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!