Jesus, the luxury of stumps you young people had… We had torsos and had to wiggle around on our stomachs like snakes. And we were grateful, goddammit. And when Momma used to feed all 20 of us, she’d used to make us roll on our backs and drop the food in our mouths. We used to pray for stumps.
Going about on dry land? Why, in MY day we didn’t even think about going on land. We were happy to be in the water where we didn’t have to take a shower. Goddamn high 'n mighty landlubbers. And stay offa my beach!
Regarding the shaving legs, etc. - it really is wasteful to let the water run the whole time you’re doing that. I know we have lots of lovely, fresh, clean water now, but I want to have lovely, fresh clean water until I die, which should be in about 50 years.
(Torsos? All we had was a head with these little flipper feet sticking out of it. Kids these days.)
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I dunno, Sattua… My hair’s not nearly as long as yours, but it’s still long and thick. Shampooing and conditioning take a while, and then shaving my various bits adds to that. It takes me a good 20 minutes to shower if I’m doing my head to toe extravaganza.
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i’m just talented, i guess
Oh, cut the girl some slack. We have one well that provides water for the barn, the Ritchie waters, the garden hose, our house, and my grandparents’ house. Consequently, the water pressure is atrocious. If anybody turns on the garden hose, starts the washing machine, or the cattle start drinking, the pressure drops to zero – usually when you’ve just soaped up your hair or your face. (Fortunately, we don’t have the scalding hot/freezing cold toilet thing going on. I imagine there might be justifiable homicides if we did.) It’s not unusual to see a soapy, cursing person on the back porch shouting piratically at cattle or to have someone storm the barn in a bathrobe and flip-flops.
It’s annoying and frustrating and when it happens three times in one week, you begin studying the manual for the well pump and stockpiling pipe wrenches. Just twenty minutes with more than a trickle of tepid water! You can’t really get mad at cattle, as satisfying as it is, because they are only slightly smarter than particularly stupid rocks. But when someone has the pressing need to do laundry or water the garden, knowing you’re taking the shower, you begin to wonder if maybe you were adopted and it’s only a matter of time before you’re traded in for a better model.
For these reasons, I generally take baths.
Sorry for the unclear language – I meant that one thirty-minute shower a day was overmuch. I take a ten-minute shower every day, but the long, relaxing ones shouldn’t be a daily necessity.
See, my water pressure is such that shaving my legs in the shower is no worse than filling up the tub to take a bath. I’ve actually done a test of this.
And I wish my water was lovely and fresh. As it is, I have some stank-ass water. Loaded with rust and just reeks of sulphur. Mmmmmm. Our poor water-softener has one helluva time with it… God bless well water.
I’m on board with this. I take one long shower a week, usually on Sunday, to exfoliate and shave my legs carefully. I have blond leg hair and only wear skirts that are long enough to cover my knees, so during the week any extra shaving can be done quickly.
I know people who take three showers a day, EVERY DAY.
We are a wasteful people.
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30 minute shower.
trying to wrap mind around that
Thirty minutes. I know that time frame. About a chapter in a good book. Okay.
Shower. The process of removing the stink. Temporarily.
I’ve got those.
But together?
bubububueh
daily?
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I’m out of the Navy, now. My water is unregulated. I don’t have to worry about water hours, or ruining the GPDPM computation. I was actually spoiled on my ship, too. We could reliably make up 35 GPMPD. The standard is 25. Because of that, we could take loooong showers. Not as long as we’d take on land, of course. But long for active duty Navy.
Now, that I’m no longer on loan to Uncle, I take, what I consider, are luxurious showers on a regular basis. 5 minutes. Maybe ten if need to wake up while getting covered in wet. I know women do need more time in a shower than men. Especially balding men who keep what hair they have left cut short, because without hair gel it looks like I have a Van Der Graf generator in my pocket if it’s more than 1.5 inches long.
But thirty minutes daily?
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I’m with Spavined Gelding - this poster needs a week in a real water shortage environment. I’m inclined to believe a barracks is too generous, however. I suggest, instead, a submarine, with a cranky distilling plant. Where the idea of being able to get the nominal 2 minutes of water per man per day in the shower is a distant dream.
Sheesh, bodies, you people had bodies? In my day, we were disembodied spirits, wishing for the day when our descendants could actually dream of a 2 minute shower.
I’m lucky, I can make my showers as long as like …so long as I don’t mind the water turning ice cold after about six minutes. 
Damn antique plumbing, I don’t care if it ‘works’, we still need to upgrade. :mad:
I have it made. We are careful about messin with the water while the other is showerin but the perk is that I can go piss on the flowers without punishment…
For those that want to conserve for the future, if you ever water a lawn, then you can’t say one word about a long shower IMO. * Put water on grass??? Bawahahaha ::: *
The only reason people do these things, like long showers is because they were lucky nuff to get born in the right 10% of the world. It is nothing they have done or deserve but they sure do act entitled don’t they?
I think a mandatory co-ed draft should come about, not for the country but for the edification of the locals… 18 -20, no exceptions, wheel chairs and funny farms and medical disasters, we all could use a bit of eye opening before we go out and start messin with the world…
*::: ‘While you shine your boots?’, get yer ass kicked keeping me form my turn. You musta had a big latrine for 50 guys or a lot of down time… Boy, I was way to close to the brown shoe Army to get away with that… ::: young whipper snappers. :::::::: *
This post is suspect in that I don’t believe mathematicians actually have sex outside of their own imaginations.
Some of them have certainly been known to do so.
As have some physicists…
Funny you should mention that - I am starting a course to become a horticulture designer, and I plan to make low maintenance/low water yards my specialty. Grass is evil. 
You could pray? You had mouths? All we had was one hole, right on top of our heads. And we had do do *everything * with it. And we were damned glad of it, to boot. Every Halloween we went as blowtoads, and we didn’t even need a costume. You punks think life is just one free ride, what with your mouths and your wriggling about.
Hm, when I had knee length hair, the hair got washed once a week, otherwise I showercapped it to keep it dry. When it got washed, it was an aggitional 5 minutes to my shower routine.
I tend to do ‘navy’ showers, turn the water on to get wet, turn it off to lather up, turn it on again to rinse off. We have 5 people using the minimum sized septic tank system available per code here. If we didnt we would be in a world of hurt absorbtion-wise. I think the water is running maybe 5 minutes total [shoulder length hair now] and our hot water tank is small=\it runs out of hot water in about 6 or 7 minutes of running. I really want a propane eutetic water heater!
and is that a van de graaf in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
GD&R
So, I take it that these people who are so flabbergasted at the idea of 30 minute showers are entirely unfamiliar with the concept of the bathtub? I don’t do it every day (Weekdays, I’d rather sleep in for the extra 20 minutes before work) but on weekends? I’ll take a thirty minute shower when I’m not dirty, just because it feels. So. Damned. Good. What do I do in there? I just stand there. Blissfully. If I had to choose between giving up sex for the rest of my life, or giving up long, hot showers for the rest of my life… well, it’s not a decision I could make lightly, let me tell you.
Miller, I did want it clear, I’d been warped by the economies of making my own water. And knowing that showering was about the last priority for the water we made. First priority was the steam/reactor plant, then food/kitchens, then drinking water, then other ‘hotel’ loads (laundries heating the rest of the ship, etc.) then keeping people clean.
Remember well what those hot, 30 minute long showers were like because someday your grandkids will want to hear stories about them.
Kidding… hmmmm… well, maybe not.
Oh my gosh, I am so excited to see someone else agree with me on this. I loathe lawns. Such an incredible waste of time, energy, and resources.