… You bathe in your bathroom sink?

Why can’t you use a washcloth inside a shower? Why do you think sitting in a pool of your own grime is cleaner than having a shower wash it down the drain?

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.

Is that the case? Or do they only tell you once the smell becomes unbearable? Usually, when you reach the point that you can smell your own stank, it’s really bad for other people. Have you had an open conversation with them about this? It’s an awkward topic for most people. If you’re so adamantly defending your point here on the internet anonymously, I wonder if you’re more defensive about it IRL, and off-putting to people who would otherwise be honest with you.

In any case, one of us is delusional here. You? Me? I don’t think we’ll reach a consensus on that one.

Like, you’re trying to make your point sound reasonable and well thought-out, but then you write stuff like

I don’t wash in the shower what I wash out of the shower.

Wtf does that mean? Your hands? Your face? Your asshole?

I’m not a doctor, but I’ve been on this earth for enough decades to have met all kinds of people with different showering habits. Those that don’t shower daily are easy to identify, either by their smell up close, or by their oily skin from a distance. Maybe you’re an anomaly, and should be studied by doctors for your superior anti-stink genes?

My partner wouldn’t lie to me about this, which I know because sometimes they do tell me I need a shower.

Different people have different sensitivity to smells. I’ve known two people who have no sense of smell (and one of them habitually stinks). Maybe your partner likes your stench? Maybe they just tolerate it because they love you?

Again, I don’t care how you live your life, esp since it’s unlikely I’ll ever have to smell you. I have no ill-will towards you, and hope you live a long and happy life. But for the sake of intellectual curiosity and internet conversation, I’m not backing down from my position if all you have is a “just trust me bro”.

You’re not anonymous on social media? That’s always a mistake.

affects skin that i don’t soap up in the shower.

Dawg, what’s the point of showering if you don’t wash your entire body?

There’s no valid excuse for not bathing every day, except if you’re camping or something. If you really are having negative skin reactions, you should go see a dermatologist. I’m not a doctor, so maybe I’m wrong.

You say that you don’t stink, but you also don’t bathe every day, so I’m not going to trust your judgment on matters of hygiene. You should try to get an opinion from someone who wouldn’t lie to you. I have a cousin who doesn’t regularly shower, and he tries to hide it by slathering himself with cologne, but that just makes him smell like body odor and cologne. I tell him he smells like shit, but he doesn’t care. He readily admits that he is just too lazy to shower every day.

Idk why I care so much about this. It’s your life, be gross if you want to. Just… Don’t lie to yourself, I guess.

I try to shower as infrequently as I can without stinking because it fucks up my skin every single time.

Could you go into detail? Is it the soap, or the water that fucks up your skin? And how does it get “fucked up”?

some good old fashioned free market competition

This kills the billionare

I’m a programmer with pretty bad astigmatism, and didn’t go to an eye doctor until my late twenties. I had never worn glasses before that, and had no idea how fucked my vision was.

Yet, I still have no problem writing code in dark mode without glasses. Even though the text is blurry, I’ve gotten used to it. I squint a lot, and idk if there are any negative consequences from doing that, but glasses tend to tire out my eyes faster, so I sometimes prefer the blurriness.

Lol I had the same procedure and sat in my car after calling someone to come pick me up, but they took too long and I decided to just drive myself anyways. I couldn’t read signs, but traffic lights and other cars were visible enough. I bet there are a lot of old people on the road driving around regularly with eyesight that bad or worse.

They actually sell polarized glasses for this purpose. I know because my eye doctor recommended it, but I went with regular glasses because clear vision is for the weak.