Showering is wasteful and often unnecessary (2025)

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  • 14-05-2025 08:47AM

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    BrianD3

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    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.

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  • #2 14-05-2025 09:01AM

    nachouser

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    You probably shouldn't get out more.

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  • #3 14-05-2025 09:09AM

    Trigger Happy

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    It sounds like you have your mind made up and wanted to rant a bit about how your way is the best and only way. Nothing to discuss here.

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  • #4 14-05-2025 09:16AM

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    Hard to beat a nice cold shower this weather. Fluting about with a bucket of warm water is in no way comparable to be fair

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  • #5 14-05-2025 09:17AM

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    What's an Irish normie?

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  • #6 14-05-2025 09:20AM

    littlefeet

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    More posts about sweaty people.

    Imagine have to work beside someone who doesn't shower in this weather.

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  • #7 14-05-2025 09:20AM

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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058410013/showering-is-wasteful-and-often-unnecessary

    OK smellbag.
    How is a shower a status symbol when the only people that will see it is the owner?

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  • #8 14-05-2025 09:28AM

    circadian

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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058410013/showering-is-wasteful-and-often-unnecessary

    To each their own, I'm prone to an 'ol top and tail myself but you can't beat a blast of hot water in a shower, followed by cold, not that you can do that in this weather.

    Regarding hosepipe bans, it's down to a lack of infrastructure and crap maintenance. We don't have enough reservoirs for the population, especially around Dublin.

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  • #9 14-05-2025 09:28AM

    This is it

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    Dirty smelly fucker

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  • #10 14-05-2025 09:34AM

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    “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”


    In that order?! Dirty smelly fucker. I’ll happily stay a normie, whatever the fu€k that is.

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  • #11 14-05-2025 09:51AM

    osarusan

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    But for most others, a large shower that blasts out water is a status symbol

    No it isn't FFS. Showers are utterly commonplace.

    You going on about how you shower in solar-heated rainwater is your effort own at status.

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  • #12 14-05-2025 10:09AM

    cap.in.hand.

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    Great post...and a perfectly acceptable washing regime....

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  • #13 14-05-2025 10:14AM

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    Remember that poster who used to swear he didnt smell even though he rarely showered or washed his clothes?

  • #14 14-05-2025 10:19AM

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    I can see how a shower looks like a luxury to sometime who washes their arse in a bucket.

    Smelly crusty....

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  • #15 14-05-2025 10:22AM

    Peregrinus

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    A water-saving showerhead delivers 9 l/minute. A standard handbasin has a capacity of 11-13 l; say an average of 12 l.

    If a handbasin wash involves refilling the handbasin to rinse with clean water (and, hint, if you don't want soap scum on your body, it does) then a handbasin wash will consume 24 l, versus 27 l for a three-minute shower. Less, but not dramatically less.

  • #16 14-05-2025 10:27AM

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    Would you prefer it in the reverse order?

    Start with arse and groin and then wash your face in the same water…..?

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  • #17 14-05-2025 10:36AM

    Baba Yaga

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    a shite,shower,shampoo and a shave…sets a body up for the day!

    "They gave me an impossible task,one which they said I wouldnt return from...."

    "You are him…the one they call the "Baba Yaga"…

    yo! donnie vonshitzinpants,vlad putin,benji netanyahu..you sirs are the skidmarks on the jocks of humanity!!!

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  • #18 14-05-2025 10:42AM

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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123446638#Comment_123446638

    My handbasin (in a late 90s, non status symbol bathroom) takes 6.5 litres before the water reaches the overflow. And it doesn't need to be filled to that level, twice, for effective washing. The ensuite handbasin takes about half that volume.

    Also, statistics show that people spend considerably longer than 3 minutes in the shower regardless of whether they are using a low flow head or not.

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  • #19 14-05-2025 10:45AM

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    No. He started off all right but then after the arse goes for rest of the body.

  • #20 14-05-2025 10:49AM

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    Why even bother with a basin when you can spray yourself from head to toe with Lynx Africa every morning??

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  • #21 14-05-2025 10:58AM

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    Because obviously that pair are totally representative of the average Irish boy & girl..

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  • #22 14-05-2025 11:01AM

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    If we're going to go retro when it comes to public hygiene I'd rather go Roman empire than 50's Ireland.

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  • #23 14-05-2025 11:04AM

    Cyrus

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    there must be some bang in your Dacia Duster :D

    Seriously stop making excuses and wash yourself properly, what exactly are you saving by using a homemade solar box, heating our water for a family of 4 costs about 25c a day.

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  • #24 14-05-2025 11:05AM

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    Id say Irish Water waste more water than anybody else…

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  • #25 14-05-2025 11:12AM

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    Ah stop …would you go and have a good wash for yourself and not be stinking up the thread here. Take a shower after 11pm or before 8am and save on electricity or light up a fire out in the garden with a few sticks and sit a big steel barrell of water over it and fill the bath with when it boils up it but add the cold water or you'll scald the balls off yourself💨

  • #26 14-05-2025 11:24AM

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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058410013/showering-is-wasteful-and-often-unnecessary

    In the shower I use a water-activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub.

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  • #27 14-05-2025 12:07PM

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    His concern wasn't saving electricity, but conserving water.

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  • #28 14-05-2025 12:10PM

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    Yeah if he was for real, there was something seriously amiss there.

  • #29 14-05-2025 12:15PM

    Purple Mountain

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    Just shower with a partner, that'll cut down the litres by half.

    To thine own self be true

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  • #30 14-05-2025 12:16PM

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    I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion.

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  • #31 14-05-2025 12:19PM

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    OP, You are a smelly bastard.

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