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[GlyphGryph]

The Lakes being better thing? That much I'll agree with. I've got no beef with the ocean, but lakes have things like salamanders and cooler clams and alligator snappers living at the bottom. And they are generally warmer to boot, and then you can swim near shore and eat blueberries off the overhanging bushes.

Lakes are winner. Oceans are just kind of... inhospitable.

(likes to snorkel in lakes)

[MaximumZero]

Wait, the talk of our jellyfish being perfectly harmless? o_O?

Talk of enormous poisonous things in a biome where I cannot do anything including breathe, that would probably be happy to eat me whole. Unlike Janet, who would at least cook me up first.

I'll stick with the lakes.

[GlyphGryph]

You just need to go to the right ocean place. Go to Rhode Island, they have none of the big scary jellyfish at all. In fact, I don't think I ever saw anything all that scary there in all the years I grew up.

I mean, they get some bucket sized jellies occasionally, but again - none of them can sting.

The most dangerous thing you have to worry about is lobsters, and lobsters have their own freshwater equivalent.

[Duke 2.0]

 Zero, don't tell me you don't want to be that dude

 Impress all the kids by being That Dude

[MaximumZero]

That dude who can punch out sharks but not swim? I am that dude. It impresses all the kids who don't know that I can't swim.

[Jervill]

Speaking of lakes, I'm hoping the water temp will be warm enough to go swimming this weekend.  The weather looks like it will be nice, anyway.

[Frumple]

I'll give this, though. The sound of surf is very relaxing, and sea breeze is infinitely goddamn better than swamp coagulation.

Anyway, I like pools. Nice, clean pools where I can check for snakes and jellyfish and bullfrogs (not actually bullfrogs, but that's where the boat phobia came from~*) before swimming around in them for hours. Rivers and ponds are nice, but harder to check for snakes and bullfrogs, though the former is much more worrisome.

*Boats of any size has my hindbrain gibbering that there's something in the water bigger than the boat and some goddamn drunk idiot is going to stick a pointy piece of metal into it and both piss off said thing and connect it to the boat simultaneously. It's not my happy place

Wait, the talk of our jellyfish being perfectly harmless? o_O?

Talk of enormous poisonous things in a biome where I cannot do anything including breathe, that would probably be happy to eat me whole. Unlike Janet, who would at least cook me up first.

I'll stick with the lakes.

It was when I was like five or six. Either of us would be larger than that particular jellyfish actually was, but tell that to the hindbrain. They're pretty bloody rare close to the coast, anyway, the bigger ones. Just... go swimming when the tide is out. And get out before it starts coming in. That'd probably help. Most jellyfish are pretty passive, not really a problem unless there's, y'know, several hundred in the water with you making a nettlely poisonous minefield.

[ChairmanPoo]

Wololo! Jellyfish!

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[GlyphGryph]

Oh god, I can't stand pools. Pools are like the most miserable watery experience a person can have. I mean, I give in to temptation now and again, but it is rarely worth spending that much time sick afterwards. Even being around pools makes me feel sick, to be honest. Especially clean ones.

They are so bad right around the time they start turning green and the sides get a bit slimey. Those pools are perfect for swimming in.

[Levi]

Wololo! Jellyfish!

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That is terrifying.   

[Pnx]

In the Netherlands I used to swim in a pool that used pure water, without any chlorine or anything added in, they just had a whole bunch of filters. It was awesome, the texture of the water was just... thicker, and firmer, it felt great.

[Frumple]

Springs are pretty okay too, and still fairly easy to check for snakes and bullfrogs -- the former even tends to stay away because springs tend to be effing cold. Which is pretty great when it's like 110 in the shade and -buggergod- percent humidity.

Never seemed to manage to get sick from pools, though. Sunburnt to hell a few times and feverish because of that, but nothing worse. Mind you, a fair percentage of pooling comes from a family owned one, so...

[Vector]

Got a letter from m'boy.

FWEEEEEE

Haven't read it yet, just gonna keep it and look at it for a while :3

[Pnx]

Got a letter from m'boy.

FWEEEEEE

Haven't read it yet, just gonna keep it and look at it for a while :3

*assumes girly, legs folded, sleepover position* Oooo, a real letter? Is it a hand written one? What's it say what's it say?

[Loud Whispers]

Wololo! Jellyfish!

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That is terrifying.   

Japanese Nomura jellyfish :d

DEM JELLYFISH TOOK AR FISHES