Looking for a Hot Tub?

[Disneyphile]

If anyone out there has always wanted a hot tub, there is a really large one available through Habitat for Humanity at their main store in Gardena (http://www.habitatla.org/habitat.asp) for only.... $700. Just wanted to pass the word, since I know there are some homeowners on here who also love hot tubbing. :)

Their home stores offer new stuff at a fraction of retail, and the profits go to help build houses for families in need.

[RStar]

It depends on who’s in it and what they are wearing……

:D

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I had a friend who found a free hot tub on Craigslist. It needed some minor inexpensive repair and was as good as new.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

I had a friend who found a free hot tub on Craigslist. It needed some minor inexpensive repair and was as good as new.

Yep, I'm going to do that someday.

[Alex]

I will admit it irrational but to me the thought of buying a used hot tub is a lot like the thought of buying used underwear.

[Kevy Baby]

I will admit it irrational but to me the thought of buying a used hot tub is a lot like the thought of buying used underwear.You can do that from vending machines in Japan (http://www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/panties.asp).

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I will admit it irrational but to me the thought of buying a used hot tub is a lot like the thought of buying used underwear.From this I'd suppose you would never sit in anyone else's hot tub or pool.

I love when you mention a rare irrationality.

[Capt Jack]

You can do that from vending machines in Japan (http://www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/panties.asp).


...my peeps are a strange lot



wurd :snap:

[Alex]

Generally true. More so for hot tubs than swimming pools though I'm not generally fond of swimming in chlorinated water.

1. The size of hot tubs is such that generally if there are other people in it with me, they'll be inside my preferred personal space. And if it is crowded enough that touching other people is mostly unavoidable then I really don't want to be in there.

2. If I had a large whirlpool bathtub in my bathroom, I'd not invite people to come take a soak with me in it. Not sure why putting the bathtub outside changes that dynamic.

3. A hot tub just doesn't provide enough perceived dilution of all the crap (literal and figurative) that may be coming off of other people. In a full size swimming pool it doesn't so much bother me that someone in there is probably taking a tinkle. It's more bothersome in the much more confined space of a hot tub.

4. I'm a whale so generally avoid situations where I'll be taking my shirt off. It is harder for me to accept that nobody cares what I look like when we're all sitting in a circle forced to look at each other.

5. To reiterate: dilution, dilution, dilution. I want my communal liquids to be homeopathic in their dilution of human detritus.

6. It's not 1978 any more.

[Ghoulish Delight]

4. I'm a whale
Do you prefer poker, or do you go straight for baccarat?

[Alex]

Depends on whether I get to keep my shirt on.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

2. If I had a large whirlpool bathtub in my bathroom, I'd not invite people to come take a soak with me in it.Alex: "Thanks for coming over."
Friend: "No problem."
A: "Want a drink?"
F: "Sure."
*Alex mixes cocktails*
F: "So, I brought my swimsuit...where's the hot tub?"
*Alex hands over drink*
A: "Actually...it's my new large whirlpool bathtub. Come have a look."
F: "Hmm. You know, now I remember, I have somewhere to be...."

[Alex]

See. Completely weird. But if we change it to:

Alex: "Thanks for coming over."
Friend: "No problem."
A: "Want a drink?"
F: "Sure."
*Alex mixes cocktails*
F: "So, I brought my swimsuit...where's the hot tub?"
*Alex hands over drink*
A: "Actually...we had it built inside so we could enjoy it in the rain, isn't it nice?"
F: "Cool...and with a conveniently located toilet!"
A: "Yeah, that's for puking when we party too hard."

Somehow no longer weird to people.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Well, do you chlorinate your bathtub?

[Moonliner]

http://thereifixedit.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/tifi-hottub.jpg?w=500&h=357

[Alex]

Well, do you chlorinate your bathtub?

If I did, would that make inviting people over to lounge with me in my bathtub any less weird?

But then chlorination does not deal with any of my issues either.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Actually, slightly more weird.

Although making it slightly less weird would be if your tub were secluded from the actual commode in your bathroom. Say, with the toilet behind a door as in some bathrooms, or if the room were large enough that one could say of the tub that it's "clear on the other side". Still a little weird, but if it were an awesome jacuzzi tub and it's not right next to a toilet, then I might be down (well, maybe not with Alex).

[Cadaverous Pallor]

When we discover an irrational spot in Alex's psyche, it's hard for me to leave it alone...

How do you feel about swimming in the ocean?

Do you get squeamish about breathing the air of others, too? What about places that get nothing but air conditioning? Some places have filters, some don't. To me it's the same as being in a swimming pool (or possibly worse, at least you get chlorine in a pool).

You're hardly alone in your need for personal space. (Get it?) Hot tubs tend to deflate my personal bubble...

[Alex]

In general I'm not a huge fan of swimming as an activity. I can swim just fine, but I don't find it to be fun. Scuba's good, though.

But no problem swimming in the ocean. Or in small ponds. Or leach filled laked. I'd rather swim in a lake filled with algae, frog eggs, and deer piss than sit in a hot tub with sloughing human skin.

No, people breathing near me isn't really a problem. Though if they're so close that I'm conscious of them breathing on me, they're already inside the acceptable radius. (And this is preferences, not phobia. I don't run screaming from crowded BART trains where crowd surfing is the only way in and I have been in hot tubs with people.)

Finally, there are many irrational spots in my psyche (preferring License to Drive over Adventures in Babysitting is, at core, an irrational process), I just try to be aware of them and not pass them off as objectively correct.

[Deebs]

I will admit it irrational but to me the thought of buying a used hot tub is a lot like the thought of buying used underwear.

I worked with a guy who told me he would never store his food in a used refrigerator. He could not believe I wasn't buying a new fridge when I moved into this house when there was already one here.

I'd rather swim in a lake filled with algae, frog eggs, and deer piss than sit in a hot tub with sloughing human skin.


Now I am re-thinking lakes and hot tubs. Though I am not likely to swim in a lake anyway, since they are usually so icy. Brr.

[innerSpaceman]

See, I'm the opposite about lakes. They creep me out. Of course, the cold is a factor that rules them out for me anyway. But if they were warm ... well, that would make the creepy factor of all the icky life even ickier.

Not that I wouldn't enjoy swimming in a lake, and I have. And I'm not worried about the water being contaminated by the life within. Just the imaginary teemingness of lake life sorta bugs me to be part of it.

[Alex]

When it comes to swimming the colder the water the better (last time I swam was in the Merced river on the Yosemite valley floor in mid-May - pure snow melt) so far as I'm concerned. Which is why next year current plan is to the first time take a vacation where swimming will play a significant part of the trip. Things go right, sometime next summer I'll be swimming at least for a few minutes in the Arctic Ocean.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

The lakes Michigan, Superior, and Eerie seemed much cleaner than most oceans I've been in. Of course, that was in the early eighties and up northwards.

[Not Afraid]

The only place I have swam that creeped me out was in the Amazon. Otherwise, I'm fine as long as I don't have to touch the squishy bottom with my bare feet when I can't see the bottom any more.