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[+] 134 points 9 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 39 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    This could be better than existing pressure balance based mixing systems, assuming it allows you to adjust the hot vs cold pulse width

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  • [–] 84 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    I can make this worse. The Katy Perry song Hot N Cold starts playing full blast every time you turn the shower on.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I can make it better by changing it to Heart and Soul by Huey Lewis and the News. Which does contain the lyric, “She’s hot and cold” but also contains the lyric, “hot lovin’ every night,” and so is infinitely better.

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  • [+] 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I never quite got this monologue. I think the idea was that the character was reciting someone else’s review of these musicians, as if it were his own sophisticated take. But in what world is Huey Lewis at all bitter and cynical especially compared to Elvis Costello?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Patrick and his clique are a bunch of superficial morons who have no idea what they're talking about a lot of the time. They blindly follow popular trends, do what everyone else does and say what everyone else says. They have no personal opinions and are too shallow to form any. Guy probably sat down and wrote that "analysis" by imitating other people's reviews of other media, and then memorized it to recite at people. The discussion they have at that dinner is like that too. They're just regurgitating rehearsed and memorized statements about some social issues they clearly know nothing about and don't care at all.

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  • [–] 75 points 9 months ago

    Add some menthol and capsaicin to the body wash too, just for an extra "fuck you" even after the shower.

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I once touched an experiment in the form of a metal wire coil where each alternative loop was hot and the other cold. It felt superhot instead. I feel like this would be similar.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    You can recreate this with sausages or some cooked vegetables. We do it at science fairs.

    Set them up in an alternating pattern of cold, hot, cold, hot. Let somebody place their arm on top. They'll feel like they just got a severe burn, even though they're fine and the sausages are not hot enough to cause any harm.

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  • [–] 57 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I was in a band called Extreme Sensory Hell Shower.

    We randomly switched between German Schlager, Doom Metal, Muzak, Swing, Acid Jazz, Reggae, Polka, Latin Dance, Bluegrass, and Hard House WITHIN tracks to make sure that nobody was ever having a positive experience for more than a few seconds at a time.

    And no, we weren't especially proficient or even enthusiastic about any of the genres.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    My gf has been dealing with this with her shower for the past 2 weeks without any extra device. Showering there is an experience.

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago (16 children)

    If you want cursed showers you should see how Latin America provides hot water to their showers

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  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Electric heating element in the shower head.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It sounds scary, but there's no direct path to the electricity since there is no laminar flow between you and the showerhead and most of the water that is passing over the showerhead is not especially electrically conductive because there are no salts mixed into it that don't come directly from the water plant.

    It has to actually have a mechanical fault that doesn't cause the shower heater to stop working and you have to come physically into contact with the shower head while that fault is going on in order for you to get zapped.

    But it is possible for you to get zapped by them, and some people have died, I am sure, although I don't personally have any proof.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Your comment seems to rely on people not being able to hold the showerhead in their hand. Are they all fixed/rain type showers?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    The ones I have seen are.

    I feel it would be rather dumb to hold a 240 volt appliance directly in your hand.

    That being said, there might be shower nozzle attachment things, but I don't actually know. It's just a supposition.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    That kills fewer people than gas heaters...

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    On the other hand, I've yet to hear anyone being killed by a regular shower head.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Legionella just entered the chat. If your hot water isn't hot enough you might be breeding them in your water lines and aerosolizng with your shower head.

    I'd think Legionella is a lot less of a problem with suicide showers.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Do they use electric pumps as Britain does?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Britain has 2 showerheads 50cm apart from each other. One has cold, the other hot water

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    That’s just PWM with a liquid.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    You call it "sensory hell", but a grifting entrepreneur somewhere is putting together an ad campaign for "Natural healing PulseHead shower! Just $69.99! Comes with our satisfaction guarantee!"

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I once had a shower that did this on its own.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It probably already exists at CIA black sites

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Also in my bathroom.

    There's something wonky with the water pressure on the cold side. Think I need a bigger tank or something. Pump runs very often and short spans, so the pressure oscillates. Hot water from the boiler is fairly consistent in comparison.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Cross post to shower thoughts?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    It would. Also because that device would probably make a loud vrooming sound.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    i want this

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Anyone who’s dealt with old plumbing instantly recognizes this. The drawing is painfully accurate.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Can confirm. The plumbing in every household in the UK, regardless of class, is notoriously shit lol

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    A parallel universe where William Osman still post in his main channel:

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Alternating hot and cold can actually be good.

    It's invigorating. - Have you never jumped from a hottub into a cold pool or vice versa?

    I believe it can also help with soreness.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Nah just make the water thicker.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    One might think this would make us evolve to being able to withstand hotter or colder temps (depending on the perspective). But no! People are far less forgiving than that.

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