What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
Showers are great, but nothing beats a long soak in a hot bath. Sheer bliss.
I love my hot soaks, very hot, I bring a glass of cool water to drink while I soak It will lower blood pressure, if you run a tad high, gets the blood moving, boosts the immune system, and takes away aches and pains. They are comforting and good for you! I only shower in the heat of summer after being in the garden, I get down and dirty, and sweat something awful and a cooler shower is needed.
I can't stand taking baths. Give me a hot shower any day.
One of the biggest red pills I have had is on showers. Americans do it way too much. There are a few doctors who have experimented with not showering often at all and the results are good. Ultimately most go back to showering because they find it relaxing and a stress relief tool.
If you work outdoors or you workout multiple hours a day obviously it is impossible but if you change clothes through the day, eat right, drink enough water, and keep stress low it is kind of life changing to reduce the frequency
Ok thats all well and good. But some people like myself have a very hairy ass. I need to shower after duty.
I took cold showers all summer. We had been trying for a baby for a few years and no success. But the cold showers seemed to help.
Im back to hot showers now. They feel so much better. But starting your day off with the most difficult task of an ice cold shower made any other challenge in the day so much more manageable.
Nothing on the planet beats Japanese baths.
In the average Japanese home, they'll have a bathroom (literally) and a bath where you wash all your grime off, then jump into perfectly clean water at whatever temp you set it. The water is then circulated via a pump that brings it into a heating unit and then put back into the bath, so that the water doesn't get cooler over time, but stays exactly at the level you want it.
The baths are generally shorter than the Euro-Western versions, and deeper. usually a square rectangular shape. You can sit in them up to your neck.
Japanese baths have ONE purpose: that's soaking. you never wash in a Japanese bath. You wash BEFORE you get in a japanese bath.
Trivial Factoid: In the old days (a few decades ago) there was a government regulation in Japan that ALL public bath houses had to have their main hot bath at a specific temperature range, between I think 40.5 and 42.3 degrees celsius (between roughly 104 and 107 degrees fahr). Not sure if they have that regulation today, but would not be surprised. Also, Japanese sustain traditions exceedingly well, even without regulation.
I miss my Japanese baths. sad face.
I wanted a Japanese bath here in UK. They do fibreglass ones as copper too pricey for me..but they are the sort you sit in up to your neck ..so you climb in .and there is no heating coil etc. I gave up in the end ..no one here really does them .
Expensive cos of import costs, etc.
Yah. I've toyed with the idea of getting a hot tub or such, but the one's I could afford just don't have enough heat.
Nothing beats switching between a super hot soak and then a dive and spell in a cold bath, then back, then again, then back, then again.
You become almost impervious to the heat and the cold, and your circulation feels like its on jet fuel.
Sigh.
Their bathrooms are superior, no doubt.