| [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #290654] |
So, 25 Juni 2006 23:50 |
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WINE BATH
Visitors to the Hakone Kowakien Yunessun health spa in Japan relax in
a red wine bath, one of several theme pools said to promote health and
prolong life. Around 10 litres of red wine are poured in to the pool
every day, and health officials claim the health conscious as far back
as Cleopatra bathed in red wine to rejuvenate their tired bodies.
Other themed pools at the spa include green tea and sake.
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From Bizarre
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #290754 ] |
Mo, 26 Juni 2006 06:24 |
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Lister <fache [at] SPAMclara.net> wrote:
> WINE BATH
> Visitors to the Hakone Kowakien Yunessun health spa in Japan relax in
> a red wine bath, one of several theme pools said to promote health and
> prolong life. Around 10 litres of red wine are poured in to the pool
> every day, and health officials claim the health conscious as far back
> as Cleopatra bathed in red wine to rejuvenate their tired bodies.
> Other themed pools at the spa include green tea and sake.
10 litres? That's a negligible amount, then. A typical small pool is about
4.5 m x 9 m x 0.5-2.5 m, and holds 45x90x(25+5/2) dm^3 (or liter). The wine
would be less than 0.02% of the total volume -- even if added every day,
it'd take years for it to reach significant amounts (and you'd better hope
they change water more often than that). In no way can this be called a
"WINE BATH".
A waste of bad wine on people who can't do maths. Good thinking, that.
Regards,
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*Art
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #290827 ] |
Mo, 26 Juni 2006 09:20 |
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Arthur Hagen wrote:
> Lister <fache [at] SPAMclara.net> wrote:
>> WINE BATH
>> Visitors to the Hakone Kowakien Yunessun health spa in Japan relax in
>> a red wine bath, one of several theme pools said to promote health and
>> prolong life. Around 10 litres of red wine are poured in to the pool
>> every day, and health officials claim the health conscious as far back
>> as Cleopatra bathed in red wine to rejuvenate their tired bodies.
>> Other themed pools at the spa include green tea and sake.
>
> 10 litres? That's a negligible amount, then. A typical small pool is
> about 4.5 m x 9 m x 0.5-2.5 m, and holds 45x90x(25+5/2) dm^3 (or
> liter). The wine would be less than 0.02% of the total volume -- even
> if added every day, it'd take years for it to reach significant amounts
> (and you'd better hope they change water more often than that). In no
> way can this be called a "WINE BATH".
>
> A waste of bad wine on people who can't do maths. Good thinking, that.
>
In the same vein:
Yesterday I read a report about a small lake in Poland where a mishap in
a vodka distillery made the water about 20% alcohol. The local farmers
were flocking to the place. It sounds like a hoax, so I'll not vouch for
the story.
The report included a quote from a local woman that complained that "now
all our husbands will be drunk and our lake will be a mud hole."
Pudde.
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #291041 ] |
Mo, 26 Juni 2006 19:26 |
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:50:55 +0100, Lister wrote:
> Around 10 litres of red wine are poured in to the pool
> every day,
To make up for any through sippage?
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #291043 ] |
Mo, 26 Juni 2006 20:36 |
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:26:25 +0100, Thorsten Ruffle-Brandt
<news [at] brumble.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:50:55 +0100, Lister wrote:
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>> Around 10 litres of red wine are poured in to the pool
>> every day,
>
>To make up for any through sippage?
I'd rather not drink something that people had been swimming in
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #291047 ] |
Mo, 26 Juni 2006 20:55 |
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:36:29 +0100, Lister wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:26:25 +0100, Thorsten Ruffle-Brandt
>>On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:50:55 +0100, Lister wrote:
>>> Around 10 litres of red wine are poured in to the pool every day,
>>To make up for any through sippage?
> I'd rather not drink something that people had been swimming in
I better leave you your misconceptions about the purity of Claret... ;-)
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #291090 ] |
Mo, 26 Juni 2006 23:43 |
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Lister fache [at] SPAMclara.net wrote in
<77a0a2ti03encdc6n3o7e2fntdbg1q6om4 [at] 4ax.com>:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:26:25 +0100, Thorsten Ruffle-Brandt
> <news [at] brumble.net> wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:50:55 +0100, Lister wrote:
> >
> >> Around 10 litres of red wine are poured in to the pool
> >> every day,
> >
> >To make up for any through sippage?
>
> I'd rather not drink something that people had been swimming in
>
After half an hours swimming in wine I'm not sure I'd care much what I was
drinking.
The question is whether it would work with beer.
--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #291096 ] |
Di, 27 Juni 2006 00:18 |
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:43:06 +0100, Eric Jarvis wrote:
> The question is whether it would work with beer.
Depends on how bubbly it is. You're more likely to drown in lager than
real ale, same with champagne vs still wine.
(No, I haven't tried it, but I've swam in white water.)
T.
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #292445 ] |
Mi, 28 Juni 2006 18:33 |
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Thorsten Ruffle-Brandt wrote:
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> Depends on how bubbly it is. You're more likely to drown in lager than
> real ale, same with champagne vs still wine.
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> (No, I haven't tried it, but I've swam in white water.)
>
Is drowning in white water a healthier alternative to drowning in beer?
Discuss.
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Supermouse
Ask not for whom the cheese rolls...
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #292449 ] |
Mi, 28 Juni 2006 19:10 |
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Supermouse The Rodent wrote:
> Thorsten Ruffle-Brandt wrote:
>>
>> Depends on how bubbly it is. You're more likely to drown in lager
>> than real ale, same with champagne vs still wine.
>>
>> (No, I haven't tried it, but I've swam in white water.)
>
> Is drowning in white water a healthier alternative to drowning in
> beer?
I tend to value "pleasant" over "healthy", myself, so it would depend on
the beer.
On a related note, and fitting with the subject line, it appears that
beer is a more healthy drink than wine.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/28/beer_better_than_win e/
(Yes, of course you have to consider that the source of the conclusion
is sponsored by that beer-substitute manufacturer that brought shame on
the name of an excellent pilsner)
Orjan
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http://www.cunobaros.com/
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #292749 ] |
Do, 29 Juni 2006 21:42 |
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:50:55 +0100, Lister <fache [at] SPAMclara.net>
wrote:
>WINE BATH
>Visitors to the Hakone Kowakien Yunessun health spa in Japan relax in
>a red wine bath, one of several theme pools said to promote health and
>prolong life. Around 10 litres of red wine are poured in to the pool
>every day, and health officials claim the health conscious as far back
>as Cleopatra bathed in red wine to rejuvenate their tired bodies.
>Other themed pools at the spa include green tea and sake.
>
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>From Bizarre
Well, no, I won't go spare:
either the wne is good and I pity the people who _bathe_ in it, or the
wine is dreadful and do you really want to bathe and _then_ smell of
vinegar for 3 days?
FiX ;-)
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #292750 ] |
Do, 29 Juni 2006 21:44 |
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:10:16 +0100, "Orjan Westin"
<nospam [at] cunobaros.com> wrote:
>[...]it appears that
>beer is a more healthy drink than wine.
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/28/beer_better_than_win e/
Kill the heretic!!!
FiX
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| Re: [I] Fix'll go spare! [message #293526 ] |
Fr, 30 Juni 2006 11:46 |
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In article <u5b8a2lbp90qq8ftkp9r191raf3dhn3aa0 [at] 4ax.com>, FiX says...
> Well, no, I won't go spare:
> either the wne is good and I pity the people who _bathe_ in it, or the
> wine is dreadful and do you really want to bathe and _then_ smell of
> vinegar for 3 days?
Might be a use for wine which is merely acceptable? You'd drink the good
wine, of course. Dreadful wine is to be left for some other succer to
drink.
Still, one wonders if one wants to smell like any wine for 3 days.
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| Re: [I] Smelling like wine... was Fix'll go spare! [message #294042 ] |
Sa, 01 Juli 2006 13:34 |
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:46:44 +1000, a collection of particles arranged in
such a way as to form a person that we would recognise as PleegWat,
influenced tha intarweb to propagate the following:
> In article <u5b8a2lbp90qq8ftkp9r191raf3dhn3aa0 [at] 4ax.com>, FiX says...
>> Well, no, I won't go spare:
>> either the wne is good and I pity the people who _bathe_ in it, or the
>> wine is dreadful and do you really want to bathe and _then_ smell of
>> vinegar for 3 days?
>
> Might be a use for wine which is merely acceptable? You'd drink the good
> wine, of course. Dreadful wine is to be left for some other succer to
> drink.
>
> Still, one wonders if one wants to smell like any wine for 3 days.
I recall hearing on the abc (abc.net.au) a story about a doctor in
africa, during "colonial times", who was so good (at that stage in time
during birth, the mother was "sacrificed" to ensure the survival of the
child) that mothers had a pretty much 100% survival rate for childbirth.
Apparently, this doctor's procedure involved bathing the patient in red
wine before surgery. It later turned out that the doctor in question was
a woman (cross dressed). I'v goggled, but can't find a reference. Under
those circumstances, I would absolutely no objection to smelling like
vinegar...
C:\>
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"Where do want to go today?" "I'm thinking http://gentoo.org"
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