wonderful civilizing development, the acquirement of different clothing items, washing them, hanging them on the line to dry, putting them away in the cupboard in the right place for later use. Clean clothes, the right clothes when you need them

I was, am, pondering the similarities with thought, ideas, ways, I went so far as to wonder if it’s just a wayward exercise of analogy, or the two things might be related, external the work of my neuron

do I need consult a committed full-time nudist hobo for an answer, someone with no clothes at all, interview the creature, try disproving there’s a perhaps intimate relationship between washing clothes and washing thoughts

so the idea is that washing thoughts preceded washing clothes, and that the desire to have washed clothes would be much reduced if there was no desire to wash thoughts

transition said:

wonderful civilizing development, the acquirement of different clothing items, washing them, hanging them on the line to dry, putting them away in the cupboard in the right place for later use. Clean clothes, the right clothes when you need them

I was, am, pondering the similarities with thought, ideas, ways, I went so far as to wonder if it’s just a wayward exercise of analogy, or the two things might be related, external the work of my neuron

do I need consult a committed full-time nudist hobo for an answer, someone with no clothes at all, interview the creature, try disproving there’s a perhaps intimate relationship between washing clothes and washing thoughts

so the idea is that washing thoughts preceded washing clothes, and that the desire to have washed clothes would be much reduced if there was no desire to wash thoughts

Why not just have a shower?

just walk through a portal

I’ll put that thought through my washing machine and get back to you.

The Rev Dodgson said:

I’ll put that thought through my washing machine and get back to you.

Make sure you dry it well. Wouldn’t want it mouldering away.

The Rev Dodgson said:

I’ll put that thought through my washing machine and get back to you.

chuckle

Some people lose their train of thoughts when they go to a casino but keep enough carriages to make it worthwhile.

Peak Warming Man said:

Some people lose their train of thoughts when they go to a casino but keep enough carriages to make it worthwhile.

TOOT!

> do I need consult a committed full-time nudist hobo for an answer

There are historical records.

Let’s skip “thoughts” for the moment, and look to see if there is a close analogy between washing clothes and bathing.

Before bathing, people used to immerse themselves in water for three reasons.

• Hunting (fish, snakes, ducks, clams, seals, etc.)
• Crossing flood water.
• For fun, which can be typified as trying to drown siblings.

Clothes appeared in the historical record before both bathing and laundering.

Bathing and laundering seem to have appeared at the same time.

For example, an aboriginal lethario who went naked all the time in the bush would wash his clothes and himself to look and smell as nice as possible when going into town in search of female companionship.

I wonder if bathing-laundering originated as a way to hide the breaking of laws. In much the same way that a person might wipe fingerprints off a door handle, a person might bathe-launder to hide the scent of an affair, or to hide the distinctive smell resulting from the breaking of food taboos, or bathe-launder in order to break nudity taboos.

> the desire to have washed clothes would be much reduced if there was no desire to wash thoughts

The first question really is whether people wash thoughts at all. Do they “wonderful civilizing development, the acquirement of different thought items, washing them, hanging them on the line to dry, putting them away in the cupboard in the right place for later use. Clean thoughts, the right thoughts when you need them”.

Such, perhaps, as a politician using different thoughts-words in public to those in the vicious no holds barred fighting of the party room?

Well, then, the link may be that thought laundering also originated as a way to hide the breaking of laws and taboos.

I don’t actually do either.

mollwollfumble said:

> do I need consult a committed full-time nudist hobo for an answer

There are historical records.

Let’s skip “thoughts” for the moment, and look to see if there is a close analogy between washing clothes and bathing.

Before bathing, people used to immerse themselves in water for three reasons.

• Hunting (fish, snakes, ducks, clams, seals, etc.)
• Crossing flood water.
• For fun, which can be typified as trying to drown siblings.

Clothes appeared in the historical record before both bathing and laundering.

Bathing and laundering seem to have appeared at the same time.

For example, an aboriginal lethario who went naked all the time in the bush would wash his clothes and himself to look and smell as nice as possible when going into town in search of female companionship.

I wonder if bathing-laundering originated as a way to hide the breaking of laws. In much the same way that a person might wipe fingerprints off a door handle, a person might bathe-launder to hide the scent of an affair, or to hide the distinctive smell resulting from the breaking of food taboos, or bathe-launder in order to break nudity taboos.

> the desire to have washed clothes would be much reduced if there was no desire to wash thoughts

The first question really is whether people wash thoughts at all. Do they “wonderful civilizing development, the acquirement of different thought items, washing them, hanging them on the line to dry, putting them away in the cupboard in the right place for later use. Clean thoughts, the right thoughts when you need them”.

Such, perhaps, as a politician using different thoughts-words in public to those in the vicious no holds barred fighting of the party room?

Well, then, the link may be that thought laundering also originated as a way to hide the breaking of laws and taboos.

I don’t actually do either.

>For example, an aboriginal lethario who went naked all the time in the bush would wash his clothes and himself to look and smell as nice as possible when going into town in search of female companionship.

• Never heard an odder example.

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

> do I need consult a committed full-time nudist hobo for an answer

There are historical records.

Let’s skip “thoughts” for the moment, and look to see if there is a close analogy between washing clothes and bathing.

Before bathing, people used to immerse themselves in water for three reasons.

• Hunting (fish, snakes, ducks, clams, seals, etc.)
• Crossing flood water.
• For fun, which can be typified as trying to drown siblings.

Clothes appeared in the historical record before both bathing and laundering.

Bathing and laundering seem to have appeared at the same time.

For example, an aboriginal lethario who went naked all the time in the bush would wash his clothes and himself to look and smell as nice as possible when going into town in search of female companionship.

I wonder if bathing-laundering originated as a way to hide the breaking of laws. In much the same way that a person might wipe fingerprints off a door handle, a person might bathe-launder to hide the scent of an affair, or to hide the distinctive smell resulting from the breaking of food taboos, or bathe-launder in order to break nudity taboos.

> the desire to have washed clothes would be much reduced if there was no desire to wash thoughts

The first question really is whether people wash thoughts at all. Do they “wonderful civilizing development, the acquirement of different thought items, washing them, hanging them on the line to dry, putting them away in the cupboard in the right place for later use. Clean thoughts, the right thoughts when you need them”.

Such, perhaps, as a politician using different thoughts-words in public to those in the vicious no holds barred fighting of the party room?

Well, then, the link may be that thought laundering also originated as a way to hide the breaking of laws and taboos.

I don’t actually do either.

>For example, an aboriginal lethario who went naked all the time in the bush would wash his clothes and himself to look and smell as nice as possible when going into town in search of female companionship.

• Never heard an odder example.

The name of the aboriginal I’m thinking of is “Dave”. In the 1940s.

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

> do I need consult a committed full-time nudist hobo for an answer

There are historical records.

Let’s skip “thoughts” for the moment, and look to see if there is a close analogy between washing clothes and bathing.

Before bathing, people used to immerse themselves in water for three reasons.

• Hunting (fish, snakes, ducks, clams, seals, etc.)
• Crossing flood water.
• For fun, which can be typified as trying to drown siblings.

Clothes appeared in the historical record before both bathing and laundering.

Bathing and laundering seem to have appeared at the same time.

For example, an aboriginal lethario who went naked all the time in the bush would wash his clothes and himself to look and smell as nice as possible when going into town in search of female companionship.

I wonder if bathing-laundering originated as a way to hide the breaking of laws. In much the same way that a person might wipe fingerprints off a door handle, a person might bathe-launder to hide the scent of an affair, or to hide the distinctive smell resulting from the breaking of food taboos, or bathe-launder in order to break nudity taboos.

> the desire to have washed clothes would be much reduced if there was no desire to wash thoughts

The first question really is whether people wash thoughts at all. Do they “wonderful civilizing development, the acquirement of different thought items, washing them, hanging them on the line to dry, putting them away in the cupboard in the right place for later use. Clean thoughts, the right thoughts when you need them”.

Such, perhaps, as a politician using different thoughts-words in public to those in the vicious no holds barred fighting of the party room?

Well, then, the link may be that thought laundering also originated as a way to hide the breaking of laws and taboos.

I don’t actually do either.

>For example, an aboriginal lethario who went naked all the time in the bush would wash his clothes and himself to look and smell as nice as possible when going into town in search of female companionship.

• Never heard an odder example.

The name of the aboriginal I’m thinking of is “Dave”. In the 1940s.

I mention this because it’s the only historical example I know of of an aboriginal person doing their own laundering.

Has anyone studied the history of laundering?

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

> do I need consult a committed full-time nudist hobo for an answer

There are historical records.

Let’s skip “thoughts” for the moment, and look to see if there is a close analogy between washing clothes and bathing.

Before bathing, people used to immerse themselves in water for three reasons.

• Hunting (fish, snakes, ducks, clams, seals, etc.)
• Crossing flood water.
• For fun, which can be typified as trying to drown siblings.

Clothes appeared in the historical record before both bathing and laundering.

Bathing and laundering seem to have appeared at the same time.

For example, an aboriginal lethario who went naked all the time in the bush would wash his clothes and himself to look and smell as nice as possible when going into town in search of female companionship.

I wonder if bathing-laundering originated as a way to hide the breaking of laws. In much the same way that a person might wipe fingerprints off a door handle, a person might bathe-launder to hide the scent of an affair, or to hide the distinctive smell resulting from the breaking of food taboos, or bathe-launder in order to break nudity taboos.

> the desire to have washed clothes would be much reduced if there was no desire to wash thoughts

The first question really is whether people wash thoughts at all. Do they “wonderful civilizing development, the acquirement of different thought items, washing them, hanging them on the line to dry, putting them away in the cupboard in the right place for later use. Clean thoughts, the right thoughts when you need them”.

Such, perhaps, as a politician using different thoughts-words in public to those in the vicious no holds barred fighting of the party room?

Well, then, the link may be that thought laundering also originated as a way to hide the breaking of laws and taboos.

I don’t actually do either.

>For example, an aboriginal lethario who went naked all the time in the bush would wash his clothes and himself to look and smell as nice as possible when going into town in search of female companionship.

• Never heard an odder example.

The name of the aboriginal I’m thinking of is “Dave”. In the 1940s.

I mention this because it’s the only historical example I know of of an aboriginal person doing their own laundering.

Has anyone studied the history of laundering?

My god.
Please tell me that aboriginies didn’t leave fat dripping off the possum skins.

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

>For example, an aboriginal lethario who went naked all the time in the bush would wash his clothes and himself to look and smell as nice as possible when going into town in search of female companionship.

• Never heard an odder example.

The name of the aboriginal I’m thinking of is “Dave”. In the 1940s.

I mention this because it’s the only historical example I know of of an aboriginal person doing their own laundering.

Has anyone studied the history of laundering?

My god.
Please tell me that aboriginies didn’t leave fat dripping off the possum skins.

At times they dressed in rancid human fat. At other times they covered themselves in rancid animal fat to cover up the stink of the white people they were travelling with.

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

The name of the aboriginal I’m thinking of is “Dave”. In the 1940s.

I mention this because it’s the only historical example I know of of an aboriginal person doing their own laundering.

Has anyone studied the history of laundering?

My god.
Please tell me that aboriginies didn’t leave fat dripping off the possum skins.

At times they dressed in rancid human fat. At other times they covered themselves in rancid animal fat to cover up the stink of the white people they were travelling with.

:) They did glue emu feathers to the feet with blood so as to not leave any tracks?

the idea sort of started with the likelihood that the possibility of money laundering didn’t come about as a consequence of money (currency) being used as a form of exchange to represent value, though it (money) might facilitate that sort of laundering, the essence of the propensity precedes that, and money in a way is attractive because it allows (often and perhaps mostly legitimate) expression of that propensity

I may have seen a casino on TV or something, saw how tall it stood, the status projecting high into the sky, got to considering what function a casino might serve, really

> the idea sort of started with the likelihood that the possibility of money laundering

Money laundering, bathing, clothes laundering and thought laundering. I can’t rule out the possibility that all four started as a way to disguise criminal activity.