Aspiring doctor brain-dead after friends pushed him into lake

[illuminati]

they are more dense.....

They certainly are 

[BB]

You knew Corn Pop?

Ha.

Another darkly funny thing that I remember from my youth was the "Don't Dis Your Sis" / "Whirlpooling" phenomenon that happen in the late 80's, 90's. That was this thing where a posse of Black or Hispanic guys would pin a girl to the side of the city pool(s) and feel them up, etc.... Well every once and awhile, usually in the black areas, a girl would escape by swimming out to the middle or deep end of the pool.

It didn't strike me till years later that those girls didn't escape by luck, or change of heart, but by the sheer fact that most black dudes can't swim.

 

[MAXX]

dindu swimming dysfunction of peace

[Humble Narcissist]

People not knowing how to swim blows my mind.

It takes a whole hour to learn.

[Gym Rat]

You knew Corn Pop?

"Ole Cornpop was a bad dude man!!  He used to feel my hairy legs man"!!!

[oldtimer1]

People not knowing how to swim blows my mind.

If you grew up in a city you would understand. No one but no one had a pool. No lakes and no oceans too. I learned how to swim when I was about 13 in a YMCA. Then I was just barely able to swim.

 As an adult I had to practice like mad to teach myself so I could pass the swimming section of my time in Fort Dix and Seagirt military base. I know for a swimmer this is a joke but doing all the laps, life saving drills, survival drills and treading water was hard for me. They had us tread water for 30 minutes. I know for a swimmer it's nothing but wow I thought I would die.  The black guys started screaming trying to grab people. I went to the bottom of the pool so they couldn't grab me. When the weeks in the pool training was over a lot of the white guys were mocking the blacks.  I never forgot what one black guy said, "The  fighting part of training was coming and I'm going to make a lot of white boys cry."

[falco]

It's a scientific fact that colored folk lack buoyancy.

It's not from the food. Watermelons float easily.

[Flexacon]

If you grew up in a city you would understand. No one but no one had a pool. No lakes and no oceans too. I learned how to swim when I was about 13 in a YMCA. Then I was just barely able to swim.

 As an adult I had to practice like mad to teach myself so I could pass the swimming section of my time in Fort Dix and Seagirt military base. I know for a swimmer this is a joke but doing all the laps, life saving drills, survival drills and treading water was hard for me. They had us tread water for 30 minutes. I know for a swimmer it's nothing but wow I thought I would die.  The black guys started screaming trying to grab people. I went to the bottom of the pool so they couldn't grab me. When the weeks in the pool training was over a lot of the white guys were mocking the blacks.  I never forgot what one black guy said, "The  fighting part of training was coming and I'm going to make a lot of white boys cry."

I grew up in a city, but the schools would regularly take us for swimming lessons so basically everyone had enough lessons to be able to go from non swimmer to being able to try to take a life guard test if you were fit enough and wanted to.

Black kids had the exact same number of lessons as everyone else and at least half of them still never managed to learn to swim.

[falco]

Stranger than not swimming is seing teens being good enough to swim in competitions but unable to do it at the sea (beach), where salt and ondulation makes flotation much easier.

[Dokey111]

Stranger than not swimming is seing teens being good enough to swim in competitions but unable to do it at the sea (beach), where salt and ondulation makes flotation much easier.

um... waves?

[Amerian Muscle]

Life sucks and then you die

[falco]

um... waves?

Yes.

[Rambone]

Life sucks and then you drown

Fixed

[Humble Narcissist]

If you grew up in a city you would understand. No one but no one had a pool. No lakes and no oceans too. I learned how to swim when I was about 13 in a YMCA. Then I was just barely able to swim.

 As an adult I had to practice like mad to teach myself so I could pass the swimming section of my time in Fort Dix and Seagirt military base. I know for a swimmer this is a joke but doing all the laps, life saving drills, survival drills and treading water was hard for me. They had us tread water for 30 minutes. I know for a swimmer it's nothing but wow I thought I would die.  The black guys started screaming trying to grab people. I went to the bottom of the pool so they couldn't grab me. When the weeks in the pool training was over a lot of the white guys were mocking the blacks.  I never forgot what one black guy said, "The  fighting part of training was coming and I'm going to make a lot of white boys cry."

YMCA