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Ken WhiteMy kids find it hard to imagine how we used to suffer through showers without some total fuckwit on YouTube turned up full volume on your laptop on the counter
syn@Popehat on a related note how did you fall asleep without a podcast playing in the background? #askingforafriend
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Bob Blaskiewicz ๐บ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฑYeah, but for us it was popular music on the boombox. And if it was radio, c'mon, DJs were our fuckwits.
Crimson Oracle@rjblaskiewicz @Popehat they even made shower radios
I have a scar from a shower radio on my thumb. When you're clumsy like me, everything is a jart.
regphunt@Popehat Sorry but back in the 60's and 70's I used to like to fall asleep to the radio, and play records while cleaning. People are just people old man.
DeelightFull@Popehat I remember the shower radios. I think I owned one for a short time.
British Tech Guru@DeelightFull2022 @Popehat showers? When I grew up it was a weekly bath!
River Brandon@Popehat No phone in the shower? I listen to podcasts in the shower.
Moth@Popehat "total fuckwit" Typically when I head from the office to the kitchen to grab lunch, my daughter has this same person playing on her phone while she's preparing her lunch. :D
wittgenstein over here@Popehat Sure, but let he among us who can now poop without a phone cast the first stone
Caryhart@Popehat Wait til you are really old. This very senior child goes to sleep, cooks, cleans and showers with pods, and preserves the quiet for the remainder of the day. My time is precious
Jonathan HendryNever been a shower listener to anything. May have tried it once and realized the volume had to be cranked up obnoxiously high.
D C Ross@Popehat
Total Fuckwit was the morning guy on the local Top 40 station. Good to hear that he's still finding work now.
Total Fuckwit was the morning guy on the local Top 40 station. Good to hear that he's still finding work now.
Henry Roe@Popehat and are probably willing to spend an hour fiddling with updating the laptop to get it to play just for a 5 minute shower. (Neither confirming nor denying something very similar happened in our household recently)
@Popehat I've never listened to anything in the shower. Doesn't the shower drown out their voice?
ShinigamiDad ๆญป@Popehat I head to bed wondering how the oldest stepkid can sleep with two overlapping audio streams running all night at 80% max volume...
Josh (he/his)@Popehat 104.3 classic rock radio.
Steven Molnar@Popehat Is it universal that they go through a stage where they are almost impossible to get into the shower, but, once in, almost impossible to get back out again? I don't remember doing that, but I'm an old geezer.
SloanLA@Popehat It was the dark ages. Having a light bulb on burned $$$!
Paul@Popehat I finally managed to convince my daughter to only user her phone and not the laptop
CliffOh, but if they were listening to Yale lectures, that would be fine?
Vorsos@klfjoat โA professional speech imparting actionable information is no better than an incel shouting reactions to twenty different Oreo flavors.โ
Alan Miller 
๐บ๐ฆ@Popehat for a time it was music, then WGN in Chicago before management changes led to on air changes, then NPR, now podcasts (often from NPR) on a phone that the manufacturer says is water resistant to several meters though it's on a wire shelf well out of water range.
@Popehat google speaker in the bathroom on high playing the best all-jazz station in North America -JazzFM91
I'm 66
I'm 66
Coyoty@Popehat In my day, we had to sing in the shower ourselves. And no one liked it!
Adam Hartzell@Popehat Shoutout to my fellow GenXers who had shower radios for the same avoidance of boredom
@Popehat Showers radios where a thing decades ago although I don't really find it necessary to listen to anything.
Taubin@Popehat Imagine if they had to look something up in an encyclopedia instead of online, their heads would really explode lol
Regular Human Bartender@Popehat the sound of my own thoughts, echoing off tile between the patter of the water? That way lies madness
Stephen Perdue@Popehat I mean, I use a waterproof speaker to listen to Serious Trouble pretty regularly. (And Iโm the same age as you.)
KenBallweg@Popehat the cringe I immediately had at the idea of listening to YouTube on their laptop while taking a shower, isn't the "Fuckwit" part as much as it's knowing the moisture condensing on the screen will run to the bottom edge, pool then wick up between the layers of the screen leaving an unremovable water mark or worse.
sidb@Popehat AirPods Pro are water resistant and noise canceling. The only problem is when you have to wash your face or hairโฆ but otherwise, they make podcasts in the shower quite tenable.
Justin@Popehat it's funny you say that, because the reason I got waterproof Bluetooth speakers was to listen to my favorite copyright attorney.
Steve Torrente@Popehat We didn't have ground fault interrupters and we didn't need 'em.
Teeks ๐ดโถ@Popehat We had a few limewire tracks we'd spent the last 4 nights downloading, only to be (at best) rick rolled; at worst... well.
Anyway, "BACK IN MY DAY".
@Popehat I donโt know why watching YouTube in the shower surprises me. I know people who put their phones inna plastic bag and take it in with them
@Popehat And how did we survive before computers and mobile phones? I remember when nobody had either.
pulleman@Popehat o jeez. Spot on for my kids. On volume, fuckwits and showering.
Secrecy Envelope@Popehat Those were the days
ืืกื ืฆืจื ืืง Asa Zernik@Popehat get yourself a UE Roll already you barbarians
@Popehat I feel seen.
@Popehat Back in my day, we just hired a domestic servant to play and sing. Beethoven was particularly good, but he would just play whatever struck his fancy, pretending like he couldn't hear us.
Henry Robert
Chris WilliamsSeriously, that's what podcasts are for!