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[stub for offtopicness] (ok everyone, we took the naked man out of the title, let's talk about something more interesting now)

by dang 1y ago

hshdhdhehd 1y ago
At the gym I use the same locker or near it every time
- omnicognate 1y ago
  You must possess incredible mental fortitude not to get PTSD from all those terrible naked men.
- bakql 1y ago
  I always use the lockers in a specific part of the locker room and since we’re meant to bring our own padlocks I just look for mine. No need to memorise anything. Which btw made me realise cheap padlocks all open with the same key - imagine my surprise when I opened a locker that had the same padlock as mine with my key and found that the stuff inside was not mine. Mine was a couple lockers next to it!
hdgvhicv 1y ago
> And I like my space free of other naked people. How sad. I wonder what the deep problem is. Religious, cultural, something more serious. Imagine not being able to go to a sauna, or shower in public, because of a fear of people.
- mvdwoord 1y ago
  How does a preference become fear? I am not afraid of other naked people, but I have had it once too many that certain people in e.g. a hotel sauna (for context, this was in some boutique hotel in Southern Germany) do not respect personal space, and the whole sauna naked thing becomes performative and annoying. Once the nut-sack of a 160kg weighing Bavarian man makes a near hit with your chin as the man tries to climb over you to the bench at the back... anyway. I found this with a significant amount of the naked sauna goers t.b.h. the claim of additional health benefits has been thrown at me, which is such obvious bullshit, it merely emphasizes the performativeness of it all.
  - aapoalas 1y ago
    Absolutely not trying to minimise your experience, but I found it really funny somehow how different (and still same) human life truly is depending on where you were born and how you have lived. I've never had a 160 kg Bavarian nutsack in front of my face, but I've regularly gotten my face full of ass or nether regions because my university group has a small mobile sauna on a trailer, where anyone at the back moving past the others will necessarily shove their nethers in the others' faces. At some point I forgot to even think about it. Human lives are so different, but nutsacks are basically still all the same. I hope you can one day forgive the Bavarian for their swinging sacks and overenthusiasm for the top seat.
- Ylpertnodi 1y ago
  >> And I like my space free of other naked people > How sad. I wonder what the deep problem is. Religious, cultural, something more serious. Imagine not being able to go to a sauna, or shower in public, because of a fear of people. It's not sad. It's very fucking annoying. The deep problem is some people are just like that. Religious? No. Cultural? No. Something more serious? Yes. Imagine not being able to go to a sauna. Ok, done that, now what? Imagine not being able to shower in public. Ok, done that, now what? "Because of a fear of people". Ah! I didn't know I had a 'social anxiety' (because everyone has 'something', these days), but it turns out I have, and it can be seen (at various times, to varying degrees), throughout my life. Many people don't so much have a problem with naked people, it's often just 'people', and the 'situation'. Try reading (several sources) about agoraphobia. It's not always as clean cut as you kind of unknowingly make it out to be. You ever been to a war zone? I have - with bullets and tanks and mines and ugly death and living badly in holes and showering and shitting in front of others, and other good-for-the-grandkids stories. Somehow, I absolutely fucking loved it, and would go again tomorrow, *though drones nowadays add a new, and very game-changing perspective. Would you come with me, and we can do all the being naked together you want? Are you one of those people that struts around public showers like a lonely peacock, and tries engaging people there in conversation? Actual nudity may not always be the issue. Cunts, and situations, often are.
socalgal2 1y ago
All I got from this is people need to get over being naked / seen naked. In Japan it's common to get naked with strangers people of the same sex at a hot spring. IIUC in Finland it's common to get naked with strangers of all sexes at a sauna. In the past, in the USA it was common to take communal same-sex showers in PE class in junior high school and high school. But sometime in the past 40 years, that seems to have changed in the USA. I've met lots of 20 somethings and 30 somethings that can't handle a sauna or hot spring because they claim they've never been naked with anyone else. WTF!
- aapoalas 1y ago
  Finnish sauna enthusiast here: going to same sex sauna naked is absolutely common (although you'll also find people who avoid it), but mixed sauna is less commonly done. Amongst technical university students it used to be effectively universal that sauna was all mixed and naked. At some point it became common that some people, females especially, would wear swimsuits into sauna. It has also become common that before mixed sauna there is scheduled separated sauna turns for those who want to go but don't want to enter mixed. (Scheduled so no one has to raise their hand up and publicly say "I'd prefer to go without mixed bathing.") In private life, a mixed naked sauna between eg. close friend families is something I consider pretty normal and do frequently enough without really blinking an eye. But that's because it's between two sauna-crazy families. It's all pretty dependent on the person or people.
- forinti 1y ago
  I find it comical that modern beachwear leaves almost nothing to the imagination and nudity is still taboo in some cultures.
omnicognate 1y ago
The naked men were more interesting than the world's most well-known technique for memorising numbers.
- dang 1y ago
  I would not conflate stimulating with interesting. Edit: if that was too snarky, see the last paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23087737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23087737 for a longer explanation.
  - omnicognate 1y ago
    I wouldn't conflate "x > y" with "x is large".

[stub for offtopicness] (ok everyone, we took the naked man out of the title, let's talk about something more interesting now)

by dang 1y ago

[stub for offtopicness] (ok everyone, we took the naked man out of the title, let's talk about something more interesting now)

hshdhdhehd 1y ago

At the gym I use the same locker or near it every time

omnicognate 1y ago
You must possess incredible mental fortitude not to get PTSD from all those terrible naked men.
bakql 1y ago
I always use the lockers in a specific part of the locker room and since we’re meant to bring our own padlocks I just look for mine. No need to memorise anything. Which btw made me realise cheap padlocks all open with the same key - imagine my surprise when I opened a locker that had the same padlock as mine with my key and found that the stuff inside was not mine. Mine was a couple lockers next to it!

hdgvhicv 1y ago

> And I like my space free of other naked people. How sad. I wonder what the deep problem is. Religious, cultural, something more serious. Imagine not being able to go to a sauna, or shower in public, because of a fear of people.

mvdwoord 1y ago
How does a preference become fear? I am not afraid of other naked people, but I have had it once too many that certain people in e.g. a hotel sauna (for context, this was in some boutique hotel in Southern Germany) do not respect personal space, and the whole sauna naked thing becomes performative and annoying. Once the nut-sack of a 160kg weighing Bavarian man makes a near hit with your chin as the man tries to climb over you to the bench at the back... anyway. I found this with a significant amount of the naked sauna goers t.b.h. the claim of additional health benefits has been thrown at me, which is such obvious bullshit, it merely emphasizes the performativeness of it all.
- aapoalas 1y ago
  Absolutely not trying to minimise your experience, but I found it really funny somehow how different (and still same) human life truly is depending on where you were born and how you have lived. I've never had a 160 kg Bavarian nutsack in front of my face, but I've regularly gotten my face full of ass or nether regions because my university group has a small mobile sauna on a trailer, where anyone at the back moving past the others will necessarily shove their nethers in the others' faces. At some point I forgot to even think about it. Human lives are so different, but nutsacks are basically still all the same. I hope you can one day forgive the Bavarian for their swinging sacks and overenthusiasm for the top seat.
Ylpertnodi 1y ago
>> And I like my space free of other naked people > How sad. I wonder what the deep problem is. Religious, cultural, something more serious. Imagine not being able to go to a sauna, or shower in public, because of a fear of people. It's not sad. It's very fucking annoying. The deep problem is some people are just like that. Religious? No. Cultural? No. Something more serious? Yes. Imagine not being able to go to a sauna. Ok, done that, now what? Imagine not being able to shower in public. Ok, done that, now what? "Because of a fear of people". Ah! I didn't know I had a 'social anxiety' (because everyone has 'something', these days), but it turns out I have, and it can be seen (at various times, to varying degrees), throughout my life. Many people don't so much have a problem with naked people, it's often just 'people', and the 'situation'. Try reading (several sources) about agoraphobia. It's not always as clean cut as you kind of unknowingly make it out to be. You ever been to a war zone? I have - with bullets and tanks and mines and ugly death and living badly in holes and showering and shitting in front of others, and other good-for-the-grandkids stories. Somehow, I absolutely fucking loved it, and would go again tomorrow, *though drones nowadays add a new, and very game-changing perspective. Would you come with me, and we can do all the being naked together you want? Are you one of those people that struts around public showers like a lonely peacock, and tries engaging people there in conversation? Actual nudity may not always be the issue. Cunts, and situations, often are.

socalgal2 1y ago

All I got from this is people need to get over being naked / seen naked. In Japan it's common to get naked with strangers people of the same sex at a hot spring. IIUC in Finland it's common to get naked with strangers of all sexes at a sauna. In the past, in the USA it was common to take communal same-sex showers in PE class in junior high school and high school. But sometime in the past 40 years, that seems to have changed in the USA. I've met lots of 20 somethings and 30 somethings that can't handle a sauna or hot spring because they claim they've never been naked with anyone else. WTF!

aapoalas 1y ago
Finnish sauna enthusiast here: going to same sex sauna naked is absolutely common (although you'll also find people who avoid it), but mixed sauna is less commonly done. Amongst technical university students it used to be effectively universal that sauna was all mixed and naked. At some point it became common that some people, females especially, would wear swimsuits into sauna. It has also become common that before mixed sauna there is scheduled separated sauna turns for those who want to go but don't want to enter mixed. (Scheduled so no one has to raise their hand up and publicly say "I'd prefer to go without mixed bathing.") In private life, a mixed naked sauna between eg. close friend families is something I consider pretty normal and do frequently enough without really blinking an eye. But that's because it's between two sauna-crazy families. It's all pretty dependent on the person or people.
forinti 1y ago
I find it comical that modern beachwear leaves almost nothing to the imagination and nudity is still taboo in some cultures.

omnicognate 1y ago

The naked men were more interesting than the world's most well-known technique for memorising numbers.

dang 1y ago
I would not conflate stimulating with interesting. Edit: if that was too snarky, see the last paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23087737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23087737 for a longer explanation.
- omnicognate 1y ago
  I wouldn't conflate "x > y" with "x is large".