ynqh replied to your photo āIām just gonna post pictures of my cats when I go swimming, I guess....ā
FWIW in swim lessons we learned to get used to breathing cycles by standing in the pool, breathing in, then ducking our face underwater and breathing out slowly through our nose. Then come up again to breathe in. The goal was to breathe at a normal rate and just get used to doing it in the water. Iām a bit puzzled by trying to breathe out through your mouth while swimming as I canāt imagine doing it, but practicing while standing may help. (And nose plugs might too.)
Thatās basically what I ended up doing today! Well, I was doing the breaststroke while doing it, but that was much more manageable than the crawl.Ā
myjennieblrĀ replied to your photoĀ āIām just gonna post pictures of my cats when I go swimming, I guess....ā
I suppose you could always go with side stroke, back stroke, or breast stroke and largely avoid the breathing issue? But good for you for pushing outside your comfort zone!
My problem at the moment is that while trying to do anything where my face doesnāt end up in the water, my posture is so terrible that I keep kicking the bottom of the pool. I can feel my body align and my legs rise to where they should be the second my face goes into the water, which is annoying as fuck seeing as I canāt keep it in there for long :DĀ
Backstroke would work but I think I need earplugs. I was Not Enjoying the sensation of water in my ears.Ā
bitogothĀ replied to your photoĀ āIām just gonna post pictures of my cats when I go swimming, I guess....ā
Have you considered nose plugs?
Pretty soon my entire body will just be hermetically sealed away from the water :D I think I probably wonāt need noseplugs in the end, I just need to properly master breathing.Ā
terrie01Ā replied to your postĀ āI just scrolled past this thread again and it occurred to me to look...ā
What was the worst fact you learned about Wuthering Heights today?
Well apparently everyone in it is MEANT to be terrible, which admittedly does take some of the fun out of Heathcliff being So Very Terrible.Ā
silentstepĀ replied to your postĀ āI was thinking about Venom this morning before breakfast, like you do,...ā
what defines "loserdom" to millenials, d'you think?
Well, if we look at the other replies to that post, apparently we all think we ourselves are losers :DĀ
I do think Millennials donāt really have an external concept of loser, because thereās a certain generational rebellion against that kind of sitting in judgement on a person.Ā But I think also itās important to understand that Generation X wasnāt judging other people either, necessarily, which is why I brought up Reality Bites.Ā
Reality Bites, in part, vocalized the way that GenX embraced loserdom and slackerdom as a rebellion against the ultra high-achieving, status-seeking, conspicuous consumption madness of the 1980s and early 90s. It wasnāt automatically a negative thing to be a loser -- it meant you were charting your own course and you werenāt seeking validation from people (older adults) you didnāt value. You see that in Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryderās characters -- he is a deliberate slacker as a way of rejecting a culture he doesnāt respect, and she becomes a loser because (very presciently) she was given every tool for success and then thrust into a situation where success was literally impossible, then held accountable for failing.Ā
Millennials mainly refer to themselves as losers as a defense mechanism, to point it out before others can, because we hold ourselves to appallingly high standards. A lot of Gen-Xers -- not all, but a fair amount --Ā embraced the identity of loser becauseĀ āloserā was a label applied to them by people they considered assholes.Ā
Whatās so interesting about Venom is that Eddie is very Millennial in composition, as a character -- but to the writers, to the people who built him, that seems to signalĀ āloserā. Itās a weird blind spot in the film, almost like it comes from an earlier draft where Eddie was much less successful to begin with.Ā Ā
reallyquantumĀ replied to your postĀ āI was thinking about Venom this morning before breakfast, like you do,...ā
Yep, my friends have guessed that the bad reviews are significantly due to the reviewers not getting how deep the millennial humor runs
Well, apparently also a lot of them were part of a campaign against the film because A Star Is Born came out the same weekend. :D I donāt think the movie is, per se, Millennial in itself, I just think Eddie is a bizarrely accurate sketch of a Millennial given who wrote him.Ā
