• Decoy321M
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    511 year ago

    This rule isn’t actually necessary, it’s an old wives tale. You won’t get cramps or anything from doing so unless you’re horrifically overeating.

      • Decoy321M
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        161 year ago

        Ah, I see. You gotta wait 30 minutes otherwise the pirate skeleton will kill you.

    • @Tylerdurdon
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      71 year ago

      I didn’t wait one time and swam in the ocean soon after. The vigorous exercise got my blood pumping and when I got back on land, I immediately began feeling severely nauseous. There was no place to go and it was a fairly crowded beach so…I quickly began digging a hole and got about a foot down before unloading my entire lunch, then burying the contents for some unwitting kid to dig up later.

      Joking aside, vomiting while still swimming could have been disastrous, so I got lucky on the timing.

      I think this warning is true but only applies to actual swimming, not just being in water.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      61 year ago

      I think it’s because people would puke in the pool and they didn’t want to keep cleaning it up, so you wait 30 minutes to help prevent that.

    • @QaspR
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      61 year ago

      Apparently the worst that can happen is (provided you are swimming vigorously) that the extreme exercise may inhibit digestion slightly.