"you can't just push someone in and expect them to magically be able to swim.'' As a lifeguard who has witnessed people try this, I can testify that it, indeed, doesn't work.
A human body is less dense than water. People drown because they panic- like Zac says, they’re afraid. If you inhale deeply and sit still you will just float.
My dad didn't learn how to swim at all until he was in his late 30s. Whenever we'd go to pools as a family where us kids would go on the slides and whatnot he'd go in the normal pool and try to teach himself to swim. He's in his late 40s now and he's still not great and doesn't tend to stay in water long on days out, but he can swim. It's never too late to learn anything guys!
But what if somebody is drowning and they're already more than an arms length underwater? What if there's a massive fire and it's turning the air above you into a cloud of burning hot smoke? What if you get trapped in a cabin in a sinking ship and the entire hull is underwater before you escape. What if somebody's hunting you with a machine gun? The supersonic bullets will disrupt the water and slow to a stop after being in the water for a meter. In the air you'd just be more exposed and your movements more predictable.
SaltySoySauce you uh do realize that both gases and liquids are fluids right? A fluid is anything that does not have a fixed shape. That’s it. Search stuff like that up before correcting someone
Yeah that's the crazy magic mumbo jumbo completely opposed to the totally real magic curse that prevents a physically and mentally capable person from swimming
WHAT?!? you don't know how to ride a bike?!? but what would happen if i pushed you against a bike?!? don't worry! i can teach you! just, like, make 2 circular movements with your feeth while also sitting and moving forward, simple!
Brandon Carpenter actually, the people that stayed alive were the first class passengers (mainly women and children) because they were allowed on lifeboats. Good swimmer or not, if you weren't on those lifeboats, you'd die.
In Canada it’s actually considered endangering your child if you don’t give them swimming lessons. We have so many bodies of water that they’re basically bound to fall in at least once.
Damien Green haha yeah. Idk why people arent taught how to tuck and roll over cars from infancy. Your surrounded by so many cars you're bound to get hit at least once.
Not true. I can swim but you won't get near a lake. I still think I am going to drown. I've been swimming in a river lots of times. Lake water feels different.
yep, you're right, a basic skill that could possibly save lives shouldn't be taught to people... like, Why is this not mandatory like first aid? Literally ANYONE can learn to swim in like a month, and that's assuming you're slow. Many people can learn in a day.
@ Firestar9114, I agree that people should know how to swim but we shouldn't belittle someone if they don't. Some parents just don't bother to teach their kids themselves or can't afford to. Though I think it's unrealistically expensive for all schools to be able to afford to borrow a local swimming pool for classes, perhaps they could offer some first-come-first-serve vouchers for private lessons for any students interested, and that can even count as their phys ed credit. Just a thought. Or who knows, maybe communities should be more inclined to hold affordable/free swimming lessons during the summers.
If you can move your arms or legs or torso, you can learn to swim. And no, throwing people into the deep end rarely works. I almost drowned twice because of that. If you want to learn how to swim, call up a qualified swim instructor and take lessons (the rudimentary stuff really seems embarrassing to do at first, but keep with it). It's fairly common (instinct, really), for non-swimmers who are drowning to try to climb up the swimmer trying to save them, which can end up drowning the swimmer or even both people. So, if you are near an area where you could possibly be submerged and drown, learn to swim. If not for yourself, for those around you.
Unless drowning is a common occurrence for you, if you start drowning, you will panic. There's no will-power or conditioning at that point, which is part of the reason waterboarding (simulated drowning) is/was used in interrogation (not that it is/was effective at getting people to tell the truth, necessarily). If you get lessons at a public pool, they are not expensive (under $200 altogether, but the price can go up if it takes you longer to learn than typical. This is also cheaper than a single trip to the hospital after a drowning experience). If you are going to be risky about it (which I would advise against), at the very least, make sure there is a certified lifeguard on duty and that you notify them of what you're attempting to do.
also as someone whos walked calmly into and around inside of multiple pools in the past 18 years (give or take) i fair to see how walking into them will help you "get the hang of" swimming. big difference between swimming and walking into a pool. im calm when i go into the pool. im calm when i go into the river or the ocean edge or a tub of some sort. i panic when i end up under the water in any of those situations. no amount of just "walking" into or in a pool will teach you how to actually swim.
I thought it was weird for people to not know how to swim at first. I took a moment to realize humans spend the majority of their time not in deep enough water to swim in...
SunriseReaper they aren't retarded they just never learned to swim. Easy. It's like never learning how to do gymnastics (just an example please don't start correcting me against the two ) some people just don't know and don't wanna know, and some people try and try but can't get it for whatever reason. I don't understand why you would be so hateful for someone else's weakness.
Unless you've never been to a pool or a body of water, you should know how to at least doggy paddle or swim underwater. Swimming doggy paddle as ESPECIALLY swimming under water aren't complicated or hard in the slightest. Swimming underwater is literally just kicking your legs and the doggy paddle isn't much more complicated. So unless you don't know how to use your arms and legs, you should at least know the most basic ways of swimming.
NO THEY AREN'T YOU JERK! DAMN!!!!! lol jk i just got here and don't know what's going on it's like that song "what's going on" by marvin gaye i believe it was... back in nineteen dickity one. We had to use the word dickity cause the damn hippies stole our word for seven. Now where was I... OH YEAH marvin gaye's song. I remember when he wrote that song. It was for a lovely young lady but unfortunately she never knew the song was for her since she had to get a heel of her shoe fixed and she took the ferry the next day to morganville... that's what they used to call shelbyville. The ferry cost three nickles but in those days nickles had bumblebees on them... five bees for a quarter they'd say. Now before she got on the ferry she put an onion on her belt cause it was the style at the time. We didn't have those white onions... just the big yellow ones because of the war
I've been trying to learn to swim since I was 7, I put in plenty of work. A few years ago I finally got the hang of floating and now I can even move very very slowly in the water. I am almost in my 30's now. Swimming is just like any other skill I learned to walk at 6 months old, while I see some children almost 2 struggle. Everyone learns at their own pace. There are still many people in this world that can't even read.
Jeez these comments... It's ok if you don't know how to swim, not everyone lives near a body of water. Not everyone has the resources/time for lessons. Though, it is something very useful, respect those who don't know how
Jeez these comments... It's ok if you don't know how to read, not everyone lives near a library. Not everyone has the resources/time for lessons. Though, it is something very useful, respect those who don't know how
Юлиан Гантман You can make it through life without knowing how to swim easily, not so much without knowing how to read. Though you seem to be doing ok, especially for a Russkiy.
swimming is a natural instinct in the human populace. do you know how we teach kids to swim in the country? pick them up and throw them in the water. they learn fast.
I think the argument is that if you specifically fell into a pool you could get out like a able body person, this person however, would just fucking drown.
Gee, people need to calm down. If u know how to swim, good for u. If i know how to program, should i expect everybody to know it either? For those who still didn't get it, NO.
Good point. But still i beg to disagree. A survival skill would oonly seem necessary if u know u mght get into a scenario that u would need to use it. Hence, the relevance of these skills can be viewed as subjective.
+Jack Third Thank you for being a decent human being and not letting your ego get in the way of, what could have been, an educational topic for most people in this comment section. I also agree with survival skills being subjective. Either you learn them all, by choice, and that's okay, or you learn only the ones you think are most useful. You can't really argue that swimming is an essential survival skill when you don't know how to make a fire or hunt for small game. I know there's people who have everybody's best interest in mind but the majority of these people do not. They just want to ride their high horses, to protect their egos, while being agonistic.
Jack Third what's the down side to learning how to swim? Are you really comfortable to limiting yourself to a lot of fun activities because you were to lazy to learn? not to mention, even if life or death situation are rare, you can't control every situation that happens in your life unless you plan on living a pretty dull one. Tell me which is better: being caught in a situation where you run the possibility to drown and not know how to swim or knowing how to swim but not really get much use out of it
FemScout main there is no down side. If u learn how to swim, good for u. Some ppl, with their lifestyle, dont think it's necessary. That's all. Cheers!
i think it’s usually the person who appears on the ending screen is the one who wrote the script. so it makes sense that irl reika doesn’t know how to swim.
I like those stories where "Tough love" parents push their kids into a lake expecting that they'd magically learn in a fit of panic and then the kids die
@@ViperNP No, he knows that, he means like since you learned it that way maybe you grow up you will do it in your child, but it fails and they die, basically the though love parents in this story are you, interept that way.
I never heard a story of a kid dying that way. That's pretty much how I learned how to swim tho. The difference is that I jumped by myself and didn't wait for someone to push me...
If I had one cent for every unsolicited pseudo-lecture about swimming in the comments, I could probably pay the budget for the U.S. military in 0.2 seconds.
And then drown in the debt you've just caused by giving a random influx of money worth a 1/17 of the US economy and therefore productivity of 1/17 a year
Why can't I fly? Or swim? Or ride a bike? Or make a decent comment? EDIT: PLS STOP RESPONDING TO THIS DUMB COMMENT I WROTE IT WHEN 12 PLS STOP. Edit 2: I'm 16 now, 2021, pls stop talking abt my age
To be fair, most people do have to learn how to swim. I'm sure many of you who have probably also have been around pools/lakes/oceans or whatever body of water. I could easily see how someone who didn't grow up around any water wouldn't know how to swim
Exactly. I had both experiences. I spent the first half of my childhood living a near a pool and the Ohio River in a small town. The second half I only ever been to hotel pools living in NC. I've been swimming twice in last 10 years. If I had been born in NC I may have never learned how to swim. I don't even remember learning because going to the pool and swimming in the river was just a part of life.
God satan As is mine. I can almost float in salt water but not enough to save my life. Yes, it's scary, and I love being around water. So, I stay onshore and away from most pools and really only go in the water if my husband, ex-Navy Seabee, is with me. I can't imagine drowning. How awful.
Meanwhile multiple friends and family members of mine had a garden that was connected to a body of water. So anyone living anywhere near where I or they lived should know how to swim.
My friend doesn't know how to swim and some people patronize her but I try to help her. I'm pretty patient and I try to teach as best as possible. She says I've helped her a little but I'm not sure.
I tried helping my friend and she nearly drowned me in 5 ft deep water. Were both taller than that but my god lol. When Im rich Im sending that bish to some swimming lessons lol $$
*When you can't swim....* *Friends* : Don't worry. It will be fine. Here take My hand. *Best Friends* : Either you dive from the fuc***g board or I am kicking your ass. Either way you are jumping in without floaters.
The first time I went to a pool I didn't know how to swim. I met a random dude there and he thought me how to do it in 1 sentence "Take a deep breath and relax"
Honestly, as a grown woman who literally _just_ got her driver's license, I see a lot of parallels between this and when people find out you can't drive. Driving is pretty much mandatory in the United States because of how the country is structured, so anyone over the age of 16 who can't drive is treated as if there's something wrong with them. You've got the people who swear up and down that it's "easy" to operate an expensive metal death machine if you "learn how", ignoring the fact that it takes hours and hours of practice to be certified for a driver's license. You've got the people who assume you either have a traumatic experience with car accidents or have overbearing parents who prevented you from taking Driver's Ed as a teen to keep control of you, when really, there are a lot of potential reasons that someone wouldn't be comfortable driving. And you've got the people who say you NEED a car to get a job, find a home, buy groceries, or really do anything, and if you don't have a car, you will never be able to survive- which often comes across as shame rather than encouragement to learn.
Yeah but in this video, I's about a healthy peson living in LA... If a person tells me he can't afford to travel, I'm not gonna call him a narrow-minded xenophobic douchebag.
Wakiki Demore Except those would be more relatable. Since swimming is your most basic mode of transportation in water you kinda need it. Skating and biking can still be replaced by walking or driving. Dancing is the closest one I can see to being vital but really isn't necessary either as long as you're not interested in doing any of those activities.
If you live a hour away from a body of water capable of drowning in, is swimming really worth anything? (not that I can't swim, as I am very well adept at swimming, just arguing this for others sake)
That is practically the opposite of what I was thinking. Swimming is nearly useless, as is dancing, but cycling is very important for many people and skating is easily accessible and easier than swimming.
Comethawk Well swimming might be more helpful for people who live in places near the coast line or in a place floods easily. So if the city floods, do you take the bike or the skate, is what you are saying?
As someone who teaches swimming to little kids who don't want to learn floating and teaching floating is super useful as they at least can stay on the surface.
Marcos Elena I live on the Mississippi River, in the state known for having well over 10,000 lakes, and I also can't swim. It's almost like having proximity to water doesn't effect your ability to swim! 🙄
Swimming isn't impossible. To some people it can be hard but it is definitely possible to do if you practice. Defying gravity is not as easy as swimming.
How can we ever win against the *Non-stupid* and *Smart* people in the comment section when they have such intelligent words? "Not being able to swim is stupid" "You will die if you can't swim" "I refuse to normalize not being able to swim" I am trembling!
Gabe Watson if you cant swim it won't feel like it's working, because your head will still be under water, even thou you don't sink and your head is directly under the surface. In order to breathe, you have to raise your head above the surface but if you're not doing it the right way, wich isn't obvious for people that can't swim, you'll sink again.
Harrycammy, no chemotherapy is not just for breast cancer, it is used to treat many different kinds of aggressive tumors, and sometimes they won't even allow some people with breast cancer to take chemotherapy if the tumor is a certain kind.
As a person who cant swim, I took them as a really young kid but just never got the grasp of it. But than my family wasn't able to fford them anymore so I stopped.
Here's my little anecdote, since I don't know what age, people have been trying to teach me how to swim and they all start with the same step: teaching me how to float and with that they always say "oh don't worry, everyone can float" which is apparently not true since everytime I lie still in the water I end up slowly sinking, I'm not surprised though I've always been extremely light, right now I'm 5'11 and 125 lbs, these days I actually know how to swim it just takes a lot more effort than the average person, anyways that's my story
You can be very light and still float, that doesn't really matter, non-swimmers try to keep their heads above water and are pretty tense, that's the issue. But congratulations!
I run into the same issue. I think it’s cause my tension and the way I spread out my body. It’s still frustrating to hear people say “it’s easy, everyone can do it”.
i JUST understood that the last line from Zac "oh no i think i am afraid of air!" is probably a reference from their gluten video when Zac was the hypochondriac
"Globally, there are at least 4 billion people who can't swim. According to the World Health Organization, there are an estimated 372,000 annual drowning deaths worldwide every year." So it is more common not being able to swim after all.
Crazy Izzy also it's statistically more common to not have access to running water or food. But this video and the comment section talking about societes with better conditions - not necessairly 1st world - providing we spend our time typing up stupid comments.
Niphredyl and to add, the non-swimmer adult, in the 1st world, is more likely not to teach their kids to swim...so endless cycle of excuses. If you stay in one place long enough, you're essentially missing out on life.
Good job! Yeah, getting comfortable, relaxed and confident in the water is most of it honestly. I learned to swim several years later than my peers because I wasn't super comfortable and confident in the water(I was 10 or 11 I think, so I was still a child though). The afternoon when I started to learn how to dive, blow air out of my nose underwater, and fetch things from the pool floor, was the same afternoon when I learned to swim. A lot of this is psychological, and some people just need space and time to figure it out.
when i know i'm about to try to float, my heart beats slightly faster and louder and the muscles around my eyes feel tired and my eyes are welled up like i'm about to cry, is that normal? it feels like i'm scared, except it's like a still scared. like i'm frozen but my heart is pounding hard.
I think it's as if people would come out as not being able to read or something like that. Of course it's gonna be surprising that someone can't read in this day and age and they'd be recommended to learn how to read, they would be listed all of the advantages of reading and so on. Being proud about not being able to read and just saying that you'll avoid situations in which you'd have to read just borders on the ridiculous though. What's so great about not being able to read?
Tim MD knowing how to swimming is not bad, I'm sure almost everyone that doesn't know how to swim would like to learn but they don't think it's important because they don't go near pools, rivers, lakes and oceans. What makes people mad is those who know how to swim calling others retards because they can't swim.
Tim MD that's a really bad comparison tbh.. not being able to read is a lot worse than not being able to swim. if you lived near no large bodies of water or in a low-lying area you're pretty much at zero risk of dying. just don't go near water it's that easy
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if you act dead the water will think you're dead and push you up, works every time
“the water will think you’re dead”
SkywardStar that's the joke
I feel obligated to mention that .... That is some funny shit right their LMFAO!! * golf clap *
I can do that in a cannonball position, just not on my back...
When I try that the water is too smart and finds out I'm alive, then it tries to drown me.
That's not how you fly. The secret to flying is that you throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Actually wrong. That's orbiting.
The fact that you have 42 likes as I'm reading this is simply brilliant
I see you are a man of culture as well
I know I'm necroposting, but scientifically, that's orbiting. Flying is generating enough thrust to lift off the ground and gliding via said thrust.
“Necroposting”
I’ve never heard that before, and I love it.
"you can't just push someone in and expect them to magically be able to swim.'' As a lifeguard who has witnessed people try this, I can testify that it, indeed, doesn't work.
Yeah I had to deal with this too, people are dumb.
A human body is less dense than water. People drown because they panic- like Zac says, they’re afraid. If you inhale deeply and sit still you will just float.
worked for me
Yeah, that has happened to me 3+ times before lmao
That’s actually pretty close to how I learned
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My dad didn't learn how to swim at all until he was in his late 30s. Whenever we'd go to pools as a family where us kids would go on the slides and whatnot he'd go in the normal pool and try to teach himself to swim. He's in his late 40s now and he's still not great and doesn't tend to stay in water long on days out, but he can swim. It's never too late to learn anything guys!
Good for him! Proving it’s not about learning at a young age but being willing to try
thats pretty inspirational
I would 100% trade in the ability to swim for the ability to fly. So much more convenient and better for survival.
If you can fly you can probably use the same mechanism to swim.Air is just a much lighter fluid than water
Yeah and a much better party trick 👏👏👏
But what if somebody is drowning and they're already more than an arms length underwater? What if there's a massive fire and it's turning the air above you into a cloud of burning hot smoke? What if you get trapped in a cabin in a sinking ship and the entire hull is underwater before you escape.
What if somebody's hunting you with a machine gun? The supersonic bullets will disrupt the water and slow to a stop after being in the water for a meter. In the air you'd just be more exposed and your movements more predictable.
@@nabi7701 Air is not a fluid, it's a gas
SaltySoySauce you uh do realize that both gases and liquids are fluids right? A fluid is anything that does not have a fixed shape. That’s it. Search stuff like that up before correcting someone
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"you can't just push someone in and expect them to magically be able to swim.'
I must be magic because you just described how I learned how to swim.
same
SageSeeker that’s how I learned to ride a bike. I was pushed down a hill into a lake
Yeah that's the crazy magic mumbo jumbo completely opposed to the totally real magic curse that prevents a physically and mentally capable person from swimming
same my dad just threw me in the pool at 3 years old and i just had to learn lmfao
my brother pushed the bike for me again and again after some time i magically learned
When people find out you dont know how to ride a bike
WHAT?!? you don't know how to ride a bike?!? but what would happen if i pushed you against a bike?!?
don't worry! i can teach you! just, like, make 2 circular movements with your feeth while also sitting and moving forward, simple!
yep...
Same
NO_DATA ik right when i try i wobble and i fall
if you cant ride a bike, get a life
"Most people on the Titanic died from hypothermia"
Yea probably because they were SWIMMING in cold ass water.
Some had life eat on and we're just floating.
Then their body went into shock from hypothermia.
Brandon Carpenter actually, the people that stayed alive were the first class passengers (mainly women and children) because they were allowed on lifeboats. Good swimmer or not, if you weren't on those lifeboats, you'd die.
guys its a joke
Brandon Carpenter so if they were DROWNING in cold ass water, would they have survived?
Brandon Carpenter Flailing your limbs around trying to stay afloat isn't exactly swimming.
Plus, a lot of people were clinging onto furniture.
In Canada it’s actually considered endangering your child if you don’t give them swimming lessons. We have so many bodies of water that they’re basically bound to fall in at least once.
Damien Green that's how it should be
Damien Green haha yeah. Idk why people arent taught how to tuck and roll over cars from infancy. Your surrounded by so many cars you're bound to get hit at least once.
Dropped Off
Touché
Dropped Off Actually, yeah wtf. There should be such lessons. Nice! (Your sarcasm is complete shit but the idea is not bad)
And your point is too.
Dropped Off no, because most people don't get hit by cars, but in most parts of Canada , most people fall in the water at least once in their life
If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
Just Another Guy With A Moustache
Lol, that's actually pretty fun to imagine... XD
Just Another Guy With A Moustache
Well i can do better than him
I can swim under land
*_in pubg._*
Just Another Guy With A Moustache I smell Bo Burnham
oh shit
Jesus is a fictional character from a book of fiction
That moment when you live in Australia and have never even heard of this concept of 'not being able to swim'.
I thought Australia was just dessert.
+sand skelloten surrounded on all sides by water
Weird
pretty much every else on earth except this comment section lol
Yum, Baked Australia.
Wait, people don't know how to fly?
I know, I first flew at 4 years old, entered the deep sky when my grandparents were not looking as well, didn't fall either.
I know how to fly I have my private pilot and my muti engine rating and my jet rating
Just kidding I'm a flight sim nerd who recreates air crashs
Martin Allen I had a dream where I was disappointed I couldn't fly and couldn't understand why not
Honestly I didn't see that ending coming.
Martin Allen this video deosnt make sense.Who doesn't know how to fly?
Wait... People who can't fly is a thing? Weird. I've been flying since I was like 2 years old.
Hot Pot You don't know how to fly? Are you afraid of air?
:)
I believe I can fly...
I believe I can touch the sky...
Michael Jackson was a candy cane
AAAYYYYYYYYY!!!
If you can fly, I'd want you to teach me definitely.
But all you gotta do is just fly.
WARNING: This comment section is a war between the swimmers and the non-swimmers. Continue at your own risk
LOL
relatable.
By the time anyone has reached this comment, they'll have already realized
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Vikram Balaji I've never met someone over six who can't swim. I'm having a hard time with this concept
The only people actually understanding this video are those who can't swim too...
Not true. I can swim but you won't get near a lake. I still think I am going to drown. I've been swimming in a river lots of times. Lake water feels different.
the people in this comment section just turned into all of the people in the video without even realizing it
Gemini Hey Ikr these people are being like "well you see your wrong because that barely what happens"
yep, you're right, a basic skill that could possibly save lives shouldn't be taught to people... like, Why is this not mandatory like first aid? Literally ANYONE can learn to swim in like a month, and that's assuming you're slow. Many people can learn in a day.
Firestar9114 who are you replying to?
@ Firestar9114, I agree that people should know how to swim but we shouldn't belittle someone if they don't. Some parents just don't bother to teach their kids themselves or can't afford to. Though I think it's unrealistically expensive for all schools to be able to afford to borrow a local swimming pool for classes, perhaps they could offer some first-come-first-serve vouchers for private lessons for any students interested, and that can even count as their phys ed credit. Just a thought. Or who knows, maybe communities should be more inclined to hold affordable/free swimming lessons during the summers.
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From a guy who can't swim, I confirm this is usually how it goes. My friends want to toss me in the deep end and have me swim. Doesn't work
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If you can move your arms or legs or torso, you can learn to swim. And no, throwing people into the deep end rarely works. I almost drowned twice because of that. If you want to learn how to swim, call up a qualified swim instructor and take lessons (the rudimentary stuff really seems embarrassing to do at first, but keep with it).
It's fairly common (instinct, really), for non-swimmers who are drowning to try to climb up the swimmer trying to save them, which can end up drowning the swimmer or even both people. So, if you are near an area where you could possibly be submerged and drown, learn to swim.
If not for yourself, for those around you.
Or instead of taking expensive lessons, why not just keep calmly walking into the pool calmly until you get the hang of it.
Unless drowning is a common occurrence for you, if you start drowning, you will panic. There's no will-power or conditioning at that point, which is part of the reason waterboarding (simulated drowning) is/was used in interrogation (not that it is/was effective at getting people to tell the truth, necessarily).
If you get lessons at a public pool, they are not expensive (under $200 altogether, but the price can go up if it takes you longer to learn than typical. This is also cheaper than a single trip to the hospital after a drowning experience).
If you are going to be risky about it (which I would advise against), at the very least, make sure there is a certified lifeguard on duty and that you notify them of what you're attempting to do.
also as someone whos walked calmly into and around inside of multiple pools in the past 18 years (give or take) i fair to see how walking into them will help you "get the hang of" swimming. big difference between swimming and walking into a pool.
im calm when i go into the pool. im calm when i go into the river or the ocean edge or a tub of some sort. i panic when i end up under the water in any of those situations. no amount of just "walking" into or in a pool will teach you how to actually swim.
You cant just walk, you have to lift your feet off, you have to at least make a conscious effort to swim. Even though it really is a reflex.
like in Macbeth "two spent swimmers" who "choke the art" or something, as a metaphor for a battle that's not going well
That is actually ironic because i can't swim but i am a pilot so in a way i can fly but i can't swim.
Anas saleh damn + respect
but what if you have to do an emergency landing on water
Kinda but flying in a plane is like 'swimming' in a boat or submarine so it's not rly the same :)
what if your plane crashed and land of the water but you can't swim
A A RON thank you
I thought it was weird for people to not know how to swim at first. I took a moment to realize humans spend the majority of their time not in deep enough water to swim in...
Listen to the top comments. Swimmers vs Non Swimmers. Leave now.
this is worse than shillary vs donald duck
Mark Ensalada Gotcha.
non swimmers
The Nokosuki you are one of the top comments
I don't know how to swim.
**everyone triggers**
*you're
SunriseReaper they aren't retarded they just never learned to swim. Easy. It's like never learning how to do gymnastics (just an example please don't start correcting me against the two ) some people just don't know and don't wanna know, and some people try and try but can't get it for whatever reason. I don't understand why you would be so hateful for someone else's weakness.
IKR
Yeah because you should know how to swim
Unless you've never been to a pool or a body of water, you should know how to at least doggy paddle or swim underwater. Swimming doggy paddle as ESPECIALLY swimming under water aren't complicated or hard in the slightest. Swimming underwater is literally just kicking your legs and the doggy paddle isn't much more complicated. So unless you don't know how to use your arms and legs, you should at least know the most basic ways of swimming.
People in the comments are taking this WAAAYYY to seriously
NO THEY AREN'T YOU JERK! DAMN!!!!! lol
jk i just got here and don't know what's going on
it's like that song "what's going on" by marvin gaye i believe it was... back in nineteen dickity one.
We had to use the word dickity cause the damn hippies stole our word for seven. Now where was I... OH YEAH marvin gaye's song. I remember when he wrote that song. It was for a lovely young lady but unfortunately she never knew the song was for her since she had to get a heel of her shoe fixed and she took the ferry the next day to morganville... that's what they used to call shelbyville. The ferry cost three nickles but in those days nickles had bumblebees on them... five bees for a quarter they'd say. Now before she got on the ferry she put an onion on her belt cause it was the style at the time. We didn't have those white onions... just the big yellow ones because of the war
Random League of Legends (Thresh) games I feel like you're making an Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik reference
Cuz it hurts😂
I don’t know how to swim so I can REALLY relate to this.
Same
I dont get it either. If you move your arms and legs in water, you will swim. How is this a thing lol
@@MCB400100 no you wont lmao ya because people totally dont try in the water
@@MCB400100 Once You Learn How To Swim You Forget How To Drown So Of Course You No Longer Understand It...
LeTon75 Oh oh oh oh! I can teach you!
I learned to swim at 4. My Dad pushed me into the deep end of a pool. Good times...
Still trying to learn to fly. I'm taking lessons.
the nerd of many fandoms 😂
the nerd of many fandoms I heard if you jump off of a really tall building and think hard enough you will fly.
Clock Cuber don't try this!!! I tested it with my dog and spot hasn't come back to me since, he's obsessed with the clouds 😩😩
flying is soo easy you just have to float
Park Jimin plot twist lol
I kinda? learned the basic strokes this summer. Only because I was in a 3 foot pool and I could automatically just stand up if I panicked or whatever.
I've been trying to learn to swim since I was 7, I put in plenty of work. A few years ago I finally got the hang of floating and now I can even move very very slowly in the water. I am almost in my 30's now. Swimming is just like any other skill I learned to walk at 6 months old, while I see some children almost 2 struggle. Everyone learns at their own pace. There are still many people in this world that can't even read.
Swimming is by far easier than reading
Her friends:You can't swim!?
Her: You can't fly!?
*UNO REVERSE CARD*😶😶😶
“Flying is soooo easy, all you have to do... is know how to FLYYYYYYY”
Jeez these comments... It's ok if you don't know how to swim, not everyone lives near a body of water. Not everyone has the resources/time for lessons. Though, it is something very useful, respect those who don't know how
Jeez these comments... It's ok if you don't know how to read, not everyone lives near a library. Not everyone has the resources/time for lessons. Though, it is something very useful, respect those who don't know how
Its amazing how you responded to a youtube comment in the exact same format without knowing how to read
Юлиан Гантман You can make it through life without knowing how to swim easily, not so much without knowing how to read. Though you seem to be doing ok, especially for a Russkiy.
swimming is a natural instinct in the human populace. do you know how we teach kids to swim in the country? pick them up and throw them in the water. they learn fast.
Don´t they teach you how to swim in school over there?
Douglas Adams teached me how to fly! You just need to fall but avoid hitting the ground, it's pretty easy once you know how
Sorry, but you throw yourself and the ground and miss. Sheesh.
taught*
I just can't fathom how a land mammal that spends virtually all of it's life on dry land wouldn't know how to swim
Am I the only one that's getting irritated by the way that she's saying titanic?
KRZ BULL no
Too Lazy To Make A Username Thank you!!!
KRZ BULL tie tay nick
That's the point of it
Nope
I'm just one of those people that can swim but not very well. I just tend to avoid swimming because of that. :D
I think the argument is that if you specifically fell into a pool you could get out like a able body person, this person however, would just fucking drown.
Gee, people need to calm down. If u know how to swim, good for u. If i know how to program, should i expect everybody to know it either? For those who still didn't get it, NO.
Good point. But still i beg to disagree. A survival skill would oonly seem necessary if u know u mght get into a scenario that u would need to use it. Hence, the relevance of these skills can be viewed as subjective.
+Jack Third Thank you for being a decent human being and not letting your ego get in the way of, what could have been, an educational topic for most people in this comment section. I also agree with survival skills being subjective. Either you learn them all, by choice, and that's okay, or you learn only the ones you think are most useful. You can't really argue that swimming is an essential survival skill when you don't know how to make a fire or hunt for small game. I know there's people who have everybody's best interest in mind but the majority of these people do not. They just want to ride their high horses, to protect their egos, while being agonistic.
Jack Third what's the down side to learning how to swim? Are you really comfortable to limiting yourself to a lot of fun activities because you were to lazy to learn?
not to mention, even if life or death situation are rare, you can't control every situation that happens in your life unless you plan on living a pretty dull one. Tell me which is better:
being caught in a situation where you run the possibility to drown and not know how to swim
or
knowing how to swim but not really get much use out of it
FemScout main there is no down side. If u learn how to swim, good for u. Some ppl, with their lifestyle, dont think it's necessary. That's all. Cheers!
Jack Third it's a viable skill that may save your life one day and gives you access to more fun, that is all. ^_^
I feel that who ever wrote this skit did it out of pure spite and frusturation is so obvious just makes me love and relate to it more
i think it’s usually the person who appears on the ending screen is the one who wrote the script. so it makes sense that irl reika doesn’t know how to swim.
Next video: When people find out you can't read
It's totally OK! Who needs that !?
Юлиан Гантман I know right? People are so judgemental these days, it's like you have to know EVERY SINGLE THING in the UNIVERSE
That profile pic is perfect for this comment.
Believe it or not, some people don't know how to read
Aron Örn next vid: when people find out u cant shit
I like those stories where "Tough love" parents push their kids into a lake expecting that they'd magically learn in a fit of panic and then the kids die
Miku Ivalice that's not how you supposed to learn it, horrible parents exist tough, but we are talking about adults in this video.
My uncle actually did that to me and turned out great. Swimming is my favorite thing now.
@@ViperNP No, he knows that, he means like since you learned it that way maybe you grow up you will do it in your child, but it fails and they die, basically the though love parents in this story are you, interept that way.
You probably shouldn't like true storie about kids dying
I never heard a story of a kid dying that way. That's pretty much how I learned how to swim tho. The difference is that I jumped by myself and didn't wait for someone to push me...
If I had one cent for every unsolicited pseudo-lecture about swimming in the comments, I could probably pay the budget for the U.S. military in 0.2 seconds.
Ivan21234 that would require everyone on earth to comment in this section 1 million times or some shit js
Robert Beck It obviously was a dumb joke.
melvin vaughn Comedy is subjective. Move along
My dads friend taught me to float. He threw me in the deep end. Hope that thorough tip helps.
And then drown in the debt you've just caused by giving a random influx of money worth a 1/17 of the US economy and therefore productivity of 1/17 a year
Why can't I fly?
Or swim?
Or ride a bike?
Or make a decent comment?
EDIT: PLS STOP RESPONDING TO THIS DUMB COMMENT I WROTE IT WHEN 12 PLS STOP.
Edit 2: I'm 16 now, 2021, pls stop talking abt my age
You can.
You probably had questionable parents
How did you find college humor when you were 12?
@@overlord267 it was in my recommendation. Looked cool and got into it.
Ffonnie Fan- when you were 12?!?
To be fair, most people do have to learn how to swim. I'm sure many of you who have probably also have been around pools/lakes/oceans or whatever body of water. I could easily see how someone who didn't grow up around any water wouldn't know how to swim
Exactly. I had both experiences. I spent the first half of my childhood living a near a pool and the Ohio River in a small town. The second half I only ever been to hotel pools living in NC. I've been swimming twice in last 10 years. If I had been born in NC I may have never learned how to swim. I don't even remember learning because going to the pool and swimming in the river was just a part of life.
ShadowMarioid me
also people's bodies are weird and some people can't physically float
God satan As is mine. I can almost float in salt water but not enough to save my life. Yes, it's scary, and I love being around water. So, I stay onshore and away from most pools and really only go in the water if my husband, ex-Navy Seabee, is with me. I can't imagine drowning. How awful.
I was born in a tropical state (won't say which one) and I still don't know how to swim.
Meanwhile multiple friends and family members of mine had a garden that was connected to a body of water. So anyone living anywhere near where I or they lived should know how to swim.
Honestly, I used to not know how to swim. i was once scared of water and almost drowned once. Now, I am a mediocre swimmer and I can relate.
A bit overacted, but god damn it this is so fucking true.
bababooie
As someone who almost passed the courses to be a swim instructor I can confirm that this is not how to teach someone to swim.
I'm guessing the first step is finding someone who WANTS to learn to swim.
@@alexisd6106 precisely
@@alexisd6106 yep. Don’t make people afraid by saying you’ll throw them in the deep end. It works for a select few but not all.
My friend doesn't know how to swim and some people patronize her but I try to help her. I'm pretty patient and I try to teach as best as possible. She says I've helped her a little but I'm not sure.
Libby Shores You're a good friend
Ella Here aw thank you. I try.
I tried helping my friend and she nearly drowned me in 5 ft deep water. Were both taller than that but my god lol. When Im rich Im sending that bish to some swimming lessons lol $$
You are a damn good friend...
I can swim but cant fly 😢
Crazy Brothers Studio It's okay😏
I can do both but hate getting wet
Weird I can’t swim, but I can fly.
??? Both is easy
I believe I can fly.
People are saying this isn't relatable, but I think we can all relate to how triggered she was at calling it titaynick
*/taıteınık/
Absolute Zero *shudders*
Everyone should know how to swim. That little skill can save your life
This is relatable.
So your telling me if you fell into a pond, you would just die?
ペリドx Kanna chan yup I bet u stay inside all day playing games and watching hentai lmao no wonder
Fin no i'm pretty sure they'd like get out of the pond instead of accepting defeat
I'm so sorry you're in a wheelchair t
You're in a wheelchair right? Because otherwise, your legs are functional and therefore you can swim underwater. O
*When you can't swim....*
*Friends* : Don't worry. It will be fine. Here take My hand.
*Best Friends* : Either you dive from the fuc***g board or I am kicking your ass. Either way you are jumping in without floaters.
Don't Read My Profile Picture That's how you lose friends. Literally.
enjoy the manslaughter charges
Flying is easy
I just need some weed
Flying is easy
I just need a minecraft account
Reel Gag TV With cheats enabled. /gamemode creative
LMAO
I don't remember learning to swim and now I don't know if I can swim or if I'm just not drowning when I'm in water
The first time I went to a pool I didn't know how to swim. I met a random dude there and he thought me how to do it in 1 sentence "Take a deep breath and relax"
😉😉😉 Sounds like rape
Brownie Milkshake in what world does "take a deep breath" sound like rape? Does "calm down" also sound like rape to you?
@@Abyzz_Knight it matters on length and girth, or if someone's a virgin
Doggy Paddle FTW
Wolffang731 100th like mate 💯
What a plot twist
Honestly, as a grown woman who literally _just_ got her driver's license, I see a lot of parallels between this and when people find out you can't drive.
Driving is pretty much mandatory in the United States because of how the country is structured, so anyone over the age of 16 who can't drive is treated as if there's something wrong with them.
You've got the people who swear up and down that it's "easy" to operate an expensive metal death machine if you "learn how", ignoring the fact that it takes hours and hours of practice to be certified for a driver's license. You've got the people who assume you either have a traumatic experience with car accidents or have overbearing parents who prevented you from taking Driver's Ed as a teen to keep control of you, when really, there are a lot of potential reasons that someone wouldn't be comfortable driving. And you've got the people who say you NEED a car to get a job, find a home, buy groceries, or really do anything, and if you don't have a car, you will never be able to survive- which often comes across as shame rather than encouragement to learn.
I live in California and most people can swim. I was just never taught so I can't swim. Simple as that
Sad how many can't understand this.
Godspeed Productions well it pretty easy I was never taught how to swim my dad threw me in a pool and wala i started swimming
Rockstar Gamez idk how you did it so easily
Panic! At The Fangirl well i just started dog paddling but then I got better over time
Rockstar Gamez same my cousin used to take me to the deep part of a pool when I was little and I started swimming and got better
People saying swimming is a life skill
Say that to someone who lives in the dessert lmao
Actually some desserts can be pretty fluid, so knowing how to swim would definitely help
on a more serious note: Did you know that more people drown in the desert than die of thirst?
Yeah but in this video, I's about a healthy peson living in LA...
If a person tells me he can't afford to travel, I'm not gonna call him a narrow-minded xenophobic douchebag.
You can really milk this.
When your friends find out that you can't:
- Cycle
- Skate
- Dance...etc
Wakiki Demore Except those would be more relatable. Since swimming is your most basic mode of transportation in water you kinda need it. Skating and biking can still be replaced by walking or driving. Dancing is the closest one I can see to being vital but really isn't necessary either as long as you're not interested in doing any of those activities.
If you live a hour away from a body of water capable of drowning in, is swimming really worth anything?
(not that I can't swim, as I am very well adept at swimming, just arguing this for others sake)
That is practically the opposite of what I was thinking. Swimming is nearly useless, as is dancing, but cycling is very important for many people and skating is easily accessible and easier than swimming.
Comethawk Right? Lol some commenters are braindead, good luck trying to swim to work.
Comethawk Well swimming might be more helpful for people who live in places near the coast line or in a place floods easily. So if the city floods, do you take the bike or the skate, is what you are saying?
I love Zac's "fearmonger" face. For some reason, it always makes me laugh.
As someone who teaches swimming to little kids who don't want to learn floating and teaching floating is super useful as they at least can stay on the surface.
That plot twist tho 😂😂😂😂😂
I live on the mouth of 2 rivers that connect to the pacific ocean and I can't swim, I get SO much shit for that
Marcos Elena rightly so. Why do you chose not to learn a basic function
Marcos Elena I live on the Mississippi River, in the state known for having well over 10,000 lakes, and I also can't swim. It's almost like having proximity to water doesn't effect your ability to swim! 🙄
Where is that? No Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco or LA
“I want to try to find the titaynic!”
Swimming isn't impossible. To some people it can be hard but it is definitely possible to do if you practice. Defying gravity is not as easy as swimming.
Chicken wings! This video, and channel is for comedic purpose
Chicken wings! I think you missed the joke
Chicken wings! Ive taken lessons. But i panic everytime ;_;
Ha! Checkmate.
_I'm in space._
Chicken wings! u must be fun at parties
I'm literally the only one in every group of friends or camp of people who can't swim
same
do you not know how to kick your feet back and forth? or do you mean you can't swim for an extended period of time?
Trigg Ethridge i know how to kick my feet back and forth, but i can't swim
*cartoonamateit* same
r.i.p.
I like the ending. Smart.
Do not try to find the Titaynic
How can we ever win against the *Non-stupid* and *Smart* people in the comment section when they have such intelligent words?
"Not being able to swim is stupid"
"You will die if you can't swim"
"I refuse to normalize not being able to swim"
I am trembling!
Actually, they died from hypOthermia not hypERthermia
olympus gaming Actually, that would be death from hyperthermia. :)
this thread is infected
BrandonTheGod no u
Needs more meows guys srs more meows
They literally mispronounced titanic...
Lol I was just binge watching CH and saw the notification
Just because you can’t swim doesn’t mean you aren’t buoyant.
Some people have negative buoyancy, where their head below the water is their natural buoyancy level.
When people find out that your still subscribed to college humor
When people find out you don't know the difference between "your" and "you're"
Vopal that's what I was going to say
OH SHIT BOIIIS I FFFFFFINNNA DIE NOW REKT XD
When people find out that if you understand the sentence it doesn't matter if you use your or your'e
Vopal how to win an argument: correct someones grammar
You float by holding your breath
... and breathing in before starting to hold your breath (that's a very essential first step)
I've tried that. Didn't work lol
Felicia See though physics don't just not work.
Gabe Watson if you cant swim it won't feel like it's working, because your head will still be under water, even thou you don't sink and your head is directly under the surface. In order to breathe, you have to raise your head above the surface but if you're not doing it the right way, wich isn't obvious for people that can't swim, you'll sink again.
The only smart person in this comment section...
This comments section needs Chemotherapy.
Do you mean comments?
Reuben Taylor ?
Do u know how to swim?
harrycammy it's a joke, he is saying that these comments are cancer
Harrycammy, no chemotherapy is not just for breast cancer, it is used to treat many different kinds of aggressive tumors, and sometimes they won't even allow some people with breast cancer to take chemotherapy if the tumor is a certain kind.
How people react when I tell them I don't know how to bike, drive, whistle or roll my rs
I'm too fat to sink
Wait, how can you say you don't know how to swim, but have taken classes?
shadowassassin925 best one
Yeah that one made no sense
Either the class sucked, or she didn't pay ant attention
As a person who cant swim, I took them as a really young kid but just never got the grasp of it. But than my family wasn't able to fford them anymore so I stopped.
What sort of school did you go to that taught you how to swim? Sounds fancy.
Actually when people find out they just bully you
Yeah they do.
Your husband or boss?
As an Australian, when I was living and working in Canada for a few years I met SO many Irish people that couldn't swim. Blew my mind.
Here's my little anecdote, since I don't know what age, people have been trying to teach me how to swim and they all start with the same step: teaching me how to float and with that they always say "oh don't worry, everyone can float" which is apparently not true since everytime I lie still in the water I end up slowly sinking, I'm not surprised though I've always been extremely light, right now I'm 5'11 and 125 lbs, these days I actually know how to swim it just takes a lot more effort than the average person, anyways that's my story
You can be very light and still float, that doesn't really matter, non-swimmers try to keep their heads above water and are pretty tense, that's the issue. But congratulations!
What you just said is physically impossible
I run into the same issue. I think it’s cause my tension and the way I spread out my body. It’s still frustrating to hear people say “it’s easy, everyone can do it”.
Me when I lie
i JUST understood that the last line from Zac "oh no i think i am afraid of air!" is probably a reference from their gluten video when Zac was the hypochondriac
"Globally, there are at least 4 billion people who can't swim. According to the World Health Organization, there are an estimated 372,000 annual drowning deaths worldwide every year." So it is more common not being able to swim after all.
Crazy Izzy also it's statistically more common to not have access to running water or food. But this video and the comment section talking about societes with better conditions - not necessairly 1st world - providing we spend our time typing up stupid comments.
Niphredyl and to add, the non-swimmer adult, in the 1st world, is more likely not to teach their kids to swim...so endless cycle of excuses. If you stay in one place long enough, you're essentially missing out on life.
HazelnutSheep also 75% of all people will believe any fact told to them by a friend or family member
I guess there are swimmers which will drown because they can't swim that long like they need to survive.
Wait? How come her "flying" just looks like air-swimming? Doesn't that mean she can swim?
You gotta love all the people in the comments who are literally acting like these three.
I was the fearmonger when I figured out one of my friends couldn't swim
Illogical. Someone who could fly/levitate would by consequence be able to swim by the same telekinetic faculty.
Never thought this ending is coming
I had the worst time floating until last year, but then I just learned to get my ears in the water and calm myself down
Good job! Yeah, getting comfortable, relaxed and confident in the water is most of it honestly. I learned to swim several years later than my peers because I wasn't super comfortable and confident in the water(I was 10 or 11 I think, so I was still a child though). The afternoon when I started to learn how to dive, blow air out of my nose underwater, and fetch things from the pool floor, was the same afternoon when I learned to swim. A lot of this is psychological, and some people just need space and time to figure it out.
when i know i'm about to try to float, my heart beats slightly faster and louder and the muscles around my eyes feel tired and my eyes are welled up like i'm about to cry, is that normal? it feels like i'm scared, except it's like a still scared. like i'm frozen but my heart is pounding hard.
What kind of world do we live in when people are honestly triggered by others not being able to swim? Like are you people serious right now?
I think it's as if people would come out as not being able to read or something like that. Of course it's gonna be surprising that someone can't read in this day and age and they'd be recommended to learn how to read, they would be listed all of the advantages of reading and so on. Being proud about not being able to read and just saying that you'll avoid situations in which you'd have to read just borders on the ridiculous though. What's so great about not being able to read?
Tim MD knowing how to swimming is not bad, I'm sure almost everyone that doesn't know how to swim would like to learn but they don't think it's important because they don't go near pools, rivers, lakes and oceans. What makes people mad is those who know how to swim calling others retards because they can't swim.
Tim MD that's a really bad comparison tbh.. not being able to read is a lot worse than not being able to swim. if you lived near no large bodies of water or in a low-lying area you're pretty much at zero risk of dying. just don't go near water it's that easy
It's as simple as moving your arms and legs. Yes.
Its like learning someone can ride a bike
So you can fly huh? Well say hello to my water gun it’ll make it technically become swimming and make you fall to your death
I came back to this video after a year to read the comments and go sooooo TRIGGERED
i've never met anyone who couldn't swim
dannyU2g same
Here 😂
Meet me
meet my mom
Same
Wait you cant time travel?
It's easy you just do it
Time Travelling Is Easy
All You Have To Do Is Use The
4th Dimension!
Are You Afraid Of Time?
@@SpatialAndTemporalEvangelicals I did time travel and now I HATE IT. YOU SHOULD BE AFRAID OF TIME. Time defends itself. Gaze into the future you collapse the quantum wave creating predestination. It does defend itself like a hostile version of the force from Star Wars. Time starts behaving like a Cthulhu monster.
BE AFRAID OF TIME. Never get into a time machine. IT SUCKS and WILL wreck your life.
Finally, the fact that I always watch these while soaking wet pays off!
tmi friend
Love the setup. It's so College Humor to be this random! "Hey so we're playing with toy boats around a little pool and..." XD