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All people are particular about their routines. Some to greater degrees than others. Are you familiar with the phrase: "There are two types of jobs, those you

• war1025 9y ago
  What's that have to do with routine? You shower after manual labor jobs. That's just a matter of practicality.
  • solarkraft 9y ago
    Yeah, but that's at the end of the work day. Difference here. Though I just wouldn't shower in the morning.
    • war1025 9y ago
      I really have no idea what this side tangent is about. I made a comment that getting ready twice in short order is a pain, which is why people wouldn't want to have PE first thing. I don't see what any of this has to do with the difference in showering schedules between white collar and blue collar labor. My dad worked in a factory and showered after he got home from work. That was the time of day that made sense because his work was hot and sweaty and dirty. I suppose the idea could have been that you could have just not showered at all and showered once you were done with PE, but still unsure where this detour is headed.
      • tmuir 9y ago
        At the risk of blowing your mind, my analogy was referring to the fact that people usually shower AFTER they get dirty. Blue collar workers shower after work, because their work is where they get dirty. Its not because some mythical voodoo. It is precisely and unequivocally because they have accumulated waste on the exterior of their bodie. All of the rest of us that adjusted to the initial new reality of having to expose our privates to our peers by realizing that it was our own anxieties that were the root of these fears. Once we took the leap of faith, and just showered after PE, instead of before, the illusion that exposing our privates to our peers would deliver our imminent death evaporated, just as facing every other irrational fear has. How about a more extreme example: why do you think Stormy Daniels has been the most successful at parrying the universal wall of controversy that comes at her? Because she literally has gone out of her way to show the entire world what the most of the rest of us are paralyzed with fear of what would happen if our own mother were to see. Knowing that, would you posit that Stormy Daniels has more, or less experience learning how to cope with stress and fear, when compared to the average person?
        • dang 9y ago
          Please stop posting flamebait and taking HN threads off topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
          • tmuir 9y ago
            Please stop jumping to the conclusion that I am off topic. My thesis that ties this story together, and showering in PE class, is that some people see boats, guns, and sailors moving through the water, but are somehow incapable of acknowledging that it constitues a navy. The result in this article, people do better when their awake, can be thought of as a frequency plot. This study effectively performed fourier analysis. They studied a comprehensive data set over a long enough time to deduce the cohesion that is evident when controlling for time. Here's a thought experiment: can you empathize with a transistor? Imagine your a transistor, and I'm a transistor, and we can somehow still communicate. Im a pnp, and you're an npn: npn: Its obvious that we're just transistors. You keep spouting nonsense about these logic gates, and how their the future. But please, show me the logic gate. I don't see it. You can't even tell me what it looks like. pnp: look, when you put enough transistors together, you get an AND gate. In another configuration, you can get an OR gate. npn: Please stop posting your controversial opinions here. This guy. I bet you're gonna tell me about magical flip flops and arithmetic logic units. Thats because you get all your news from science based sources. You should really try and get your information from a more diverse set.
      • barry-cotter 9y ago
        It’s a class marker, a sign of social status. Sweating is shameful, as is being low social status. You don’t see your father’s job, which he showered afterwards, as something shameful but loads of middle class people would because they’re insecure in their social status, they associated with people of similar income but lower social status. People with much higher status don’t care because they don’t, there’s no chance of them being associated with those with lower status.