Floatation Tanks and other hippy nonsense

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i am going in a Floatation Tank on Friday!! i am so excited and looking forward to feeling all chilled and stoned... have any of you lot ever done this? what's it like? does it work? do you think it's a big load of hippy nonsense? let me know!!

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Very relaxing and all, but rubbish in a land war I would imagine.

― Pete, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i think it'll be ever so relaxing.

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can it take a Tiger out at 1500 metres?

― chris, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

careful not to revert to some proto-human ape think. hard to tell if you do though. Big clue: waking up in London zoo covered in gazelle blood. (Might count against veganism as well, so be v careful)

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

arrgh you are freaking me out! did i ever mention that yes, i do have great sympathy for Emma living with Pete? :)

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Make sure it is a clean tank as I have heard some of them are full of icky bugs and stuff (like I once heard jacuzzis in gyms are like simmering festering bacteria soups full of verrucas and stuff). You aren't claustrophobic are you?

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I have a veruca. But I've been telling myself it's a blister from dancing to excess for a month.

I think I'd be claustrophobic in a flotation tank.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

not claustrophobic no, though not at all keen on the idea of drowning, espeically not in verucca-ridden pus soup... though they seem to have v. strict rules about hygiene at this place. we shall see...

― katie, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ILE manages to ruin your enthusiasm.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sure they wouldn't be allowed to call it a flotation tank if there was any danger of drowning. I think I need one right now since that wine Pete forced me drink last night is still wreaking havoc with my poor jaded body.

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

WHAT THE $%@#4523 IS A FLOAT TANMK

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You know, Mike, from that one AbFab episode. "Darling, sweetie, I'm in the isolation tank..."

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

say hi to multi-eyed goat christ for me please.

― ethan, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But I'm right here!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT THE MOVIE "ALTERED STATES"?

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Floating is a relaxation technique that employs the principals of Reduced Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST). REST research has found that profoundly deep relaxation and improved thinking are achieved when outside stimuli are reduced.

― j>e>l, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just make sure they don't play any bloody awful "new age" musick, like yanni or suchlike.

― Norman Phay, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Should you smoke pot just before? I seccond experiencing this trip in silence. or with Aube or something if you can bring your cd

― the Hegemon, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What is a verruca (and can we eat them)?

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Now I feel sick. And I speak as a foot fetishist.

― N., Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A militant foot fetishist?

― Graham, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A bilious foot fetishist, shurely?

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Verrucas, Verrucas - glorious verrucas, An adequate snack when you've run out of mucus, So have a good feel On the base of your heel It makes a good meal, a wonderful verruca.

(Doesn't really scan that one).

― Pete, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, we have at last found the point at which the paths of mine and Pete's brains bifurcate.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

SO you were okay with the wart and pus eating then?

― Pete, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I believe I complained about those things at the time, it's just that today we were discussing the Monobrain so it seemed pertinent DO YOU SEE?

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From the resulting furor, I initially thought that verruca = pus- filled wart. The idea of a bunch of pus-filled warts floating in an isolation tank made me quesy and struck me as unlikely, so I modified my assumption to verruca = something that causes pus-filled warts.

So, I now know that we really don't want to eat one, but I still don't know what a verruca is. Is it a bacteria?

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is a wart on the sole of your foot that gets inverted cos you stand on your feet so it cannot protrude. It is the reason for VERRUCA SOCKS and the alternative excuse for getting out of swimming to 'I've got my period miss' (also it is a non-gender specific excuse). To remove a verruca it can be: Bazooka-ed with special cream; scraped off by chiropodist; erm that's all I know I'm afraid.

― Emma, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hence veruca salt = very nasty girl (and sub-breeders knock off indie rawk chicXoR)

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Easy to fake with a black felt tip pen too, for boys who did not want to go eye-stinging swimming and wanted to do more maths...

― Pete, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

geek!

― chris, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

am now afearde of the Veruccas. you bastards!

― katie, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The next song I write is going to be called "Verruca".

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you're describing what yanks call:

plantar wart

n : a wart occurring on the sole of the foot; "pressure causes plantar warts to develop a painful callus around the soft center"

As to eating these, I understand that preparation is the key. Three minute boiling preserves the melt-in-your-mouth soft center. Serve on toast.

― Hunter, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I think that's a corn. You can CATCH a verruca (and therefore have to wear a rubber sock at swimming pools)

― N., Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, will it be to the tune of 'Luka'?

― N., Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Floatation is not claustrophobic as that's only associated with not being in control, ie elevators etc., Float tanks are sterile - just like the dead sea - too much salt - so nothing harmful can live in there. Good tanks should be filtered and purified after use - usual local government requirement - tap water has levels of bacteria, and yes jacuzzis & swimming pools have high levels - that's why there's so much chlorine - and thought for the day: it's not the chemcials in a pool that make your eyes sting!

― tim strudwick, Friday, 28 November 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not the chemcials in a pool that make your eyes sting!

It is, actually.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i think he's referring to the urine

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 28 November 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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