Swimmers
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wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 13:22 last edited by
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wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 13:53 last edited by
You have to go out. You don't have to come back.
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wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 13:54 last edited by
That's from my first cousin, retired Coastie.
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wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 14:31 last edited by
FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
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FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 14:40 last edited by Horace 2 Apr 2023, 20:01@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
My favorite context for that word is in its verbed noun form. E.g “serial entrepreneurs often engage in foundering”. It rolls off the tongue, and really impresses people.
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FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 19:45 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.
wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 20:50 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.
"Floundering" would mean acting and moving like a flounder. Which would mean wriggling back and forth violently and incessantly while trying to free yourself from a line.
Flounders don't bob and sway lazily on the surface waiting to be rescued.
It's fucking foundering.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.
"Floundering" would mean acting and moving like a flounder. Which would mean wriggling back and forth violently and incessantly while trying to free yourself from a line.
Flounders don't bob and sway lazily on the surface waiting to be rescued.
It's fucking foundering.
wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 22:43 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.
"Floundering" would mean acting and moving like a flounder. Which would mean wriggling back and forth violently and incessantly while trying to free yourself from a line.
Flounders don't bob and sway lazily on the surface waiting to be rescued.
It's fucking foundering.
From Meriam Webster:
Flounder is a relatively common verb that current evidence dates to the late 16th century, when it was likely born by means of an alteration of an older verb, founder. The two have been confused ever since. Today, founder is most often used as a synonym of fail, or, in the case of a waterborne vessel, as a word meaning "to fill with water and sink." Formerly, it was also frequently applied when a horse stumbled badly and was unable to keep walking. It's likely this sense of founder led to the original and now-obsolete meaning of flounder: "to stumble." In modern use, flounder typically means "to struggle" or "to act clumsily"; the word lacks the finality of founder, which usually denotes complete collapse or failure, as that of a sunken ship.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.
"Floundering" would mean acting and moving like a flounder. Which would mean wriggling back and forth violently and incessantly while trying to free yourself from a line.
Flounders don't bob and sway lazily on the surface waiting to be rescued.
It's fucking foundering.
From Meriam Webster:
Flounder is a relatively common verb that current evidence dates to the late 16th century, when it was likely born by means of an alteration of an older verb, founder. The two have been confused ever since. Today, founder is most often used as a synonym of fail, or, in the case of a waterborne vessel, as a word meaning "to fill with water and sink." Formerly, it was also frequently applied when a horse stumbled badly and was unable to keep walking. It's likely this sense of founder led to the original and now-obsolete meaning of flounder: "to stumble." In modern use, flounder typically means "to struggle" or "to act clumsily"; the word lacks the finality of founder, which usually denotes complete collapse or failure, as that of a sunken ship.
wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 22:49 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Swimmers:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.
"Floundering" would mean acting and moving like a flounder. Which would mean wriggling back and forth violently and incessantly while trying to free yourself from a line.
Flounders don't bob and sway lazily on the surface waiting to be rescued.
It's fucking foundering.
From Meriam Webster:
Flounder is a relatively common verb that current evidence dates to the late 16th century, when it was likely born by means of an alteration of an older verb, founder. The two have been confused ever since. Today, founder is most often used as a synonym of fail, or, in the case of a waterborne vessel, as a word meaning "to fill with water and sink." Formerly, it was also frequently applied when a horse stumbled badly and was unable to keep walking. It's likely this sense of founder led to the original and now-obsolete meaning of flounder: "to stumble." In modern use, flounder typically means "to struggle" or "to act clumsily"; the word lacks the finality of founder, which usually denotes complete collapse or failure, as that of a sunken ship.
Do you think I've never looked that up before?
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wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 23:10 last edited by
Yeah well, in the second video, the boat flipped over.
Or maybe it fipped over.
Or fipped up?
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wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 23:19 last edited by
"Founder" in an equine context is still used.
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wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 23:29 last edited by
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wrote on 4 Feb 2023, 23:38 last edited by
And the douchebag just stood there on the stern instead of jumping in. Idiot.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.
"Floundering" would mean acting and moving like a flounder. Which would mean wriggling back and forth violently and incessantly while trying to free yourself from a line.
Flounders don't bob and sway lazily on the surface waiting to be rescued.
It's fucking foundering.
wrote on 5 Feb 2023, 12:58 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Swimmers:
FOUNDERING. Not floundering. FFS.
Wouldn’t that depend if the boat was totally disabled or if it was still trying to move? I can’t tell in the video if the boat’s engines are dead or not.
"Floundering" would mean acting and moving like a flounder. Which would mean wriggling back and forth violently and incessantly while trying to free yourself from a line.
Flounders don't bob and sway lazily on the surface waiting to be rescued.
It's fucking foundering.
I’d agree with that, the boat (regardless of engines) was just floating there like an obese person in a wave pool. I also didn’t know of flounder vs founder.
