I’m a great swimmer and can paddle around for hours and hours, but I can’t do laps with anything other than a side stroke. No matter the stroke I use, I can’t seem to go straight - my body just automatically aims for a diagonal path or something. With the crawl, I know I over rotate, which causes it, but you would…

As an Albertan I need to just say, we’re not with her. She doesn't even go here.

I had the same problem with worrying about taking a class with kids in it. I figured I didn’t need some poor 6-year-old getting freaked out by my fear and the classes I looked into were not age-segregated. The solution came when I went back to college: I took a beginning swimming class as my PE option. Everyone in…

Good for you! I learned to swim when I was 47, and though I’m not ever gonna impress anybody with my form, I’m just happy to be finally able to do it.

I am totally inspired! I am 44, and never learned to swim. After my daughter gets her hair braided for the summer, I think I am going to invest in swimming lessons for both of us.

Go for it! Where I am learning the pool is only 5 feet deep at one end, with the other end being kid-friendly in terms of depth. I've had really good classes (which are 45 minutes) where I finally grasp what I'm supposed to do, but also bad classes where I can't do the simplest thing. When this happens, I have to…

You can do this!

This is very interesting. I just started learning how to swim in mid November and have a hell of a time doing the basics (like front and back float) because my legs sink - which is where most of my muscle weight is. I can streamline kick/swim from one side (not end) of the pool to the other but am having challenges…

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The correct #1 for napping is “in bed, with someone you’ve just fucked.”

Recliner with a blanket’s damn nice too.

I generally agree. We’ve gone on three intergenerational cruises funded by mother-in-law, who could have used that money to pay for a grandkid’s college education, but that’s another story. The nice thing about a cruise for a contentious family is that everyone can pretty much do what they want during the day and only…

I’ve only ever heard of people who LOVE cruises or people with absolute horror stories. There’s never “I went on a cruise and it was fine.” I am not going to take my chances. I think they’re floating pollution/plague/murder mystery machines.

Yesssssssss! I don’t love everything he has done, but Strictly Ballroom is wonderful. And it introduced the world to Paul Mercurio’s butt.

That was great. And Romeo and Juliet was great especially for anyone who grew up in the 90s. Everything after is garbage. And I fucking HATE Moulin Rouge.

My fav tumblr post speaks truth.

Can I just say I really admire your maturity about this? Also,

The job requires mental toughness, no? So they should be able to deal with it.

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