Re:This brings a few questions to mind...
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4ntifa
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Lapin Kulta is something I, as a Finn, am quite embarassed of.
It's a nearly tasteless lager which teenagers prefer because it doesn't taste like real beer. Lapin Kulta (translates to "Lappland's Gold") is the most popular Finnish beer. I think that's proof enough that most people's taste (not to mention intelligence) never really matures past teenage.
Personally, I'd recommend Olvi CXX. Much better. Even Karhu ("Bear") will do.
Anyway... any beer, any place and in any circumstances... IS GOOD!!! (especially after sauna)
-- -=- 4ntifa -=-
Re:I'd rather have a jacuzi in my car
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4ntifa
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· Score: 5, Informative
Weather today...
Southern Finland: -6 to -2 Centigrades, sunny (as soon as the sun comes up... only to disappear in a couple of hours... now, at 8AM, it's still pitch black out there) Northern Finland: -23 to -7 Centigrades, half-cloudy (and there's no such thing as the sun, people expect to catch a glimpse of it somewhere around March). (source: Finnish Meteorology Institute / http://www.fmi.fi)
I consider the weather nice and warm. Just last week it was frequently below -20 Centigrades, here in _southern_ Finland. No wonder Hell of the Nordic tales ("Ragnaroek") does freeze over! (not that the Norse mythology was a Finnish thing, we've cooked our own mythos, "Kalevala", which is highly recommendable reading to every Tolkien fan)
-- -=- 4ntifa -=-
Re:Culture Shock
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mni12
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· Score: 4, Informative
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. There is some information about "avantounti" in here. "Avantouinti" is the Finnish word for swimming in ice-cold water (through a hole in the ice).
I found one error in the article
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Informative
Lapin Kulta is not really that good a beer... Especially when it comes in a tin can. But it's cheap and it's beer. If you want quality, avoid it and buy Czech.
Re:Culture Shock
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Anonymous Coward
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As a finn I must comment before 99% of Slashdot readers think that Sauna is from Sweden and swedish are the "sauna people" of scandinavia.
Sauna is originally from Finland and the sauna density in Finland is the highest in the whole universe. (not sure but maybe 1 sauna for every 3 habitants?)
Also in most saunas outside of Finland (in which I've been) the temperature is too low (under 80 degrees C) with some pleasant exceptions of course. In some saunas abroad it's not even allowed to throw water on the stow (thats löyly).
The Sauna culture is really a bit more than just "lets heat up this room and get swetty".
you can read more from http://www.sauna.fi/pages/traditi.htm
Re:Culture Shock
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tuoppi
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· Score: 5, Informative
Actually, swedes don't know much about Sauna. I've seen horrible examples of this when visiting sweden. Some "saunas" in there are only mildly warm, like +40C only - and people just sit there and read newspapers. Some swe-saunas have air exchange ventilation into room next door, which whill definately cause problems with moisture if the sauna is used properly. Generally it seems, that in those houses that have sauna in sweden, they use it for drying clothes. Drainage has seldom taken care of.
In Finland, we have long traditions of using sauna as a place to sweat the dirt and stress out and wash up. The idea is not to punish and abuse ones body, just to sweat, relax and get clean.
THE SAUNA-HOWTO:
1. Heat up the sauna up to +70C..+100C (up to you) 2. Undress, wash up 3. Climb up to the seats on the sauna (feet above the level of stones in stove) 4. Toss some clean, warm water onto stones. Control the amount of steam up to your liking by tossing more or less water into stove. Keep the moisture up! 5. Sweat for a while, if you feel too hot, step down from the seats and wash the sweat off. Chill down for a while. (Don't go into cold water or snow straight away. Might be bad if you have a heart condition hiding.) 6. When you feel like it, repeat steps 3-5. 7. When you feel that you are ready, wash up well. 8. Dry yourself, take some time relaxing and cooling down before dressing up.
Remember to drink alot of water to replace the water you lost by sweating!
And for you who live in hot climate: after sauna, that heat outside doesn't feel that hot anymore.
Re:Culture Shock
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mijok
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· Score: 2, Informative
More about that: "Sauna" is the only Finnish word that has become a common loan word in other languages. The Swedish word for it, "bastu", makes more sense though since it's derived from "bad-stuga" (in ancient Nordic-speak), which translates roughly to "bath cabin". And about saunas in cars: I know two more of these in Finland and they can be driven - a nice way to travel;)
Well,
I'm one of the proud builders. We, who built the SAUNAAB live far, far, far away from the nordic countries. At least almost 2000km (more than 1000 miles) away at least. So, since we miss our saunas soooo much, we just had to build one.
The reason for it to end up in a SAAB is that one of the guys own more than 20 SAAB's already and one was up for the scrap yard (as Nordics we usually take care of this, not leaving it for coming generations in the back yard.;=) ). We kind of thought of it as a cool idea. All work was done late evenings and week ends. No unemployment here... We have to take care of those anti matter particles daytime, you know.
Well, the SAUNA experience in the SAAB is very good. The steam hits you harder in the small volume the SAAB offers than in bigger saunas.
Anyone nearby Geneva is welcome to have a look.;=)//magnus
Re:We'll Only If you could drive it.
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Anonymous Coward
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There are even smaller ones, and you can drive those: http://www.halavatunpapat.com/english.php (take a look at the second picture, it's a bad photo, but anyways) It's a sauna on a moped.
"The jolly club [Halavatun Papat] soon caught the attention of the media, with stunts like setting the unofficial world record - 29,5 hours - for bathing in a moped sauna. Welding a small cart into the shortened chassis of a moped created the basis of the moped sauna with a one-person sauna built on the cart."
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Lapin Kulta
Pretty darn good beer from Finland.
This is definitely not the first mobile sauna.
I used one some 20 years ago while I was a student in the Helsinki University of Technology.
There are lot of these in Finland.
Lapin Kulta is something I, as a Finn, am quite embarassed of.
It's a nearly tasteless lager which teenagers prefer because it doesn't taste like real beer. Lapin Kulta (translates to "Lappland's Gold") is the most popular Finnish beer. I think that's proof enough that most people's taste (not to mention intelligence) never really matures past teenage.
Personally, I'd recommend Olvi CXX. Much better. Even Karhu ("Bear") will do.
Anyway... any beer, any place and in any circumstances... IS GOOD!!! (especially after sauna)
-=- 4ntifa -=-
Weather today...
Southern Finland: -6 to -2 Centigrades, sunny (as soon as the sun comes up... only to disappear in a couple of hours... now, at 8AM, it's still pitch black out there)
Northern Finland: -23 to -7 Centigrades, half-cloudy (and there's no such thing as the sun, people expect to catch a glimpse of it somewhere around March).
(source: Finnish Meteorology Institute / http://www.fmi.fi)
I consider the weather nice and warm. Just last week it was frequently below -20 Centigrades, here in _southern_ Finland. No wonder Hell of the Nordic tales ("Ragnaroek") does freeze over! (not that the Norse mythology was a Finnish thing, we've cooked our own mythos, "Kalevala", which is highly recommendable reading to every Tolkien fan)
-=- 4ntifa -=-
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.
There is some information about "avantounti" in here. "Avantouinti" is the Finnish word for swimming in ice-cold water (through a hole in the ice).
Lapin Kulta is not really that good a beer... Especially when it comes in a tin can. But it's cheap and it's beer. If you want quality, avoid it and buy Czech.
As a finn I must comment before 99% of Slashdot readers think that Sauna is from Sweden and swedish are the "sauna people" of scandinavia.
Sauna is originally from Finland and the sauna density in Finland is the highest in the whole universe. (not sure but maybe 1 sauna for every 3 habitants?)
Also in most saunas outside of Finland (in which I've been) the temperature is too low (under 80 degrees C) with some pleasant exceptions of course. In some saunas abroad it's not even allowed to throw water on the stow (thats löyly).
The Sauna culture is really a bit more than just "lets heat up this room and get swetty".
you can read more from http://www.sauna.fi/pages/traditi.htm
Actually, swedes don't know much about Sauna. I've seen horrible examples of this when visiting sweden. Some "saunas" in there are only mildly warm, like +40C only - and people just sit there and read newspapers.
Some swe-saunas have air exchange ventilation into room next door, which whill definately cause problems with moisture if the sauna is used properly.
Generally it seems, that in those houses that have sauna in sweden, they use it for drying clothes. Drainage has seldom taken care of.
In Finland, we have long traditions of using sauna as a place to sweat the dirt and stress out and wash up.
The idea is not to punish and abuse ones body, just to sweat, relax and get clean.
THE SAUNA-HOWTO:
1. Heat up the sauna up to +70C..+100C (up to you)
2. Undress, wash up
3. Climb up to the seats on the sauna (feet above the level of stones in stove)
4. Toss some clean, warm water onto stones. Control the amount of steam up to your liking by tossing more or less water into stove. Keep the moisture up!
5. Sweat for a while, if you feel too hot, step down from the seats and wash the sweat off. Chill down for a while. (Don't go into cold water or snow straight away. Might be bad if you have a heart condition hiding.)
6. When you feel like it, repeat steps 3-5.
7. When you feel that you are ready, wash up well.
8. Dry yourself, take some time relaxing and cooling down before dressing up.
Remember to drink alot of water to replace the water you lost by sweating!
And for you who live in hot climate: after sauna, that heat outside doesn't feel that hot anymore.
More about that: "Sauna" is the only Finnish word that has become a common loan word in other languages. The Swedish word for it, "bastu", makes more sense though since it's derived from "bad-stuga" (in ancient Nordic-speak), which translates roughly to "bath cabin". And about saunas in cars: I know two more of these in Finland and they can be driven - a nice way to travel ;)
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Well, I'm one of the proud builders. We, who built the SAUNAAB live far, far, far away from the nordic countries. At least almost 2000km (more than 1000 miles) away at least. So, since we miss our saunas soooo much, we just had to build one. The reason for it to end up in a SAAB is that one of the guys own more than 20 SAAB's already and one was up for the scrap yard (as Nordics we usually take care of this, not leaving it for coming generations in the back yard. ;=) ). We kind of thought of it as a cool idea. All work was done late evenings and week ends. No unemployment here... We have to take care of those anti matter particles daytime, you know.
Well, the SAUNA experience in the SAAB is very good. The steam hits you harder in the small volume the SAAB offers than in bigger saunas.
Anyone nearby Geneva is welcome to have a look. ;=) //magnus
There are even smaller ones, and you can drive those:
http://www.halavatunpapat.com/english.php
(take a look at the second picture, it's a bad photo, but anyways) It's a sauna on a moped.
"The jolly club [Halavatun Papat] soon caught the attention of the media, with stunts like setting the unofficial world record - 29,5 hours - for bathing in a moped sauna. Welding a small cart into the shortened chassis of a moped created the basis of the moped sauna with a one-person sauna built on the cart."
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