strange facts

[youngguns]

obs it was fake..

 

[Gambino]

Fake!

Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/1500.htm

pwned

 

[jnuts]

 

[Sub-Zero]

i hate you AAP, i already told my mother all of this and acted like i was so smart, its her birthday too.

you ruined everything.

 

[mrplunkey]

... but it is true that up until the early/mid 1800's it was believed that bathing was bad for you.

 

[Gambino]

... but it is true that up until the early/mid 1800's it was believed that bathing was bad for you.

don't think so

Although the modern practice of full-immersion bathing was a long way off in the 1500s (among other reasons because filling a vessel large enough to hold a person with heated water was rather impractical given the effort required to collect fresh water and fuel for heating it), people did still "bathe" in the sense of attempting to clean themselves as best they could with the resources at hand.

 

[mrplunkey]

don't think so

Although the modern practice of full-immersion bathing was a long way off in the 1500s (among other reasons because filling a vessel large enough to hold a person with heated water was rather impractical given the effort required to collect fresh water and fuel for heating it), people did still "bathe" in the sense of attempting to clean themselves as best they could with the resources at hand.

I know I'm setting myself up for a TN joke here... but part of the James White Fort's history (est: 1786) included writings where the settlers discussed the unhealthy practice of excess bathing. Funny thing is they were right on the Tennessee river which had to be clear right to the bottom at the time.

You may now commence with the Tennessee jokes

Good night, I'm going to bed!

 

[AAP]

Yeah. That says so.

 

[bigred133]

Unless the weather was warm excess bathing in those times could be harmful IMO.

 

[mrplunkey]

Unless the weather was warm excess bathing in those times could be harmful IMO.

I've done the fort tour a couple of times, but I don't remember exactly what was said. Something about how they thought it stripped to body of necessary oils or some other protective coating on the skin.

A few things really stood-out. The girls getting married-off at 12 and 13 to 30+ year old men was creepy. There was one 13 year old married off to a 40+ year old. And the scary thing is, paintings/pictures of women in their early 20's looked 35+ years old easily by today's standards.

There was also the "putting on your face" thing. They wore makeup in layers and didn't always take the old layer off... ewwww.

And the cooking thing. They'd keep a stew going for well over a week and just keep adding things to it. Gross.

Its actually a neat tour. People say one of the big reasons its significant is that the people in James White Fort did such a good job recording the era.