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I normally don't play grammar and punctuation cop, Mightyqueen801, but if you're going to wag your finger, you might want to check it first to see if it's clean.
The comma in this sentence doesn't belong there. Here's why:
By the way, I get a kick out of the funny thread in the writing forum where some of you vent your frustrations -- but probably not for the same reasons you do.
Be sure to see my post there explaining that both Merriam Webster and the Oxford dictionary (among most others) have extended the definition of the word "literally" to include just the sort of use that you're here complaining about. YW.
I think I did read that, but I don't have to accept it. Then again, I'm still not accepting the use of "loan" for "lend", and I'm pretty sure I lost that battle about 25 years ago!
I'll look at the comma link. I appreciate corrections.
I can wash my hair, rinse and wring water out, apply a conditioning mask (requires minimum of 3 minutes), shave my legs, soap up, rinse *everything*, and then do my face scrub.
But what about that time-warp thing that happens in the shower? I've emerged from the shower feeling as though I was in there ten minutes and am shocked to discover that twenty minutes have passed.
When I take showers, I can exfoliate my entire body, make a special organic body scrub with only the most environmentally friendly ingredients (yes, I do this IN the shower), deep condition my hair (18 inches long!), remove each microbacteria individually, and shave each hair one by one (as to prevent razor burn) all in under 5 minutes. Really, it should NOT take you 10 minutes in the shower.
I would like to know more about that. Do you mean "literally" right back on to the ground? That's a problem because then you are putting chemicals (soap, shampoo) onto the ground. That upsets the ecosystem.
If it goes into a septic system, you should be mindful of overuse. That can cause the system to fail and you end up with a mess either in your house, yard, or both.
If it goes to the sewer like most people, it has to be treated then discharged back to, probably a river. Eventually it becomes drinking water, but not without a lot of treatment including addition of chemicals.
Any way you look at it, it is used water and needs to be treated before it can be used again.
It gets recycled. I don't know the process off the top of my head, but it does involve rivers, because we are surrounded by them; it's not a septic system. We have so much water here in Moldy Basementville, I wish some of you could take it. Unfortunately, it's no more accessible to drought areas in the USA than the ham and cheese sandwich my brother didn't want to eat was to the starving orphans in ________ was when I was a child. Actually, when I was a child, I used to imagine a system of pneumatic tubes through which we could send my brother's unwanted food to _______. I wasn't a particularly fussy eater, so I only heard about the starving orphans in _______ in reference to his eating habits. My brother, though, he had maybe 12 foods he'd eat.
I have no idea how long I take in the shower. I don't turn the water on and off. I shave in the shower, so it might be longer than 10 minutes. But I save on shaving cream, both personally and environmental impact-wise.
Personally i prefer to soak in a bath for an hour but todays baths if you have one at all arent really conducive to a comfortable bath and are at best catch basins for the shower.
You think they spend only 7 minutes in there? I think they CAMP in there.
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