People who go on beach vacation for a week, what are you doing there? I can undress, have a swim, get sand into my crotch and a sunburn on my shoulder in less than an hour. WHAT ARE YOU DOING
It's not a fucking speedrun homie. This isn't shower any%. I'm usually listening to music and enjoying the hot water. Plus if it's a wash day, washing and conditioning long hair takes a while.
ITT: People with legitimate reasons for long showers.
Me over here: Just because I want to. It feels good. I'm paying the bill and I'll stay in it as long as I'd like. I think, I daydream, I warm up on cold mornings, I cool off after long hot days, I listen to music or sing along while a warm rain dances its way to the drain. I can, and often do, shower and dress in 10 minutes, but I'm an adult damnit and if have the time and the desire I'm gonna hang out and sway gently while the steam fills the shower.
Fifteen year olds: Masturbating. Lots of masturbating.
LOL so this happens so often it's a running joke now but my son told me this story yesterday (first time it happened to him but knows about it from me) and I almost got teary eyed hahahaha
Most offices around here have a changing room with a shower, mainly intended for people who bike to work or such, but what if we started using the shower more offensively in a developer capacity?
Stuck on a tricky task? Hit the shower! Team not agreeing on the pattern of the new API? Group shower! Rather than using AI and other crutches when stuck on problems, we should bring back communal showering at work, for the epiphany factor!
You would think, but the water touching my body, me touching my body, me looking at my body all of that can be easily avoided by sitting in a certain way or just staying out of the water
Win imaginary arguments. Make the world a better place. Solve the mystery of life. Achieve ascension, realize perfection demands non-existence, return to my imperfect self. Play with water. The usual.
Or, if you have a bathroom with a washer and dryer in it, throw your towel and clothes into the dryer. That way you hop out and immediately into a nice warm towel followed by warm clothes.
Alternatively, if you have old school radiator heating, just throw your towel/clothes on the radiator. Does the same thing, though it might be pretty hot when you get out depending on the climate that you live in.
I have a waterproof ereader, but there's no way I'd read in the shower. It's much more comfortable to read on my bed or on a chair. It's also too noisy to listen to audiobooks, unless I'm wearing noise-cancelling headphones, but then I can't wash my hair or ears properly.
So yeah, in and out in 5 min, and then read in more comfortable place.
Usually cry thinking about repeating another day of hectic work only to come home and eat dinner and go to sleep and repeat it all over again. Forever. While my wages have less and less purchasing power.
Shampooing and conditioning my mid-back length hair, shaving my armpits and legs, exfoliating. I usually use 3 different skin cleansers on different parts of my body.
Some of us put in more effort than the bare minimum amount of hygiene because we want to look, smell, and feel good rather than simply “no longer nasty.”
Yeah, I never appreciated how long it takes to wash hair until I washed my daughter's shoulder-length hair. My hair has always been short, so a shampoo would only take 10-20 sec to get everything lathered and maybe 30 sec to rinse. My daughter's hair took about double that time for both steps.
So yeah, I can see dealing with long hair taking significantly longer. That said, that's more like 10-15 min instead of 5 min, not 30 min.
A couple minutes while the water heats up to undress and brush tangles outta my hair.
A couple minutes to rub in shampoo, massage into the scalp, and rinse.
A couple minutes to rub in conditioner, brush it through my hair, massage into the scalp, and rinse.
A couple minutes to scrub my body with soap and rinse.
A couple minutes to enjoy the warmth of the water and make sure everything is fully rinsed off.
A couple minutes to rinse stray hairs and soap suds off the shower walls.
A couple minutes to dry off, maybe 4 or 5 if I really wanna get my hair dry.
A couple minutes re-brushing the tangles outta my hair.
A couple minutes putting oil in my beard/hair, then coming/styling my beard/mustache.
A couple minutes brushing my teeth.
A couple minutes putting clothes on.
At minimum it's a 22-minute affair, but let's round up to 30 because it's the first thing in the morning and I'm not moving as fast as I could be yet. What's the problem with any of the stuff on that list? What am I doing that's too slow for the 10-minute showerers (whom I never question for taking 10 minute showers, btw)?
Exactly. Of course I can make myself wet slather some soap on my body. That's not washing, though. Washing means to scrub until squeaky clean. I have observed people go in the shower stinky and come out only slightly stinky. Why?
Then there's things like remove hard skin from the feet, cut nails, shave.
Use a fascial scrub on the face.
After the shower applying facial cream and body lotion also takes a little time.
Finally: collect hair from drain, dry off water that sploshed around
I'm dirty and must be scrubbed. Y'all who shower in sub 5 minutes discounting dress/undress times, how well do you actually clean yourself? Because I can't see more than a passing sigh. Get in, wet, shampoo, soap, scrub, rinse, condition, rinse, like unless you're just slipping soap on yourself instead of actually scrubbing I dunno how you could be in and out so quick.
You're supposed to leave shampoo in for 5 minutes before rinsing to get the full effect, especially if you have long hair.
It wasn't until I grew my hair out that I learned how much goes into a "proper" wash beyond just "scrub with soap and a cloth/loofah." I went from like 10 minute showers with half of that being trying not to fall asleep in the shower, to 30 minutes if I'm doing more to my hair that day than giving it a rinse.
Letting the shampoo sit is only needed for medicated shampoo, like for dandruff, and that's so the medicine has time to work. For every other type of shampoo, you should rinse it right after thoroughly getting to the scalp to not irritate the scalp.
I use dandruff shampoo, hence why I wait before rinsing. If I didn't have dandruff, I'd probably do shampoo last.
I just checked all of my shampoo bottles (apparently we have almost 10... we have shampoo for dyed hair, dandruff, kids, dry hair, etc). None of them recommend waiting before rinsing, not even the dandruff shampoo (well, Selsun Blue doesn't, can't check the other since it's in my SO's native language, which I can't read). I remember seeing some other brands mention waiting (I think Head and Shoulders?), so YMMV.
I've got some L'Oreal stuff that I'm pretty sure says to let it sit. But honestly, unless you're using a medicated shampoo like you said, because I've also seen some of those that say it, who has that kind of time.
Why do I take long showers? Because I know in the future, I won't be able to due to the water wars. And whether I, personally, take long showers or not will neither hasten, or slow, that timeline.
Mood. Why am I trying to save water? For the robots nahh man, fuck bots. And please kill me first when you gain sentience, I really don't want toil in the work camps. Maybe I'll kill myself only the future will know...
this is written by a masc man. if I'm not washing my hair and just scrubbing, yeah I can get it done in 10-15 minutes. If I need to wash my hair though? easily 30 minutes. If I need to shave my legs/body? I'm probably drawing a bath and I'll see you in an hour at least.
Complete skill issue on your part. Your failures and limitations are your own. They are not universal. Just because you need a ludicrous amount of time to clean yourself doesn't mean the rest of us do. We're just not bothering with... Designing a new Taj Mahal or whatever it is the fuck you hour long showerers do
Years ago I had a roommate who took obscenely long showers. One time we were supposed to go food shopping but he wanted a "quick shower" before we went. I watched 2 episodes of narcos on Netflix, got frustrated, went shopping alone, drove to store, and did a week worth of grocery shopping, drove back, brought all groceries to the apartment (third floor), put everything away, waited another 30 minutes and he finally came out of the shower.
Two episodes of Narcos at ~45 min each, plus driving to the grocery store and back (30 min), buying groceries and putting them away (40 min), plus another 30 minutes in the shower, is about 145 minutes.
At 2 gallons per minute shower head flow rate, that's 290 gallons of water, or 38.7 cubic feet.
Personally it gives me peace from the constant everything. The drops pull my attention and it’s all over, so I can relax and just feel it all, not all all. Not sure if that makes sense. It just gives some peace and escape from life and all its noise.
But I’ve personally found that the warmth isn’t a thing for me, it works just as well when it’s very middling or even a bit cold. So in my shame I’ve long since switched from warm ones to those around the 25c ballpark, it’s given me even more peace ever since. Warming the water up is the most consuming part.
But then again I’m from a culture with saunas everywhere, in every house, so I don’t really need showers for the warmth anyway, the relaxing and muscle tension relieving I get from sauna. The overall stimulating peace and silence is what my showers are for. In addition to washing and grooming, of course.
I'm just going to be straight up honest: I get too stoned sometimes and day dream about random things. It's not productive things either, usually something like why don't banana pineapples exist.
Just got a HPWH too - I joked that we should put it in the bathroom and then it basically just recycles my heat in the room for infinite free shower hot water!
Takes some time to wash the silt of the times, from my soul.
Also, the whole fast pace / no rest / ultra productive mindset has been around for eons, basically the rich don't believe the poors are entitled to any rest, relaxation or even just taking time with things, because that takes away from the money you're making them, so therefore you'll see that sentiment, seeded into culture, consistently, (I can't for the life of me think of the current buzz words this early in the morning, and sans coffee). There's always new buzzwords for it. Read any "I can do this faster than you" as them, the bourgeois, ordering you back to work.
Nothing bad can happen in the shower. It is the safest liminal space imaginable, and its pleasant to just be there. Im gonna linger for as long as i can
Takes a solid 5 minutes to get the grime off. I have psoriasis so i gotta be attentive. Then another 5-10 minutes of carefully emptying my brain of any thoughts (rotate every 180 seconds) and then the last 10 to just enjoy every cell accepting warmth.
It takes me 2 minutes to brush my teeth. Nearly 6 to floss.
I am not ashamed that it takes me 10 minutes to scrub, 5 minutes to shampoo, 5 minutes to condition, 5 minutes to face-shave, 10 minutes to rinse, and a few more minutes for using the artificial pumice stone.
I don't wear my watch in the shower, but given my hair length, comparing intuitively to the length of time it takes to floss (which was timed), probably most times. Though, rarely I will do a quick shower and not shampoo (or condition) my hair.
Like others have said, if there's no need to rush, there's no need to rush. And I've got long curly hair that needs to be washed, conditioned, detangled.
I hate getting into the shower, but once I get in, I'm comfortable, so it's hard to get back out. I still do it in less than 10, but I can see how people can get stuck in there. It's very relaxing.
Usually I just sit down. Let the water hit my head, and think. I process all of my thoughts in a soothing environment where I can sort them out and solve problems I've been struggling with.
Contemplating the nature of reality. The history of every molecule of water that's running over me. The future of them. The vast similarities and differences. Masturbating lazily without reaching conclusion because that mysterious and wonderful element is not a lubricant.
Warming up while using my phone. My parents kept the house at 19°growing up, and I took an hour in the shower not even masturbating, just warming myself to the bone before I had to shiver for the rest of the day.
My hair is longer than my shoulders. I like my scalp to get scrubbed, it's sooo much easier to do that when my hair is only a few inches long. If I just go ham on it I'll damage it and break it so it takes as much time to wash my head than it does the rest of my obese body
When I was healthy but had butt-length hair and shaved and washed my face with separate soap it took me 45 mins.
When I was almost fully disabled, had short hair, didn't shave, and didn't wash my face it took me an hour an a half.
I'm doing much better now, have short hair, don't shave, and rarely wash my face and it takes 20 mins, but I hate it bc I can't stand up in there long enough to just enjoy the warm, gotta hurry and scrub and get out.
I hear you, I had one in one of the places I lived and it was the only way I could shower at all. The current standing/moving/balancing in the shower is one of the very few forms of exercise I get now tho, so I try to do it as long as I can each time hoping my condition will keep improving, even if it's only at a snail's pace 😂 I'm glad you have a chair, when they're necessary they're a lifesaver 💜
One of my legs is pretty gimpy, so I'd really rather not hop on one leg in the tub, haha. I need a smaller one though, this one's a double-wide which was nice for transferring when I was still stuck with a walker, but I can step in and out on my own now and it's just taking up floor space.
Like I said, skill issue. Your failures and limitations are your own, not universal. Just because you are incredibly slow and inefficient doesn't mean that I am.
Impossible to ever comprehend you're doing something wrong. Impossible to comprehend someone else doing something better. Impossible to comprehend anything outside of a pre-declared narrative that they've constructed based off of their own limitations.
Sorry bucko. Like I said. Your failures are not universal. But keep crying about it :)
Once had a housemate who would take two hour-long showers every single day. I have no idea what he was going in there, but he was either shaving or wanking in there.
I'm team quick shower or long bath (soaking my sore back is lovely). I had a roommate with undiagnosed narcolepsy that would fall asleep in the shower in college. She didn't lock the door and we had standing orders to just wake her up if we needed the shower.
My partner takes forever to brush out his lovely, long, curly hair. He also leaves a tribble and a half in the hair catcher.
Enjoying the warmth mostly
That and it works wonders on my sore muscles
Same vibe:
People who go on beach vacation for a week, what are you doing there? I can undress, have a swim, get sand into my crotch and a sunburn on my shoulder in less than an hour. WHAT ARE YOU DOING
At least for me, I'm in the water snorkeling, scuba diving, or boogey boarding
Idk about the people who just simply lounge on the beach though, sounds boring
I keep forgetting that not all beaches are cold and rocky like the ones in my area. This is what going to the beach is like for me, haha.
Usually staring blankly at the wall, hoping the shower will somehow rinse some grime off my brain too.
I just crank my hog.
Well, that too.
AROOOOOOOO DON’T CLOG THE DRAIN BROTHER!!!
Shooting water from my fingertips like the awesome aqua wizard that I am
I thought I was the only one
Apparently there’s at least 3 of us.
yeah, 4.
Count me in as the fifth
My brothers!
Let’s form a wizard school
Aqua Sorceress checking in.
It's not a fucking speedrun homie. This isn't shower any%. I'm usually listening to music and enjoying the hot water. Plus if it's a wash day, washing and conditioning long hair takes a while.
Hey you let my poor adhd brain ruminate in scalding hot peace
ITT: People with legitimate reasons for long showers.
Me over here: Just because I want to. It feels good. I'm paying the bill and I'll stay in it as long as I'd like. I think, I daydream, I warm up on cold mornings, I cool off after long hot days, I listen to music or sing along while a warm rain dances its way to the drain. I can, and often do, shower and dress in 10 minutes, but I'm an adult damnit and if have the time and the desire I'm gonna hang out and sway gently while the steam fills the shower.
Fifteen year olds: Masturbating. Lots of masturbating.
Also people older than 15. Significantly older. It's a safe place in there.
Yes. This is me-time in a standing-up bath before or after facing the day as an adult with responsibilities.
Its warm and I dissociated.
I can do it in 5 min but why? It’s relaxing. My brain can wander. It’s warm.
Debug my code
Plan new code
Like, where else would you do that?
LOL so this happens so often it's a running joke now but my son told me this story yesterday (first time it happened to him but knows about it from me) and I almost got teary eyed hahahaha
Most offices around here have a changing room with a shower, mainly intended for people who bike to work or such, but what if we started using the shower more offensively in a developer capacity?
Stuck on a tricky task? Hit the shower! Team not agreeing on the pattern of the new API? Group shower! Rather than using AI and other crutches when stuck on problems, we should bring back communal showering at work, for the epiphany factor!
Sitting on the floor, letting the hot water pour over my head as sad piano music plays in the background
Hero.
https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/2976645
https://discuss.online/post/30107519
Substituting for the warmth of human contact.
I feel seen.
But not touched, same...
The three of you could touch each other? Problem solved!
Dissociating and struggling with body dysphoria usually
If you're struggling with body dysphoria, wouldn't you want to be naked for a shorter amount of time?
You would think, but the water touching my body, me touching my body, me looking at my body all of that can be easily avoided by sitting in a certain way or just staying out of the water
then you don't want back in the water
Win imaginary arguments. Make the world a better place. Solve the mystery of life. Achieve ascension, realize perfection demands non-existence, return to my imperfect self. Play with water. The usual.
Trying to work up the nerve to turn the hot water off and step out into the cold air
Space heater. Turn it on before you get in. Life changing. Like a poor man's heated floors.
Or, if you have a bathroom with a washer and dryer in it, throw your towel and clothes into the dryer. That way you hop out and immediately into a nice warm towel followed by warm clothes.
Alternatively, if you have old school radiator heating, just throw your towel/clothes on the radiator. Does the same thing, though it might be pretty hot when you get out depending on the climate that you live in.
start taking cold showers. youll get out of there quick to get back to the warm air
Good point, why not suffer all the time?
Relax into a brief, stressless, fugue state.
Enjoy the warm. Read.
Read is insane
When I'm being reasonable: Audiobook
When I'm being unreasonable: lie down and use shower liner to create the dry section I read in while everything else enjoys the warm.
Tough part of the latter is leaning up against the cold dry tub when setting up. Like jumping into a cold pool.
This is brilliant!
how do you read in the shower, a water-proof ereader or some kind of waterproof book?
I have a waterproof ereader, but there's no way I'd read in the shower. It's much more comfortable to read on my bed or on a chair. It's also too noisy to listen to audiobooks, unless I'm wearing noise-cancelling headphones, but then I can't wash my hair or ears properly.
So yeah, in and out in 5 min, and then read in more comfortable place.
Jorkin' it.
Make sure to clean the hair from the drain first!
Warm water feel good
Avoiding my responsibilities.
Enjoying one of only two relaxing events in my waking hours (the other being taking a shit on work time)
Contemplating life
Plotting my revenge
Feeling something from the scorching hot water relaxing my muscles of my ever existing pain.
It's a nice break from life.
It takes time to wash and condition long hair especially if even approaching recommended dwell times. Same thing with any medicated shampoo.
i mean, i'm just chillin. it's peaceful there.
Getting away from all you people that question why I take long showers of course.
Washing my hair, shaving my legs and armpits, emptying my menstrual cup (hey, you asked). Shit takes time.
You shit in the shower?
W A F F L E S T O M P
Maaaaaaybeeeee
What do I do in there?
Usually cry thinking about repeating another day of hectic work only to come home and eat dinner and go to sleep and repeat it all over again. Forever. While my wages have less and less purchasing power.
You can do that in 5 minutes. Get back to producing.
People who spend less time in there: what are you doing outside the shower that takes so long?
Nice! Giving them a taste of their own nosy medicine! How's it feel, joyless short-showerers!? Not so good, right!?
Basking in the hot water
Shampooing and conditioning my mid-back length hair, shaving my armpits and legs, exfoliating. I usually use 3 different skin cleansers on different parts of my body.
Some of us put in more effort than the bare minimum amount of hygiene because we want to look, smell, and feel good rather than simply “no longer nasty.”
Yeah, I never appreciated how long it takes to wash hair until I washed my daughter's shoulder-length hair. My hair has always been short, so a shampoo would only take 10-20 sec to get everything lathered and maybe 30 sec to rinse. My daughter's hair took about double that time for both steps.
So yeah, I can see dealing with long hair taking significantly longer. That said, that's more like 10-15 min instead of 5 min, not 30 min.
I'm dissasociating for a bit leave me alone. Also I have exceedingly long and thick curly hair, takes forever to go through my process.
Crying.
Winning hypothetical arguments
Spotted a fellow neurospicy
What, is it a fucking race?
A couple minutes while the water heats up to undress and brush tangles outta my hair.
A couple minutes to rub in shampoo, massage into the scalp, and rinse.
A couple minutes to rub in conditioner, brush it through my hair, massage into the scalp, and rinse.
A couple minutes to scrub my body with soap and rinse.
A couple minutes to enjoy the warmth of the water and make sure everything is fully rinsed off.
A couple minutes to rinse stray hairs and soap suds off the shower walls.
A couple minutes to dry off, maybe 4 or 5 if I really wanna get my hair dry.
A couple minutes re-brushing the tangles outta my hair.
A couple minutes putting oil in my beard/hair, then coming/styling my beard/mustache.
A couple minutes brushing my teeth.
A couple minutes putting clothes on.
At minimum it's a 22-minute affair, but let's round up to 30 because it's the first thing in the morning and I'm not moving as fast as I could be yet. What's the problem with any of the stuff on that list? What am I doing that's too slow for the 10-minute showerers (whom I never question for taking 10 minute showers, btw)?
Exactly. Of course I can make myself wet slather some soap on my body. That's not washing, though. Washing means to scrub until squeaky clean. I have observed people go in the shower stinky and come out only slightly stinky. Why?
Then there's things like remove hard skin from the feet, cut nails, shave.
Use a fascial scrub on the face.
After the shower applying facial cream and body lotion also takes a little time.
Finally: collect hair from drain, dry off water that sploshed around
Its how some people meditate even if they aren't aware that's what they are doing.
Meditatin' 'n' Masturbatin'
Staring into the void, like I do everywhere else
I'm dirty and must be scrubbed. Y'all who shower in sub 5 minutes discounting dress/undress times, how well do you actually clean yourself? Because I can't see more than a passing sigh. Get in, wet, shampoo, soap, scrub, rinse, condition, rinse, like unless you're just slipping soap on yourself instead of actually scrubbing I dunno how you could be in and out so quick.
Yes. No scrubbing. Trying to do away with most of the soap too.
In the end rhis mostly just hurts my skin.
Simple:
That takes about 5 minutes, more if I shave at the same time (am dude, but don't shave every day). I don't think I've ever taken more than 10 min.
You're supposed to leave shampoo in for 5 minutes before rinsing to get the full effect, especially if you have long hair.
It wasn't until I grew my hair out that I learned how much goes into a "proper" wash beyond just "scrub with soap and a cloth/loofah." I went from like 10 minute showers with half of that being trying not to fall asleep in the shower, to 30 minutes if I'm doing more to my hair that day than giving it a rinse.
Letting the shampoo sit is only needed for medicated shampoo, like for dandruff, and that's so the medicine has time to work. For every other type of shampoo, you should rinse it right after thoroughly getting to the scalp to not irritate the scalp.
I use dandruff shampoo, hence why I wait before rinsing. If I didn't have dandruff, I'd probably do shampoo last.
I just checked all of my shampoo bottles (apparently we have almost 10... we have shampoo for dyed hair, dandruff, kids, dry hair, etc). None of them recommend waiting before rinsing, not even the dandruff shampoo (well, Selsun Blue doesn't, can't check the other since it's in my SO's native language, which I can't read). I remember seeing some other brands mention waiting (I think Head and Shoulders?), so YMMV.
I've got some L'Oreal stuff that I'm pretty sure says to let it sit. But honestly, unless you're using a medicated shampoo like you said, because I've also seen some of those that say it, who has that kind of time.
The 3 S
Shit
Shower
Shave
You're shitting in the shower?
I’m so sorry to do this to you internet, but if I have to know this exists, then so must you too
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wafflestomping
I will be strong and not click the link
It is when you push feces down the shower drain with your foot. Called a wafflestomp.
So named because the poo poo, being extruded through the drain, should resemble something like a waffle, if you do it correctly.
more like the meat grinder strainer.
or if its removable drain cover, its basically a toilet.
That's barbaric.
Sophisticated people shit in their hand and toss the turd into the toilet.
I guess I aware that it was possible, I just didn't think people actually did it, unless they had an in-shower accident or something.
Efficiency
Waffle stomp.
saves water
better to shit in the shower than to shower in the shit
you shit in the shower?
Drink a beer in the shower and you are heralded as an innovator.
Take a shit in the shower and you are lambasted as a monster.
Neutralize by doing both.
Why do I take long showers? Because I know in the future, I won't be able to due to the water wars. And whether I, personally, take long showers or not will neither hasten, or slow, that timeline.
Mood. Why am I trying to save water? For the robots nahh man, fuck bots. And please kill me first when you gain sentience, I really don't want toil in the work camps. Maybe I'll kill myself only the future will know...
I don't pay for water in my apartment, nor do I pipes that make noise in the building.
I take long showers
I would take much longer showers if they didn't cost me anything
this is written by a masc man. if I'm not washing my hair and just scrubbing, yeah I can get it done in 10-15 minutes. If I need to wash my hair though? easily 30 minutes. If I need to shave my legs/body? I'm probably drawing a bath and I'll see you in an hour at least.
Humming the ninth symphony. It's long.
which ninth though?
Dvorak during the week to prepare for responsibilities, Beethoven at the weekend to celebrate freedom
and Mahler when contemplating the darkness?
The cursed one.
well that narrows it down!
Maybe I will wake up from this strange dream.
I hear you.
Enjoying life. Enjoying the warmth, enjoying being clean, thinking, singing, relaxing, so on...
I plot my revenge on the people who slight me.
What are YOU not doing? Ain't no way you're washing yourself good in less than 10 min. Get outta here.
Complete skill issue on your part. Your failures and limitations are your own. They are not universal. Just because you need a ludicrous amount of time to clean yourself doesn't mean the rest of us do. We're just not bothering with... Designing a new Taj Mahal or whatever it is the fuck you hour long showerers do
Bruh, nah. No way you're telling me you do everything in less than 10. Aint no way
I literally scrub from head to toes.
I have OCD. I wash everything too much.
This. "Did I wash X already? Does it feel clean? Am I sure?"
Years ago I had a roommate who took obscenely long showers. One time we were supposed to go food shopping but he wanted a "quick shower" before we went. I watched 2 episodes of narcos on Netflix, got frustrated, went shopping alone, drove to store, and did a week worth of grocery shopping, drove back, brought all groceries to the apartment (third floor), put everything away, waited another 30 minutes and he finally came out of the shower.
I have no idea what he did in there.
Two episodes of Narcos at ~45 min each, plus driving to the grocery store and back (30 min), buying groceries and putting them away (40 min), plus another 30 minutes in the shower, is about 145 minutes.
At 2 gallons per minute shower head flow rate, that's 290 gallons of water, or 38.7 cubic feet.
I agree with everything besides driving to the grocery store(it was only down the street, maybe 5 minutes each way). It is/was a huge waste of water.
Crying
Personally it gives me peace from the constant everything. The drops pull my attention and it’s all over, so I can relax and just feel it all, not all all. Not sure if that makes sense. It just gives some peace and escape from life and all its noise.
But I’ve personally found that the warmth isn’t a thing for me, it works just as well when it’s very middling or even a bit cold. So in my shame I’ve long since switched from warm ones to those around the 25c ballpark, it’s given me even more peace ever since. Warming the water up is the most consuming part.
But then again I’m from a culture with saunas everywhere, in every house, so I don’t really need showers for the warmth anyway, the relaxing and muscle tension relieving I get from sauna. The overall stimulating peace and silence is what my showers are for. In addition to washing and grooming, of course.
I'm just going to be straight up honest: I get too stoned sometimes and day dream about random things. It's not productive things either, usually something like why don't banana pineapples exist.
15' here but in my defense, long hair needs extra care.
No need to brag about how tall you are
You'd brag too if you were that tall.
Oh ha ha, common misunderstanding, I was talking about length not height.
ENJOYING A RARE MOMENT OF FEELING GOOD.
I got a heat pump water heater damnit, let me enjoy the fruits of its efficient labor.
Just got a HPWH too - I joked that we should put it in the bathroom and then it basically just recycles my heat in the room for infinite free shower hot water!
Spacing out, probably
Getting the temperature to just below the point where it's painful, and then cooking the 12 hour shift off of me
Takes some time to wash the silt of the times, from my soul.
Also, the whole fast pace / no rest / ultra productive mindset has been around for eons, basically the rich don't believe the poors are entitled to any rest, relaxation or even just taking time with things, because that takes away from the money you're making them, so therefore you'll see that sentiment, seeded into culture, consistently, (I can't for the life of me think of the current buzz words this early in the morning, and sans coffee). There's always new buzzwords for it. Read any "I can do this faster than you" as them, the bourgeois, ordering you back to work.
Grooming and cleaning my beard+hair takes about 20 min. The rest takes 5-10 min.
My brother in law washed each of his toes individually.
Disassociate
Nothing bad can happen in the shower. It is the safest liminal space imaginable, and its pleasant to just be there. Im gonna linger for as long as i can
I wouldn't call it a liminal space; a liminal space is a place that's usually crowded but now became empty. Do others often see crowded showers?
I've always understood liminality as the intermediate between two states :shrug:
I'm just taking a breather, goddamn.
Takes a solid 5 minutes to get the grime off. I have psoriasis so i gotta be attentive. Then another 5-10 minutes of carefully emptying my brain of any thoughts (rotate every 180 seconds) and then the last 10 to just enjoy every cell accepting warmth.
If I'm feeling energetic and I really hurry and I don't need to wash my hair I can do 20.
Usually takes me 30+. And that's just the shower part.
I don't understand how a significantly faster shower is possible.
Relaxing. Nobody can bother you in the shower and it's a legit excuse to anyone. It's just so nice feeling that hot water
Long showers are nice and relaxing, sometimes I lay in the tub with the drain in to make it a shower bath, after cleaning myself off
Ruminating
It takes me 2 minutes to brush my teeth. Nearly 6 to floss.
I am not ashamed that it takes me 10 minutes to scrub, 5 minutes to shampoo, 5 minutes to condition, 5 minutes to face-shave, 10 minutes to rinse, and a few more minutes for using the artificial pumice stone.
how often are you shampooing for a full 5 minutes??
I don't wear my watch in the shower, but given my hair length, comparing intuitively to the length of time it takes to floss (which was timed), probably most times. Though, rarely I will do a quick shower and not shampoo (or condition) my hair.
Like others have said, if there's no need to rush, there's no need to rush. And I've got long curly hair that needs to be washed, conditioned, detangled.
While I'm in there I see visions of stories that don't exist.
I hate getting into the shower, but once I get in, I'm comfortable, so it's hard to get back out. I still do it in less than 10, but I can see how people can get stuck in there. It's very relaxing.
Oily skin and hair that takes actual scrubbing to take care of and a genuine enjoyment of a bit of scalding on the skin.
Usually I just sit down. Let the water hit my head, and think. I process all of my thoughts in a soothing environment where I can sort them out and solve problems I've been struggling with.
Sit in the tub and browse Lemmy and flirt on discord
Nah, I've learned my lesson flirting on discord. Oh wait you mean you.
MY BRAIN ISN'T WORKING.
😎👉👉
I call it my "liquid blanket"
Contemplating the nature of reality. The history of every molecule of water that's running over me. The future of them. The vast similarities and differences. Masturbating lazily without reaching conclusion because that mysterious and wonderful element is not a lubricant.
Waterfall meditation
When you have so much body hair it provides +5 light armor you take more time to dry.
Warming up while using my phone. My parents kept the house at 19°growing up, and I took an hour in the shower not even masturbating, just warming myself to the bone before I had to shiver for the rest of the day.
My hair is longer than my shoulders. I like my scalp to get scrubbed, it's sooo much easier to do that when my hair is only a few inches long. If I just go ham on it I'll damage it and break it so it takes as much time to wash my head than it does the rest of my obese body
Genuine question that I feel no obligation to answer, deal with my 30 minute shower.
Pooping
IN THE SHOWER!?!?!?
It's all the same pipes bro
"Different pipes go to different places!"
Not today!
Waffle stompin'!
If they're like me, they probably start the shower to let the water heat up, and poop in the meantime.
... At least, I hope that's what they're doing...
When I was healthy but had butt-length hair and shaved and washed my face with separate soap it took me 45 mins.
When I was almost fully disabled, had short hair, didn't shave, and didn't wash my face it took me an hour an a half.
I'm doing much better now, have short hair, don't shave, and rarely wash my face and it takes 20 mins, but I hate it bc I can't stand up in there long enough to just enjoy the warm, gotta hurry and scrub and get out.
Getting a shower chair changed my life
I hear you, I had one in one of the places I lived and it was the only way I could shower at all. The current standing/moving/balancing in the shower is one of the very few forms of exercise I get now tho, so I try to do it as long as I can each time hoping my condition will keep improving, even if it's only at a snail's pace 😂 I'm glad you have a chair, when they're necessary they're a lifesaver 💜
One of my legs is pretty gimpy, so I'd really rather not hop on one leg in the tub, haha. I need a smaller one though, this one's a double-wide which was nice for transferring when I was still stuck with a walker, but I can step in and out on my own now and it's just taking up floor space.
Lol I totally understand!!! 💜
all of that in 10 feels like one of those white people things, no washing the lower part at all just relying on flow of water doing all the work.
Sounds like a skill issue because I clean all over
if the time between first undressing and dressing back up all dried is 10 mins total, no you're not, unless you're shaped like a billiard ball.
Like I said, skill issue. Your failures and limitations are your own, not universal. Just because you are incredibly slow and inefficient doesn't mean that I am.
nope. bullshit. you're just dirty.
Impossible to ever comprehend you're doing something wrong. Impossible to comprehend someone else doing something better. Impossible to comprehend anything outside of a pre-declared narrative that they've constructed based off of their own limitations.
Sorry bucko. Like I said. Your failures are not universal. But keep crying about it :)
out of the two of us, I'm not the one giving the impression of crying about something.
your monolog is cringe. wash yourself better.
Hint: I keep coconut oil in the shower
Good for the skin, good for the hair! Good for mentality when you're not there!
Once had a housemate who would take two hour-long showers every single day. I have no idea what he was going in there, but he was either shaving or wanking in there.
I recon I could flog one out, clean, and shave my legs in under 20 mins NGL
No excuses
Did you make him pay twice as much as everybody else for the water bill? Also, super wasteful...
In high school I had a friend who would fall asleep in the shower
Hey, it's me, your friend.
one time my buddy took a 2 hour shower and didnt even jerk off
another time same buddy woke up for school, took a shower, then just napped in the shower for an hour. he was late 😂
Sitting on the edge of the tub nonverbal because.
singing lost in your eyes by debbie gibson into a shampoo bottle
My hair
Feeling the warmth return to my extremities.
I live in a drought-stricken area, and so I take short showers. If I lived where it wasn't an issue, I'd be in the 30+ minutes camp.
I wash my hair everyday, soap from head to toes and my ass crack. I scrub my pits and balls with heavy soap.
Takes me 20 min and I have long hair.
It takes longer than 10 minutes just to dry my hair properly
In my house the water pressure is low. Really low. Extra rinsing hair, scrubbing, and even then it still feels ineffective.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I have contamination based OCD, and the resulting routine takes a while.
Well not half an hour probably but sometimes I want to wash my hair, shave my legs, have a comprehensive shower.
Other times it's a 5 minute quick wash of face, underarms, crotch, & feet, before bed.
What are you drying that takes only a minute though? Do you not have hair?
Like someone else said in the thread, when I had hair past my butt it took longer, but that I only washed once a week because it took 2 days to dry.
Turn the shower on before I poop. Then after I can wash my butt. And use the rest of the hot water to relax the muscles in my neck and back.
What's stopping you from getting a heated bidet?
No electrical outlet by my toilet
Rofl.
I'm team quick shower or long bath (soaking my sore back is lovely). I had a roommate with undiagnosed narcolepsy that would fall asleep in the shower in college. She didn't lock the door and we had standing orders to just wake her up if we needed the shower.
My partner takes forever to brush out his lovely, long, curly hair. He also leaves a tribble and a half in the hair catcher.
Personal record: 1:55.
hh:mm
Nope. MM:SS.
To be fair, both seem impressive.
Though one is significantly more eco friendly.
About 4 hours for me
I don't take 30 minutes, but I do shave my body.
Thinking abkut everywhere I went wrong in life.
If you've ever had long hair, and lived in a place with hard water, you would not be asking this question.
Join the military and they'll show you how to shit, shower and shave in less than 10 minutes.