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Hygiene is important sushis. Bathing is healthy for mind and body. Cleanliness is spiritually important. It relieves pain and stress and is super comfy. Who doesn't love a bathhouse episode? But what's the correct technique for bathing? Getting inside a warm tub and staring at the ceiling? Going to the sento with your friends and lewding random strangers before stealing the girls pantsu? We can't all afford to go to public bathouses, onsens, and hammams, many countries don't even have them anymore, but many of us have bath tubs at home. If not, you'll have to brave your local bathhouse which may be filled with pervy old men or toxic mold or both. So let's share some comfy tips for bath time.

A good bath should involve preparation of the body, scrubbing, soaping, and soaking. Okay. Here's the shitty method I threw together. Feel free to harshly attack me.

Step 1. Prepare the body. You wanna slowly expose your body to heat and gradually induce some sweating. Exactly how you should do this depends on the equipment you have available. Use the tub to generate steam. Sit in a warm room. Whatever. Just make sure you sweat.
Step 2. Massage the body. This one is tricky if you're on your own but much easier if you're at a public bath or some equivalent. Just make sure you've let your body sweat out the bad stuff beforehand.
Step 3. Exfoliation. Traditionally, a glove made from camel hair is used. These are hard to get so find a comfy substitute, nothing to harsh. Begin gently scrubbing the body. Do not peel your skin off. Be gentle.
Step 4. Get a lump of soap, preferably Nablusi or Aleppo soap (these have been hard to get due to uncomfy political reasons so use Castille soap if you can). Soap the entire body, gentely massage the stuff in.
Step 5. Get in the tub and soak for as long as you like.
Step 6. When you're done, rinse, then apply soap and rinse with warm water again. Some people say the final rinse should be cold water. Its really up to you but I prefer warm.
Step 7. Get in a comfy gown and relax in a room with moderate temperature, sit in comfort but don't wrap yourself up to let the body breathe. Let your body cool down. Take the time to enjoy some tea and snacks. Don't consume anything too cold like ice cream.

This entire process is probably wrong but whatever. I did my best with what I had. My tub will never be as good as an onsen etc. fuck it. I'm gonna go suicide for posting this by tossing the toPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

This was one of my favourite threads on the old sushichan. Post comfortable audiovisual experiences utilising the WebMatroska container format.

The audio is: Boards of Canada - roygbiv
The video is of San Francisco in 1905.
https://www.loc.gov/item/00694408/

What can I spend money on to make myself comfier?

The spookiest night of the year is upon us! Have you prepared compensation to keep the tricksters away?

is there a "ask the opposite gender stuff" thread? i have a question :(

do you feel happy today sushi

Have you ever been scared at work? I've realized now that I'm the adult I can't run to anyone else if I'm alone on my shift…

i wonder if spamming sushigirl is as easy as getting vpn(PLEASE DONT)

How do you deal with stress sushi? I feel overwhelmed in life right now and I need to find ways to relax and take the edge off. I’m work obsessed and can’t stop myself from hitting the books. The stress gets real bad. I get headaches and wind up restless and can’t sleep. I obsess over being a sinner and being inferior. What do you do to relax?

This is NOT a suicide/euthanasia thread. Death was once an ever present part of life, in all its beauty and all its horror. Our ancestors lived with the ever present threat of death, from the butchering of livestock to accidents, the death of elderly family members, even public executions. For us moderns, death is something we like to ignore. Except for Hollywood movies and video games and internet gore, we do not see it. We don’t think about it. As scientific means have extended life, witnessing death and dying is no longer common place for us. So we conceal death, pretend we’re not dying, try not to think about it, and when people do die unexpectedly its scandalous.

Once, we would have ended our lives on our deathbed surrounded by family and friends. Today, your end of life is more likely to be a sterile white hospital or hospice surrounded by strangers in medical gear and masks. Scientific medicine extends life, but maybe it allows us to cheapen it too? We’d rather extend our lives artificially in medical facilities, even if it means a wretched existence, than die peacefully in dignity at home.

There is a Japanese tradition about dying beautifully, Sufi sages and Buddhist monks call upon us to die before we die, to make peace with death. So sushi how would you like to die? What would you want your end to look like? How do you come to terms with your mortality? What do you want to accomplish before you go?