Tuesday 15 September 2009

Health scare story du jour

They've been telling us for ages to take showers not baths in order to save water (but don't use a power shower, obviously, far too much fun), but now we aren't supposed to take showers either.

7 comments:

dearieme said...

Surely my weekly shower can't do me much harm?

AntiCitizenOne said...

Surely they should just advise you to bleach the shower head weekly*?


*It will also remove lime-scale and you'll have a better shower.

Dr Feelgood said...

I think running the shower until it gets hot should chase the bugs away.

Pogo said...

I'm with Doc Feelgood... What twat just gets under a shower and then turns it on? Even in a hot climate it's usually cold enough to freeze your nads off!

Mark Wadsworth said...

D, I need one daily to wake up.

AC1, that's far too sensible and practical.

DF, P, I'm happy to report that since it was repaired, our power shower (that would clean mud off the underside of an HGV) provides hot water after about two seconds.

bleedin' pedant said...

On a point of information, AC1 refers to bleach (sodium hypochlorite) clearing a shower head of limescale (calcium carbonate)..... It won't. It's alkaline, not acid.

To quote MW, just sayin', is all.

AntiCitizenOne said...

Pendant perhaps you are right, although perhaps the sodium out-competes the calcium to remove it, as my bog is always nicely free of limescale.