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steve  ·  1320 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mist Showers: Sustainable Decadence?

The finest shower I ever took was at my wife’s uncle’s house. It was a giant monstrosity if a house, built in the early nineties by them - a couple with more money than taste. Lots of weird bougie stuff - just fancy everywhere.

The second master (where we were staying) had a shower with two opposing heads. But instead of the gold plated shower heads that would have matched the rest of the fixtures, there were green, plastic, farm grade nozzles. There were no flow restrictors in there. Just all of the water pressure I could handle. It was the most decadent, lovely shower I’ve ever had.





kleinbl00  ·  1320 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Russian spas have thermonuclear death showers. Their flow rate has to be 60 gallons per minute. You don't need to/can't really handle more than ten seconds under them but those ten seconds are DA BOMB

necroptosis  ·  1318 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Russian spas are quite the trip. Never had a thermonuclear death shower, but I did receive first degree burns over the entire top half of my body trying to out tough locals in a dry sauna in Bishkek.

kleinbl00  ·  1318 days ago  ·  link  ·  

LOL if it makes you feel any better I have a scar under my right shoulder blade from the sauna at Mieko's, which had a nailhead that wasn't properly sunk. I leaned against that damn thing for 20 minutes expecting it to cool down and it just never did...

The "thermonuclear death shower" is always cold. Which makes it always awesome.

uhsguy  ·  1320 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you thinking of that place in Everett that basically has a chemical shower setup.

kleinbl00  ·  1320 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Uncle Boris' creepy basement rec room? Fuhuuuuk no. Voda in West Hollywood is the greatest but Banya 5 has a better vibe.

Both are probably dead now. Voda's website has been taken over by squatters and Banya is "eagerly awaiting Phase 3."

uhsguy  ·  1320 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ha that place is a bit weird but it’s authentic, it was dirty and sometimes people were super inconsiderate but the actual steam room was legit. Personally I preferred Q spa in lynwood. It’s closer and good enough, no awesome shower though.

Idk how any of this stuff survives unless it was funded by hot money. Maybe it will just change owners when covid dies down

kleinbl00  ·  1320 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I find "authentic" is hipster for "skunjey like I anticipate the original is based on my orientalist appreciation of foreigners." It's a way to say "if you don't like it it's because you don't revel in play-acting."

Voda is authentic AF down to the fact that 80% of the people there are Mafiya. It's also clean and frickin' sybaritic. Like $50 to get in, tho and built in an old crematorium. The tracks leading into the furnace in the hot banya take some getting used to.

I got an extraordinarily bad massage as part of a package deal at Q on New Years in 2017. I still have trigger finger from it.

uhsguy  ·  1320 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That sounds amazing I could see installing a fatter water main just for something like that in my next house. My current house has a tiny shower and bathroom so not an option. Ideally you want inline heating to ensure constant temperature as well