Open Thread

I got pulled out of the water, a lake, when I was 6 or so.
I was trying to imitate my mother doing something and slipped out of the tube I was in, the tube slipped away, and I did the dog paddle thing, going under ultimately. Some man happened to notice, grabbed me and pulled me to shore. I remember choking up water and spent the whole afternoon sleeping, something you don’t do when you are 6.
But my sport later became competitive swimming.

I tend to think of the Jewish laws as being related to getting a large number of people across a long distance without too many fights / deaths, and encouraging population growth.
Presume the ‘unclean’ foods were either thought to be health hazards at some time, or needed for other things, or in short supply.

Well, to be so late on a thread! I saw some things a while back that people here wrote both to, and about the What. Some of the rhetoric directed to him by a couple of the women here were worse and at least as profane than the stuff he writes (or should I soften that with a verbal “seems”.) ha-ha good one to the person who noted that word.

I’m not counting the dibs and what dust-ups here and it seems (that word again) they are now pals.

by the way, if I should see a group of European supermodels banded together in a subway car, or across the street from me, I am definitely going the other way (bed bugs).

And I tried to make a joke to dibs on the CHN thread, although I don’t know him, that perchance if he ran into a group of Asian men, I do not know what might happen to him! (probably good) :>)

Rob, great joke about the tranny preses. That element of the unexpected turn-around surprise made me laugh as usual. Laughter is like a good medicine, I have read in many places — it raises endorphins too.

He said he’s going to wear a life jacket, but still…

I know how to swim, we had an inground pool growing up because we never went on vacations. One day I went by myself swimming in the local river when my family was away. The current was weak but constant.

Swimming across about halfway I got very tired. Trying to turn back, I realized that the current was draggin me toward these falls a ways away. I figured I was far away enough and the river was weak, but it was a full-volume push on me. I was thinking, “This is getting harder and harder.” I was in good shape and eventually made it, but after reflected, that was pretty dumb.

Yeah, why does chewing cud make you clean? Pigs eat poop so I’d rather they didn’t do it twice.