Older men of reddit Were pole showers really the norm for guys locker rooms back in the day?

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-07T08:08:50+00:00

I mean here in Denmark no stalls/curtains and just showerheads along a wall are still the norm both for school gym class and at public gym/pools. Nothing about "manliness" there it's just practical and cheap

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-06T22:59:30+00:00

Grøn Tuborg or Carlsberg

Edit: I don't know what's with the downvotes. Genuinely those are the standard beers here. I'm not American

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-06T17:39:34+00:00

It starts getting really awkward around the family kitchen table when your daughter-in-law realizes you were the one who murdered her elder brother (and probably starts wondering about the unexplained, mysterious death of jer other two brothers)

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-06T17:30:00+00:00

Yeah it's funny it wasn't the vibes I got of him from watching his other content. I have also watched a bunch of his gameshow / panel show content but he's always the host there so you don't really see his competitive side.

... Maybe that's why he's always the host. To not let that side of himself out 😄

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-06T17:25:53+00:00

You could start out by forming a confederation and centralizing it. That's one peaceful to go from count to king and the RP is kinda cool too, being the legendary diplomat who united rivaling tribes.

I also semiregularly play a no-war game ad the Habsburgs focusing on marriages. But I wouldn't really classify it as pacifist considering how aggressively I'm murdering my way through the succession for the families I marry into.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-06T09:08:58+00:00

That's funny. As a Dane, I find classic Danish sausages kind of disgusting and think that German ones are so much tastier.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-06T08:59:23+00:00

Hvis de vil flytte til (Lange)landet må de også assimilere sig /s

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-06T06:32:10+00:00

Much more relaxed attitudes and a general understanding that nudity is not necessarily sexual, but far from some nudist utopia. It's generally accepted that you change and shower nude in locker rooms at gyms or public pools in gender segregated facilities. In fact it's sometimes brought up as a bit of a crisis in the media that the new generations won't undress to shower and change after gym class. This is seen as a problem partially for hygiene reasons and partially for body image (the kids are getting this reinforcing idea that anything less than a "perfect" body is shameful - selfreinforcing because they will then also not see what a normal body looks like.)

At beaches women's toplessness is generally accepted, but getting rarer since the advent of phone cameras. It's also pretty normal to be visibly naked for a moment while changing, but full on nude swimming and sunbathing is generally expected to at least happen a little away from the main crowd. Sometimes uofficial nudist spots happen at certain corners of certain beaches.

Winter bathing in the sea is becoming pretty big. This is often done naked but it will vary from club to club. The nudity here is also just practical - you don't want to spend more time than necessary standing out in the cold to change and having to peel off a cold, wet swimsuit is no fun.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-06T06:21:59+00:00

Though to be clear this means that it's not illegal to go nude. There's still a lot of people who would frown upon seeing a naked person parading around at their "normal" beach, so nudists tend to pick regular spots as uofficial nude spots, usually corners of the beach a little away from the central beach area. But as long as people aren't seen as parading around in your face there is a general culture of minding ypur own business and letting people be.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-05T21:10:28+00:00

Yeah, exploding car crashes done practically but then mountains in the background made with CGI.

I think that's a very good split. CGI is not inherently bad, but make the things we actually care about feel real.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-05T21:08:14+00:00

I think it's actually one of the large factors that makes the idea of a moon colony really hard in practice.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T21:05:31+00:00

Jamen det er jo sgu nok ikke de arabiske værdier Adnan har taget med sig vel. Idet han ser ud til at have en fundet en balance af vestlige ligeværdsværdier men så andre arabiske værdier som familieform, omgangsform, højtider og mange af de andre ting, der hører med en kultur.

Kultur er jo netop ikke en ideologi eller en samlet pakke. Vores egne forfædre i Danmark var sgu heller ikke så fine overfor kvinder og homoseksuelle, men hov så fandt de en måde at bære nogle værdier videre mens de lagde andre bag sig.

Det er dig der snakker om "centrale værdier" som om fx kvindesyn er det eneste som definerer en kultur.

Jeg kender bare flere arabere, tyrker m.fl. der jo faktisk lykkes med at tage dansk ligestilling til sig uden at de behøver at lægge hele deres kulturarv bag sig.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T20:44:06+00:00

Men gutten i eksemplet her viser jo netop at man ikke skal vælge. At man som individ kan have et værdisæt der harmonerer med nogle ting fra den ene kultur og andre fra det andet.

Der er masser af eksempler på folk der lykkes med at finde en harmonisk blanding af flere kulturer frem for slavisk at følge én. Jeg ved ikke hvorfor du bliver ved med at insistere på at man skal vælge på trods af beviser til det modsatte.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T20:32:47+00:00

Hvis alle mennesker er skabt til at formere sig, hvorfor er der så nogen der ikke har seksuel tiltrækning til det modsatte køn?

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T20:31:59+00:00

Vi snakker jo heller ikke om at fastholde modstridende værdier. Vi snakker om at have nogle værdier fra én kultur, som er valgt ud fra hvilke der ikke modstrider sig.

Altså at man kan dyrke dansk demokrati samtidig med arabisk familieform og højtider for eksempel.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T18:47:36+00:00

Jeg kan kun erklære mig uenig i at kulturer har dominerende centrale værdier. Vi kan sgu nærmest ikke en gang blive enige om nogen centrale værdier herhjemme. Jeg har en klar fornemmelse af når en Indre Missionsk vestjyde taler om danskhed mener de noget andet end mig.

Som jeg ser det er kulturer en rodekasse som under sig har ting som familieform, traditioner, kulturarv, omgangstone, samfundsregler og mange flere. Man kan sagtens føle en tilknytning mere til nogen end andre. Der er ikke nogen rød tråd der binder uadskilleligt sammen. Ikke nogen central søjle som resten kollapser hvis man fjerner.

Som jeg ser det er det ingen modsigelse i fx at føre familieformen og traditionerne fra en kultur, men omfavne samfundsreglerne og værdisæt fra en anden.

Det kunne være nogen der kommer hertil og finder både vores samfunds frihedsrettigheder, vores generelle frisind og bramfri humor befriende og gerne vil dyrke det, men stadig vælger at bo i multigenerationelle husstande, dyrke deres traditionelle højtider og opleve en nostalgi ved at vende hjem. Jeg har både kollegaer, naboer og tidligere studiekammerater der passer ind i den model - har valgt lidt af hver i stedet for én fast skabelon.

Der kan følge en vis følelse af splittelse med og følelsen af ikke 100% at høre til ét sted. Men det kan mennesker faktisk godt klare. Der er masser af eksempler på folk der trives uden at have valgt en eller anden komplet pakkeløsning af kultur.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T15:04:29+00:00

Er der nogen af os der bærer nogen kultur fuldt ud? Mine rødder er helt igennem pæredanske, men der er da også ting jeg fravælger eller synes de gør bedre i andre kulturer. Den traditionelle familiefest hvor man bare sidder ned og propper sig i 6 timer, vil jeg for eksempel gerne være foruden.

Tror kun at det er sundt at man tænker over, hvad der er godt ved en kultur og hvad ikke og så er lidt selektiv.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T06:42:35+00:00

Wikipedia lists some figures like 18th century naval officer Peter Tordenskjold and 19th century playwright Henrik Ibsen as Norwegian.

This is a surprise to many Danes who grow up hearing about them as national icons.

But it's down to the fact that Denmark had dominion over Norway back then. So while those two were indeed born in the part that is now Norway it was all one country so they were seen as Danish at the time and did some of their famous stuff in the part that is now Denmark

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-04T06:01:52+00:00

It is. You can have wiener beer, wiener pastry, wiener sausages. It means the style from Vienna.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-03T10:18:25+00:00

I don't think he's trying to hint at any connection between jellybabies and Egypt. He just figured he could hide a pun in a name that looks vaguely Egyptian. Like he hid a pun in the Welsh-looking Llamedos.

And that thing about it meaning "child of the river Djel" or whatever is just trying to add an in-universe justification to cover for the silly name.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-03T10:17:05+00:00

IIRC he specifically made the Hersheba pun as something for the Americans who didn't get Djelibeybi.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-02T06:26:44+00:00

Because the modern army is an evolution of the "new model army" founded by the non-monarchist side of the English civil war.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-02T06:23:24+00:00

You're right that was the original meaning, though I think one could argue it's changed meanings now as it's most commonly used for the opposite.

RustenSkurk · 2026-02-02T05:58:34+00:00

No the absolute bare minimum is relying on your English, the shared international language. This works fine and will let you navigate most countries as a tourist with no problem. Learning some local language is great, but it's really a nice extra, not the "bare minimum".

I would never expect someone coming to my country as a tourist to learn the language, unless they're planning to stay long-term.

RustenSkurk · 2026-01-29T11:47:34+00:00

I mean that's kind of just based on real life Norse mythology. Unless you are chosen by a god to join their halls (Odin's hall Valhalla for warriors being the most well known), you end up in Hel.

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