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I have told this stories to some people outside Brazil and I could tell they were thinking I was lying... Years later I realized why:
When I tell this random piece of story, In my head everyone knows I'm talking about an eletric shower, but plenty of people not only don't associate showers with electricity but are terrified of the suicide showers of doom
The funny bit is, the only thing a suicide shower killed in my life were my Age of Empire 2 hame sessions -
@jonathands Yeah afaik those showers are brazil exclusive. Though you can get "instant" heating heads for taps in other countries, it's rare
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@SidTheITGuy lol same 😂
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@whimsical jonathan-ds :]
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@Lensflare I always wondered why they didn't catch on more would save on geysers/central heating costs in my mind
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@BordedDev I read the water pressure is low.
Europeans like a high water pressure for showering.
In Seinfeld they had to buy shower heads from the polish black market to get some with a decent pressure level. -
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@Lensflare Ah yeah, the shower here is annoying low pressure as well (because it's an old house with small pipes)
@whimsical have ++ -
@SidTheITGuy HaHa that's a first, it's literallty my name :(
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@whimsical I'm actually the second child, my brother was jonathan... my parents were nintendo addicts
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@jonathands that’s a weird name, Mr. Hands!
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@Lensflare yes pressure can be an issue, but they are used mostly because they are much cheaper than installing gas heating, due to infrastrucure costs... most people are used to them, Gas heating is considered something for hotels, in very specific places people use them, mostly upper class appartments and house holds
Story Time:
In the late 90s , early 2000, I remember we had our first landline (phones where a luxury on our part of the world) , with that our first 56k internet connection.
I remember vividly waiting for 14:00 (02PM) so I could connect to the internet paying only a single "pulse".
Back in my tiny remote rural village in brazil, most houses where build by brick layers people hired directly and I lots of owners worked with them to speed up the process, run plumbling and
eletricity, paint and do the floors etc, mylate father included.
Being quite handy, he also did all the wiring for the landline and the for modem.
While he was handy, he was by no means an electrician, so one bizarro side effect for the amateur wiring was that whenever someone turned on the Shower, the internet connection would go down.
And for some bizarre reason, it was only the internet connection, while the shower was turned on, the phone would work fine... some years later broadband internet got widespread and it was unnaffected by the shower.
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