Okay, I'll bite. What's the Kool-Aid for?

[princessaprilia]

I'm sure I'm going to feel like a once I get the answer, but...

What does all the scuba reference to Kool-Aid mean?

I have spent the last 2 hrs searching this board, and then just google searching. Lots of people say they are going to drink or not going to drink Kool-Aid. But no one says where this kool-aid is, what it's for, how it helps, regular or sugar-free, flavor, nothing.

 

[DwayneJ]

Jonestown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid

The poison was mixed with a soft drink I believe was incorrectly thought to be Kool-Aid hence the reference to "drink the ...". Very sad and I do not use this saying.

Dwayne

 

[vondo]

As a scuba reference, it's generally used in relation to DIR, but it's an expression not limited to scuba. It generally means "listen and act according to what someone else is telling you to do without thinking for yourself." The source of the phrase is, as mentioned, the Jonestown massacre.

 

[Diver0001]

Drinking the kool-aid in the context of diving refers to becoming indoctrinated into the DIR philosophy of diving.

DIR means Do It Right, which by it's very name implies that if you don't "Do It Right" then you "Do It Wrong"....

Which without saying much more about it gives you a pretty good idea of the tone of the discussions.... The Kool-aid and non- Kool-aid drinkers have discussions that regularly (although this has really mellowed out in the last 10 years or so) reach boiling points....

Points that can be described as "tectonic" "volcanic" and "earthquake like".

In reality the discussion is more about details than fundamentals and isn't likely to change the world but people, being what they are, will "drink the kool-aid" and blow it up into something bigger than it is.

R..

 

[princessaprilia]

Well, I'm speechless.

That was completely not what I thought. I figured that the Kool-Aid was used as a dye to check for leaks in a regulator, or something similar.

Thanks for helping me with that one.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Well, I'm speechless.

That was completely not what I thought. I figured that the Kool-Aid was used as a dye to check for leaks in a regulator, or something similar.

Thanks for helping me with that one.

That would probably be a better use for it ...

... that's one reason I really enjoy being around new divers ... fresh perspectives to stale issues ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[JeffG]

I'm just posting to see if I can get a thanks from princessaprilia.

 

[LeadTurn_SD]

I'm just posting to see if I can get a thanks from princessaprilia.

You are always the rascal Jeff.

I guess only the princess can thank you, but how about a little Koolaid while you wait

 

[princessaprilia]

Nope. No thanks for you Jeff.

Only the people who DIDN'T make me feel foolish for posting get thanks for this one.
:mooner:

 

[JeffG]

You are always the rascal Jeff.

I guess only the princess can thank you, but how about a little Koolaid while you wait

Had the koolaid a few yrs ago. I'm doomed now.