Posted on 07/27/2004 2:09:23 PM PDT by Doctor Wu
42 Percent Of Americans Pee In The Shower - 7 Percent Never Bathe
PISCATAWAY, N.Y. (Wireless Flash) -- Urine trouble now. According to a new survey, at least four out of every 10 Americans pee while taking a shower.
According to a shower survey sponsored by VertiSpa, 42 percent urinate while bathing, certainly pissing off the 58 percent who don't.
That's not the only stat splashed from the shower study. The average shower is 101 degrees Fahrenheit and uses nearly 50 gallons of water.
-- 52 percent of Americans sing in the shower, with "Singin' In The Rain" being the top tune.
-- 53 percent of people shower in the morning, while 29 percent wait until evening.
-- Finally, the scariest stat of all: 7 percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all.
"The average shower is 101 degrees Fahrenheit and uses nearly 50 gallons of water. "
Mine's hotter but uses FAR less than 50 gallons. If accurate, that's a ridiculous amount of wasted water!
I'd always been told, and read, that a drawn bath used more water than a shower. Methinks these stats are offbase.
7%, hey? They must be the ones that go to anti-Bush marches and watch Farce-n-Hype 9/11.
Nothing so underrated as a hot shower and a good pee...at the same time. (For men only; ladies, do not try this at home.)
ewwww must be the same percentage of Americans that they polled in favor for John Kerry as president at the latest F-9-11 movie outings.
Wonder what percent I am in, I pee in the shower when I am not bathing? Saves water, you know.
It's all about "time management".
Shmuck: someone who gets out of the shower to pee.
methinks piscataway is in new jersey.
and who measures their shower temp much less the amount?
Uh oh! If the French ever find out what "bathe" means, and what a "shower" is, we'll never hear the end of this from them!
If I pay for the water and I enjoy the water, who is to say it's wasted?
Once you drill the Kalifornia Water Nazi restrictor plug outta the back of the shower head, it will flow plenty of water.
So9
ELAINE: Mmm, what happened?
GEORGE: Nothing, I... said it was a little problem.
ELAINE: Yeah? What was it?
GEORGE (defensive): Well...I was in the locker room showering, and I...I had to go, so...
JERRY: Here we go.
GEORGE: Anyway, I think the guy in the shower opposite saw me. He gave me a dirty look.
ELAINE: You went...in the shower?
GEORGE: Yeah, so what? I'm not the only one!
Are you kidding?! That's the only time we can do that standing up!!
Those dirty, stinking liars.
I got 'em all beat, I can pee, brush my teeth and shave whilst showering and have.
If I could figure a way to do the laundry in there, I'd be the model of efficiency.
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Posted by FrPR to Doctor Wu
On 07/27/2004 2:15:38 PM PDT #8 of 7
great France really is taking over after all
And yet polls show that at least 35% of Americans are Democrats.
How exactly does one "waste" water? It starts as dirty water on the earth, is clarified, is used in the shower, is returned as dirty water to the earth. Water clarification and purification processing capacity can be wasted, but this process DOES NOT waste water.....
At least 98% of the French pee while in the tub.
LOL! good one.
What, no swimming pool?
So9
It's all PIPES!
By a curious coincidence, 49% of Americans identify themselves as Democrat and/or Liberal...
Depending on how the question was asked, I may actually be part of that 7%. While I never bathe, I do shower daily.
Nope. Just the shower!
What's the temperature? :P
Cab drivers?
"Finally, the scariest stat of all: 7 percent of Americans claim they never bathe at all."
Heh :)
It had to come from PISCATAWAY? LOL
They should have broken out their survey results by gender. This is a need-to-know issue.
FrPR: a schmuck is someone who doesn't use the pullchain facility before getting in the shower!
And in related story.........
I'm sure michael moore falls into the 7%. At 350+ lbs, he probably cannot find a bathtub or shower large enough to fit into.
Quark - say it isn't so! When I read this I thought the entire 42% were guys! You are moving toward the Dark Side. Now river tubing, that's another story.
Don't these people have toilets?
Peeing in the shower? That's childs play.
I have urinated in the snow that melts and drains into the city drinking water.
"At least 98% of the French pee while in the tub."
Lewis Grizzard had a great line about taking baths:
"The shower is the greatest invention. I don't like to take a bath. I don't like to wash my face in the water I've been sitting in."
Crossed over a long time ago!!
You people have a really screwed up sense of what belongs in News and what belongs in Chat.
The 7% figure I believe is quite low. Looking around Boston and basing it on percentages I would say 20% of the Democrats never bath.
Michael Moore probably never baths over twice a month and only does that much because it goes to getting next to him!
"who is to say it's wasted?"
Make that 'unnecessary'.
I certainly have no issues with anyone paying for whatever they want to pay for, but for me, a 50-gallon shower is extremely excessive.
I seem to remember that Cramer had a garbage disposal in his shower, so that he could cook while he took a shower!!
"How exactly does one "waste" water?"
By pissing it away?
No, you're right - I changed it to 'personally unnecesary', meaning I don't care what other people do with their showering habits.
7%, hey? They must be the ones that go to anti-Bush marches and watch Farce-n-Hype 9/11.
And come in my store afterwards.
Yep, gourmet food and all!
New headline: 49% Of Americans Are Hideously Disgusting
Sorry, I think the number is more like 95% (men and women & I should know, I am a woman who pees in her own shower, but never, ever in someone else's), the 5% who don't are rather anal (or unrinal?) about bodily functions.
So now when someone posts on a thread about it being time to take a shower, we'll have a pretty good idea what's really going on. LOL.
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