The captions for this photo - and other similar ones - tell us these folks are bathing in mud in a Turkish resort town, and that the mud baths are believed to help with stress.
Right. First of all, my dictionary defines bathing as ”immersion in liquid for cleansing,” which makes “bathing in mud” kind of an oxymoron right off the bat.
But that’s not the main thing. I just can’t accept that wallowing in ooze and sludge until I look like some victim who didn’t quite make it out of Pompeii is gonna lower my stress level. I’d be thinking, like, Is this crud going to wash off? What if they run out of warm water? Did I remember to hide my wallet? Don’t catfish and gators live in mud? Do I feel something on my leg? I’ll show you stress! Look at this slideshow and make up your own mind…
A man bathes in mud in the western Turkish resort town of Dalyan September 17, 2007. Every year around 25,000 tourists, mostly from Britain and the Netherlands, visit the Dalyan mud baths which are believed to help heal rheumatism, blood circulation and stress. REUTERS/Umit Bekta
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- Posted by Vailguy » Blog Archive » Reuters Doesn’t Appreciate MudEd came out of the mud bath looking simply statuesque!
- Posted by Lady WeaselMud Make You Tough Like Bull!
- Posted by John C AbellPepto-Bismol
- Posted by Shawn HendricksI’m not sure my “blood circulation” needs to be healed. Isn’t that what keeps me alive?
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks[thought bubble]
- Posted by Shawn HendricksOne more teenager does a cannonball and someone’s going to disappear at the bottom.
The ten thousand year old, giant, trapped earthworm two hundred meters below who continues to ‘process’ the mud would be pleased. It would not understand why, having no identifiable brain, but it would be pleased nonetheless.
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks[thought bubble]
- Posted by Shawn HendricksWhy do I let my wife drag me to these things?
Jane!
- Posted by Shawn HendricksGrung Don Square Hat.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksAnd so, Boys and Girls, if you take a bath wearing a cast it will dissolve, leaving you in pain and with no way to get out or even turn the hot water on to keep warm, just like this poor man.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksGrunge Don Square Hat
- Posted by Shawn HendricksA remake of Titus already? …
Great!
- Posted by Benhttp://www.impawards.com/1999/posters/ti tus_ver1.jpg