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Biden siding with Republicans, on the DC crime is gave them talking point.

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SDBZ posted...

Right blows left out of the water.

Nice whale joke.

Possibly.

ClockworkHare posted...

I understand why this phenomena would be surprising to some people.

However, as someone who's swam like an otter since childhood I have also noticed hundreds of people who don't. I'm tall, athletic, with big feet for paddling. I can coast just by kicking alone. I have to try to sink, it's how my body is built. I also grew up in locations where there was plenty of lakes, rivers, and beaches to swim. Many people in the US don't actually have those traits or experience when it comes to swimming.

What I'm saying is life threw me a lot of reasons to become a better swimmer. By contrast, there's people out there, in big cities for example, who had very little initiative to swim throughout their whole individual existence. Really. They either had other things to do for fun or lived in conditions where it wasn't safe to stray far enough from home to find a swimming spot. Often the people in the latter situation also lacked the means or social connections where something seemingly as generic as a neighborhood swimming pool was an option. Plenty of poor inner city folk who never learned how to swim. Other times it wasn't a case of class, but availability. Some people didn't have the time or convenience for swimming experience. It happens.

This was a discovery for me when I was younger. It didn't really hit me that some people manage to go through life without any motivation to learn how to swim. This included some of the men I dated who sank like rocks or had phobias of drowning. Many of them grew up under conditions I mentioned above. Couple of them practically considered my ability to swim well like a superpower, which to me was as ridiculous as it sounds. I tried to help them gently learn, but their fears often won out. Thankfully there's plenty else to do in the modern era.

Am I the only one in this board who's actually played organized tackle football before?

Like half of the comments I've seen on this server are so obviously written by non-athletes that it's almost humorous.

When I was in high school (3 year starter for our varsity football team) I would get a full-on sprint going and clock the shit outta whoever had the ball. My coaches called me "speedhawk" as a nickname cause I had such a nose for the football and for those three seasons I was considered the most feared safety in our conference. Senior year I led my team to the state semifinals only to get fucked over by the refs in the 4th but that's another conversation (DM me if you're interested in hearing about it)

So, yeah. I hope yall can understand why I feel like there's such a big disconnect between myself and your typical CE user. Please tell me I'm not the only one who feels this way lol