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[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago

More like Pepe Le Pew

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago

French and stink lines

[-] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

Can’t he just piss in the corner to mark his territory like a civilized person?

[-] Zascoco@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

I know you are joking but french nobles really used to urinated out of the windows in Versailles and defecated behind doors and in the gardens some times. Fun fact but Louis 14 basically never washed himself and used a great amount of perfume as well.

[-] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Louis XIV should have gotten the guillotine just like his grandson. But he probably didn't smell that bad.

Experimental historians have shown that changing your clothes multiple times a day, like the dozens of times Louis XIV would, soaks up the sweat and smells quite effectively.

It's a form of conspicuous consumption as only the King and high noble can afford to go from a sleeping outfit to breakfast outfit to early morning outfit to morning tea outfit and so on etc.

[-] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Fun fact: Louis XIV ruled for so long that Louis XVI was very far from being his grandson. Louis XV, Louis XIV's successor, was in fact his third great-grandson (he was 5 years old in 1715 when he became king); and Louis XVI was again Louis XV's grandson. So Louis XVI is actually 5 generations removed from Louis XIV.

[-] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 4 points 18 hours ago

Also Louis XV should have been guillotined too, so I wasn't completely wrong.

[-] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Thanks, Yeah, I thought I was screwing that up. It's the unbroken Louis XIV to XV to XVI that got me.

[-] Lemister@hexbear.net 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

They also wore underclothes which prevented the more expansive outer clothes from being stinky. As it is known that sweat stinks due to bacteria reproducing themselves and producing the gases as a side effect.

[-] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 6 points 20 hours ago

Definitely, though importantly the King was often changing those frequently too.

It's like how if you are not able to have a shower you still feel fresher if you change shirt, underwear etc.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 6 points 22 hours ago

Can’t he just piss in the corner to mark his territory like a civilized person?

This is a French tradition btw

[-] Zascoco@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Just a short video that I found about the sanitary situation in Versailles if anybody is interested: https://youtu.be/a_EH2CHS_-Q

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 8 points 21 hours ago

giving everyone in the zip code a coma-inducing migraine with my stink: "aww yeah, power move"

only the french

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sauvage, seriously? Might as well wear Axe Body Spray. Wack-ass, pickup artist - coded, insecure teenager cologne is what it is. Sauvage might be one of the worst smelling colognes I've ever smelled in my life.

Not only is he a colonial piece of shit, he does fuck all with the nearly unlimited access he has to the French fragrance industry.

[-] Lemister@hexbear.net 3 points 20 hours ago

Sauvage is the national symbol for trashy european men pick up artists.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

my visceral assumption when i realize someone is one of those heavy commercial fragrance people is that they smell bad and are covering something up. which isn't a moral failing, but i'm not into it, either. i stay away.

i was at the hardware store earlier looking at stuff in an aisle and cut a pretty crazy one mere moments before a couple cut through and i'd be lying if i didn't laugh thinking about them getting a sample of my beef.

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 1 points 3 hours ago

hell yeah dude farts are funny

[-] Lemister@hexbear.net 6 points 21 hours ago

There is a stereotype of a certain section "dating-guruesque" european men that overdoses themselves on fragrance because its masculine. The one bavarian perfume influencer is another example of that stereotype. I think its more common in euro-romance countries.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Well he is French and we know all those mime-ass mofos stink like blue cheese.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

Stinky... boys...? French boys... stinky...? ABCC11 apocrine sweat gland secretion???? French boys???? STINKY????

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Must seal it away. barbara-pit

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

Those fucking stinky semiconductor guys are finally on blast.

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