https://www.businessinsider.com/royal-navy-candidates-can-apply-without-know-how-swim-2024

  • Egon [they/them]
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    3 months ago

    I'm not gonna read all that. I got to "if you want anecdotal evidence" and I knew you for some reason still don't get it.
    I'm not asking for evidence. I'm not trying to debate wether or not people can't swim. I get that they cant, I understand that. I feel like I've said that in so many ways now. I'm not trying to trash on it either. I feel like I keep repeating myself. I'm just asking "hey what's up with people not being able to swim?" Not as a joke or derision or anything, just as an honest question because I can't relate and I'd like to. I'd like to understand how a person who can walk and talk and read and write and think and do normal physical stuff, cannot keep their head above water and give themselves forward momentum.

    I understand that they exist, I'm not some sort of swimming truther. I really do not understand how this is such a hard question to grasp, I feel like I've made myself incredibly clear. I'm not asking "why do people get tired from swimming?" I'm not asking "why can't people do crawl for 600 meters?" I'm asking about the very basic act of swimming and when I asked initially I thought it was implicit it was about adults. I don't know why I brought children or dogs into it, I guess I just got frustrated because it seems like you keep making this into a discussion of something I'm not trying or wanting to discuss. I'm not trying to debate anything, I'm not in doubt about how physical activity can be tiring, I'm not asking about why people don't know how to swim Butterfly style, I'm not asking for evidence in some strange debate. I don't get how I could have made myself any clearer.