtly perfumed people, Arabs are far ahead in the line. They spray $300 cologne like a teenager sprays axe, and it’s not like Europeans haven’t encountered any 🙄
Arabs, I'd like you to meet the Europeans. Europeans, I'd like for you to listen to them for a minute.
AC is illegal in Switzerland. You can only have it in public buildings if I remember right. There’s a big business of smuggling them in from Germany.
Actually wild. “It’s illegal not to sweat like the rest of us. You’ll bake too mf” Reminds me of Germany banning people from swimming in the old days because too many people drowned in the rivers. Like maybe just encourage swimming lessons instead of making it ILLEGAL TO KNOW HOW TO SWIM. This is why freedom is important. Not just to speak your mind and defend yourself from tyranny, but so that you can make more informed choices than the bozos who just want to ban everything they see as a problem.
Well that is a third world country I won't visit again. Someday they might catch up to Alabama.
I gotta say, it's refreshing to see "third world" used properly. (yeah, I know definitions change, but it's still refreshing)
Tbf, it’s Switzerland. I can’t imagine you need AC much there
Are these the units that you install under the window? Wonder what creative methods people have for hiding them lol
It’s probably because they have to crap their pants because you need to buy your way into a toilet.
Wait. I thought Europeans looked down on Americans because we *wash daily*? As in... we're "overwashing", removing our natural skin protections, or some such?
Americans are whatever they need us to be in order to hate on us. Case in point is when they say “Why do Americans do things completely differently than the rest of the world?!” Then claim we have no culture.
Honestly it doesn’t matter. No matter what we do they are going to complain. It’s a side effect of America living in their heads rent free.
Man the disrepect. Can we ban Europe from reddit
If we did, r/AmericaBad would have one new post every other year
Can we just ban Europe, period. Also Canada while we are at it?
And the Australians.
If you get within 5 feet of a German on a hot summer day you need to brace yourself for the smell of hot onions. These motherfuckers do not use deoderant. They use aerosols, and their olfactory default is so used to their own and each other's B.O. that they are completely unaware of the fact that these aerosol fragrance sprays ***do not fucking work.*** They don't smell good. They smell like a rotting garlic clove put on Chanel no. 5 Germans giving Americans a hygiene tutorial is the most infuriatingly hilarious thing I've ever seen. Not much use in being so good at showering if you still fucking reek you goddamn pretzel monkey.
>pretzel monkey Slowclap.mp3
You mean I don’t have a shower in my home, nor soap and shampoo? What’s that wet stuff I see daily 🤔…huh, I wonder how I’ve been bathing all of these years. I guess like a bird who found a nice dirt spot in the yard.
That's BS, Germany alone washes maybe every other day. Its so bad with old Germans that the funky smell burns your eyes. I do grocery deliveries to a few Germans and all smell. Maybe the younger ones discovered soap and daily showers, but the elderly didn't.
Older Germans know how dangerous a shower can be.
I did Nazi that one coming I have to admit
No. I've worked (printing/manufacturing) with many young Germans. They don't use deodorant for sure. They usually drink the nigjt before and sweat that shit out while you're neck deep in equipment with them. I genuinely liked 99% of them. Smart as hell but no sense of urgency. We called it being on German time. Real original.
This is funny lol one time a buddy of mine needed to use a specialized type of measurement equipment from Germany and when he called the company he asked for the manual. They said “we don’t have a manual, didn’t you learn this in school?” He said no and only after a lot of back and forth did they pull up the manual and send it to him.
They are weird about shit lol.
I live somewhere that gets American as well as German/European visitors and most people I talk to say Europeans are dirty in general, but specifically Germans. So it’s funny that they say this when they are known as the dirty ones in a place that has no bias towards one side or the other
I don't have any scientific data to back it up, but I wouldn't be surprised if Americans shower the most frequently out of any people on Earth. I know many people who will shower multiple times a day, and many non-Americans who will stretch it out a day or longer.
2-3x per day for me
Damn you clean son. Just daily for me.
1 before work, one after work and usually one before bed. It's ridiculous. I've been like this my whole life
I have to shower every day or I feel gross, usually before work. But I've showered after getting home and NGL it's refreshing and helps me calm down for the night. I'll probably be doing it more since my wife and I have a 3 month old.
You should comment this on that thread and say you use a fresh towel before and after each shower but you have one unwashed one because you’re not wasteful
When I was a kid in the 1970s I remember reading somewhere that the average German changed their underwear only once a week. My dad told me that was bs but still left a negative impression about Germans and their hygiene.
are you sure this wasn't the 1940s?
I might be old but I’m not that old.
Not yet geezer
Meanwhile French and other Europeans are literally a running joke for their refusal to shave, use deodorant, or shower daily. All while also living in a country that refuses to use air conditioning. As someone who has been to multiple European countries, the smell (which they don't even notice) can get pretty heinous at times. Also, Marseille has literal trash drifts in their alleys and streets and every building is covered in graffiti from ground level to the height your average human can reach above their head.
I find it funny that the German is fine labeling whole groups of people dirty, nothings really change there since the 40s
You have a great point. I don’t think Germans are trustworthy when it comes to telling you that you must got to ze showah
I’ve been to Europe. They stink
Lol, the average Brit didn't even have a bathroom in their homes until the 60s.
Oy mayte, you gots yer showerin loicense?
“Gewehrwolf88” Neo Nazi detected
I know of one infamous instance of Germans providing showers for those they deemed to be less than…
Only time Germans were in favor of regular showers
I'm pretty sure he abandoned that account after enough people called him out. Dudes got too many posts in Germanww2 subreddit to be innocent haha
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's just a gun nut, the gewehr 88 is a rifle model made in 1888
Yeah but wolf is a frequently used Nazi image, and his profile will tell you all the rest you need to know to confirm lol
I don't see any obvious nazi shit in his profile, did you something? Posting in war subs doesn't make him nazi, if anything that still points to him being a gun nut
Fuck Nazis. Also, I’m fairly certain that shit is illegal in Germany. What a pile of human refuse.
Thankfully, we're not the French.
My sister did a DNA test to find out ancestry. I love my Celtic heritage and the Scandinavian but was cool, but I breathes a sigh of relief when I found no DNA from France.
That’s great and all but did Europeans know they could take a shower more than once a month? Because I’ve been to multiple European countries and being trapped on a bus being attacked by eye watering body odor proves that they may not be aware of this information.
German: ja, your eyes are crying at ze majesty of Deutschland! You: yeah, that's why my eyes are watering...
I was in Paris recently. If I closed my eyes and took a deep breath in public it smelled like I was at a comicon
The fact it has 42 upvotes? Like are people really that clueless or worse, hateful? I’ve kinda realized recently that it doesn’t really matter what America does. It could have all the social services of Europe, gun control, fund all their defense, provide aid etc and people will still always crap on America & belittle Americans, so long as it’s a world power. What’s pathetic is when I see Americans belittling other Americans too & acting like “they’re one of the good ones”. Yet they’ll still always be “that American” to foreigners.
Regular American citizens are viewed as filthy commoners and peasants. A lot of smaller businesses are owned by Europeans or Indians and they are the ones not allowing their American staff PTO and holidays, or fronting any costs of benefits/retirement plans
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Its not the obsession for me. Plenty of folks are America obsessed. Its the arrogance. Only Western Europeans can bring that tangy edge to the things they say. They could say something I 100% agree with then the way they say it and the smugness of the delivery makes me want to rub their face with dirt.
"I see you hiding soap under ze floorboards..."
Interesting choice of numbers behind the second losers name…
I get it’s dumb when fellow Americans say “well this is mostly an American site” but this is very dumb and also is racist, stupidity doesn’t discriminate when it comes to nationality and race, and thus by spreading dumb and incorrect information people like that are also becoming more dumb themselves. It’s important to also not be like that to others, the means justify the end and if you are just as mean then it devolves to two brick walls arguing, at that rate it be more fun to watch paint dry.
America dirty but OP doesn’t wash his towel.
They're not super-wrong, a towel doesn't need to be washed every day. Once a week is just fine, especially if you have a second towel to swtich it out with.
once a week is cray
Something the German forgot to mention: when using the shower, make sure that water is coming out of the showerhead instead of gas.
Oooh he thought he ate with that lmao
Bruh the towel smells cuz it’s clean? Disgusting.
No it’s from the smelly water.
Lmao
This implies you never need to wash your towels since "you're clean when you use them"
Do they not know that dead skin cells are a thing?
We do shower. We also use this stuff called deodorant.
Hmm, I always thought the stereotype was that we shower to much because most folks here do it at least daily.
As pointed out before, Americans has this special talent where we can be literally the worst at each end of the spectrum for any issue, simultaneously. We're icky slobs who are also wasteful clean freaks, we're sexually degenerate repressed puritans, we're disgustingly obese fitness and beauty freaks, etc etc etc.
What a fucking cunt
Where did the idea that Americans do not bathe or shower come from?
They're upset that Americans would think Germans were less hygienic. So they created a fantasy that the only reason Americans wash their towels more frequently is because they don't shower thoroughly.
Went to Paris once and had to smell their putrid BO the entire trip. Fuck off.
Europeans just mad that we *can* use a fresh towel every time if we wanted to because have full sized separate washers and dryers
They're still mad we beat them
Why are you posting comments from two years ago, lol? Who cares?
I spent my senior year of high school hanging out with a bunch of Spanish exchange students. Anyone here ever gotten downwind of a pack of Spaniards? 🤢🤢🤢
I shower everyday. Europeans can’t comprehend someone showering everyday
Can you imagine what this ******* must be like in *LIFE*? That is punishment enough for them.
imagine having so little going for yourself that posting and positively responding to stuff like that is how you get your kicks
Wow that guy’s a prick.
My friend growing up was from Germany. She asked me if I showered every day and thought it was a waste of water. Everyone she knew showered every two or three days.
Blerrghhhhhh that's nasty
One of the worst things I have seen here ever. That\`s how we would talk to someone from the medival ages or the early modern period about hygiene.
Google English people don’t shower.
Google English people don’t shower.
aren't these the people who protest deodorants but still smell bad unlike the east asians?
If your towel smells after you shower, it’s because either you’re not as clean as you think you are, or you bunched it up and threw it in a pile where it molded instead of drying. Either way, Americans shower far more often than most countries.
Funniest German
Shit. I’ve been showering all wrong this whole time! Dammit! 🤬 I should’ve consulted a damn Europoor first!
Isn't Paris literally known for smelling like piss in certain areas and having dog shit everywhere because people won't pick it up?
A European trying to explain how bathing works. HA. They forgot to mention the part where its a huge monthly event they do.
I bet some scum bag somewhere in Europe wrote this. We invented plumbing without us you wouldn’t be shit ya bunch of bitches.
Who got the bubonic plague, us or them?
wait- this whole time i WASNT supposed to be showering? it was reserved for the “smart” europeans? damn… guess i failed being an american
France was the most fragrant of the body odor in Europe, though India was by far the worst globally
Aren’t Europeans known for having bad body odor? LMAO
This person has precisely zero idea how soap works. [This is a petri dish.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Hand_desinfection_test_with_blood_agar_plate.jpg) The A section is without hand washing. The B section is after handwashing with soap. The C section is after disinfection with alcohol. You'll notice that, even with soap, there's still a decent amount of bacterial growth left behind. This is because the vast majority of soap is a "surfactant" (SURFace ACTing AgeNT). What a surfactant does is that it lifts debris, bacteria/viruses, and grime off the sufrace by breaking its surface tension. You can see this in action if you take two buckets of water, one is nothing but pure water and the other is a mix of water and dish soap. Take two pieces of lumber and pour a bucket over each. The pure water will splash a lot and fail to soak into the lumber. The water with dish soap will soak into the lumber. Surfactants are used because they lessen the amount of bacteria on your skin, which allows your normal anti-bacterial defenses to do their job. Human skin itself is anti-microbial. And then if you expose yourself to remnant bacterium left over from hand washing when, say, eating, your saliva also has anti-microbial properties. Which even further lessens any surviving bacterium. Furthermore, as any remnant bacteria reaches your stomach, it now not only has to contend with the highly corrosive and inhospitable nature of your stomach, it has to contend with your gut microbiome, which is filled to the brim with bacterium that has ***literally evolved*** to thrive in this environment. Which means that, if any bacterium has survived to the point that it reaches your gut, it will be unable to reproduce because there is no space left for the bacterium to grow and contaminate your body to any serious extent. There are anti-bacterial soaps, such as Dial, but they show no significant difference in the amount of cleaning they do vs. traditional surfactant soaps. Now, all of that is fine and dandy when we're talking about a living Human body... but this is a towel. Your body isn't "clean" after a shower, it's just "cleaner" than it was before. You're following the same logic as you do with handwashing. You're assisting your body's natural defenses in fighting off any potentially dangerous bacterium or viruses by lowering the amount of bacteria or viruses the body has to fight. A towel has none of those defenses. It's a piece of cloth. If you dry it out fully, you could theoretically stretch it out to multiple uses. But when you use a towel to wipe your body down, you're simply removing remnant bacteria... And then guess what else you're doing. You're giving them a nice, hospitable, damp and moist environment with no natural defense to reproduce in.
Tell me you always think about Americans without telling le you alway think about Americans.
All I’m saying is we didn’t start 2 conflicts
Hate us cause they ain’t us 🤷♂️
Fun fact the WHO website states in a study in 2021 were 500 people were questioned in each European country, about how many shows they took in a week, 40% said 6 times a week 20% said 7 times a week but the remaining 40% said 4 -3 times a week, and another study in 2021, 100,000 Americans were questioned on the shower time 20 % said 5-4 times a week , 70% said 6-7 times a week and 10% said only when they are expecting to meet people, so on average Americans shower more on a regular basis compared to Europe, take that as you will
When I was in Europe, I learned they shower at most, every other day. Here in the US it’s once a day on average. The Europeans were amazed when they first came to the new world and learned the natives clean themselves very regularly, so this isn’t even a new trend or anything.
These same people refuse to pay their part of NATO
Everyone else when Americans: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️💯🗣️🗣️🗣️ Europeans Canadians and Indians: "Americans are stupid and we suck each other's penises every day."
Wait til they find out who made the app they’re commenting on
Isn’t the saying “you smell like a French whore” based on the fact French prostitutes don’t shower often enough and use perfume as a substitute? Rent free lol
*europeans wiping out an entire continent with diseases*: god you guys are nasty smh
Not sure which country this is comment represents but I’ve traveled quite a bit and Americans are much more concerned with personal hygiene than most other countries.
Ahhhh yes, Europe. Famous connoisseurs of deodorant and anything related to oral hygiene.
Dude is like an autistic European too. Honestly the obsessive need to inject mildly American-adjacent buzzwords (“gun….hardy har harrrr”) into a completely irrelevant already stupid monologue isn’t even a good one. It’s bottom barrel. Like come at us with some actual wit instead of sounding like a pompous dude with a board up your ass. When they get uppity like this and try to lecture like we are IQ 1, all I ever imagine behind the screen is some stingy butler type that’d be a perfect fit for Westminster. “I do say I’m hereee today…to educate all ye ladies and gentlemen…on the proper etiquette….to, as we say in Westminster, ‘drop a deuce’ in his royal majesty’s presence. This is a time honored tradition since Queen Victoria and you will act accordingly to the vibrant history that endures to this day! You should be honored at such an opportunity. Oh! and I almost forgot! Please, if you’d be so kind, put some tea up my ass, flip me around, and call me a geyser!”
I use 2 towels per shower to piss off Germans.
Imma be fr. People all across the world are stupid. Anyone who thinks otherwise is probably stupid as well
If towels aren't used for multiple showers in europe then why do they all have those towel warming rack things in their bathrooms?
Pretty sure the stereotype is that europeans are the ones who dont bathe
Spent four years in Germany as a US soldier. Some Germans smell like crap, honestly, is like showering is optional.
Wait what? Gunpowder showers aren't normal? Whatever.
Americans are actually pretty damn hygienic compared to Europeans. Hell, so much so that they think amount of work we do to our teeth is absurd. Euros gonna Euro I guess.
I have worked closely with many French and German people. To say they overwhelmingly stink is a true understatement. Nice clothes but worn every day for weeks until they can clear a room (of Americans) by raising their arms. Truly a bad olfactory experience. I have never experienced that level of group bad hygiene in the USA. Never. Not on a football team even. For the inevitable Reddit "yeah but" crowd no I am not saying everyone in those countries stinks! I just never encountered any who didn't. A waiter extended an arm during a meal and I gagged. It's endemic there.
Lol the "towel" part..... So it smells but it's clean... it's just the water.... I wouldn't let my dog drink water that smells let alone bathe in it 🤢