The sauna appreciation thread

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Sure,

Alright then. Now get back to your spam.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Alright then. Now get back to your spam.

Pardon?

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Can I have a personal sauna?

Sure, but you can't take it to an airplane. Too many nutjobs these days threatening to throw water on the pilots of they won't co-operate with their demands.

Seriously speaking, "personal sauna" is the more common thing than a public one. I don't have statistics, but I'd say most Finnish houses have a sauna in them, both in the countryside as well as in cities. It's not considered a luxury. Saunas exist even for tenement apartments, in addition to the public ones found on them. And a summer house isn't a proper summer house without one.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

Sure, but you can't take it to an airplane. Too many nutjobs these days threatening to throw water on the pilots of they won't co-operate with their demands.

So what are the statistics for sauna-on-sauna crime? Sauna-related violence is unheard of here in the United States. Do saunas serve as a deterent to those that would use saunas against other saunas?

Seriously speaking, "personal sauna" is the more common thing than a public one. I don't have statistics, but I'd say most Finnish houses have a sauna in them, both in the countryside as well as in cities. It's not considered a luxury. Saunas exist even for tenement apartments, in addition to the public ones found on them. And a summer house isn't a proper summer house without one.

Really? I thought it was just a stereotype. I had no idea that they were that common in Finland.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Really? I thought it was just a stereotype. I had no idea that they were that common in Finland.

When my grandpa built our farmhouse in early 1950s care to guess what building was built first?

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

When my grandpa built our farmhouse in early 1950s care to guess what building was built first?

I'll guess it wasn't a walk-in humidor.

I had no idea the sauna thing was real. Learned something today.

[STEED]

A sauna full of hot naked women here I come...WHAT!

Bloody jim has beaten me to them.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

A sauna full of hot naked women here I come...WHAT!

Bloody jim has beaten me to them.

What naked women?

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by STEED

A sauna full of hot naked women here I come...WHAT!

You mean Jim, his wife and daughter in phone booth size sauna?

Originally Posted by STEED

Bloody jim has beaten me to them.

Really surprising...

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

When my grandpa built our farmhouse in early 1950s care to guess what building was built first?

Same when my grandpa built our summer house, sauna first.

[Jimbuna]

Sounds like it

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

When my grandpa built our farmhouse in early 1950s care to guess what building was built first?

Originally Posted by Dowly

Same when my grandpa built our summer house, sauna first.

Eh, when I was living abroad in Spain, I knew several Finns there who insisted on building a sauna to their 100 % Spanish houses because, as they put it, they "didn't know how to live without one." One even ardently refused to use an electric stove and instead wanted a wood eating one. Said the electricity spoils the whole thing and doesn't make the heat soft enough.

As you can imagine, the results were...interesting to say the least.