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There oughta be a law!
nekowafer:
My before-work showers are always in the realm of 15 minutes. My any-other-time showers are closer to 20, 25 minutes. If I've decided to have a "spa night", at least a half hour is spent in the tub, most of it soaking, some of it shaving. I also have this great hair treatment that needs to sit in my hair for 20 minutes and it's goopy so I don't like just sitting around with it in my hair, I prefer to be in the tub. Then another 30 minutes, at least, in the shower. Then another half hour afterwards putting on lotion and whatever other fancy bath thing I happen to have at hand.
Papersatan:
I don't know how long my showers are, but every time a conversation turns to water conservation I remember how spoiled I am.
I grew up right next to one of the great lakes, so I never had any pressure to conserve water. I know some of the outlying suburbs had no lawn watering regulations a few years when there were droughts, but we never did in the city. You could water to your hearts content. I am actually picturing the number of times I have seen automatic sprinklers on in the middle of rainstorms. Before just now it had not occurred to me how ridiculous that must look to people from areas that need to manage their water.
When I was little I saw an ad about turning your faucet off when you brush your teeth and I couldn't figure out how that was going to save the planet; there is plenty of water, to be a good person you just need to not pollute it! If only. I confess I am still not real responsible with my water, even though I do try to turn the faucet off when I brush now.
Akima:
Hmm... It seems my viewpoint is perhaps a bit narrow and doctrinaire... :laugh:
Redball:
Akima, the poster raises a question: You or someone here recently posted a couple of Chinese posters with slogans, with an awkward English translation that it seems to me no English speaker would take seriously.
Do such slogans and posters carry any more weight in China? Are they taken seriously. Are they more in tune with their audience than their translations are to us? Or are sloganeers ridiculed?
Bluesummers:
I'm a lazy bastard compared to all of you...I "wake up", crawl into the shower, and let the water run over me for about 30 minutes before I even start washing...it's my form of wake-up, since I get about 4 hours of sleep per night...it helps with a driving job.
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