Hot Bath vs Shower!

SkyBlueClouds · 11-11-2014 10:24PM #1

I love a good hot soak as much as the next bloke. Nothing like sticking on a few scented candles, a good spotify playlist, and chucking some fragrant scented smellies in the tub. However, baths are so impractical for a number of reasons

The emersion - you have to turn it on, time it, remember to turn it off, get the right amount of water heated...I never can get the timing right.

The cost- much more expensive than a 7 min shower.

Environment - obiously a colossal waste of water and the planets natural resources.

Showers are much quicker and the economic winner, that's a given. I don't enjoy them half as much as a nice long bath though. Something about a trickle of water streaming on my face sets me on edge. You can't bask in a running waterfall. I much prefer a warm oasis for my bodily cleansing rituals.

Which do you prefer. Are you a bath buddy or a shower sucker?

sashafierce · 11-11-2014 10:24PM

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mikom · 11-11-2014 10:25PM

I wash myself with a rag on a stick.

The One Who Knocks · 11-11-2014 10:25PM

Cold shower!

solomafioso · 11-11-2014 10:25PM

Yeah, there's nothing like sitting in a warm soup of your own filth to relax the muscles.

monflat · 11-11-2014 10:26PM

Oh nothing like a good hot bath! I think if one participates in sports etc it's good for the muscles to relax etc

A woman I work with says having a bath is washing yourself in your own dirt.

I don't think so thou!

monflat · 11-11-2014 10:27PM

solomafioso wrote: »

Yeah, there's nothing like sitting in a warm soup of your own filth to relax the muscles.

Nah. It's well diluted

SkyBlueClouds · 11-11-2014 10:28PM

solomafioso wrote: »

Yeah, there's nothing like sitting in a warm soup of your own filth to relax the muscles.

It's your own filth though. And you get to see it wash down the drain at the end. Somewhat comforting me thinks. I feel cleaner

SkyBlueClouds · 11-11-2014 10:30PM

monflat wrote: »

Oh nothing like a good hot bath! I think if one participates in sports etc it's good for the muscles to relax etc

A woman I work with says having a bath is washing yourself in your own dirt.

I don't think so thou!

Yep. Great for soothing aching muscles after the gym.

Sh1tbag OToole · 11-11-2014 10:30PM

SkyBlueClouds wrote: »

The cost- much more expensive than a 7 min shower.

Environment - obiously a colossal waste of water and the planets natural resources.

That was probably true in the 70's but todays showerheads pump out a lot more water than the old ones so if you spend more than 5 or 10 minutes in the shower any gains in efficiency are lost.

Some of the 'Luxury' showerheads you can get now pump out a full bath's worth of water every couple of minutes

Rough Sleeper · 11-11-2014 10:31PM

I'm a healthy 26-year-old so obviously the answer is a shower.

Baths are for infants, old people and megalomaniac drug lords.

RayM · 11-11-2014 10:32PM

I remember reading somewhere that it's cheaper to just leave the immersion heater on permanently. No idea whether that's true or not, so don't try it at home kids. Unless it's true - in which case, try it. You're welcome.

Sh1tbag OToole · 11-11-2014 10:34PM

Rough Sleeper wrote: »

I'm a healthy 26-year-old so obviously the answer is a shower.

Baths are for infants, old people and megalomaniac drug lords.

I always thought the drug lords were more into hot tubs with a few fine byors

Chucken · 11-11-2014 10:35PM

solomafioso wrote: »

Yeah, there's nothing like sitting in a warm soup of your own filth to relax the muscles.

How filthy are you?

Anyway, baths are for soaking in. Showers are for washing in.

SkyBlueClouds · 11-11-2014 10:39PM

RayM wrote: »

I remember reading somewhere that it's cheaper to just leave the immersion heater on permanently. No idea whether that's true or not, so don't try it at home kids. Unless it's true - in which case, try it. You're welcome.

I remember my mother shouting at me on many occasions during childhood to turn the thing off, I had a penchant for leaving it on. Used to threaten a cut of the weekly pocket money - oh and I'd be responsible for telling the authorities why I burned the house down when the emersion blew up

Not sold on the idea, I don't think

seamus · 11-11-2014 10:39PM

Yeah, not mad on the bath thing really. I get bored quickly. A nice shower is far more relaxing and refreshing.

Baths are only good when you've got your hot missus in there with you. And even then it has to be a proper big tub in a fancy hotel room, not the 4-foot carbon fibre yokes in your house. Two adults squeezed into one of them does not make a romantic evening.

monflat · 11-11-2014 10:41PM

RayM wrote: »

I remember reading somewhere that it's cheaper to just leave the immersion heater on permanently. No idea whether that's true or not, so don't try it at home kids. Unless it's true - in which case, try it. You're welcome.

Ye I think that's true it costs less to keep it at a certain heat than to repeatedly reheat from scratch.

Try telling anyone who grew up in 70 s or 80 s that!

SkyBlueClouds · 11-11-2014 10:42PM

seamus wrote: »

Yeah, not mad on the bath thing really. I get bored quickly. A nice shower is far more relaxing and refreshing.

Baths are only good when you've got your hot missus in there with you. And even then it has to be a proper big tub in a fancy hotel room, not the 4-foot carbon fibre yokes in your house. Two adults squeezed into one of them does not make a romantic evening.

Agreed. Last time I tried to take a romantic dip with the ex in our tiny bath I ended up breaking the mirror with my left foot. Blood and broken glass. Mmm. Not the least bit amorous or sexy.

castletownman · 11-11-2014 10:44PM

Baths lost their appeal for me around the time when I was younger and let out a "sly" fart only to be greeted with a floating turd in the physical time it takes one to rise to the surface

SkyBlueClouds · 11-11-2014 10:45PM

castletownman wrote: »

Baths lost their appeal for me around the time when I was younger and let out a "sly" fart only to be greeted with a floating turd in the physical time it takes one to rise to the surface

Beautiful.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 11-11-2014 10:47PM

Baths are boring and there's no such thing as a detachable bath head, showers all the way!

Greenmachine · 11-11-2014 10:53PM

monflat wrote: »

Ye I think that's true it costs less to keep it at a certain heat than to repeatedly reheat from scratch.

Try telling anyone who grew up in 70 s or 80 s that!

So wrong. Just how cold do you think the water gets when it is not being heated.
Baths are fecking manky. You would never fill a bath from a single tank of water anyway. Pointless sitting in a couple of inch or your dirty water. At least with the shower the water runs straight off your body.

pharmaton · 11-11-2014 11:01PM

baby Jesus hot shower. In the summer when I use the immersion, I turn it on as I make my way to the kettle, by the time its boiled, the tea is made and I've had a ciggy I'm good to hop in and its just right. 15 mins should so it op.
(In the winter the heating is set on a timer so it comes on half an hour before I wake up and the water is hot by the time I get to the bathroom *bliss

)

[probably should have mentioned I've a power shower off the mains)

retro:electro · 11-11-2014 11:07PM

I have a bath if I want to feel relaxed and a shower if I want to feel clean. I like a bath after a long day esp if I've already had a shower that morning and am already clean. Prefer a shower before a night out or work because I feel fresher for longer. I never really feel that clean after a bath, more relaxed and ready for bed.

Hitchens · 11-11-2014 11:53PM

hard to beat a good wash from the barrel under the downpipe................quare bracing of a frosty morning!

Pwindedd · 12-11-2014 12:09AM

If I had a choice bath...every time. Time constraints mean it's only really at the weekends though. Bubble bath, candles, scrubs, all manner of lotions and potions. A good playlist and a cuppa tea (Sunday's) or glass of wine (evenings)

Lay back and top up as necessary - I can turn the taps on and off with my feet at this stage. Can lose the guts of an hour in the bath.

stevemul · 12-11-2014 12:20AM

Re the arguement that showers are more hygenic than baths - have you ever put your car through a carwash and then looked under your wheelarches?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 12-11-2014 12:25AM

Love baths but not on my own. I get bored too easily and I hate having to figure out how to get the temp just right, cause its boiling when you get in but within minutes you're freezing

Joe Duffy.. · 12-11-2014 12:35AM

Neither. I haven't had a wash of any sort since February 1993.

Capt'n Midnight · 12-11-2014 02:23AM

monflat wrote: »

Ye I think that's true it costs less to keep it at a certain heat than to repeatedly reheat from scratch.

Try telling anyone who grew up in 70 s or 80 s that!

or anyone with any knowledge of thermodynamics

Kevin McCloud · 12-11-2014 02:26AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

or anyone with any knowledge of thermodynamics

Thats pre school stuff now sure.

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