Hot Tubs

[mikey4444]

In an effort to calm everybody down, I would like to introduce a light-hearted new topic. Hope it works !

I have just seen an article in the Guardian that claims that 1 in 10 houses in the UK have a hot tub, rising to 1 in 5 in the West Midlands. This is according to a new survey, although they are not saying who commissioned the survey, who carried it out, and where the survey was done. But I expect it was somebody heavily involved in household plumbing.

1 in 10 sounds highly improbable but 1 in 5 sounds impossible !

Is there anybody on AB, living in a tower block anywhere in Britain, but especially the West Midlands who can have a quick look out their windows and give us some feedback please ?

Personally I stopped bathing with other people when I was 10 and my next down brother was 5, and have no great desire to start again.

[MadMen]

^^ chav ;)

(joke)

[jd_1984]

Well, is isnt bathing in the traditonal sense is it?
It is "Hydrotherapy", relaxing and from my experience a nice method of unwinding, sometimes alone and sometimes with some drinks and friends. Not dirty at all, do people not use spa's or jacquzzi at the gym?

[mikey4444]

These bloody hot tubs may indeed be tacky and chavtastic ( thanks for a wonderful new word by the way madmen ! )

They kind of fall in with gnomes, statues made of fibreglass, and little mini Stonehenges that I am seeming more of these days. Not sure Gertrude Jekyll would have approved of hot tubs although she would probably have stuck a few palms in to them.

But come on West Midland ABers.....get your binoculars out. We are all waiting with baited breath. Where ARE all these tubs !

[jd_1984]

There was a running joke that my parents were swingers and that explained the sudden need to purchase a 10 person hot tub!!!

[giveup]

I would worry someone had wee'd in it.

[mikey4444]

Mamyalynne...I would hate to see your electric bill.

[MadMen]

It's definitely not dirty, that's what the chemicals are for.
I wouldn't think twice about using one on a weekend away, but I would never chose to have one in my back garden.

[MadMen]

Haha. Tt's the one word that best describes them, Mikey :-)

Is anyone going to admit to living in the West Midlands? ;)

[mikey4444]

giveup...this is the reason that I am somewhat reluctant to use public swimming baths, despite my Diabetes Nurse urging me to do so for exercise, which she says I urgently need. ( that's rich coming from her, who could play Hattie Jacques, in a remake of Carry On Nurse )

When I was a little boy, I used to use the outdoor Lido at Minehead all summer long, and I weed in it very day. And all my mates did as well, and I don't suppose little boys have changed dramatically in the last 50 years.

[giveup]

I think we've all done it in our time,but we always swam in the sea when we were kids. Mind you in those days the sewer outlet wasn't far from shore and its surprising what we swam with sometimes.

[MadMen]

Lol :D
That just reminded me of when I had to take my daughter (as a baby) to see a dietician. I could not believe it when this huge woman started telling us what you should and shouldn't eat. She was obviously well aware of what was going through my mind, as she said "do as I say, and not as I do".

I think you'll be fine going swimming, Mikey. The amount of chlorine they put in there is enough to kill anything off!

[EDDIE51]

I don't personally know anyone at all with a Hot tub, there are over 300 houses on our estate and there may be 3 or 4 out of that.
Definately a massive overestimate.

[dave50]

I do think it has become a bit tasteless to have a hot tub now. Why would you want to sit in one anyway with a load of your friends and neighbours half naked? All sound a bit dodgy to me. Couldn't think of anything worse.

[MadMen]

Someone invited me to a 'hot tub bbq' last summer, someone I hardly knew. I politely declined.

[Sharingan]

My father has one and he lives in the West Midlands ( well Worcestershire) Madmen. Does your ex lack taste then?

[Gromit]

I expect AOG is celebrating St Georges Day now by getting all wrinkley in his tub.

He is water metered so he may even add some water later.

[MadMen]

Oops, sorry. Didn't mean to offend anyone that does actually live in the West Midlands...

[Sharingan]

No worries Madmen, he wouldn't be offended he'd think it was funny :)

[Jubz]

I haven't got one nor do I know of anyone who has. It not something that would fill me with delight having to get into a hot tub with a bunch of other people.

[MadMen]

Oh to be so easily amused....