r/DoesAnybodyElse • u/mcveighsnotdead • 1d ago

DAE pee in the shower?

I’m talking no pushing. Just relaxing your muscles and let gravity do the rest!!! Amazing!!!

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u/Kwaliakwa 1d ago

Skin is acidic and urine can be completely neutral. Diluted urine doesn’t penetrate any more than the products you use for washing your body and hair.

Have you never seen a porcelain toilet eroded from hard water? That is from the water, not the urine.

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u/Colonol-Panic 1d ago

I could be wrong but I don’t think dead skin is anywhere near as acidic as urine. Moreover, not all the urine is diluted as it inevitably splashes. I’ll give you credit though, soaps and product make the situation even more fraught for urine to ruin a shower.

Yes, hard water erodes porcelain, but hard water will erode any material over time. However, some surfaces are much more reactive to uric acid than hard water.

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u/Kwaliakwa 1d ago

Yes, you are wrong.

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u/Colonol-Panic 1d ago

I am not. I just looked it up at it seems skin usually has a Ph of 4.7-5.7 and urine can range from 4.6-8.

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u/Kwaliakwa 1d ago

So you are wrong, because skin is as acidic as urine a it’s most acidic. And most people’s urine is at least a ph of 6.

Also we still must consider dilution, in the shower there’s a ton more water than urine flowing at any given time.

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u/Colonol-Panic 1d ago

Regardless, you’re dumping magnitudes more volume of urine than skin or dirt in the shower.