• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Port hole for petting a very needy kitty with attachment anxiety.

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    Fuck, wait! I meant an actual cat!

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    The hole is there to allow water to pass through the shower wall and accrue on the floor surface around the toilet, enhancing the sock experience of toiletgoers.

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          I don’t understand your question. You’re asking how I suck at aiming if I am peeing on the floor, but I never said I was missing the pee mat.

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            I do, I also have foreskin meaning the stream is funnelled into a hose and doesn’t spray out in weird directions.

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              Wait. This is a totally alien thought to my entire life experience. I suppose you don’t pull it back do you? For whatever reason I think that’s how I imagined it? Honestly, I don’t think I have ever imagined it to be fair.

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                I do pull it back, idk about the other guys wiener but for me the skin makes for a more unpredictable stream.

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                Just wait till you learn how cold shrinkage affects the peeing experience for un-cut folks! Let’s just say it doesn’t all shrink uniformly…

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                I do not. Imagine a garden hose, if you use just the hose water comes out as an even flow, if you covered the end up with your fingers it would pressure spray widely between the gaps.

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          It’s not like the direction it’s pointed and the direction it goes have any bearing on each other.

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            I’ve never had that issue? I was thinking it’s a circumcised thing, but you’re potentially British.

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    The boring answer is that its for reaching the shower controls for adjusting the temperature and pressure without the need to stand under the shower. Mostly for people with disabilites or people who needs aides.

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      Wouldn’t this also let water out and on to the floor? Surely a sliding or hinged opening couldn’t have been that hard to implement

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        It’s also in a very terrible spot for that purpose. It would be very awkward to reach the controls from that angle and where the toilet is at.

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          People who are in wheelchairs still shower the same amount. Depending on the nature of their impairment they may be able to stand long enough to shower, or they may climb into the tub and have a shower bench, or they may have an assistant who helps them shower. It’s pretty ableist to assume that someone with a mobility impairment isn’t able to maintain their hygiene.

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            They didn’t say they shower less, they said they may not shower normally.

            Showering with assistance, using a shower bench: these are not the ways people shower normally. That does not imply that these methods are unhygienic.

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          I don’t see how this changes anything. My guess is someone in a wheel chair would use the hand held showerhead more often, which means while maneuvering the shower, it would be possible to accidently spray right out that hole and soak the bathroom.

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            It would reduce the amount of water flying against the glass. But yes the mess will be the same

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        It won’t let out a ton since the water is spraying in an arc that misses it. There will be some water that splashes out after hitting you or the shower walls, but it’s not going to soak the floors or anything.

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          I doubt it won’t make much of a mess. My shower had a few leaky spots of caulking and that was enough to ruin the floors.

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            That’s a different issue since water pools around the caulk lines.

            I’ve stayed in hotels that didn’t even have glass for the first foot or so of the shower and it was a non-issue, although I definitely expected it to be.

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      I don’t doubt this may be the purpose but the execution looks bad. It may be an illusion but it seems a little far away from the water controls, you’d have to go past elbow deep. The toilet is definitely in the way. You can’t get to it with a wheelchair or while standing, you have to be sitting on the toilet.

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        I found this which confirms it’s for adjusting the controls before getting in. I think this one in particular didn’t have people with disabilities in mind and is a poor execution all around.

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      this is totally incorrect. its actual purpose is for the bathing wife to be able to give hand to her husband while he’s dumping a load

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      That’s even more confusing, why not forego the shower glass entirely and just have a shower curtain instead?

      Yes I know it’s likely retrofitted, but I won’t pass a chance to say that shower curtains are superior. Shower glass looks glossy in brochures, but everyone IRL has a sad squeegee hanging from it.

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          Even the cheapest shower curtains have extra sewn in threads at the bottom which weigh them down and prevent clinging.

          Mould isn’t an issue if you’re airing out the bathroom properly, and washing the curtains every week or so.

          Glass is also prone to mould as well, but you can’t just throw out it. The tracks they require are particularly difficult to keep clean and give me the heeby jeebies.

          Washing curtains is infinitely easier than maintaining and cleaning the glass tracks.

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        I have the sad squeegee, but I really think that the rest of my shower is cleaner longer because I now routinely squeegee the water away so mold doesn’t grow. Not something I could do with a shower curtain.

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    It‘s for wetting your hand while on the toilet. This enables you to wipe and clean your ass with your wet hand.

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    It’s so you can get a nice wet spot on the floor for that maximum bathroom aesthetic.

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    Its so you can poop in the shower and toss it in the toilet. Stomping it down clogs the drain

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    My first thought was to flush the toilet whenever you needed warmer water. I used to rent an apartment where I had to turn on cold water in the sink to get hot enough water in the shower.

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        that’s what I thought at first, but there is actually a way that it makes sense

        you have hot water and cold water with a certain amount of pressure behind them feeding your apmt. if you turn the shower to full hot, the valve is still going to mix it with cold water. however if you take the cold water out at the sink prior to the shower feed, it’s not going to be replaced by more cold water if the system doesn’t have enough supply to keep up with it. so your shower water is being mixed with less cold water than before, resulting in a hotter mixed stream from the shower head

        and like maybe there’s other things going on and it’s not the same in every situation and all that, but you can test this yourself and get this result, so…

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          Do you not have a temperature dial on your shower that lets you control this directly? If I feel like I need to burn my skin off I can turn the temperature all the way up and have 100% hot water.

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        I don’t know what world you are from but my showers have also gone hot when the toilet is flushed

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    Looks like they installed it backwards, otherwise you’d be able to piss right into the toilet from the shower… because some people think it’s gross to wee in the shower.