Time for a shower

greasedscotsman
greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
edited May 2010 in The bottom bracket
So are you a shower in the morning or before you go to bed person. Which is best, only one way to find out...

(and I aplogise in advance if I haven't included you particular showering time or you have a bath instead...)
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  • milan_ns
    milan_ns Posts: 49
    I think the option "Both" is missing :)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Indeed, both. Once at the start of the day then again after training or when getting changed after work...
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Whenever I need not to smell (so, usually that means morning shower).
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  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    Before and After :shock:
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    I have a shower in the night before I go to sleep. Every night. I'd not have a shower before going on a bike ride tho, that's just a waste of water and shower gel.
  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,171
    After cycling home from work.

    The mornings are meant for sleeping.
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  • milan_ns
    milan_ns Posts: 49
    I don't have a shower at work so morning shower is a must.

    Also, it helps convince my brain it's time to power up - without it I'm a zombie for the first 4-5 miles :)
  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    I don't start work till the afternoon and so I tend to shower on a morning and then again after I've been out on the bike prior to heading off to work. In the heat of sumer - if we have one this year - that becomes 3 showers (or sometimes 4) a day.
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  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    edited May 2010
    How can anyone get up and dress, without showering/bathing, unless training/commuting etc!!?
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • holmeboy
    holmeboy Posts: 674
    Shower when I get to work, shower after work at work and only when I get home if I've got really stinky/dirty or sweaty. And after being out at the weekends. Only splash water on my face when first up and brush teeth, havent had a bath in ages!
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    In the morning and after a bike ride. I like a nice hot bath in the evening.
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Frank the tank wrote:
    I like a nice hot bath in the evening.

    Do you have a few candles around the bath and maybe some nice bubble bath :D
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Frank the tank wrote:
    I like a nice hot bath in the evening.

    Do you have a few candles around the bath and maybe some nice bubble bath :D

    And here's me thinking all Scottsmen were proper tuff mesters. :wink:

    No, for me it's sqeezy liquid in place of poncy bubble bath and as for talc, nahh! a dousing of Ajax powder dries me off nicely. :lol:
    Tail end Charlie

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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    Aggieboy wrote:
    How can anyone get up and dress, without showering/bathing, unless training/commuting etc!!?

    By having a shower before bed.
  • Flasheart
    Flasheart Posts: 1,278
    Hmm non road cycling work day...shower in the evening.

    Weekend:

    Sat Morning ride then shower, afternoon ride with buddy ...another shower after( alone so shut it)

    Sun Morning ride, then shower, afternoon ride with buddy..then shower, go cycling with lady friend then another shower (cold) :twisted:
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  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    freehub wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    How can anyone get up and dress, without showering/bathing, unless training/commuting etc!!?

    By having a shower before bed.

    Really? So, you lie in bed for 8 hours (sorry, forgot you're a student so 12+) sweating, then put your clothes straight on to go to college all day. Does anyone sit next to you?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Aggieboy wrote:
    freehub wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    How can anyone get up and dress, without showering/bathing, unless training/commuting etc!!?

    By having a shower before bed.

    Really? So, you lie in bed for 8 hours (sorry, forgot you're a student so 12+) sweating, then put your clothes straight on to go to college all day. Does anyone sit next to you?

    Do you lie with someone, having been up and about all day, presumably doing more odour creating activites than sleeping? Having not showered for over 12hrs?

    Cuts both ways.

    I can't sleep if I haven't had a shower beforehand, and it keeps the sheets cleaner. Nothing worse than sleeping in your own filth.

    Also, apparantly, the process of your body's inner core cooling makes you sleepy - so a hot shower before bed helps you get to sleep quicker.
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  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    freehub wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    How can anyone get up and dress, without showering/bathing, unless training/commuting etc!!?

    By having a shower before bed.

    Really? So, you lie in bed for 8 hours (sorry, forgot you're a student so 12+) sweating, then put your clothes straight on to go to college all day. Does anyone sit next to you?

    Do you lie with someone, having been up and about all day, presumably doing more odour creating activites than sleeping? Having not showered for over 12hrs?

    Cuts both ways.

    I can't sleep if I haven't had a shower beforehand, and it keeps the sheets cleaner. Nothing worse than sleeping in your own filth.

    Also, apparantly, the process of your body's inner core cooling makes you sleepy - so a hot shower before bed helps you get to sleep quicker.

    Not with me it doesn't. I shower at night and in the morning. TBH I assumed most people did.
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  • holmeboy
    holmeboy Posts: 674
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    freehub wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    How can anyone get up and dress, without showering/bathing, unless training/commuting etc!!?

    By having a shower before bed.

    Really? So, you lie in bed for 8 hours (sorry, forgot you're a student so 12+) sweating, then put your clothes straight on to go to college all day. Does anyone sit next to you?

    Do you lie with someone, having been up and about all day, presumably doing more odour creating activites than sleeping? Having not showered for over 12hrs?

    Cuts both ways.

    I can't sleep if I haven't had a shower beforehand, and it keeps the sheets cleaner. Nothing worse than sleeping in your own filth.

    Also, apparantly, the process of your body's inner core cooling makes you sleepy - so a hot shower before bed helps you get to sleep quicker.


    Yeah never shower straight out of bed, even if I'm not cycling. Nobody gets that close to me till i put on my dirty old overalls. Same for the weekend, don't think i stink that much in the mornings!
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Frank the tank wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Frank the tank wrote:
    I like a nice hot bath in the evening.

    Do you have a few candles around the bath and maybe some nice bubble bath :D

    And here's me thinking all Scottsmen were proper tuff mesters. :wink:

    No, for me it's sqeezy liquid in place of poncy bubble bath and as for talc, nahh! a dousing of Ajax powder dries me off nicely. :lol:

    I did try candles around the outdoor tin bath, but the wind kept blowing them out :D
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Frank the tank wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Frank the tank wrote:
    I like a nice hot bath in the evening.

    Do you have a few candles around the bath and maybe some nice bubble bath :D

    And here's me thinking all Scottsmen were proper tuff mesters. :wink:

    No, for me it's sqeezy liquid in place of poncy bubble bath and as for talc, nahh! a dousing of Ajax powder dries me off nicely. :lol:

    I did try candles around the outdoor tin bath, but the wind kept blowing them out :D

    How did you even light them in the snow?
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Aggieboy wrote:
    How did you even light them in the snow?

    Couldn't find them in the snow, nevermind light them...
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    How did you even light them in the snow?

    Couldn't find them in the snow, nevermind light them...

    Luck you.Tin bath and all. :wink:
    bagpuss
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    bagpusscp wrote:
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    How did you even light them in the snow?

    Couldn't find them in the snow, nevermind light them...

    Luck you.Tin bath and all. :wink:

    Don't tell me, you wash with a lump of coal in a muddy puddle...
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    God, some of you must be right smelly! I couldn't contemplate not having a shower after cycling to work, even in the depths of winter I sweat a fair amount on the way in. I also cycle home and sweat again and if I go to the gym at lunchtime I shower then too. So generally I have 2 showers per day and sometimes 3....

    In my experience, people who stink think they don't stink. It's often hard to smell your own smell. I used to work with a guy who blatantly rolled out of bed stuck his clothes on and wandered into work... He always had this slightly unpleasant unwashed, sweaty bed smell about him, at least in the morning. I don't think anyone ever said anything to him about it, but everyone else knew about it...
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    I'm havin' one now.

    Not literally, I'm just about to, but thought I would share
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Headhuunter wrote:
    In my experience, people who stink think they don't stink.

    So that could be you as well, maybe you need 5-6 a day! :D
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Headhuunter wrote:
    In my experience, people who stink think they don't stink.

    So that could be you as well, maybe you need 5-6 a day! :D

    Good point.... Better nip down for a quick one...
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  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Nothing worse than sleeping in your own filth.

    Steady on ! I shower in the morning and then maybe if I'm going out in the evening or if I've been doing something physical like a bike ride. I wouldn't routinely shower at night and I wouldn't say I'm sleeping in my own filth either.

    Are people these days a little too hysterical about these things - I mean 60 years ago people made do with a quick wash and then a visit to the public baths once a week. Now it's routine to shower twice a day and smother yourself in antiperspirant and deoderant.
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Tom Butcher wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Nothing worse than sleeping in your own filth.

    Steady on ! I shower in the morning and then maybe if I'm going out in the evening or if I've been doing something physical like a bike ride. I wouldn't routinely shower at night and I wouldn't say I'm sleeping in my own filth either.

    Are people these days a little too hysterical about these things - I mean 60 years ago people made do with a quick wash and then a visit to the public baths once a week. Now it's routine to shower twice a day and smother yourself in antiperspirant and deoderant.

    ....And a few hundred years earlier it was perfectly acceptable to bath once a year and people had to walk around with small bags of dried flowers to ease the stench. It's called progress and increased awareness of personal hygiene!
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