Ocean11 0 Posted October 31, 2004 Share Posted October 31, 2004 I remember when I was kid, Sunday night was bath night. No other night of the week was bath night, and Sunday nights were a real hassle having to get in the bath with my sisters for no good reason that I could see. Then when I started having an interest in womens, I began to feel the need to be washed everyday and also began to enjoy the feeling of being bathed. What about people from other countries and age groups? When you were a kid, did you bath everyday, or just once a week like me? Do any of you still go lightly on the washing rituals? Link to post Share on other sites
linalmeemow 0 Posted October 31, 2004 Share Posted October 31, 2004 Sunday nights, yes. Drying off in front of the fire while The Good Life or some David Attenborough documentary was on. Now I'm moderately cleaner, though only moderately so. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 Smelly. I had a bath every day. Link to post Share on other sites
DrTom 0 Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 3 showers a day, admittedly two of them really short. Link to post Share on other sites
taguchi 0 Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 Every night is bath night. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 1, 2004 Author Share Posted November 1, 2004 I don't remember being smelly when I was kid - although I knew some other kids who smelled. It certainly makes a huge difference in the amount of water and other resources used if everybody only baths once a week. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 I remember my dad telling me about having the rationed baths and all, sounds a bit grim. I was having one a day since I can remember back when I was a kid. I wasn't smelly. Link to post Share on other sites
Telleboy 0 Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 yeah ocean, I hear ya. Sunday night always a bath with my brother and sister, then a dry off in front of the fire, I dont remember us being smelly thru the week but everyone was like us, just generally poor. Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 How old are you guys??? This sounds like war-time stories. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 Hey, same here! Every Sunday night when I was growing up. All the kids would all share the bath. I stood up and pissed on my brother in the bath once and by christ did I ever get a hiding from my mother for that!! I was an evil little boy. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted November 3, 2004 Author Share Posted November 3, 2004 I remember my sister coming from the toilet, getting in the bath with me and my other sister, and announcing that she didn't see the need to wipe her bottom as she was getting straight into the bath to wash it anyway. JellyBelly, I'm 37. You wouldn't believe the trials of growing up in the 70s! A family of five driving round packed into an old Ford Escort with black vinyl seats and no air conditioning. Etc. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 Once a week for me too, though it was more a cultural thing than a poverty one. My father would go in pretty much every day. He used to work on building sites. I didn't know what a shower was until I saw John Noakes take one on "Blue Peter" during the 1976 drought. In true Yorkshire fashion, he was in and out in about two minutes. "See, that's all t'water you need!" he exclaimed. Despite my father being an adept handyman, we didn't get a shower until about 1982. The flow of hot water through it, and the majority of British showers I have encountered, is pathetic. Though life was no doubt simpler in the 1970s, most indices suggest that quality of life for average people in the UK and the USA peaked around 1974, the days of power cuts, the three-day week, and the IMF bailing out the UK. People now have more material things, eat a wider range of foods, and maybe travel to more exotic places, but work much longer hours and have more debt, more stress, and fewer social safeguards. My mother never worked when I was little, basically because there was no need. A single electrician's salary was enough for a family of four to live comfortably in their own house. The funny one with Japan is that in spite of all of the seeming waste with people having the washing machine on every day and what have you, per capita energy consumption is still well below almost every OECD country. Japan manufactures lots of energy intensive products for export as well. God knows what people in other countries must be doing.... As for how old I am, the first footie game I can remember is Southampton beating Man U 1-0 in the 1976 FA Cup Final. Newcastle were in the League Cup final that year, but the game wasn't televised. They lost 2-1 to Man City thanks to a bicycle kick by Denis Tueart, a distant relative. The following year, Liverpool won the European Cup with something like _____________________Clemence Neal_________Tommy Smith________Thompson_____Alan Kennedy Heighway_______Callaghan____(bloke before Souness)_____Ray Kennedy _______Toshack_________Keegan To be really old, you've got to remember the man on the moon Link to post Share on other sites
miteyak 0 Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 Japan's low energy consumption is not really surprising when you consider most are city dwellers, live in small apartments, use mass transit systems... its use of the most up-to-date technologies also means that per unit energy consumption is constantly falling. Ah, the seventies, the UK was a dirty country, acid rain, air polution, seas of sewage and rivers of chemicals. Many of these issues have been reversed. As for baths, shared only til 5 years old, when a db style accident ended that. Dad was a bit of an energy saving fanatic, so a shower (yeah, the British dribble variety) arrived soon after. Link to post Share on other sites
minus 1 Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 I used to have 2 a week - Sunday and Wednesday. I don't think I was as sweaty as I am now though Link to post Share on other sites
proudtobegay 0 Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 I have always had one a day, my mum made me. And I thank her for it. I can't imagine once a week. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 Quote: _____________________Clemence Neal_________Tommy Smith________Thompson_____Alan Kennedy Heighway_______Callaghan____(bloke before Souness)_____Ray Kennedy _______Toshack_________Keegan So did you actually go to that Newcastle game, Mr Wiggles? Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Quote: I remember my sister coming from the toilet, getting in the bath with me and my other sister, and announcing that she didn't see the need to wipe her bottom as she was getting straight into the bath to wash it anyway. Thats just gross. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 I always used to remember having a bath just before Quincy on Wednesday nights. Wednesday night was late night (Quincy finished at 10pm). Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 Quincy! Samples of which used in my "How To Overact" classes at college. Link to post Share on other sites
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