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2023-06-26 16:41 UTC
@joelmartinez @dawni Can’t help you there. At the time I learned the term, I had only the very vaguest idea what an *ahem* was. In retrospect, I can see how the term came about (the “pus” thing only makes sense on fairly rare occasions — rips mostly *don’t* look whitish, unless there is a simultaneous strong undertow (which is not the thing that will kill you).
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@marcas@mastodon.ie 2023-06-26 16:45
@joelmartinez @dawni But a few years ago, visiting NY with my family, we spent a day on the beach in the Hamptons. (The south shore of Long Island is basically one big beach, 100+ miles long.) We didn’t see any of this, but on the Monday we learned that five people drowned off the beach we were visiting that day, fighting against rips. They were all strong, fit young men.