Saving water with Guns’N'Roses
December 14th, 2007
Here in Queensland Australia we are currently in Level 6 water restrictions thanks to the drought. What does level 6 mean? I’m pretty certain you’re not allowed to say the word ‘water’ anymore except under the bed after midnight.
One thing that has come down from the ‘powers that be’ (the same people I may add as a side note that are charged with managing our resources effectively in the first place) is that they had the very good idea that spending two million dollars on sending little hour glasses out in the mail to every household would encourage people to stick to the suggested ‘four minute shower’. Yes that’s right people in a country as advanced as Australia we are dealing with an ecological disaster by not cleaning ourselves for longer than four minutes and egg timers.
Actually the timers themselves have caused all sorts of headaches because whilst they are supposed to be four minute timers they tend to vary from 1 minute to 10 minutes. I feel bad for those people who got the 1 minute timers!!
Here at QYDJ though I am on the case and have a simpler solution for everyone wishing to keep under the magic four minute mark in the shower.
The following songs from Guns’N'Roses iconic album Appetite for Destruction are all under 4 minutes long. So if you were to jump in the shower with one of these tunes on in the background as long as you got out just after it finishes then you will be saving so much water that Al Gore will I expect personally want to thank you!
- It’s So Easy (3.21)
- Mr. Brownstone (3.46)
- My Michelle (3.39)
- Think About You (3.50)
- You’re Crazy (3.15)
- Anything Goes (3.25)
The added bonus is that instead of just getting into the shower and standing there, your cleaning levels will sky rocket as you rock out.
Now if only they would bring out the Guitar Hero waterproof edition.
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Good thing “November Rain” isn’t on that album :-p
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I think I read this idea somewhere before (different music though) but it’s still brilliant. But 4 minutes makes you want to soap in, before using a drop of water. I guess it means a partly cold shower too. And there are we (Dutch people) , complaining about the rain…
@ Handwritten post (my previous comment seems to have disappeared on me..)
: All non-Dutch tv-series/movies are subtitled except for some children’s shows. So whether it’s Lost or any Starwars movie..it’s got subtitling. Next to that..we kinda adopt almost everything sounding English (because of course it sounds way cooler than Dutch..).
As to importance in school: obligatory from the age of 12/13 (middleschool/highschool - for at least medium difficulty scholing or up). So I don’t need babelfish to translate texts for me (I don’t download subtitling for English tv-series/movies..why bother).
I don’t think I speak it fluently, because I will probably have a stupid accent and might search for a word when things get difficult but I’ll manage.
No one can really go without English (internet, books, machines etc) anymore, but I’ve learned that the influence of French in the 19th century was stronger than that of English is now, so we’ll see where we end up
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@ songs: or ‘I’m only happy when it rains’
or: ‘Why does it always rain on me’
or: ‘Raindrops keep falling on my head’
*could go on for hours* haha..sorry.
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Hiya and thanks for leaving a comment..
wow egg timers *sigh* I am actually lost for words…. Egg timers? 2 million bucks?
We are on tank water so we have water restrictions all the time.. hehehe
cheers Kim
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Ian - It’s a shame but Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child O Mine both miss out - perhaps if you only showered every second day?
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Arjan - odd about the comment disappearing if it happens again let me know (hate to think that I’m silencing anyone here!!! ) English sounds cooler than Dutch - really? I thought French was still quite strong today too.
It’s just interesting is all.
I know schools here have started a lot more of the asian pacific region languages in schools so that we can deal with our neighbours a little easier.
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Oh and Arjan those songs better be less than four minutes or I’m sending the the Queensland water shock troopers after you (bragging about your rain indeed!!)
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Hey there Kim! You a very welcome I am super jealous of your view from ‘the office’.
Yeah the egg timers are blue too which is very ‘water’ like. The funny thing is though I wonder how much water is used in the production of them?
I guess you guys down there probably don’t have to worry too much about water restrictions considering the tanks but do you get enough rain to keep you topped up all year?
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hehehe Yeah Lee the view is pretty ordinary..
mmm would have been even more worrisome if they came with fridge magnets…
rain? whats that?
cheers kim…
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Gee,
We have to deal with a different kind of problem in Montreal. I spend every other morning digging my car out of the 30cm of snow that accumulated overnight. Great workout, but a complete waste of time. Now, if we can figure out a way to cannoball those snow to Australia, we’d kill two birds with one stone.
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Causalien - just like you Canadians to hog all the water in frozen format just so your country can look all picturesque and cool (LOL quite literally)!!!
I’m not sure if I could deal with that much ice actually as I’ve never lived in a climate that allows it. I think it would hurt my brain to try and take it all in!!
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