Shower Design
      I am curious as to why we shower standing up and why there are cultural differences between shower designs.  I haven't been able to find any answers as to why we tend to shower standing up.  I guess it's just a practicality thing. Although, I did find that a German designer has come up with a Horizontal Shower, although I'm not sure how practical this is.
Showers are a fundamental fact of life for some civilized people. The first showers are thought to exist during the Chaldean empire. In most third world countries, people still use buckets and ladles for bathing instead of showers. Some cultural differences I have come across on my travels have been in France and Italy. France tended to have hand-held shower attachments (very frustrating when you want to wash your hair) and also why would the French not put curtains on their showers? Is it because they don’t use them? Or because they learnt to take showers without flooding the entire bathroom, or because they like to make fun of guests? Every time I've taken a shower in France, I end up cleaning the floor.
And how about Italian showers with their safety cord. It’s typically a white string that extends all the way to the ground. I'm sure there are 100 more false alarms than real emergencies, rendering this contraption basically useless.
For me there are really only three major things that make a good shower: 1) a good temperature control, 2) an even stream of water, and 3) the ability to screen the shower so water does not splash over the entire room.
