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beccastareyes
2010-05-20 06:07 pm UTC (link)

You know, most women I know take longer showers than men...

... because many women have longer hair than most men, which takes time to wash. Also, many women shave in the shower, rather than in front of the sink. I kind of want to give this guy waist-length hair and tell him he needs to wash that, then shave his legs and armpits, and that I'm turning the water off at three minutes. (Or just set it to 2° C, which might be funnier.)

Though... what about long cold showers?

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	mirhanda 2010-05-20 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	ITA. I have to wash my hair, condition my hair, shave my legs, shave my pits, then wash everywhere. No way that can be done in 3 minutes. I do multi-task though. While the conditioner is soaking in my hair, I do the shaving. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	telophase 2010-05-20 07:51 pm UTC (link)
	Add in being almost blind as a bat without my glasses, so that I have to carefully feel to see that I didn't miss a spot on my legs, and that adds to the time. Admittedly, I tend to take very short showers, but very long baths because I bring books in. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sequinedlizard 2010-05-20 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	Me too. I take shorter showers (I brush my teeth while the shampoo is setting, then soap and rinse after the conditioner goes in, maybe 3-4 minutes tops), but I'll hang out in the tub all day if I can. It helps with my knee and is a great place to get reading done. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

bemysty
2010-05-21 12:14 am UTC (link)

Dito on the multitasking.

As for bathing, it used to be the same with me when I lived at my parents'... my last three places didn't have tubs (which is a SIN, I tell you. Especially in Japan!).

In fact, when I was at my parents' place for Christmas last year, I took my laptop and read a full set of Dance in the Vampire Bund manga while soaking and listening to my father rapping on the door every ten minutes or so >:)

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sequinedlizard
2010-05-21 01:20 am UTC (link)

I'm really tall, so the only reason I don't stay in tubs longer is because most of them aren't quite long enough to really get submerged. I had one place that had one of those big old fashioned claw foot tubs, and I was glad we had two bathrooms, that way I didn't have to worry about my housemates.

I also went to a hotel that had hot tubs in the rooms the December before last, and I set up my computer with my television rotation and stayed in there for about seven hours (adjusting the water as needed, of course).

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bemysty
2010-05-21 01:52 am UTC (link)

My whole family is rather overweight and pretty tall (my brother's 7', my father's 6'4, I'm 6'), so when my parents' house burned down a couple of years ago, they bought a customized tub. I actually have trouble not sinking under the surface in it because my feet can barely reach where the back starts curving up. And when I sit down crosslegged, the water goes up to my tits easily.

Obviously best tub in the history of ever.

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	artimusdin 2010-05-21 03:38 am UTC (link)
	WANT. NOW. grabby hands ;_____; (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	freezer 2010-05-21 07:47 am UTC (link)
	Seconded. The current hacienda has a stupidly shallow tub, exacerbated by a water heater that goes cold when the tub is half full. If I could afford to replace them both, I would. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bemysty 2010-05-21 01:45 pm UTC (link)
	My parents' old tub used to be like that... very snug on me, impossible for my brother and uncomfortable for my father, plus a shitty boiler. I was the only one who really enjoyed that tub and was sad to see it go. in the boiler's defence, it was installed in 1962 and the water went up three floors, with most of the plumbing in the outside walls. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aliaras 2010-05-23 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	Oh man, that is what my apartment is like. It's sad. I should take a bath at my parents' -- it's not great, but it at least gets and stays warm. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	barankhy 2010-05-21 07:46 am UTC (link)
	DO WANT TOO Seriously. I haven't had a nice, lovely, looong bath in years because our tub is just too short for me to lie comfortably in :( (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bemysty 2010-05-21 01:46 pm UTC (link)
	But ALL normal tubs are kinda bleh when you're taller than 1,75 :( (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	trialia 2010-07-16 08:45 pm UTC (link)
	I'm only 1.60 and I still can't submerge myself completely in the tub at my parents' place. Pretty lousy size-wise. Thank goodness mine is longer! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lindentreeisle 2010-05-21 03:30 pm UTC (link)
	I WANT. I fantasize about jacuzzi soaking tubs. It would be like having my own tiny swimming pool. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sabra_n 2010-05-23 06:07 am UTC (link)
	And there's another key factor - if you live in a house with lots of roommates or family members, the bathroom may be the only private space you have. That's why I used to take longer showers than I do now - I'm an introvert, and that was the only place in the house where I could definitively be away from people. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jaythenerdkid 2010-05-21 03:03 pm UTC (link)
	Add in being almost blind as a bat without my glasses, so that I have to carefully feel to see that I didn't miss a spot on my legs, and that adds to the time. YES. Shaving is hard when you can't really see what you're doing! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2010-05-20 09:24 pm UTC (link)
	If you're a gurl then you are already, by definition, a weak sister. How dare you not be born with the right chromosomes and plumbing?! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kookaburra 2010-05-21 05:14 am UTC (link)
	Ha ha, that's what I was going to say - what do you wanna bet that he's either written an article or WILL write an article about how women without perfectly smooth legs and styled hair are falling down on the job? I have very long, thick hair (and long, thick body hair, LOL) - back when I did shave no way I could do it in under 15 minutes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cereta 2010-05-21 03:33 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think the idea that the set "people" includes the subset "women" is on this guy's radar. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	greenling 2010-05-21 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	Eeeyeah. That or, at very least, he's one of those people who wouldn't consider washing/shaving relevant to the question because there's got to be a ~~reason I don't have to take back what I said~~ better way to do it, explained courtesy of my massive cock. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lindentreeisle 2010-05-21 03:34 pm UTC (link)
	That's what I want to know! My long showers tend to be cold, usually. (The city is so motherfucking hot, it's the best thing in the world after a July day at work or running errands.) Also, what about swimming pools? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	varethane 2010-05-22 07:28 pm UTC (link)
	I'd like to know about swimming pools too! Having done competitive swimming for nine years, does that make me an inveterate womb-seeker? (To compound this, after swimming having a shower becomes a necessity to wash the chlorine out of one's hair-- if I hadn't had those 10-minute showers daily, I think my hair would have begun falling out in brittle clumps or something...) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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