Favorite old thread/discussion?

Heh heh... I haven't posted any weight room stereotypes, though that would be a fun thread in NSR Land. I've stuck to people in the pool area. The guy I was talking about doesn't seem to actually use the pool, but he always wears swim trunks, with an old v-neck undershirt tucked into them. He wears black socks with his white tennis shoes. He isn't really a stereotype, he's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Oh man, I love that guy. We've got a few variations of him in Birmingham. I have one guy that shows up some nights when I swim in the evenings, he's perfect: He shows up at 8:20 or so (pool closes at 8:45) wearing his fat-skins, tricked out goggles, lugging a Speedo backpack that is loaded with "accessories", like short fins, mask and snorkel, the hand fins, water-proof ipod, a Sham-Wow towel, and my favorite - the TEAM USA swim cap. Now, I have no problem with any of these accessories alone, but he's got them all and the only one he ever uses is the mask and snorkel. Dude is wearing a $400 swim suit and only uses the mask and snorkel. He swims 50's on about 3 minutes, with 1.5 mins rest. He adjusts the snorkel and mask after every 25, pausing for a minute at the side with a look of: "man, if this mask would stay on right, I'd be swimming faster and more than all you schlubs...." The guy swims to stay afloat, not to go forward. It's really awful. He looks like a blender mixing a margarita. But the one that really kills me is this woman that swims/water jogs in the far lane. She wears Bose head phones, talks on her cell while she water jogs, and gets unbelievably mad if you dare to swim in the lane next to her, even if there's only that lane left open. If you happen to be next to her when a lane opens up, she'll stop you and ask you to move to the newly open lane. I finally had to tell her that this was the one form of exercise where a person is nearly guaranteed to get wet. She was unimpressed with my observation. Blue

Heh heh... I haven't posted any weight room stereotypes, though that would be a fun thread in NSR Land. I've stuck to people in the pool area. The guy I was talking about doesn't seem to actually use the pool, but he always wears swim trunks, with an old v-neck undershirt tucked into them. He wears black socks with his white tennis shoes. He isn't really a stereotype, he's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Oh man, I love that guy. We've got a few variations of him in Birmingham. I have one guy that shows up some nights when I swim in the evenings, he's perfect: He shows up at 8:20 or so (pool closes at 8:45) wearing his fat-skins, tricked out goggles, lugging a Speedo backpack that is loaded with "accessories", like short fins, mask and snorkel, the hand fins, water-proof ipod, a Sham-Wow towel, and my favorite - the TEAM USA swim cap. Now, I have no problem with any of these accessories alone, but he's got them all and the only one he ever uses is the mask and snorkel. Dude is wearing a $400 swim suit and only uses the mask and snorkel. He swims 50's on about 3 minutes, with 1.5 mins rest. He adjusts the snorkel and mask after every 25, pausing for a minute at the side with a look of: "man, if this mask would stay on right, I'd be swimming faster and more than all you schlubs...." The guy swims to stay afloat, not to go forward. It's really awful. He looks like a blender mixing a margarita. But the one that really kills me is this woman that swims/water jogs in the far lane. She wears Bose head phones, talks on her cell while she water jogs, and gets unbelievably mad if you dare to swim in the lane next to her, even if there's only that lane left open. If you happen to be next to her when a lane opens up, she'll stop you and ask you to move to the newly open lane. I finally had to tell her that this was the one form of exercise where a person is nearly guaranteed to get wet. She was unimpressed with my observation. Blue