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Showering is wasteful and often unnecessary

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,806 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    My understanding was that showering everyday wasn't necessary so long as you're not active. Just a wash every day is necessary.

    During the winter it's about every second day for me. I work from home, it's not hot & I'm not sweating. I shower on days I'm going to the gym or days I'm meeting people.

    During the summer here in Germany it can reach the low thirties. On those days I definitely shower every day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,806 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    If I'm hungover I will have a shower at some point. It feel like I'm sweating out the alcohol and I just need it to feel clean. It always makes me feel better :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,236 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Couldn't go a day without either a shower or bath.

    Nothing as bad as a dirty person.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD


    Yes but in this day and age "a wash" is essentially a shower, is it not?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭youtheman


    Was speaking to someone from the Irish Defense Forces once. Think he was in Chad. All the water had to be generated by an RO plant. So everyone was limited to a 60 second shower. Water was turned on for 30 seconds, then off. You scrubbed yourself and then it was turned on for a further 30 seconds to rinse yourself.

    Remember watching one of those documentaries about U.S Aircraft Carriers, where you have over 5,000 people on board. The shower head was a small spring loaded ball at the end of the hose. You had to hold it on one hand and keep the button pressed to get the water flowing. Made it very difficult for someone to waste large quantities of water.

    When my kids were small I regularly had to bang on the wall to try get them out, usually to no avail. So I used to go to the hot press and start cycling the valve on the how water side open/closed. That got then out fairly quick. I never admitted it was me frigging with the system though!.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,806 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Not really. I do face/head (I'm bald). And a washcloth over certain bits.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,046 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    So does the washcloth go in the wash afterwards?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Rocket_GD




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,806 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    yep. I started a new morning skincare routine a year ago. So I wash, tone, serum and moisturize every day. I bought a feck load of washcloths :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Raichų


    I gave up showering on the back of this thread anyway. I’ve decided from now on when I need a wash I’ll just lie down in my cats bed and they can clean me.

    I’ll save a fortune on electricity. Thanks OP.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,709 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Raichų


    honestly I’ll settle for my wife understanding.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭SNNUS


    Your post stinks!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Jaysus I could smell this thread from the Current Affairs forum



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,880 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    my routine used to be similar but since I started doing a treadmill session most mornings it’s a shower pretty much every day…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,806 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Oh god yeah. Any type of physical exercise has a shower afterwards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,776 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    As I predicted, many of the responses are visceral, emotional and there has been usual lame sneering. I know it's AH but these sort of reactions are rooted in insecurity and herd mentality.

    For those who claim that they take very short showers, maybe you do but research show that the average shower is 8 minutes and people don't turn it off while lathering. Showering feels good and it gives people some temporary respite from reality and their responsibilities but it's not a solution to their struggles or necessary for washing.

    Reality is that body odour emanates from an extremely thin and easily wiped away layer of secretions, waste products and bacteria on the skin. A few litres of water in a basin gives a huge amount of dilution for cleaning. There are thousands of elderly people in nursing homes etc being washed this way and they don't smell if it is done properly and everyday.

    The benefit from using much more and running water is marginal and the bacteria that cause odour can't be eliminated regardless of how much taxpayer funded, potable, heated water someone wastes with their Blaster Jet 8000.

    There was a telling comment on here about how "these days, washing = showering". Bingo. The basic principles of washing have not changed.. Frequent showering is a societal trend that is around for less than 50 years and plenty of vested interests (from plumbers to suppliers of energy and shower gel manufacturers) have been gladly using it to separate idiots from their money..

    If this dry sunny spell continues, the fun will start. The dumbos who mindlessly abuse water resources will be the ones crying if Irish Water can't provide enough pressure for their twice a day electric shower. They'll stink but it won't occur to them that its possible to wash without a shower. They won't be able to cope just like people weren't able to cope during Storm Eowyn -property porn bathrooms and Neff appliances but no power, heat, cooking or water. No SuperSer, no gas camping ring to heat rainwater for washing, not that it would occur to them to do that even if they had such a thing.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,046 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Well I'm going for a shower. Gotta keep those plumbers happy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,608 ✭✭✭✭suvigirl


    I have neither a porn bathroom 🤣 nor Neff appliances, but I will be taking a shower shortly and it will be a long one as I'm gonna wash and condition my hair, perhaps some 'personal grooming ' I'll listen to a podcast or something while I'm there, just so I'm in no rush



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,046 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I turned on the cascade to wash the head.

    Hmmm. Cascade.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,431 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Imagine being stuck in a. Car for hours on end with the OP. 🤢

    I wanna have a long hot shower just thinking about it! 🧼



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Raichų


    you’re actually gaslighting yourself into being a dirty fcuker brian?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Raichų


    like the sheer amount of self righteousness coming from your posts is unbelievable.

    You’re a smelly hippy that doesn’t shower mate it’s not like you’re ghandi?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,709 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    I generally shower for 3/4 minutes daily, I have a highly active lifestyle so could have a body that's glazed in sweat. Getting myself properly clean would be somewhat difficult.

    Btw I've traveled to some pretty remote areas of the globe and didn't tend to have access to electric showers but some form of a shower wasn't particularly unusual TBH.

    Honestly it just reads like being contrarian for the sake of it. You must have an existential crisis deciding between a bidet and toilet paper.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Raichų


    prob just cuts around with a crusty arse cos it’s posh notions to use toilet paper.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 20,838 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Are those who wash at the sink using the same sink full of water for everywhere?

    What order do you wash in? A sink full of soapy water full of secretions and dead skin cells from your various bits and pieces used on other bits and pieces?

    Then the faff of standing at the sink trying not to splash water everywhere, I think I'll stick with a daily shower.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,559 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Would you leave off the OP, he washes, just in a different fashion to you.

    Personally, I'm one of those wasteful fuckers that has a 15 minute shower every day (I do use a rain water collection butt for the garden at least). Were we not a nation of entitled pricks who threw a tantrum over water charges, I'd happily pay for this excessive use (as long as the water utility is kept public, otherwise I'd still pay for it but I'd give out about Denis O' Brien and his ilk being given another way to profit from public services).

    Ireland has an average annual rainfall of approximately 1230 mm, there's no reason for us to have water shortages. Switch on the meters, bill those of us who use more than we need to and Uisce Eireann should be adequately funded to fix our creaking water infrastructure. I reckon it wouldn't be long before water harvesting systems started being installed in new builds or as part of energy upgrades etc.

    The problem the OP is looking to address isn't anything to do with showers: it's down to people not being held accountable for their own actions.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 EmergencyExit


    People who don't shower every day make public transport unbearable. Should be a separate section for them on trains along with those idiots who speak loudly on their phones letting the world know their business.



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  • Subscribers Posts: 43,065 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    the hypocrisy of referring to 'emotional' and 'sneering' posts where your opening post called people who shower "dumbos" and "normies" and accusations of 'boasting' about showering.

    This is a thread of 'methinks the lady doth protest too much'.

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