Fragile Male Ego

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John W Booth. It had nothing to do with you. It affected, after a fashion, two Debates Forum posters, I mentioned their names already.

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I am happy with this thread. I don't see why it would be deleted.

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John W Booth. generalissimo. utherpendragon. divegeester not involved. Debates Forum. Early 2010.

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Rule 38 - Don't mess with the Ghost.

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However you want to package it.

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I think you behave in these forums in a distinctly inconsistent and flakey manner, and at times are a little bit odd.

@drewnogal said
Shocking story, just heard how a man held a female under the water in a swimming pool by her feet after she had repeatedly overtaken him during lane swimming.

Having been a regular swimmer in the past I’ve been subjected to aggressive male swimmers in pools who thunder down lanes with every intention of hitting you as they pass.

But you decided to use a sexist, male-ego-baiting phrase for the subject line because you like to poke the bear or kick the hornets' nest and then complain about the consequences?

I don't doubt your stories. I doubt your intentions.

@kevin-eleven said
But you decided to use a sexist, male-ego-baiting phrase for the subject line because you like to poke the bear or kick the hornets' nest and then complain about the consequences?

I don't doubt your stories. I doubt your intentions.

An untimely and regrettable title I must agree and foolish on my part. I picked it up on the radio with the story which really was of interest to me.

I’ve gave up on swimming in March 2020 after lockdown. At that time I was able to swim a mile. It had taken me ages, about 6 months to get there being 65. I had plans to return to open water swimming in the late spring. I have 2 fantastic swimming wetsuits, they cost £500. The winter one is particularly good as I don’t maintain much body heat in water having a BMI of 21. Anyway, to continue with my story ( still there? ) ..... it’s really frustrating when you work hard to build up a level of fitness and then see it disintegrate over the weeks. So, I knew I’d have to go through returning to months back at the swimming pool, developing my fitness before I could even get back into lane swimming! It had been my intention to solely pursue open water swimming and never, ever have to return to a horrible public pool again. I’d joined a few open water swim groups on facebook and they seemed to be a great group, passionate about very cold dips. Oh, and I also paid for 2 private swimming lessons to improve my freestyle stroke and it really did. I had the timing all wrong with my breathing you see; not having ever been professionally taught to swim. I couldn’t swim out of my depth until I was 17.

@drewnogal said
An untimely and regrettable title I must agree and foolish on my part.

Well, I dunno. At the very least, it allowed Duchess64 to draw me out into the open and "expose" me, apparently, as a butt-hurt hateful lying troll with a wounded "fragile male ego". I got thoroughly duffed up. So that'll be a "win" in some people's column.