Taking Cold Showers • Hacker News Board

Re: Taking Cold Showers

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Post by camperman » Sat, Jun 11, 2011, 9:23 PM UTC

mattdeboard wrote: post #120

tygorius wrote: post #108

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suggesting they're "character builders" is painfully pretentious. No, it's just clear that the author has a wider understanding of the issue (and more compassion) than you display. It's like criticizing people for only being able to do a couple of pushups when they first visit the gym. The fact that they keep going to the gym and working at building strength is the important part, not how many repetitions they start…

Irrelevant anecdote for first world 21st century residents.

Maybe not given the rate the First World is flying apart at the seams. I'm watching from the Third World, I've lived through a genocide, hyperinflation and massive social unrest and the signs in the US and Europe look horribly familiar.

Re: Taking Cold Showers

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Post by DifE-Q » Mon, Jun 13, 2011, 4:48 PM UTC

Jach wrote: post #115

DifE-Q wrote: post #101

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You sound like someone that is afraid of cold water - if it seems so easy an puerile to you; why don't you try it.

Holy shit that's the worst reasoning I've seen here in a while. How about no, because, as the OP said, it does nothing meaningful, likewise with "proving I'm not afraid of cold water to a random dude on HN". Can you think of a true story of someone saving a person from icy water (something meaningful) and saying as the defining point "Yeah, I totally bitch-slapped that cold water since I'M A MAN."? Hollywood likes to…

Interesting analysis grasshopper. I have noticed though that you and many others assailing this idea offer no path or insight of your own to develop character. Just meaningless statements such as, "but that's not how it works in real life." SO wise one, please tell us how it works in "REAL LIFE".

Re: Taking Cold Showers

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Post by pavel_lishin » Mon, Jun 13, 2011, 6:35 PM UTC

mattdeboard wrote: post #62

As someone who has taken many, many, many cold showers in Iraq and other unpleasant locales, if your character is so underdeveloped that taking a cold shower builds it up, you should be taking bigger strides. Edit: point being, cold showers are such an unbelievably mild form of suffering that suggesting they're "character builders" is painfully pretentious. Surprised this blogger of all people wrote this. He knows su…

Yes, indeed - real men build up character by punching themselves in the genitals, and then relaxing to a nice Nails-On-Chalkboard quartet for 15 minutes.