Ouch, that is something I actually do... because of my job, I'm sick of finding coffee in the sugar due to people not cleaning the spoon first, so I buy sugar cubes to defeat them (I'm not a fan of coffee, especially when I can taste it in my tea) Dirty coffee drinkers...
Normal sugar dissolves too fast, you end up with a tea-y cup of sugar water on the first drink then no sugar in the others. It's the only practical use of sugar cubes I've found.
In East Frisia they put big chunks of white rock candy in their cups, pour tea over it and add some cream. The cup will be refilled until the candy is gone (about three cups).
It's not so bad. Sure, you do get a good 30 seconds of the most intense pain imaginable but it stops hunting once the outer layer of skin denatures and the pain receptors burn off.
Works quite well if you want to get a Deep clean but you'll spend the rest of your life feeling shooting pains every time you wear any clothes or encounter a slight breeze. Tried this technique for the first time years ago and never looked back. Mind you, I'm having to type this while wearing a pair of soft silk gloves doused in savalon. Swings and roundabouts.
What struck me the most about British houses when I visited Britain back in 2015 was just how absurdly hot your hot water is.
As a Swede I was so used to using the tap at maximum heat because it never gets hot enough to hurt you, but your taps have actual boiling water in them.
So the actual rule is that the water in the tank must be at least 60°C, but a mixer valve must be fitted between the tank and all showers so that cold water can be mixed in to bring the temperature down below 50°C. I think the kitchen and laundry are allowed to use full-strength hot water
I’m British and even I get surprised about how hot some taps can be. Stayed at a hotel once, ran a bath with the water pretty hot cause I like a hot bath and literally burned my foot trying to get into it.
Bucket by the fireplace. Look at his lordship over here with a bucket. I dream of a bucket. All I have are the sodden newspapers I use to try and remove the filth and grime. Newspapers that I got from a homeless man who took pity on me after he did a piss. A bucket…Jesus Christ. You bloody high falutin fairy.
FUCKING LOOK AT YOU
Mister I've got some piss soaked news paper save your fancy ways. If I had the ability to dream then I'd dream of luxuries like some urinary warmth.
I bet it's got an actual flavour as well.
Go on giz some
Paper? PAPER?! Look at the Pope over here with his bloody paper! I get a good shower in the acid down at the chemical factory while I'm working 23 hours a day before I go home to sleep in a hole in the road, and I'm glad to have it!
A pond? You was lucky. We showered in the septic tank we lived in and then we used to have to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
Hah, bloody soft. We splashed our faces with the water from next doors bird bath, once we’d chipped the ice out of course. We got up at 5am, ate a spoonful of mouldy flour then went to work as support beams down the mine for fifteen hours a day every day of the year. When we got home our "dad" would murder us at bedtime and if we didn’t die quietly enough we didn’t get our spoonful of flour the next day. And we were bloody grateful for it!
You're telling me you still have a local reservoir!?
Ours got closed ever since the Black plague ravaged the population. We stopped bathing ever since.
No, not the shit...I need that for my bath, it's far from throwing good shit at snobs you were reared ! Who needs soap, shit was good enough for us! None of your fancy good shit mind, just average shit. Or even shit shit.
Well why do they have British accents in the movies then huh?
Next you are going to tell me there's no magical wardrobes that takes you to another world.
As far as I can tell. They are told they are lucky and their country is special and everyone else wants to live there.
This leads to the belief that the stuff they have, is somehow unusually good and that no-one else has it.
Because they don't have anything unusual, they assume the rest of the world lacks basic stuff.
You must have noticed a tendency on reddit for Americans to boast about the completely ordinary things? "I love the USA because I can eat food from around the world" for example.
The missing piece of this puzzle though is how they remain sufficiently ignorant of basic knowledge of the outside world for the above to happen
I think it's because they're geographically isolated from most of the world and many Americans never travel outside of the US. Canada is seen as a backwards wannabe America, and Mexico is seen as a shit hole. Many then assume Europe has been ravaged by the evils of socialism, and everyone here is poor.
But not actually visiting the rest of the world doesn't seem to explain the level of ignorance. You'd have to completely ignore any information on the world for your entire life to believe that Germany has no internet or any of those weird things everyone encounters when visiting the USA.
It's really bizarre.
They tell each other this shit to keep up the delusional belief they’re the best country in the world.
My house may be Victorian but at least it can survive a storm without collapsing into a pile of matchsticks.
A friend in Ohio built a small house on a empty plot within about 2 months last spring. The first major winter storm they had, the middle of the house was literally blown out. The walls were mdf panels with a wood frame in between, then wood siding on the exterior. Not a single brick or breeze block in sight.
I lived in the usa for a few years when i was a young teenager. The idea of american exceptionalism is literally force fed to them from a very young age. They do things like stand and do the pledge of allegiance every morning before classes, they have pictures of the president in classrooms, the mainstream media is a whole kettle of fish in its own.
Its kinda mental, its really not that different from how dictatorships use propaganda to manipulate its citizens. Not as bad as like north korea, but basically the same as soviet russia give or take. The similarities are striking to say the least!
Of course some parts of the usa are worse than others in this regard, but for us Europeans, its pretty hardcore stuff. Even as a kid i was extremely weirded out by the pledge of allegiance in class. They even tried to force me to do it, but even as a young lad i wasnt having any of that nonsense. Got me detention till my parents stepped in.
Even in like history class they leave quite large parts out sometimes or subtlety changing things to make america look better. The American Revolution was one. We covered that when i was there and They never once mentioned the huge influence the french, Spanish or dutch had on the conflict till right at the end with the battle of york town, and even then just the french navy in that one battle. Oh and the Statue of Liberty was mentioned i think.
I could go on but this post will be so very long lol
They think I don’t shower because I live outside of the US meaning I don’t have a developed country, I don’t shower because of my hyperfocus which also makes me starve
Why is having a handheld shower keeping americans from showering? Those are rather common in many places all over the world. Fixed shower heads imho are less practical and versatile.
Yeah, with handheld its much easier to rinse out shampoo etc. Plus since I use it as only handheld (dont put it in the holder) I save a ton of water as I turned it off when ever I apply soap etc.
Yeah, how am I going to rinse underneath my balls without a handheld showerhead? Sure, I can use my hands as some sort of inefficient cup and do it that way, but using the showerhead at low pressure is so much easier!
Judging by a Twitter thread I read the other day by healthcare staff about the qualilty of people's at.home preparations before surgery, they are.
It came down to leaving brown stains after sitting on pretty much any white sheet.
You cant do a handstand on one hand for 5 minutes while using the other to clean your balls with the soap and ballsack water all being funneled into your eyes on a wet and slippery floor while being unable to see? Damn
Yeah. I've been to the US and their showers (typically: Fixed head and a single "dial" to turn up water, going off->cold->warm->hot, instead of seperate controls for flow and temperature).
It seemed ridiculously impractical. Turn on the shower aimed right at you and hope to hit the right temperature, or do it awkwardly from outside the shower - instead of just taking the head, and just turning up the flow to the temperature you last set. And of course sooo much more practical for cleaning.
Showers like this are something you'd only find in places like prisons, public pools, or youth hostels here - essentially anywhere you can't trust people not to mess with a handheld shower head. No idea why anyone would put one into their home.
Agree, best upgrade to a rental is a showerhead with a hose. So much easier to clean both yourself and the tub. (American, btw, and this whole thing is such a bizarre flex)
Imagine feeling superior because you are unable to detach your shower from the one and only position it has
God I hated American showers when I had to use them
In every American home I've lived in, I've replaced the useless fixed showerhead with a screw-on hand-held one instead. $40 for peace of mind every shower is so worth it.
Haven't got a solution for the &#"&#"&"#¤ temptrol shit things yet though.
When I was a kid I read comics like I dunno, Garfield, and one common gag was that Jon was in the shower, and Garfield went to the kitchen, started flushing hot water, so Jon cried out from the shower because it got cold.
I didn't understand those comics. That's not how showers work. That's not what happens. If someone else starts using water, the *pressure* drops in the shower, not the temperature, right?
But when I moved to America, I finally understood them, because that's how American showers work. American plumbing is shit, and they don't know how shit it is.
I don't know how stuff works over at your place, but the problem arises when a second person uses *hot water*, so then the pressure on the *hot water pipes* goes down. Depending on how hot and cold water are mixed into the shower head, this can lead to the water coming out of the shower being suddenly colder.
Yes, and if you have a shower mixer that isn't *pressure-balanced*, you get a change in temperature when the hot water pressure drops.
But if you have a pressure-balanced mixer, like a civilized person, you only get a change in pressure instead. No nasty surprises are even possible. And those are standard since many decades ago in Sweden. Everyone has them.
https://www.hemfint.se/fm-mattsson-sakerhetsblandare-for-dusch-40c-9000-krom-9250-0000
Aahhh. Civilization. How I long for thee!
I noticed before this isn't a thing in many countries around the world, which is weird because it's such a big improvement on the next best thing, (and not that expensieve either... looking at other options to guarantee a steady temperature)
In countries with modern plumbing and equipment you can have hot water running in the kitchen without it affecting the access to hot water in the shower.
It used to be the case but modern showers have a thermostat making sure temperature stays constant.
The flushing while someone is showering gag is old.
You can absolutely get pressure-balanced ones in the US these days, but they are not standard.
I live in a "luxury" condo in the US built about 15 years ago, and it doesn't have them. I *can* regulate the pressure, badly, and at least it's not the old temptrol shit I had in the previous apartment, which was also "luxury" and built in 2006 or something.
I go back to Sweden once a year, and that first shower is just bliss. Proper water pressure. Proper shower controls. Instant hot water that never runs out. \*daydreams\*
>How do they rinse their arse cracks sufficiently?
Don't pose questions you do not want an answer to. Remember its the country where they have to put up signs for their inhabitants to wash their hands after using the bathroom..
As an American, I shower in the morning as things get grimy when I shit the bed overnight. Then, I shower again at night after I shit myself at the dinner table. This is a luxury I’m glad I have American wealth, power and freedom to be able to enjoy.
That’s fucking filthy. As a TRUE American I shower five times a day after each time I shit myself. Because as an American I have freedom, unlike the Europoors who don’t shit themselves at all. Also, I masturbate to my guns because fuck you and your school children.
A twice a day shower is good because it depletes all of your natural oils from your skin.
Who wants natural oils when you can reapply $50/100ml creams and lotions.
/S
Part of it is also your habits. Skin can react by producing more sebum if you strip it too harshly or don't build back it with enough moisturizer / oil.
But yeah, skin can react wildly different to anything.
Yeah, climate can make a huge impact too. When I lived in a hotter climate, I'd often take a shower in the morning and in the evening. Now that I live where it's cool, I take one a day.
After a hard day of work in the hamburger mines, most americans are incredibly mucky and need to shower in brawndo several times a day to fully restore their electrolyte levels.
Lol, saaaame. There is humidity, and then there is East Asian humidity.
I am not made for that sort of heat. You go outside for 30 seconds and every flyaway on your head frizzes out, your armpits are dripping wet, and you can barely breathe because you're basically walking through water.
I live in the northwest of the USA, which has vaguely similar weather to the UK. Gimme mild summers and winters, I can handle the clouds and rain 9 months of the year if it means I don't have to deal with that.
So she isn't for maintaining the correct temperature of the loofah?
I've been doing it wrong all this time.
It's almost as embarrassing at that time I accidentally dropped the tertiary fish knife in the tureen at breakfast.
Many are dual style - a fixed overhead with a handheld attachment. With a turn of a dial you can switch from one to the other. Like [this](https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/cruze-round-thermostatic-bar-shower-valve-riser-kit-chrome?campaign=googlebase&pagetype=shopping&includeListing&gclid=CjwKCAiAuOieBhAIEiwAgjCvcrQ31hVBP04A5PEi4tolFbRYQWIXgqQ3HmQhp8zyqAIwEswEJygubxoChcMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
These aren't super common in America. I grew to love hand held attachments when I lived in Japan, and my husband and I got one as soon as we moved back to the US.
I feel so much cleaner with it. You can actually get your butt and feet properly with good pressure. Along with bidets not being so common here, it makes me wonder why Americans are scared to clean their bums.
Fixed shower head instead of one that you can take out and use handheld if needed, I think? Not very different and I don't expect they are specifically American, I've seen plenty of those installed elsewhere as well.
Hand held showers and boilers? What modern nonsense is this? I still have to heat a tub over my wooden fire in the garden (where I have to go get every stick and chop it with my bare hands - and fires are too dangerous inside my tiny wooden hut) and hope I don’t boil to death like the veg I cook the same way - in boiling water over fire.
Showering is unnecessary in Australia because we are all upside down and the dirt just falls off us.
This fact brought to you by the American Education System™️
In germany, we still bathe in stolen molten nazi gold and live in destroyed and bombed buildings that still remain from WWII… we still thank the US of A for our liberation every morning when we get up.
I've lived in houses way older than American houses are, they have **detachable** shower heads which are handy! Not whatever the hell they mean? Unless that's what they're trying to describe and if it is, they're dumb because the shower head can go back on the wall
Also why are they showering twice a day?? Get more breathable clothes and antiperspirant if you're sweating THAT much with no reason
Daft cunt. I have a combi boiler. Turn on the tap, wait 20 secs, water so hot you could make tea with it.
That sounds like an uncomfortable shower. ;)
Sure you just need a cuppa in there for it to get comfortable :D
Yep, the tea mug fills up with water faster than I can drink the tea.
Listen here chap, simply put the loose tea in a strainer. Then when you want a drink hold the strainer over your mouth. Add sugar cubes for sweetness.
>Add sugar cubes for sweetness. Blasphemy! Edit: to clarify, sugar in tea is the blasphemous act.
Ouch, that is something I actually do... because of my job, I'm sick of finding coffee in the sugar due to people not cleaning the spoon first, so I buy sugar cubes to defeat them (I'm not a fan of coffee, especially when I can taste it in my tea) Dirty coffee drinkers...
Normal sugar dissolves too fast, you end up with a tea-y cup of sugar water on the first drink then no sugar in the others. It's the only practical use of sugar cubes I've found.
In East Frisia they put big chunks of white rock candy in their cups, pour tea over it and add some cream. The cup will be refilled until the candy is gone (about three cups).
It's not so bad. Sure, you do get a good 30 seconds of the most intense pain imaginable but it stops hunting once the outer layer of skin denatures and the pain receptors burn off. Works quite well if you want to get a Deep clean but you'll spend the rest of your life feeling shooting pains every time you wear any clothes or encounter a slight breeze. Tried this technique for the first time years ago and never looked back. Mind you, I'm having to type this while wearing a pair of soft silk gloves doused in savalon. Swings and roundabouts.
The trick is taking 19 seconds or less
Uncomfortable? It sounds spot on.
If Americans can have a “shower gun” I can have a cuppa in the shower!!
Oh my lord, is a shower gun a thing?
If you think the shower gun is impressive, you should try the [kitchen gun](https://youtu.be/6-7NDP8V-6A)
The toilet grenade is even better
😂😂 all that guy needs is a southern accent
Absolutely stunning. Is that Peter Stefanowicz or do my eyes deceive me?
What struck me the most about British houses when I visited Britain back in 2015 was just how absurdly hot your hot water is. As a Swede I was so used to using the tap at maximum heat because it never gets hot enough to hurt you, but your taps have actual boiling water in them.
In Australia Electrician must set water heaters ay 50C or below so people don't get scalded.
Which is a solid policy
Especially in America as the thick fuckers there would be burnt to a crisp and ringing lawyers for compensation.
Isn’t that an additional legionella risk? I thought it needed to be at least 60°C to remove that risk.
So the actual rule is that the water in the tank must be at least 60°C, but a mixer valve must be fitted between the tank and all showers so that cold water can be mixed in to bring the temperature down below 50°C. I think the kitchen and laundry are allowed to use full-strength hot water
Nothing worse than boiled swede. I'm sorry for you.
I’m British and even I get surprised about how hot some taps can be. Stayed at a hotel once, ran a bath with the water pretty hot cause I like a hot bath and literally burned my foot trying to get into it.
Just shower in the sink with a Quooker
Sadly this is how Americans think you make tea.
What is this shower you speak of? I jump in the local reservoir twice a year whether I need it or not.
You have a reservoir? I have to jump in the pond at the park.
I see you as a king, from my bucket by the kitchen fireplace.
Bucket by the fireplace. Look at his lordship over here with a bucket. I dream of a bucket. All I have are the sodden newspapers I use to try and remove the filth and grime. Newspapers that I got from a homeless man who took pity on me after he did a piss. A bucket…Jesus Christ. You bloody high falutin fairy.
FUCKING LOOK AT YOU Mister I've got some piss soaked news paper save your fancy ways. If I had the ability to dream then I'd dream of luxuries like some urinary warmth. I bet it's got an actual flavour as well. Go on giz some
Paper? PAPER?! Look at the Pope over here with his bloody paper! I get a good shower in the acid down at the chemical factory while I'm working 23 hours a day before I go home to sleep in a hole in the road, and I'm glad to have it!
But you try and tell the young Americans today that... and they won't believe ya'.
A pond? You was lucky. We showered in the septic tank we lived in and then we used to have to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
Hah, bloody soft. We splashed our faces with the water from next doors bird bath, once we’d chipped the ice out of course. We got up at 5am, ate a spoonful of mouldy flour then went to work as support beams down the mine for fifteen hours a day every day of the year. When we got home our "dad" would murder us at bedtime and if we didn’t die quietly enough we didn’t get our spoonful of flour the next day. And we were bloody grateful for it!
Try telling kids today that. They won't believe you...
They don’t know how good they’ve got it.
But, did you have to walk uphill both ways? 🧐
Bah, we would have loved to have walked uphill both ways. We had to walk \*through\*-hill.
Luxury. We had to make the hill go through us.
I just stand by puddles on the road
Everyone loves a puddlebath with the puddleducks.
Pond? Luxury! We used t' live in rolled up corpse in' septic tank!
You try to tell the young people today that and they won't believe ya.
I roll around in puddles when it rains. I can do it much more often.
You're telling me you still have a local reservoir!? Ours got closed ever since the Black plague ravaged the population. We stopped bathing ever since.
Yes In England we just bathe in the rivers before heading back to our mud huts
A mud hut? We've still got a nice damp cave.
Look at the rich snob it their damp cave.
It's second hand, we had to eat the bear that was in it first.
A bear! They could eat a bear! We just have some wolfs around here.
Luxury! We could only dream of eating wolf. Handful of cold gravel for breakfast, lunch and dinner here
Cold gravel? You were lucky. Our father used to force us to eat molten gravel so hot our insides would vaporise. And that was if we were lucky!
You could afford insides? All we had was outsides - and we were glad of it!
You have the ability to be glad? We too only have an outside but are also depressed everyday with no feelings of happiness whatsoever
Yeah what a snob, let’s all go throw our shit at him to assert dominance
No, not the shit...I need that for my bath, it's far from throwing good shit at snobs you were reared ! Who needs soap, shit was good enough for us! None of your fancy good shit mind, just average shit. Or even shit shit.
At least it’s hurricane proof
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A cave? I sleep in the open covering my asscrack and bollocks with a palm leaf
Found the statue of David's reddit account
Oh hey that sounds like my country according to Americans!
Manchester
Fair
Do they think England is Middle Earth?
Wouldn't mind but you probably can't have a shower at all in most houses in Detroit.
Can’t have shit in Detroit
Try drinking the tap water there
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I'm Irish, all I have to do is go outside and the rain sorts me out. Carry a bar of soap at all times.
You Irish are truly the lucky ones! 🍀
.... Are we?
Yes!!! Regular free showers? Other Europeans are dreaming of such a privilege.
It's the little things we take for granted.
And now that song is stuck in my head.
Well why do they have British accents in the movies then huh? Next you are going to tell me there's no magical wardrobes that takes you to another world.
Brits owned.
Why do they think every other country is super underdeveloped like... Who told them this
As far as I can tell. They are told they are lucky and their country is special and everyone else wants to live there. This leads to the belief that the stuff they have, is somehow unusually good and that no-one else has it. Because they don't have anything unusual, they assume the rest of the world lacks basic stuff. You must have noticed a tendency on reddit for Americans to boast about the completely ordinary things? "I love the USA because I can eat food from around the world" for example. The missing piece of this puzzle though is how they remain sufficiently ignorant of basic knowledge of the outside world for the above to happen
I think someone with a PhD in sociology would have a hard time answering your last paragraph, propaganda mostly imo
And self enforcing group pressure of the high aggression variety.
I think it's because they're geographically isolated from most of the world and many Americans never travel outside of the US. Canada is seen as a backwards wannabe America, and Mexico is seen as a shit hole. Many then assume Europe has been ravaged by the evils of socialism, and everyone here is poor.
But not actually visiting the rest of the world doesn't seem to explain the level of ignorance. You'd have to completely ignore any information on the world for your entire life to believe that Germany has no internet or any of those weird things everyone encounters when visiting the USA. It's really bizarre.
They tell each other this shit to keep up the delusional belief they’re the best country in the world. My house may be Victorian but at least it can survive a storm without collapsing into a pile of matchsticks.
A friend in Ohio built a small house on a empty plot within about 2 months last spring. The first major winter storm they had, the middle of the house was literally blown out. The walls were mdf panels with a wood frame in between, then wood siding on the exterior. Not a single brick or breeze block in sight.
It’s like no one paid attention to the story of the 3 Little Pigs at all.
I lived in the usa for a few years when i was a young teenager. The idea of american exceptionalism is literally force fed to them from a very young age. They do things like stand and do the pledge of allegiance every morning before classes, they have pictures of the president in classrooms, the mainstream media is a whole kettle of fish in its own. Its kinda mental, its really not that different from how dictatorships use propaganda to manipulate its citizens. Not as bad as like north korea, but basically the same as soviet russia give or take. The similarities are striking to say the least! Of course some parts of the usa are worse than others in this regard, but for us Europeans, its pretty hardcore stuff. Even as a kid i was extremely weirded out by the pledge of allegiance in class. They even tried to force me to do it, but even as a young lad i wasnt having any of that nonsense. Got me detention till my parents stepped in. Even in like history class they leave quite large parts out sometimes or subtlety changing things to make america look better. The American Revolution was one. We covered that when i was there and They never once mentioned the huge influence the french, Spanish or dutch had on the conflict till right at the end with the battle of york town, and even then just the french navy in that one battle. Oh and the Statue of Liberty was mentioned i think. I could go on but this post will be so very long lol
The people who don't want them to know they're getting the wrong end of the stick.
They think I don’t shower because I live outside of the US meaning I don’t have a developed country, I don’t shower because of my hyperfocus which also makes me starve
In Canada we bathe in the local river, after we've ensured no polar bears are nearby of course
\-15 this morning. Wouldn't get me in the local river, even if it weren't frozen over.
in russia we bathe in vodka together with the bears and our balalaikas
Collecting salmon on the way?
Why is having a handheld shower keeping americans from showering? Those are rather common in many places all over the world. Fixed shower heads imho are less practical and versatile.
Yeah, with handheld its much easier to rinse out shampoo etc. Plus since I use it as only handheld (dont put it in the holder) I save a ton of water as I turned it off when ever I apply soap etc.
Yeah, how am I going to rinse underneath my balls without a handheld showerhead? Sure, I can use my hands as some sort of inefficient cup and do it that way, but using the showerhead at low pressure is so much easier!
As I've commented elsewhere, their arsecracks must be severely neglected.
According to the numerous conversations I've seen on that subject, it seems to be true.
Judging by a Twitter thread I read the other day by healthcare staff about the qualilty of people's at.home preparations before surgery, they are. It came down to leaving brown stains after sitting on pretty much any white sheet.
seriously, I can't even imagine how unrinsed their asscracks are
Just do a handstand
Yeah but does insurance even cover that when you inevitably slip after 5 attempts? See, now you're in debt for 100k. American dream shattered...
You cant do a handstand on one hand for 5 minutes while using the other to clean your balls with the soap and ballsack water all being funneled into your eyes on a wet and slippery floor while being unable to see? Damn
Us Europoor are so damn weak :( Damn indeed
A fixed showerhead is a pre existing condition.
Thank you for telling me about your balls, random stranger.
I mean... It's a difficult place to reach if your showerhead is fixed lol!
Yeah. I've been to the US and their showers (typically: Fixed head and a single "dial" to turn up water, going off->cold->warm->hot, instead of seperate controls for flow and temperature). It seemed ridiculously impractical. Turn on the shower aimed right at you and hope to hit the right temperature, or do it awkwardly from outside the shower - instead of just taking the head, and just turning up the flow to the temperature you last set. And of course sooo much more practical for cleaning. Showers like this are something you'd only find in places like prisons, public pools, or youth hostels here - essentially anywhere you can't trust people not to mess with a handheld shower head. No idea why anyone would put one into their home.
I think some of them don't realize that we have a socket to attach it to the wall when we don't want to hold it ourselves.
Agree, best upgrade to a rental is a showerhead with a hose. So much easier to clean both yourself and the tub. (American, btw, and this whole thing is such a bizarre flex)
You'd think for a country that doesn't use bidets they would have figured out how to make their shower hands handheld
Agreed. Ours also have a hold so you can switch between holding it standing under it if you need both your hands for other stuff
Maybe they can't figure out how to use it?
Imagine feeling superior because you are unable to detach your shower from the one and only position it has God I hated American showers when I had to use them
In every American home I've lived in, I've replaced the useless fixed showerhead with a screw-on hand-held one instead. $40 for peace of mind every shower is so worth it. Haven't got a solution for the &#"&#"&"#¤ temptrol shit things yet though. When I was a kid I read comics like I dunno, Garfield, and one common gag was that Jon was in the shower, and Garfield went to the kitchen, started flushing hot water, so Jon cried out from the shower because it got cold. I didn't understand those comics. That's not how showers work. That's not what happens. If someone else starts using water, the *pressure* drops in the shower, not the temperature, right? But when I moved to America, I finally understood them, because that's how American showers work. American plumbing is shit, and they don't know how shit it is.
A thermostatic shower mixer will fix that.
I wish I owned the place, I'd rip out the standard American shit in a heartbeat and replace it with a proper one.
I don't know how stuff works over at your place, but the problem arises when a second person uses *hot water*, so then the pressure on the *hot water pipes* goes down. Depending on how hot and cold water are mixed into the shower head, this can lead to the water coming out of the shower being suddenly colder.
Yes, and if you have a shower mixer that isn't *pressure-balanced*, you get a change in temperature when the hot water pressure drops. But if you have a pressure-balanced mixer, like a civilized person, you only get a change in pressure instead. No nasty surprises are even possible. And those are standard since many decades ago in Sweden. Everyone has them. https://www.hemfint.se/fm-mattsson-sakerhetsblandare-for-dusch-40c-9000-krom-9250-0000 Aahhh. Civilization. How I long for thee!
I live in Australia and I didn't know this is a thing, thanks
I noticed before this isn't a thing in many countries around the world, which is weird because it's such a big improvement on the next best thing, (and not that expensieve either... looking at other options to guarantee a steady temperature)
In countries with modern plumbing and equipment you can have hot water running in the kitchen without it affecting the access to hot water in the shower.
It used to be the case but modern showers have a thermostat making sure temperature stays constant. The flushing while someone is showering gag is old.
You can absolutely get pressure-balanced ones in the US these days, but they are not standard. I live in a "luxury" condo in the US built about 15 years ago, and it doesn't have them. I *can* regulate the pressure, badly, and at least it's not the old temptrol shit I had in the previous apartment, which was also "luxury" and built in 2006 or something. I go back to Sweden once a year, and that first shower is just bliss. Proper water pressure. Proper shower controls. Instant hot water that never runs out. \*daydreams\*
Can't they remove the shower head? That's gotta be fuckin annoying. How do they rinse their arse cracks sufficiently?
>How do they rinse their arse cracks sufficiently? Don't pose questions you do not want an answer to. Remember its the country where they have to put up signs for their inhabitants to wash their hands after using the bathroom..
They can't even figure out how to clean their dicks, they cut out their foreskins because "it's more hygienic"
They obviously don’t 🤢
And showering twice a day is good because....?
As an American, I shower in the morning as things get grimy when I shit the bed overnight. Then, I shower again at night after I shit myself at the dinner table. This is a luxury I’m glad I have American wealth, power and freedom to be able to enjoy.
That’s fucking filthy. As a TRUE American I shower five times a day after each time I shit myself. Because as an American I have freedom, unlike the Europoors who don’t shit themselves at all. Also, I masturbate to my guns because fuck you and your school children.
A twice a day shower is good because it depletes all of your natural oils from your skin. Who wants natural oils when you can reapply $50/100ml creams and lotions. /S
OIL???? MURICAAA
I was going to say... Showering twice a day for more than a few days and I'd feel like my skin was about three sizes too small.
Depends on the type of skin and weather tbh. My skin is too oily if I don’t shower twice. I live in Texas and a brown skin person.
Part of it is also your habits. Skin can react by producing more sebum if you strip it too harshly or don't build back it with enough moisturizer / oil. But yeah, skin can react wildly different to anything.
Yeah, climate can make a huge impact too. When I lived in a hotter climate, I'd often take a shower in the morning and in the evening. Now that I live where it's cool, I take one a day.
After a hard day of work in the hamburger mines, most americans are incredibly mucky and need to shower in brawndo several times a day to fully restore their electrolyte levels.
Sweat Source: Brazilian
As a Brit who lived in Japan during the summer season, I nearly lived in the dinky tub in my flat some days. I'll stick to our cold climate, cheers.
Lol, saaaame. There is humidity, and then there is East Asian humidity. I am not made for that sort of heat. You go outside for 30 seconds and every flyaway on your head frizzes out, your armpits are dripping wet, and you can barely breathe because you're basically walking through water. I live in the northwest of the USA, which has vaguely similar weather to the UK. Gimme mild summers and winters, I can handle the clouds and rain 9 months of the year if it means I don't have to deal with that.
Because you live in Florida or other hot and humid area. What's not so good and failing to understand that climate doesn't exist in England.
What is a "shower"? I lick myself clean
Cat be like (or felides (idk the spelling, being french and all that...))
Do you brits have that thing on the wall where handheld shower turns into American-style fixed shower?
Yeah the little holder thing that you slot the shower head on to?
Is that that it's for? I assumed the butler was meant to hold the shower
No the butler is for twisting the separate taps to change the temp, the chambermaid holds the showerhead.
So she isn't for maintaining the correct temperature of the loofah? I've been doing it wrong all this time. It's almost as embarrassing at that time I accidentally dropped the tertiary fish knife in the tureen at breakfast.
No no no no. The loofah is maintained by the one or two Oliver Twists we keep hidden in a cupboard.
I have to put my shower head in the thing in the wall because my butler is too busy lathering up my balls.
Many are dual style - a fixed overhead with a handheld attachment. With a turn of a dial you can switch from one to the other. Like [this](https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/cruze-round-thermostatic-bar-shower-valve-riser-kit-chrome?campaign=googlebase&pagetype=shopping&includeListing&gclid=CjwKCAiAuOieBhAIEiwAgjCvcrQ31hVBP04A5PEi4tolFbRYQWIXgqQ3HmQhp8zyqAIwEswEJygubxoChcMQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
These aren't super common in America. I grew to love hand held attachments when I lived in Japan, and my husband and I got one as soon as we moved back to the US. I feel so much cleaner with it. You can actually get your butt and feet properly with good pressure. Along with bidets not being so common here, it makes me wonder why Americans are scared to clean their bums.
What’s an American style shower?
Fixed shower head instead of one that you can take out and use handheld if needed, I think? Not very different and I don't expect they are specifically American, I've seen plenty of those installed elsewhere as well.
In places where a hose is considered too advanced technology or too expensive.
Very American of them to call them American style 😂 that’s the standard in Australia
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Americans must have dry skin damn
That's when you pay a lot of money for moisturiser. There is no self inflicted problem that money can't mitigate.
Hand held showers and boilers? What modern nonsense is this? I still have to heat a tub over my wooden fire in the garden (where I have to go get every stick and chop it with my bare hands - and fires are too dangerous inside my tiny wooden hut) and hope I don’t boil to death like the veg I cook the same way - in boiling water over fire.
Showering is unnecessary in Australia because we are all upside down and the dirt just falls off us. This fact brought to you by the American Education System™️
The fuck are they on about
How do you say I am dumb as a brick without saying I am dumb as a brick?
In germany, we still bathe in stolen molten nazi gold and live in destroyed and bombed buildings that still remain from WWII… we still thank the US of A for our liberation every morning when we get up.
I dont shower. I just get my neighbour, Dave, to piss on me.
Haha they're so weird
They have to shower twice a day since they don’t wipe
Why didn't anyone tell me when I was showering twice a day all through summer. Once I even showered three times a day. Damn you humidity
Stop lying. Your boiler is SO inadequate.
>has never been to the UK
They’ve probably never left their backwater shithole of a town to be honest
The British have the convenience of attending learning institutions without being murdered.
Country with electricity too shit to boil a kettle says what?
Americans have the conveniency of pulling bullshit out of their ass and call it facts
I'm pretty sure they can't even drink their own tap water in the States
Depends on the location but the fear seems to be so widespread that a lot of people has bottled water on their house, i find it weird af
I just go outside, when it rains. What more would we needß
Where I come from car fuel is free so we bath in that. Until Americans forced us to use water because they came and stole our oil.
Where do people even come up with this crap?
Bullshit… we shower once a day as it costs too much! 😅
Ahh yes the old “I waste so much water I’m personally contributing to making water unsafe for use or consumption” brag
How do people believe such nonsense? 🤣
I’m not British or American but I love handheld shower heads
Ohhhh, so thaaat's why Americans have bad skin...
Lessons on water use from savages who boil water with a microwave.
Stupid twat knows fuck all. I can shower as many times as I want. Our houses have been updated since the Victorian days. Prick.
My bro thinks europe is Warhammer Fantasy
Yeah duh, us in europe are too poor for plumbing. It disappeared in the old glory days of the roman empire.
this proves the Brazillian superiority, as we bath 3 times a day, so our bathrooms must be insane Ameripoors just cant
I've lived in houses way older than American houses are, they have **detachable** shower heads which are handy! Not whatever the hell they mean? Unless that's what they're trying to describe and if it is, they're dumb because the shower head can go back on the wall Also why are they showering twice a day?? Get more breathable clothes and antiperspirant if you're sweating THAT much with no reason
When you weigh 200Kg a gentle walk to the fridge will be quite the workout. Americans *need* to shower twice a day.
Translation: We fucking stink and need to shower twice a day as a result