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I’m constantly befuddled by the American desire to avoid handheld shower heads. How do you wash your armpits and asshole? Answer? You really don’t, you’re nose blind. I can still smell you, because I pressure wash mine with enough force to cleave marble.
You can't imagine getting an area clean without a detachable head? We use soap and scrub while under the shower head.
*sniff*
Now it just seems like projection
The fact that OP thinks not using a detachable shower head doesn't clean anything means he just sprays his pits and ass and doesn't scrub.
didn't you read what he wrote? he thinks spraying an area down is all you need.
this dude is smelling his own ass and pits wherever he goes and blaming it on others.
*sniff*
What a weird ass hill to die on
*clean ass
If you keep sniffing people might just think you're into that
~…~~Sniff~
This is an oddly specific misconception. Where do you get that idea? It's fairly standard here for showers to have either a detachable head or separate wand. Cheap hotels and rentals might have shitty showerheads, but that's definitely not specific to the US.
The current style trend is one that tends toward installing wall and ceiling shower heads in the US. I confirmed it with my friend who is involved with design and distribution of bathrooms fixtures. Tubs are out, tile showers with fixed soft water heads are in.
I wouldn’t be able to tell you about many other countries without offering information about myself that I’m not interested in spreading, but some countries are nearly 100% handheld. The gap between trending away from and near-ubiquity is pretty visible
The first handheld, detachable shower head was patented in the United States in 1889 by inventor Lucian L. Waterman.
Nominative determinism
You’d think they’d be ubiquitous by now, given that. Weird choice to invent something and trend away from it.
I find this interesting because everyone I know with the ability to change it has those. I would too if my apartment let me change the damn shower head.
Cuz like... If you ended up in a house with this monstrosity, it looks like you'd have to remodel the entire shower since it doesn't have normal shower heads.
I always change my apartment shower head when I move in to a nice handheld one and when I move out I put the shitty renters one back on. The landlord doesn't need to know any different.
Do it anyway and keep the apt head in a baggie somewhere. That's what I did for like 5 yrs when I lived in an apartment because those heads are fucking trash
I would never advise you to go against your tenant contract. That would be wrong and a trespass against your landlord. I would be willing to tell you that mine took about 20 minutes to install and uninstall, most of which was spent getting upset at myself for getting it wet while I still needed to screw some bits in.
But I’ve mostly seen people looking for the water wall because it seems “luxurious.” It’s immensely stupid, style over substance.
Nah, just replace one of the heads. At least based on my experience.
My house came with a shower that's not the same as this, but similarly themed. There is one showerhead where you'd expect one in a standard shower, then four on the front wall. It's not a surrounding experience like in the post but, again, a similar theme.
When I bought the house it just had a fixed outlet for each one. I share the apparently common opinion that that's unacceptable - if you are able you should give yourself a handheld shower head. Admittedly the handle that controls the four wall heads I mentioned hasn't been connected at least since I bought the place, but the shower head I replaced just required unscrewing the old one and putting a new one in.
The control system in the one in the photo looks to be a bit more ... Digital, but at least the pipe hookups are probably separated.
Soap and washcloth
...You can't raise your arms or bend over slightly? Even a garbage motel shower can hit all my bits. Plus we have soap and washcloths here, or loofahs or those plastic poof things if that's more your style. If you're relying on water pressure rather than the surfactant properties of soap I suggest you get off your hygienic high-horse.
Naturally I use soap. That it needs to be stated explicitly, well… *sniff*
You don't scrub?
I do
We got one of these a few years ago and boy, is it a game changer. Highly recommend to anyone.
Right? And they’re cheap as hell. A $30 head with like 45 settings will last 10 years and save enough water to visibly cut your water usage or your massage budget or your dildo needs.
do... you not know how a regular showerhead works? you need to directly spray your asshole? you don't know how to scrub your body properly?
the armpits is also crazy lol.
*sniff*
I'm 60, American, and every shower in every home I've lived in had a handheld shower, since I was a kid.
It's not an American thing. It's just a certain people thing. I expect there are plenty of people in other countries who also don't use them.
Beyond that, yeah, I agree, these things are the way to go:
I mean, I was mostly trying to be sensationalist about something that doesn’t really matter much, but the US is currently trending away from handhelds. Which i personally find silly as they’re just an all around better experience for me. But “there’s currently a downward trend” is much less fun to write than “sniff”
I have myself long wondered how those ceiling mounted showers are really supposed to be used, but just a few days ago an explanation was finally posted here: https://feddit.org/post/30725202
That makes me so deeply uncomfortable. My word
I get that you're doing a bit with the sniff thing, but I genuinely don't understand how armpits benefit from a handheld sprayer. You can still get your pit pretty close to a mounted one, and it doesn't take that much pressure to wash off soap.
It just makes things far easier, faster, and more complete, being able to direct the stream at your soapy bits. Shorter distance means higher pressure which means shorter, more thorough showers.
My guy. Have you heard of raising your arms? It's quite revolutionary.
*sniff*
I have one of these and never use it, just assumed it was there to help those with vaginas get off
Pretty good for every crevice. Except toes, oddly enough.
Handheld shower heads are really necessary for cleaning all the walls and corners of the shower itself. But, since my body moves, I have never had a problem getting a shower stream to sufficiently rinse any part of my body.