Sure that isn't soggy biscuit ?
In many public swimming pool here, the right lane are for the fastest swimmers. The slower you are, the more left u should go. Maybe you were too slow to be in the fast lane? Plus his English is not good enough and it sounded rude?
It was lost_inbroad!
I've never seen that rule in any of the pools I've swum in over the years. The only rule is that you keep to the swimming direction and try to keep the spread of swimmers even in each lane. Slower swimmers can be overtaken. Works fine unless you get someone faffing about with a non-stroke gabbing with their chum, two abreast.
Absolutely - I used to swim at both a municipal and a private pool in the UK for years - and exactly the same thing happened regularly. Mind you, although a good swimmer that respected lanes, I resented those who put their goggles on and totally ignored anybody else, would refuse to ever move or even acknowledge others, and would hit you full on without a word of apology. Just because you are a stronger/younger swimmer does not give you the right to crash and kick into us. Thanks! Goggleitis can be a serious disease. I swim outside peak hours at our local pool here and everybody is very friendly and tolerant.
Just remember, no matter how heated the argument gets, DO NOT p|ss in the pool
So why is it called 'piss in' then ?
This is what I am used to as well. It is just good sense: before getting into the pool, check for the lane that looks to be your speed and use that one.
The problem I have coe across here, has been people going up and down on the same side of a lane, instead of doing circuits within the lane. Going up and down means there is really only room for two in a lane - any more and there is always going to be a wait at the end till the peron/people behind, also get to the end to make a turn.
Doing circuits within the lane means that if one is going a loittle faster than the person in front, the passing is easily down at the end of the pool by ding a faster turn. Everyone hapy. :-)
Common in the gym pools I've used (in England). Well, when they're actually big enough to have proper lanes ... fast people on the right, slow people on the left, and the rest slot in the middle.
You possibly are WRONG ! Because he possibly loves to be angry and grumpy ! There are such people
Good old German zoologist Prof Dr Bernhard Gzimek already in the 1970ies warned that over-populated areas in the world may produce such individuals, just as you could/can see among animals in overcrowded places. It is a European problem and Switzerland is, as ex-ForeignMinister Fischer once said possibly the most European country in Europe
What I am a bit astonished is that people in this time of the year go to pools while to go swimming in the lakes is so much more relaxing. I over last weekend was swimming in the lake three times. Nicer, freer and more relaxing than those pools. No lanes, you yourself determine where and how you swim. Also small lakes like the Katzensee near Zürich are very pleasant, and up for your individuality. True, all this depends on the weather
Yes and I wish folk would look quickly behind when nearing the wall, then, if no-one is actually overtaking already, go across diagonally to the left and turn so that they can push off straight for their next lap instead of swimming straight into the wall and then pushing off diagonally into anyone who is pretty close behind them (it might be me because I love draughting! ). Usually I have a nice lot of room all to myself but I'm not telling anyone where or when! I did have a little battle with a lady last week though who waited at the wall until I came to turn then pushed off so that she was in my way. Yet another enemy. You cannot win them all.
I don't go to relax, I go to swim.
Agreed - and our local open air heated olympic pool is really not busy at all during week-days - much much nicer to do 50m lengths with flippers for a good work-out, surrounded by lovely countryside- but yes, lakes are best.
Mind you I've just come back from snorkelling on coral in Sharm- 4 hours a day up and down the reef - most people stay near the jetties, but we covered miles- wonderful.
Not really no. But for example, hotel pools in Cairo at least into about 2002 used heaps of such stuff which can cause skin-rashes. I during may last visit to Egypt later on was in Alexandria and there enjoyed the beaches, but on return to Cairo visited the pool of the Meridien in Giza which was problemfree. Alright, my hotel then was near the Midan Tala'at Harb, and did not have a pool
I always though that was the rule. Slower swimmers in the slow lanes, faster in the fast lanes. faffers like me stay to the side! Plus I need to grab on to the wall so I don't drown.
I think he's talking about here. Not in Egypt....
When swimming I DO relax ! Swimming IS relaxing. But indeed not so much in those pools ! Sure, after some 400 or 700 meters, swimming can be tiring in a way. But you when swimming can enjoy the views. If you for example swim on the lakefront of the Zürisee (Enge or Wollishofen) you have the view towards downtown and onto the other side of the lake. Sure, there are far better places on earth, like Alexandria or the beach south of Beirut. I mean, swimming right in front of the 20 kms Corniche of Alexandria with the Pearl of the Med right on the shoreside is the absolute top. But also to go swimming in Dinard or off Bournemouth is absolutely splendid. Nearer to here are places like the Schwimmbad of Friedrichshafen or the one of Annecy or the Bain de Paquis in Geneva. I mean, to swim around with the Jet-d'Eau right in front of you and the whole city right around you is unique. And second to none.
Right, except that I am not so sure. There for sure are heavy differences still. And I do not have too much trust in the "operators" of pools. I at times use them, but nevertheless DIStrust them.
I have to agree with you about the stereotyping that is done. What I think in regards to this is that we forget the similar things at home and because we are in a different place, we tend to say "they" versus "he"....
I think that the guy in the pool was a flat our @$$. But, I do not think it is a Swiss thing, a Euro thing, or a planetary thing... it is simply an @$$ thing. Being mean is being mean. I do not think it is passed out with birth in certain countries...
I'll tell you one thing about those Swiss... they are human beings!!
Many pools in the US are now using salt. It is fantastic!!!