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If I was still a teenager, using "basic" in this way would probably sound good, now it sounds incredibly stupid. I've officially become my father.

"Basics" I can live with, but I have a real problem with "whomst."

Romans did have soap but they mostly used it to clean clothes not themselves.

The article title is correct but whoever wrote this uniformed garbage needs to go back to grade school.

The Romans also used human pee to clean clothes.

Old pee is basically ammonia.

The article was about bathing, not washing clothes.

>Romans did have soap but they mostly used it to clean clothes not themselves.

Which is the same as not having bathing soap...