Posted on 04/07/2012 2:43:19 PM PDT by the scotsman
I think I feigned drowning once at about age 12 when some cute gal was life guarding.
She sussed me out LOL
It was worth a clumsy try LOL
Amen! {^) I stand corrected.
That guy was clearly in a panic before he hit the water...appears to me his issue was a “fear” of drowning. Have to give him credit..he did go in regardless of hyperventilating.
Yes Navy and Marines had to learn to swim to pass boot camp.
At least they did in 79/80
I don’t recall any black guys failing.
LOL - so funny. duh
"It is an epidemic that is almost going unnoticed," says Sue Anderson, director of programmes and services at USA Swimming.
The swimming body would like all children to be taught to swim.
Translation: We have a swimming crisis in this country that only government funding can take care of and we need their help!
Blacks, whites, asians, indians, and every other culture have been drowning since the beginning of time and yet now we have an EPIDEMIC?....wonder what brought that on?
Anything is possible.
We defeat ourselves!
Yup.
Most of my freckles came from being turned into a lobster at the community swimming pool.
Push off the bottom..
I knew black girls who wouldn’t go swimming because the sun made them darker....rare they would go to beach parties unless at night...or if in the day stayed under umbrella’s.
I was a DI in 76/77, them tasked out to the recruit training pool (those instructors were all DI’s who had pushed through at least several platoons, as were the close combat instructors, etc). Never saw anyone dropped because he couldn’t swim. Heard a lot of propaganda from the DI’s threatening it, though.
Because “White men can’t jump”?
Because “White men can’t jump”?
not uncommon.
Thanks for pointing out that only Gubermint can help /s
LOL! Not bad for a 12 year old. :)
Thanks for that input.
Well here’s an introductory lesson to logic for ya Marine.
If you’re not a Marine till you pass boot camp, and you can’t pass boot camp till you can swim, then you can’t be Marine unless you can swim.
See how easy that was?
Just kidding, I love my Marine brothers and sisters.
You tried a hard had dive.
The other reason’s that blacks don’t swim.
Hanging trunks get pulled off and float away.
Gang color’s run in the water.
Felony carry doesn’t work in deep water..
I’m an ex Bubblehead Submariner but I don’t disparage my Marine brothers ;)
You know what I like about Marines?
They think.
They don’t panic.
They adapt and overcome against overwhelming odds.
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