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Tony quidprano
Jan 19, 2014

Every few years I'll talk to someone who espouses how great cold showers are for your health, I can't find any actual loving legitimate sources that suggests this is actually true.

Is it true?

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Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

I have taken them in the past and while they can be refreshing they also loving suck rear end, OP. That's my clinical study on this topic.
Now I just refuse to bathe in any way at all and I'm much happier.

ChunTheUnavoidable
Sep 27, 2021

Sometimes I do it if Im sluggish or foggy and feel like I need a kick in the rear end. Doing it every time is crazy though

Xaintrailles
Aug 14, 2015

:hellyeah::histdowns:
Well a cold shower will give you hypothermia if you stay in it a while, and a warm shower won't, so I think warm wins on healthiness.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
Its really cool to get "stoned" on w33d and then get into a really hot shower and then turn the shower to really cold :feelsgood:

Snowy
Oct 6, 2010

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth;
One who never feels
The wanton stings and
Motions of the sense



Cold preserves and heat decays, so it’s good

ChunTheUnavoidable
Sep 27, 2021

when you take a hot shower you are making yourself a sitting duck for entropy

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER
I like taking a cold shower after being in the ocean on a hot day. Get all the salt off you, hit the one hitter outside, grill some shrimp etc.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
diving into a chilly pool after sitting in a hot tub is the fuckin best

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003

It's really cool to whack on your nuts with a claw hammer too op

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag
I like my showers like I like my beer OP: cold and gold

STABASS
Apr 18, 2009

Fun Shoe
I hear they are popular in circles where people believe jerking off is devious plot of the zionist conspiracy

Spinz
Jan 7, 2020

I ordered luscious new gemstones from India and made new earrings for my SA mart thread

Remember my earrings and art are much better than my posting

New stuff starts towards end of page 3 of the thread
Heres a real answer
If you have anxiety for example and you take a shower and then turn it to cold it can stimulate the parasympathetic response (iirc)
through the vagal nerve reflex or whatever and help you calm down

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Spinz posted:

the vagal nerve reflex or whatever and help you calm down

Sounds sexy :wink:

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug
Well, I ain't gonna be as good as Spinz, but I can say they take you from half- to full-awake in a hurry.

Bismuth
Jun 11, 2010

by Azathoth
Hell Gem
Since a lot of medicine tastes bad people decided that everything that sucks and is unpleasant is also healthy

Spinz
Jan 7, 2020

I ordered luscious new gemstones from India and made new earrings for my SA mart thread

Remember my earrings and art are much better than my posting

New stuff starts towards end of page 3 of the thread

Nooner posted:

Sounds sexy :wink:

Oh def, you can scrub clean the tile grout with your nips

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Spinz posted:

Oh def, you can scrub clean the tile grout with your nips

Well I'm scrubbing it clean with someone's one way or the other

Wendigee
Jul 19, 2004

I take a hot shower, but I have dry skin. I find that if you rinse off in water that is cold but not freezing it tightens up my skin holes that usually just let out a lot of moisture when hot.. then I can dry off like Brian but it seems tov make my skin less dry she the lotion works better

Valko
Sep 18, 2015

This is something I have only done a few times in my life. I even had to take a cold sponge bath once - trip switch blew and I had an electric shower and no hot water tank.

I don't know if it has any health benefits but I will say that just putting on your socks afterwards when you walk out shivering is one of the most intense feelings. Have you ever been in the bath too long that it starts to get cold? You know that feeling when you turn the hot tap on to heat it up again? Imagine that x10.

William Henry Hairytaint
Oct 29, 2011



Smugworth posted:

It's really cool to whack on your nuts with a claw hammer too op

please don't try to insert your depraved fetishes into otherwise wholesome threads

Borrowed Ladder
May 4, 2007

monarch of the sleeping marches
I've done the Wim Hof breathing exercise quite a number of times and it really is quite invigorating so i think there's some truth in his program, but I'm too much of a pussy to take a cold shower every time or even often at all.

Alucard
Mar 11, 2002
Pillbug
They're very refreshing after your third enema of the day.

Legin Noslen
Sep 9, 2004
Fortified with Rhiboflavin
Psychos need to take showers too

ChunTheUnavoidable posted:

when you take a hot shower you are making yourself a sitting duck for entropy
... see?

its all nice on rice
Nov 12, 2006

Sweet, Salty Goodness.



Buglord
A cold shower feels nice after sitting in the sauna at the gym for 10-15 minutes.

Three Olives
Apr 10, 2005
Just trying to imagine, throughout all time and space, being able to turn a faucet on and have warm water out of a hole in the wall of my dwelling that stays 70 degrees regardless of the temperature outside, not having a single consideration about the cost of the quantity or temperature of the water and thinking, I wish this could be a worse experience.

chainchompz
Jul 15, 2021

bark bark
Asking if they like cold showers is one part of my process of screening potential dates to suss out the absolute psychopaths before meeting in person.

William Henry Hairytaint
Oct 29, 2011



oh nm I think I misunderstood

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
I used to have a shower head that had a bunch of LED lights on it that changed from blue to green to red depending on the temperature of the water, it was probably one of the coolest things ive ever owned, i just wish it could have been controlled by an app or something

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




You gotta start with a hot shower to open your pores up and finish cold to close them again

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


Smugworth posted:

It's really cool to whack on your nuts with a claw hammer too op

better than a cup of coffee if you need to be awake and alert.

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.
Cold showers keep my hair colors stranger longer, OP.
Luckily I only gotta wash my hair twice a week.

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!

Cold showers are great in the middle of an Arizona summer. Invigorating to wash the stank and sweat off when it!s 115 degrees outside.

Chief McHeath
Apr 23, 2002

My favorite kind of shower is a hot one when its kinda cold outside, with the window open, exhaust fan running, so when you get out of the shower, you're wet and kinda chilly, then your towel dries you off and you start to feel warm again.

Pug Rodeo
Feb 20, 2007

BRING IT ON BRING IT ON YEAH


I take cold showers because if I don’t my massive johnson is just too unmanageable and gets in the way.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Cold footbaths are nice

Nyan Bread
Mar 17, 2006

I mean who hasn't enjoyed once in a while just taking a dozen or so crisp ones into the shower to sob loudly into an impartial jet of numbing water with the car exhaust slowly filling up the bathroom?

BounceBanana
Feb 3, 2021
I think cold showers are supposed to stop you from being so horny. Doesn't work.

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins
I like taking room temperature showers. Causes me less autistic sensory discomfort than hot.

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Turpitude II
Nov 10, 2014

BounceBanana posted:

I think cold showers are supposed to stop you from being so horny. Doesn't work.

i've never had any water temperature have any impact on my horny level. what's the rationale? cold water constricts the blood vessels?

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