Showering is wasteful and often unnecessary (2025)

More posts about sweaty people.

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

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

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.

“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.

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.

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

Smelly crusty....

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.

Would you prefer it in the reverse order?

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

"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!!!

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.

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

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

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.

Id say Irish Water waste more water than anybody else…

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

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

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

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.