Mosul, Iraq
A customer of the Hamal Alil sulphur spa gets a scrub and massage
Photograph: Bram Janssen/AP
There's not a horrible war story behind this since the man likes this. Why he likes it is for the interested student to determine.
Ed: some people like to jump into the sea when it's so cold only ice bears would swim in it otherwise.
Good point. Regrettably, the ice bears don't swim at the same time or the problem would take care of itself and we would have gone some distance to sustain the ice bear population in the face of global warming.
Note: Germans call polars bears instead ice bears and the Rockhouse likes that name a whole lot better. Germans spell it Eisbär but the sound is ice bear.
Ed: the notion of polar can't be anything more than an artificial construct when applied to any spherical object and ...
Shut up, Dagwood.
Soapy Man gets off on his scrub down for some reason and it sounds like that's only the start of his joy. Even if it's a hooker doing it, who's going to dig being laid down on a rock and scrubbed with who knows what.
Ed: in Scandinavia they get off on getting into a sauna and then going out into the snow to hit themselves with sticks
Iranians hit themselves with chains. Same thing but warmer.
Ed: why do they do it?
Why would you want to know; just be somewhere people don't do it.
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