There's a new wellness trend, people! (I know you only follow me because I'm so plugged into the zeitgeist and know about all of the new trends like a motherflippin' influencer)
It is, of course, taking a shower in the dark. AKA 'dark shower'. Why? I don't fuckn know I couldn't be bothered to read it what a load of old nonsense who is reading this shit stop taking showers in the dark you utter lunatics.
@TheBreadmonkey I do have to admire the wonderous and clever ways the internet just comes up with new and wonderous ways to get dumbass humans to kill themselves. from eating tide pods to selfies while hanging off cliff edges, trends of photography on railway lines to gender reveals utilising levels of pyrokenetics usually associated with carpet bombing.
and now, you know what, not enough people die in showers, lets turn off the lights.. yeah.. honest its good for you.
@TheBreadmonkey I don't know how real this apparent trend is, but as someone whom has fallen in a well-illuminated shower, smacking my head and hip and cracking a rib, I think this is a remarkably foolish idea.
@TheBreadmonkey Showering in the dark, yes. Yogurt hair, no.
@TheBreadmonkey a shower in the dark may or may not be good for ones mental health but I would think the shattered hip and concussion are definitely going to have their thumb on the other side of the scales.
@TheBreadmonkey It's the same group of people who do perineum sunning.
@TheBreadmonkey I...I've been showering in the dark for YEARS. It's kinda nice, and cosy.
@TheBreadmonkey I bathe in the dark.
I was going to go on, but that sounds quite metal, like the opposite of sun bathing, so I'm leaving without further elucidation. Other than this, damnit...
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It could be good for your mental health if not alone in the dark.... ; )
@TheBreadmonkey This is one of those things that’s a wellness trend if it’s for adults and a dangerous TikTok meme if teenagers are doing it.
@TheBreadmonkey so... back when we were skint alcoholic students who didn't have the wherewithal to replace lightbulbs... we were doing alright, weren't we? ahead of our fucking time. wellbeing? we were SHOWERIN' in it mate.
@TheBreadmonkey with a beer in one hand and the power cut off in the other, Wim Hoff could never
@TheBreadmonkey But how do you keep track of your shower beer?
@TheBreadmonkey You won't see much benefit from a dark shower alone, you need to pair it with a doomcore bidet
@TheBreadmonkey this primary school memory has now been unlocked
@pikesley extreme flashback, wow. This, along with the full cast recording of The Importance of Being Earnest with Edith Evans that my mum used to play in the car when she drove me to school, and The Goon Show, which I somehow found and used to listen to to fall asleep, is basically how I learned English when I moved to the UK as a 6 year old.
... typing that out and on reflection, that might explain quite a lot about me.
@TheBreadmonkey I think I had one of those when I didn't realise you had to wait a bit after turning on a bore water shower in Tennant Creek many years ago.
@TheBreadmonkey All of my showers are dark by default. :)
You must be so well!
@TheBreadmonkey I don't take a shower in the dark, but this time of year I will usually take one in very limited light. I hate turning the bathroom light on, it's far too bright, so this morning I showered quite happily in the civil twilight coming through the window.
@TheBreadmonkey The unusual bulb in my bathroom blew the other day and I haven't been able to get a replacement yet. So all my bathroom activities are dark at the moment. Would not recommend.
@TheBreadmonkey a bold move there to open by admitting there's no evidence that this helps with anything. I assume this is some running competition among journalists to see who can convince their readers to do the weirdest shit just because they tell them to
Well there's a new thing going round. It's called yoghurt hair. For wellness and mental health you just put a load of yoghurt in your hair. It was devised in deepest Peru by a yoghurt Shamen who's been doing this for 3 years and reckons they're now immortal. Is there any scientific evidence? No.
@TheBreadmonkey @afewbugs Now you're just describing the seventies. Oatmeal and raw eggs for shiny, healthy hair (topical).
@drgroftehauge @TheBreadmonkey I vaguely remember washing your hair in beer being a thing recommended in teenage magazines, but can't remember what it was supposed to do
There were articles in teen magazines about washing my hair in beer?!
@afewbugs @TheBreadmonkey I tried Ice Hockey Hair after listening to the Super Furry Animals song. Not recommended.
What is..... Ice hockey hair, please?
@afewbugs @TheBreadmonkey it's a very good tune
@TheBreadmonkey @afewbugs easily done - using yoghurt rather than shampoo - if you are showering in the dark.
I assume it has to be a live yoghurt?
@TheBreadmonkey just to be clear for my notes this is plain yoghurt right? Because I'd imagine the fruit chunks could be difficult to wash out
There are restaurants where people eat in the dark, supposedly to enhance the taste of their food, but also to show what it is like to be blind. Aside from the blind aspect, I suspect this is only good for helping those wishing to diet.
And, how do you find a dropped soap in the dark shower?
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Those of us living in the US are being subjected to a "dark shower" 24 hours a day, Ben.
@TheBreadmonkey I live at the end of the power grid so the power goes off pretty often.
Which means I have indeed done dark showers, although they don't start that way.
Anyway, I fell over.
@TheBreadmonkey I do this, though it’s not improving my mental health. Thoughts keep swirling through my head. Like, I really need to get an electrician in to fix the lights.
@TheBreadmonkey So, it says there's no research and no data, but people believe something. Reminds me of some people I work with: 'you have your numbers but I trust what my colleagues who are telling me this instead ', and then there's the metaphorical fall in the shower. Or, in this case, an actual fall.
@TheBreadmonkey it’s all quite relaxing until you slip getting out of the shower and end up sprawled out on the floor in the dark
@TheBreadmonkey Stephen King was way ahead of the curve on this.
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