FishFace

Yeah. I guess you can analyse it as:

1. Denying the antecedent: "showering every day prevents smelling bad, therefore if you don't shower every day, you will smell bad"
2. Confirmation & Selection bias: "that person smells bad, therefore they can't shower every day, making them an example of not showering every day leading to smelling bad"
3. Bias of anecdotal evidence, presumably - at least, I'm assuming that most such people really do smell bad to themselves after only a day, which is treated as a reliable indicator of everyone's condition.

It's quite interesting to me, because it clearly becomes a very emotive topic when the difference between waiting one, two or three days to bathe is pretty abstract. I have developed a hypothesis that it's the feeling of having a shower when one is feeling sticky and sweaty and dirty, and then coming out feeling nice and clean, that gets readily associated with bad odour. I then think that this link simply can't form easily if your feeling when coming out of the shower is not "nice and clean" but "disgusting ball of skin-flakes held together only by paraffin and artificial grease".

I have encountered this kind of attitude before but I was actually surprised to find it that prevalent here, because I expected more people to be sympathetic to conditions which require deviation from the norm.

Your jaw muscles force your jaws together. It's both jaws doing the biting.

Tylenol is paracetamol, aka acetaminophen, not aspirin.

Now this is the silliness I live for

Booooo, noone uses two of the blues like that. They were made up by wanky arseholes in the medieval period as a forced meme

This is sad, not humorous

Why should a company be legally responsible for copyright infringement of its employees, if it wasn't something they did for work?

They didn't claim it was respectable, they claimed it made them not liable? Where'd you get this idea?

Then you should be less credulous. What is told to prospective employees is effectively public information.

I noticed that you didn't reply to the following pretty important things:

How are you correlating the smells of all these people with how often they shower? How many people have you asked that question of?

and

people of different age, race and sex all smell different, with a common gene among Asian people resulting in little to know body odour.

So I'm not going to get into further personal details until you show some good faith there.

For that matter, you never said how you were able to know how you yourself start to smell so badly after merely 24 hours out of the shower if this information is so unavailable.

And just remember that it was you who used the word "delusional", not me.

What parts of your body do you wash regularly outside the shower? Is it a non-zero amount? Then you understand what I mean, right?

How are you correlating the smells of all these people with how often they shower? How many people have you asked that question of, because I'm guessing it's "none" and you're simply assuming that everyone who showers every other day is detectable by your nose - rather than those being people who haven't washed for a month.

My partner tells me on the rare occasion when I smell bad, so there's no reason to think they're saving my feelings. I can also smell the change.

You're so keen to assume all these details about my life instead of believing what seems to me to be extremely unsurprising - that it takes at least one person a few days to start smelling bad.

people of different age, race and sex all smell different, with a common gene among Asian people resulting in little to know body odour. This shouldn't be hard to believe.

I use the skin friendliest soap I know of, and can smell when I need a shower, and have trusted other people who validate my own sense. Olfactory fatigue makes no sense unless you shower really infrequently.

Thanks for your fake, ill-informed concern though. Sucks that on Lemmy people are so closed minded they can't understand that people sweat less than they do.