Anyway that’s why you wear wool and a life jacket babeeeyyyy
The important thing about wool is that it continues to keep you warm even when it’s soaking wet.
Other natural fibers don’t do this. In fact, quite the opposite. Campers and boaters are usually familiar with the phrase, “cotton kills.” If you’re wet in cotton or linen, your clothes actually sap heat from your body.
If you sink in a lake in late October like I did today, staying warm is important. I was rescued long before I would’ve actually died, but cold makes your muscles seize up, which isn’t good if you have to swim to land.
Which brings me around to life jackets. If the water’s cold enough, you may only have five-ten minutes until your muscles seize (today I probably had 40-60, more than enough time to get to land if I hadn’t been picked up), and you’ll drown.
In a life jacket, even in extremely cold water, you can float semi-conscious for perhaps another 30 minutes or so before you actually freeze to death, which is usually when someone rescues you.
What’s more, you probably know that moving around on land warms you up. Jumping jacks, jogging in place, etc.
In water, moving actually makes you colder. You need to stay still curled up in a ball, which you can only do in a life jacket.
In wool AND life jacket, you’re warm, and your head’s above water, which is pretty much your only and entire goal.
If you’re allergic to wool, synthetics are available specifically for this purpose. I know I always say natural fibers are the way to go, but when it comes to safety, wear what protects you!
Yep! A really simple “experiment” I learned as a kid and now use in my own courses is sticking your hand in ice water. Compare moving it around in the water to curling it up in a fist. The contrast is stark!
To increase your survival time in on cold water, you want to curl up! If you’re with others, you want to huddle!
Again, both are only possible when wearing a life jacket!
I know a lot of people are reblogging this for writing reference, but I like to believe that 7,000 people on this site were actually continually living in fear about this specific situation and that when the time comes, I’ve prepared them with what they need to know to survive.
Writing reference for me, but hopefully helps others.
One time I read that post that goes “once upon a time an adult put you on the ground and never picked you up again” and it made me sad so now I lift everyone. I’m 5'3" and kinda dumpy but the trick is to plant your feet, get ‘em in a gable grip low near the hips with your knees bent, and then just tuck in your Elbows and straighten your legs. Gets those fuckers right on up there. I’m the oldest of eight and also the shortest but that sad shit lives with me so I’m hauling around these kids around like it’s nothing. My little brother is a hockey player and a full head taller. I carried him around when he was a baby and I carried him around last weekend. My Papa is a 230lb Bavarian man who watches Stargate in a bath robe, he’s smoked a pack a day for forty years. You think I haven’t lifted him? I have. He said I couldn’t do it but I did. God didn’t give me social skills but I’m full of love and jacked as hell and he’s not here to stop me
alright i am sick of yt to mp4 sites being shady and full of viruses and finding websites that seem to be working and then don’t work (looking at you y232 (no hate, just frustrated))
so HERE’S HOW YOU DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS WITH VLC!! VLC FREAKIN RULES!!
get your youtube link
open vlc, go to media > open network stream
paste your url in the box and PRESS PLAY!
wait for the video to open then go to tools > codec information
copy the entire file location (click the box, then ctrl-a to select all, then ctrl-c to copy)
paste into your browser of choice (i use firefox)
right click video and press “save video as”, choose your file format if you want
if you support israel right now, you’re supporting the extermination of the palestinian people.
it really is that simple.
this isn’t a ‘complicated conflict,’ it isn’t a situation that 'requires nuance,’ it’s not a 'geopolitical event’ that requires us to condemn the 'bad actors’ on 'both sides.’
it’s a genocide.
there is no 'nuance’ to be had here. it’s a genocide, committed by the israeli state against the palestinian people, and it’s happening right now as we speak. you don’t have to infer anything: israel has openly, with next to no pushback from so-called liberal democracies, cut off gaza’s access to water, food and electricity. that’s more than two million palestinians denied even the basic necessities for life. a million of them, children.
what is that, if not a genocide?
and that’s only the latest escalation. we could go all day, listing the atrocities the palestinian people have been subjected to. the killings, the beatings, the children sexually abused in detention center, all the hospitals and ambulances being blown up, videos of palestinians being heckled by settlers as they’re driven from their homes, israelis gathering on hilltops to cheer as their military drops bombs on gaza…
but all westerns want to talk about, is hamas.
because the murder of palestinians by the IDF is status quo; it doesn’t affect them. what’s one more dead palestinian but a statistic? but if hamas has killed a handful of israelis — if they’ve go as far as to even kill babies — then that justifies the extermination of two million palestinians, children and infants included.
westerns will even say that the palestinians brought it on themselves; that they should have know that a drop of israeli blood requires a river in return.
and just so we’re clear, you don’t have to like hamas. but when you equate hamas with the IDF, when you derail every conversation by demanding a condemnation of 'both sides,’ or when you, god forbid, agree that israel is justified in dismantling hamas — which, as israel themselves have outlined, will involve the complete destruction of gaza and the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians — then either wake up, or own up to the fact that you’re a participant in the extermination of the palestinian people.
do you think i’m being harsh? then imagine how it’s like living under constant aerial bombardment. with no food, no water, no electricity. constant air-raid sirens. a bomb, dropping every minute. never knowing a moment a peace, always wondering if today is going to be your last day, if you and your family are still going to be here tomorrow.
could you stomach living in gaza, for even a day? i doubt it.
and still, now, on the eve of what might be the ground invasion of gaza — with one million palestinians being told to flee, with nowhere to go — i’m getting messages from people who demand my sympathy… for israel.
well, you’re not getting it.
i’m not even humoring your hand-wringing.
if you live in israel, and you’re one of the ones who’ve turned a blind-eye to the suffering of the palestinian people, if you’ve fought for the IDF or tacitly supported them, if you’ve callously called upon the memory of the holocaust thinking the death and suffering of your ancestors would wash the blood of your own hands….
then yeah, i think you deserve every single hamas rocked lobbed at you and so much more.
