Spyke
feddit.nu

do people just... not clean themselves in the shower?

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rc__buggyreply
sh.itjust.works

Towels don't only dry, they exfoliate. Even if you loofa scrub in the shower you're still leaving skin on your towel.

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moodyreply
lemmings.world

Bit it's skin that has just been washed. It's not like you're rubbing day old ball sweat on your face.

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Glytchreply
lemmy.world

Are you asking for mine, because then we need to start talking about price.

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lemmy.world

My partner used to have a roommate that thought that because he only used the towel when he was "clean" after showering, that meant he never had to wash the towel. What started out as a white towel turned into a yellowing black stained horror. I can't imagine the smell. 🤢

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brbpostingreply
sh.itjust.works

::: spoiler disc.

(artist not widely known to be objectional at time of publication)

:::

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lemm.ee

If you're cleaning yourself properly, who cares?

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I use a separate towel for my face because my face skin is a diva and will break out for no reason

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I fry my face, body, bits, face, body, legs, face, whatever… I’m clean. If imma eat my partner’s ass after a rave, why would I care if my face gets a little touch of clean grundle?

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If I'm unwilling to touch my face with the ball towel, my balls weren't clean enough.

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If you care about this, you're not showering properly. You're supposed to be clean mfer

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lemmy.world

It doesnt matter, i washed. If i was dirty immediately after stepping out of a shower then i think i need to clean my house.

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I have been stupid and had the water way too hot. I would sweat leaving the shower. So relaxing tho

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sh.itjust.works

There isn't anything special about your balls that makes them dirtier than the rest of your body. You've just washed them. They're clean.

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lemmy.world

This is just not correct. Sweat and folds and proximity to other parts, probably double wrapped all day in plastic clothing... Not washing your arms and not washing your balls for a day has very different results.

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Who cares? I just washed them, they're clean. Do women have a second pussy towel or something?

But also yeah, start at top, he's right.

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If you just took a shower and your balls are still "dirty" your problem isn't the order in which you dry yourself.

If you can take a shower like a functional adult, it turns out skin is skin and wiping water off your ballsack is fundamentally identical to wiping water off the back of your hand.

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If you washed your balls clean enough, it doesn't matter. It's not like being a girl and having to deal with your period continuing while you wash and dry.

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lemmy.world

and hopefully clean skin just out of the shower.

at least that's what I tell myself...

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To me is not hopefully, I do clean well enough when taking a shower. Is not that hard.

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Why is this gendered? I use the same towel on my cooch as my face after I shower, I would be pretty impressed by the dedication to doing laundry of someone who has a specialized crotch-drying towel.

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feddit.org

Count yourself lucky if a single guy has separate towels for handwashing and showering/bathing.

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shneancyreply
lemmy.world

i'm single and i have two separate towels,,, but to be honest i only use the big one for everything, the small one is so guests don't dry their hands on the towel that dries my entire body

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hemkoreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

One towel is more than enough for bathing, hand washing, floor mopping, kitchen towel, car window washing, oil rag

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It is pretty fucked to make a guest use the towel you dry your ass with the dry their hands. I like to keep a seperate one just for that

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I'm married and there's always a second towel on the rail so I just use that one for my balls and ass. I guess that is why it's there.

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I'm a single guy and I've got several matching body/ small towel combos. I wrap one of the small ones around my face bank robber bandana style when I wash my beard 2 or 3 times a week. On the other days I start with my head and work my way down with the same towel, hanging the unused small one by the sink as a hand towel.

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pawb.social

Who the fuck actually cares? Are straight guys so homophobic they can't even touch a towel that has touched their own freshly cleaned junk?

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glimsereply
lemmy.world

How the fuck did you get ANY of that from this post? It's about hygiene, not homophobia.

And everyone in the comments is talking about using the same towel. Who is this strawman you're insulting and why does it have 32 upvotes?

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glimsereply
lemmy.world

Woman in screenshot: do men have separate ball towels?

Man in screenshot: no

Men in comments: no

Men every other time this gets posted: no

Noxypaws: straight men are homophobic scum for not wanting to use a towel that touched their own balls. Something is wrong with their brains!

????

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Where's the joke lol

I just see OC getting mad about people that don't exist

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Nah, these guys ain't straight and/or cis. If touching their own balls makes them that uncomfy then they've got some stuff they're hiding and need to work through.

Edit: even so, tho, the OP doesn't look like they're a dude; which makes me wonder if she has a different towel for every part of her body. Like, damn bitch, granted I ain't straight or cis, but I use two towels, one for my hair, one for the rest of me. I may be a gal but I don't need more than that, and the hair one is mainly because my hair holds enough water that I kinda need a second towel.

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For me it's more I don't want my head hair wrapped around my junk. It's uncomfortable, and behind deliberate about how I dry my body has made sure it doesn't happen anymore.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

The secret is to use the towel to dry one's nether regions after washing them, not before.

By the way, it applies to women as much as to men.

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Daelskyreply
lemmy.ca

You also just start from the head and go down to finish with your feet. (I know how that sounds lol)

Like it’s basic drying stuff.. no?

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lemmy.ca

I try to dry my feet first so I don’t slip so I use two towels

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That's what a floor mat is for. They make them in towel fabric so you don't slip and the floor doesn't get wet and slippery.

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Not just drying, also for cleaning. You don't pick up the dirt from the floor, just to add more whilst cleaning the table.

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Aceticonreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

The point being that if one needs to at the end go back up to the face to make sure everything is perfect, one needs not worry about the possibility of that meaning one is rubbing one's face on ball-sweat.

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I mean at the end of the day, if you washed yourself well, you don’t need to worry about anything. It’s should be clean. ^^

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lemmy.world

I wash my balls at least as much as I watch my face, why would I have a problem with drying both with the same towel?

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I honestly bet my balls get more washing than my face.

My hair doesn't behave well, so if I'm not wearing a hat I jump in the shower and give it a quick wash. I never get out of the shower without giving the pits and balls a quick lather.

Generally I also shower in the evenings kind of regardless of the morning routine.

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No seperate towel. Clean your balls in the shower and even if you keep them sucked into your anus all day, which is bad for both organs so don't leave em in for long, you can clean the most gnarly of sacks. My point is clean them.

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lemmy.world

There are way dirtier things being done in a bedroom or playing outside sports. Why does it matter if you are clean? Why is a woman asking that silly question like as if we don't kiss the mouth of someone who just gargle them balls

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lemmy.ca

The Germans have a word for people like you

Mädchenküsser

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lemmy.world

So, I understand the literal meaning, but what does it actually mean as slang? Girl kisser doesn't really say much lol.

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lemmy.world

;_; I know, I'm asking you to explain the joke please because I also like to laugh.

And also because now I'm genuinely curious about how it's used if it's actual slang.

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It’s not actual slang, just saying he kisses girls as a way to subvert expectations to “there’s a word for people like you” where an insult normally follows but this is just a “okay” moment

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This tweet lives rent free in my head, often does the phrase "The towel forgets" pop into my brain.

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Plebs using towels? What is this? Caveman times?

My sexy robot servants blow me.

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I don't really pay attention to whether my valet uses one towel or several. I think he switched things up between face and body, for sure, but beyond that shrug.

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Korhakareply
sopuli.xyz

Oh, I thought you were supposed to use the balls to get the face wet

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Isn't it more of a rebound effect?

You use the face to get the balls wet, and then the balls will eventually get the face wet too.

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infosec.pub

Finally, I can share my method.

  1. Start with the side of the towel that has the tag. Hold the towel so the tag is facing away from you (critical to a later step!)
  2. Dry hair with the top, then face in the next section down, followed by chest.
  3. Left arm is dried with the left side of the next section, right arm with the right side. At this point you should be about half way down the towel.
  4. Dry balls with the next section.
  5. Legs are next with the remaining section of the towel.
  6. Flip and dry the back and butt.

I got tired of finding head hair in my underwear so this method keeps the head drying section quite a bit away from the ball section, and keeps the ass drying away from hands arms, chest, face etc.

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This is exactly how I've been drying myself for years! It's really simple, as when I'm done with the towel, I always hang it to dry on the hook the same way, and then grab it in the same way when I get out of the shower the next time. It takes no thought, and mostly ensures each "section" gets evenly distributed moisture absorption.

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brbpostingreply
sh.itjust.works

Might be better at reducing hair than just shaking the towel after drying the head, huh?

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Believe me, my genetics are already trying their best to remove what hair I have left on my head.

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lemmy.world

I put the tag in the same place every time and dry my ass with the opposite side as my face. It's my asshole I'm a little more "worried" about. It's mostly the thought of it touching the same place.

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Tag corner is for my face, adjacent corner for drying my hair, then the rest of my body gets the other end of the towel.

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Weird, everybody in the comments assuming that she's grossed out by men using the same towel on our faces we used on our dirty balls. But she asked about a separate ball towel, which seems to imply that it's the balls that require special treatment, but not ass, feet, or pits. Maybe she's grossed out by men using the same towel on our balls that we used on our dirty faces?

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lemmy.world

Why are you using towel on dirty anything? Do you towel before you wash?

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I would be okay drying my face with someone else's balls towel, I think my balls towel aren't gonna be a deal breaker

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The ass/taint/balls combo get a good patting down, then if I have time I'll stand over a box fan for the ultimate dry.

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Crozekielreply
lemmy.zip

Oh I'm opposite. Edges are for face/head exclusively and I use the middle of the towel for the rest of the body.

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I use the center of the towel for the face, the ends for bottom half of my body and a separate one for hands outside of bathtime.

In all seriousness I wash myself with a exfiltrating scrub and clean enough where it doesn't matter how I dry myself.

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I hate threads like this because it always reveals how many nasty motherfuckers there are in society.

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It didn't make sense at first, but I realised bald men may indeed start with the balls or leg hair first and work up. Wherever has most hair holding most water, really

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All you gotta do is follow the law, the law of gravity. Start at the top and work your way down.

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I do have two towels but that's because of my long hair, the ball towel and face towel remain the same with the same rules.

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I start with my hair first, then face, and work my way down, but I do the butt hole last. That way my hair washes most of the fecal material out of the towel the next time I dry myself off and I don't have as much butt stuff all over the rest of my body. Because that's how things work.

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Isn't the correct response something more like..

"we have ways of making a towel forget, by tmr.."

muhahahahahaa..

< sound of laundry-machines powering-up, in the background.. >

: p

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