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doodlee-a:

GUYS, THIS IS IMPORTANT. I’ve been a lifeguard for four years, and I didn’t fully appreciate this until a little kid jumped into the shallow end of the lap pool. He wasn’t flailing. His eyes were wide in panic and h would try and push himself off the bottom, but the water was right over his head. It took me a couple seconds to register what had happened, and fortunately, another swimmer right beside the kid managed to grab him when he saw my reaction.

My mother and I run a water safety non-profit organization and this is one of the things we teach.

In movies someone who is drowning always yells and screams and it’s very dramatic and obvious but in real life you really have to be paying attention

I was on holiday in Egypt when I was 14, and there was a 4-year-old Italian boy I had to save because no-one else even thought he was in trouble. Luckily, the water wasn’t too deep and only came up to my waist, but the kid was so small it covered his head. All he did was gasp for air and angle his head up, and tried kicking off the pool floor while reaching his hands up. I sat him on the edge of the pool in the shallow end and then his mother came over and thanked me.

I didn’t think much of it then, but I saved a life that day.

THIS COULD LITERALLY SAVE A LIFE.

After 2 years of lifeguarding and many more of competitive swimming I can verify this. Drowning signs are eerily quiet. It helps to catch them early. The pool I worked at had a large amount of regular clients. I’d always keep an extra lookout for people I didn’t recognize since I didn’t know their swimming ability. Their face aiming towards the sky is the first thing they’ll almost always do. Especially children.

this is how I almsot drowned in a public fucking pool like 5 meters away form a fucking lifeguard when I was about 10
a swimmer next to me grabbed my arm and pulled me up thank god but I’m still fuckign furious about it almsot 13 years later

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The Future Will Be Carpeted: An Analysis of ‘Deep Space Nine (S1E6)’ by FBC Guest Contributor Justin Robinson!

“You hit me! Picard never hit me.”
“I’m not Picard.”
     — Q and Commander Sisko


Just in case you have no idea who the Star Trek universe’s Q is, I’ll explain.  First, though, how’d you end up here?  Are you lost?  Wait here and I’ll go and get a police officer to take you home, and, for the last time, stop mixing your medication with scotch.  Anyway, Q is a godlike alien being who walks the line between mischievous and malevolent and takes special delight in bothering Captain Picard.  As played by John de Lancie, Q is one of the more popular and recognizable elements of the twenty-year period of Trek that comprises TNG, DS9, and Voyager.  Me, I’ve never cared for Q.  Nothing against de Lancie or the writing, I just prefer my godlike aliens to be more strange and less preteen-who-really-could-use-his-Ritalin.  It might be because I look at Q as the physical representation of the Trek brass (a.k.a. Rick Berman and Brannon Braga).  Wherever their attention is, like the Eye of Sauron, Q will soon appear, bringing his special brand of malicious whimsy.

If you Google “why Sisko is the best captain,” the second hit is a list of seventy indisputable facts.

  They’re also pretty big spoilers, so, you know, wait on those if you haven’t watched the series.  Number 25 is “Q came to DS9 once and was scared away.  He won’t leave Janeway or Picard alone.”  Q decided to mess with Sisko and was smart enough to realize a simple truth: you can mess with Sisko one time.  That’s your free one.  You get a warning, and, as long as you go on your way, you can live in peace.  Come back, and Sisko’s going to play a little game called “let’s see how many quantum torpedoes I can fit in your large intestine.”  Sisko’s warning to Q came in the form of a pair of punches, which promptly knocked Q on his omnipotent ass.  Realizing that a man who can punch out a god might be someone around which to tread lightly, Q rather sensibly fled the Alpha Quadrant entirely to go bug Janeway.

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watch DS9 they said

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