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An anonymous reader writes "This groups combined some people from CERN, an old SAAB 900 Classic 5-door and a common desire to have a sauna."

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  1. We'll Only If you could drive it. by fozzy(pro) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well that great Saunas are coll and all, but it would be much more impressive if it was tricked out with some ground effects, a large spoiler, and of course wifi. Not to mention if it had an engine in it so you coul saun in fornt of the Arc De Triumph, the Whitehouse, Stone Henge

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  2. Hmmm.... by Gary+Franczyk · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is what you get when you have a high-unemployment rate in the tech business...

    3 or 4 years ago, this would have had several million dollars of venture capital behind it!

  3. Heh by nizcolas · · Score: 3, Funny

    This looks like something you would see at the state fair. At least in Oklahoma anyway ;D

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    1. Re:Heh by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 4, Funny

      This looks like something you would see at the state fair. At least in Oklahoma anyway ;D

      Yeah, where you'd have all these people standing around asking "What the fuck is a SAAB ??"

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  4. Scandinavian people ... ? by kruetz · · Score: 2, Funny
    From the article:

    On this page you will find a little story about some (crazy?) nordic people, an old SAAB 900 Classic 5-door and a common desire to have a sauna. This is not the first sauna in a SAAB, I know of at least one SAAB 96 made into a sauna in Finland. However, this is probably the only sauna built into a Classic 900...

    This combines almost everything the stereotypical Scandinavian is known for ... SAAB, sauna ... they're missing a Volvo, but who wants a square, boxy sauna?

    Not to mention the "bouncing Swedish funbags" (whatever they are!)

    Seriously, though, in an icy-cold climate this takes car-heating to the MAX - kinda like case-modding with l33t h4x0rs. What next from the crazy Nordic fold? I'm almost scared to find out (but I think it'll involve rally-driving saunas)

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  5. When the SAYNAAB is a'rockin . . . by dannyweb · · Score: 3, Funny

    . . . Don't Come a'knockin!

    1. Re:When the SAYNAAB is a'rockin . . . by NiceGeek · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hmmm..car full of sweaty geeks...don't worry I won't come a knockin' :)

  6. just what I always wanted by Sophrosyne · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ive always wanted to be able to sit around naked with a bunch of my best male friends and cook big sauasages.. If only I could drive around in my Sauna-mobile too.. wow I'd be the coolest kid in the universe *sarcasam*

    1. Re:just what I always wanted by mni12 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You clearly have never been in Finland (or Sweden). This is what we do for fun.

      C'mon...it is dark and miserably 6 months a year. What would be better than go to sauna and take some beer.

    2. Re:just what I always wanted by joe52 · · Score: 4, Funny

      What would be better than go to sauna and take some beer.

      Going to the sauna with a woman?

  7. Down South by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Alabama, you could make a beowulf cluster of these in your front yard...ha..ha....well maybe not SAABs.

  8. wait, wait, its NOT the first!?!?!? by CableModemSniper · · Score: 2, Funny

    To quote:

    This is not the first sauna in a SAAB, I know of at least one SAAB 96 made into a sauna in Finland.

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  9. I'd rather have a jacuzi in my car by Tuxinatorium · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who wants a sauna, honestly? You might as well just get a car without air conditioning.

  10. heh.. by Suppafly · · Score: 4, Funny

    I did the same thing with a dodge aries, except it was a lot cheaper as all i had to do was drive it around during the summer.

  11. Under the Hot Rocks is their Webserver by cyber_rigger · · Score: 4, Funny


    This Sauna Heated by the Slashdot Effect

  12. It is obviously... by deglr6328 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..only a matter of time until an ANTI-SAUNABB is built in order to be smashed into the SAUNABB.

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  13. Steam shuttle by zerocircle · · Score: 5, Funny

    we should have a sauna in the space shuttle

    Space sauna? Think: a big, hot, wobbly sphere of water. No, wait, that's a space hot tub -- a space sauna would be a zero-g steam cloud. Oh, man, those cockpit windows are gonna fog like a bitch.

  14. related link by carpe_noctem · · Score: 3, Funny
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  15. Obligatory by first+axiom · · Score: 1, Funny

    # Imagine a Beowulf cluster...

    # In Sovie^H^H^H^H^H Nazi Germany, you don't want a sauna!

    # But can it run Linux?

    # When Cowboyneal gets one...

  16. Re:A car with by hhknighter · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always thought Kias were come-in-a-box-and-build-it-yourself. I do know a few DAEWHOAs and modded imports that do that (some only have stickers, but by default, these stickers offer hotter, faster, speedier and ricier performance).

    I aint ingenious, but maybe you could change it to:
    a) Home Entertainment Center (DVDs and the works), fun and great for dates (includes backseats)
    b) a speed boat, I saw someone do that before
    c) Fireplace
    d) huge, rolling, disco ball

  17. I did this with a 2001 Hyundai Elantra. by bahwi · · Score: 2, Funny

    I left some sprite in the car, and I LIVE IN TEXAS.

  18. Re:Karma whoring... by BobbyK · · Score: 2, Funny

    As www came from cern I'm pretty sure they can take a slashdotting :)

  19. Sauna games by Jayman2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It reminds me of the sauna-game "Jokka". You take 6 people and a case of vodka, pour the vodka on the sauna - and wait a while. Afterwards someone leaves the sauna and the rest has to guess who!

    This game can be played by two players as well, but it requires more vokda!

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  20. Finland Finland Finland..... by bobdotorg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ahhhhh.... Makes me yearn for the days when I was a professor in Finland.

    I had a sauna in my apartment, and my students taught me an old Finnish custom - turn the sauna up to about 105 (that's C), and stay in until you can't stand it any more. Then run outside and flop in the snow until you can't stand it any more. Then return to the sauna. Repeat as necessary.

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  21. Interesting by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 2, Funny

    I now think I have a better understand of why Linux came to be. :)

  22. Re:wtf by Gordonjcp · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why when I read this article do pictures of country loving, huge rusty truck obsessed, confederate flag hics come into mind?


    Because that's what the fun bits of *any* country are like.

    If there are no flames, explosives, lasers, guns, loud music, dangerous agricultural machinery, alcohol or barbecued food involved, you're probably not really having fun. Come to the north-west of Scotland, and we'll show you.

  23. The Finns are mad by Ripplet · · Score: 2, Funny

    This just confirms that Finnish people are mad. But especially about saunas. I worked in Finland for nearly a year. When I was looking round for a flat to rent, only about half of them had baths, but they all had saunas. One flat even had two saunas.
    But then, the offical figures are 1,500,000 saunas in a country of 4,500,000 people, so that's at least one per household.
    Where I worked, the main meeting room had a sauna next to it.
    You can even get saunas with full video conferencing or internet facilities now, for the executive who always needs to stay in touch (http://www.mediatampere.fi/sauna/).

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  24. Does that come with a 5 yr/50,000 gallon warranty? by eforhan · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... or would that only come in litres?

  25. Re:Culture Shock by Idarubicin · · Score: 4, Funny
    Not all people jump into ice-cold water after sauna. But there is a small minority who practise that every day. They claim that it is good for your health and in general they tend to avoid flu and cold better compared to folks who don't do it.

    They tend to better resist colds and the flue because all the weak ones were killed by this treatment a long time ago.

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