shower in the morning, shower in the evening

Morning. What's the point of showering before you go to sleep?

evening. mornings are for sleeping as much as possible.

evening, for two reasons. 1) i can't wake up on time, ever, and 2) my hair is super poofy for the 12-18 hours after i shower, so if i do it in the morning i look like donny osmond for the rest of the day.

I bike to work. If I don't shower, there's gonna be trouble. Sweaty, sweaty trouble.

...shower at suppertime...

morning logic: be fresh for the day
evening logic: don't make your bed dirty, more sleeping time

people who shower two or more times a day, this thread is not for you

need to shower in the morning to wake up

^ this

in summer i often shower at night too tho

every morning. some evenings, if i'm going out or whatever.

I shower in the evening because I have to apply lotion afterwards due to my generally dry skin, and I need at least half an hour for the feeling of greasiness to dissipate so I can put on clothes

started showering at work, 1. because the shower at home breaks the trade descriptions act. 2. because i cycle to work.

Morning. I always feel a little grody when I wake up plus whether or not I wash it, I need to wet my hair to keep it from being ridiculous.

Morning, but not first thing. After coffee and the standard morning internetting, but before I get started with the workday. Couple of times a week, not every day.

need to shower in the morning to wake up

― just sayin, Monday, August 13, 2012 10:26 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ this

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, August 13, 2012 10:27 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Every day. I just feel half asleep otherwise.

My co-worker won't sleep without showering so she doesn't get her bed dirty. That's v odd to me.

shower at suppertime. when you have pizza on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime.

morning, i feel kinda gross and unfit for public consumption until i've showered

well i say "morning" but as a freelancer this often means 5pm, when i get dressed

though today i was very good, i was showered and dressed by 1pm!

xxp Tell her her bed is full of pillow mites and other beasties, and all the showering in the world won't make them go away.

http://www.bachmanssparrow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/dust-mite.jpg

I understand not wanting to climb into bed after you got really dirty that day and that requires a shower, but mornings feel weird without showering for me.

Also, people who think their bed is some sort of pure clean place, do they never sweat in their sleep or have sex or anything?

When I get home from work. So 10am ish. Technically morning but kinda evening. Never just before I go to work. Sleep is more important and I can make it from the time my alarm goes off, out of bed, brush teeth, dress, grab bottle of water, out front door in 7 mins, so minimum sleep time is lost.

I used to shower in the morning but I have gotten into the habit of swimming laps after work. So now I shower in the evening.
I am enjoying having the extra time in the morning, truthfully.

Location wildly varying these results, I suspect, along with access to public transport/bike vs car/walking

Showering as soon as I roll out of bed is a distinctly unpleasant experience for me and I avoid it unless I absolutely have to (mornings when I have to teach, basically). Otherwise, shower when I feel like it is more likely than morning or evening.

I guess that's "other."

I feel kinda disgusting if I leave the house without showering. I essentially refuse to do so unless under extreme duress.

You and my mom both -- I have always been really interested in this obsession some people have with "feeling clean" -- it's weird to me!

need to shower in the morning to wake up

― just sayin, Monday, 13 August 2012 15:26 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

showering is one of those morning routine things (also coffee) that i don't want to do because who wants to be awake in the morning. it is a good day if you get out of bed at eight but only notice at like eleven, by which point you have done two hours of work. i like showering late at night, then wearing a hat, then falling asleep, & having neatly packed & buoyant shower hair the next day.

this is the real "are you a hippie" thread isn't it

I prefer baths.

my sinuses are perpetually gross so the steam and water help me feel human

Baths are much more pleasant, I agree. Who wants to get water dumped on their head in the morning? Not me.

I prefer baths.

― emil.y, Monday, 13 August 2012 15:58 (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you think there's a correlation between 'prefer baths' & 'shower in the evening', this would make sense to me because they're about it feeling all relaxing rather than serving some direct function, ie waking up

I haven't had a bath since i was 9 or 10 i don't think.

Luckily for anyone I'm around I have showered in the meantime

Well, I'm unsure about whether I prefer showers in the morning or evening - I prefer 'washing' in general in the evening, but showers strike me as more functional than baths, so their utility is probably greater in the morning.

Also a point to note: I'm a student, so bathing first thing is not necessary, as I spend most of my day alone.

Baths seem gross to me. Sitting in dirty/soapy water, eurgh. If I took a bath, I would want to take a shower to clean up from it afterward.

I love baths but haven't lived in a place with a bathtub that doesn't make me feel Brobdingnagian since I reached my full adult height.

Then again, I don't think I'd take a bath to clean myself but rather to just relax and enjoy soaking in warm water.

The last time I took a bath was in the 90s, at which point I realized just how impractical they are for the purpose intended. Dirt and dead skin all floating around in a swamp of my making.

Showers exclusively since that day (and mostly before that day).

Loads of people take baths for relaxation purposes and then finish off with a quick shower. It can be done.

...shower at suppertime...

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, August 13, 2012 2:26 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm in disbelief that you made an innocent joke that has nothing to do with President Obama.

Showering early in the day is more essential for me when I'm alone than when I go out! It's the signal that my day has begun and that it's time to start doing things.

That is quite a good point, actually.

I know that's true from when I was out of work and had no interviews lined up. It's easy to not even realize what day of the week it is if you don't keep up that shower/get ready in the morning routine.

i do feel really gross. also, haven't worked out how to go about my day without looking like a tramp on holiday who fell into a skip full of old jockstraps. what do people (especially men) do about their hair if they don't shower in the morning? Don't say comb it - that doesn't work.

shower in the morning, i do it in the evening if i've been exercising.

ballcaps xp

That really depends on the hair and how it's kept and what you do to it.

When I first wake up my bed hair looks like David Lynch's hair half the time.

Also, I've kind of mastered the art of just washing my hair w/o taking a full shower thing by leaning in and using the movable shower head. Sometimes I'll wash my hair two or three times a day.

hair is made for not washing, and then washing the living hell out of and conditioning

did I tell you guys about when I ran out of hair gunk and just used coconut oil for all my grooming needs?

it works as shave cream in a pinch

Showering early in the day is more essential for me when I'm alone than when I go out! It's the signal that my day has begun and that it's time to start doing things.

I bet this is part of it for me, too. I've been showering in the morning since junior high so I definitely equate showers with being ready to face the day. A former colleague of mine who worked from home said putting on a bra was the key factor for her, even if she put it on under her pajamas. Bras mean business. So I guess showers mean business for me, too.

usually morning but i showered last night after being at the beach all day

I was never much of a sleepwalker. I did it only a couple times, when I was around 10 years old. But when I was in my teens, I became a sleep-showerer. I'm not sure whether it was a dream or triggered by someone in the kitchen, since my mom would turn on the kitchen light upstairs and knock on my door telling me she was done showering, but I would sometimes think it was time to get up and only after getting partway through a shower realize that I was still tired and that it was pitch black outside.

So, other preferences aside, 3AM when on a normal high school kid schedule is not my preferred shower time.

I shower twice a week, before leaving the house to meet friends for dinner or w/e. I don't shower otherwise, even after the gym. Pee-yoo, right?

Right on! We get our mood from within and don't need it applied or removed by hot water!

Well, I wash my hands all the time, I'm not a sicko. And I wash my face before bed.

I make those showers count, too. Ice-cold bottle of sparking water + hot hot shower is a princely reward for a good day's work

our external actions are a reflection of our internal motivations and desires

if I don't shower in the morning I feel like I am walking around wrapped in invisible wax paper

My body isn't filthy or waxy, I get eczema pretty easy and by taking it easy on the compulsive scrub-scrub "clean body = clean mind" dogma my skin is happy and healthy.

In the morning cuz I have to shave, gel the hair, and Look Professional.

Need to shower to shave, ergo, need to shower in the morning. Otherwise I wake up with 5 o'clock shadow.

Shower in the evening always seemed decadent to me, unless I've gotten really scuzzy.

I shower at night on very rare occasions -- I have to get an MRI at 7:45 a.m. later this week, so that may be one of them.

Good luck, Morbs!

Well, I wash my hands all the time, I'm not a sicko. And I wash my face before bed.

realising i have forgotten to wash my face is the only thing that will get me out of bed, irrespective of tiredness. it is almost superstitious. i used to fuss w/cleansers & moisturisers, but as long as my face is washed i feel pretty okay.

totally, i have woken up in the wee hours and washed my face on many occasions which may or may not have involved passing out

peel face from couch, cool-rinse the drool

what is it with couch-naps and drooling, really

i used to live in a place with leather (/some sort of shiny black sticky material) couches & fall asleep on them maybe two nights a week, the drool was not so much an issue as the kinda hot-awkward leather-sweat

Also, people who think their bed is some sort of pure clean place, do they never sweat in their sleep or have sex or anything?

That's what AC is for, and single-ness. And when you can't do your laundry closer than several blocks away, it is not immaterial how long your sheets are clean for.

But really I just like to degrease and desweat myself at night or else my skin feels like things are crawling on it and my sheets gradually turn grey where my body lies, and my skin breaks out.

I'm not really the roughing-it type unless we are talking about the beach.

evening. mornings are for sleeping as much as possible

OTM. Actually, if i'm not going out that night, I usually shower at late night, shortly before bedtime. I like to feel clean in bed, and since I keep the bedroom cool, i don't sweat much while asleep and still look and feel clean the next morning.

If I haven't showered recently, my skin gets oily and my hair looks scuzzy. I sometimes have to shower a second time early in the day for this reason. But even then it's usually noonish than early in the morning. Sleeping in takes precedence over everything else.

god bless owen, i'm glad to see i'm not the only one who makes every wash special. tho tbh i have been showering more or less daily lately, as i experience summer in a place that sometimes feels like summer, that is to say, not scotland. but normally i go about three days before there are any adverse effects whatsoever to feel, see, or smell. so thanks to a combination of the normal routine and mostly working from home, i have the luxury of showering whenever i want, which usually means at some point in the afternoon.

no I'm quite serious, anybody who has not had the pleasure of chugging ice-cold Perrier while in the hottest shower ever, you are missing out on a beautiful thing.

(A hotel w/minibar makes this an achievable luxury treat)

$5 bottle of Perrier

love being in the shower and appreciate being clean but hate the way it punctuates my day (having to wait for your hair to dry, being wet usually pretty warm) i'm pretty lazy and it takes me forever to do anything and find the whole process kills whatever momentum i might have had also makes me perpetually late for everything

i used to live in a place with leather (/some sort of shiny black sticky material) couches & fall asleep on them maybe two nights a week, the drool was not so much an issue as the kinda hot-awkward leather-sweat

― , Blogger (schlump), Monday, August 13, 2012 1:57 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm, leather is kind of a weird and incredible substance - so good at blocking wind and rain when you're wearing it, but that works against you when you're lying on it

but yeah, I feel for Laurel and the humidity/warmth/unclean bed situation that can occur, esp in the summer. in that case it certainly makes more sense to shower before bed, regardless of how you sleep

I think that was more guiltily outing myself as a car->work-car->home->hide until sundown person, not really a judgment on bedroom cleanliness

I prefer to shower at night to feel fresh before bed, but more often end up showering in the morning.

It's 92 degrees here and my house has no air conditioning. Cold shower before bed is my best chance of sleeping.

i switch off tbh

good solution

depends on how tired i am, how dirty i am, whether i've gone to the gym.

etc.

free your mind.

but the sweat will follow

A tip I learned from a former gf, who in turn learned it from washing machines: At the end of a hot shower, turn the water temperature down 5, then 10 degrees for the last minute. She called it the "cool down cycle". Very refreshing, and reduces sweating and makes you want to dry off more quickly.

Yeah, I'll do that sometimes.

i can't understand anyone having any tolerance for cold/colder water in any circumstance, i don't know if that is just me. like it is so hard to get out of the shower just into a world of not-being-constantly-cloaked-in-warm-water, let alone turn the temperature down. even on hot days it isn't refreshing the way i want; it's being too cold just after being way too hot.

having to wait for your hair to dry

May I recommend - http://www.amazon.com/Aquis-Microfiber-Towel-Lisse-39-Inches/dp/B000AM82GM

It seems high maintenance to have a separate towel for your hair but I find it very useful because 1) it gets my hair out of my way while I'm getting ready; and 2) it dramatically shortens air drying time, which is great because I don't use a hair dryer.

I will take a very cold shower before bed when it's hotter than hell outside and I feel like I've spent the day wrapped in my own steaming hot sweaty wet clothes.

To clarify, I dry my hair with a regular towel and then wrap it up in that microfiber towel which sucks most of the water out of it while I'm doing the rest of my morning thing.

I bought a pack of hotel-style large quite bath towels at costco and I have no idea why I had mediocre towels before.

I just steal towels from the hotels I stay at

grooming is v tedious, no?

It is! I save most of my major grooming for one weekend day (shaving things, washing and conditioning hair, cutting my nails, plucking things) and I swear when I'm done I need a nap.

When I first wake up my bed hair looks like David Lynch's hair half the time.

+1

along with enjoying sleeping in a much as possible, there's also the fact that hot water is a scarce resource in my house in the early morning.

Hot showers are for disgusting savages.

I say this as someone who currently has zero hot water from the shower tap. At some point while I was out of town, the handle just stopped opening anything when one turns it.

cold showers and getting kicked in the nuts are on a similar plane of do not want.

Morning. And evening if I run, but I typically don't wash hair for the second shower.

A tip I learned from a former gf, who in turn learned it from washing machines

I for one welcome our new washing machine overlords.

Some machines, as they spin out the hot water used during washing, will spray the clothes with cooler water to prepare them for the cold rinse cycles (or something like that). Turns out showering in cooler water for the last minute has the same effect, easing the transition and making the air feel less chilly when you step out of the shower.

Optimum cool water temperature IME is as cool as you can make it and still feel comfortable, not icy cold. A slight cool-down at the end is very refreshing. Try it!

Often both, just due to sweaty hot yuckness of riding a scooter in the desert, but always in the morning.

I shower in the morning unless I'm riding first thing, in which case I shower when I get back, which would be any time.

shower in the morning
shower in the evening
video games

Today I wish there were a way for me to shower when I wake up and shower again when I get to work. That was a humid commute. Haha LOL I just looked it up - 81% humidity. I want to die.

I love baths but haven't lived in a place with a bathtub that doesn't make me feel Brobdingnagian since I reached my full adult height.

OTMFM. I sometimes daydreaming about booking a Nice Room in a hotel just so I can stretch out in a bath. Then I realise I'm basically thinking of the Honeymoon Suite in Superman 2.

Ha, totally.

My parents installed a "garden tub" and I was so excited to visit and use it, but they don't have enough hot water to fill it more than maybe a third of the way. :|

I love baths but they're not very efficient for the work week. When I lived in Milan a zillion years ago, I'd regularly shower in the morning and the evening; the air was so dirty that I needed a shower before bed. In SF where it's generally cool, I shower in the morning both to shave but also to wake myself up.

I do not understand men shaving in the shower

(partially because I have never lived anywhere with a mirror in the shower)

Multitasking.

I would understand that if I had better lighting and a shaving mirror in the shower.

I really need to divorce my toothbrushing from my shower routine, though.

The bitch is cleaning the microscopic hairs on the floor, and hair in the stall in any form disgusts me.

how long is your shower that you need to multitask it?

I mean, if you are in there for more than five minutes (8 tops if washing your hair), stop jacking it and wash something

I do not understand men shaving in the shower

― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 15:39 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Saves time and getting shaving soap all over the sink and your clothes, and you can rinse off easier and the warmth of the water helps too. I've never shaved in the mirror as I know the shape of my face fairly well.

wait who gets dressed before a wet shave

also it's a sink, I'm pretty sure it can handle a little shaving cream

I shower and shave in nine or ten minutes. The shower shave (with a cheap plastic razor) takes care of neck hair and the irritating ones above the beard line. When I'm done and dried off I trim the beard with an electric one.

i never got the hang of shaving in the sink. how do you rinse off without making your hair and face and everything around you dripping wet? How doy ou avoid missing that tiny little bit of foam from the side of your jaw?

i think it just depends whether you have a mirror in the shower or not -- i don't, so i've never shaved in the shower, but if i did i probably would.

why do you need a mirror to shave? I mean, it's fairly simple, no?

I still need a mirror despite a pretty good instinct for knowing where to stop shaving but the one in my stall fogs up easily.

I guess if I had a beard / other facial hair I might need some sort of mirror. Even though I have moles on my face that can catch, I've become pretty adept at shaving sans mirror. It's the same every day.

how do you rinse off without making your hair and face and everything around you dripping wet?

pro-tip: don't put your head under the faucet

why do you need a mirror to shave? I mean, it's fairly simple, no?

If you have a mirror, you can actually see where you have hair on your face and what you need to go back over. Plus, I'm trying not to chop into a goatee.

Basically, since I shave about once every 3-4 days (the optimal time period for me to guard against developing razor bumps from shaving too frequently, but not so infrequently that I look homeless), it usually takes two passes to get all the hair off of my face; using a mirror lets me do this quickly without guessing where hair might be left on my face.

Shaving in the shower rules

I use a mirror in the shower that I hold up with one hand while I shave with the other. It only semi-unfogs. Should really get a new one.

I tried shaving in the shower a few times, I can see why people do it, but I always miss bits if I do that and then end up having to shave again in front of the mirror anyway. And I'm pretty sure if I did it regularly I'd slice my lip open or something eventually.

pro-tip: don't put your head under the faucet
I don't do this, but it just seems easier to use the shower to rinse off rather than having to do this whole separate complicated process that involves splashing water in your eyes and stuff.

If you have a mirror, you can actually see where you have hair on your face and what you need to go back over.

Can't see this with shaving foam anyway. I just feel my face and I can tell.

how do you rinse off without making your hair and face and everything around you dripping wet

washcloth?

I've tried the shower shave and I always end up with some small patch of whiskers near my nose that I missed. There's also the part where I'm completely uncoordinated and nicked my ear.

haha, manly shavechat

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/38006200/

this is all pretty academic because I'm too lazy to actually shave

You can rub soap or shaving cream on a mirror and then wipe it off and it will not fog.

Can't see this with shaving foam anyway.

then you're using too much!

Also apparently WD40 - http://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/index.php?topic=7768.0

xpost i use soap (or hair conditioner if I'm feeling posh) these days anyway.

I feel like I should take a video of myself shaving so I can better show how this all works

Then I realize I'm contemplating posting a video of myself shaving to the internet

damn you and your supple young un-razorburnable skin

That was to DL, I assume DJP has normal skin

I shave in the shower and do not use a mirror. During my cycling months I'm showering at the local bike commuting facility, and the showers all have on-demand water heaters, so I don't feel too bad if I'm adding 3-4 minutes to my shower time.

I am super susceptible to razor bumps, which is just the worst

sometimes I have to grow a beard and endure the two weeks of itching just to get to a point where I can shave and not have it look like someone put tiny tapioca beads under my skin and then attacked my face with a cheese grater

I shave in a shower, don't use a mirror, and about 75% of the time I miss some huge or at least noticable patch of stubble, so I keep a razor at work and do touch-ups in the men's room before anyone else gets there.

I have heard of the horrors of black men and the shaving difficulties. You have my sympathies.

guess i'm quite lucky to have the rubbish bumfluff facial hair of a pubescent boy. I've grown beards before, but they just look daft.

I prefer the evening, because I'd rather feel clean at home and in bed, rather than outside and in public which is filthy anyway.
However I usually take a quick shower in the morning, a more thorough one in the evening, and wash my hair every two to three days.

aren't electric razors way better, wrt shaving rash, &c? i am super fussy about my skin & can't use like real wet shaves but electric razors are fine.

i thought having a beard was the manliest thing about me but no here i am sharing shaving tips on the internet

xp no i find those worse.

aren't electric razors way better, wrt shaving rash, &c? i am super fussy about my skin & can't use like real wet shaves but electric razors are fine.

I'm sure they are better now, but when I was much younger (say, in high school) and enduring a really horrible razor bump + stubble situation, I tried using my oldest brother's electric razor and it basically sliced little cuts into the skin on my face while leaving all of the stubble intact. I have not touched one since.

(conversely, whatever the new Gilette multiblade disposable head razor is called works perfectly; no nicks, close shave, no razor bumps unless I shave too many days in a row)

Sometimes I shave in the sink. It requires being able to get your foot into a sink at more or less waist height, but it's possible.

I get really bad shaving rash too. I normally shave with an electric razor first then go over what's left with a Gillette. Then it's not so bad. But even then I can only really do it every 3 days. As it is I generally only shave once a week, at the weekend. Which I didn't do this weekend so I'm a right scruffy bastard today.

Dan, the Fusion?

Or like, one of the particular Fusion subtypes?

btw you can use the little detail blade on the top of the fusion for some nosehair trimming (pro tip)

I shave in the shower, and if I didn't use a mirror I'd really mess up the neckline of my beard. Just got a new shaving mirror last month, one that doesn't tie in to the showerhead water supply. Carl A., thanks for the WD-40 tip, I'll give that a try.

YES the Fusion

that shit is awesome

i switched to the douchey mug-with-shaving-soap and safety razor a few years ago and it's really helped with my very sensitive skin. also it's way cheaper even considering the initial investment. i've spent literally $2 on razor blades in the past 3 years. and $4 on shaving soap.

On workdays, shower in the morning is key, otherwise I'd never wake up fully. Weekends, I either blow off showering altogether or shower at like 3pm. Unless I'm going somewhere social, of course.

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Baths seem gross to me. Sitting in dirty/soapy water, eurgh. If I took a bath, I would want to take a shower to clean up from it afterward.

― Death Grits (WmC), Monday, August 13, 2012 8:04 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Baths are better at cleaning you supposedly because soaking yourself helps dislodge more dead skin.

Anyway, I shower in the morning because I poop in the morning.

don't poop in the tub

poop is a bad exfoliant, ask anybody

i switched to the douchey mug-with-shaving-soap and safety razor a few years ago and it's really helped with my very sensitive skin. also it's way cheaper even considering the initial investment. i've spent literally $2 on razor blades in the past 3 years. and $4 on shaving soap.

― adam, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:46 AM (Yesterday)

me too. why is this douchey?

next stop, suspenders, next stop after that, steampunk convention

don't poop in the tub

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),

I said I poop in the morning, not in the tub!!!

i just got out of the shower and want to go to bed soon -- but my hair takes forever to dry and i don't like blowdrying it.

A shower in the evening makes perfect sense: you climb into bed clean. But also, your body kind of relaxes if you took a hot shower. That is why I give my kids a bath in the evening. In the summer they have a bath every evening. That way they kind of relax, wind down from a hectic day. Me, I tend to take morning showers, but sometimes also evening showers. Especially in the summer when you sweat a lot, an evening shower is lovely.

You have to have afternoon or evening showers sometimes because drinking beer in a morning shower is awkward

Why is drinking beer in the shower so awesome? It is, though.

Not as much as smoking in a bath.

shower sex > shower drinking

meh

sex > drinking, therefore (x) sex > (x) drinking

then there's the post-sex smoke/bath.

I don't know. Shower sex is never as fun as it looks in the movies. It's awkward and I'm always afraid I'm going to fall and crack my head open or get soap in an uncomfortable place. I'd rather have a beer while I shower and then go have sex somewhere else. (I don't smoke.)

The awkwardness may be attributable to the same issue I mentioned upthread about small bathtubs.

sex > drinking

Gang Green disagree

WHAT? No way, shower six is inevitably a dangerous disappointment. Tub size is undoubtedly part of the problem, but so are about 5 other things that are easily resolved by non-shower environments.

The typo was on purpose btw, I had a moment of IT-monitoring paranoia.

Loss of traction is sad too

Plus side: funny accidental sounds!

water is an anti-lubricant

Yeah that's one of those things. Another one is height discrepancies.

I feel kinda disgusting if I leave the house without showering. I essentially refuse to do so unless under extreme duress.

OTM

Soaping someone up in bed has its own disappointments though.

both, ideally

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