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When you're less mobile, the shower can be a dangerous
place. Slip over, and you're a fragile being, falling in a room
full of hard things.
For those who are mobile, but frail, how about a shower
harness? It could take the form of a couple of straps to be
worn around the shoulders and upper
arms, tethered to a
carabiner which would itself be free to slide along a clothes
rail-type affair on the ceiling. One could put the harness on,
walk into the shower, wash, and then take it off. It wouldn't
stop you slipping, but would stop you banging your head /
breaking your hip on the way down.
bar in the shower
https://imgur.com/gallery/75Kw1
[theircompetitor, Nov 19 2019]
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Great idea but somebody has to have thought of this. |
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Although I'm guessing a chair in the shower like they
now use is probably a lot better approach. |
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A chair and a backup harness might be something. |
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A simple noose is more likely to endear itself to potential beneficiaries of the user ... |
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<obligatory> you should have a bar in the shower link</> |
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Can you attach a plough to the harness for digging up the spuds? |
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This is actually not such a bad idea. I'd suggest that the
harness have an inertia-reel mechanism so that you can still
move freely but, if you fall, it will stop you before you've
fallen very far (thereby avoiding a dislocated shoulder). |
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Sounds complicated, expensive, and difficult to make waterproof ... |
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I'm sure a waterproof inertia reel system can be made. |
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I applaud the idea, and any idea that takes our more frail
population to heart. |
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Does that mean we can finally GM them? |
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If you mean your scheme to splice firefly genes into your above-stairs staff so you can save on light bulbs, no. |
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Fair enough, it worked better than we though it would, indeed startlingly so; but Sturton's emphatic insistence that the female staff should disrobe "to improve the lighting" was in very poor taste and quite unconvincing. |
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Besides, what he saved on the lighting was more than offset by the increased heating costs. |
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