Posted on 10/16/2009 11:05:51 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
I’m old. (Sort of)
Down goes Frazier, down goes Frazier, down goes Frazier
There was actually a study on that a while back:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90D12C0B&show_article=1
What they don’t address is why some people that don’t swim will act like they can anyway, and end up drowning. But that can probably be answered just by saying that stupid/careless people can be found anywhere.
I’m not being facetious here but to me swimming is a no-brainer. You move your arms and kick your feet. I just don’t get it. Very sad.
People have done studies that have shown people who can’t do things or know subjects well, tend to overestimate their abilities (like the duffer on the golf course who lowers his handicap) while experts in their field tend to downplay or underestiamte what they can do.
Does that mean I’m really very, very good at everythig I think I can’t do?
I think my post can be proven by looking at the libs in washington who claim to be experts on finance and science (global warming) yet they only hold a degree in law (or bull****)
Like type, for instance?
I just saw that Bulbous Bouffant thing on youtube and I don’t know why but I can’t stop laughing.
GA LOSH ES!
macadamia!
GA ZEEEEE BO
No excuse for anyone not knowing how to swim.
I learned to swim at 5. After getting tired of me begging to have him take me in the pool, my father pretty much pushed me down the slide and let me go. I swam fro that day forward. It truly was sink or swim.
When I was 3 1/2 my dad threw me off our boat in to the Ohio River. I swam.
Today though there are programs nearly everywhere to teach kids and adults how.
No excuse.
My dad did the same thing. I made it out OK but that damn concrete block that he tied to my leg sure didn't help any,
Well MONK,
maybe he had other plans.
Could be. He threw me back in three times.
YOU ARE RACIST FOR EVEN THINKING THAT, LET ALONE SAYING IT!! (Sarc)
Well derllak,
When my son was about 3 I tried and tried to get him to swim and it just didn’t work out until,
We went to the Pier House in Key West for a vacation and the last day we were to be there I went down Duval Street and found some cheap swim fins. Put them on him and threw him in the deep end of their pool.
He started kicking and swimming like a fish and has been a fish for 20 plus years now.
Too funny MONK, TOO funny.
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