What do you do? in the bath...

POSTED BY: seryn
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 16:22
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SERYN

Saturday, April 8, 2006 10:12 PM

ok, this was meant to be some highly interesting conversation starter about aliens in the verse (not the pasty-headed type, but the little buggy microscopic ones that must have existed somewhere in a galaxy with enough planets and moons close enough to the sun and with the right ingredients for atmoshphere soup. And how plausible it was that not-a-one of them survived the terra-forming. But then I figured, hey, who cares, Joss decided he didn't want aliens and alien stories, so little buggy doo-dabs and plausibility be dammned)

And now, inspired by Lemon Jelly, I wants to know what you all do in the bath. Are you a singer? A reader? A Shakespeare quoter? Who here has toys to play with?

*raises hand*

I have a colour-changing rubber ducky, she goes pink when she warms up.

And now suddenly my mind is firmly in the gutter.

Well, try and keep it clean guys.

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!

SASSALICIOUS

Saturday, April 8, 2006 10:21 PM

In a bath, I read and occasionally pass out. In the shower, I diva belt at the top of my lungs, often to broadway musicals.

COPILOT

Saturday, April 8, 2006 10:46 PM

I talk on the phone a lot. With my madonna phone headset. I'm very close to my friends.

An I carried such a torch

SERYN

Saturday, April 8, 2006 10:51 PM

passing out...

yeah i've done that one. Not when the bath was full mind, and I was still wearing most of my clothes, I think i'd lost my shirt (but not my coat) and half of my tights (when bad ladders happen to good, er.. okish people)

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!

RACH

Saturday, April 8, 2006 11:03 PM

Why is it that there's always someone asleep in the bath after all your house parties? It's always such a shock when you climb in for a shower in the morning.

x

SERYN

Saturday, April 8, 2006 11:08 PM

I was in there cause there were four people crashed out on my bed. I pulled the first one off but his head hit the floor rather hard, so I didn't want to hurt the other three, and the walk to my bf's house seemed like too much effort. the bathroom was the only other lockable room, so me, my childhood bear, my sewing kit and my jewellry box spent the night in the tub.

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!

JUBELLATE

Sunday, April 9, 2006 1:00 AM

what's a bath?

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. – H.L. Mencken

MECTURTLE

Sunday, April 9, 2006 1:16 AM

I'm deinfately a bathtime reader. I buy lots of smell-good bath type stuff and sit in the tub with a book or a journal till I look like a prune. Not very exciting.
The sleeping in the tub story did remind me of one particularly eventful party at my house once though, where I ended up having to pass out on the floor because my bed had mysteriously ended up in the shower.

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WASH: Psychic though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: You live on a spaceship dear.
WASH: So?

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Sunday, April 9, 2006 2:22 AM

http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e53493j7CpRRD4&feature=1&order
=tr&range=w&numResults=15&title=Top+Rated

(Probably requires a fast connection.)

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

PINGJING

Sunday, April 9, 2006 3:36 AM

ha! I got into Alizee when I was learning French...that was two years ago, and I have absolutely no idea why she's taking a shower in a glass box. I did figure out that she's "fed up", though.

Julia

ANIMALM0THER

Sunday, April 9, 2006 3:44 AM

One word: Kaylee

I'll be in my bunk.

SERENITYLASS

Sunday, April 9, 2006 3:46 AM

I'm not one for baths but in the shower..hell, I'm the next Beyonce.

RMMC

Sunday, April 9, 2006 6:00 AM

I'm another one for the shower due to a comment by a high school teacher which I won't repeat and turn others off of them as well. (I loathe that man for saying what he did.)

I however, don't sing in the shower...I'm too busy fending off the writing muse. Some day it'll get a clue and bother me when I can actually write something down.

****
RMMC

JADEHAND

Sunday, April 9, 2006 6:12 AM

Preface:Having sixth drink, long @$$ day at the faire...Feeling piratey.

"Your mind is not alone. Of course you knew my ming would be there if I read this so...."
*goes pink*
*mind goes deeper*
Wish I was at home.

Visit WWW.Marillion.Com for a better way to live
"Finding the answer It's a human obsession
But you might as well talk to the stones and the trees and the sea
'Cause nobody knows And so few can see
There's only beauty and caring and truth beyond darkness." -Estonia(This Strange Engine) -Marillion

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Sunday, April 9, 2006 12:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by pingjing:
ha! I got into Alizee when I was learning French...that was two years ago, and I have absolutely no idea why she's taking a shower in a glass box. I did figure out that she's "fed up", though.

Julia

I never really understood the glass box either. It’s artsy, I guess, because it has nothing to do with the song.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

JONUS

Sunday, April 9, 2006 1:08 PM

I don't take baths anymore. I still have Ninja Turtle toys that I used to play with in the bath but they're in the bathroom closet now. I hope they aren't moldy.

Nowadays I just take showers. I take 2 everyday. I'm very OCD about hygiene. I turn the water all the way on cold the last 5 minutes of my shower so I don't get sweaty when I get out. Is that a little weird? Some people think so.

LITTLEALBATROSS29

Sunday, April 9, 2006 1:21 PM

I'm a mommy with two small space monkeys , So I'm lucky to get a shower or bath.And if I get to bathe with the door closed, I feel like I won the lottery !!!

Bryce
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I swallowed a bug,

TARRISH

Sunday, April 9, 2006 1:37 PM

I don't really take bathes anymore, but if I did I would probably throw in some bubbles and relax. I use to play with dinosaurs/ Ninja Turtles/ misc Action Figures when I took bathes as a kid.

In the shower I'm mostly rushing to get out of it. I'm always late for something, and the shower is more then likely making me more late. Sometimes I do have the tendency to sing in the shower. :D My roomies could tell you all about it!

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"It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think." River

PINGJING

Sunday, April 9, 2006 9:18 PM

I had a roommate who would talk to herself in the shower. It was a little freaky.

I don't sing in the shower, mostly cuz I've had roommates for the past 6 years. I do think obsessively, though. Sometimes it results in minor epiphanies for the paper I'm writing, and sometimes it's just annoying.

It's strange what you can learn about people from what they do in the bath. And here I thought it was all about what they have on their walls.

Julia

MILFORD

Monday, April 10, 2006 2:41 AM

Rarely get to take a bath, mostly showers, but when I do take one I'm a reader. Yep, I'll read till the water freezes.

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CAPTAINSHINY

Monday, April 10, 2006 5:24 AM

I'm sorry I have to take this out on you, but it is my major pet peeve. one cannot be OCD, one has OCD. And OCD does not equal germophobia.

-Stay Shiny
"The people who made the show, and the people who saw the show, which is roughly the same number of people, fell in love with it, a little bit too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive... In my world, they're called Browncoats."
-Joss Whedon

RHYIANAN

Monday, April 10, 2006 5:32 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by milford:
Rarely get to take a bath, mostly showers, but when I do take one I'm a reader. Yep, I'll read till the water freezes.

Hey, me too....and then I re-fill the tub with more warm water.

SIXSHOOTER

Monday, April 10, 2006 5:49 AM

I'm a shower man, that's where I have my best ideas.

Embarrassingly, I only take baths now when I'm blind drunk.

Last time was after 3/4's of a bottle of OP rum (henceforth to be referred to as 'The Devil')
I sat down in the tub, then promptly threw up in it, and was too far-gone to get out again, so I fell asleep.

Oh yeah, now there is a truly wonderful image.
A man stewing in his own vomit.

Maybe I’m just paranoid but I could swear I smelt like casserole for the next week.

SAMEERTIA

Monday, April 10, 2006 7:50 AM

Baths are for reading, writing, and daydreaming after a long day. They are for thick lavender scented bubbles, glasses of sweet white wine, and the Serenity soundtrack on the stereo. They are wind-down, relax, get-away-from-it-all time. They are also "spa-time" -cucumber face masks, those silly three-step foot-care treatments, etc.
Baths are for healing and rejuvenating.

Showers are far more active. Hair washing and conditioning-(I have butt-length hair. It's a major operation!) I use showers for "working" singing- scales, rep excercises, any difficult pieces I'm working on- Everyone around me knows I sing well and they think it comes naturally. I'd hate to disillusion them by practicing when it's not garbled by the sounds of pouring water!

JACQUI

Monday, April 10, 2006 8:06 AM

I am so incredibly in synch with SameErtia here.

Except that I don't sing (yeeesh, gods no, nobody wants that), but I do think about things. Mainly writing plots, or real life problems I'm trying to sort through.

Great epiphanies happen in the shower, showers are about renewal and refreshment.

Baths are for relaxing and indulgence, easing away troubles both physical and emotional.

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"He's hurting a woman, he really *is* a bad guy... and I wouldn't call him a gentleman."
- Kyle, 9, watching 'Serenity'.

DOWIE100

Monday, April 10, 2006 11:08 AM

Mainly a shower person myself.

In the shower I either sing (only when theres no-one in the house lol, sitll can't get the Firefly theme song out my head) or I sortof turn my mind off and then suddenly out of the blue I remember/come up with solutions to problems and have ideas for stuff im working on.

I remember one time I came up with the answers for some questions I got wrong in an exam a year ago it was wierd.

"You can't take the sky from me"

SERYN

Monday, April 10, 2006 11:31 AM

ah, sadly I appear to live in the only huse in the world without a shower, So I have to take baths, so bathing for me has become about getting as clean as I possibly can in a bath and then getting to work, relaxing baths are a thing of the past, woe is me

*sniff*

I want a shower!

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.
FozzieWash, You know what I always say: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!
KermieMal, I never Know what the heck you're talking about.
FozzieWash, Hey, look! They're sending us free lumber!

JONUS

Monday, April 10, 2006 12:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CaptainShiny:
I'm sorry I have to take this out on you, but it is my major pet peeve. one cannot be OCD, one has OCD. And OCD does not equal germophobia.

Well excuuuuuuuuuse me! How is it there's a know-it-all on every message board that has nothing better to do than correct others? Looks like you're the one with OCD.

KAYNA

Monday, April 10, 2006 1:00 PM

I sing in the shower. Alot. I try to keep it down so as not to disturb my family members but I sometimes forget. I have always loved to sing. I don't really think much when in the shower. I just like feeling the hot water run over me and the singing is spontanious.

I rarely get to take a bath :(
The tub attached to our shower is not suitable to bathe anyone larger than a slim 10 year old. I am 5ft 10in and overweight.

I do like baths when I can get them however. I've always wanted to use my aunts bath. It's one of those deep jacuzie numbers. It's also about 6ft long because my aunt is about 6ft tall. That means you can immerse your whole badoy in a nice hot bath and not have your knees sticking in the air.

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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

MILFORD

Monday, April 10, 2006 1:06 PM

I've done that before, especially on really cold days. The building I work in has a large theatre and an auditorium in it. Unfortunately it also only has one thermostat, which means my little 12 X 12 office gets the same blast of cold air that the 2,000 seat auditorium gets. Shiver. That means it's around 50-55 degrees in my workspace. My fingers get pretty numb. So a lot of times in the winter when I get home I'll fill up the tub to boiling and hop in a digest a nice book. I like it hot, you know, like when you get out there's a line at your shoulders where the water was. Below that you look like a lobster. That's the tops.

Unfortunately, most of the time, it's nothing but a quick shower before work, and a quick shower after the gym or run. Sigh....

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That's why I don't kiss'em on the mouth- Jayne Cobb

GRIZWALD

Monday, April 10, 2006 1:13 PM

Seryn, you're actually NOT the only one. We have two clawfoot bathtubs in this old house and no shower. I get up early enough each morning to have a short soak while reading and fending off my cat, who loves to stand with his back feet on the rim of the tub, his front paws on my shoulder, and drink the tub water. He likes people soup, I guess. (eewwww)

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Our Big Damn Heroes made a film!
I'm gonna see Serenity then
go back the next morning and see it again.
Cuz no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
C'mon Universal, and greenlight the sequel!

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Monday, April 10, 2006 1:21 PM

On a good day - Float.

On a bad day - sink all the bath toys and pretend I'm Jacques Cousteau....

The
Somnambulist

www.cirqus.com

CITIZEN

Monday, April 10, 2006 2:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Seryn:
Who here has toys to play with?
*raises hand*

Really...

Quote:
I have a colour-changing rubber ducky, she goes pink when she warms up.

That could of gone another way, though it could still be a euphemism.

Quote:
Well, try and keep it clean guys.

Seryn how long have you been coming to this site and you still don't realise that that just ain't gonna happen.

Quote:
And now, inspired by Lemon Jelly, I wants to know what you all do in the bath. Are you a singer? A reader? A Shakespeare quoter?

I wash. Sometimes I read. But now I have a shower, I prefer showers. Showers make your book soggy.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

JPSTARGAZER

Monday, April 10, 2006 5:49 PM

Does anyone else get so tired of standing in the shower and just sit down? I'm not trying to say I'm lazy, but sometimes I just rather be sitting. Plus, on a more scientific note, the more distance between the shower head and me, the more kinetic energy the water has, which makes it feel kinda like rain...really warm rain.

"All I got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth...the rest is up to you"
--Bono

CAPTAINSHINY

Monday, April 10, 2006 11:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
On a good day - Float.

On a bad day - sink all the bath toys and pretend I'm Jacques Cousteau....

The
Somnambulist

I thought I was the only one! Let's be friends!

-Stay Shiny
"The people who made the show, and the people who saw the show, which is roughly the same number of people, fell in love with it, a little bit too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive... In my world, they're called Browncoats."
-Joss Whedon

CAPTAINSHINY

Monday, April 10, 2006 11:23 PM

And there was this one time where I made a boat, disguising it as a modern art sculpture, and tried to float away from the village! But alas, I was caught by a large white baloon

-Stay Shiny
"The people who made the show, and the people who saw the show, which is roughly the same number of people, fell in love with it, a little bit too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive... In my world, they're called Browncoats."
-Joss Whedon

LADYSERENITY

Monday, April 10, 2006 11:55 PM

Wish I had one of those claw foot tubs for soaking and taking a bath then I most definitely would be reading in it, get some bath salts and bubbly stuff. Wish I had time to take a good long soak with a good book.

So that leaves the shower. And yes I sing in it or talk my story ideas out loud. What do I sing? Anything! songs with no words, musical numbers any of the songs from Phantom of the Opera, The Blackeyed Peas, (though I don't like them that much their songs end up planted in my mind), Ballad of Serenity, ( You can't take the sky from me,me,meee!)

Lots of strange fun! (I wonder if my neighbors hear me!) Huh.

Lady Serenity

KIZYR

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:38 AM

I don't do baths, unless I'm in Japan. Then, I'll usually just relax and think about the events of the day.

Now, showers, on the other hand... That's where I get all my ideas for the Serenity RPG I'm GMing right now. KF

~KF

Lord, I'm walking your way. Let me in, for my feet are sore, my clothes are ragged.
Look in my eyes, Lord, and my sins will play out on them as on a screen. Read them all.
Forgive what you can and send me on my path. I will walk on until you bid me rest.
~Haven Prayer

GELASSENHEIT

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:56 AM

bathtub scene from Slither.

Nah, ain't gonna go back into the bath anytime soon.

Gelassenheit means Serenity

GRAYFURY

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:18 AM

In the bath?....I play with my genitals!

"Smellin' alot of IF comin' offa' this plan!"

SAMEERTIA

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by jpstargazer:
Does anyone else get so tired of standing in the shower and just sit down? I'm not trying to say I'm lazy, but sometimes I just rather be sitting. Plus, on a more scientific note, the more distance between the shower head and me, the more kinetic energy the water has, which makes it feel kinda like rain...really warm rain.

"All I got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth...the rest is up to you"
--Bono

ME!
Actually, I usually sit down to shave my legs, and then hang out down there just enjoying the water while I deep condition my hair. :)

STRATA

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:08 AM

Grown up or no, I still have a fleet of little floating ships. There are epic battles. The pirates always win.

BELOWZERO

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:14 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
ah, sadly I appear to live in the only huse in the world without a shower, So I have to take baths, so bathing for me has become about getting as clean as I possibly can in a bath and then getting to work, relaxing baths are a thing of the past, woe is me

*sniff*

I want a shower!

*grin* For YEARS, all I wanted was INDOOR PLUMBING and RUNNING WATER!
But you can do a decent bath type thing with a kiddie pool and some water heated on the woodstove. :)

For now, I have a tub for the kiddo (he does bubbles and Batman toys, mixing the fizzies and stuff) and showering for me, where I THINK too much and save the singing for in the car on the way to work.

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

ERIC

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 5:02 AM

I think up political talking points I would use if I were running for president. They're usually very pointed and, well, angry. If only I remembered to write them down after got out...

THESOMNAMBULIST

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CaptainShiny:
Quote:
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
On a good day - Float.

On a bad day - sink all the bath toys and pretend I'm Jacques Cousteau....

The
Somnambulist

I thought I was the only one! Let's be friends!

-Stay Shiny
"The people who made the show, and the people who saw the show, which is roughly the same number of people, fell in love with it, a little bit too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive... In my world, they're called Browncoats."
-Joss Whedon

Sure

I could do with a good diving buddy :) I once ventured too close to the plug and almost went down with the whirlpool! Luckily a submerged ship went in first and eased the pull. I then swam away to safety :D

Close call.

TheSomnambulist

www.cirqus.com

FLAUTISTFIRST

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:35 PM

Whoa! Good Tub!

I used to wonder why it was so loud in the shower, like someone yelling. Then I realized it was my inner voice. Once I started listening to it, it quit yelling. And I most always remember to rinse the shampoo out now.

Bath time is the fight I have with my 13 year old, 100 pound disabled daughter. She screams "No Bath" until I finally get her in through a series of manuvers. Then, when it is time to get out, she screams "No, not Done. No out." Sometimes bath time can last really, really long. I do Sudoku.

There's no place I can be since I found serenity.

BELOWZERO

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:11 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gelassenheit:

bathtub scene from Slither.

Nah, ain't gonna go back into the bath anytime soon.

Gelassenheit means Serenity

Ah, yeah. Major point. :) LOL
I also think there will be industrial-strength screens on my windows!

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. . ."
--Dylan Thomas

Though my soul may set in darkness
It will rise in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly
To be fearful of the night.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:57 PM

I'm a shower-type person. All my best plot bunnies hit when I'm in the shower. I like talking through them.

However, in the bath I have just about every product Lush has ever made. It's all about the relaxing and the pampering.

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CALLMESERENITY

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 4:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by jpstargazer:
Does anyone else get so tired of standing in the shower and just sit down? I'm not trying to say I'm lazy, but sometimes I just rather be sitting. Plus, on a more scientific note, the more distance between the shower head and me, the more kinetic energy the water has, which makes it feel kinda like rain...really warm rain.

Me, too! It's a terrible habit I've developed. Usually it's because I'm still not awake and don't want to expend the energy in standing. I like to lean over and let the water run down my back. Though, it tends to double my shower time.

And I wonder why I'm always rushing to get ready in the morning?

As for baths: I stop the holes in the drain thing so I can fill it all the way up so that I can't move or it'll overflow and then I read and listen to something soothing. And when it starts to cool off, I drain some water and add more until I'm too pruney to stand it or I finish my book.

And my cat likes people soup, too! He'll sit on the edge of the tub and lick the water off my arms if I let him in the bathroom.

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
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