Research has shown that nearly two million Brits only wash their towels once a year, so experts are urging people to wash them more often to avoid becoming seriously poorly
    • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      81·
      3 months ago

      Of course, then they fold nicely.

      On a more serious note this is Mirror readers, so it’s a bit surprising they have towels at all and don’t just use leaves or pieces of bark.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
    15·
    3 months ago

    What?

    I’m not a Brit, but I wash mine at least as often as weekly, or when it smells, whichever comes first.

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
      1·
      3 months ago

      I don’t have the best sense of smell but I can’t recall my towels ever smelling. I usually wash them every 2-3 weeks or so just because.

  • velox_vulnus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    For some reason, this reminds me of a funny dialog from Major Petkoff in the play “Arms and the Man” by George Bernard Shaw:

    Petkoff (over his coffee and cigaret): I don’t believe in going too far with these modern customs. All this washing can’t be good for the health: it’s not natural. There was an Englishman at Phillipopolis who used to wet himself all over with cold water every morning when he got up. Disgusting! It all comes from the English: their climate makes them so dirty that they have to be perpetually washing themselves. Look at my father: he never had a bath in his life; and he lived to be ninety-eight, the healthiest man in Bulgaria. I don’t mind a good wash once a week to keep up my position; but once a day is carrying the thing to a ridiculous extreme.

    I know that this makes no sense in this context, and it is probably a very old stereotype from the 19th century, just wanted to share it here.