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I don’t shower to wash my body, I shower to wash my mind. The fact it also cleans my body is just a welcome side-effect 😆
Dude, I’m shaving! Shaving my face and everywhere else I need. Also brushing my teeth. Still doesn’t take 30 but it feels good to be hot water my god. Just like a bath or hot tub. Why rush?
I used to stare off into nothingness in the shower. It would take maybe 7-8 minutes to actually wash myself; sporadically throughout the process, I’d zone out for a couple minutes at a time.
Now, I’ve got long curly hair that needs frequent tending to. Unless I want my showers to be an hour+ long, I gotta stay focused. I still stare off into nothingness while brushing and whatnot, that helps take away the dread.
sporadically throughout the process, I’d zone out for a couple minutes at a time.
Same. And when I come back to the present, I will sometimes lose track of what was washed already because I was on autopilot/dissociating before stopping to stare at nothing.
Next time you wonder whether you already shampooed:
Grab a stretch of hair between thumb and middle finger. Pull/away from head. Listen for squeak. If you hear the squeak, put the shampoo down!
Okay first thing i do is i turn on the water, and hold the shower head in my hand, pointing it away from myself until the water is hot.
Then i quickly spray the water all over my body, so i am completely wet. Then hang up the shower head, and step under it.
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
Then i put shampoo in my hair, armpits and crotch, then finally soap everywhere else.
Make sure to get all the soap off, then dry myself. Total of ~45min.
lol I do the same thing but I do the washing part first. Because sometimes I will be in their so long I forget if I washed myself or not yet, so I just do it first
TIL shampooing non-head hair
I have had a beard for about 20 years. The world has not run out of people who have to ask how I clean it and are somehow surprised that I use shampoo on it. “Oh, yeah, I suppose it is hair!”
Wait, that’s not obvious?
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
After this, I first need to remember if I’m already done washing myself or haven’t started yet.
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
Pretty much this for me.
I’ve gotten pretty good at 10 minute showers before work, but I absolutely blank out from time to time.
I shower for about 10-15 minutes and feel like that’s “long”. I literally spend half of the time with my arms over the…idk what it’s called, the bar over my sliding glass doors…just letting the hot water hit my back. It’s one of my favorite parts of the day, but after 15 or so min, my hands get pruney and I just want to get out. 30 min seems uncomfortably long.
Hot water on skin is comforting and calming like few other things. If I could work from the shower I probably would.
We have the technology
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Gotta squat down and spray that showerhead at your butthole and balls to get it really clean and check better than any online gay test survey can ever do whether you would enjoy butt stuff. Some of my best groaning out loud orgasms are in the shower, and yes it takes a while.
I think the test was that you were looking for an “online gay test butt stuff survey” versus just “butt stuff,” which isn’t inherently gay.
You’re right, of course. Props to my straight pegging enthusiast homies.
The water is terrible for friction
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Yay for foreskin! Also, how does wanking in the shower deserve down-votes? Is it due to other people waiting to get in the shower? Waste of hot water?
Someone hasn’t heard the stories about jizz clogging shower drains.
Jizz and hair .
This is why the world gave us rain and waterfalls.
Got a heat pump so now long showers use much less energy.
Now makes me wonder what the COP is during the summer, if you time the shower so that the heat pump works during the hot part of the day it should be pretty high. 30°c outside, barely needs to work to heat the water.
Doing my installation now for hot water. Combining gas and direct electricity. Will be more or less endless showers with a small bill. First gas then keeping it hot with electric one. Wished I had a heat pump but for another time with bigger budget.
I got the heat pump and all pipework/radiators replaced, the government paid for a bit over half of the total cost as they give you £7.5k now toward replacing a boiler with a heat pump. Plus everything is VAT free as part of the install, so it was pretty much no more expensive than doing the same thing with a gas boiler. The pipework kinda needed replacing anyway, it was shit. Putting more efficient radiators on is a fairly small job when you are having all the pipework replaced already.
Got it done before moving into the house when we bought it, if you already live there I could see it being quite disruptive.
Yea , doing it all by myself as well so nothing close to that. However this is just got water not for the heating , got pellets, wood and sun for that. Think I can get something as well for updating heating and insulation here. so will look into that later.
The scalding water serves as a moderately acceptable substitute for the warmth of human contact I’m so terrible at cultivating.
I don’t know what it is for other people, but I am hypersensory, so I am basically catatonic 90% of the time in the shower.
I have always been extremely sensitive to like, everything.
I used to get abused by my father for being “too sensitive” about almost anything, emotionally, physically, etc. So I did what any “real man” would do, and masked, masked masked. Spent decades of my life forcing myself to be hard, be strong, push through discomfort, show no pain, no emotions, no sensitivity.
As one might imagine, it didn’t do me well in the long run. I was only recently diagnosed as autistic, I haven’t told anyone outside my partner, as nobody would understand, the mask is glued on now, this is just me. A shell on the outside and a hidden universe inside. The long showers are total oblivion and I wish I could just stay in that water stream for days without end.
I’m not diagnosed, but uh…I felt this pretty hard.
And then feel guilty for wasting so much water.
I mitigate it by brushing my teeth in there.
I used a buddy’s shower once, toothbrush was in there. I told him that was a great idea, really works to get the dingleberries off my asshole hair.
Hell yeah brother. Thought I was alone there.
Get a mirror, shave and pee in there too. Does help justify those long shower a little.
I want to nitpick the definition of “waste” for a moment. Yes, you are using a lot of water, and energy if the water is heated, BUT if you’re getting something remotely positive out of it (and you’re paying for it), then I would not consider it wasteful. If you genuinely want to label it as something, then let’s compromise and call it therapeutic. Deal?
I’d like to see it that way, but fresh water scarcity is a growing problem in many areas.
I have to wonder how much impact people taking 30-minute showers would have compared to corporate [mis]use.
Corporate waste massively overshadows personal use.
Then we should take it from companies that use it to cool AI super computers, mass surveillance networks, grow the worst water to plant ratio crops possible.
You could take a shower for 4 hours and it wouldn’t make a dent to the misuse by corporations.
Unless you’re in California or any other area with a low water table. Then it’s a huge issue.
Compare this person’s shower to multiple farms growing almonds in the same state.
If I was Governor of California I’d push to make it so Almonds and Alfalfa can’t be grown during the drought seasons.
I can live without a legume and I don’t think I know a single person in my entire circle’s circles who has eaten alfalfa.
The alfalfa isn’t for humans, it’s for high intensity dairy and cattle farming.
It sucks that this is practically occult information. People have no understanding of the damage they do.
Yup, it’s just beef, cheese and milk. Though if you can find them without e.coli their sprouts are good on sandwiches too.
You are right
At the same time
I can’t whataboutism limited resources
Abolish almonds
Just abolished a bag this morning.
You must also consider the externalities, not just the financial cost that you bear personally.
it’s what would be described as “sub optimal use of a finite costly resource”
This is Lemmy, if you use water to water a plant, it never goes anywhere, it disappears entirely and there is no wider system that the water might become a part of, and if you eat an almond you’ve literally used all the water a city would use in a year.
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do cars evaporate and reaccumulate in the car supply eventually?
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The downvotes are frightening. The small things that millions of people do shape the planet.
I like a warm shower myself, but it comes with some guilt.
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Water in the shower goes down the drain
…where it accumulates in underground caverns for ever!!!
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Lowtechmagazine wrote an excellent article about decadent mist showers that use many small nozzles spraying very fine mist particle sizes water on you as a much more efficient way to use water for showers. I would love to install and try out something like that one day.
Some of us live where a majority or the earth’s fresh water supply is. Water shortages tend to be localized
I zone out and feel like I’ve been in there for hours, then I exit and it’s been eight minutes. I don’t understand why, but the shower completely removes my perception of time (normally one of my better skills). Luckily, it doesn’t go the other way.
Look, man. I have a large body. There are many folds and crevices. I’m not proud of how much effort it takes to keep myself clean, but I’m proud that I’m putting in that effort.
I listen to music while in the shower. My playlist is kind of l large, okay?
