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| Topic Started: Dec 10 2016, 07:35 PM (295 Views) | |
| ranger121 | Dec 10 2016, 07:35 PM Post #1 |
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Whilst perusing websites about the history of my town, I came across a discussion about another council building that's now a car park, once called Cocker Street baths. I regularly went there in my youth, in fact at least twice a week if I recall, and it turns out that my two sisters and I were all taught to swim by a Gold Medallist from the 1924 Olympics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Morton My sister was regularly pulled by the straps of her costume by Mrs Heaton so that her face was between her incredibly huge flotation devices, concealed beneath a thick blue swimsuit. I witnessed this several times, and my sister was traumatised because she thought that her chest would actually become that size. I was traumatised by the sight of my sister visibly gagging between this woman's breasts whilst flapping her arms in distress. Do we have a claim? |
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| Rich | Dec 10 2016, 08:03 PM Post #2 |
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It all depends.....did your sister get "titty" about the episode? Was this a prelude to teaching your sister the Breaststroke? |
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| ranger121 | Dec 10 2016, 08:08 PM Post #3 |
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She remembers it still, some 45 years later. It had a profound effect upon her body perception throughout her teenage years, and into adulthood. She is constantly traumatised by the sight of obese large-breasted women. She should be compensated financially. |
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| Curious Cdn | Dec 11 2016, 01:28 AM Post #4 |
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Fortunately, it is going out of fashion to keep whales captive in pools, like that. |
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| Steve K | Dec 11 2016, 12:12 PM Post #5 |
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Well whatever you do tell her not to click This Link then. You might also regret it. (from a coincidentally active thread elsewhere and mage originally from ITV's This Morning so reasonably safe for most viewing) |
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| marybrown | Dec 11 2016, 12:37 PM Post #6 |
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I remember being dragged out of the pool by Mr Owen...who would carry a shepherds like crook... latch it onto your backstraps..and haul you out like a drowning rat.. But having said that..my youngest son came back from school announcing he didn't like ''Miss Matthews'' and when I asked him why..he said ''Because when she bends over..I can see her lungs!
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| Steve K | Dec 11 2016, 12:42 PM Post #7 |
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I remember seeing my brother and his friend very nearly drown in front of me at a pool. That was it for me and pools and I never learnt to swim - should I sue? I can't remember if the girl who brilliantly rescued my brother had huge breasts but for the sake of staying on topic lets pretend she did. |
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| marybrown | Dec 11 2016, 12:55 PM Post #8 |
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Our ''swimming lessons'' consisted of getting in the shallow end..and being goaded into the deep end...by that time you had swallowed so much chlorinated water that you were hacking your guts up...The fact that you couldn't swim was irrelevant....when you were about to submerge (waterlogged and an imminent drowning) good old Mr Owen would save you..(Thanks..I think) |
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| johnofgwent | Dec 11 2016, 02:35 PM Post #9 |
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I came back from a shit day at the office to "the bridge inn" at fenny stratford where I booked b&b for the week to find the place full of blue lights. Some woman took her three kids along the canal towpath and to cut a long story short all the kids fell in and drowned. I went home and pretty much demanded the kids be taught to swim. One is now an instructor and will one in eight times be the first face you see if you fall in the Severn upstream from SARAs operation limits. Coz it will be her that gets your sorry half drowned arse out. The other daughter gave up competitive swimming when the training time became stupid Both have excessive mammaries. I think its something to do with the chlorine in the water |
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| marybrown | Dec 11 2016, 02:58 PM Post #10 |
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Ha ha...so many kids do not know how to swim..so if they fall into water they are toast..it should be taught... Does she remember the Severn Bore? |
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| Steve K | Dec 11 2016, 03:11 PM Post #11 |
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IIRC you are statistically more likely to die of drowning if you can swim. I have no idea whether having large breasts has any impact. Frankly having a Y chromosome, my thought processes tend not to be so intellectual after the words 'large breasts' are read. |
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| marybrown | Dec 11 2016, 03:46 PM Post #12 |
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Well I am quite pissed off..after swallowing half of Thimbermill baths...I don't have ''excessive mammaries''..
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| johnofgwent | Dec 11 2016, 08:04 PM Post #13 |
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Well, when SwiftWater 2000 (who at the time were one of the nominated upriver water and cliff rescue associations) and the Wye Bother Canoe Club (both organisations she was a member of ) were called upon to provide qualified rescue personnel as part of the the safety cover for a particularly large one, I found myself and a couple of my mates from our Dive Club dragooned into providing last ditch rescue cover for the utterly unthinkable ... We did launch our people on two, two man jetskis (but did not deploy the dive pair passengers into the river) when one kayaker was seen to be overcome by a wall of muddy shite he could not outrun. As I was one of the said dive pair, I was somewhat relieved at not having to roll into what was basically a warzone of zero vis shite. The Kayaker's antics right up to the point he was actually overwhelmed were quite interesting. His kayak and paddle were recovered by a more conventional rescue boat, and he himself was hauled out by another at least half a mile upriver from his entry. Edited by johnofgwent, Dec 11 2016, 08:06 PM.
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| johnofgwent | Dec 11 2016, 08:14 PM Post #14 |
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Yeah I heard something like that from some outfit I think they called themselves the Royal Life Saving Society at one of the Armed Forced Days I went to about three years back. I thought it strange as a "headline" on their poster The smaller print explained the basis of their claim., that for every non swimmer who through sheer ill fortune, or rank stupidity, ended up getting washed into the sea from some coastal feature or overboard from a ship, dozens who engaged in some form of water based sport or leisure, and who had learned to swim thinking it might be useful, found themselves in the same precarious position, again MOSTLY through sheer ill fortune rather than particular stupidity, although there were quite a few of that catagory ... and once in the water tides currents and the sheer cold will have you whether you can swim or not ... The main point they tried to make was that shit can and does happen to the most careful and best prepared so it can happen to anyone. Talking to the lifeboat cox at the station that covered the area I most frequently dived at in west wales, I was pleasantly surprised to hear him say divers were actually one of the less common to require their services, but it also seemed call-outs were these days almost always to leisure users despite the area being a hive of commercial activity all year round. Edited by johnofgwent, Dec 11 2016, 08:21 PM.
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| Steve K | Dec 11 2016, 08:18 PM Post #15 |
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And then there's the more ice cream is bought the more people drown so let's ban ice cream sales line of thinking I do wish I had learnt to swim but as regrets in my life go it really doesn't get onto page 1 |
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| johnofgwent | Dec 11 2016, 08:21 PM Post #16 |
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| C-too | Dec 12 2016, 08:48 PM Post #17 |
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Back in the 1970s I damaged a disc in the spine, over a period of six weeks the pain grew steadily worse. On my third visit to the Doctor he suggested I try swimming which might help. Now as it happens I like swimming underwater, I once swam the full length of an Olympic size pool underwater for no other reason than I wanted to, it took me two attempts. Back to my disc problem. Swimming underwater allows the back to be straight and that might have helped as within a fortnight the pain had become easily bearable, within four weeks I was back to normal. Five months later I joined the works football team and played amature football for the next five years. Edited by C-too, Dec 13 2016, 09:32 AM.
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| ranger121 | Dec 12 2016, 09:06 PM Post #18 |
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I did the local Derby pool's 25m (now a lump of prime promenade land that the Council dare not sell) from deep to shallow underwater on two occasions whilst wearing a track-suit, I believe, when I was at peak fitness as a life-guard (read: perv-preventer) That was one sadistic bastard test-master. Says nothing about that in the gold-standard. |
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| Oddball | Dec 12 2016, 09:41 PM Post #19 |
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I remember while I was a 16 year old apprentice dental technician, that my boss used to have another technician come in to help us when the work got a bit too much. I thought it a bit odd that when the boss wasn't around he used to quiz me about my girl friends in a 'negative' sort of way - on reflection I think he was pushing some sort of 'queer' agenda. On one occasion while we were alongside eachother on a couple of polishing motors, he made a reach for my 'nads' - I flung some pumice at him and very sharply told him to stop. Things settled down for a while, until a time when we were next to each other doing wax work. He suddenly made another move on my 'nads' - as luck would have it I had a wax knife that I had just heated up in a bunsen flame - it made a lovely sizzle on the back of his hand! He never tried it on with me again! It used to also piss him off that my boss paid me a bigger overtime rate than he got! He moaned to the boss, and got the answer that I did more and better work. Edited by Oddball, Dec 12 2016, 09:44 PM.
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| Affa | Dec 12 2016, 09:48 PM Post #20 |
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I've never been a keen swimmer or regular attender, nor have ever considered myself a good swimmer (most I know are faster than i was), but 25meter under water was a doddle. Like Ctoo I'd do it for fun, no sweat. It has more to do with lung power than it has with swimming technique. |
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| Rich | Dec 13 2016, 12:56 AM Post #21 |
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Armature???
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| C-too | Dec 13 2016, 09:36 AM Post #22 |
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Cheers, how can one spell a word correctly so many times and then spell it wrong ? I put it down to lack of concentration
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| C-too | Dec 13 2016, 09:47 AM Post #23 |
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I have recently returned to swimming after decades of not swimming. I stumbled on an addition to underwater breast stroke, something others might have done before me. When coming towards the end of the breast stroke arm action, I turn the hands in, palms facing the feet, and do a second stroke pushing the hands down past the hips in the direction of the feet, ending in a streamlined position with the arms at the side. Not sure just how effective this is, but it feels good. |
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| Oddball | Dec 13 2016, 11:21 AM Post #24 |
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I used to do lots of swimming as a child, and youngish adult. I taught myself to swim, and the first time I swam in the sea was inside shark nets in Aden {still got the B&W photo my dad took of the occasion. I did a lot of underwater swimming in pools and tropical Far East bays and off beaches; and at Bristol North Baths {25m pool], I got to being able to swim 5 lengths underwater, turns and all, non-stop. |
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| C-too | Dec 13 2016, 01:18 PM Post #25 |
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5 Lengths underwater is some achievement, it must take some lungs and strong swimming. I watched a TV programme recently where a free diver taught a female TV celebrity how to free dive without any equipment. He talked about locking the breath in, just what that means I'm not sure but she picked up the technique quite quickly and could stay underwater for some time, maybe three or four minutes. |
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| marybrown | Dec 13 2016, 01:37 PM Post #26 |
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Have you ever seen a documentary about Japanese pearl fishers..they can hold their breath for up to 10 minutes...the record is 22 minutes..and they are mostly female.. |
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| Oddball | Dec 14 2016, 09:56 AM Post #27 |
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A guy called Herbert Nitisch holds 33 freediving records, including greatest current depth, at 830.8ft. - A French lady died trying to best it, but it is thought that it won't be that long before 1,000ft is achieved! |
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| C-too | Dec 14 2016, 07:43 PM Post #28 |
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Not exactly fit for the average bod.
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