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For real. Everytime I get in the shower I end up having to point the showerhead away and cower from the cold water and I could have just turned it on first?
Its okay buddy. I thought ovaries were in the boobs till I was like 20.
people who talk about their education when it is not part of the conversation are usually pretty dumb.
I had a very cold shower once until I realized the way that one knob faucet worked was you had to turn it an insane amount to get to the hot water.
In situations like this I always think, "What would archer/xander cruze say?"
Yeah. Took me like 16, 17 years to realise I could put a bit of TP down first to stop the splash making such noise and firing back at my asshole.
I am still baffled by how many people suffer from Poseidon's Kiss on a regular basis. Like I've had it happen once or twice ever, and I'm not a spring chicken.
This is gold. And yeah, it took decades before someone told me the secret.
I lived the same "realization moment" last year talking to a friend.
I was saying that I need to go home to wash my white undershirts as I only got blacks left (small t-shirt to wear under a shirt and not freeze to death during winter).
He asked me why so I have several colors of undershirts.
Well, black and grey for black or dark colored shirts, white for white or clear colored shirts otherwise you’ll see it behind the fabric, duuuh, are you dumb?
The answer:
Or you can wear white ones under dark shirts as well and it won’t be visible…
🤔🤔🤔😧 FFS dude, why did I never thought of that?
I wish the same were true for bras. Women's shirts are often much thinner than men's, so a white bra might show through a dark shirt. It took me until this year to figure out that in order to make your bras less visible under light or white shirts, you should use a skin-tone bra instead of a white bra. Blew my mind when I figured that one out.
You can sometimes see the white collar part, unless that's just it being weird how it sits on me.
Black probably stays nicer longer though. And if it does show at all, it matches.
You gan also use light grey in most cases, except almost translucent clothes.
Why light grey ? Because you can wash it with dark or light clothes, worst case it get a bit darker or lighter. And as there is almost no color, it doesn't spill on other clothes. Moreover, unlike white clothes, you fon't have to worry about it getting a bit yellowish with time, the color is enough to mask it.
The majority of the clothes on the planet do not bleed color anymore.
But they still exists, and unfortunately some of my white clothes are now light blue due to one of them 😅.
Parenting. You think you’re doing great and you realise at times that some of the thing a you take for granted, you haven’t taught your kids.
Just because they’ve seen you do something a thousand times doesn’t mean they understand why
As a parent, I was surprised at the amount of stuff kids need to be taught. Stuff that I assumed was obvious isn't - it's learned behaviour. And you don't realize that it's learned until you see your kid struggling with some trivial task.
The fun part is watching your kids figure out complex and nuanced things that you never even thought about, much less understood, while struggling with those trivial tasks.
See also: why LLMs can seem clever and still be incredibly stupid
I prefer to cower in fear, actually. Too much of an effort to lean in and start the water beforehand. Plus now I usually shower in a standing stall so I have to be in it to turn the water on anyway. Just gotta set the angle and the cower space just right.
I don’t like wasting water, so I just stand at the far end and try to start wetting my hair until it gets warm enough to fully step in.
I didn’t learn until my 40s that if you exhale gently while getting water on your face, none of it goes in your nose.
I think I learnt this when I was taught swimming as a child. You always slowly exhale or at least keep the air in your nose slightly under pressure while you're underwater, so the water doesn't get in.
If you do water somersaults you have to push harder when upside down since the air escapes!
What's the difference between pointing the shower head away and standing outside at first?
Cold water going by in close proximity will probably result in some splashing on you, plus the movement of cold air in close proximity is going to suck away some heat too.
It is kind of refreshing in the summer, but very different if it is chilly in the bathroom. Plus you can keep your PJs/robe/a towel on you to keep warm outside the shower while the water is warming up.
Geometry
So he's about to have shower sex and he is capable of thinking about anything else?
why would they have shower sex, when they could have sex then shower
Yeah, shower sex might be one of the most overrated things I know. It always feels like a good idea at first and then you quickly realize that the logistics of it are hell
It's not the first time I've heard this opinion. But I can't say I agree. I like shower sex.
I think he mentioned knowing he's a dumbass, so
I'm so thrown off by our current shower which legit heats up in 2 seconds. I was so used to waiting like a minute for it to warm up, I built my rituals around that. But this one... it's just hot, like right away. Bizarre
Same here! Moved to an appartement so everything is closer and now I don't need to turn on the shower 5 business days before I want to shower
I'm in a SFH but all the bathrooms are very proximal to the heater so it slaps
In fancy installs, the hot water supply is a loop, not a tree, and a circulating pump keeps the entire run hot.
That sounds like a great way to waste energy.
Rather than just dumping the cold water down the drain?
Someone else already pointed out that these are usually pretty well insulated systems that don't radiate much energy, but also consider how many dozens of gallons of water aren't being wasted by waiting for it to be warm.
If you have a hot water tank, that hot water is just sitting there getting cold just waiting to be heated up again. A circulating pump puts that hot water to use by circulating it through the pipes, which has a nice side effect in cold climates of preventing the pipes from freezing and bursting. I doubt it wastes much energy as you think.
Sorry, you've met wealthy people, right...?
It's just dumb engineering to heat up a pipe the entire day for the 0.8% of the day you need it to be hot.
Insulation + retaining heat means it isn't nearly as energy inefficient as you think.
They keep the water tanks heated all day, and not heating the pipes means they have to do more work as they are drained of more water to fill the length of pipe to the shower which will then lose that heat over the course the day, only to need the water heater to heat it back up again.
With enough insulation, anything can meet energy-efficiency standards. XD
The distance from the heater to the shower is usually the biggest factor.
when I was little I would wait for the water to warm up, then pull the thing to turn on the shower head. But there's like 2 seconds of freezing water in the tube to the shower head so I would have to really quickly pull it, run back to the edge of the shower, and block it with the shower curtain. It had a 50% chance of failure and I did it for years