https://reddit.com/r/coldshowers/

https://podbay.fm/p/chapo-trap-house/e/1614809622

this episode was good (you should listen to it at 2.0x speed so it sounds like they're high on cocaine and ranting like lunatics, I did it and it's hilarious)

  • StLangoustine [any]
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    4 years ago

    Cold showers to become progressively more and more resistant to colder temperatures were all the rage in Soviet Union. They were supposed to supercharge your immune system and make you all around healthier and what not. There were even popular songs about it.

    What I'm saying is you people are revisionists for questioning a traditional workers' pastime.

    • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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      4 years ago

      There's this weird thing where we like to take random behaviours and shit on them as if it's a PMC thing, but really we just find something about the behaviour personally icky or cringey.

      • JohnnyJohnnyHaHaHa [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        It’s like the several times people have posted pics of some weird food and be like “lol look what whyte ppl eat” only to be informed it’s actually not white cuisine.

  • OtterSkeleton420 [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Semi-related. Every morning I take a nice, hot shower. It's the one bit of silence I get during the day. As the end of the shower gets closer, the dread of the day ahead starts to sink in. When I'm done, I'll crank it to freezing cold and just giggle that I'm doing something so silly that I acknowledge will make me suffer. Helps me power through my shitty days just that much more.
    Sorry for the novel, haha.

  • J_Edbear_Hoover [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Admittedly I don't listen to the pod, but cth doing a bit ragging on the "PMC" kind of sounds like the least self aware shit ever.

  • ural [any]
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    4 years ago

    I cold-showered every day for a few months. It always felt extremely unpleasant for about two minutes, but I always left the shower feeling energized and awake.

    Eventually I stopped doing it regularly because the unpleasantness was too much to bear. I still feel way better after an occasional cold shower than after a hot one though.

  • Hungover [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    On a scale of Chapo to Satan's grandmother Hillary Clinton, how much of a liberal am I for showering warm but end with ~10 sec of a cold shower? It wakes me up for the day

    • Abraxiel
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      4 years ago

      I do this too. Makes me feel all fresh and shit. I heard something about being good for your hair and skin by closing your pores, but I don't really know or care.