Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Showering is wasteful and often unnecessary

  • 14-05-2025 08:47AM
    #1
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,756 ✭✭✭


    When did Irish normies become obsessed with frequent showering and the BS associated with it - electric showers, wet rooms, heated towel rails, fancy shower gel and so on. IME electric showers weren't a thing here until the early 90s and I never saw a wet room in a house until the 00s. Note that for some people e.g. those in wheelchairs, a wet room shower can be a practical thing. But for most others, a large shower that blasts out water is a status symbol with the act of showering itself being something to boast about.

    Do dumbos not realise that they can wash effectively with a basin, washcloth and bar of soap.

    It's only May and with the dry weather we've had, there are already hosepipe bans and probably more on the way. Irish Water is asking customers to conserve water and having shorter showers is specifically mentioned.

    I collect rainwater and for the past couple of months, given the weather, most days I've been heating it in a solar box oven made from scrap materials. A few litres of hot water in a basin is more than sufficient to wash face, hands, feet, cock, groin, pits, arse and to give a quick wipe to the rest of the body. Somehow this isn't socially acceptable - yet if I put the same quantity of water in a camping shower bag and dribbled it over myself I could say that I've had a shower.

    Also, immersing ones feet in a basin of hot water and scrubbing them gives them a better wash than a standup shower. Yet I'm sure that people will have a visceral emotional reaction to this post and call me a dirty smelly fcuker.



«134

Comments

Advertisement