BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: JennyO
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 11:13 AM

Well who are you then?

boom boom

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 11:08 AM

Oh, and another thing. I find a bath relaxes me to the point of not wanting to do anything but sleep when I get out, where a shower is invigorating. I can't really get going with my day until I've had a shower. I'm just not completely myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 11:04 AM

I'm with MMario. I'll soak in a hot bath if I've got sore muscles or a chill, but they do leave me feeling grimey. I always finish a bath with a quick shower to the crud off. I've never been in a hot tub, the seem awfully unhealthy to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 11:01 AM

I have no agender.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 10:55 AM

I grew up without showers, in old homes which only had bathtubs.

When Rog and I hooked up and lived on his ranchette where we had to haul all of our own water, I quickly became used to showering with him to conserve water. We still do this, although we usually just get in one at a time, right after the other. It still helps to conserve water, something I feel we all need to do, esp. in the West, in the drought.

Still, I love a good soak in the tub every few weeks with candles, crystals, a cat or two sitting on the edge playing with bubbles. Rog enjoys a good soak now and then, too. If we are esp. grimey, a quick rinse in the shower, after the soak, takes care of it, esp. using a detachable showerhead/hose.

I never feel as though my hair gets rinsed in the shower and I shower at night, but wash my hair in the morning, so it's the kitchen sink for me for that, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: GUEST,Kim C
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 10:52 AM

It's hard to shave your legs in a Greek shower.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 10:37 AM

I have a shower every mornig and I have a bath about 3 or 4 times a week. I like to relax in the bath but I have to wash my hair in the shower or I can't get all the shampoo out.

When I was at uni we had ensuite rooms. THe bathrooms were adaquete and the shower didn't flood the entire room BUT if the person living next to you was having a shower at the same time the water was a mere drizzle!!

Cat

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 10:31 AM

Hey Bullfrog. Of course you do! That's part of the magic. But the wrinkles always go away after you get out of the tub ;-)

I have hair almost down to my waist, and it's very thick. I never wash it in a tub. I can't get it clean by dipping, and I have to use conditioner, which needs to get rinsed off too. If I'm using a bath instead of a shower, I have to wash my hair in the kitchen sink. I hate that.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: MMario
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 10:25 AM

now *my* opinion is that a shower leaves you much cleaner, much faster. A bath always leaves me feeling a bit "coated" - makes it next to impossible to rinse my hair; and if preffered only when I need a good long hot soak to relax sore muscles.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: JudeL
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 10:20 AM

Art: you are entitled to your opinion as am I. Mine is that showers are hard work to feel completely clean as you need to direct the water to every individual place (if it will reach & you can get at it), and if it's the fixed head type I never feel completely clean after using one. They are also a pain if you have long hair as you either have to wear a shower cap, which leaves me feeling hot and sweaty, or spend ages trying to rinse the soap out (and it never quite does). I guess if you don't have much hair that's not a problem. All this far from waking me up tends to leave me tired and wanting a rest. With a bath I can run it while I have my morning juice, put my hair up out of the way, soap, dip and I'm done. Much quicker if I've not much time. Not being a morning person, I also like to wake up in a calm manner which sets the tone for the day. Showers leave me feeling stressed and frazzled, rather than invigorated. I guess if you've been working somewhere that you get coated with something, oil or mud or such, then rinsing the "crud" off first would make sense, but to completes the job and get everywhere, thoroughly, I still feel a bath is better.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 10:17 AM

Carol -- three or four refills? Don't you get awfully wrinkly?

BJ

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 10:13 AM

P.S. yeah, artbrooks. With a hot tub, you get to sit in a bunch of other peoples crud (and sweat). Ick.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: Jeanie
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 10:13 AM

What's all this ? En-suite facilities in student accommodation ?
LUXURY ! Now, when I were a lass, it were a half mile trek down t' dark dank corridor to 't freezing communual washroom.... with 4 washbasins, one flushing and two blocked loos for fifty... IF you were lucky ....

To answer your question: I'd choose a shower any day, unless it's a bath with one of those fizzing bath balls that sprinkle out real rose petals, that you can get from a wonderful shop in Covent Garden, called "Lush".

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: JennyO
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 10:12 AM

I shower most of the time to get clean and occasionally when I have the time, I like a good soak in the bath. Unfortunately I don't seem to have the time very often. I've never had the impression that it was a gender thing.

My son and his wife just bought a house where it appears that the bath was taken out and a double shower put in. It is fitted with a shower head and taps at each end, so they each have their own end with the shower set at the right height and with their own shampoo and stuff. Apparently, though, they rarely shower at the same time. And still so young, too!

Sharing a bath is definitely overrated - not enough room in a normal size one.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: CarolC
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 10:11 AM

I can get lost in a bathtub. Hours and hours and hours. Sometimes I refill the tub three or four times with new hot water when the old water gets cool. Or I used to at least.

I can't seem to find myself in a living arrangement that gives me the option of either having a good soaking bath or a shower. For the last twenty or so years, it's been one or the other, but not both. Before that, I only took showers.

My ideal arrangement would be to have a good soaking tub to use maybe once or twice a week, and a shower to use the rest of the time. Given a choice between only one or the other, I'll take the shower. Showers are much quicker and more convenient.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: treewind
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 09:55 AM

Just to put this in context, typical college rooms when I was there (Kings, 1971+) didn't have any built in showers or baths. You had a bathroom or two per staircase or corridor and that was it. No doubt in the days when the colleges were built it would have been considered the lap of luxury to take a cold bath once a month whether you needed to or not...

As for telly - ???!!!
Students have better things to do with their time!

I'm a regular shower user myself. I really like to lie down and have a long soak in a bath, but it takes up too much time.

Anahata

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: artbrooks
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 09:50 AM

Shower...and we spent a lot of time when we were last house-hunting looking for a place that had one big enough for two! I can't imagine anything quite as gross as sitting in a tub of water...full of my own crud that has been inadequately washed off...as it goes from hot to warm to tepid. Now, a good hot tub-that's another thing entirely.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: Bagpuss
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 09:46 AM

I like a shower to get clean and a bath to relax.

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 09:44 AM

Greek showers all seem designed to flood the whole bathroom (and often the rest of the accomodation),lack curtains and drain away from the plug'ole.
Perhaps the Papadopoulos Bros got the contract for the Cambridge hostel?
(and for your survey, I prefer a shower, Herself prefers a bath - now we're too old to want to share!)
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 09:38 AM

For speed and convenience a shower is easier, but it depends on the time of day and circumstances -- I find that a shower wakes me up, but a bath relaxes me.

BJ

Subject: BS: Bath Vs Shower, a gender thing?
From: JudeL
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 09:21 AM

Last weekend, I was at a 2 day conference in one of the colleges in Cambridge. Because of the distance involved (and the travelling time) the organisers had booked us rooms overnight. The rooms turned out to be student accomodation which were a bit cramped (just room for a single bed, built in cupboard, and fixed shelf at desk height) but ok, except for one thing. None of the rooms had a bath, instead they had a tiny shower room with washbasin & toilet. This shower room was probably originally part of the main room. The shower wasn't a cubicle within the room but merely a shower head fixed about 7ft off the ground and a curtain to help restrict the (very feeble & tepid) spray. If the shower was used the whole floor (which was tiled) became wet. The whole shower room was less than 4ft square. Although none of us were very impressed with this set up, it was clean & private, and for overnight accomodation it was adequate, but in the course of the discussion one point seemed to emerge. While almost all the women were concerned at the lack of bath, as they all preferred that to a shower, the men in the group while not being impressed with lack of telly and the shower leaving a wet floor for if you later wanted to use the loo, didn't care about there being no bath as they all seemed to prefer showers. I'm now wondering is this apparent gender difference of preference something that just happen to occur within our group or is this more common.