I didn't read the article...
But open water swimming freaks me right out. Like almost panic-level freak out. I wasn't expecting that to happen when we went swimming with dolphins several years ago - but it did. I just asked for a life vest to float on and then all was well.
Survival skills are unnecessary, as we are expected to provide a safe space for everyone!
Most of them do not need survival skills... they just need to be able to consult the Great Computer.... or protest... or both.
These are the same people who don't know that food comes from farms, and expect utilities and services to just simply be there.
Then they like to make use of the order that society provides so that they can protest without consequences.
But maybe I'm just soured on the participation trophy safe space crowd a little, right now.
So, I guess swimming mid-Atlantic is out of the question?
But with the ongoing pressures of academics, things like PE are either not required or not available. So if they cant/wont take that class, they may not learn to swim. At least when I was in school, swimming was a week per semester of PE.There are a lot of pools in the high schools these days. Swim teams and the like.
As I sit here in my cubicle today, I'll pass.
What a poor article that teaches us nothing.
How many of those so called "millenials" where polled? From where? City folks or country folks?
I don't think it has anything to do with generation but more with social background and location.
But with the ongoing pressures of academics, things like PE are either not required or not available. So if they cant/wont take that class, they may not learn to swim. At least when I was in school, swimming was a week per semester of PE.
Ah, the good old days of INGOing from a typewriter.
Dude, my food comes from Kroger. Duh.
I'd rather drown while using the proper terminology than survive and be wrong.
I think you've summed up my marriage.
But with the ongoing pressures of academics, things like PE are either not required or not available. So if they cant/wont take that class, they may not learn to swim. At least when I was in school, swimming was a week per semester of PE.
Easy, we'll all grow Kevin Costner Waterworld ear gills!You'll be sorry when Global Warming melts all the icebergs and your cubicle floods. How are you going to be able to swim to the FEMA camp to check in with Big Brother? Noah won't be coming to get you because we have all been told the Bible is a myth.