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Post by agentf on Dec 2, 2021 10:04:38 GMT -5
You won't find me in a river or lake unless it's to save my dog π€’ I had to get in the icy waters of Grenadier Pond in Toronto's High Park on his 1st birthday on St Patrick's. Have not set foot in one since, thank God. I don't mind the Caribbean... without fish in it the size of one's thigh. The Mediterranean, not as much, just by the shore. I'll take a pool any day. Fascinating. To support your theory, Quebec has Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, a professional footballer and practicing doctor. I'm impressed you're learning Swedish ππΌππΌππΌ The more languages you know, the smarter you are, my mom used to say. I can throw a little Arabic around but I chilled my online classes. Happy 50th to the UAE, by the way. Meanwhile I think swimming in cold water is more beneficial for the brain than warm pool water. I for one as a child would jump in the cold 68Β°F pool at dawn. My mom was a pro at balancing PH levels etc. She had a cute kit. I digress as usual. And oxygen levels are very important. I just read that our waters off Tadoussac where my parents partly honeymooned are deprived of the colder runoff of Arctic oxygenated waters and the decrease is 50% in recent years which could lead to dead zones. That would be horrible for our marine animals, if not swimmers. But still. I was referring to European football aka soccer. So, no personal statistics there. THough with american football I was told that brain damage or long term damages may cause dementia etc. Especially when you start as a small kid. Given that professional swimmers spend most their time in a mix of water, urine and chlorine, it might be that. As a child I spent most of my summers daily at the beach. I did most of my swimming in natural waters like lakes or the sea. Swimming in pools, especially indoor made me groggy. So maybe it is more to do with chlorine than actual swimming. And if you train 4 to 6 hours per day in that kind of water, there is more exposure to it.... I do think it would make for an interesting study to actually test the effect different sports have on your brain and your learning ability. Or your behaviour, like impulse control, violence etc. Personally, had one of my kids shown to be violent to other children, I would have signed them up for martial arts, so they learn to control their impulses and learn when it is ok to use physical force and when not. But it would be helpful if there were some sort of scientific backdrop.
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Post by paca on Dec 2, 2021 10:31:57 GMT -5
Lol, when I lived in Canada, my host family took me to florida. the condo had a small pool and was situated right next to the beach. So, as always I would go to the beach and have a dip. I was the only one. But the pool was crowded. A few days into the vacation (well to me it was work) I noticed a few fins on the horizon. Could have been dolphins or sharks. I think it was dolphins though. Anyways it appears that was the reason, everyone used the pool. They didn't even walk on the beach. Just stayed in the condo area and went to entertainment parks. I don't think anyone in my family ever spent their holidays like that.
Anyways me I prefer natural waters over pools. I just don't like swimming in toilets that much.
btw your footballer seems remarkable. But he seems to know that. I think wanting his MD on his shirt, shows how proud he is of his achievement, but also how rare. Bad on the NFL to not allow it. But then they are into money not brains. They rather support their footballers killing their girlfriends then protecting their brains.
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Post by agentf on Dec 2, 2021 11:20:04 GMT -5
Canada empties a lot in winter π With my parents in Florida, we had a routine of doing both. Shark in shallow waters is more south. I think it's a breeding ground. Don't get me wrong. I'm just more comfortable in a pool and not everyone is badly raised and doesn't use the WC. I've dived off calanques at la Plage Bleue, but when I feel outnumbered volume-wise, I prefer terra firma. I've swam with a barracuda and a shark in TCI, and illustrated that humans too can leap out of the water (and unto a boat). I'll go to be polite or by obligation, and I'm an excellent swimmer too but I'd rather be alone. Lol, when I lived in Canada, my host family took me to florida. the condo had a small pool and was situated right next to the beach. So, as always I would go to the beach and have a dip. I was the only one. But the pool was crowded. A few days into the vacation (well to me it was work) I noticed a few fins on the horizon. Could have been dolphins or sharks. I think it was dolphins though. Anyways it appears that was the reason, everyone used the pool. They didn't even walk on the beach. Just stayed in the condo area and went to entertainment parks. I don't think anyone in my family ever spent their holidays like that. Anyways me I prefer natural waters over pools. I just don't like swimming in toilets that much. btw your footballer seems remarkable. But he seems to know that. I think wanting his MD on his shirt, shows how proud he is of his achievement, but also how rare. Bad on the NFL to not allow it. But then they are into money not brains. They rather support their footballers killing their girlfriends then protecting their brains.
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Post by paca on Dec 2, 2021 12:41:57 GMT -5
lol as a child I used to imagine crocodiles and sharks coming after me. in the pool. Jaws didn't help. But made me swim pretty fast for my size. I even made it into local headlines with pic and all. Still prefer naturla swimming environments. I rather have fish pee into my water then humans. And you can never tell how many humans did use the pool instead of the toilet. Outdoors at least it is more diluded. Also I just don't like the smell of chlorine much. I do like though when the water is clear and fish come to say hello. There is one spot at larvotto where we used to go. It was one of the few place where you always have fish. Kids tried to catch them unsuccessfully with their hands. But other than that it was peaceful cohabitation. Can't say the same about jellyfish though. Not a fan.
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Post by agentf on Dec 2, 2021 13:10:35 GMT -5
We could give psychoanalysts a run for their money π I met stingrays in neck to ankle wetsuit π My childhood fear was...snakes under my bed π€ I used to jump from the floor onto my bed while avoiding that 2 inch gap between bed base and floor. Jaws for sure didn't help!! I recall helping my godparents put the quay in the water at their chalet on Lac Minerve as a teen. Feeling a bubble run up my leg got me to tell my poet godfather to hurry up. Also, on the same lake after dinner one evening, I took the boat out and had a bizarre vision of the lake rising into two high walls that looked like they would collapse on me. You never saw a girl dock faster, race up the hundreds of stairs and zoom by my godmother who noticed and said I looked as if I had seen a ghost. I said zip. She was like my mom, a mermaid. I'd watch her dive and disappear into the dark lake waters on the next lake and it never tempted me. Nope. I like to see my toes. lol as a child I used to imagine crocodiles and sharks coming after me. in the pool. Jaws didn't help. But made me swim pretty fast for my size. I even made it into local headlines with pic and all. Still prefer naturla swimming environments. I rather have fish pee into my water then humans. And you can never tell how many humans did use the pool instead of the toilet. Outdoors at least it is more diluded. Also I just don't like the smell of chlorine much. I do like though when the water is clear and fish come to say hello. There is one spot at larvotto where we used to go. It was one of the few place where you always have fish. Kids tried to catch them unsuccessfully with their hands. But other than that it was peaceful cohabitation. Can't say the same about jellyfish though. Not a fan.
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Post by donna on Dec 2, 2021 14:28:56 GMT -5
Interesting theory about swimmers, Paca. I always took it as she knew a few words in those languages. Like hello and thank you. If she speaks Zulu and Afrikaans, then she has no excuse learning French. Then she is simply hostile to the country where she is (supposedly) living.
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Post by paca on Dec 2, 2021 14:43:47 GMT -5
Can we sue Spielberg for inflicting PTSD on us with Jaws? Its his fault sharks have such a bad rep.
Still it is amazing what your mind can do to you. I remember vivdly the pictures of my sons cat dying on the operating table, But I know I was never there. Only on the phone to the vet telling me about the procedures etc and giving permission to euthanise. It was my most horrific pet deaths, because we had had hope. It is a lot easier, when you say your goodbyes and all involved are ok with it, because it is for the best. But when you fool yourself into thinking there can be a happy ending against all odds, then it is really tough. Best one was, when one of my rescues said his goodbyes to his fellow pets, put his paw on my hand and died, when I told him it is ok to go. Before he also put his paw on my exs hand, when I told him that I was sure that he was sorry for always teasing him. (he was such a lovely cat and my ex felt the need to annoy him) Never saw a guy run out as quickly. Ah ell, when a dying cat is the bigger person...
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Post by paca on Dec 2, 2021 14:57:29 GMT -5
Interesting theory about swimmers, Paca. I always took it as she knew a few words in those languages. Like hello and thank you. If she speaks Zulu and Afrikaans, then she has no excuse learning French. Then she is simply hostile to the country where she is (supposedly) living. Well, it was never said how well she speaks Africaans, but just recently the zulu royals posted that she speaks the language. No idea how difficult to learn it is, but given that it comes from entirely different language group, it makes it harder. Similar to asian or arabic etc. So yeah, I would put it mainly down to a lack of interest. That goes with voluntarily missing the lessons. Then again, english speakers have a harder time to learn foreign languages. But I would put that down to arrogance and a supperiority complex, than a matter of intellect or competence. Remember those colonialists, thought they were better, so why bother learning the language or respecting the culture? They had enough sense though to realize that they did have sth of value, so they boxed it up and put it in the British museum, which btw is wrongly named, unless they meant to name it the british museum of cultural robberies and thought the writing was too long...
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Post by agentf on Dec 2, 2021 16:31:06 GMT -5
π₯π Sweet creature. I'm sure we could get a class action going... π¦ Though I've seen adorable videos of divers with longstanding relationships to a shark. It does make you waver. And I didn't even know what a tsunami was when I saw these 75-100 ft walls rise on each side. And no drugs for me. π€·π»ββοΈ Puberty...? I can hardly imagine. But it certainly drained the colour from my face. Can we sue Spielberg for inflicting PTSD on us with Jaws? Its his fault sharks have such a bad rep. Still it is amazing what your mind can do to you. I remember vivdly the pictures of my sons cat dying on the operating table, But I know I was never there. Only on the phone to the vet telling me about the procedures etc and giving permission to euthanise. It was my most horrific pet deaths, because we had had hope. It is a lot easier, when you say your goodbyes and all involved are ok with it, because it is for the best. But when you fool yourself into thinking there can be a happy ending against all odds, then it is really tough. Best one was, when one of my rescues said his goodbyes to his fellow pets, put his paw on my hand and died, when I told him it is ok to go. Before he also put his paw on my exs hand, when I told him that I was sure that he was sorry for always teasing him. (he was such a lovely cat and my ex felt the need to annoy him) Never saw a guy run out as quickly. Ah ell, when a dying cat is the bigger person...
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Post by agentf on Dec 2, 2021 16:36:52 GMT -5
English can be the fast-food of languages. No gender, no declensions. It's by reading older literature that you get a richness of expressions and turns of phrase. I'm constantly learning it. I taught it to my dad in his 50s though evidently not enough for him to feel confident in Florida... I often have to smack down Anglos here who start bashing the French by reminding them I'm accommodating them in my second language while many of them don't master their mother tongue. But I try not to go there too often, or I'd just be lonely a lot π
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Post by margarita on Dec 2, 2021 16:50:15 GMT -5
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Post by paca on Dec 2, 2021 16:51:00 GMT -5
Lol yeah its funny when English speakers moan about immigrants and tourists not speaking English, whilst they dare to go to Spain, Portugal etc. not speaking a word of the local language. I know English speakers living in MC, not being able to order a cab on the phone after more then 20 years marriage to a French guy. I know that my English is better than that of some of those influencers and other z listers and English is only my second foreign language. Latin was my first. Btw learning animals and skΓΆldpadda is a favourite. I also used to know the icelandish (?) word for panda bear, but forgot. sth cute and then bjΓΆrn I think. Need to google it. Might be another language I may look into, if I can find an online course. What was the name of the vulcano again that floored all planes a few years ago?
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Post by paca on Dec 2, 2021 17:03:23 GMT -5
as I said nothing new in that tatler article. Just rehashing old DM articles. It has all been published before. I don't think that tatler spoke to any of her friends. they are just copy pasting what Dm wrote. Also they are trying to make it out that they started dating in 2000. That is when hey met. Albert fathered a child before he dated her and he didn't spend a thought on her for over 5 years. Neither did she, because she dated other men in that time. Maybe someone wants to publish their names and the dates again to remind them. Had they dated from 2000 onwards,the big question would be: why did Rainier not want Albert to maryy her. Because if she really was Alberts girlfriend from 2000 onwards, she had 5 years to meet him. so really, if her side wants to insist on 2000 as the start, they have to answer that as well as all other questions. Also it would turn out that not only Albert cheated on her, but she on him too. So why is she bothered with his infedelities...
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Post by agentf on Dec 2, 2021 17:24:40 GMT -5
What is it with the shoddy journalism... first the BBC and that Rajan joke, Tatler - who's next?! as I said nothing new in that tatler article. Just rehashing old DM articles. It has all been published before. I don't think that tatler spoke to any of her friends. they are just copy pasting what Dm wrote. Also they are trying to make it out that they started dating in 2000. That is when hey met. Albert fathered a child before he dated her and he didn't spend a thought on her for over 5 years. Neither did she, because she dated other men in that time. Maybe someone wants to publish their names and the dates again to remind them. Had they dated from 2000 onwards,the big question would be: why did Rainier not want Albert to maryy her. Because if she really was Alberts girlfriend from 2000 onwards, she had 5 years to meet him. so really, if her side wants to insist on 2000 as the start, they have to answer that as well as all other questions. Also it would turn out that not only Albert cheated on her, but she on him too. So why is she bothered with his infedelities...
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Post by agentf on Dec 2, 2021 17:26:44 GMT -5
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Post by donna on Dec 3, 2021 15:54:14 GMT -5
βI donβt think for a second that she didnβt know what she was doing when she married her.β - We knew that all along and have been saying it thousand times. "... even if she is always forced to stay in the background because of his health and that rumors are rife about her relationship." - This gets less trustworthy: forced to stay in the background because of Albert's health? Or is it bad translation, supposed to be her own health?
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Post by donna on Dec 3, 2021 15:58:32 GMT -5
...π My childhood fear was...snakes under my bed π€ I used to jump from the floor onto my bed while avoiding that 2 inch gap between bed base and floor. OMG I did that too, although there was a drawer underneath my bed, so even less space But my fear was a slimy dark creature that would slide its hand up and touch me if I wasn't covered completely with the duvet.
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Post by agentf on Dec 3, 2021 16:47:56 GMT -5
π―!!! Twins! π ...π My childhood fear was...snakes under my bed π€ I used to jump from the floor onto my bed while avoiding that 2 inch gap between bed base and floor. OMG I did that too, although there was a drawer underneath my bed, so even less space But my fear was a slimy dark creature that would slide its hand up and touch me if I wasn't covered completely with the duvet.
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Post by axelle on Dec 4, 2021 11:17:29 GMT -5
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Post by paca on Dec 4, 2021 11:45:54 GMT -5
well, lets hope she can hold it together for the day. Might be a test to see how she is doing too. Usually doctors like patients to be home for xmas. so maybe a test balloon.
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