Okay, YOU GUYS ARE GROSS

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Four times a year? That's way too much. They must be neurotic or something.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on August 28, 2013 at 2:44 PM

posted today at the onion: http://www.theonion.com/articles/nations…

glen keenan on August 28, 2013 at 2:47 PM

That's when they shower, too.

Pope Peabrain on August 28, 2013 at 2:56 PM

Your co-worker keeps a turd in her fridge.

Jeff on August 28, 2013 at 2:57 PM

This is perfectly acceptable, even fastidious, Withnail and I agree.

TomJohnsonJr on August 28, 2013 at 2:59 PM

Jeff makes an excellent point.

jackie treehorn on August 28, 2013 at 2:59 PM

You're supposed to change your sheets?

Gurldoggie on August 28, 2013 at 3:01 PM

That's OK; the average British bachelorette sweats out a pound of chip oil a night when she comes visiting, so she's probably used to it, yeah?

Fnarf on August 28, 2013 at 3:11 PM

British gentlemen, with their finer, vintage genetic stock, only sweat when playing an especially exciting game of cribbage or bridge. The rest of the time, we're dry as a bone, and smell slightly of a freshly baked loaf of bread.

Jonman on August 28, 2013 at 3:14 PM

My wife's reaction: "At least they use sheets." Apparently, during her dating years it was common for her to discover that her hot date didn't even bother to put sheets on his bed.

Geocrackr on August 28, 2013 at 3:20 PM

This is why Katy Perry left that Brit ..

Will in Seattle on August 28, 2013 at 3:23 PM

I thought the smell of musk was appealing.

Joe Szilagyi on August 28, 2013 at 3:24 PM

Bethany, if you'd post more pics on Slog of your beautiful self, I probably be inspired to change my sheets more often.

dnt trust me on August 28, 2013 at 3:25 PM

@9 A loaf of bread you're unable to eat due to your fine, vintage, genetically-defective British teeth. ;)

ScrawnyKayaker on August 28, 2013 at 3:26 PM

@9, smelling of bread means you have a yeast infection (see: candida, thrush). Do you have sores around your mouth that aren't the herpes?

raawr on August 28, 2013 at 3:27 PM

Brits do not play croquet or bridge, they play competitive vomiting in the city center at midnight, and they don't smell of bread, they smell of sausage roll.

Fnarf on August 28, 2013 at 3:39 PM

I did the math, and I came up with 17. What do I win?

Gern Blanston on August 28, 2013 at 3:49 PM

@8 half a kilo of chip oil, rather. Unless you meant a pound (sterling) worth of chip oil.

mkyorai on August 28, 2013 at 3:58 PM

I don't know about British men, but four times a year sounds about right based on the time I spent in Ireland. Lovely fellows, Irish dudes, but cleaning their bedlinens regularly just wasn't on their radar. A surprisingly large percentage of the 20-something fellows I knew took their clothes to their parents' homes for laundering and sheets definitely didn't make it into the wash bag.

Kalakalot on August 28, 2013 at 4:04 PM

When I first saw this article, I wondered if there was a cultural issue of people showering before going to bed vs. showering in the morning. That would seem to make a difference on how people view the cleanliness of their sheets. Regardless, once a quarter is ridiculous.

Sir Vic on August 28, 2013 at 4:04 PM

In defense of Irish dudes, the bedlinen-laundering habits of American dudes I have been able to observe are equally distressing. I particularly remember one young gentleman whose bedroom emitted a sweaty spunky odor that could be smelled down the hall. Even my own beloved and I are don't see eye-to-eye on sheet changes: I think they should be changed once a week; he doesn't notice if a month passes between changes.

Kalakalot on August 28, 2013 at 4:18 PM

My ex wore holes through sturdy cotton sheets... because dirt building up between the fibers increases the wear rate, you understand. I believe he may have washed them occasionally, but I'd be shocked if it were more than twice a year.

When I expressed my horror, he said that it had never been a problem before with the polyester sheets he bought for himself; it was only the cotton sheets I got for him that were the problem.

Ack.

tau on August 28, 2013 at 5:19 PM

Y'know, being single and getting laid should affect the frequency of sheet changes. It is an indispensable courtesy to change the sheets after one woman and before the next.

California on August 28, 2013 at 5:23 PM

I personally think eating animal corpses for a living is as gross as you can get, but I guess dirty sheets are slightly yucky too.

raku on August 28, 2013 at 5:50 PM

Mmmmmmm......animal corpses.....

Gern Blanston on August 28, 2013 at 6:13 PM

Umm...I'm going to go eat the fuck out of an animal corpse right now! drool!

Admittedly, when I was single, I probably didn't wash my sheets once a month. But I don't think my spousal critter or I do so now, either, and I do take up the slack once in a while.

ScrawnyKayaker on August 28, 2013 at 6:25 PM

I am guessing its a lot less for American men.

kooshball on August 28, 2013 at 8:42 PM

i assume the guys who do it more often dont stay bachelors for long though so that makes the numbers a bit skewerd...

dutchie on August 29, 2013 at 2:57 AM

@16

Sounds like a tourist's view of Central London. Half of those puking people are Aussie backpackers. And other tourists like you. Picking up a Mind the Gap t-shirt after visiting Tower bridge doesn't give you an insight into British people. Tourists. *eye roll*

Confluence on August 29, 2013 at 3:11 AM

In other words, straight guys get laid only 4 times a year.

montex on August 29, 2013 at 9:06 AM

@30 a lot less than that for many of them

on August 29, 2013 at 9:32 AM

Okay, YOU GUYS ARE GROSS

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