Wild swimming

[Chris Fullmer]

Does it ever actually get warm enough over there to swim????

[remus]

A real man swims whatever the weather.

[mateo soletic]

@unknownuser said:

A real man swims whatever the weather.

And not only real men , even polar bears do that.
See this picture:

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[remus]

That polar bears not half as cool as him

[Daniel]

OMG! I could have lived without that image in my mind. Thanks a lot Remus!

[remus]

Whats so bad about an old, fat russian bloke prancing about half naked?

[juju]

@remus said:

Whats so bad about an old, senile, fat russian bloke with one hell of a big scar on the right hand side of his torso prancing about half naked?

Fixed that for you.

[Ross Macintosh]

That photo seems odd to me. Notice the fool is just standing in a few inches of water. Why would they cut the hole in the ice so close to shore? You'd think they'd cut it in deeper water so he could take a real plunge. And what's that odd tool the guy in the pink shirt is wearing? Perhaps he used it to do a lobotomy on speedo boy.

[remus]

Julian, id assumed he scar was just rolls of fat

And i imagine they cut it so close to the shore so he got a bit of a gradient going, i reckon when you get to the other end of the pool youll be un prime wallowing water (apart form it being about -2 in there.)

[eeva]

ice swimming is not so bad! i have done it myself a couple of times, but only after a nice and warm sauna. you just have to wear socks (yes, JUST socks, nothing else) so your feet do not stick to the snow. the rest is a stroll very popular in finland, i hope anssi confirms this...

there are even ice swimming world championships!

Winter swimming - Wikipedia

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