https://www.phillymag.com/news/2023/01/24/philadelphia-lifeguards-public-pools
Top Poster of the Day:
J
Current Registered Users: 25,646
Welcome to the Marsey News Network, the official news hole of rdrama! This is where you post anything that happened on the news. Politics, general news, good news, any new in any topic that doesn't have it's own hole from any source is welcome! However, if you post an unreliable source, it may be flaired appropriately. Wingcucks welcome and slapfights encouraged!
Rules:
1. Follow sitewide rules
2. Post News
3. Have Fun! Don't be boring.
4. No chudrama-tier content. Rightoid news sources are allowed, but anything that belongs in chudrama or could get the site deplatformed will be moved to chudrama.
5. @DarkDeity and
@Spiderman has the right to post whatever news they want in this hole
/h/mnn LOG /h/mnn MODS /h/mnn EXILEES /h/mnn FOLLOWERS /h/mnn BLOCKERS
Live commit: 496be6e
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I mean, how long can it take to teach a high schooler to swim? The article says they’ll provide lessons
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
To be a lifeguard you need to be bale to swim 300m, tread water for 2 minutes, and dive 10 or so ft to get a brick. It’s not hard if you’ve even causally done a swim time but Americans somehow can’t swim so
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Fats are the ones who can swim easily.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
The swimming requirements aren’t difficult, it’s doing them while carrying a
with you that’s the real challenge
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
You would think all those little fatties would just float with all that excess adipose tissue
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
iirc they do! they just can't stop detecting something in front of their mouth and immediately swallowing as much as they can, leading to them being weighed down by the consumption
it's wholesome chonker behavior!
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Luckily I never had to rescue a just babies people sent down the water slide to a 4 ft pool
honestly I don’t know how people leave little kids unattended in the pool when every public pool is a 50/50 shot if the lifeguard is somewhat paying attention and not drunk or high or sleeping or taking to someone else
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
This. Average American man is 220 pounds. Have fun with that
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
I was
when I was a teenager and still passed that course easily. There's some written tests if I remember but it's really not hard. Did the whole thing in 2 weekends.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Habbo Hotel lifeguarding doesn't count
@ThePoolIsClosed 
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
https://billypenn.com/2019/04/29/nearly-a-quarter-of-philly-adults-cant-read-but-they-still-vote/
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I think the adult literacy rate for Leafs gets even lower, 50% iirc
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
Is this like when Europeans say "Americans" have a gun violence problem, or "America" is a 3rd world country?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I believe in other (European) countries that swimming is a part of public education, so it’s probably unusual for them to hear that there are grown adults that don’t know how to swim.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
In my 95% white school we had a semester long swimming unit in highschool
Most of Europe's confusion about things in America can easily be solved when you remove black Americans from the equation.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
That’s the difference: being forced to take two units of swimming when you are a 6 yo versus having an optional one semester swim class when you’re 14+. I know that swimming is certainly not part of the public education curriculum in Florida (yeah yeah muh non-whites).
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
It blows my mind to this day that in 10 years of Florida education, we never once had a mandatory swim class.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
I’m American lol just radicalized by the public pool riff raff. Also the fact that America doesn’t teach swimming in schools and has a rate of 44% of adults having poor to no swimming schools.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
The dive is what gets them, the extra one or two hundred pounds of fat provide so much bouyancy they just cant make it to the 10 foot bottom.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
In Bongland it's even less than that lol. There are timed swims as well as part of the assessment (20m swim + 20m tow in <65s with a torpedo buoy, 20m swim + 10m tow in <45s without a torpedo buoy). The surface dive might be difficult depending on where you do your assessment, since if it's somewhere with a diving pool then it'll be much more difficult than if it's a regular swimming pool
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context