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arkarian

2012-02-24 11:30:18 pm

red chamber dream

wait do you really not know how to swim or do you just mean you're not good at proper technique?

tomatobob

2012-02-24 11:32:22 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

I have a vague idea how how to not drown, that's about as far as I get before deciding that being in a situation where I could drown seems stupid.

arkarian

2012-02-24 11:33:02 pm

red chamber dream

hah nice

DJGrenola

2012-02-25 05:00:22 am

why didn't you just say lacrosse, jeez

ryu

2012-02-25 05:09:48 am

it took me until i was 14 to learn to swim. my technique's still awful though.

but then i haven't been swimming since exactly then, so who knows if i were even still able to keep myself afloat. i don't think you really forget these things hough. like bicycling.

Poision Envy

2012-02-25 05:39:07 am

Club 27 Goals

no idea when I learned to swim, but I've known for as long as I can remember. Pretty sure my mom put me in swimming lessons when I was like 7 or something.

but yeah I feel the same as tbob, screw drowning. No good reason to be in a big open body of water like that.

TheGreenManalishi

2012-02-25 06:04:02 am

I improvise most of the guitar solos I play in my band. We're a blues covers band, so all I really do is follow the chord progressions around the minor pentatonic scale. Sometimes, I have licks that I return to in certain songs because they just fit but other than that, it just sort of happens. I don't control it or think about it.

Then again, this is just blues, it's not like I'm doing anything particularly sophisticated.

Quietus

2012-02-25 09:06:42 am

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

I love swimming. I was always surprised that there wasn't more emphasis on everybody learning in school, since it can be a lifesaving skill, not just for sport / recreation.

arkarian

2012-02-25 11:22:50 am

red chamber dream

well to be fair i don't think it's likely at all that a person will need to learn to swim. i mean something like cpr is probably way more useful, but far fewer people know how to perform that than know how to swim.

but yeah it would be cool if more schools had pools and swim classes ... the question is if it's really worth my tax money over stuff like better teachers and materials (it's not).

BioSpark

2012-02-25 01:52:16 pm

i took swimming lessons when i was like four so i'm a ~~*pRo SwImMeR*~~

arkarian

2012-02-25 02:43:59 pm

red chamber dream

yeah i think anyone who lives near the water learns and the rest of america is like dur why would i need that

Opium

2012-02-25 02:47:08 pm

I learned to swim when I was small because going to the local pool was everyone's favorite thing to do in the summer. I haven't swam in years, but when I do it just feels so natural that it's hard to imagine what it would be like to not know how. It seems like it would be like not knowing how to walk. It's just something you do, you don't have to think about it. I often wonder if those who say they don't know how to swim are just scared, because it seems like if you get into the water then swimming is instinctual. If one were terrified though, they would just sink.

arkarian

2012-02-25 02:49:42 pm

red chamber dream

well it's not something most humans can do instinctively anymore thanks to evolution so in that way it makes sense, but yeah it's pretty dumb because it's not hard at all

Opium

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Opium: 2012-02-25 02:52:43 pm

2012-02-25 02:52:36 pm

I meant to say that it seems instinctual. I don't think anything is instinctual among humans anymore.

arkarian

2012-02-25 03:01:05 pm

red chamber dream

what do you mean? lots of things are instinctual lol

BioSpark

2012-02-25 04:12:55 pm

i mean people feel horny but then again we've been telling kids how to have sex for years

arkarian

2012-02-25 04:15:38 pm

red chamber dream

we have? afaik if anyone dares mention it at all it's always to say it's the worst thing you could possibly do and you'll get an std and die or have a baby and have a terrible life

tomatobob

2012-02-25 04:15:52 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Quote from Quietus:

I love swimming. I was always surprised that there wasn't more emphasis on everybody learning in school, since it can be a lifesaving skill, not just for sport / recreation.

Yeah I don't have a problem with swimming as an activity if it's what some one likes doing, and I can see how it'd be a pretty useful skill. It's just that somewhere along the line I realized that I, personally, was not built for it, it is not a function my brain can fully grasp. And I figure if I'm in a situation where literally the only thing I can do to avoid dying is swim I've made a huge mistake. Drowning seems like an entirely avoidable danger.

arkarian

2012-02-25 04:16:44 pm

red chamber dream

they say drowning is a good way to go

never really understood that though, i mean not being able to breathe is pretty fucking awful

tomatobob

2012-02-25 04:17:34 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Quote from arkarian:

we have? afaik if anyone dares mention it at all it's always to say it's the worst thing you could possibly do and you'll get an std and die or have a baby and have a terrible life

Health classes from middle school onwards out here are totally happy to inform you how to do it, but yeah they also tell you right after that it is literally murder. Messages are decidedly mixed.

arkarian

2012-02-25 04:18:26 pm

red chamber dream

stuff like that makes me want to not live here anymore, but i guess nowhere else is much better

arkarian

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arkarian: 2012-02-25 04:19:33 pm

2012-02-25 04:19:18 pm

red chamber dream

i don't want kids so it's not like what schools do directly affects me anymore, but it's still annoying

tomatobob

2012-02-25 04:19:59 pm

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Makes me kinda wonder what it must be like for kids in like Kansas or something. Sex doesn't exist you guys! Nobody does that. Well okay monsters do but God will smite them from on high so don't be like them.

Quote from arkarian:

they say drowning is a good way to go

never really understood that though, i mean not being able to breathe is pretty fucking awful

I don't know who says that but I'm pretty sure they never tired it. :v

It sounds unpleasant though and I'm in no hurry to prove them wrong either.

arkarian

2012-02-25 04:20:48 pm

red chamber dream

heh people who live in kansas have told me that it's every bit as bad as you'd imagine

arkarian

2012-02-25 04:22:50 pm

red chamber dream

it's totally ridiculous for schools to tell kids not to have sex in the first place, and even california does that