You guys are what we call busybodies.
safety, and survival in this case are similar.
if you can swim and keep yourself safe in the water you can then survive in the water.
feel like we are arguing semantics here.
This just in; not everyone is like you.
Up next; go fuck yourself.
Right now; your local weather, from your mother,... the whore.
that's what he said :sneaky:Mosh, get out of my head.
MotionMan
Can't swim, huh?
Obviously anyone that disagrees with you can't swim. I don't know why you even bothered asking.
No, generally those who insult are usually members of the group being discussed.
I did not assume that you could not swim.
I've never seen a person not swim before. What does it look like? Is it funny like watching a dog on a skating rink?I've been called worse for preaching water safety.
MotionMan
Dad taught me. We went to the cliff overlooking the river and he pushed me. I learned really fast.
He SAYS you're his first son but you're actually his third son
I'm 40 and I don't know how to swim, every time I attempt to learn it I end up sinking into the water and I cannot overcome my fear of water. I really like to learn how to swim and I know it's gonna be so enjoyable.
I often think how come other people don't sink into the water? Any hope for me to learn it at this point in my life? Im ashamed of not knowing it whenever we're with friends swimming/at the pool party/....
Kind of know 'how to swim', at least if its in a nice, wave-free, non-freezing, swimming pool.
But (a) it never, ever arises as I haven't had a reason to go near a large body of water (other than voluntary trips to a swimming pool) in the last 20 years, and (b) I don't know that it would do me much good if I somehow ended up a long way from land or in very cold water.
I mean, really, what are the circumstances when it will be necessary to know how to swim but _not_ futile because you are a hundred miles from land or in water so cold you will die of hypothermia long before you drown? (Or, er, is full of sharks!)
After all, the vast majority of the surface area of water on the face of this planet is either of hypothermia-inducing coldness or has sharks, or is so far from land you have no hope of swimming back. The proportion which doesn't fall into one of those catagories is pretty small, surely? So is it worth that much effort preparing on the unlikely offchance you somehow fall into part of that bit?
And don't forget that its no good just learning once, you have to stay in practice and keep fit enough. You are probably increasing your risk more by frequent visits to a pool to stay in practice than you are reducing it by preparing for the very unlikely event of falling into a survivable body of water.
Check the bolded part.
Almost every one of my local friends has a pool at their house, as do I.
MotionMan
Why bother putting on your seat belt since you do not plan on getting into a car accident? Why back up your data since you do not plan on your hard drive crashing? Why buy medical insurance since you do not plan on getting sick?
MotionMan
Why bother putting on your seat belt since you do not plan on getting into a car accident? Why back up your data since you do not plan on your hard drive crashing? Why buy medical insurance since you do not plan on getting sick?
MotionMan
Different (swimming) strokes for different folks?
I've never in my entire life known anyone who had a pool at home. Never even seen a home with a pool, come to think of it. I presume there must be some, out in the richest suburbs somewhere. Anyway, as the entire region seems to be permanently suffering from water shortages (and 'hosepipe bans') I doubt anyone can legally fill their pool anyway!
Seems to me most drownings occur not due to accidentally falling in to water, but because people have _voluntarily_ entered a large body of water in order to practice their swimming skills! Ergo, if you don't swim you are less likely to drown because you'll stay out of the water, like a sensible person!
(I might just be arguing for the sake of arguing here).
for people who will never be around water, knowing how to swim would be a pointless waste of time. I wouldn't preach data backup to someone without a computer.
Good try but that's not a valid comparison. You do up your seat belt because you are in a car. If you aren't going anywhere near a large body of water, that's more like not getting in a car in the first place. You don't do up a seat belt if you aren't getting in a car, no?
Likewise, backing up a hard-drive is necessarly if you use something with a hard drive. Not otherwise.
If I frequently went next to large bodies of non-freezing water, I'd make sure my swimming skills were up to scratch.
Where do you live?
You are actually appear to be full of crap.
MotionMan