I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Betsy HP - Jan 21, 2005 1:14:35 pm PST #9239 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

I shower before bed. It's one of those religious divides; some people get up and get clean, some people get clean and go to bed. Fortunately, my husband is the former and I'm the latter.


§ ita § - Jan 21, 2005 1:15:17 pm PST #9240 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I definitely hear that, but no hot water? In Michigan? In January? No thanks.

Well, okay, I've taken a handful of cold baths and one cold shower in my adult life. Very against the cold. Even in LA in the summer. But that's what makes it an issue -- balancing the temporary intense discomfort, or the lingering disquiet.

Spongebath, or lots of kettling.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 21, 2005 1:15:24 pm PST #9241 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I'd sponge bathe with water heated on the stove before willingly going 3 days between showers.


Jesse - Jan 21, 2005 1:15:31 pm PST #9242 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't shower every day anymore, and I kind of love it. I think it's better for my skin and hair, too.


Atropa - Jan 21, 2005 1:15:53 pm PST #9243 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I shower before bed. It's one of those religious divides; some people get up and get clean, some people get clean and go to bed.

Bath before bedtime. If I don't take a bath before I go to bed, I have (more) problems falling asleep.


kat perez - Jan 21, 2005 1:16:05 pm PST #9244 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar

I, too, think the world will not collapse if you skip a day of showering. Especially if hypothermia is a distinctly possible byproduct of said showering.

I also think warding with pickles would be wicked cool. And I'm going to go home now since it's finally past 6 pm and I can remove one thing from my list of things I don't understand.


Jesse - Jan 21, 2005 1:16:22 pm PST #9245 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'd sponge bathe with water heated on the stove before willingly going 3 days between showers.

Oh sure. But I'd sponge bathe with stove-heated water WAY before I'd take an icy cold shower in the winter.


§ ita § - Jan 21, 2005 1:17:11 pm PST #9246 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't shower every day anymore, and I kind of love it. I think it's better for my skin and hair, too.

See, I can't (like compulsion can't) put on body lotion on unwashed skin. And even if I don't shower, I have 36 hours max before I need to be re-moisturised.

I remember a cousin moving to England and being so excited he could shower at night and wake up not funky. Not like Jamaica.


Burrell - Jan 21, 2005 1:20:24 pm PST #9247 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I don't shower every day (more by circumstance than by choice), and I don't wash my hair every time I shower. My hair is much nicer if I only wash it a couple times a week.

Suddenly, tho' I feel like I'm the skanky Buffista.


Allyson - Jan 21, 2005 1:22:22 pm PST #9248 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

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