29th July 2004, 5:16 PM
The kind that is just sorta forced to accompany people and didn't really want to go there to begin with, but doesn't want to be bored. Personally, I don't find swimming that amusing, most of the time, unless the water is doing crazy things. Lemme tell you something. Lakes in Oklahoma are filthly stinking bilge holes. They get no fresh water aside from rain, and everyone throws their garbage in there. The water is BLACK, well close anyway. They are NOT meant for fishing, mush less swimming, certainly not drinking. Lemme tell you, if you see a dirty diaper floating on the water's surface, and multiple times, in a closed lake, time to find a new swimming hole. Still, sometimes I get dragged along with my family to these places. I'll tell you this, there have been a few times where, upon returning, the entire group that went, excepting me, got horribly sick. Now of course that alone doesn't PROVE it's unhealthy, but I have enough evidence of how a closed system holding human waste can make someone sick that I'm fairly certain that's the case.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)