sauna....

[snoopx]

... my first bad experience in Finland

so, after 3 weeks in Finland my fiancee has convinced me to go to sauna...and last week, we had make a visit to her mother and we have been in sauna...she had been in sauna...damn!!!!!! it was 85°C and she said "it's cold" wtf ? huh...it was the first time and the last time when i will go in that room i was so close to die, i was 7 times in Africa and it was +45°C even +50°C and i'm still alive...and in sauna damn! i will never get back there! this it's sure...i was for 5 minutes there and it's ok for me! and after all this .. my fiancee she's start to hit me with some tree branches ... wtf ? what's so nice in this sauna because i don't understand ?

huh she will never see me there in sauna

[Ktulu]

Get hard boy... my first Sauna experience was with my mother-in-law (whom I'd only just met) and her 2 gay (male) friends.

[antstar]

Get hard boy... my first Sauna experience was with my mother-in-law (whom I'd only just met) and her 2 gay (male) friends.

Yikes!! an unforgetable experience!

[snoopx]

huh...

my mother-in-low was downstairs waiting to her what i think about sauna...and i told her: i will never get back there ) she start leafing and everybody say: why you don't like ? it's so nice and good, and you must to see in the winter it's more nice and you can go out naked and "swim" in the snow... huh, weird people in here

[Pursuivant]

now you can write back to aubagne and renew the contract as civilian life is too hot

[snoopx]

nope i will survive in civil life i want a normal life :d not an extreme one if i will go back there i will gonna crazy...you will never have a family because it's impossible, you will be all your life a "robot" ...so i don't want this ... i want to be a normal man with a normal life

[rinso]

it was 85°C and she said "it's cold" wtf ?

I had a smoke sauna with the Helsinki fire brigade.
It was 120 degrees and I had to prove that I could stand the heat. (i.e. not being the first to leave)
Compared to that 85 is indeed cold.

i want to be a normal man with a normal life

A life without sauna in Finland is not a normal life.

[laa]

it was 85°C and she said "it's cold" wtf ?

She was showing off. 85 degrees is a normal sauna temperature, though it depends on the sauna itself.

[Rabs]

it was hardly 80C and my foreigner ex-boyfriend was sweating like a pig....temperature was still rising and i feared for his life. so... get the hell outta here let this suomi have some nice sauna time

[Mattlill2000]

The sweating is mostly from the humidity. To me the best saunas are around 70-80 and then you can control the heat by the amount of water you put on the stones. I have a Finnish friend who swears by a sauna being only 60 degrees. The worst saunas for me are when they are at about 90c and even the smallest amount of water gives a burning sensation, and therefore little water is used and the heat is dry. Not very nice but very macho.

[DraculcuCoarne]

it was 85°C and she said "it's cold" wtf ?

we usually have sauna at 100C so i consider 85 a bit cool ...and diving into the cold lake quite a pleasure

[Karhunkoski]

Well I think you're all correct

Sauna thermometers aren't always so accurate, needles sometimes get bent, and of course it can depend where in the sauna you locate it. My MIL's sauna feels just ok with the thermometer showing 110°C, whilst my uncle's scorches my a s s at around 75...

The correct temperature is whatever you feel comfortable and relaxed at.


As for sauna thermometers, best thing is to sandpaper all the numbers away, and draw a black dot on the scale at whatever YOU think is right for YOU.

[Rabs]

talking about thermometer...... my girlfriend had her ulkona thermometer that she kept outside her window and one sunny day... i was opening the window... and i saw this thermometer reading 50 C ... of course i put it to its rightful place i.e. roska.... after some days... she was wondering where her window thermometer went missing!! now can that thermometer be reading correctly still at plus 50C?????

[Pursuivant]

because the sun was shining into it
daft git eejit never in physics class sit...

[Rabs]

because the sun was shining into it
daft git eejit never in physics class sit...

well.... and i was exactly thinking the same thing... but then again i thought what the heck... in winter when snow directly puts its ass on the top of it, it would go crazy... reading below minus 100C off i threw ..... now again my curosity is..... if that ulkona thermometer gives wacky readings...just because sun directly shines into it or snow covers it up, should we still be trusting goddamn thermometer? or perhaps it's a matter of position??? if that's case... the case gets even crazier!! we all know how difficult it is to find the right position for our anteena where it picks up strongest signal!!