/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I love swimming, it's how I stay in shape during the summer.

I can't. But what does this have to do with anything?

What does this have to do with /jp/?

>But what does this have to do with anything?

How else would he get to Japan? By kayak?

>>2542624
>>2542627
Everything. When global warming kicks in you faggots will be the first to drown.

Not knowing how to swim is like not knowing how to start a fire.

>>2542624
it must be embarrassing right?

I wonder where people have to grow up to prevent them from learning how to swim. I really do.

I like swimming and wish I could do it more often.

>>2542625
This

I'm an exceptionally strong swimmer. Worked as a lifeguard for a stint during the past few summers, too.

I was even in a swim team. Suffice to say I think I can traverse water without fear.

Also, you are now manually imagining Arcueid in a lifeguard outfit.

>>2542632
well, ever since i was a kid i was afraid of water. you know i didn't want to die.

>>2542641
Why am I picturing you as David Hasselhoff?

Where I come from the only places to swim are public pools and public beaches with toxic water.

Note the "going out in public" part. That's something that I really have no interest in. Thus, I never learned how to swim.

Seems fun though.

>>2542645
....so you opted to NOT learn to swim, guaranteeing your death instead?

Interesting.

>>2542641

Immune to sunlight, immune to crosses, immune to silver, immune to stakes to the heart, and now able to cross water...

No, I can't swim.

I don't like swimming as much as I just like lying on the bottom of the pool until I need to come up for air.

I can't. It is embarrassing, and just as embarrassing to start learning now.

I was afraid of water when I was little and my parents didn't push me to finish swimming lessons. I wish they did now.

>>2542654
do girls laugh at you

For the retards out there, even if you can't swim, what's stopping you from using the human body's natural buoyancy?

Do tell.

>>2542634
>global warming

>>2542629

>by kayak?

>>2542654
ZUN has apparently been a shut-in since birth...

My hometown is smack in the high desert, but I still learned to swim.

>>2542651

Don't hassle me, bro.

I grew up on an island. I've been out on fishing boats since I was a small kid. Yes, I can swim, and I could swim better than pretty much everyone on my high school swim team without any real training.

I was always so thin I sank.

Now I'm 22 and don't care.

>>2542657
>Kamehameha hwy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamehameha_Highway

Wut, it's real?

I love swimming. Granted, I'm a bit disenchanted with the water quality of some pools, but I can float, tread water, swim, and dive with relative ease.

>>2542664
My parents went with the idea of "toss me into the deep end of the pool and learn to swim".

They tossed me. I didn't learn.

I suppose I was a wuss since birth.

>>2542661
Probably because if you don't know how to swim and fall in the water, you're going to panic your ASS off.

Knowing how to relax and float is the most important part of swimming.

i think op is trying to show how pathetic /jp/ is

>>2542664
>just as embarrassing to start learning

How so? You get in the water, and move around until you figure out how it works. COuldn't take much more than 20 minutes, and it looks like the exact same thing everyone else would be doing at a pool.

When I was young, I was described as a dolphin while I was in the water. These days, its more like a whale ;_;

I swim every chance I get. I loved going to the local lake during the summer because it was usually clean and quiet but now it's full of annoying tourists from New Jersey.

>>2542689

Don't you just turn the water in a solid block of ice?

>>2542701
am I the only one who fapped to this part more than the h-scenes in f/sn?

>>2542610
Well I don't know how to swim very well. But I learned how to ride a bike the other day, shit was so easy and cash. I assume learning to swim would be the same way once you level up some.

I like swimming but I hate public pools and taking care of your own seems like too big of a pain to deal with.

>>2542663
Yes, of course. They constantly laugh at my two inch tall penis.

Seriously though, of course they don't. No one laughs at me, but swimming always seemed to be a social thing around here where I live. And I'm your typical inept /jp/er when it comes to social things.

I love water though. Once again, I'd learn how to swim if the chance ever came up.

>>2542655
It's really not that big of a deal. I live surrounded by water and I can't swim. The only fatal thing that could happen is crashing a car into a body of water. And then I'd probably be too shocked to even get out anyway.

>>2542708
wait, how old are you?

>>2542708
Try hard mode: No hands. It's fun but I ended up slipping my foot, and having nothing to stable myself with, fell over. Shit was not so cash.

i know how to swim, but i'm ashamed of by skeleton body.

that is one of the reasons i tell people i can't swim so girls won't stare at me.

:D

>>2542708
I can't swim OR ride a bike!

I can, however, sail a boat.

No joke.

>>2542731
I can not swim because I must hide all the scars I received from my dark past.

And bacne.

>>2542702

Oh yeah, that is a problem for me. I usually just swim around in puddle-letty until she refreezes.

>>2542714

If you get a decent pump and filter it's not bad at all to maintain a pool. But if you cheap out on the pump and filter it sucks ass.

>>2542694
If that's the case, mission complete. He should aim higher though.

WL: For the sake of my nutbladder, stop posting that pic.

I can't swim. I can't ride a bike either. Shit sucks because it's embarrasing to try and learn. But it's useless since I never leave the house anyway.

I can't. Your survivability increases by some percentage if you do know since a large part of the Earth is water.

>>2542767
swimming is essential, you must know how to swim.

e.g. someone you love is drowning and there is no one but you who can save her.

knowing how to ride a bike is also important.

e.g. it'll be a real shame if you can't teach your child how to ride a bike, even more if your kid asks you to tag along.

it's not too late unless you're over 20 years old.

>>2542810
>it's not too late unless you're over 20 years old.
ffffffffffffffffffffff

>>2542781
Doesn't mean shit if you can't maintain body temperature and dive low enough to procure food, and even so you'd be at the mercy of natural sea predators.

Sure one can argue about bringing harpoons or body suits, but in that case one should bring a boat instead, or not even leave land for all that matter.

what is your impression on

guys who can't swim?
girls who can't swim?

>>2542810

I learned when I was a kid. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I can still swim. The body remembers what the mind forgets.

>>2542810
A great amount of us are way past the 20 barrier. Also, who cares about proliferation? Let the more "apt" populate the world, it's not like we'll still be here to see it burn nor will we leave our offspring to live in such hell.

>>2542857

>Let the more "apt" populate the world

Can't, tried to, almost drowned, stopped caring.

Knowing how to swim and bike are two essential skills if one wishes to survive a prolonged zombie outbreak. As for swimming, it might become necessary to reach an offshore island, cross a river, or merely scour a lakebed for food. And for biking, the best types of transportation are of the silent, fuel-less, fast, and portable types. A bike couldn't fit that category any better.

>>2542810
>>2542781
That's retarded.

Life is not a storybook or a game. You can stay away from the ocean your entire life and it won't matter in the slightest. Or you can go on cruises every year and it won't matter in the slightest (not even if your ship was the Titanic, since you'd die either way). Assuming you're lucky enough to ever have requited love, you'll never be in a situation where you're the only one who can save her from drowning.

>>2542876
try one more time, if that didn't work, try again until you succeed.

don't think, just do it.

>>2542894

How do you know that in reality, the Touhous are playing a game about us and making up stories about us?

You never know.

>>2542891
what if zombies knew how to swim and ride a bike as well?

>>2542894
or you can feel confident about yourself.

>>2542908

In the days at /x/, I recall reading a thread describing in unglamorous detail what your mirror image does when you aren't near a mirror.

I'd rather not remember.

mai-wife

Why is that girl so angry?

>>2542917
First, I'd laugh.
Then I'd be "oh shit fast moving zombies"

can a kind anon who knows how to swim describe how it feels when swimming?

i can't swim ;_;

>>2542951
Wet.

>>2542951
Feels awesome, really relaxing.

Though if you can't swim, learn. It's not hard. Just don't panic and use your body's natural buoyancy to float, then paddle around.

>>2542908
In that case, the game they're playing is completely different from the games we play, and I only need to qualify my statement to "Life is not a storybook or a game like any you've read or played."

>>2542917
>or you can feel confident about yourself.

This does not grammatically follow as any sort of understandable response.

Anyone else get the urge to rest their head on her enormous rack?

Yes, albeit slowly.

Can't ride a bike though. orz

>>2542986
My smaller one, yes.

disgusting big chests

>>2542610
You have no idea how weird the timing of this thread is for me.

I just learned to swim last week, and i just rode a bike by myself for the first time tonight.

Seriously, I just got back.

>>2542951

Feels good man, especially when you warm up and get used to the water's temperature. I can't wait until it's warm enough to go swimming again soon.

>>2542610
in my country you have to be able to swim to become a citizen with voting powers

>>2542610
I can't grammar, anyone else don't know how to grammar?

>>2543024
such a pointless thing to rage over

>>2543023

How's life in Sealand?

I've recently learned that swimming is easier than I thought. As long as kick off of something or start with some momentum, and keep moving my feet and hands, I don't sink.

>>2543040
got it wrong I think you did

i wish i could go out with mai-hime...

I... forgot.

>>2543088
>i wish i could go outside

fixt

One step at a time, anon.

>>2543088

But if you have a bad date, she'll roast your ass.

>>2543107
If it's Mai-chan, it's okay.

Water is not my favorite element, but I can swim.

>>2542943
She's had a hard life, and there's an ancient conspiracy to make her life even harder.

>>2543141
Fuck that noise, Mai is just an emo bitch.

Mai is near the top of my short list of busty 2d women who are nonetheless hot. To me, she beats out Aisha, but not Fey.

>>2543183
I noticed in a recent rewatch that Mai has was appear to be extra-large pads in her luggage. She might not be an exception.