Is your shower safe?

MagicSean

When do you feel most vulnerable? For me it use to be on an aeroplane because no matter what happened there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.

Recently though Ive realised just how vulnerable I am in the shower. If anything where to happen (fire, injury, ninja attack) I would be completely screwed. Not only would I be naked and soaked I most likely would have my eyes closed and not be able to hear anything over the hum of the electric shower. If I tried to get out of the shower in anyway quickly I would most likely slip on the tiles. Then, to top things off, my plumber friend told me all about legionaires disease which completely freaked me out. The shower is really a death trap and one we must face on a daily basis.

chin_grin

So they finally legalized it then?

FatherLen

i would feel most vulnerable in a giant blender.

ICE HOUSE

k_mac wrote: »

When do you feel most vulnerable? For me it use to be on an aeroplane because no matter what happened there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.

Recently though Ive realised just how vulnerable I am in the shower. If anything where to happen (fire, injury, ninja attack) I would be completely screwed. Not only would I be naked and soaked I most likely would have my eyes closed and not be able to hear anything over the hum of the electric shower. If I tried to get out of the shower in anyway quickly I would most likely slip on the tiles. Then, to top things off, my plumber friend told me all about legionaires disease which completely freaked me out. The shower is really a death trap and one we must face on a daily basis.

Does not Compute

MagicSean

chin_grin wrote: »

So they finally legalized it then?

That would certainly make having a shower easier.

FatherLen wrote: »

i would feel most vulnerable in a giant blender.

Does that situation arise often?

orourkeda

k_mac wrote: »

When do you feel most vulnerable? For me it use to be on an aeroplane because no matter what happened there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.

Recently though Ive realised just how vulnerable I am in the shower. If anything where to happen (fire, injury, ninja attack) I would be completely screwed. Not only would I be naked and soaked I most likely would have my eyes closed and not be able to hear anything over the hum of the electric shower. If I tried to get out of the shower in anyway quickly I would most likely slip on the tiles. Then, to top things off, my plumber friend told me all about legionaires disease which completely freaked me out. The shower is really a death trap and one we must face on a daily basis.

Have you been watching psycho?

FatherLen

k_mac wrote: »

Does that situation arise often?

at least 6 times a year.

krudler

thread title reads like a Daily Mail headline.

ARE IMMIGRANTS STEALING YOUR PETS?

ARE VIDEOGAMES RESPONSIBLE FOR TSUNAMI?

Duggy747

1. Put head in toilet bowl
2. Flush
3. Hair washed

holystungun9

orourkeda wrote: »

The shower is cool. I had sex in it last night.

Me too! One day there is gonna be a girl in there too and I'll touch her boob

Also, if it's safe showers you want, don't go to Costa Rica where the electric heater element is in the shower head with shoddy bare wires going in to. Was never going to use but then stay cats and dogs started to follow me around.

wild_cat

k_mac wrote: »

Recently though Ive realised just how vulnerable I am in the shower. If anything where to happen (fire, injury, ninja attack) I would be completely screwed. Not only would I be naked and soaked I most likely would have my eyes closed and not be able to hear anything over the hum of the electric shower. If I tried to get out of the shower in anyway quickly I would most likely slip on the tiles. Then, to top things off, my plumber friend told me all about legionaires disease which completely freaked me out. The shower is really a death trap and one we must face on a daily basis.

I was in the shower one afternoon boyfriend was at work since early morning. Shampooing away and the next thing I hear "TUDD TUDD TUDD". Thought maybe it was the neighbours and but it kept getting louder and louder. So slight paranoia has set in.


Next thing the water went ice cold. I hop out, bricking it by this stage. I can hear someone walking across the landing... I come into the kitchen that looks out onto the stairs but its a dark stairway (darkest house in Ireland but the rents cheap) I see a figure coming down wearing a baseball hat, my boyfriend doesn't have one so I thought it couldn't have been him. I start screaming, drop my towel and grab a knife.

Boyfriend walks into the kitchen and says "Did I scare you? Sorry... What do you think of my new hat."

I had gotten such a fright I started to cry at that point.

What do you think of my new fecking hat... tut. The water had turned cold due to him flushing the toilet up stairs and the tudding was due to the man walking around like an elephant.

Wolfe Tone

wild_cat wrote: »

I was in the shower one afternoon boyfriend was at work since early morning. Shampooing away and the next thing I hear "TUDD TUDD TUDD". Thought maybe it was the neighbours and but it kept getting louder and louder. So slight paranoia has set in.


Next thing the water went ice cold. I hop out, bricking it by this stage. I can hear someone walking across the landing... I come into the kitchen that looks out onto the stairs but its a dark stairway (darkest house in Ireland but the rents cheap) I see a figure coming down wearing a baseball hat, my boyfriend doesn't have one so I thought it couldn't have been him. I start screaming, drop my towel and grab a knife.

Boyfriend walks into the kitchen and says "Did I scare you? Sorry... What do you think of my new hat."

I had gotten such a fright I started to cry at that point.

What do you think of my new fecking hat... tut. The water had turned cold due to him flushing the toilet up stairs and the tudding was due to the man walking around like an elephant.

Why does flushing the jacks make the water go cold?

wild_cat

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Why does flushing the jacks make the water go cold?

I think its a pump system they have in or something. House is a kip.

jive

you are not going to get legionnaires disease from your shower if you use it regularly










it's the air conditioning at work that you should be worried about.

kfallon

In the shower I only feel vulnerable to a 'sneaky finger'!

And by 'vulnerable' I really mean 'partial' :pac:

kfallon

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Why does flushing the jacks make the water go cold?

If the washing machine is on at home it plays havoc with the water temperature in the shower, goes from ok to either scalding hot or really cold for a minute or two!!!

Btw why would you be flushing the bog if you are in the shower

Screaminmidget

No Shower is safe!! And when is there ever gonna be a ninja attack in your bathroom?

landsleaving

Screaminmidget wrote: »

No Shower is safe!! And when is there ever gonna be a ninja attack in your bathroom?

When you least expect it.

kingtut

Screaminmidget wrote: »

No Shower is safe!! And when is there ever gonna be a ninja attack in your bathroom?

When you least expect it :cool:

Edit - Damn beaten to it, oh well mine has a smiley so I win

18AD

My shower's made of sodium.

Noo

If ever i take a shower when i'm home alone I always bring my mobile phone into the bathroom too...just in case. I dont if theres someone in the house, i just assume the thud of me slipping and knocking myself out would shake to whole house and not go unnoticed.

alexa5x5

I can’t sleep with my bedroom door open, it doesn’t need to be locked just closed. If a burglar or crazed psychopath broke into my house a closed door isn’t going to stop them but I just feel too vulnerable with it open.


*The same goes for wardrobes and cupboards, but that’s valid, we all know theirs monster in there!

starling.

I just watched Psycho for the first time yesterday. And now this.

I'll never be able to shower fearlessly again

CrazyRabbit

k_mac wrote: »

When do you feel most vulnerable?

I'm a motorcyclist. Enough said.

18AD

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

I'm a motorcyclist. Enough said.

You shower with your motorbike?

CrazyRabbit

18AD wrote: »

You shower with your motorbike?

They are a pain to keep clean. So a watering can and some soap in the front garden allows me to kill two birds with one stone.

RichieC

Oh my god, I'd be killed!

18AD

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

They are a pain to keep clean. So a watering can and some soap in the front garden allows me to kill two birds with one stone.

That's one lucky motorbike.

Smeggy

I've developed a strange phobia lately that when I'm washing my face in the shower, that when I open my eyes there is going to be a somebody standing with their face pressed against the glasss, thus giving me an instant heart attack before they manage to strangle/stab/mutilate me....

:eek:

Ruu_Old

My double always takes my showers for me, I'm good.

Locker10a

If im in the house on my own i have 2 do a whole house search after i close and lock all the doors to make sure no one is hiding in the house and no one can come in while im in the shower! I also bring the phone with me!

Gummy Panda

OP obliviously never did "The Terminator" in the shower.

You'd be ready for anything after that

Alter-Ego

wild_cat wrote: »

I start screaming, drop my towel and grab a knife.
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Pics or GTFO.

2 stroke

Always use protection in the shower.

Joey the lips

An electric shower. The closest elecricity and water come and you sandwhiched in the middle.

Toast anyone?

Big Nasty

Shower **** rocks!

Although the combination of my cream and GF's hair in the drain means I get more of a bath than a shower these days!

Saila

OP lives with Cato, good times! watch out inspector C its always when you least expect him!

TheBunk1

2 stroke wrote: »

Always use protection in the shower.

I keep telling my cell-mate that

bertie4evr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP5jEAP3K4

3 pages and no ones posted this? For shame.

Where To

I broke five teeth in the shower last week so i agree OP.

Not safe.

Not safe at all:mad:

18AD

Was it the ninja?

2 stroke

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Why does flushing the jacks make the water go cold?

Usualy the reason is that because water diverts to the toilet, there is reduced flow to the shower, and the water temperature rises. A safety circuit cuts the power to the heater/hot water supply so that you aren't scalded, resulting in a cold shower. Until somebody sues a shower company because of the resulting heart attack, they will continue to make showers like this. Damm, I just posted a serious reply in AH. Probably be banned now.

mink_man

legionnaires? The Heat of the water kills of any bacteria.

Daniel S

k mac wrote:

Is your shower safe?

No, I was unlucky during the Celtic tiger and some $%£&*$ ripped me off and gave me one that's definatly out to kill me.

PK2008

Pffff.... what if.... what if.....what if i slip on a bar of soap in the shower :rolleyes:
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Oh my god I could be killed!!!! :eek:

citizen_p

lock your bathroom door, shower is now safest place.

fire, meet shower head
ninja, meat shower head swung like a mace.

Son Of A Vidic

2 stroke wrote: »

Usualy the reason is that because water diverts to the toilet, there is reduced flow to the shower, and the water temperature rises. A safety circuit cuts the power to the heater/hot water supply so that you aren't scalded, resulting in a cold shower. Until somebody sues a shower company because of the resulting heart attack, they will continue to make showers like this. Damm, I just posted a serious reply in AH. Probably be banned now.

I second that motion for an immediate ban.

MagicSean

Mousey- wrote: »

lock your bathroom door, shower is now safest place.

fire, meet shower head
ninja, meat shower head swung like a mace.

I tried locking the door in my last apartment. The key broke in the lock. Was trapped for hours before I finally broke out through the wall. Dam fireproof doors!

It can be very tiring for the cyclists powering the shower.

Can 80 cyclists power a house for a day?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8394055.stm