For real. Everytime I get in the shower I end up having to point the showerhead away and cower from the cold water and I could have just turned it on first?
people who talk about their education when it is not part of the conversation are usually pretty dumb.
I’m a first gen immigrant but despite having native American English, sometimes once in a blue moon I’ll encounter a semi-rare word I’ve yet to be exposed to.
So my closest analog is that I was confused for the longest time why people kept referring to statues of figures from shoulder level upwards as busts when they never had chests or breasts or boobs or blossoms or busts!
So for the longest time not only was I confused, I would be on the lookout for statuses that depicted from breast height upwards, but I never found one, lol.
I’m so thrown off by our current shower which legit heats up in 2 seconds. I was so used to waiting like a minute for it to warm up, I built my rituals around that. But this one… it’s just hot, like right away. Bizarre
Same here! Moved to an appartement so everything is closer and now I don’t need to turn on the shower 5 business days before I want to shower
Some apartments with central hot water have a recirculation pump, so the water is almost always hot. My building has one. The water is always hot, but for some fucking reason the hot water is like right next to the cold water, but the cold water doesn’t have a pump, so the cold water pipes will get hot from the flowing hot water. Then when I turn on my shower the cold water will be just as hot as the hot water… for like a minute, making the entire thing fucking pointless because you still have to wait to get in. But I can burn myself on demand so I’ve got that going for me.
I’m in a SFH but all the bathrooms are very proximal to the heater so it slaps
The distance from the heater to the shower is usually the biggest factor.
In fancy installs, the hot water supply is a loop, not a tree, and a circulating pump keeps the entire run hot.
That sounds like a great way to waste energy.
A huge amount of waste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67i4-_sXGcQ Claims $400/year, $35/month.
Rather than just dumping the cold water down the drain?
If you have a hot water tank, that hot water is just sitting there getting cold just waiting to be heated up again. A circulating pump puts that hot water to use by circulating it through the pipes, which has a nice side effect in cold climates of preventing the pipes from freezing and bursting. I doubt it wastes much energy as you think.
Hot water tanks do not just “get cold”; they are fantastically well insulated. And a great way to lower peak energy usage by accumulating heating power, making it possible to use a heat pump to heat the water.
Hot water tanks are usually not that well insulated. If you want to save electricity an easy thing to wrap a good later insulation around it.
Sorry, you’ve met wealthy people, right…?
It’s just dumb engineering to heat up a pipe the entire day for the 0.8% of the day you need it to be hot.
Insulation + retaining heat means it isn’t nearly as energy inefficient as you think.
They keep the water tanks heated all day, and not heating the pipes means they have to do more work as they are drained of more water to fill the length of pipe to the shower which will then lose that heat over the course the day, only to need the water heater to heat it back up again.
You don’t have to heat it up all day. Did you just post the first “anti” thought you had without giving one minute of consideration to how modern controls work?
Have you read the previous comments? Because that’s exactly what’s implied.
With enough insulation, anything can meet energy-efficiency standards. XD
Heat pumps generally use a lot less power. Don’t need to heat up much if it is already slightly hot.
Someone else already pointed out that these are usually pretty well insulated systems that don’t radiate much energy, but also consider how many dozens of gallons of water aren’t being wasted by waiting for it to be warm.
Nearly all of these systems are put on timers. So they stop cycling while you’re at work or over night. They’ll often make it a part of the smart home ecosystem as well, so you can override from a smart home device or phone
when I was little I would wait for the water to warm up, then pull the thing to turn on the shower head. But there’s like 2 seconds of freezing water in the tube to the shower head so I would have to really quickly pull it, run back to the edge of the shower, and block it with the shower curtain. It had a 50% chance of failure and I did it for years
I learnt that there’s a bit of cold water when switching to the shower head the hard way.
Pointed it at my wife and swapped it and she screamed. Whoops lol.
…and you survived. That’s amazing. :)
So he’s about to have shower sex and he is capable of thinking about anything else?
I think he mentioned knowing he’s a dumbass, so
why would they have shower sex, when they could have sex then shower
Yeah, shower sex might be one of the most overrated things I know. It always feels like a good idea at first and then you quickly realize that the logistics of it are hell
It depends a lot on the size of the shower stall.
…And the relative heights of the people…
Someone has been skipping leg day!
I think people set the bar too high for shower sex - and, generally, for sex in weird locations.
It’s not about having a mind-blowing orgasm, or even about climaxing. It’s about the sensuality. Your body slick with soap and water, grinding against your lover. Soaping each other up, rubbing against one another, giggling and groping.
Stop trying to finish your business on porcelain - you’ll hurt yourself! Retire to the bedroom and finish properly!
Silicone lube works really well.
It’s not the first time I’ve heard this opinion. But I can’t say I agree. I like shower sex.
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I stand in the shower and turn it on hoping it was indeed left with the shower head disabled, then I turn it on low pressure and let water flow until its warm.
No need to waste arbitrary amounts of water! If you don’t have a normal shower (you’re american) and only have some on/off shower pressure control, step inside, run the tub until it’s warm, and act like a human being who can take the .3 seconds of cold water that may still be in the pipes between the diverter and spout. Odds are the cold water was drawn down from the water rushing out of the spout anyway, unless you have an adjustable showerhead. See step one.
The amount of water is the same. It’s the volume held by the pipes between the water heater and your bathroom. that’s the same amount of water, whether it comes out of the bathtub or the showerhead, at a high or low rate of flow.
I didn’t learn until my 40s that if you exhale gently while getting water on your face, none of it goes in your nose.
I think I learnt this when I was taught swimming as a child. You always slowly exhale or at least keep the air in your nose slightly under pressure while you’re underwater, so the water doesn’t get in.
If you do water somersaults you have to push harder when upside down since the air escapes!
Blowing bubbles is always the first thing I taught kids when they were learning to swim.
What’s the difference between pointing the shower head away and standing outside at first?
Cold water going by in close proximity will probably result in some splashing on you, plus the movement of cold air in close proximity is going to suck away some heat too.
It is kind of refreshing in the summer, but very different if it is chilly in the bathroom. Plus you can keep your PJs/robe/a towel on you to keep warm outside the shower while the water is warming up.
I’ve never waited for more than five seconds for the water to reach acceptable, and 10 seconds for the set temperature (40° max in my case). Always had and used a tankless water heater.
Which has a high initial cost + yearly maintenance.
250€ and biyearly maintenance. For that you get instant hot water.
That does not track with what I’ve researched, at least not the price. I’m sure you can get away with not maintaining things frequently — although I’m not sure I want to take that risk with something my water flows through.
227€, same specs as the one currently powering my apt.
I just asked my dad, how often he maintains the one in our bathroom. He was surprised that was even possible. There was actually never any change in temperature, flow rate or noise in the 10.5 years it’s running, with the second highest water hardness.
The only more expensive part is the running cost of 18-24 kW
Geometry
Turn on the water reaching in from outside, then get undressed, then get in. Saves time overall.
Doesn’t work with my workflow, but I guess it could work for some people
Parenting. You think you’re doing great and you realise at times that some of the thing a you take for granted, you haven’t taught your kids.
Just because they’ve seen you do something a thousand times doesn’t mean they understand why
I remember a story of a child watching their mother cook a roast, and asked why she cut the ends off before putting it in the oven.
The mother learned it from her mother, so they both went and asked the grandmother.
Turned out the grandmother used to have a small oven and did that to make it fit.
I immediately thought of the variant of this story I’ve heard when I read the post.
In the variant I heard: grandma never had bakeware that could fit the entire roast.
Same difference. I kinda like yours better.
I just had to say “don’t put your chicken in your butt” to be met with “Why?”
As a parent, I was surprised at the amount of stuff kids need to be taught. Stuff that I assumed was obvious isn’t - it’s learned behaviour. And you don’t realize that it’s learned until you see your kid struggling with some trivial task.
An interesting one that sums it all up - crawling babies aren’t instinctively scared of cliffs or drops, they have to learn not to crawl off an edge. Which isn’t all that surprising except for the fact that when they start walking, they don’t carry this lesson forward and will happily walk off an edge. They need to learn it again.
As an ex kid, I only recently realised my parents taught me almost nothing. Even though I later learned a lot of very varied things, I could have started much better equipped for life. To people who chose to have kids, don’t be like my parents. It’s really crippling.
The fun part is watching your kids figure out complex and nuanced things that you never even thought about, much less understood, while struggling with those trivial tasks.
OMG yes! One of my kids I have to micromanage to brush their teeth but is like Deanna Troi when it comes to their friends. (I’m more Data)
The fact that those are the comparisons you chose to use confirms you are, in fact, more like Data, hehe
See also: why LLMs can seem clever and still be incredibly stupid
Average engagement bait/troll.
Got your engagement
Why, yes, that is why I am here!
(In case I messed up - I didn’t mean you being a troll, I meant that first shower-noob op.)
I lived the same “realization moment” last year talking to a friend.
I was saying that I need to go home to wash my white undershirts as I only got blacks left (small t-shirt to wear under a shirt and not freeze to death during winter).
He asked me why so I have several colors of undershirts.
Well, black and grey for black or dark colored shirts, white for white or clear colored shirts otherwise you’ll see it behind the fabric, duuuh, are you dumb?
The answer:
Or you can wear white ones under dark shirts as well and it won’t be visible…
🤔🤔🤔😧 FFS dude, why did I never thought of that?
I wish the same were true for bras. Women’s shirts are often much thinner than men’s, so a white bra might show through a dark shirt. It took me until this year to figure out that in order to make your bras less visible under light or white shirts, you should use a skin-tone bra instead of a white bra. Blew my mind when I figured that one out.
I had the skin tone bra thing down pat, but blew my mind when I realized you can also have cute color bras that match or contrast with the outer clothes so if your strap shows it looks intentional!
You can sometimes see the white collar part, unless that’s just it being weird how it sits on me.
Depends on if you get a V neck or not.
You gan also use light grey in most cases, except almost translucent clothes.
Why light grey ? Because you can wash it with dark or light clothes, worst case it get a bit darker or lighter. And as there is almost no color, it doesn’t spill on other clothes. Moreover, unlike white clothes, you fon’t have to worry about it getting a bit yellowish with time, the color is enough to mask it.
The majority of the clothes on the planet do not bleed color anymore.
But they still exists, and unfortunately some of my white clothes are now light blue due to one of them 😅.
Yeah, new jeans and some red stuff still seems to bleed the first one or two washes in my experience.
Black probably stays nicer longer though. And if it does show at all, it matches.
I don’t like wasting water, so I just stand at the far end and try to start wetting my hair until it gets warm enough to fully step in.
If your dinner scrapings are too soupy or wet to go in the bin, you can tip the whole thing in the toilet so you don’t have to fanny about trying to sieve the noodles and vegetables while decanting it into the kitchen sink.
30 years old when I had dinner at a friend’s house and they did it casually like it was obvious.
Yeah. Took me like 16, 17 years to realise I could put a bit of TP down first to stop the splash making such noise and firing back at my asshole.
… what?
They’re talking about a crash pad for poop, since some people don’t like it making a sound when they take a dump in public.
This is gold. And yeah, it took decades before someone told me the secret.
I am still baffled by how many people suffer from Poseidon’s Kiss on a regular basis. Like I’ve had it happen once or twice ever, and I’m not a spring chicken.
Diet mainly.
I had a very cold shower once until I realized the way that one knob faucet worked was you had to turn it an insane amount to get to the hot water.
If you still have that, know that it can usually be adjusted by removing that one screw you see and go behind the knob and adjust the hot water stop. Really changed the shower comfort over here, as it used to be real hard to find that sweet spot between lukewarm and scalding hot.
