That reminds me of the story a friend told me of when he was in Peru. There in-line water heaters are common, I think they look like this:
To get the water hotter, you had to turn the flow down. That looks so dangerous to me.
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SeraRelm
And I'm out!
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Have fun storming the castle.
Note to self: figure out how to make storming the castle into a sexual euphemism.
huh. I was going to post a picture of what the showers in Beijing looked like when I was there, but apparently I never took one. Thought I did.
So I went to google, and first of all "Chinese shower" yielded me no results along the line of what I encountered while there.
But more shockingly, a google image search for "Chinese shower", with safe search off, actually brought up no porn. The internet finds new ways to surprise me.
Anyway the bathrooms there just had a drain in the middle of the floor next to the toilet, and a showerhead hanging over it. The whole bathroom is essentially the shower. I'm sure mr_thehun and Terrik know.
Having the whole bathroom as a shower's efficient - you clean your floor pretty much every day that way.
In-line water heaters were all over in Kenia and Tanzania too - they suck ass.
And American showers with their shower heads fixed to the wall, I will never understand. Women, rise up and claim the right to a shower head on a line! Men too, it can be easy sometimes.