# I Hate Having To Shower In Winter. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024 "2003-07-17T01:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/1 "2003-07-17T01:04:18Z")
Can’t I just go smelly until the weather gets a little warmer? Pleeeeeease? No. Okay then I’ll just freeze my titties of in the icy cold bathroom. Nasty cold room ☹ On the subject of cold bathrooms, I once stayed with some elderly relatives who had a furry cover on their toilet seat. In my youthful innocence I condemned them for this unhygienic practice. Such folly! What I wouldn’t give now to have a nice, warm furry toilet seat cover to protect my poor little bot bot. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/2 "2003-07-17T01:08:31Z")
Oh. You’re in Australia. :smack: It’s winter there. I’m being boiled alive in 90° + weather, & 90% humidity, in a building with defective AC. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/3 "2003-07-17T01:10:26Z")
It’s summer here. C’mon up and shower with me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LauraLittlePony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LauraLittlePony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LauraLittlePony)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/4 "2003-07-17T01:31:17Z")
This is definitely worse than [not washing your hands after you go to the bathroom!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198109) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/5 "2003-07-17T01:38:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by leechbabe \* > \*\*No. Okay then I’ll just freeze my titties of in the icy cold bathroom. > \*\* Couldn’t you just get a little space heater? They’re cheap, and well worth the investment. For the sake of the titties if nothing else. (Won’t someone _please_ think of the titties?) ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/6 "2003-07-17T01:45:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew \* > \*\*Couldn’t you just get a little space heater? They’re cheap, and well worth the investment. For the sake of the titties if nothing else. > > (Won’t someone _please_ think of the titties?) \*\* We have ducted heating and there is an outlet in the bathroom but our ducks are on strike\* so I (and my titties) must soldier on in icy conditions. - as everyone knows ducted heating world wide is controlled by a cartel of fine feathered friends. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/7 "2003-07-17T01:52:18Z")
I think what **Biffy** meant was a small, portable electric heater. Your electrical outlets aren’t on strike with the ducks, are they? Just plug it up, turn it on, and presto! a toasty bathroom in a few minutes. Oh, and if you were kinder to the ducks, maybe they wouldn’t be on strike. You should be nicer to somebody’s mother, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/8 "2003-07-17T02:04:53Z")
Space heater in the bathroom? Why not just shower with your hair dryer? ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/9 "2003-07-17T02:19:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*Space heater in the bathroom? Why not just shower with your hair dryer? \*\* Point is moot because: A. We don’t have a space heater and can’t afford to buy one and B. We don’t have a hair dryer and as I’d never use it I’m not going to buy one. Wonder what is worse for titties overall well being and health, freezing or electrocution? **CrazyCatLady** I’ve been really nice to the ducks, honest! It is just that my cat’s view them as happy meals on legs which kinda pissed Duck HQ off. They were having enough trouble with staff moral already, let alone having some of their best and brightest mauled and eaten while on the job. ---
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/10 "2003-07-17T03:06:36Z")
Are [these](http://www.brivis.com.au/internet/newweb.nsf/0/81fc5e2c0e5031eaca25693c00145e14/%24FILE/ATTIJ2I4/Bathroom%20Heating.jpg) your ducks? Maybe they’ve migrated and turned into [summer ducks](http://www.brivis.com.au/internet/newweb.nsf/0/81fc5e2c0e5031eaca25693c00145e14/%24FILE/ATT2CXHE/Lounge%20summer.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/11 "2003-07-17T03:20:09Z")
But I thought it never really got cold in Australia - even in the winter. At least that’s what the Australia Trade and Tourism board would appear to be trying to tell us in all of those “Throw another shrimp on the barbie and come on down” adverts we keep seeing on North American television… Are you telling me that something that advertises tourism in the southern latitudes could be telling an _UNTRUTH_??? Oh, say it ain’t so!! ---
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/12 "2003-07-17T03:24:16Z")
Cold is a relative term… 2 or 3 degree © minimums (~35 F) in mid winter in Melbourne, colder in the country and mountains, and of course even colder in Tassie. We also tend not to heat and insulate our homes or buildings nearly as well as those who live in colder climates, so it can _feel_ colder. Up north, it’s pretty beautifully warm, just not down here in the south. ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/13 "2003-07-17T03:41:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by John Carter of Mars \* > \*\*It’s summer here. C’mon up and shower with me. 😃 \*\* Missed your kind offer the first time around **John** , would there be enough room in your shower for the both of us and my husband and baby? **Robin** our ducks are alot less fluffy, more like http://www.angelfire.com/nj/duckstomper/evilorgood.html]these ducks. See their mascot [here](http://www.geocities.com/zadriana/) (second photo down). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/14 "2003-07-17T06:00:05Z")
It’s been 20ºC here in Sydney this past fortnight. You should move. I’m moving to Melbourne next week. Hope they’re over the hump of winter by the time I get there (chances of that are low, I reckon) ---
**Author:** ![Latch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@Latch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latch)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/15 "2003-07-17T06:10:16Z")
The hump of winter better not be over too soon. We’re going to the snow in the first week of August, I’ll be really pissed off if there’s no snow! ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/16 "2003-07-17T06:14:20Z")
Humping in winter is a good way to keep warm 😉 But it is best not to hump in nasty cold bathrooms during winter 😛 ---
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/17 "2003-07-17T06:27:08Z")
In that case, I haven’t seen your ducks. At least you don’t have an outdoor bathroom - you know the redback on the toilet seat type. They’re really cold. If you have a working duck (or alternate) elsewhere in the house, you should get leechboy to warm your towel for you and bring it to you when you get out of the shower - that way, you’ll be toasty warm. ---
**Author:** ![leechbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-having-to-shower-in-winter/189024/18 "2003-07-17T06:33:53Z")
Great idea **Robin**! Mmmmm toasty warm towels …