My house came with a fancy jetted tub (although just standard bathtub sized) and, like you I used it maybe twice just to try it out, and then I went right back to taking showers and haven’t used it since. Actually having the jetted tub is kind of annoying, because the holes for the jets tend to grow mildew if you don’t use them, so I have to periodically clean them out with an old toothbrush.
I like Japanese tubs. They are very deep, and shorter than American tubs. And they aren’t terribly wide. So they don’t use vast quantities of water, and don’t take forever to fill. you sit in them with your legs bent, rather than trying to lie down. It was easy for me to submerge myself to my neck.
I tried to buy one when i redid my bathroom, but they aren’t available in the US market.
I liked the tub I got to use years ago in France. It was a bit narrower than a standard American tub and a bit deeper IIRC,— and it was close to six feet long. I could stretch out. It was lovely.
I tried to get one like it when we had a second bathroom put in this house; but it turned out to be a specialty item here that would take a long time to get, and we wanted to get the bathroom done before everyone showed up for Thanksgiving, so I wound up with a standard tub.
Gotta have a shower. Much as I like tubs I just cannot feel safe getting in and out of them anymore.
Since we moved into this house the bathtub is the exclusive property of the cats. There is a window over the tub and the current cat likes to sit on the edge of the tub and look out the window at the lizard. Yes, the lizard does look back. I think it’s a kind of romance?
I went with friends to a hot tub place in Arcata that had Japanese style wooden tubs. I liked them, too! And the three of us fit in one fine. I assume they made them themselves. Lots of timber in Arcata!
I was aghast that the majority prefer reheating pizza in a microwave. No, no! That ruins it! Yuck! I use a conventional oven to reheat my pizza, which restores it to goodness. I almost always make my own pizza from scratch instead of ordering in, and my pizza responds well to oven reheating. I’d use a toaster oven for that, but I don’t have a toaster oven, not having recruited enough lesbians.
I agree that the microwave does the worst job, both making the crust soggy and making the cheese rubbery. But it’s really easy, and you usually don’t have to clean anything but the plate you used to eat on.
Any baked good is always better reheated in the conventional oven. The microwave does a real number on it, and either makes it rubbery and weird or rock hard.
I don’t either. I place the slices by themselves on the oven rack. My pizza slices don’t run over and mess it up, they behave themselves in there.
Exactly! I know, right? This is the most astonished I’ve been at the majority of Dopers since I can’t remember when.
It’s holy writ at my house!
I usually use the toaster oven. I think a frying pan does a slightly better job, but it’s much more work. But mostly, u leave the leftover pizza to my husband.
The number of men who pee siting down astonished me. I don’t object, but I was quite surprised.
ETA. I reheat pizza in the toaster oven (or eat it cold)
I know men who pee sitting down. That didn’t surprise me.
Yeah, apparently it’s more common than I imagined. Again, I’m not judging. But it never crossed my mind that it would be so. Great thing about this site, we learn things
But a toaster oven/air fryer (ours is a combo) works well, or even better.
My uncle is blind, so he pees sitting down. All three of his sons also pee sitting down.
Peeing sitting down is also better in low light conditions. I know my husband prefers to leave the light off when he needs the bathroom in the middle of the night.
Not sure how to answer the name question. I have a capital letter in the middle of my name, sort of like McDonald. Over the years, this has turned into Mc Donald. This is how it is written on my passport, my residence permit, plane tickets, etc.
Would Mc Donald be counted as two names or one in the poll? What about Mac Donald or Van Winkle?
I have a friend named firstname van lastname. Two words for the last name. I always list him alphabetically under lastname.
Who does it differently? I want to go right back to sleep. Don’t want bright lights waking me all the way up.
My husband often stands to pee, but when he stumbles to the toilet in the dark, he sits. I think that was the point.