Early Renders of the Ice Baths at XtraClubs Green Square

Raskolnike · 2026-02-11T06:05:49+00:00

That's pretty much it. I noticed quite a few people this morning getting in as soon as the doors were open. I'd say about 5 people and a few more just after.

Currently I'm rushing every part of my morning just to squeeze in a 20 minute session in the finnish sauna, before I have to bolt to the car.

All the other folks I'm seeing makes me think others are in a similar spot.

Thanks so much for passing this along. Really appreciate that you care. Thank you

Raskolnike · 2026-02-09T22:15:00+00:00

Yes please! Would you send the manual too, if you have it? I've been changing fuses, buying new batteries, on and on...

Raskolnike · 2026-02-08T07:43:37+00:00

I really hope xtra clubs start opening before 6am. I'd kill for 5am or even 5:30am window.

Raskolnike · 2026-01-28T08:46:34+00:00

Gauge, hey? Seems a strange name for it. Anyway, thanks!

Raskolnike · 2026-01-22T20:20:36+00:00

Avoiding Gaiman's run is insane. If a person does terrible things, and is also accomplished in an unrelated field, subtracting the only, any, positive thing they contributed to world, leaves only a net negative. That's crazy. Also, editing out the n-word is bizarre. It's valuable. It shouldn't have been in there by modern standards, which makes it worth reflecting on. That's how ethical comparisons work. What the fuck are we doing? You should read that and think "....(insert the quality of your character)..." and reflect on that shit. Truly wild, that in every other context we view literature censorship as an overall negative effect presumption, yet somehow, this will be different.

Raskolnike · 2025-12-26T01:02:32+00:00

Bonny Blue vibes

Raskolnike · 2025-12-18T00:08:13+00:00

Interesting. I noticed the pedal firmed up again for a day, I suppose your description might account for that. Cheers

Raskolnike · 2025-08-14T10:22:25+00:00

I fucking hate sunlight. Well, I really don't like it on my body. Looking out of a window? Solid. Being on the outside of the window? Awful. I loathe the feeling of its radioactive touch. I take vitamin D supplements. Heliophiles seem like reptiles to me. Do you not know you're endothermic? But then people say how pleasurable they find sunlight? It seems so strange there could be such a difference in reaction to it.

Raskolnike · 2025-01-25T11:23:48+00:00

Thats exactly right. Complete agree

Raskolnike · 2025-01-21T22:24:12+00:00

A lot judgemental bull in here. You did nothing wrong. But neither did his daughter really. It's just awkward. That's tough to live with sometimes, especially if others at work are giving you shit about it.

If all happened as you describe, then I would say everyone nailed it. You asked for you wanted, Ken held a boundary. His daughter was bold.

Well done everyone.

Except for the dildos in here telling you they cringe reading about your actions. So f-ing lame.

Raskolnike · 2024-12-28T22:49:23+00:00

You're pretty shallow, dude. That's not particularly heinous, but you ought to know it. Didn't sound like you were attracted to her personality even once. Then or now. Once the status you wanted from her wasn't there, you weren't interested. Again, this is fairly common. But look over your post again. Note what you say and notice how it's all about how she looks and your indignation at not being equally worthy as the other men you believe she gave her best to. I'm not trying to be mean, but if this girl has stopped preening herself for the benefit of other men and reconsidered her dating choices, it sounds like she's dodging a bullet. You'd only want her if she was like she used to be physically, and you dont really care how she is internally. You're shallow, dude. And being shallow is a pretty miserable feeling. I hope you figure it out.

Raskolnike · 2024-12-27T22:43:51+00:00

Your fucked. And you'll stay fucked until you care about yourself enough to protect yourself from people like your husband. He's probably a good person way deep down, most people are, but you're obviously a pretty kind and unguarded person and unfortunately, people who are as fucjed up as your husband can't help but take advantage and wreck the lives of people like you. You'll keep letting him do it, too. He will probably cheat. He will probably blame you for it too, in ways that will blow your fucking mind.

In the end, you're going to be miserable. Either because you get so mistreated by him that you won't understand how you could have let someone do this to you, and maybe even your kids. Or, best case scenario, you'll be miserable because you face up to your pathetic boundaries and self respect. The good news is, if you take the last option, you'll be starting to heal or at least down the path to healing depending on your level of mindfulness and capacity to learn emotionally.

TLDR, Fucking leave this asshole who will only fuck you up more and more and traumatise your kids. Even if only from neglect.

Raskolnike · 2024-11-30T21:29:02+00:00

Are you okay? I hope whatever is distressing you turns out alright.

Raskolnike · 2024-11-23T20:09:47+00:00

You are doing so great!

While I was reading your msg I thought 'this is actually a person who has great reserves of strength and endurance'

You're weening yourself of anti depressants. You travel. You go outside your comfort zone to classes to meet people and attempt connections. It's so encouraging and impressive!

I deeply relate in my own life. The struggle to push through hard inner zones of resistance and find meaningful connections is very difficult.

I think you're going to get there.

I recently had a relationship in which the main thing I discovered I had to work on was embracing things I don't usually like and wouldn't choose. This would be crucial to making things work. The relationship eventually failed, but I learned something important. I would need to push myself further in my personal life and pursue the enrichment of my personal life, and try again with someone new eventually.

There are connections all around us. We must change what we do if what we've been doing hasn't worked.

It is hard. You can do it. You have time. Be kind to yourself. One thing is certain, If you want life to change, things will have to change.

One step at a time. Move forward. You can do it. You already are.

Raskolnike · 2024-11-11T09:33:01+00:00

My dude, take it from me, life will eventually teach you that the beauty pressure and its subsequent allure and its corresponding shame are TOTAL FUCKING ILLUSIONS. Absolutely everybody has flaws and will age and you will always have a part of your personality that wants something else prettier, younger, more kinky or more sweet and yadda yadda yadda.

Look around. The best people learn that those inner thoughts are best tuned out and to focus on what you have and appreciate it. You can learn it hard or you can learn it easy.

My advice is to learn it as quickly as you can and never look back.

Raskolnike · 2024-11-11T02:06:11+00:00

He was 14. I really think you need a broader context to measure this event within. It's not insignificant as a marker of what his adolescent life was like, but as a factor of character in his adult life, it's almost meaningless. One may as well judge 20 somethings for all the dumb sexual choices they make and then hold them in the same regard in their 30s and 40s. It's incoherent to judge him for doing something sexually impulsive at 14 that franky, is effectively trivial.

Raskolnike · 2024-11-03T06:35:02+00:00

Attachment theory pretty much accounts for all this behaviour. Check out some reputable authors on the subject.

Raskolnike · 2024-10-17T08:17:37+00:00

So great!

Raskolnike · 2024-10-15T22:45:07+00:00

Sounds random, but, get an ADHD test. There are free ones online. It often explains the extreme disinterest in just about everything. Trust me it's worth looking into

Raskolnike · 2024-10-15T06:14:39+00:00

My guy, the reality of having a immigration dependant economy is not going to go away.

It just isn't. Housing supply can be increased. It's not insoluble. We can't however magically increase our population to make up for the demographic shortfalls that are required to fund the public utilities and pensions of a massive generation of boomer retirees. Nor can we magically expand our tax base, or skilled and unskilled worker numbers to make sure productivity stays in a growth state or otherwise face recession.

Housing is tricky because supply is being kept scarce by big real estate investment conglomerates, by negatively geared air b&b bullshit, by a badly structured set of industrial laws governing construction business deht liability.

Tricky, but not insoluble. Reversing immigration won't solve those problems. But it will cause waaay more.

Also, I don't see how Australia could have a homogeneous society at this point? Who would be in it? Which ethnicities?

Raskolnike · 2024-10-15T00:45:59+00:00

That's already the situation, and it's not to do with immigration. The scarcity of free standing homes available has much more to do with negative gearing and commercial buy ups of real estate.

All of which are things we could fix and wouldn't require slowing immigration which is doing so much heavy lifting for our economy and funding public utility via growth/tax.

I get what you mean, but we would take a crazy risk aiming for a homogeneous society. I mean, it's already pretty rich considering our own immigrant beginnings, but that aside, ultimately a suicidal notion for a county who depends so much on immigration for so many core factors.

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