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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 08:37 AM Original message |
Anyone ever taught a kid to swim? |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. yep shor 'nuf |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
2. Don't know about that, but....... |
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trumad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
3. It deepends on what end you're pushing them in. |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
4. Sink or swim |
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izzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
5. I do not believe pushing kids in the water is teaching |
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poiuytsister (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 04:50 PM Response to Reply #5 |
41. Did it take 5 year for your kids to learn? n/t |
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izzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-25-07 07:46 AM Response to Reply #41 |
42. To swim good maybe |
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demnan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
6. This isn't a really good analogy - or maybe it is |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
7. Er. Ok. Push the Iraqi government into the water. But, just like the kid you're teaching... |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 09:02 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. It's the way I learned, and it worked. However I don't raise children, so not something I ever have |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 09:09 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Unlike your kid, if the Iraqis choose not to swim that is their business. |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 09:31 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Sure. We can certainly choose to walk away and watch the country disintegrate. |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 12:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. its a terrible analogy, and |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 01:08 PM Response to Reply #11 |
26. Five years of disintegration caused by us: not enough for you? |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 01:32 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Way to take all of this out of context and bundle it with insults. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 01:58 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Your own words pal, nothing out of context at all. |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 02:54 PM Response to Reply #31 |
37. My words are this, pal: You took it out of context. Period. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 03:56 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. I didn't leap in. You responded to my comment. |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-25-07 09:45 AM Response to Reply #26 |
45. Just because some |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-25-07 07:50 AM Response to Reply #11 |
43. You have a suggestion as to how to make it not disintegrate? |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
10. This is a terrible comparison. |
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Kingshakabobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 12:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
21. Watch this baby survival swimming video... pretty neat! |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 01:33 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. That's a survival back float. |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
12. Did the Iraqis ASK to be taught?!1 n/t |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 10:15 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Well, I didn't ask for us to be there doing it either. |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 12:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Well, your o.p. is chock full of premises and embedded assumptions, |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 12:20 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. It's not the Iraqi people I was thinking of just the government and the only way to |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 02:05 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. That'll teach'em, I mean, us, I mean... uh... n/t |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
14. If it's the US teaching the 'Iraqi government' how to swim |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
15. :Pushing a kid into the water is a terrific way to terrify them into being |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
16. And buy every last one of them a hummer. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
17. they were swimming. we then tied weight to their legs to make them drown |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
18. Yeah! Especially after we destroyed their country |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 12:09 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I'm fine with them not extracting one drop of oil. It's time for every last American there to come |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
24. The worst way to teach a child how to swim |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 12:44 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. So 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? 30? |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 01:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. No. |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 02:06 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. You're saying what I was saying. We leave. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 02:36 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. You're also saying let them sink or swim on their own |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 04:01 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. All governments sink or swim on their own |
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Dorian Gray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-25-07 09:43 AM Response to Reply #25 |
44. Huh? |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
30. As a former Red Cross WSI *, Sr Lifesaver |
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Thor_MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
34. I taught my nephew. He wouldn't put his face in the water. |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
35. I'll never forget that summer... |
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lateo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-24-07 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
38. Yup. |
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