Taking showers everyday is very American and unnecessary

[DirkGently]

4. A valid point. But those Europeans don't "not smell" as much as they

seem to think. I remember working summers at a certain rodentia-themed amusement park, and loading them on to various entertainments in the heat of July in Florida. The French, in particular, (and I harbor no stupid American Frenchie-hating point of view overall) were often surrounded by a miasma of b.o. When they raised their arms to hop in the the attractions, it was like a tiny, pungent punch in the face. Maybe they simply weren't aware of what Florida heat and humidity inspire in the human sweat gland.

And the sense of an appropriate amount of b.o. is cultural, too, of course. Americans expect everyone to smell like soap and shampoo all the time, and maybe that's ridiculous. Somewhere I saw a claim that Napolean would write to Josephine to say, "Do not bathe -- I am coming home."

I have also read that killing all your skin fauna every day can actually lead to more infections.

I shower every other day during the week when I'm working indoors. Past that my hair gets lanky and my American sensibilities won't tolerate the sense of not being "clean."