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[QUOTE]Originally posted by What Box (Willing Thinker): [QB] ^^ [QUOTE]Originally posted by Yonis: This is what the iraqi traveler Ibn fadlan wrote about northern europeans in the year 921. [i][b]"They are the filthiest creatures of Allah.[/b] In the morning a servant girl brings a basin full of water to the master of the household; [b]he rinses his face and hair in it, spits and blows his nose into the basin, which the girl then hands on to the next person, who does likewise, until all who are in the house have used that basin to blow their noses, spit and wash their face and hair in it.[/b] They do not wash themselves after defecating or urinating, [b]nor do they bathe after seminal pollution or on other occasions. They refuse to have anything to do with water,[/b] particularly in winter..their underclothes are fraying apart from dirt, [b]for it is their custom never to take off the garment they wear close to their bodies until it disintegrates[/b]. They shave their beards and eat their lice. They search the folds of their undergarments and crack the lice with their teeth.[/i] [/QUOTE]blrvrgohrhif BLeHh blElh...{barf, no that was a BARGH!} Damn, if bathing with a bar of soap is what western civilization equates to to you, I don't think it's a fair assesment to assert it started in Europe, as most do. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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