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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago

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Playing it safe

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago
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  • nesc@lemmy.cafe
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    One of the 237 that didn’t wear life jacket un-drowned or found a jacket during drowning?

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      One guy needed two

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      Number 237 drowned without lifejacket but wasn’t a person.

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      237 people swam in the lake without a life jacket. 236 of them drowned.

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        And 0 people swam in the lake with a life jacket! What an unsuccessful sign!

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        That guy? Albert Einstein Michael Phelps.

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      Nah, someone put a life jacket on a dead body and threw it inside the lake and it came back to life.

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        99.578% of people that swim there drown.

    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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      Same as that riddle about people coming back from the moon

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        And the fresh diminutive footwear

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    Wait where’s the extra one come from?

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      Didn’t read the sign, probably drowning without a life jacket to this day

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      It could be you! ⛈️

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      Must have drowned in a different lake

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    #237: Jason Vorhees

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      If you’re going to go swimming at Crystal Lake, I feel like drowning is the least of your troubles.

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    I mean the cast majority of people swimming don’t where life jackets.

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      Especially the ones who drown.

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        I’d like to make that point.

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          Well, how was it un-typical?

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      Generally in lakes it’s more people boating who drown. They are far from shore and can get hurt in a capsize easily

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        Also having potentially lot of clothing on, making it harder to swim

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          And also drunk as fuuuuuck.

        • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world
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          I feel like pointing out some info that was not known to me at the time it would’ve really been helpful and not knowing it almost lead to my death by drowning as a child: when trying to swim, (some?) shoes can act like “anti-flippers” by increasing the difficulty of moving your feet as quickly and staying afloat past what one might usually be used to and so swimming is really hard. I think it’s because water is pulling against the bottom of the shoe, sort of, at least that’s how it felt. I was like 5-10 yo in a lake and almost drowned before I got to the dock I was swimming to. Another problem was that no one noticed I had gone under and was having trouble getting air. Overall it was traumatic and really probably preventable in several ways, including by not wearing shoes while trying to swim in water, which was my original point.

          Edit: although a life jacket would’ve fixed it too

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            I’ve never free-swam, but when I was a kid (up to early teens, maybe 14?) I had swimming lessons. I was always told the lessons of the waterways, which I vaguely remember now, but one of them was kick off your shoes because they will kill you. We had to recite those back at the start and end of the lessons, what to do if you fell in. Kick off your shoes because they will kill you.

            Only lesson I remember, funnily enough.

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      There life jackets. There castle.

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        “Why are you talking like that?”

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      I’m embarrassed to confess, but I also don’t wear a life jacket when I swim. Hell, most of the time I prefer to leave the swim suit behind.

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        Is drowning naked more or less embarrassing than just regular drowning?

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          I’m not sure. I haven’t drowned yet. I’ll let you know.

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    Reminds me of Kern river, but the undertow kills people wearing life vests too

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    Schroedinger’s lifejacket.

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    Hrmmm… who wants to be FIRST!? 🥇🏆

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    Or, they only collect the dead ones from the surface. There’s probably a veritable mountain of lifejacketless corpses on the silt.

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      You must’ve misread the sign. All the casualties were without lifejacket.

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        Clearly because the floating corpses were being carried away by birds, so only the sunken ones were left to be found!

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    I can float on water if I lay on my back…

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      Hmm… Do you weigh the same as a duck?

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        What about very small rocks?

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          Or big metallic ships

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