Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #353 - Save water; pee in the shower
Hi Mom,
I know you don't want to hear this because you think it's disgusting and gross, that is until you also peed in the shower more or less daily.
I pee in the shower. Not all the time, but a lot. Automatic flushing.
Anyway, I cannot always generate original content, but I can find interesting content other people generate to share. I have been grading robot this week and today was devoted some errands and outings. Tomorrow is a work day with Dad and then Sunday is some time with Dad at church and his friend Faye's house. So I am jockeying content around a bit. Original content soon, but for now, let's think about water, toilets, and usage statistics... oh, and peeing in the shower to save water.
I know I could make you laugh with fart jokes, too, Mom.
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originally from and to be found at:
https://mic.com/articles/144675/peeing-in-the-shower-how-much-water-do-you-save#.9lfYx02Jk
This Is How Much Water You Save When You Pee in the Shower
Flushing the toilet accounts for around 27% of Americans' water usage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Standard toilets use 1.6 gallons of water per flush, while older toilets use between 3.5 and 7 gallons.
Those saved gallons of water add up over time — especially when everyone gets on board.
In 2014, students at England's University of East Anglia campaigned for their school's 15,000 pupils "to take their first wee of the day while having their morning shower," according to the BBC. Over the course of a year, the school would save enough water to fill 26 Olympic-sized swimming pools, according to the students' calculations.
It's not a perfect solution: Unless you're washing your hair while you whiz, there's a good chance you're still wasting some water while you pee in the shower. Who among us, mid-shower pee, hasn't stared off into oblivion as the hot water cascaded down our bodies?
All mammals pee for approximately 21 seconds, according to Discover. Meanwhile, a standard shower head uses 2.5 gallons of water per minute. If your pee exits your urethra at the standard mammalian rate, around 0.875 gallons of water will leave your shower head in the time it takes you to finish peeing. Still, it's less than a standard toilet flush.
It saves paper, too... if you wipe after peeing on the toilet. Suppose you use 10 squares of toilet paper per pee-wipe, and your toilet paper roll contains 500 total squares. If you pee in the shower just once a day, you'll save yourself a roll of toilet paper every 50 days. Hurray!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/news-leak-61-percent-of-americans-pee-in-the-shower_us_56464412e4b08cda3488b729
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Originally from and to be found at:
NEWS LEAK: 61 Percent Of Americans Pee In The Shower
Ick! 37 percent look at their toilet paper after they wipe.
If you don’t think American bathroom habits are gross or disgusting, you’re in for a shock.
A whopping 61 percent admit they pee in the shower, and 41 percent admit pissing in swimming pools.
That’s just one of the bodily function bits of info wiped up in a survey conducted on behalf of Abcotechbrand.com, makers of a wireless waterproof Bluetooth-enabled shower speaker.
Abco Tech founder Yossi Fisch figures there’s a good reason why people are so willing to be gross in private.
“The bathroom is one of the few sanctuaries in your home where you can let your hair down, release the tensions of the day and just be yourself,” Fisch said in a press release. “People cling to certain habits, whether while using the toilet or bathing, and music is often part of that routine.”
But those aren’t the only pieces of doo doo data soaked up in the survey.
- 50 percent of respondents said they fold their toilet paper before wiping themselves while 30 percent just wad it up.
- 60 percent wipe front to back while 20 percent go against the grain and do it back to front.
- 60 percent believe a toilet paper roll should go over the top and in the front, but 13 percent prefer it rolling under and in the back.
- 43 percent admit to checking the contents of the bowl before flushing.
- 37 percent look at their toilet paper after wiping.
What Americans do in public toilets is slightly different, but no less weird.
- 45 percent say they cover the toilet seat with paper before doing their business.
- 36 percent use their foot to flush instead of their hands.
- 35 percent refuse to actually sit on public toilets, preferring to hover over the seat instead.
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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1606.24 - 10:10
NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.
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