Baths: boring as hell, or a good time to read?

[Malcolm]

I enjoy nothing better than a soak, smoke, tipple and good read.

[Brittomart]

Wtf is a tipple?

[Malcolm]

My bathtime tipple is either a bottle of red wine or a couple of cans of lager.

Over here we have the phrase 'what's your tipple?' when buying someone a drink.

If we're forced to buy someone a drink we might ask a question similar to yours - Wtf's your tipple'.

Usually we just ask 'what's yours?'

[Jammies]

A drink, Britt.

It will be no surprise to anyone who knows me that I adore my baths. I have all kinds of glorious bath products to use in an unlimited number of combinations, and I always follow with a gorgeous perfume.

[Janice]

As far as I remember, I haven't dropped a book in the bath yet. I have fallen asleep, book in hand, and waken just as it was about to slip into the suds.

[[deleted user]]

Baths for me are like coffee. I feel like I'm missing out on something because I don't like either. Both sound wonderful, they smell delicious. Blah. I last about 5 minutes in a bath before I desperately want to get out. I do love a long luxurious shower. Coffee doesn't live up to the smell either. I have to brush my teeth afterward drinking a cup to get rid of the taste.

I do suffer from bath and coffee envy. That's why I try both occasionally, just in case I've changed. No luck so far. ::sigh::

[Jim]

You should try coffee sometime Gail.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Gail, sometimes you have to try a food 45 times before you like it.

[Malcolm]

Lol LG. . . Hi Gail, yeh give coffee a try. . . Maybe when a baby or child you had a bad bathtime experience - soap in the eyes? slipping under the water? rubber crocidile as a plaything?

[[deleted user]]

I don't recall any bad bathtime experiences Malcolm, maybe you are on to something. :)

45 cups of coffee. LG the thought is enough to stop me ever having another cup.

[Jim]

That would be excessive for a day Gail, but in a months time it isn't bad.

Watched Amazing Race tonight, and they were in Sydney. The sun shines there on average 340 days a year. Looked like a lovely place to live. Lucky you!

[[deleted user]]

Sydney is the coldest place I've lived. I don't know the answer to that one Bun.

[Sally, la reina]

I think liking baths is an ancestry thing. My mom always says it is the Finnish in us that makes the sauna or hot tub feel so good.

[Félix]

Near where my brother used to live in New Hampshire there used to be a lot of Finnish. They had little ponds in their back yards with a pier extending out over the water so they could jump in after using the sauna.

[[deleted user]]

Hahahahah, I come from a mixture of Irish, Scottish, English and Prussian stock (those are the ones I know). I think I know which is having the most influence on my bathing habits. :)

[Sally, la reina]

Which?

**Scratches head**

[[deleted user]]

Engish are known for not bathing.

[Sally, la reina]

Really? Is that why their teeth look like that?

[Jim]

Sally wrote: "Really? Is that why their teeth look like that?"

Not bathing teeth will make them look like that!

[Michael]

Larry wrote: "Near where my brother used to live in New Hampshire there used to be a lot of Finnish. They had little ponds in their back yards with a pier extending out over the water so they could jump in afte..."

People here like cutting big holes in frozen lakes and jumping in them. It used to be one group that did it on NY's day every year and not a lot of different groups do it for charity.