Baths vs Showers. A Second Life test.

It is an age old debate. What's best, a Bath or a Shower? Purely for research - and not a reason to post gratuitous shower/bath photos - I've had a shower and bath and shall divulge my experience and opinions. Click on any of the research photos to get a better look. Some have been 'stylised' for artistic reasons (since they are research photos there would be no reason to censor them).

Let's start with a good old Bath.

Having a long soak in the bathtub is one of lifes pleasures. Add some aromatics and candles, and you've got either bathing heaven or bathing hell. Just never put a radio next to the bath and connect it to the mains. The bath is also the natural home of the rubber duck(y). An amazing species, some even squeak.

I've got a big stone bath (right) which isn't plumbed in, but somehow manages to fill when I click on it. It's always piping hot because of the steam you see coming off it. Whenever your prims are tired, or skin is looking a little pixelated due to a day of excessive lag, it's the best way to wind down - apart from sex, but after that you tend to need a bath or shower anyway (going off some of the prims i've pulled!).

The great thing about a bath is you can make it all bubbly and make funny hairstyles with the foam. Baths are much more fun that showers (if by fun you mean fun fun and not sexy fun) and your skin turns all wrinkly if you stay in for two long.

The Shower (scene).

Feeling sweaty and dirty? Jump into the shower and within 10 minutes you'll be all clean, refreshed and dried off again (not including hair).

Showers are quicker than baths and if your shower is powerful enough and also operates as a hand-shower, you can really clean the places the sun doesn't shine. There's something quite beautiful of warm soft water being projected a dangerous speeds into the most tender areas of the human (or second human) body.

Showers also accommodate for silly hairstyles, they're more suitable for using a vast ray of gloopy cleaning solutions, singing and if your shower is powerful enough it can really hurt - which is great.

Where would we be without the good old cold shower? Perfect for waking up or cooling down. Baths just aren't practical for that. You can jump out of a shower if its too hot/cold quicker than you could jump out of a bath.

This old blog made my shower somewhat infamous. It's powerful jets of water will rearrange your prims back into their natural position, but its 'extra animations' will throw them all about again. At this point I must thank my friend Nude (yes, that is his real name) who threw my prims around in my shower... i'm still finding some around the plug hole.

Decision time:

Erm... it's baths. Showers are fun, but baths are lazy. Which is good!

Just a general naked photograph really

I'm in a dirty/drugged mood so I thought i'd post this charming photograph (click to go bigger!).

I know its not showing pink bits (Still PG, Goooooogle!) but I was naked (and alone - so nothing sexual) at the time. There are other photos to prove this as well. You'll have to marry me to see them though.

Happy Thursday* 

*Here anyway, Its 1:15am.

Today the enemy lost 56 men, 5 guitars, 2 pianos and a trumpet.

"Who needs guitars anyway?" asked Alice Deejay back in 2000. The answer: They did because their career went downhill soon after and they never matched the good old days of Better off alone and Back in my life.

Guitars then. Funny old instrument when you think about it. When I think guitar, I hear Guitar Solos, See hotel rooms being trashed and the Honky Tonk Man hitting people with them.

If I went to war and my only weapon could be ONE musical instrument I'd seriously consider taking a guitar, I think many people would. After thinking again though i'd take a big massive organ that could fly, and then have it run over the enemy and squash them to death.

How the war was won by Horses Morrisey - The BBC philharmonic orchestra 77 Squadron flew in on their flying Organs and blasted Fritz back to Germany with a swift but firm trombone attack. Wrap up the rockets and bring in the Orchestras, I say. Oh but not Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark. Leave them on VH1 (classic). No "shock and awe" from the British, We'd do "Swift and Firm", it just sounds better and it yells "100% success" at you.

Now I read this back I think that maybe i've been taking too many drugs. Music in war! Gracie Fields at a push but thats it! Who needs guitars anyway? The British Army don't for one!

Move over red rum (not literally, you're buried at Aintree Racecourse) there's a new Horsey champ in town!

The photo is a bit of a giveaway. I WON! You are looking at the SLCW Womens Champion (worrying announced as the Womens Heavyweight Champion before the fight). I came, I saw, I conquered. It was a magnificent victory. My good friend Paula - who is a champion in another sport - and I celebrated like it was 1999. Paula was on hand to see my famous victory and got a really good view of the action towards the end of the fight.

I'm sure everyone is very pleased I won. It was an honour representing my fellow Horses and thank you to my sponsors. I don't actually have any sponsors, but if i did i'd be thanking them. It's quite an honour being a female and wrestling version of Red Rum, and like the legendary racehorse, I shall never crap on Blue Peter like a dirty elephant might. Talking of childrens telly - as you can see - I relaxed afterwards with a nice herbal rizla cone (containing nothing that a masking agent can't fix). Wellness. Pah!

Horses' Million Dollar title belt fight

Sunday 20th April. Reichstag Nightclub  @ 12 Noon, Somewhere in SL. See Horses Morrisey (that'd be me) wrestle some rubbish woman called Misaki (or Musaki) for the Million Dollar SLCW Womens title. It's in the bag already - I WILL be champion, she's nothing compared to me, it'll be so easy. When I am i'll throw a "Champions Party" at Horse and Biscuit. You'll all be invited.

Most importantly, come see the match for yourself! Noon on Sunday (Noon being 12pm!). Anyone who shouts out "crackerjack" during my match will get a big long kiss afterwards - so long as I win, which I undoubtedly will because I'm the best (Cue Joe Esposito's Karate Kid track "You're the best" - Choon!)

The spy who lagged until its inventory burst

Have you visited The Horse and Biscuit yet? NO! Why not!!!

An ugly testing tool from Linden Labs has. It looked for all the pings in Data Valley that is was some dodgy tool made by a naughty person. Created by Tester3 Tester (or something like that) it was simply a square box with default wooden texture and a silver ball sat on top. It claimed to monitor teleports and do other stuff to help improve second life. I didn't trust it. Return to Sender as Elvis once sang.

The beautiful people who run the sims my places are on contacted Los Lindonios and guess what... it was really Linden Labs. Some unimaginative technical wiz' has created a 'testing' tool and gone out of their way to make it look untrustworthy. They don't even drop the landowner a note saying what it is and its legitimate. Deary me!

Thats it.