QUOTE(bondiguy @ Jan 22 2007, 09:04 PM)
Bondi rant #118
So in Sydney this past Sunday the mercury hit 40 degrees celcius,a nd to do the conversion, it was fucking hot!
So Bondi Beach was packed to the rafters, you could barely spot the sand. The lifesavers were off their feet, I mean really, really busy. Why you ask? Because they were busy saving tourists (I must say mostly from Europe and Asia) from the surf because they couldn't swim?
What on earth makes a person enter the water, no less the surf when they can not swim? Do they think they'll pick it up as they go along? I don't jump out of planes because I can not fly and these people should adhere to the same rule!
Lastly, what angers me even more. Not 5 mins after they have had their life saved by people rsiking their own, they are back in the water!!!
Well people are, in general, stupid. When I went to Hawaii, I went out a little farther cuz it was very shallow and not much surf near the beach, but when I went to Mexico it got deep fast and I didn't go deeper than about waist height. I can swim not bad, but I'm not used to the ocean and I pretty much sink like a rock at the best of times.
QUOTE(closeup @ Jan 22 2007, 10:28 PM)
I think the city should send them the bill. It's not like lifeguards work for free. I agree, you'd have to be pretty ignorant to wade into the ocean if you can't swim. We'd get guys in Boot Camp who couldn't swim. Since the service they were joining was called the Marines, how could they possibly think the training wouldn't include going into the water. That's about as dumb as joining 3d's Boy Scout troop without a tube of KY and a loose sphincter. It's just shortsighted.
hahahaha, priceless.
QUOTE(Bobaloo @ Jan 22 2007, 11:32 PM)
wow, two funny posts in a row???
and actually, I think your and my weathermen got mixed up. cuz here they were predicting 6-8 inches and got about 1-2.
this post has burn potential written all over it. I can only hope that any such burns will be deflected onto someone else... and if I am the subject of any direct hits, all I can say is, "It was like that when I got here."
QUOTE(bondiguy @ Jan 23 2007, 04:57 AM)

So tempted to burn....
ok, I can't help it...........
I bet your wife was predicting 6-8 inches before you started dating but was dissapointed with the eventual 1-2 inches

QUOTE(closeup @ Jan 23 2007, 06:05 AM)
Hey, you didn't finish the analogy.Looks like we got another 4-5 inches overnight.
QUOTE(ddd35 @ Jan 23 2007, 09:56 AM)

but that was after the mailman stopped late with his package ..
haha, even better than I had envisioned.