Bath or shower?

[Piemaster]

Reading the thread about Kindles, one thing that always seems to be brought up about them vulnerability to damage if reading it in the bath. (try a ziplock bag).
It actually got me thinking about the last time I actually had a bath and it's so long ago I can't remember. Indeed a refit of the family bathroom soon will see it removed to be replaced by a walk in shower as no-one else really uses it either, we all use the shower in the ensuite.

So, what's your favored cleaning method? A quick (metered) water preserving shower or filling a tub and wallowing in your own filth?* I'm also curious if it's an age/gender related thing as well.
*(I may be biased on this)

 

[Saluki]

I like a shower if I'm in a hurry or want to direct a jet of water at an aching shoulder or area of my back. For relaxation, a nice bath with a cup of tea, glass of wine and a good book is the way to go for me. Its brilliant. Fab after a long ride with a nice blob of radox and a handful of salt in. Obviously I then have to do the whole body moisturiser thing as the salt is drying on my skin but it certainly sorts out the odd ache.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

"wallowing in your own filth" A Jewish pal of mine always referred to baths in that manner, I mention the Jewish bit as that is the rationale he uses for his opinion, No idea if antipathy to a lie down wash is part of the faith or not.

I'd happily do away with the bath if it was just me but the daughter is an avid bather and it is useful for doing the dogs in when they've been properly plodging.

 

[coffeejo]

Only recently acquired a working shower so I'm still in that honeymoon stage but shower for convenience and a bath for relaxation / aching muscles.

 

[Steady]

Lost the bath a couple of years ago to a walk in shower, I don't miss it most days, but at random times I do think I'd like to just have a bath right now, but I can't say I regret getting rid of it.

 

[Saluki]

d it is useful for doing the dogs in when they've been properly plodging.

I the word 'Plodging'. Can I borrow it for use while grooming other people's filthy hounds?

I probably do wallow in my own filth but I'm not that filthy and I rinse my hair with a shower and have a quick sluice off with the shower as I stand up and let the water out. Obviously I don't sit in and let the bathwater out. Worried about getting sucked down the plughole and all that.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I haven't had a bath in years!!


No, no, don't start thinking that's what the smell is, I do have a shower almost every day instead!!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I the word 'Plodging'. Can I borrow it for use while grooming other people's filthy hounds?

I probably do wallow in my own filth but I'm not that filthy and I rinse my hair with a shower and have a quick sluice off with the shower as I stand up and let the water out. Obviously I don't sit in and let the bathwater out. Worried about getting sucked down the plughole and all that.

all yours.

Its a Geordie dialect word, kind of means walking/wading.

Ah got hacky plodging through the clarts = I got dirty walking in the mud.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

all yours.

Its a Geordie dialect word, kind of means walking/wading.

Ah got hacky plodging through the clarts = I got dirty walking in the mud.

Clarty up here means dirty.
Either that or 'clatty' as people usually say.

'That's pure dead clatty!!'

 

[cyberknight]

Time for a bath ? hehheh !

 

[stephec]

You can't beat lounging in a burny hot bath with either a book or tablet, and a nice cold pint.

 

[djb1971]

Shower.

There's nothing worse than getting into a bath with sunburn. A shower is easier on my rather tender and burnt bald head, arms, legs, face!

There is something worse, it's getting into a steaming hot bath when your man bits hit the water

 

[Saluki]

all yours.

Its a Geordie dialect word, kind of means walking/wading.

Ah got hacky plodging through the clarts = I got dirty walking in the mud.

Bloody marvelous

Clarty up here means dirty.

I lived just near Eldwick in W Yorkshire for a while and they said 'Clatty' for dirty. I've brought the word to Norfolk and half the family uses the term now. They all use 'nesh' and 'pothery' too. Definitely not Norfolk words.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

yes, in my current Lancashire abode, clatty is mucky. My darling wife has called me a clatty b*gger on a few occasions when I've come in from a good mucky MTB session.

I guess its not a million miles away, clart = mud clat = dirt/muck

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Bloody marvelous

I lived just near Eldwick in W Yorkshire for a while and they said 'Clatty' for dirty. I've brought the word to Norfolk and half the family uses the term now. They all use 'nesh' and 'pothery' too. Definitely not Norfolk words.

What does Nesh and Pothery mean?? I feel I should know what Nesh is, but I can't rememeber