RatskyWatsky
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Sounds awesome. Why would they get rid of them?
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Sounds awesome. Why would they get rid of them?
BlueBadger
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Ooh is Twitter a thing here?! I wanna follow some of you 
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
I expected a real picture of you on Twitter
Who says it's not? :O
Ooh is Twitter a thing here?! I wanna follow some of you
What is your twitter?
BlueBadger
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Garcia
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Well, I wouldn't be so sure about the awesome part; different strokes for different folks I suppose. I take pretty good care of myself so I've always avoided those like the plague.
There's one famous gay club here where you have to enter a dark room in order to go to the bathroom. It's one of those places I can honestly say I won't ever step foot into.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
It's basically like a fully body glory hole right? Sounds awesome to me!
Ooh is Twitter a thing here?! I wanna follow some of you
Yes. Twitter is freaking entertaining, an excellent time waster
BlueBadger
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Yes. Twitter is freaking entertaining, an excellent time waster
Amen to that
. I've been using Twitter and Pinterest way too much lately. I think I've planned my whole wedding on it :S.Probably health reasons? Like the saunas at some bathhouses?
Same. Makes me feel old
My case is worse, because I'm very young :V
BlueBadger
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Omfg I love your avatar.
Well any avatar is awesome when it includes the Grand Duchess of Ballertown.
Thank ye. I think I'll put this one into semi-regular rotation.
Also for some reason no one has made .gifs of her pimpslappin' some fools. If I knew how to do this I would make it myself.
BlueBadger
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Amen. I'm just feeling so much nostalgia right now :')
umop_3pisdn
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I'd use twitter if I could think of witty observations about my life or whatever. I like it in practice more than facebook I think. Facebook has that weird pseudo-intimacy angle where you sometimes come to 'know' people (or certain aspects of people) way more than you care to.
BlueBadger
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I use Twitter mostly to promote my music and gigs and stuff o_o
Don't even need to do that. Just retweet George Takei and other peoples funny tweets like I do.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
They're closing down the saunas too? What is the world coming to?
Finished a replay this afternoon. Hitting the power switch once it got to the end screen is still bittersweet.
I wish I could delete the majority of my extended family on Facebook without consequence.
They sicken me.
But it's much more fun to grumble about the demonic screeching coming from my bathroom vent!
umop_3pisdn
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I don't really get the point of that. Well I do, but not enough to bother I guess. I don't have a tumblr either and that's a similar idea, just with pictures and gifs and stuff. It's kind of like you have to be pretty voracious for it to be worth it, and I'm not really.
Delete your facebook account (and or create a pseudonym).
BlueBadger
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So true. Sooooo true ;_;. Gawd I want to replay that game too now. I'm totally getting on that after I finish my homework LOL
YouTube link?
Honestly ask yourself if you want to sit in saunas where sex has happened and hasn't been cleaned up.
One of my dreams if I ever got the money to build my own house would be to have a personal sauna. No need to worry about health issues from it.
BlueBadger
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I agree with this X_X.
umop_3pisdn
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Saunas are lovely, I just don't like to feel like I'm living in one.
You can build an infrared sauna super easily. Just get like a white 'tent' or something made of cloth and buy a bunch of those high wattage halogen worklight bulbs (like 500 Watts). Halogen bulbs have a light composition closest to the sun, but lacking in UV, and the major component is near infrared light. It draws a bit of power but there's some preliminary evidence that near infrared light is good for you because it acts on cytochrome oxidase or something. They're also better than 'far infrared' saunas, which are more common but may be damaging.
You can build an infrared sauna super easily. Just get like a white 'tent' or something made of cloth and buy a bunch of those high wattage halogen worklight bulbs (like 500 Watts). Halogen bulbs have a light composition closest to the sun, but lacking in UV, and the major component is near infrared light. It draws a bit of power but there's some preliminary evidence that near infrared light is good for you because it acts on cytochrome oxidase or something. They're also better than 'far infrared' saunas, which are more common but may be damaging.
A good sweat once a week or so is beneficial to you. It helps flush out toxins and fights illnesses. It can also help you relax, but you have to know your limits and if the place is too hot then you need to tell someone to knock it down a few degrees. It shouldn't be like the inside of an oven but slightly hotter than a SoCal summer in it.
I'd have to see this. I see there's prebuilt ones similar to saunas themselves that is appealing but I dunno if the "DIY" variety would have the same appeal for me.
Speaking of alternative stuff: I wouldn't mind trying a sensory deprivation tank/Isolation tank one time.
Over here every goddamn house and even most flats are built with their own saunas.
BlueBadger
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I prefer hot yoga for this, personally :]. It's my favorite.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Was the sex clean and without STDS?
Obviously not if people are closing saunas in gay bathhouses?
BlueBadger said:
...I get where you're coming from, but it isn't exactly the same thing. Same with exercise. They provide some of the benefits but not exactly the same thing as a sauna.
BlueBadger
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I went to hot yoga classes for a month last month, wasn't for me. Maybe it was just that studio, but they did the same routine of poses every single time, and it was entry-level stuff. Boring
Yeah I find at my studio if you go to classes with different instructors, they tend to have variations in their sessions. Also I don't do Bikram. I do Moksha. It's still hot yoga, and it's still a workout, but it also focuses more on mental wellness and breathing and going at your own pace etc.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
How do they know, though? Do they test for diseases or something? Because if not, I think it's a little paranoid to assume they're dirty. That's no way to live life!
BlueBadger
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umop_3pisdn
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That makes sense, it definitely wouldn't be as nice as some ergonomic cedar room or whatever. I think the prebuilt ones are far infrared though which is a little closer to microwaves than near infrared which is closer to red spectrum light.
A sensory deprivation tank would be neat, I want to try one too. I hear you have to try them a few times, because you sort of 'adjust' to them and learn how to use them I guess. I think my meditation practice already does a lot of what they do though, but it would just make it easier.
And I automatically know what country you're from, lol
Yeah, I think the cleansing aspect is more psychological. It might do something good with heat shock proteins though.
As for the yoga discussion, I like Qigong/Neigong more than Yoga, personally (though I try to do both). But sometimes I think I was a Chinese person in a past life or something. The poetic language and cultural trappings of Taoism and stuff all make me weirdly 'nostalgic' and comfortable. It's odd.
Haha.And I automatically know what country you're from, lol
It's pretty crazy though how strong the sauna culture is here. I enjoy going to sauna every now and then but it's not really that important to me.
Garcia
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:lol !
Henchmen21
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Grat's on the BF love. Boo on dancing to shitty music.
I had someone do that similarly on tumblr. Kept anonymously sending me messages regarding his need for suicide. The best thing I could do was reblog several suicide hotline posts and a few posts stating that although I did not know him that someone out there loved him etc. He later got off anon and apologized and AFAIK is okay. Usually the best thing to do is be that shoulder to cry on.
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