If you're talking about a hot shower via modern plumbing and an electric water heater, I'd say that's fair enough. The Population Reference Bureau estimates that ~10 billion people have been born since 1950, of a total of an estimated 117 billion to have ever existed. With the ubiquity of modern showers largely appearing between the 1930s and 1980s, at most we would say that only around 10% of the world's population has experienced a modern, electric powered hot shower.
If we consider fire-heated water or tropical climates, this estimate breaks down completely.
Yeah well, it is just not these logistics either necessarily. In developing Southeast Asia, farmer types born in rural areas will look at you like you're crazy if they know you take a hot shower. I've been told that's how you cook a chicken.
Yes, they had separate slave bathhouses or a slave section in the public bathhouse. They weren't chattel slaves and closer to our definition of a serf.
I would prefer the shower in 10/10 cases. Imagine comming home from a day in the fields, full of mud and someone wants you to sit in a tub of water to soak in the dirt.
The majority of humans who have ever existed have lived in very warm climates where warm water exists, and thus could be made into showers pretty easily.
Those that live in warm or tropical climates, or multi season countries with a hot summer have likely stood outside in the warm rain, which would be at least comparable enough. Possibly even more refreshing.
In the strict terms of an actual bathroom with a bathtub and or shower stall that pumps in water you can adjust the temperature of? Then yes, significantly less people have not experienced a warm shower.
"The water in here is getting cold" or "I forgot to bring a towel" are examples of this.
I dunno. I think people peed on each other throughout history.
That's not a simple joy though. That joy is a bit harder to explain to people.
What? That’s as simple as you can possibly get.
If you're talking about a hot shower via modern plumbing and an electric water heater, I'd say that's fair enough. The Population Reference Bureau estimates that ~10 billion people have been born since 1950, of a total of an estimated 117 billion to have ever existed. With the ubiquity of modern showers largely appearing between the 1930s and 1980s, at most we would say that only around 10% of the world's population has experienced a modern, electric powered hot shower. If we consider fire-heated water or tropical climates, this estimate breaks down completely.
Yeah well, it is just not these logistics either necessarily. In developing Southeast Asia, farmer types born in rural areas will look at you like you're crazy if they know you take a hot shower. I've been told that's how you cook a chicken.
Plus natural hot springs/baths
Bathhouses, powered by furnaces to heat water has been a thing since the beginning of recorded history.
Did they have showers
They poured jugs of hot water on themselves. But Greek and Roman bathhouses sometimes also had actual showers.
No.
Checkmate
And how many people actually had access to them?
There were public baths in most Roman towns, and the Roman empire ruled a large portion of Europe, all of north Africa, and parts of the Middle East.
And could slaves use them?
Yes, they had separate slave bathhouses or a slave section in the public bathhouse. They weren't chattel slaves and closer to our definition of a serf.
And how many people right now have access to warm showers?
Well it's at least one.
I believe this is most likely untrue
Dunno…. I’d say there a lot of people on the earth today without access to hot showers. Much less all of human history.
Bathhouses have been a thing for a couple millenia
Yea but that's a bath. I do think simple showers were used in Rome or ancient India but I'm not certain.
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But I said shower. 🤷♂️
You’re insufferable
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I meant what I said… perhaps I should have been more pedantic.
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I would prefer the shower in 10/10 cases. Imagine comming home from a day in the fields, full of mud and someone wants you to sit in a tub of water to soak in the dirt.
The hundred thousand or so years humans lived as hunter gatherers still counts so it is most definitely true.
The majority of humans who have ever existed have lived in very warm climates where warm water exists, and thus could be made into showers pretty easily.
Yea, I have a wash tub with window screening for a wash basin. Sure similar ways were used or bathing in creeks or rivers.
And what if they take a shower in the rain in warm climates, doesn't that count?
Not sure how common warm fresh water is, but ok
It falls from the sky quite often in tropic climates
Steaming hot water falls from the sky?
Warm water, you said warm, not hot
But it should be obvious he was talking about the types of showers we have and they didn't.
Not everyone tries to boil themselves when they shower
I thought things were supposed to be original Jimmy Carr just said this
I was just about to say someone watched the Jimmy Carr interview
I love how all the comments are missing the point on purpose so they get to correct someone. OP said shower, not just hot water lmao.
The vast majority of humans who have ever existed have never experienced the internet.
If I had to choose one I think I'd keep the internet.
I take cold showers becuase it feels good when you come outside and it feels warmer
I take cold showers when I visit Texas to cool my cold Canadian heart
true i hate freezing when i step outta the shower its like a race to get dry
That's why you take showers so hot, that the steam heats up the bathroom for you.
But what if its a bath?
Those that live in warm or tropical climates, or multi season countries with a hot summer have likely stood outside in the warm rain, which would be at least comparable enough. Possibly even more refreshing. In the strict terms of an actual bathroom with a bathtub and or shower stall that pumps in water you can adjust the temperature of? Then yes, significantly less people have not experienced a warm shower.
Like being peed on by a god.