testing the water

[crashnburn'd]

I want to go swimming in the pond across the street from my apartment building, but there are dead fish, ducks, geese, seagulls and other fowl floating in it...

Should I test the water or just jump in?

[cmsummit]

I want to go swimming in the pond across the street from my apartment building, but there are dead fish, ducks, geese, seagulls and other fowl floating in it...

Should I test the water or just jump in?

You should drink the water first, before jumping in.

[biggins]

You should bottle the water and then sell it chinese character guy for a huge mark-up.

[TomK]

Go swimming, but shower afterwards.

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“What does not kill me makes me stronger.” - Goethe

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What do you think you have an immune system for?
It’s for killing germs!
And it needs germs to practice on… - George Carlin


When we read popular health and fitness publications, we get all sorts of advice on how to improve our immunity. We learn that we should eat certain foods, drink certain drinks and practice certain stress-relieving disciplines. If we follow these practices, we'll increase our resistance to disease and live happily ever after.

One thing that we’re never told however, is to heed the advice of George Carlin. You probably never thought of Carlin as an immunologist, but as in so many things, George was ahead of his time. As comedy’s most diligent scholar, Carlin was a performer who did his homework. Never content to simply rant and rave, George found a way to rant and rave with knowledge and intelligence.

In his 1999 performance, You Are All Diseased, Carlin did a hysterical and visionary sketch called "Fear of Germs." He told the story of his childhood years in New Jersey and the wave of polio that threatened his community. His theory, subsequently validated by a growing body of medical research, was that the immune system is trainable by exposure to dirt and filth. His rant, unfortunately, is largely unprintable due to his generous use of the "Seven Naughty Words." Nevertheless, it is clear that Carlin understood the central problem of immunity and the immune system. For Dr. Carlin, immunity rested on two key concepts: defense and education.

[kronkite]

Think safety....ricky does

[laseranimal]

shoot the hostage

[crashnburn'd]

shoot the hostage

What the hell are you talking about? I just want to go swimming....

[FNG]

If you want, I can send you a bottle of my own urine to sterilize the water.

[El Chupacabra]

I want to go swimming in the pond across the street from my apartment building, but there are dead fish, ducks, geese, seagulls and other fowl floating in it...

Should I test the water or just jump in?

I'm confused. Do you want to go swimming or are you hungry?

[Buzzworthy]

Good one!


Are you trying to say to all that are "testing the waters" is to put the crap up for sale and if you don't get what you want, don't sell it??


What the hell is the trend on testing the waters, sell or don't!
Just cause it is up on the Swap, does not mean you are stuck in selling it.