Serious Can you swim?

[j.f.🔎]

I can't and neither could my dad, @slickrick27 said it might be a good idea for a thread and it made me wonder if there's many other "negatively buoyant" (thanks @Soulless for the fancy wording) members here.
I'm sure there's plenty that can... And plenty who think it's bizarre that I'm in my 40s and somehow managed to not learn or drown yet.

 

[GarGoil]

I can't and neither could my dad, @slickrick27 said it might be a good idea for a thread and it made me wonder if there's many other "negatively buoyant" (thanks @Soulless for the fancy wording) members here.
I'm sure there's plenty that can... And plenty who think it's bizarre that I'm in my 40s and somehow managed to not learn or drown yet.

A low percentage of body fat affects your buoyancy.

 

[slickrick27]

Negatively buoyant? Lol I gotta add that to my dictionary.

 

[Pan Kopfrkingl]

I think only Americans and people from 3rd world countries can't swim. In Europe, we learn that in school.

 

[wiggins]

Negatively buoyant? Lol I gotta add that to my dictionary.

A SCUBA buoyancy vest, or buoyancy compensator, can add or subtract volume to allow you to rise or fall in the water colum so given that I think negative buoyancy is a logical term. If negative you'll sink, if positive you'll rise.

Like G force, you can have negative and positive G's.

 

[Twiggychick]

Fuck you nicely Pan! I’m British by birth. My dad taught me to swim when I was very young. And I taught my kids to swim as well. We are American!!!!🇺🇸

 

[j.f.🔎]

I think only Americans and people from 3rd world countries can't swim. In Europe, we learn that in school.

I learned that at school too, they were very lenient on the beginners certificate because I've got one myself.

 

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

The only Americans that can’t collectively swim are the melanin rich variety. Might be bc apes can’t swim either, and closer genetic stock. Idk.

Although, my wife can’t swim and she’s ultra white. Said the water was too cold to ever get into, in Washington state. I believe it, it’s all glacier water fuck that.

 

[Pan Kopfrkingl]

Fuck you nicely Pan! I’m British by birth. My dad taught me to swim when I was very young. And I taught my kids to swim as well. We are American!!!!🇺🇸

Then you are a fucking brit. You can't move to fucking India and call yourself Indian.

Britain is in Europe and basically it means what I wrote. So git gud.

The only Americans that can’t collectively swim are the melanin rich variety. Might be bc apes can’t swim either, and closer genetic stock. Idk.

Although, my wife can’t swim and she’s ultra white. Said the water was too cold to ever get into, in Washington state. I believe it, it’s all glacier water fuck that.

Yea, because pools does not exist in America.

 

[Twiggychick]

Awe now!!! I would never move to India!! And I am a naturalized American so fuckyouverymuch.

 

[Dolly]

My lovely Dad took me swimming from being a baby, when I started infant school I could do a whole length of the school pool, when nobody else could swim at all, I felt so proud. My Dad also took my 2 daughters swimming from being tiny, he used to take them every Friday after school to professional lesson as he was to ill to swim then, and bought them a chippy tea on the way home. I'm proud to say I'm a strong swimmer thanks to my much missed Dad.

 

[Pan Kopfrkingl]

Awe now!!! I would never move to India!! And I am a naturalized American so fuckyouverymuch.

Yet you still talk like a foken teawanker.

 

[wiggins]

Then you are a fucking brit. You can't move to fucking India and call yourself Indian.

Britain is in Europe and basically it means what I wrote. So git gud.


Yea, because pools does not exist in America.

If you can 'identify' as a woman and have a set of testicals and a cock and be allowed in womens change rooms then I can see no problem with a person born in the UK identifying as an American.

Check out Ric Rescorla, English naturalised American, hero of Battle Of Ia Drang and died helping people escape from the twin towers on 911.

 

[Dirl]

Yea, because pools does not exist in America.

Kid you live in Czech Republic...A SLAVIC landlocked country and you don't have sea! Swiming in a pool is NOT swiming. No wonder you slavs die like flies in the ocean.

Go play some Fortnite or Quake and shut the fuck up until your pubes grow.

 

[Rosie]

I'm pretty sure most Brits would recognise this.

I learnt to swim in a FUCKING freezing, unheated pool in the middle of winter at school.

Then I got enrolled by my overbearing mother into an after school swim club. Which just happened to be in another bloody freezing, unheated pool.
3 times a week, I'd be dragged out in the pouring rain, soaking wet, to stand at a bus stop, to catch the bus to take me to another place that's going to make me ever colder and wetter.
Oh, and in the glorious British summer (sic), two warmish days in a row, somebody always thinks it's a great idea to go to the beach. Oh yes, nothing beats a sandy sandwiched and a dip in the English channel, which is yet again freezing and full of shit.

I HATE SWIMMING!

I can't bear being cold and wet.

I never go in pools on holiday, thought of all that pee at the swim up bars. Just Nope.
I absolutely HATE swimming. But I can swim.

 

[Twiggychick]

Yet you still talk like a foken teawanker.

Damn right!!

 

[j.f.🔎]

Yet you still talk like a foken teawanker.

Maybe I should've put this in serious discussion...

 

[Vwj]

I can't and neither could my dad, @slickrick27 said it might be a good idea for a thread and it made me wonder if there's many other "negatively buoyant" (thanks @Soulless for the fancy wording) members here.
I'm sure there's plenty that can... And plenty who think it's bizarre that I'm in my 40s and somehow managed to not learn or drown yet.

It’s ok, all black people have a higher bone density and sink in water 😉

 

[j.f.🔎]

It’s ok, all black people have a higher bone density and sink in water 😉

I'm practically milk bottle white, if you'd said black people were all good swimmers then we could've maybe found out my problem.

 

[Dolly]

I'm pretty sure most Brits would recognise this.

I learnt to swim in a FUCKING freezing, unheated pool in the middle of winter at school.

Then I got enrolled by my overbearing mother into an after school swim club. Which just happened to be in another bloody freezing, unheated pool.
3 times a week, I'd be dragged out in the pouring rain, soaking wet, to stand at a bus stop, to catch the bus to take me to another place that's going to make me ever colder and wetter.
Oh, and in the glorious British summer (sic), two warmish days in a row, somebody always thinks it's a great idea to go to the beach. Oh yes, nothing beats a sandy sandwiched and a dip in the English channel, which is yet again freezing and full of shit.

I HATE SWIMMING!

I can't bear being cold and wet.

I never go in pools on holiday, thought of all that pee at the swim up bars. Just Nope.
I absolutely HATE swimming. But I can swim.

Ahhh this was lovely to read... did you get the little ribbons to sew on your cozzy for doing stuff like a length/width etc ?