In my next incarnation...

[hygiene-ninja.livejournal.com]

The main problem with the Hygiene ninja act last time around came in the form of taking requests for who needed to get some soap. This clearly needs to be dropped. There are simply too many avenues of offense. The goal is to have fun with the need to bathe regularly, not be a jackass.

I see two main activities for Arisia 2012:

1. The occasional run through the con dressed as a ninja, probably still in the very steep discount ninja outfit I've improvised in the past.

2. Kiosks or displays with some hygiene related facts and possibly some ninja-shaped soap.

The soap is the key. In past years I had a stockpile of soap samples my wife had gotten as a parting gift from a contract gig. All I needed to do was print up some color stickers and apply them. Having exhausted that stockpile, I'll need to either buy ninja shaped soap or make the soap and pour it into ninja shaped molds. I'd have to find and buy, or make, ninja shaped molds. This entails money, something I, as a Ninja with a wife and child, simply do not have in abundance.

This gets me to the question at hand: If I set up a paypal donation box, would you donate to the Hygiene Ninja soap fund?

Alternately, if I sold Hygiene Ninja soap online, would you consider buying some?

Comments

[thevirtualjim.livejournal.com]

I think a cool thing to do with that ninja outfit is make it look like you are all sudsy with bubbles and maybe have a bathing cap on :)

At another con this yr, I was talking with a friend and upon walking away I said "I'll have to catch up with you later, I need to take a shower." A gentleman walking by said "finally!" and I was like "what???" He said "no, no, no. I mean that its nice to finally hear someone say that at a con!" :)

[minkrose]

This may be more than people want to do, but I like the idea of encouraging behaviors by setting a good example. Maybe people could wear "I showered!" stickers, like "I voted" stickers? Or maybe the ninjas could run around with shower gear, or a shower curtain, have a skit about showering and encouraging people to join them in being clean? (perhaps that gets too riske, the concept needs work!)

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

I *LOVE* this idea!!

Also, if Female Con-goers started wearing buttons that said, "I only interact with Showered People" the obnoxious men who go the weekend ignoring the 5-2-1 Rule might start getting a clue. Maybe.

[rosefox]

Maybe people could wear "I showered!" stickers, like "I voted" stickers?

I completely support this idea.

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of stickers, but I think it would be funnier and cuter to have stickers with a little ninja on them that say "NINJA CLEAN!"

Personally I think I would feel a little weird walking around a hotel where there are non-con goers around as well with a sticker that says "I showered". Since I consider that a basic 'duh' thing, it would make me personally feel weird and uncomfortable wearing that around publicly, like it suggests that maybe I don't normally or I do it once a year like voting? But a NINJA CLEAN! sticker? That would be cool. ;)

[swashbucklr]

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