TIL Amou Haji, known as the "world’s dirtiest man", avoided bathing for over 60 years due to a superstition. After villagers finally convinced him to wash, he died just weeks later at the age of 94.

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TIL Amou Haji, known as the "world’s dirtiest man", avoided bathing for over 60 years due to a superstition. After villagers finally convinced him to wash, he died just weeks later at the age of 94. - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

And to honor this man, I’ve never showered since.
No offense, StraponStratos, but imma keeping a few feet away…
Your loss. I’ve been told I’m very cultured.
By ‘cultured’ they actually meant ‘fungi’.
Thanks, I am pretty fun. I like to get out on the weekends and work up a sweat.
Talk to you again in 60 years. Until then, would you mind keeping your distance?
There are USAians who believe that showering is bad for health and don't do it. They say "everybody says I smell fine". I'd have to find the article about it.
A shower is just a bidet for the whole body, and some people are weirdly opposed to bidets, so I guess being anti-shower could just be an extension of that

From what I’ve been told, the smell of BO disappears after a while. Instead, they smell like a farm animal. But they have to skip bathing long enough for that change to occur, and it gets undone whenever they bathe.

As for people saying they smell fine, as obnoxious as we are, very few people are willing to tell someone they smell like shit. Most of us will even directly lie to them to avoid the difficult conversation.