I know this is silly but sometimes when I'm swimming at night in a pool with just the underwater lights, I get a little freaked out...especially if the pool is uncrowded and quiet. I know that I've watched too many horror movies and read too many scary books, but does anyone else ever experience this feeling? I was just wondering if I'm alone in my paranoia or if there are others out there too.
...and by the way, yes, I do laugh at myself for this. :)
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Don't worry about swimming nude in Italy. I was interested in the history when I visited there. This was the only time I went abroad and now I saving for my old age. I even brought back two Romulus and Remus statues of bronze sucking the she-wolf.
I grew up on the mediterranean coast...
Swimsuits there are optional (in a lot of places)
Which reminds me, the idea of fitting into a bikiny in time to go to Italy (FINA) has just moved up a few notches on my priority list.
20 pounds to go...
thank goodness I don't swim at night too much...but I used to imagine a dead body in the pool...awful I know.
Now though, the pool is such a controlled environment that it doesn't scare me as much as whn I was younger. Plus there are giant windows...and bright lights.
BUT, at the Y I used to go to, it was indeed a freak fest--dimmy lights in the yellow color, and the water on top looked black. no windows, hazy light, big-ass pool...oh yeah, I'm swimmin to get away from somethin'!
Also, Once in a high school swim meet a pool really freaked me out. It was old and all mosaic tiles--tiny little tiles. Again, dim light, no windows, eekk! I swam my best 100 breat ever, as I was imagining getting chased in the water. It worked, I got forst place and it was a huge meet!
Cicero? Caesar? Pompey? If they don't have multiple swimming gold medals, then they are just a flash-in-the-pan of history. Are we supposed to know these people?
Originally posted by cinc310
Don't worry about swimming nude in Italy. I was interested in the history when I visited there. This was the only time I went abroad and now I saving for my old age. I even brought back two Romulus and Remus statues of bronze sucking the she-wolf.
I grew up next door to italy, I've done several "cultural trips" through it. Been to Rome and Milan, and Venice, and FLorence, the Colloseum, The Vatican, Villa Medici, the Villa of Romeo and Juliet... More than I can remember in 10 minutes or less.
That was in my teens and 20's when I used to be a geeky bookworm.
I got enough culture to bore most people out of a social conversation. ;)
Now, in my 30's I've reverted to my second childhood (or maybe just a late bloomer), I'm going for fun!
How did we get from skinnydipping to history anyways?
I'm not in a mood for serious stuff, I get enough serious stuff at work. When I get home I wanna get skinny... oops, I mean, silly.
I've been suffering from too much work and not enough play. And, I need a boy-toy!
I just a history bluff from age 12 years old. I even know the years of Cicero and Caesar and Pompey's births. 106 BC for Cicero and Pompey and Caesar either 102 or 100 BC. I did also seen the medieval period in Italy too. Milan is interesting since their is a church there that was suppose to be the church of Ambrose. Ambrose famous for the conversion of Augustine to chirstianity. Augustine the author of Confessions and the City of God. I did go to the Dolomites in Cortina, the 1956 olympics were held.
Well, maybe you meet several Italian men that well pinch you on the butt in your skinny swim outfit. One of them pinch me when I was wearing shorts. Cicero, Caesar and Pompey did the Roman Breaststroke. Serious folks, they could all swim according to the miltary training of Roman officers.
Originally posted by Shaky
Didn't the Romans and Greeks swim naked? See, it all ties in somehow.
There ya go!
See, I knew there was a common thread there somewhere!
Originally posted by Conniekat8
How did we get from skinnydipping to history anyways?
Didn't the Romans and Greeks swim naked? See, it all ties in somehow.
