That's the top-rated comment, published 15 hours ago, on a Washington Post article that looks like this right now:
Did The Washington Post take instruction from readers?
I will commend WaPo for choosing a photograph of a shower head with the kind of water flow that frustrates anyone attempting to shampoo thick hair. The bald/thin-haired elite are making the decisions.
The dribbly shower is such a dull thing to look at that one's eyes quickly relocate to that Rolex watch... which seems to be claiming to save the planet. It's a watch for the elite. Not the hairy deplorables.
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What do the Washington Post, Donald Trump, and Rolex watches have in common?
All are triumphs of marketing savvy to build perceived value.
How do they differ?
Rolex will limit supply of their most desired items to leverage their relationship with those who want their product. We are entirely too familiar with both Trump and the WaPo, and neither will limit anything that maximizes their exposure.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Yeah. Instead, put another picture up of Biden molesting little kids.(like he did when touring Kansas yesterday) That's the ticket. Make it look normal. Progressives are nutjobs.
God, that Rolex ad so perfectly encapsulates the shallowness of our times. To promote a luxury good as some kind of environmental good is so reflective at how vapid American life is in the 2020s. Notice it also pertains to the use of diverse as well as the phrase "we're all in this together".
Current President Slow Flow Dribbly Showerhead.
The trend continues--people who complain that Trump is a danger to our institutions carelessly undermine our institutions in order to oppose Trump. Now the media is not supposed to show pictures of former presidents? (Yeah, I know, just former presidents named Trump.)
Of course that's the top rated comment. What petty stupid little people.
Losers don't raise $1.5 billion for a new media company.
Losers don't own the brand "Truth". (Not yet perhaps, but does anyone doubt that 3 months after launch PDJT will?)
WaPo is scared shitless of www.truthsocial.com
You can sign up now and may get an invite to be a beta tester. It will go live in early 2022. Perhaps to coincide with the Superbowl.
John LGBTQBNY Henry
“…. a shower head with the kind of water flow that frustrates anyone attempting to shampoo thick hair”
Boy, ain’t that the truth! I’d rather skip washing my hair than wash it with one of those shower heads. It feels less clean when it’s rinsed with a small stream of water than if it goes unwashed a day.
You peons will shower the way WE tell you to shower. Now begone.
These lost souls need a new villain…
I have short hair but prefer a forceful shower.
I also have a Rolex.
Not sure what kind of elite that makes me.
“The bald/thin-haired elite are making the decisions.”
I had nothing to do with the shower head decision!
I'm sure Elizabeth Warren will be on the warpath now, explaining how we are all being robbed by Big Water.
Biden, being a moderate, will assure us that it doesn't matter, since the water is already paid for.
Biden likes to sniff people's hair.
Pretty pathetic to admit publicly that Trump triggers you.
I bought a Kohler kitchen faucet that claimed 1.8 gpm, but that was at the valve. The fancy two-way sprayhead knocks it back to just over 1 gpm. When I complained, Kohler sent me 2 new sprayheads which worked just the same. I fill pasta pots in the bathtub.
Better yet, why not remove Trump’s image from all official photos? Has anyone tried this before?
I buy my watches to keep time. I have read that Rolexes do that poorly.
Likewise I want to buy washing machines and dishwashers and, yes, shower heads that use enough water to get things clean — clothes, dishes, and hair. I am not the only person who feels that the Democrats, in thrall to self-described environmentalists, don’t get that. Part of the neverending culture war is environment-geeks proposing new rules that make less and less real-world sense relative to the environment but are more and more annoying to real people who are just trying to make a living and raise good kids. And wear clean clothes and eat off clean dishes and have clean hair. That turned out to be too much to ask of the Obama administration and too much to ask of the Biden administration, too, I guess.
I do think there’s something sick about the way Democrats following the 2020 election feel compelled to overturn everything Trump did. No questioning whether it worked out well for the ordinary people of the United States. Not even any “he got it right, for the wrong reasons” or “he accidentally got it right.” If Trump did it, it’s gone and they don’t care who gets hurt or how it hurts them. Sick people.
Oh, that’s right. The Biden administration was forced by reality into reinstating Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” policy on the border. So perhaps there’s hope.
We have removed all the water flow constrictions from our showerheads.
Let's go Brandon.
Trump. Shower heads. Seriously?
As a founding member of the Bald-Headed Persons Cabal, I'd have to say that even though I believe that 'natural rain' shower heads encourage healthier, more spiritual showers, there is no actual cabal, and no gathering of bald-headed people using our special hand-shake greeting, wearing funny lodge-style hats, and speaking in tongues to begin our meetings which don't actually occur.
I don't recall of any such group or meetings, now that you bring it up.
Just FYI, not that I would ever do such a thing, many faucets have an internal reducer that scofflaws can easily remove should they ever desire to. Makes shower heads function as the consumer wants, rather than how joyless scolds want. If Meade needs a pointer, I can walk him through it. But if we do, we may be engaging in a conspiracy. But Meade at least has a good lawyer!
I Miss President Trump
I miss thinking that 200,000 dead from covid is a Lot
I miss $2 gass
I miss Iran not being a nuclear power
I miss not being a province of China
These sad readers should try to focus their two minutes of hatred on something relevant and meaningful.
Obviously low flow shower heads are not good per se. Anyone who prefers low flow could have a normal shower head and simply turn down the water flow manually. Instead, this Karen Regulation can only be justified by its potential to force people to reduce their use of water. (Don't mention to leftists that people routinely are forced to flush their toilets multiple times now, and I suspect showering time has been similarly effected.)
I'm sure people who live in areas where water is abundant love this one-size-fits-all rule. /s It is quintessential leftism.
Cheap energy would solve the problem of water scarcity. You know who is actively working against the goal of cheap energy? Leftists.
Honest question. Do they have any good ideas?
Trump as a metaphorical showerhead set on high above us, benevolently (or malevolently) raining down upon is really better than a picture of the actual Trump?
I don’t really care how much water my household uses. The only people it affects are us. I was told that the previous owner ran the well dry a few times living here with her daughter. Two people. I moved in with 5 and have had 8 living here for over a year. We’re down to just the two of us most of the time. Never run out of water. My neighbor said sometimes if you draw heavily from a dug well new veins will open up. I’m the only person within a mile using a dug well vice a drilled one.
I do have a front load washer which uses less water. IMHO front loaders do a better job cleaning.
In most areas of the country low flow shower heads, 1.6 gallon toilets, faucets limited to 2.5 gpm, etc, are a false economy. Most of the country does not suffer chronic water shortage. California does. And Democrats have made it worse by refusing to build new water storage and diverting water that could be used by agriculture, industry, or plain old ordinary people to “protect” a non endangered fish. And they’re the ones leading the charge to use less water. Because they have to suffer the rest of us must.
In their cities, and many others, they’ve discovered a downside of using much less water. Their sewer lines plug up because there’s not enough water to move solids down the pipes. The solution? Direct fire hoses down the fouled lines! Water and sewer systems to most appear to be entirely independent of one another. They’re not.
IIRC, appliance manufacturers have convinced the EPA they cannot reduce dishwasher water usage any further and actually get dishes clean. Likely had to pay someone off to get the agency to agree.
I am confident that all those leftist tech gazillionaires do not have showers with walls of showerheads.
they only use 'builder' class gear
Shower head.
Seinfeld.
'Nuff said.
President LB Johnson was obsessed with his shower. He preferred a three-tier system, front & back. Six shower heads blasting water like a fire hydrant. The middle tier sprayed deep in the heart of Texas.
Democracy Dies in Darkness!
I notice various conservative pundits and other websites are constantly talking about Trump. BHTV just had a conversation about "Trump's hold on the party" and "Will Trump run in 2024". Good lord, with all things going on in the world.
Why all the Trump? Probably to avoid talking about what a terrible job Biden is doing. Or how crappy things are. So, more Orange man.
I like my shower head on a hose and removing the restrictor solved that problem for me.
But here is a plumbing tip for anyone who wants multiple shower heads.
Go to the HW store and buy
1 - 1/2" Threaded T
2 - 1/2" threaded elbos
4 - 1/2" threaded close nipples
Thread sealant
You can buy all in stainless, plated, brass or PVC as taste requires.
Mount the T where the shower head goes.
Use 2 close nipples to mount the elbos to the T
Use 2 close nipples to mount the shower heads to the elbos. Now you have 2 heads. Use a cross fitting and you can have 3 heads.
Less than $20 in parts and a half hour of assembly time and Don's your president.
John Henry
I love how so-called conservatives believed in profligate liberalism in the consumption of natural resources. Your impulse to waste in service of comfort, pleasure and vanity is virtue signaling.
This Person said...
"Instead, this Karen Regulation can only be justified by its potential to force people to reduce their use of water."
These are the same people who insist on recycling. You know- that activity that, in order to work properly, requires that you clean your trash before recycling it.
Somehow I missed the shower head controversy. This is a classic example of so-called journalists changing the subject. Let’s not talk about all the screw ups the Biden Administration has committed but go back to the shower head scandal. What pathetic people work at WAPO.They are running scared that Trump might fun again and are out there doing their jobs to trash Trump as every chance. WAPO, are we better off now than we were a year ago???
For my fellow sociopaths.
More brilliant insights from Howard.
'It's a watch for the elite.'
I wear a Rolex and so does my wife.
We're not 'elite.'
As for Trump, he is way skinnier now so show the skinny Trump.
The best hotel shower I ever had was at a place owned via investment by the pipe fitters union.
It could straighten the curliest hair.
It was glorious.
I might have thinning hair, but I still enjoy a proper shower with a decent amount of water flow. I generally don’t take long showers, a legacy of my time in the military, so I suspect that even with a properly flowing showerhead I would use far less water than most other folks. But while I am in the air, I want a robust flow of very hot water scrubbing me down and relaxing my muscles.
Lucien: your post reminds me of those photos that Instapundit frequently runs, with Stalin and another guy walking side by side along a river, and then in the second photo, Stalin walking alone.
Since the Left is getting increasingly Stalinistic, they should approve. Jen Psaki could be in the photo, as one of Stalin's entourage. She could wear her fur Commie hat.
Liberalism is a disease. Glad I don’t have it. I can see things as they are, not as some diseased person demands that I pretend to see them. The top rated commenter in the Wapo article is infected and should be socially isolated so that he/she does not learn that Trump is elected president again in 2024. It would be a fatal overdose for this poor person. Instead, give him/her littler red pills throughout the day, increasing the dosage until he/she can tolerate reality. His/her shower head should flow unrestricted.
The shower flow issue was what made me a Trump Voter.
It was incredibly refreshing to have a candidate with common sense.
Seventeen uses of "Trump" in an article about shower heads.
Shorter Howard…
“Sometimes life can seem like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants.”
Howard said...
I love how so-called conservatives believed in profligate liberalism in the consumption of natural resources. Your impulse to waste in service of comfort, pleasure and vanity is virtue signaling.
Howard wants everyone to know he thinks he is smarter than everyone else and you should all feel bad for disagreeing with him.
It is especially important to Howard that you know he thinks he is smarter than you.
Probably has something to do with the complete failure of his political tribe by every objective measure and wanting to avoid any possible self awareness.
Joe Smith said...
As for Trump, he is way skinnier now so show the skinny Trump.
Is he now?
Interesting.
Every shower head I have bought in the last 30 years had a piece of metal that could be pulled out with a pliers to return the function to the normal of my childhood and youth. One of them had instructions that said you should not pull it out.
"Trump's quest for more powerful shower heads is over."
So, Trump is the good guy, and the Democrats are he bad guys.
I wonder what % of the "women's vote" will switch to Trump over this?
Howard said...
I love how so-called conservatives believed in profligate liberalism in the consumption of natural resources. Your impulse to waste in service of comfort, pleasure and vanity is virtue signaling.
You are such a moron
1: "consumption of natural resources". News flash: not all of America is California. The rest of us don't suffer from "water shortages"
2: "Your impulse to waste in service of comfort, pleasure and vanity is" how people enjoy their lives.
Fuck off, Howie
Trump was right on this. And dishwashers! We're off to Orlando on 28th (if Border Control let us in, because of Omicron, even though we're all double jabbed and boosted. If they don't then what will have been the point of all the jabs if we can't try to lead a normal life. But I digress)and the last time we were in Disney the dishwashers took ages to do a not very good job.
Ah Trump--a boogeyman for the Left living rent free in their nightmares.
I retain a 35 year old brass showerhead from Canada that could qualify for use on that Seinfeld episode about contraband Canadian showerheads. I have kept it through 6 house moves so far, and will do so as long as I live. Flow & power adjustable and apparently will last forever.
The only better shower I've ever experienced was in a college locker room, where a 1" diameter pipe had the showerhead removed. It fired a solid stream of 60-80 psi at about 10 gallons per minute with infinite hot water - a water massage made in heaven!
I once told a friend about it and her extreme interest surprised me. I put 2 and 2 together finally when, much later, a campus maintenance guy told me about all the replacement tub fixtures he installed every fall in the women's dorms, as tub outlets broke again and again there. College was a learning experience for me.
Howard: "I love how so-called conservatives believed in profligate liberalism in the consumption of natural resources."
Run of the mill pedestrian leftists, like Howard, routinely misuse and misunderstand the meaning of words, terms and definitions, but, given their leftism, insist upon tossing out word salads that don't make the point they think they want to make.
Dunning Kruger ever on display.
Tell 100 people that their newly-powerful shower heads are going away again; 10 will tell you "oh goody we're saving the planet" and the other 90 will say "F**K."
Bring up dishwashers and the ratio moves to 95/5.
I do not begrudge you your thick, golden locks, and the functional shower head to cleanse and refresh them.
Howard said...
I love how so-called conservatives believed in profligate liberalism in the consumption of natural resources. Your impulse to waste in service of comfort, pleasure and vanity is virtue signaling.
"Peak Oil" is so 70s, Howard. Time to come out of your doze and smell the oil.
Re: Thin Trump...
'Is he now?
Interesting.'
Here you go...
I hot one of those rainhead showers in my new home. The designer ladies said with a straight face all the men like the rainhead shower and all the women like the handheld shower with multiple spray options.
Touched a lot of nerves. Another Bullseye 🎯
"I buy my watches to keep time. I have read that Rolexes do that poorly."
My Rolex keeps perfect time, probably seconds per year. In 2009 I thought that all the brokers would have to sell their Rolexes so I looked online for used ones, Found an Oyster Quartz, the only quartz oscillator Rolex made, in the late 70's and it looks good and keeps good time and was not too expensive used, It has a fair amount of gold and the sapphire bezel cover that you can scratch only with a diamond, works for me, but I often wear my apple watch.
A case of Biden pissing on your head and telling you it's rain.
At least shower heads can be easily altered to give extra flow. My new washing machine can't be so easily "repaired". It uses about a third less water than the old one, so they call it more efficient.
But it operates twice as long, and the extra electricity it uses costs far more than the gallon or two of water it saves.
The fact that US presidents are enacting and reversing rules on how we bathe is depressing. Does federalism exist at all anymore?
Apparently Howard the Fool wears dirty clothes and eats off unclean dishes.
I already knew that he stinks.
"I buy my watches to keep time. I have read that Rolexes do that poorly."
To add...I've forgotten more about watches than any of you will ever know.
They are a great watch at retail. Incredibly well-engineered and bullet-proof for the most part.
Will last you a lifetime with reasonable care.
In a previous house, I had a new shower installed with two shower heads, hoping for good flow in both. Not so. I took the heads apart to see if I could remove any restrictor components in them. I learned that the restrictors were located in the control valves, behind the tile, inside the wall. More than I could fix. Now, I have a house on a well system with a pressure tank that gives much higher pressure than city water, and a walk-in shower with a hand-held nozzle with a high pressure setting controlled by a thumb lever. Much better.
Howard: "Touched a lot of nerves. Another Bullseye 🎯"
The World According To Howard
1) Howard writes something stupid
2) People notice Howard wrote something stupid
3) ????
4) Profits!
Michael K: "Peak Oil" is so 70s, Howard. Time to come out of your doze and smell the oil."
No way!
For ChiCom ally Howard, it will forever be the 70's!
“I buy my watches to keep time. I have read that Rolexes do that poorly.”
Partner has a very pretty gold Rolex with a diamond crystal, or some such. Tells people she doesn’t know that it is fake. It isn’t. But she can’t really tell time with it. You can barely read it through the stupid diamonds, and while she was blind-ish for maybe a decade, she got out of practice. She uses her cell phone, when she has it, or the microwave, or asks me. Often up stairs, through the door, yelling, then gets upset when I raise my voice to respond. I will even get calls from her asking me what time it is. I gave up long ago asking why she didn’t check the very expensive Rolex on her wrist, but calling me for the time is sometimes too much, since she had to use the phone to call me.
She gave me a Movado watch a decade and a half ago. The ones with just a single dot, so telling exact time is impossible. She had given her ex fiancé a Rolex, so I felt a bit miffed. She made the point that it actually looked more professional for an attorney. Then two years ago, I bought an Apple watch. Theoretically I hate the Apple Watch, but wonder now how I lived without it. So for a year, I wore it instead of the Movado. But then she wanted to give that watch away (likely to her son), I balked, then realized I had a better use for it - for my right (dominant) wrist, for when my Apple Watch was on the charger. Every once in awhile, I am asked about why am I wearing two watches, one on each wrist, and I have to explain. So far, the reception to my response has been good. Of course, a patent attorney is going to back up his smart watch with a regular one - no different than having my computer and security systems on UPSes. It’s a profession that combines the worst traits of two different, very paranoid, professions.
“Likewise I want to buy washing machines and dishwashers and, yes, shower heads that use enough water to get things clean — clothes, dishes, and hair. I am not the only person who feels that the Democrats, in thrall to self-described environmentalists, don’t get that. Part of the neverending culture war is environment-geeks proposing new rules that make less and less real-world sense relative to the environment but are more and more annoying to real people who are just trying to make a living and raise good kids. And wear clean clothes and eat off clean dishes and have clean hair. That turned out to be too much to ask of the Obama administration and too much to ask of the Biden administration, too, I guess.”
For me, it is dishwashers ahead of shower heads. I was looking to replace the band new dishwasher in my 2 year old house, but then FJB was elected, and I am stuck my modern 4 hour dishwasher. Not that upset at the shower heads, because we do live with 4 million others in the middle of a desert (interestingly - we have to carry flood insurance here). But then, we are about a half mile north of the Hayden-Rhodes Central Arizona Aqueduct, which means that our excess water ends up providing water for those poor souls down in Tucson. (It’s nice having the same last name as the viaduct, as well as one of the main roads through Scottsdale - last year when I was asked to spell it, was able to point out the window at the street sign). So, maybe I will try to replace the shower heads with higher flow ones anyway. We may actually have more water than we need, after CA a couple years ago having to cut back because they were using more than their legal share of the CO River. Another reason for the unrestricted flow shower heads.
In most areas of the country low flow shower heads, 1.6 gallon toilets, faucets limited to 2.5 gpm, etc, are a false economy. Most of the country does not suffer chronic water shortage.
As PJ O'Rourke pointed out, doesn't all water get recycled anyway, if temporarily in yucky form?
Howard said...
Touched a lot of nerves. Another Bullseye 🎯
Who knew being a stupid fascist twat with the goals of a 3rd grader would upset so many people.
Have a friend from long-ago college ages. He moved to the Olympic Rain Forest. When I visited he told me how "proud" he was that his toilet and shower head were "saving" some of the 100+ inches of rain he experienced every year.
Let's go Brandon.
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