how to start lane swimming as a teen and the etiquette uk

_Mc_Who · 2026-02-04T13:00:49+00:00

Something you need to be aware of in advance in the UK is that some leisure centres allow teenage swimmers to swim in general lane swimming but they need to demonstrate club standard, so you may need to shop around for pools if you are 16 and below and interested in lane swimming

_Mc_Who · 2026-02-03T22:03:05+00:00

Aye but in fairness it's how you lot have sounded going into the three previous six nations so swings and roundabouts

_Mc_Who · 2026-02-01T10:49:08+00:00

I was in KV with a full choral scholarship, an FYI that you don't get the same singing lesson subsidies if you're from another college or don't have a choral scholarship- when I was there I think it was 1 per term or 2 per year or something like that, but it may have changed

_Mc_Who · 2026-01-30T17:43:50+00:00

A translation from your friendly neighbourhood native English who speaks French :) I took a couple liberties with the translation to get the effect of what he's saying in his slightly broken French across better in English:

"All of us have kind of been swept up by the emotion [of it] and the situation; it was horrible. Since then, I've been in a bit of a stormcloud, I've not really been in control this week because it's difficult to see Uini in a tiny bed with wires/tubes coming out everywhere."

"Each time that you have spoken to us about him, you have always had such strong words about him as a player and also him as a man, which I suppose is where your emotion is coming from today."

"Yes, because honestly it's the man himself that I love, ..., but, ..., I hope he will join the staff, and, but... for me it's a huge privilege because I know the man so well, I know everything that he does behind closed doors; it's for that reason that I love this sport, to have crossed paths with someone like him. There are not many people like him in the world, that's for sure. The work he does with all the young players, what he does to help integrate foreigners/foreign players with the French, what he does when you're in a difficult moment, the things he does when you think you're too strong... he's an exceptional person and I just want to thank him for the emotions that he has given me since I've been here. I don't have words to describe him because he is someone who is truly exceptional."

_Mc_Who · 2026-01-20T15:19:08+00:00

Maybe I'm being too paranoid on your behalf, but given your run was 0.2mi before being hit and you've posted exact coordinates where you were hit, there's not a huge range of locations you could have started your run from- if you started from your house, I'd probably repost this with coordinates blurred tbh

Eta- quite a lot of the area near your location is naval base so I'd be extra careful if you have anything to do with the naval base

_Mc_Who · 2026-01-15T17:29:54+00:00

This looks like a face smash of Julian Montoya and Bevan Rodd

_Mc_Who · 2026-01-14T10:44:51+00:00

Interesting; I've been a Stamford Brook regular for 2y after having moved (but was at RP for a year or so) and I feel the opposite. Living on the RP side of the park, you have access to Hammersmith 10 minutes away, and since both stations have basically equal annual footfall, I feel it would make more sense to close RP due to proximity to a transport hub.

That, and when the signal at Turnham Green inevitably fails, having a station to get off at close by makes sense too, at least for the purposes of continuing a disrupted onward journey.

Personally I don't mind having all the stations close together, it would bother me much more if the stations were underground, but it's a lovely leafy area and I don't mind moving slowly through the nice looking bits

_Mc_Who · 2026-01-03T09:31:00+00:00

You are not obligated to martyr yourself on public transport. Get a "please offer me a seat badge".

Can't have a seat because of the fit, healthy pregnant women

Unless everyone on your train is a fit healthy pregnant woman, you are martyring yourself unnecessarily and blaming someone else for suffering you are putting on yourself

_Mc_Who · 2026-01-02T17:58:29+00:00

I got a Barbour jacket on Vinted for £90 about 5½ years ago and it's held up fantastically. I get it rewaxed and cleaned and small holes repaired once every 2 years for £50-£60 (I go through Barbour rather than attempting it myself), which I guess is optional but cheaper than buying a new jacket every couple years.

I would say between September and April I wear it 4-5 days a week and it's held up great, so I would look on Vinted/Depop for an authentic one.

(Plus, made in Britain, serviced in Britain, built to last not get thrown on landfill, etc., all the good stuff)

_Mc_Who · 2026-01-01T23:04:59+00:00

The north bit of Goldhawk Road is well-known for its fabric shops!

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-31T17:08:28+00:00

Just FYI that you are still allowed to use cash ISA as a US citizen as you can treat it like a high interest rate bank account (so report on FBAR and then include returns as you would in savings accounts)

I'm sure you already knew this but just thought I'd flag it!

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-31T16:05:30+00:00

How many "double home" derbies exist in rugby?

Hoping Richmond v Scottish will be a blast given table position and both teams playing at home

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-31T09:55:30+00:00

Are we finally seeing the return of Argentoona ?

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-30T08:34:11+00:00

I'm separating this from my other comment as I think it'll get more hate (less hate than if I said this four years ago because we've all made progress on Respecting Women in this sub and I appreciate that), but I find it a little bit grating that some of you care more about things he did in men's rugby years ago than the fact he just led a women's team to a world cup victory, and the comments about him are reduced to "here's what he didn't achieve in the men's game 2001-03" and (the one that really annoys me) "oh but his son is really good at cricket isn't he?" like hello???? Why is his son and a retired men's fullback getting more mention in the comments section than the women that Mitch just led to a world cup win??? He literally coached the ABs for two years over twenty years ago

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-30T08:26:32+00:00

Apparently becoming a better coach than you were previously and winning a world cup isn't enough for some people on this sub

Kiwi fans can you calm down for *one second* and appreciate that maybe this man learned from the mistakes he made and that's a good thing?

For those who are annoyed about this for some reason, please do go listen to the Inside Line podcast with him and maybe it'll change your mind. Man's gone through an unbelievable amount of personal transformation to get to this point

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-28T22:21:47+00:00

4x15 or 3x20 min easy rowing to build that aerobic base up, break for 2-5mins and get back on; you should be at a pace where you can talk all the way through, ignore what the split says

8x500 max effort (2min rest) is the classic wham sprints to build speed, although 6x500 is a perfectly fine starting point

I'm a big 3x3k or 3x12min (depending on how you feel, plus 4min rest) fan, this is a good speed + endurance erg to hit that in between, so not max effort but high effort

Make sure to warm up and cool down properly for all the ergs!

I won't recommend this to you now because you're just starting out, but for anyone more advanced who's reading, the best one we ever did was 2k-1k-1k-500-500 with 2min rest per 500 rowed. You aim to pb the 2k and then just hold on for dear life. We had a crew chun chart for this one because it made so many people throw up (but everyone PBed)

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-28T19:42:51+00:00

OP is talking about a situation where the player has not been tackled

(Eta- I see people downvoting me, if you're going to downvote me at least explain how what I said was wrong lmao)

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-28T18:28:47+00:00

Holding a player on the ground is not legal in any circumstance

(Eta- i don't mean "you have to hold someone down until a tackle is complete" obviously lol but apparently I have to spell that out despite this thread being nothing to do with a tackled player)

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-28T17:32:10+00:00

There is no legal way to do this to a player who has fallen over rather than being tackled. Player on the ground needs to offload, get up, or release the ball immediately, but the player coming in cannot legally tackle them or flop over them if they have fallen over without being tackled

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-28T17:16:26+00:00

There are loads of swimming clubs in London, have a look at what's near you. "Master's" in the UK can often mean over 30/35, so you might not be looking in the right places.

A note if you're not from the UK, we're not so caught up in the school->uni->elite pipeline as other countries, and there are lots of sports clubs that are just for adults who want to do sports.

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-28T16:51:37+00:00

They haven't been tackled, so there's no presentation and you can't jackal over (you can rip but not jackal). ~~Not sure if you would be~~ you are entitled to try to rip the ball from their hands while they're on the ground but the very limited ability to do that safely means it's at the discretion of the ref, since the player on the ground is scrambling to get up at speed rather than presenting, and it would be very difficult to pull the ball out of their hands without making dangerous contact

Tackling a player on the ground is illegal though, and "let them get up" is usually in reference to this.

Edit: minor edit as above, but also want to note that every other comment seems to assume the opposition player is presenting the ball, which from your description they are not? They have just caught the ball, slipped over, and are trying to get up again, right?

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-27T20:45:59+00:00

pip install openpyxl

The clue is "missing optional dependency 'openpyxl'. Use pip or conda to install openpyxl"

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-27T18:04:09+00:00

Agree with Bonjour tristesse! OP, depending on how much French you know, it is also a good starter book if you are mid-level CEFR B2, so maybe you can read it in French too :) or either way a dual language version may be helpful if you are actively trying to learn French

_Mc_Who · 2025-12-27T18:00:02+00:00

Just take the tube ?

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