# I made two enemies at the pool. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 24, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333 "2010-02-24T23:55:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Budista](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Budista](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budista)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/41 "2010-02-25T17:35:34Z")
> [@](#): > > The two white guys start talking about “those damn foreigners”. They’re going on quite loudly about “I have to work my whole life for everything and all they have to do is come to this country and they get medical and dental and…”. **Floatygimpy** , I’ve gotta admit that when I saw this I immediately pictured them talking in a stereotypical Southern US accent. Then you mentioned you’re Canadian and I felt more than a little ashamed. But for what it’s worth, you said -something-. Most people would have just fidgeted and avoided contact with both parties. The fact that the Pakistani’s left after you opened your mouth probably has more to do with them wanting to avoid a conflict than it does with you having made them uncomfortable. I’ve done just this same sort of thing here in Calgary when I hear some asshole redneck bashing the gay community or being casually racist. There’s no sense in waiting for someone else to put these relics of a shameful past in their place. - Budista ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/42 "2010-02-25T18:06:37Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > That’s how you can really be sure if one’s a liberal… They float. I used to call our lightweight piece of shit 43rd president “Floater”. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/43 "2010-02-25T18:46:01Z")
I said what I did on purpose. I wasn’t interested in a debate with the old white guys, I just wanted them to have some manners. And I don’t think the Pakistani guys were mad at me, I think they just weren’t sure how to extricate themselves from the situation and when I spoke up, it sort of gave them a way out. I’m a woman. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/44 "2010-02-25T18:59:05Z")
Good job for saying something! You’re very brave and courageous! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/45 "2010-02-25T19:03:50Z")
So first I’m thinking “What is this guy doing changing into his swim suit in the change room with a woman and her daughter present?” Then I thought “Oh, maybe **FloatyGimpy** is a she?” Then I thought “So it’s a gal in a hot tub with 4 strange men?” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/46 "2010-02-25T19:10:34Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > So first I’m thinking “What is this guy doing changing into his swim suit in the change room with a woman and her daughter present?” > Then I thought “Oh, maybe **FloatyGimpy** is a she?” > Then I thought “So it’s a gal in a hot tub with 4 strange men?” > > 😕 The day before the entire local ( men’s) hockey team was in the hot tub when I was there. I ended up looking like a lobster by the time I finally got out. Hot tub and eye-candy, mmm. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/47 "2010-02-25T19:12:45Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > The best floatygimpy moment I had was at the salt lake spa in Watrous, Saskatchewan. It’s so salty you can’t sink - it’s saltier than the Dead Sea, and they heat it up into this big pool > > Very buoyant! Okay, we’re totally going there. Jim never gets to float - swimming is an exercise in flailing for his life for him. I was thinking too that telling them not to be assholes in front of the people they’re being assholes about is not quite the right note to take, but I also thought that I probably wouldn’t have said anything, so good for you, you floating gimp, you. On a mostly-related note, I saw an interesting ad yesterday regarding racism in public - it said that the correct way to deal with it as a bystander was to be an active observer. The guy playing the observer wasn’t supposed to ignore it or leave, he was supposed to go up to the guys being assholes and sort of stare at them - make them aware that they could be heard by others. It didn’t say you were supposed to say anything, I guess the idea being that a tv ad shouldn’t tell people to do something that could get the shit kicked out of them. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/48 "2010-02-25T19:44:16Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > The one at our gym always has a yellow froth on it, and is full of old people just boiling god-knows-what out of their wrinkles. that is why i love my personal 4 human sized hot tub sitting on my deck … I know who uses it, how often we clean it and how thoroughly we sanitize it …😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/49 "2010-02-25T20:40:53Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > I used to call our lightweight piece of shit 43rd president “Floater”. **Second Stone** let’s keep political hijacks out of this thread, please. You want to debate politics, you know where to go. **Ellen Cherry MPSIMS Moderator** ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/50 "2010-02-25T20:51:03Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > So a poo would pretty much shoot straight out of the water and into the sky, huh? It’s been a long time since I’ve laughed out loud at a post. Thank you, **tdn.** > [@](#): > > The day before the entire local ( men’s) hockey team was in the hot tub when I was there. I ended up looking like a lobster by the time I finally got out. Jeez, how big is that hot tub? And, more importantly, is there room for me??? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/51 "2010-02-25T20:58:32Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > So a poo would pretty much shoot straight out of the water and into the sky, huh? I pictured a surfacing submarine. Not willingly, either. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/52 "2010-02-25T21:32:14Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > So a poo would pretty much shoot straight out of the water and into the sky, huh? Poo is naturally a bit denser than water(which is why floaters are more rare than sinkers). So the question is how much denser. A floater would shoot straight up out of the water after being broken off or pinched off by the sphincter. Until then it would probably try to float and resemble a stubby tail if one could see it under construction. An average poo might try to sink, but not be able to sink all the way because the density of salt water, so it might sink to a mid level and be waiting like an undersea mine for some unsuspecting crotch to run into. A very dense poo would still sink, but without a recessed area to settle in it would just scoot around the bottom of the hot tub until someone stepped in it and squished it to the floor. If it was fortunate enough to avoid feet, it would probably migrate to the grate over the drain and then slowly dissolve as water flowed over it and the grate scraped off small bits. From there it makes it into the heater and circulation and then winds up everywhere. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/53 "2010-02-25T21:39:57Z")
David Letterman should have tried it on Will it Float. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/54 "2010-02-25T21:45:46Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > So first I’m thinking “What is this guy doing changing into his swim suit in the change room with a woman and her daughter present?” > Then I thought “Oh, maybe **FloatyGimpy** is a she?” > Then I thought “So it’s a gal in a hot tub with 4 strange men?” > > 😕 Why is that weird? Is she supposed to get out of the hot tub until another woman comes? ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/55 "2010-02-26T02:06:25Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > I’m not so sure saying “do you really think it’s appropriate to be having a conversation like that with these two gentlemen sitting right here?” counts, all that much toward speaking up. > > You didn’t really express any righteous outrage, at what they were saying, only whom they were saying it in front of. > > If you’re going to make enemies, I say, step up and say something you can be righteously proud of, not just “Shush now”, like a schoolteacher. (Apologies if you really are a schoolteacher!) > > I’m thinking of something along the lines of; 'Shut your cakeholes you ignorant pricks!" I could really get behind that! Yes, this has been sorta going through my mind since I read the OP. That the behaviour being called was the rudeness, not the sentiments themselves. But at least something was said, and they were called on what they were saying. Most people wouldn’t have had the cojones to do anything. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/56 "2010-02-26T02:13:12Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > Poo is naturally a bit denser than water(which is why floaters are more rare than sinkers). So the question is how much denser. A floater would shoot straight up out of the water after being broken off or pinched off by the sphincter. Until then it would probably try to float and resemble a stubby tail if one could see it under construction. > > An average poo might try to sink, but not be able to sink all the way because the density of salt water, so it might sink to a mid level and be waiting like an undersea mine for some unsuspecting crotch to run into. > > A very dense poo would still sink, but without a recessed area to settle in it would just scoot around the bottom of the hot tub until someone stepped in it and squished it to the floor. If it was fortunate enough to avoid feet, it would probably migrate to the grate over the drain and then slowly dissolve as water flowed over it and the grate scraped off small bits. From there it makes it into the heater and circulation and then winds up everywhere. > > Enjoy, > Steven Um, ew. I am _not_ enjoying. :mad: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/57 "2010-02-26T04:28:59Z")
I chose not to use the Y hot tub after the first time in it. There were several older women hanging from the side at regularly spaced intervals facing outward. Out of curiousity, I imitated their posture and notice that the hot tub jet was trained directly on my bits. I didn’t really want to hang out in a pool of covert masturbation. I’m a prude that way. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-made-two-enemies-at-the-pool/530333/58 "2010-02-26T06:47:54Z")
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