Sorry @bing , no clue. Quite likely you have the correct spelling. I suspect it may be the French version of Cordelia. (I had an aunt named Cordelia. And a grandmother name Adelia. Names you never hear anymore.)
Worry is tech enters and drives car 10-15 minutes contaminates inside which i then have to get in and drive home. Only know tourest french one times lived three days on only cheese sandwiches and beer in paris. Knew how to say only that. Jts correct more complicated rules if real id.
Having been born in europe, and living there 1/2 my life, I can tell you this with certainty
Americans do bathe more frequently than many other people
Iām not criticizing anybody
Just saying . . .
There is definitely something to this
Iām allergic to most soaps and deodorants. No joke
There are only a few that I can tolerate, and I have to stock up, because the stores occasionally stock carrying a particular brand, or donāt restock as regularly as some of the more common ones. Most of the āmanlyā soaps and deodorants actually hurt me. They burn my skin and leave nasty rashes
But Iām a mechanic, so I take a shower daily. My local supermarket is no longer stocking the deodorant which I can tolerate, so Iāll probably have to look elsewhere. I still have some, but it wontā last more than a few more weeks
I do something physical most days, work on car, cut and trim grass, tend garden weed prune trees, scrape and paint, clean gutters or fix whatever breaks , Plumbing, electrical, carpentry, fix mowers, string trimmer, rototiller, chain saws. If I have a day with nothing physical to do , I like to take the dog and go for a long walk. Not too long anymore, after 3/4 mile I have to stop and rest my hips. When my daughter keeps asking me why I keep putting off a hip operation I tell her I donāt want to have them operated on and die before I recover. If I did not shower every day you could smell me coming like that tour director.
I grew up with the Saturday night bath in a galvanized tub that hung on the porch until it was dragged unto the kitchen where the water was heated on a wood stove. We did not expect people to not smell back then.
Wow I thought i might add WI has a 90 day emission test grace period, but I had to go to an alternative site, not bad but not my preference to get it done, but all turned out fine. Since it has gone to bathing, NPR Europe is once a week but there are others on the never band wagon, Was in the fresh healing waters of the lake today, but the underwear is going to the laundry, and as our guests in the little cabin repeated our mantra, after 3 days guests fish and underwear stinks.
I donāt know the risk in surface contamination but I believe that it is very low.
At work we are in the middle of a fuel pump recall. Daily I need to remove the rear seat from a car or SUV but first I must remove the child seats, luggage, shoes, dirty laundry, used face masks etc.
Very few take surface contact precautions and it doesnāt seem to be a significant cause of infection.
Several years ago in a Chines restaurant in Ripon in North Yorkshire my family was asked by the staff if we were american or canadian? Apparently our lack of accents was making them curious.
I assume you mean North Yorkshire in the UK?
If so, the Brits have as much trouble with our accent as we do with theirs, Australians and New Zealanders. Heck, lots in the US have trouble identifying one of the many Canadian accents as they have with many of ours.
Funny you were eating Chinese in the UK. My first dinner in the UK was a corporate gatheringā¦ at a Chinese restaurant! I didnāt eat a proper English dinner until the last night of the trip.
Much like when I was on a ten day stay in Chicago in the late 90s to receive training on a new device. Our group asked the concierge where we could get Chicago style deep dish pizza, the places we went at her suggestion served standard pizzas. Last day of one of the instructors told us if we wanted Chicago style we needed to go to Unos!
I can get both proper Chicago pizza and Chicago hotdogs within 15 miles of my home in Florida.
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Or unless you spend an hour in the Gym or running 5 miles every day. I take it you donāt work out?
As a mechanic thereās no way that I would not take a shower when I got home Or not take one after working on my cars or bikes on the weekend. Or doing yard work. Or working on the house. Or cutting tree limbs with a chainsaw on the roughly 35 trees on my property.
Heat and humidity will soak you with sweat even after mowing with a lawn tractor around here in OK.
As for Covid, I can understand some precautions but I thereās a bit of hysteria going on with this also. As for me, I refuse to wear a mask for several reasons and avoid any business that requires them unless itās a physicianās office.
You also live in ungodly hot weather. Just walking outside during the summer and you start to sweat.
I grew up with the Saturday night bath in a galvanized tub that hung on the porch until it was dragged unto the kitchen where the water was heated on a wood stove. We did not expect people to not smell back then.
I also grew up that way I may be wrong but I think we were healthier back then.
As for Covid, I can understand some precautions but I thereās a bit of hysteria going on with this also. As for me, I refuse to wear a mask for several reasons and avoid any business that requires them unless itās a physicianās office.
I agree I also do the same thing but I also live in a very rural area.
You would have to avoid everything but mail order or curbside pickup in NY state. Mandatory masks have dropped our infection rate to under 1%ā¦ It did not happen until the state started fining or closing busnisses for allowing people to be waited on without masks.
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Yes, Uk. We were basing ourselves out of there for a few days visiting our ancestral roots and trying a different place every night since we had many options within walking distance of our B&B. With the help of a distant relative we spent a day visiting ancestral homes that we wouldnāt have known how to find otherwise.
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+1
In NJ, we successfully āflattened the curveā with mask requirements. Anyone who insists on going without a mask in this area will not be able to shop in person forā¦ anythingā¦ and you couldnāt even get your clothing dry-cleaned. When I went to the cleaners a few weeks ago, the owner was wearing a face shield, in addition to her mask and exam gloves.
Even at places like animal hospitalsāwhere I have had to spend a lot of time recentlyāscheduled pet examinations involve checking-in via cellphone, and then a technician comes out to retrieve your pet while you remain in your vehicle. All communication with the veterinarian is via cellphone. If there is an emergency visit, one person can accompany the pet inside, but only if he/she is masked.
The only time that I donāt wear a mask is when I am in the house, doing yard work, or taking a power-walk.
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Unintended consequences raises itās ugly head. The dentists are calling it āmask mouthā. Gum disease and other dental ailments from too much mask wearing. So when the masks finally come off some months or years from now, those smiling clerks and customers may not look the way they used to. Sorry to spoil your party.
I wish the people that state they will not shop where masks are required, or will not shop where credit/debit cards are requested would actually do that. Stores would be a lot less crowded.
Much like the people in the previous decade that stated they would drop their health insurance and refuse coverage if the Affordable Care Act. was passed.
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My best friend is a nurse who was assigned to an all-COVID unit for 3 1/2 months, until NJ flattened its curve via mask requirements, and our COVID units were disbanded. He typically wore an N-95 maskāwith a āregularā surgical mask over the N-95āfor 14 hours per day, during that 3 month period. Luckily, he has not experienced any dental problems or any of the truly mythical medical maladies that the anti-science, anti-mask people have claimed.
However, I asked him about this āmask mouthā issue, and his answer was:
If I had to choose, I would prefer to be a living person with dental problems, rather than a corpse with beautiful teeth.
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