why do americans keep saying that british people don't shower?
485777
Personnally, there are a lot of good things about the Brit.  I have a close friend from Wales, lots of my favorite music come from the UK (Depeche Mode, New Order (Gillian Gilbert is cute, I wished she would smile more)), it's the home origin of shows like Monte Python and Doctor Who.  Driving through the countryside, there are a lot of beautiful places to vist.\n\nIgnore the unknowledgeable...ones like that say nasty stuff about Native Americans and other people and races as well.\n\nI try to embrace the differences.  With out differences, there would be no variety.  That would be pretty boring.
951709
well I think just about every country but the US uses bidets to wash their privates after doing the business.. Its clean.. not all this dry wiping and smearing that you guys do in the US... eww! How can you possibly walk around after just dry wiping.. I have to use my bidet.. gets me all squeaky clean..
554966
Your Ozzy mate is talking out of his a**e. British people wash the same amount as any one else. Apart from th eFrench of course as they use half the amount of soap per person per year.
826272
I am european, but I am a frequent visitor to america.\n\nI think that americans are generally unaware of how much they are manipulated by their politicians in terms of what they think is normal.\n\nAmerican culture is in itself militarised.  In Europe we laugh about how every worker in america has to have a uniform...and badges...and a batman type utility belt....\n\nWe also are amused at how every emergency is met by throwing as many uniformed people at it as possible.  This was beautifully parodied in 'The Blues Brothers' with all the SWATS going 'huck...huck...huck..while abseiling.\n\nAmerica is still a young culture, and the rest of the world still see it as a country full of people who are impressed by childish things, so the militarisation of your police departments is not slow...it is painfully and amusingly obvious to everyone but americans.
926862
It's the fault of the authorities, heavily supported by the loony liberal PC brigade who have foisted this multi-cultural experiment onto, and at the expense of, the indigenous UK population. There are some cultures so radically different from what is the British "norm" they will never fit in. In much the same way that oil and water won't mix, multi-culturalism will only separate out into different layers.
291910
because they don't want to say pee, or piss, or urinate... they are taboo words... but also it is a universal saying, (at least for the US)... anyone who hears it will know the meaning behind it...
75095
Because they know they're not using it in a degrading manner. They can't be sure about that when people of other races use it.
579622
It is not that they don't like bathing, it is just that outside of areas of the US and a few other places the social norm is to bath less often.  This is just a hold over from when showers were not as readily accessable, and so bathing wasn't such an easy thing to do.  Since so many people are not bathing as often they have gotten used to the body odor, and tend to ignore it.  That is why the government is posting those recommendations.  They are trying to let people know that it is no longer as acceptable to go without bathing and thus to have body odor.
992395
I spent my first 25 years in England and the rest (33) over here and I don't know why they don't like us, but being a Brit from birth I can tell you that they are opinionated and a tough audience so don't take it personal. They have no reason to not like Americans. Could be envy couldn't it?
1125171
Shhhh! Don't tell them that, because thousands of them go to the seaside for their holidays. That's what the Brits call beaches, and they seem to think they have them.
1056500
no  to   americans,  they  seem  to   take   pretty   good   care  of   every   body   esle.
226853
I think it is out of pure laziness.  These are the same people who walk right out of the bathroom without washing their hands.\n\nIt doesn't take that much time people!  FLUSH and WASH!!!
845382
hehe, a lot of folks get really uptight if they think someone is peeing in the shower - but I really cannot see why.\n\nSeems practical and perfectly hygienic if you can ignore the "urgh that's gross" type of whines
1066933
Hey you asked the same question about Yao Ming. Well homie I can honestly say I have no clue and I don't think half of America does either unless they voice it amongst us. Most men I know don't shave their armpits but then again to each his own as the saying goes.
1029791
i bath every day.i live in england
563529
not really cuz almost everything british people do, they beet the americans. one of the studies concluded that british people are more healthy and stuff than americans and researchers don't now why?
117386
To show respect and that is one of those LAME british things that we have yet to ditch. We are not british, and ahve not been for some time.