A View From The Rubble
SWIMMERS!
READY?
TAKE YOUR MARK!!
BBUUURRRR!!! Even the starting blocks are ice.
SHAAZZAAMM! That's some cold-ass snow on my bubbies.
* February Swimming Hole #1
* February Swimming Hole #2
* January Swimming Hole #1
* January Swimming Hole #2
* January Swimming Hole #3
* January Swimming Hole #4
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Members of a local ice swimming club head for the water to swim in the Yenisey river in the Siberian city of Krasnoyars. [Picture: REUTERS]
I'm building up my courage, bishes. I'm actually thinking of getting in our pond by the end of February... But, I'm wondering if it will give me a heart attack or not. So... I dunno. But, if I do. I'll take pictures. Well... someone else will take pictures. I'll be the one in the bikini screaming my head off.
* February Swimming Hole #1
* January Swimming Hole #1
* January Swimming Hole #2
* January Swimming Hole #3
* January Swimming Hole #4
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Dude.
* January Swimming Hole #1
* January Swimming Hole #2
* January Swimming Hole #3
* January Swimming Hole #4
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A Russian man exercises after swimming in an ice hole in the Neva River, with The Winter Palace and St. Isaak Cathedral in the background, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Bishes?
Suddenly, I feel like the biggest pussy EVER.
* January Swimming Hole #1
* January Swimming Hole #2
* January Swimming Hole #3
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A member of the Optimalist heath club hacks a hole into the ice covering a canal near the village of Viazynka, Belarus.
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain
* January Swimming Hole #1
* January Swimming Hole #2
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Dust of Snow
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
- Robert Frost (1923)
(source of photo)
January Swimming Hole #1
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Russian men enjoy swimming in an ice hole, on a lake, just outside St. Petersburg, Russia.
Holy snowballs, bishes...
And just what did they do beforehand for it to be "enjoyable"? Well, you know,
"VIRST, VEE DANCE!! DA? OR NYET? DA!!"
(Special thanks to our truly lovely soul Meera, out in the beautiful city of Portland, Oregon, for the video contribution. Thank you, Comrade Meeraovski!)
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