Newsgroup: it.sport.nuoto
Titolo: tutto il mondo e' paese...

a quanto pare, in ogni angolo del pianeta
sembra che la stessa scena si ripeta:
l'affollamento globale della piscina
e' una cosa che m'ha fatto divertire stamattina:
a legger sul NG britannico le peripezie
sembra di rivedere le scene che si vivon dalle parti mie
quando tenti di andar a nuotare
e invece ti trovi tra boe umane a zigzagare!
copio e incollo l'albionico messaggio
sperando non sia un ostacolo il linguaggio! ;-)
-- 
beorn
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Mulder: "Scully, did you ever have one of those days you wish you could
rewind and start all over again from the beginning?"
Scully: "Yes, frequently. But I mean, who's to say that if you did rewind
it and start over again that it wouldn't end up exactly the same way?"
(from "Monday", The X-Files, season 6)

oops, dimenticato ho l'allegato
troppo veloce il tasto ho schiacciato...
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I went to my local pool yesterday and it happened to be a ladies only
session at lunchtime. Like a lot of pools this tends to get quite busy
and has a large proportion of swimmers who swim 2 or 3 abreast in
strange zig zags whilst chatting, or hold onto the edge of pool and
kick their legs in a haphazard fashion. Normally I don't have much of
a problem with the above and find I can play "dodge the kamikaze
swimmer in the flowery swimhat" fairly well and still knock out a
couple of miles without too much stress and with no collisons.
Yesterday, however, the lifeguard had divided the pool (standard 25
metre pool) into 3 lanes - obviously thinking it would bring some
order to the usual chaos in a crowded pool. Problem is, even though
they put up direction boards for each lane (i.e. clockwise/counter
clockwise) they don't put speeds up. This meant that there were slow
swimmers in each lane, making it impossible for the faster swimmers to
keep moving. Even though I went into the widest lane where I should
have been able to overtake easily without obstructing the swimmer
coming down in the opposite direction, I couldn't overtake due to
swimmers STILL swimming 2 abreast or swimmers swimming straight up the
middle of the lane instead of keeping over to one side. I asked the
lifeguard why they hadn't put up speeds on the direction boards and he
said this (this is great): "We used to put up speeds but we stopped
because people got all upset if we said they were swimming too slowly
for the fast lane or the medium lane when they thought they weren't."
Now I think this is incredible. Either they should run the lanes
properly - or not at all. It's easier to swim lengths in an open pool,
even if busy, then to try to swim in a lane where the pace is way too
slow. Is this the strangest lane swimming policy in the UK? I've swum
in loads of public authority pools in this country but never come
across this policy of "no speed guidance" before.

 
ahaha, stavo leggendo anch'io. Ancora migliore il thread della 
vecchiarda che si carica di profumo al muschio :-))
Mal comune, mezzo gaudio!
-- 
Nuoto e me ne frego!

 vecchiarda che si carica di profumo al muschio :-))
e che dici del "non possiamo dividere le corsie
in base alle velocita', perche' senno' ci attiriamo le antipatie
della gente che crede d'esser veloce
quando sguazza in modo atroce"? ;-)
sul profumo in vasca concordo in pieno
anche per me e' una sorta di veleno
che proprio non riesco a sopportare...
come anche quando hai la sfiga di capitare
vicino a qualcuno che ha mangiato cipolla o aglio:
di tutti i miei improperi diviene subito bersaglio
e se in fretta non riesco a cambiar corsia
con virate e sdelfinaggi provo a sfogar l'ira mia :-)