Michael Phelps and a bong? Is there any truth to this?
Former Member
are we sure that's Phelps?
If true, he seems to have a habit of screwing up in the very next Novembers after Olympics...
anyone here from the UK? How reputable is "news of the world"?
How could he be so careless?
Former Member
That's idiotic. You're not a kid. You're fully responsible for your own actions. You have as much wisdom or raw brain matter (I guess), possibly just less experience.
I am fully responsible for my actions and admit to my mistakes and failings when I screw up. I have more wisdom than my dad? Highly doubtful. He has experienced a lot more in life and thus gained wisdom more than I. Im not saying when I screw up it makes it anymore right. Just that im not perfect.
It's funny when ppl who don't live in the 'hood opine 'bout the hood.
And it's funny when people who don't live in my America nonetheless opine about it.
Am I not American to you?
Not really, you like soccer and porn, which is stranger than waffles and fried chicken and not nearly as good.
I put you right up there with D2 in your knowledge on swimming as well.
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I don't understand this emoticon. Your posts are always filled with pedantic corrections/criticisms of others who you seem to feel don't share your cranial gifts and are pages long with numerous multi-quotes. My post was one sentence.
I was just trying to hoist you on your own petard.
I only have one question -
Was the weed any good? :confused:
Considering the fallout, I'm pretty sure it was a harsh toke.
I've been impressed by how many masters swimmers are recovering alcoholics, or admit to partying hard in their younger, wilder days, even while swimming at a pretty high level (not a pun, really). Many I've met have swapped the partying addiction for swimming, and appear to pursue it with the same fervor previously reserved for getting high. I'm wondering if swimming in particular attracts addictive personalities.
All I know about Mike is that he got a DUII a while back, appears to know his way around a bong, and in the possibly apocryphal legend, swam every day for years to become the fastest swimmer in the world. It wouldn't surprise me that he has an addictive personality. Which is a long way of saying he might someday make a fine masters swimmer.
Al Gore was supposedly a complete stoner in college, although somehow I doubt he'd be much of a swimmer. As an aside, was it George Carlin who said he'd never heard of a guy getting really stoned and starting a bar fight?
I might use Mike's strokes as an example for my two kids to try and emulate. I might use the fact that he stands up and admits when he messes up -- twice now -- to try and instill in my youngsters the importance of accepting responsibility for their actions. I remember feeling the same way when Brian Griese, who was at the time the Denver Broncos QB, took his lumps for a DUII.
But role model? I don't know enough about him, except that he's the fastest swimmer ever. And that's not enough for me, and if I have anything to say about it (realize that I may not, at least when they get a little older), for my kids. Did he get a good education at Ann Arbor, which is a fine school? What are his long-term plans post swimming? Is he a decent, kind, thoughtful, well-rounded, intelligent citizen of the world?
Choosing role models blindly, or based on performance in one, limited arena, is both short-sighted and a virtual guarantee of disappointment down the road. Charles Barkley had it right. Choosing role models on strength of character and intellect gives at least even odds of lasting positive impact.
I'll put my top 10 times in a brutal age group up against yours any day of the week. If you want to talk swimming smack, you seriously better have multiple top 3 FINA times.
I dare you to post your times and rankings.
Are you serious?!?! I guess we can add outrageous braggart to your list of character flaws.
Maybe you need to pick up the bong pipe ...
Maybe we can take this back to swimming. I believe Phelps made a gigantic blunder. I do like waffles and chicken, btw, and I'm white.
Can you go back to your hole with D2?
1. Waffles and fried chicken -- emblems of black culture -- are not American to you. "Strange".
EVERYBODY knows that waffles are Belgian!!!:agree: And I would argue that fried chicken is more an emblem of the South than it is of African-American culture! But then again, I'm just an Engineer.
