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[MaxTheFox]

You will definitely feel it if you start drowning, the water entering your nose should wake you up.

[Rolan7]

It's strange to me that humanity was built for baths.  Showers are a recent invention.

Also you scrubs are slicing/eating your nails rather than sawing them off

[Frumple]

I'm not sure we really were built for baths, though? At a minimum not how they're usually designed. Basically nothing about your standard bath design looks like much of anything you find outside of human construction, really.

The standing bathing thing (i.e. shower) actually looks a lot like what we do in sufficiently deep rivers or lakes, y'know?

e: though i'm definitely wondering what the proper ergonomics of a bathing area would look like going by unmodified environments... river shaped bath? Ground stream with squatting and whatnot? The smooth textured stuff obviously has to go -- it's blatantly maladjusted for human use, made plain by how many injures are related to it -- but what else gets involved? Someone has to have done studies on what causes the least (or best sorts of!) stress while thoroughly cleaning.

[dragdeler]

Wasnt there a school of anthropology that imagined us spending a good portion of our evolution at the beaches of south africa, spending lots of time hunting and scavanging in shallow water?

[martinuzz]

While the common concensus is, that we evolved bipedal, is that that freed our hands to carry food, there certainly is some logic in argueing that being bipedal also allowed us to wade into deeper water before needing to swim, aiding with coastal sustenance.
Neither excludes the other.

[scriver]

Something something subdermal fat

[EuchreJack]

Standing in the rain is like showering.

[Vector]

e: though i'm definitely wondering what the proper ergonomics of a bathing area would look like going by unmodified environments... river shaped bath? Ground stream with squatting and whatnot? The smooth textured stuff obviously has to go -- it's blatantly maladjusted for human use, made plain by how many injures are related to it -- but what else gets involved? Someone has to have done studies on what causes the least (or best sorts of!) stress while thoroughly cleaning.

Hot springs?

[Frumple]

Yeah, basically. Just... in your house. Mostly it occurred to me I can't recall any ergonomic type studies on bathing areas, but, like... they have to exist, right? Beyond absolutely everything else involved, it's literally one of the most dangerous areas in buildings if you're talking by number of accidents that occur in them. There's got to be some sort of ongoing effort to try to reign that in, if nothing else.

[Il Palazzo]

Yeah, basically. Just... in your house. Mostly it occurred to me I can't recall any ergonomic type studies on bathing areas, but, like... they have to exist, right? Beyond absolutely everything else involved, it's literally one of the most dangerous areas in buildings if you're talking by number of accidents that occur in them. There's got to be some sort of ongoing effort to try to reign that in, if nothing else.

Spoiler: Experiments on animals are ongoing (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Currently testing the fruit hypothesis (click to show/hide)

Greenpeace activist protest the study as unethical - they want in too.

[Scoops Novel]

What do people use for image hosting avatars around here?

[King Zultan]

I use ImgBB.

[Uthimienure]

https://postimages.org/

[Scoops Novel]

Thanks.

Seperate question: what do you do when you've exhausted all your options?

[EuchreJack]

Thanks.

Seperate question: what do you do when you've exhausted all your options?

Take a nap!

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