Temptation makes us all feel dirty...
May 18th 2006 20:33
Question: do we want a café that smells good all the time, hence purely by biological mechanics makes us hungry and salivating and likely to splurge on food we never intended to order?
Or do we want a café with a neutral smell that neither entices nor coerces us to eat? Sisi reckons she goes to cafes FOR the smell of coffee… Or maybe I’m twisting her words and she’s a victim of peer pressure…
At any rate, do we want the carrot dangling in front of us, looking and smelling pretty but not to be eaten, or would we rather pretend the carrot didn’t exist?
Maybe it works on a less animalistic level when we choose whether we find success encouraging/inspiring or resulting in jealousy and feelings of inferiority.
Or whether we want to watch Rom-Coms while we’re single – is it nice to know it’s out there or would we rather pretend it isn’t and stop thinking about it?
How bloody flawed is the human condition!!????!!!
This existentialist stuff is too hard, let us turn to more important yet simpler matters:
The question that has been plaguing me this week gave rise to a drunken mini-poll in the microcosm of the Brooklyn Hotel on Friday night (hello and welcome if this sounds familiar!). I need to know – and I have more of an interest than most as I will explain:
DO YOU SHOWER FROM THE FRONT OR THE BACK?
(this is not code, it’s not that complicated, I just mean do you face the water or back the water?)
Because it turns out I’m a freak. Or a guy. But I could list various references who will attest that I am not, in fact, a guy.
Nearly all girls shower from the front. Nearly all guys shower from the back. Actually very close to all guys. I don’t understand showering from the front.
Ok it’s only pub science and preliminary polls, and you wouldn’t believe what Google is giving me as research on the subject… well you might – use your imaginations. But at any rate, at this stage, anecdotal evidence appears to suggest a clear gender distinction – ask around, I’m not making this up – the reasons for which are a little unclear.
For example, if guys are avoiding direct flow onto their “more sensitive areas,” surely women should have similar sensitivity elsewhere.
Surely you’d think that women washing their hair would encourage them to spend more time back to the water – and personally I’m a wimp and am not that big on being hit in the face with a nose and mouth full of water for the entire duration of my (sometimes ten minute – Sydney Water *slap on the wrist*).
If you have a really hot shower, surely the steam eventually gets too much to be breathing in directly… ok maybe that’s a crap explanation.
But at the very least, the skin on your back is thicker (apart from your hands and feet it’s the thickest on your body) and can withstand more heat, allowing the rest of your body to benefit from the general temperature rise without being subjected to the hot water directly. Although Miss O says she has her showers so hot her skin goes pink, yet she’s happy to scald herself from the front. Then again, she’s white as a lily so maybe she just means a step up from luke warm.
If you have any ideas for explanations, please let me know. I’m feeling a bit alienated from my sex... a little bit freakish... a little bit X-men.
Oh, and here's some unrelated silliness. This song will never sound the same again - it almost makes you grateful we have war to give rise to such genius, a la Soundtrack to War, a documentary by George Gittoes about soldiers in Iraq and the music they create and listen to.
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?" - Scott Adams
Or do we want a café with a neutral smell that neither entices nor coerces us to eat? Sisi reckons she goes to cafes FOR the smell of coffee… Or maybe I’m twisting her words and she’s a victim of peer pressure…
At any rate, do we want the carrot dangling in front of us, looking and smelling pretty but not to be eaten, or would we rather pretend the carrot didn’t exist?
Maybe it works on a less animalistic level when we choose whether we find success encouraging/inspiring or resulting in jealousy and feelings of inferiority.
Or whether we want to watch Rom-Coms while we’re single – is it nice to know it’s out there or would we rather pretend it isn’t and stop thinking about it?
How bloody flawed is the human condition!!????!!!
This existentialist stuff is too hard, let us turn to more important yet simpler matters:
The question that has been plaguing me this week gave rise to a drunken mini-poll in the microcosm of the Brooklyn Hotel on Friday night (hello and welcome if this sounds familiar!). I need to know – and I have more of an interest than most as I will explain:
DO YOU SHOWER FROM THE FRONT OR THE BACK?
(this is not code, it’s not that complicated, I just mean do you face the water or back the water?)
Because it turns out I’m a freak. Or a guy. But I could list various references who will attest that I am not, in fact, a guy.
Nearly all girls shower from the front. Nearly all guys shower from the back. Actually very close to all guys. I don’t understand showering from the front.
Ok it’s only pub science and preliminary polls, and you wouldn’t believe what Google is giving me as research on the subject… well you might – use your imaginations. But at any rate, at this stage, anecdotal evidence appears to suggest a clear gender distinction – ask around, I’m not making this up – the reasons for which are a little unclear.
For example, if guys are avoiding direct flow onto their “more sensitive areas,” surely women should have similar sensitivity elsewhere.
Surely you’d think that women washing their hair would encourage them to spend more time back to the water – and personally I’m a wimp and am not that big on being hit in the face with a nose and mouth full of water for the entire duration of my (sometimes ten minute – Sydney Water *slap on the wrist*).
If you have a really hot shower, surely the steam eventually gets too much to be breathing in directly… ok maybe that’s a crap explanation.
But at the very least, the skin on your back is thicker (apart from your hands and feet it’s the thickest on your body) and can withstand more heat, allowing the rest of your body to benefit from the general temperature rise without being subjected to the hot water directly. Although Miss O says she has her showers so hot her skin goes pink, yet she’s happy to scald herself from the front. Then again, she’s white as a lily so maybe she just means a step up from luke warm.
If you have any ideas for explanations, please let me know. I’m feeling a bit alienated from my sex... a little bit freakish... a little bit X-men.
Oh, and here's some unrelated silliness. This song will never sound the same again - it almost makes you grateful we have war to give rise to such genius, a la Soundtrack to War, a documentary by George Gittoes about soldiers in Iraq and the music they create and listen to.
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?" - Scott Adams
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