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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm Posts: 5048
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Same here. I tend to have my electric toothbrush going while I'm in the shower (I can clean one handed  ) that has a 3 minute cycle. Let that finish, one last rinse and I'm out. 4 minutes top I reckon. Then their bath certainly takes more water than a shower alone. 
_________________ Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much. jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:35 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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Plus.. NEVER swap hands.
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Wed Nov 23, 2011 7:02 pm |
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm Posts: 5048
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I'm an anomaly. I can multitask. 
_________________ Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much. jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm Posts: 10691 Location: Bramsche
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About 5 - 6 minutes here, and I turn the water off when lathering up...
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Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:13 am |
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dogbert10
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:23 pm Posts: 638 Location: 3959 miles from the centre of the Earth - give or take a bit
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I can get you the data if you want - I know the guy who's heading up the project.
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Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:06 am |
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am Posts: 6954 Location: Peebo
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I probably take about 10 minutes to have a shower although that's got more to do with logistical reasons.
The bath is too short for me to actually have a bath in without having to stick my legs out the end up to my knees and there's only 3 rows of tiles around the edges so I have to have a shower sitting on the edge or kneeling in the bath to avoid getting the wall paper wet (bloody stupid thing to decorate a bathroom with if you ask me, but that's the joy of rental), plus the hose wouldn't be long enough to reach the top of my head if I was standing up anyway. So, sit on edge to clean lower half, get in to clean top half whilst keeping below the tile line.
_________________ When they put teeth in your mouth, they spoiled a perfectly good bum. -Billy Connolly (to a heckler)
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Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:08 am |
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm Posts: 5048
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Yes but it's all relative isn't it. Give me a few weeks to ask the right 1000 people who only take 3-5 minute showers and I could show you the opposite. That's all I'm saying. 
_________________ Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much. jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
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Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:28 pm |
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dogbert10
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:23 pm Posts: 638 Location: 3959 miles from the centre of the Earth - give or take a bit
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So what you're suggesting is that we fudge the results? What do we gain from doing that? We don't sell showers, and we don't sell water. Besides, most of the time what people say they do and what they actually do aren't the same.
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 10:08 am |
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm Posts: 5048
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I never suggested you 'fudge' the results, not sure how you read it that way TBH. You can, obviously, only work with the data you're given (that's what I meant) and, as you say, what people do and what people say are often very different. Out of interest, was your subject sample balanced for age and gender and across those who pay a standard rate for water charges and for those who use meters? I do have a bone to pick with you though, it's because of you I was ankle deep in water this morning as I wanted to see for myself whether it was true or not. I use less water in a shower BTW, if you're interested, but I may be one of the
_________________ Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much. jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 10:38 am |
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm Posts: 6355 Location: IoW
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One of the... what? One of the people cursed with an inability to finish a sentence? 
_________________ Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes; after that, who cares?! He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 10:46 am |
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adidan
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:43 pm Posts: 5048
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Ah feck, yeah you may be right you cheeky fu.... 
_________________ Fogmeister I ventured into Solitude but didn't really do much. jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 10:51 am |
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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This sounds all very much subjective and, unless you could accurately (and covertly) measure how long people take in the shower, inaccurate.
My time is seven minutes but that includes stripping off before, and drying and re-clothing after (I go by the time on my alarm clock).
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 11:18 am |
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dogbert10
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:23 pm Posts: 638 Location: 3959 miles from the centre of the Earth - give or take a bit
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We select our "subjects" on a purely random basis - we have a global database of thousands registered panellists and we select them at random to cover all age groups/income levels and so on so as to eliminate any potential bias in the results and to give us an idea of how shower use varies depending on location. Also, we don't usually tell them specifically what data we're after so they don't modify their behaviour because we're monitoring what they're doing.
As for being "subjective", the data was obtained by fitting water monitors to the shower for a period of several months so that we could record duration, flow rate and temperature.
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 11:23 am |
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm Posts: 5041 Location: London
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I knew those web cams I installed in the houses I rent to young female students would finally have a practicale use Anyway that will be my defence - "Honest M'Lud I was only conducting research on water consumption" 
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