On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:00:29 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> On 02/03/2012 06:59 AM, Warp wrote:
> 
>>    How to learn to swim properly:
>>
>> 1) Buy swimming goggles. They are *essential*. Don't bother trying
>> without them. (When you buy them, it's extremely important that you
>> check that they are watertight and don't leak water when on. They
>> should act like suction cups.)
> 
> In all the years that I've been alive on this Earth, I have never, ever,
> even once, found a pair of goggles that don't leak like a sieve. As far
> as I can tell, goggles just flat-out don't work. (Or maybe it's that
> only the incredibly expensive ones work, I don't know.) Every pair of
> goggles I've ever owned has been a total waste of money.

I used to speed swim - never had a problem with inexpensive goggles 
leaking - but the problem that I did tend to have was that they fogged 
up.  Even the anti-fogging ones would give me trouble.

> Also: People who open their eyes underwater. OUCH! >_<

I'm with you on that.  Especially chlorinated water.  That just stings, 
and I never could get used to it.

Jim

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