"Wild swimming" - spare me!
Jul. 25th, 2013 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroSo anyway, I thought that my reaction to the expression "wild swimming", which is "or, as we used to call it, swimming", was as a result of my prairie upbringing.
Much to my relief, the comments page on a recent Guardian article that used the ludicrous expression (but at least conceded that it's safe) displayed a plethora of responses that are much the same as mine.
It's good to know that as a society we haven't become that flippin' pathetic, it's just the chattering classes, as always.
Yeah, by education and choice of living environment I'm supposed to *be* part of that demographic, but see above re prairie upbringing. I may have worked hard to become the kind of urbanite whose nose bleeds if I go north of Bloor Street, but at heart I think just about everyone (in North American/Western European societies) is a wimp. Including me, for the record.
Much to my relief, the comments page on a recent Guardian article that used the ludicrous expression (but at least conceded that it's safe) displayed a plethora of responses that are much the same as mine.
It's good to know that as a society we haven't become that flippin' pathetic, it's just the chattering classes, as always.
Yeah, by education and choice of living environment I'm supposed to *be* part of that demographic, but see above re prairie upbringing. I may have worked hard to become the kind of urbanite whose nose bleeds if I go north of Bloor Street, but at heart I think just about everyone (in North American/Western European societies) is a wimp. Including me, for the record.
