Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "The German sauna culture – nudity and all | Meet the Germans" video.

Abnormal? We've been at it for millenia.
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@fellowcitizen That's an odd viewpoint. Russians enjoy sauna, as well as the odd war.
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In a properly heated sauna the benches get too hot to sit on comfortably. Sure enough, you'll want your "pefletti".
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@wolfganglaun2319 I said: a properly heated sauna. And I do go bare-arsed, like umpteen generations of ancestors before me. The lower bench, on which you rest your feet, doesn't get nearly as hot as the upper one.
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@gerardmazzarese9363 A well-built sauna has proper ventilation. It's just that German saunas often aren't built well in that respect. I've seen German public saunas employ personnel to flap a towel about inside. Seen it in Belgium, too.
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@Someone-cd7yi Not true. If that were the case, your skin would bubble off, too.
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@hansmuller3604 It does too. It bears reminding that your collective exposure to sauna is measured in decades (Der Spiegel says you had your "Ach so" moment in 1936), while ours is measured in millenia.
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@wolfganglaun2319 You have a faulty thermometer there.
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@ThomasKagerer You can, but it's no longer sauna -- it's more like sitting an oven. If you were to pour water onto the stove -- as you're supposed to -- at 120°C, the steam would burn you. Here in Finland, it's tradition to heat a new sauna as hot as it can go, and the hottest I've experienced was my parents' wood-fired cottage sauna, which we managed to heat to 124°C. When my uncle poured water out onto the stove, we were out of there in one second flat.
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@wolfganglaun2319 Then you must have asbestos for skin, or more likely, enjoy warm -- rather than hot -- sauna. If you pour water on the stones when the temperature is 110 C -- as you claim to have endured -- you'll literally risk death. We once managed to heat a brand-new sauna to 124 C. The dry heat was just barely manageable, but when my uncle made the mistake of pouring water, we all were out 0.2s.
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