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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.

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entwine@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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.

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- FishFace@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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?
  
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  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.
  
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