Which is more painful?

Much, much more painful to bathe in boiling hot water - because its basically burning & cooking you. Freezing cold water is much less of a temperature difference from normal than boiling hot water is, and it will be really cold but not painful.

In Russia, once a year they cut a hole in the ice on a lake, and you jump in and swim (naked) for a bit then jump out as a part of some traditional festival. You’re cold, but you survive with no real harm. If you tried doing something similar with boiling water, chances are everyone would end up either dead, or in hospital for a long time.

not sure when it comes to the hot water cold water debate, I do know that getting run over by the local postie van freaking hurts… and he never said sorry, just left me lieing in the road covered in my own blood and urine. he never even gave me the post the bstrd.

i think it would be more painful with the boiling hot water.

boiling water would be wayyy more painful…

its 212 degrees Farenhiet (100 Celcius) but freezing cold water is only 32 degrees, a temprature which our bodies can actually stand.

Mix them together. :p

boiling water would be more painful because your skin would gin to burn and bubble

cold water would just numb the body and you would probably go into shock

(I don’t know if you can go into shock in hot water)

besides..cold feels better

cold water can only burn you if its like colder than ice and then it would be ice not water

cold ice can burn you just as much as boiling hot water

boiling water because its burns off your skin though i dont know because cold water gets you so numb that it stings and stings.

Boiling hot water is more painful because you can swim with cold water but with hot water you can’t this is my opinion.

boiling water is way more painful plus it will burn you and the most painful thing is being burned

hot water .. cold water makes you numb

Cold.

Boiling water will BURN YOUR SKIN.

Duh…

but cold can burn your skin too

Cold.

Whoops… I meant to say: [I’d rather bathe in cold.]

emo.