Well can you swim? Our local paper is raising awareness of being able to swim. I'm always surprised at the amount of adults who can't swim. It could save your skin!

So if you can't swim what's the reason? are you scared of water? never been taught? never wanted to learn?

I can swim, but I float better.

I can swim, but I float better.

:laugh: as long as you don't float like a brick!

I can swim, but I havn't been swimming for ages, in fact I'm tempted to go swimming now!

I can 'get about' in the water...I can swim..but not very elegently I have to say, I was a late learner thanks to my mothers fear of the water and so never mastered the art of a graceful stroke (and you have to have a graceful stroke)

For this very reason ALL my boys take weekly lessons and it costs me a bloody fortune.....

I can just about swim but I am not a good swimmer. And because of that, like Buzz I spent a fortune making sure my children could swim properly..

I'm not graceful either Buzz and do something half way between breast stroke and a crawl, a sort of brawl with my arms doing the breast stroke and my legs doing the crawl.

I imagine it is harder to learn as an adult, but with so many 'mature' swimming classes, there's plenty of opportunity to learn and you never know when it might save yours of someone else's life!

I can't vote unless you define "swim" - lol. I can just about get from one side of the pool to the other before I run out of puff. Does that count?

:laugh: as long as you don't float like a brick!

What are you trying to say? Do I look fat to you?

I love swimming. I used to go every day, but now I only manage about three times a week. I get a real buzz out of it. I know quite a lot of people who can't swim. it's never too late though, it's one of them sports that if you are taught properly and are fit you couldn't tell the difference after a few months.
I just wish my local pool had diving boards. I used to love diving.
I think every child should have the oppertunity to learn to swim at school. Thats where I learnt, my parent's would never of have the time to take us swimming let alone afford lessons!

I was 17 before I learned to swim!! :ohmy: I got put put off as a kid cos I was bullied and the kids used to push me under in the pool....I was really frightened of jumping in and my horrible Games teacher just pushed me in the deep end and I sank. I remember all the other girls laughing at me and it was utterly humiliating. After that I refused to go and bunked off every swimming lesson.

It took a lot for me to brave a swimming pool, but I was glad I did. I can only swim breaststroke, but I have a lot of stamina and can swim for a long time, albeit not at top speed! However I still can't bear going underwater, I have a real terror of it. :sad:

Bluddy school - I HATED it.

Like a fish ... but don't do it often enough!!

I love swimming - used to go every other day, but what with babies and cant-be-arsedness it fell by the wayside. Plus my hair needs to be dried slowly with a diffuser or else I become a hair-bear, and swimming pool hairdryers are so pants I used to scare people on the way home. :gunsmilie

We still go about once a fortnight though - Gigi loves it, so hopefully she's started early enough never to get scared by water.

I love to swim but we don't do it very often - Emma can swim - she's not graceful nor does she have a perfect stroke but she can keep herself alive in water when she's out of her depth - tis good enough for me!

This is the one sport I hate.

I can run, jump, throw, skip, drink.....but can I swim?...well I can swim but hate it..I feel like a duck out of water the other way round. When I am running I feel light and relaxed...when ever I am forced to swim I feel heavy and uncomfortable.

Glug glug.

Don't like shaving my p***s (which is necessary, believe me) or getting dry afterwards. Love it when I'm actually in there, but mess around more than swim.

Don't like shaving my p***s (which is necessary, believe me) or getting dry afterwards. Love it when I'm actually in there, but mess around more than swim.

Try waxing at a Salon Patsy...but never EVER have the Hollywood...speak to ils about this.

you wouldn't get me near one of the those places - I wouldn't want anyone down there, not even Mr P!

I can swim but not very strongly and it took me years to be able to do it including 2 sets of swimming lessons and my brother dropping me in the middle of the pool when i was about 6. I haven't been swimming for years but i do love the water

I can swim, but was a late starter. I remember the day when I did my first stroke all on my own. I was at primary school, about 11 years old, and all the other kids were getting their 100 and 500 metres badges.

But my joy was doing backstroke and the teacher was holding one end of a pole, I was holding the other in the pool and she kept telling me to let go.
Well I eventually did, and I swam, I didn't sink, I was so chuffed.
I'll never forget that.

But for some reason I have never been able to do the breastroke. I always end up slowly sinking :wacko:

I class myself as a non-swimmer. I wish I could swim and have considered learning, but I can't and I haven't.

I'm not graceful either Buzz and do something half way between breast stroke and a crawl, a sort of brawl with my arms doing the breast stroke and my legs doing the crawl.

I imagine it is harder to learn as an adult, but with so many 'mature' swimming classes, there's plenty of opportunity to learn and you never know when it might save yours of someone else's life!

The brawl I like it, this describes my swimming stroke perfectly. I get about but not that fast and never put my head under water cos I hate it. Can't swim as far these days cos of the fags, they keep going out in the water. I hate the chlorine as it affects my eyes so badly I come out looking like I've been booing all night. I never have this problem in pools on holiday then again after seeing some of those holiday progs they are probably all full of bacteria.

I made sure my kids learnt to swim as we live by the sea which was just as well as one of them jumped off the pier when he was 11.

I can just about swim but I am not a good swimmer. And because of that, like Buzz I spent a fortune making sure my children could swim properly..

Me too, in fact I would say that Katie who is 6 is a better swimmer than me. I never get out of my depth and have to able to touch the bottom.

I used to be part of North lanarkshire Swim Team and had to train about four times a week. It was hard work but I loved it. Even have a few medals :blush:
But now I've not swam in ages and feel guilty about it actually. Really sould get back into it. That should've been my New Years resolution. D'oh!

I can't swin due to the fact I have a very real fear of water, I blame my auld da who threw me into a swimming pool when I was a kid and the rest is history - plus I have seen Jaws! :ninja:

I can't swin due to the fact I have a very real fear of water, I blame my auld da who threw me into a swimming pool when I was a kid and the rest is history - plus I have seen Jaws! :ninja:


ahh yes Jaws! that film has a lot to answer for! We go swimming in the sea often in the summer (we are only 10 mins from a lovely beach) but everytime I get out of my depth I worry about sharks!! Silly isn't it ...I don't think we've EVER EVER had a shark anywhere near our beach!! Although we did have a dead whale last year!

My aunty used to live in Weymouth and they had a basking shark there for a bit, I know they are harmless, but I reckon they would still be scarey!!

Don't like shaving my p***s (which is necessary, believe me) or getting dry afterwards. Love it when I'm actually in there, but mess around more than swim.


I'm very worried Patsy and would like some clarification. ...what are the missing letters? I can only think of "eni"!!! which is quite frankly disturbing me!!

I think the missing words are "ube" Dol :laugh:

I think the missing words are "ube" Dol :laugh:


that is SUCH a relief!!!!

I think the missing words are "ube" Dol :laugh:

Could be "ile".....ouch.

Aren't we allowed to say pubes?

Aren't we allowed to say pubes?

I think Patsy did the masking herself there ILS - to spare hers and our blushes no doubt! what a considerate p****n she is!

Took me a while to realise what your stars meant then Dol :laugh:

We had swimming lessons both at school and in the brownies :) I try to go at least once a week now

I love swimming, although i havent been for ages now. I used to compete for the school, and have many a medal at home. I even did my life saving course which involved blowing up your PJ bottoms !!! I mean, who says you'll be wearing PJ's when you drown :huh:

I love swimming, although i havent been for ages now. I used to compete for the school, and have many a medal at home. I even did my life saving course which involved blowing up your PJ bottoms !!! I mean, who says you'll be wearing PJ's when you drown :huh:

blowing PJ in the swimming pool!!! :w00t: I admire your versatility Bonsai!! Do you swallow or spit?!

blowing PJ in the swimming pool!!! :w00t: I admire your versatility Bonsai!! Do you swallow or spit?!

I always spit :wink_kiss

Look at all you ogling over young peejay!!

In SA we swim every week for an hour at school and have a gala at the end of every term, my mum also sent me to lessons before I started school. I'd have to be a bit dense if I still didn't know how ...

You wouldn't know unless you've been taught and the schools in the UK don't appear to have swimming pools (correct me if Im wrong).

lURVE swimming - that's TWO things I can do like a fish :blush:

lURVE swimming - that's TWO things I can do like a fish :blush:
Do you imitate any other animals Tigg??

RABBITS perhaps :w00t: :bag:

Yeh - I do a impressive shy, sexually inert rabbit with catholic repression issues........:closedeye