this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
260 points (93.3% liked)

Asklemmy

49838 readers
468 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I don't mean what you use to chop down your feces, but an object that you realized only your family has and people would raise their eyebrows at. Best if said object has a sole purpose.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago (7 children)

What I love so much about the whole “turning the water off when you brush your teeth” debate is how everyone is basically telling on themselves.

The ADA recommends brushing your teeth for two minutes. Do you think anybody sits there and lets the water wash down the drain for two whole minutes? Or more likely does everyone have terrible dental hygiene?

[–] elouboub@kbin.social 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I lived with people who would have full political debates with a tooth brush in their mouth and the tap on.

Why does it matter how much I use? Agriculture uses 20 times more than I do!

Said after a tossing half their food away...

[–] DocCrankenstein@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bro unfortunately I do belive people would be careless enough to do that.

Had roommates that when they did dishes would keep the water running instead of filling up the sink. Didn't matter if it was even a few days worth of dishes.

I even mentioned to them about it, they said they just didn't want to put their hands in a sink full of dirty dish water.

People really do be that senseless.

[–] hail@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

yes to both. a lot of people my age (low-mid 20s) let the water run and also have bad dental hygiene... I only ever stopped letting the water go down the drain after a few years of paying my own water bill

[–] Spooty@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

??? Why is it so crazy to imagine people let a tap run for two minutes?

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because that is an absurdly long time to watch water run when you’re not using it for anything. I feel like “turn off the tap when brushing your teeth” would be inherently obvious to people brushing the full two minutes.

What’s more likely to me is people brush for about 15 seconds and don’t bother turning it off because it’s such a short period of time.

[–] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel bad enough when I'm letting the tap run during dishes when it's taking me a second to scrub something lol

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

I want a foot pedal for my kitchen sink so badly. I feel like it would save a lot of water and I'd never have to touch the sink with my gross hands I need to wash.

[–] blandy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Get one of those swiveling heads with a shutoff. Game changer for sure.

[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I see you've never experienced a drought

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Or lived off grid where they had to pump their water, or used only rainwater harvesting.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

I'm from southern California. 'Nuff said.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

water is precious

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Christ, I don't even let the shower run for 2 minutes straight. I get in, wet down, turn it off and lather up. Then rinse off. Might have it on for 2 minutes total.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Shit I run that shit for 20 minutes straight. I tend to zone out in the shower

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

Damn. I turn the shower on for a few minutes before I get in so the water is right. Glad you're canceling me out.

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plus there is LITERALLY ZERO BENEFIT to leaving the water on. It's just pure waste. If I was learning to brush my teeth for the first time, turning off the water would have been the intuitive solution.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

For me at least, brushing teeth is highly uncomfortable and the brushing noise from inside my head makes it worse. Running water dampens the noise. I learned to turn off the tap most of the time but I leave it on for when I'm out of mental batteries.