Maybe This Is Why Some People Don't Bathe?

The only half way sensible definition of a 'baboosh' I can find comes from "Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey by Samuel Sullivan Cox (1887)" "... and substitute the fez for the turban, or the shoe for the slipper or baboosh. It was a long time before other ancient Moslem ways were eliminated. ..." It seems to be a Turkish (or perhaps Arabic) word for a kind of shoe or slipper, which would make sense in the context! In Russian, however, a 'babushka' is "A woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women." (Actually, I had always thought it to be a Russian term for 'grandmother' or 'old lady'. Maybe old ladies wear babushkas and so they are called such by association.) I can offer no explanation for landslips in the bathroom, though. Katolisthesephobia may, however, be a commoner affliction in China than in the West!

hahaha!! yah i really wonder some few old people don't take a bath, hahaha! LOL!..ooh by the way your photo has tag on it, be careful with photo's like that you may violate the guidelines in posting photos...

"Landslips" are not to be taken lightly, especially when feet part with oh so slippery what ever that stuff is they make those shower-tubs with nowadays. My mother has had close slips as had I. I am only 41 so that isn't an age issue. * Then you put those sticky wicky pickies on the bathtub floor, your feet stay put, and then your butt gets picky prints. Ewww. Not fun. I put a towel down on the bath floor for the bath.