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Watch out ladies, the man of your dreams may have the bed of your nightmares.

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[–] MaxVoltage 98 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't even know that was a thing until recently. I thought the bedsheets just stayed until you moved

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago
[–] pseudo 16 points 1 year ago

this is the way

[–] freecandy 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] BattleGrown 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a good bot tho, it doesn't lie or pretend. Lemmy needs content right now and good bots help with that. They will be taken offline once communities are big enough.

[–] zaph 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A good bot would tell me they're a bot instead of a commenter having to do it.

[–] rockSlayer 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@[email protected] is a very well known bot account at this point. Users are able to block each other. I think it will increasingly become a problem if we tolerate unmarked bots, but this is the only one I know atm that isn't marked as one

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do tell you. It's that B after the post.

[–] zaph 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only B I see on this post is in the url and the word bed.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 1 year ago

Huh. It's there on the desktop but not on jerboa.

[–] freecandy 10 points 1 year ago

But will they really?

[–] Today 6 points 1 year ago

If we post more, will the bots leave? Either way we're being manipulated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the heads up!

I deleted the comment I made. I'm not interested in this sort of bot in the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

"average person changes sheets 4 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person changes sheets 25 times per year. Sheets Georg, who lives in cave & changes sheets never, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[–] Zoldyck 14 points 1 year ago

That's fucking gross

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Average is not a good measure for the behavior of a population. Would have liked to have seen median.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Can absolutely confirm.

[–] Nerdybynature 7 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, that’s basically once per season. I feel bad if I go a month. And in the summer, two weeks feels like a lot.

[–] WhoRoger 6 points 1 year ago

Sounds about right

[–] kaitco 5 points 1 year ago

Dude! Change your sheets! Today!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's a thing. I make it a point to wash my partner's sheets before his other partner comes to visit, because I like her and my partner has a blind spot when it comes to sheets. It doesn't help that he has strong preferences for sheet texture and, while he has multiple sets of sheets, only one set is top tier.

Also, shout-out to sleeping in a hammock: I can just wash my whole bed.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 13 points 1 year ago

Your life sounds more complicated than mine but good looking out. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have to change mine weekly. bad bedbug infestation in my neighborhood. Dirty sheets attract them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don't they stink after a while?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I shower before bed. I like to sleep clean.

They only get dirty when I sweat or have sex on them. I sweat in bed maybe twice a year.

Why change them more often?

[–] Obscura 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bruh you still shed skin cells and oils, and bacteria that lives on your body will be multiplying like crazy all over your bed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

oh goddammit. gross.

now i HAVE TO change them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If nothing else you are constantly shedding skin and I assume farting from time to time. That adds up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Never underestimate the farting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I do the same thing. Still wash it at least twice a month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do the same. I change my sheets 2-4 times a month. BTW... I don't sweat in my sleep 😏

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

When I was single I had a lot more time and I like a clean bed. Washed everything twice a week.

Now that I am married, once a week.

[–] average650 2 points 1 year ago

I'd like to see the distribution. I'd bet the times a year and ~50 times a year are more common than 4 times a year.

[–] Sivar 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sound about right. It might even be less for for me LOL

[–] A_Random_Idiot 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

its weird how proud you are of how gross you are, bro.

[–] Sivar 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t call it being proud. It just doesn’t smell bad, and I usually don’t care to do things because that’s how it’s supposed to be done, so why should I change the sheet more often?

Why do you change it more often? Does yours smell bad?

[–] A_Random_Idiot 3 points 1 year ago

Bro, if you havent changed your bedsheets but every 3 months or less, they stink. You just are nose blind to it cause you have your nose burried in your stink for a solid third of the day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My sheets smell like me, they don't smell bad to me, but if someone else were in my room, I'd change them

[–] doggle -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yuck...

Come on fellas we need to pump these numbers up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Instructions unclear, changing bed twice a year.