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Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:40pm
 
budgie smugglers...

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/nothing-says-boomer-entitlement-qui...

Dear Australian men who aren’t Mack Horton, Kyle Chalmers, or Ian Thorpe, we need to have a serious conversation about budgie smugglers.

It’s a short conversation and it starts with the letter N and ends with a big fat O.

For the sake of a country whose dignity has been in sharp decline since Tony Abbott first emerged from the surf donning a pair of Lycra underpants in 2009, we need to work together to eradicate this disease from our shores.

This has nothing to do with body shaming, or fat shaming, or slut shaming, or any of the new categories of shaming the internet has thrown up this year. It’s about my right to not be exposed to the outline of your manhood when I take my kids to a public beach or pool.

When you go to these places you enter into an implicit social contract with other bathers. You promise to not be a lecherous creep who makes everyone uncomfortable, and you promise not to look like one either.

If I had my way a budgie ban would be enshrined in the constitution along with other inalienable Aussie rights such as knocking off at 4pm for a Friday beer, picking fights with kangaroos that look at you funny, and calling umpires “filthy green maggots” at the footy.

It seems Australia agrees with me, too. In a 2014 newspaper poll, 92 per cent of readers of Toowoomba’s The Chronicle said they’d find a beach full of burqas less confronting than Onions Abbott in his undies – sorry, I mean Speedos. And that’s in a seat where One Nation polls more than 13 per cent of the vote!

Nothing says boomer entitlement quite like a pair of budgie smugglers. Like slip, slop, slapping a “F*ck off, we’re full” sticker on your groin, it says to the world you don’t care about anyone else’s rights or freedom to enjoy their summer devoid of your rod and reel.

But the budgies are making a comeback for a new generation of Australians who don’t remember the horrors of the ‘80s. I do, and I’m still having recurring nightmares about pristine beaches polluted with coconut oiled men looking like Tom Selleck after a decade-long Maccas binge. For simplicity’s sake let’s just call these people ‘Dad’.

Back then the only thing separating our coastline from a soft porn set was 70 centimetres of spandex. Which is why the ‘90s ushered in a more pleasing era – both morally and aesthetically – of board shorts.

Ah, boardies. Our greatest contribution to the world since the Akubra and the Hills hoist. Pioneered in the ’70s by Rip Curl, Quicksilver and Billabong – the Netflix, Stan and Disney+ of their time – it wasn’t until the ‘90s that the summer of the boardie fully took hold.

For more than two decades now, boardies have kept our beaches safe from the speedo scourge. But like a bunch of unwanted things on the comeback trail – measles, antisemitism, and Beverly Hills 90210 – it seems history is repeating itself in the most troubling of ways.

At the start of the year, GQ magazine asked whether 2019 was the year budgie smugglers became “socially acceptable”. It cited unofficial celebrity ambassadors such as Zac Efron and Prince Harry and the steady growth of mens’ swimwear brand Budgy (sic) Smuggler as evidence of the modern man’s willingness to expose their “upper thighs to the open expanse of the world outside”.

If this were just about thighs, I’d be okay with it. But it’s not, and it’s about time we not only addressed the elephant in the room but also his carefree, unsightly trunk.

hilarious!
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Reply #1 - Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:42pm
 
They may suit some but not me cods!

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Reply #2 - Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:44pm
 
Redmond Neck wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:42pm:
They may suit some but not me cods!

Wink



Grin Grin Grin   did they ever????  you were young once... Smiley Smiley and gorgeous I bet..maybe they need uplift budgies after all the girls have uplift bras....its the bloody gravity I tell ya..
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Reply #3 - Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:45pm
 
Lap swimming in a pool or an ocean swimming race.

I wear boardies 99% of the time.
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Reply #4 - Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:49pm
 
this is even funnier..


https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/please-make-the-invisible-bikini-tr...

How much would you pay for a piece of string?

Not just any piece of string, mind you. It’s around a metre long, waterproof, wraps around the most intimate parts of your body and could lead to your arrest should you dare leave the house while wearing it.

If you’re one of the 10.3 million people currently following Australian influencer turned Kardashian frenemy Tammy Hembrow on Instagram, you may be familiar with her much-hyped piece of gratuitous string, otherwise known as the Splendour Suit.

Perhaps more aptly named the invisible bikini, the Splendour Suit is made by US fashion label Minimale Animale and currently retails for a cool $187. It comes in 21 colours and if hashtags and likes are to be believed, is all the rage on social media this summer.


What’s so splendid about it remains somewhat unclear. Unless of course you’re a leery male cruising the beaches, in which case, splendour abounds.


Much like a mullet on crack, the Splendour Suit is all business at the front where the absolute minimum amount of boobs and crotch are covered, and party at the back, where a series of strings connect the front and literally nothing is covered. How one comfortably moves while 95 per cent of their body is exposed to the elements is anybody’s guess, but apparently that’s the fashion now.

Hembrow, a mother-of-two and social media mogul, has been proudly showing off the swimsuit since October.

Rather than being forced to answer logistical questions like ‘how do you even put that on?’ or ‘where did all of your body hair go?’ or ‘aren’t you worried something will slip out?’ she’s been labelled a sex symbol and had her “gym goals” body praised by the masses.

I think you may need to take your heart pills if you go the beach this year....



I wish I could do the pictures   you would love it   if you could see it...lolol
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Gordon wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:45pm:
Lap swimming in a pool or an ocean swimming race.

I wear boardies 99% of the time.



and what to you wear for that 000001% of the time gordy??? Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley dont keep us in suspense now.
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Reply #6 - Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:55pm
 
cods wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:50pm:
Gordon wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:45pm:
Lap swimming in a pool or an ocean swimming race.

I wear boardies 99% of the time.



and what to you wear for that 000001% of the time gordy??? Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley dont keep us in suspense now.


Sluggos are fine for pool lap or serious swimming. I do either rarely do if sneaking a peek is what you're after you'll be waiting a while Wink
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Reply #7 - Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:56pm
 
cods wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:50pm:
Gordon wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:45pm:
Lap swimming in a pool or an ocean swimming race.

I wear boardies 99% of the time.



and what to you wear for that 000001% of the time gordy??? Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley dont keep us in suspense now.


He goes Commando in and out of the water!

Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
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Gordon wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:55pm:
cods wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:50pm:
Gordon wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:45pm:
Lap swimming in a pool or an ocean swimming race.

I wear boardies 99% of the time.



and what to you wear for that 000001% of the time gordy??? Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley dont keep us in suspense now.


Sluggos are fine for pool lap or serious swimming. I do either rarely do if sneaking a peek is what you're after you'll be waiting a while Wink



I need a good belly laugh....do you think a bit of string is ok  for the girls... Wink Wink
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Reply #9 - Dec 30th, 2019 at 5:07pm
 
Borat looked OK.   Grin


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Reply #10 - Dec 30th, 2019 at 5:36pm
 
cods wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 5:04pm:
Gordon wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:55pm:
cods wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:50pm:
Gordon wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 4:45pm:
Lap swimming in a pool or an ocean swimming race.

I wear boardies 99% of the time.



and what to you wear for that 000001% of the time gordy??? Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley dont keep us in suspense now.


Sluggos are fine for pool lap or serious swimming. I do either rarely do if sneaking a peek is what you're after you'll be waiting a while Wink



I need a good belly laugh....do you think a bit of string is ok  for the girls... Wink Wink


I actually don't care what people wear at the beach as I'm not the slightest bit prudish or judgmental. If people are comfortable in their choice it's fine with me.

Just this morning a fairly large woman wearing a piece of dental floss sauntered by my wife and I. It didn't really suit her and my wife made fairly gentle comment, something like, hmm, I probably a better swimsuit out there for her. I got stuck into her a bit and said, well she knows what she looks like and just doesn't care.

We get it all and to me, it's just the human body. 
Prudes probably shouldn't go to North Bondi.
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Reply #11 - Dec 30th, 2019 at 5:38pm
 
Here's my latest pair of boardies.

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Reply #12 - Dec 30th, 2019 at 5:56pm
 
Budgie smugglers are entirely appropriate
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Reply #13 - Dec 30th, 2019 at 5:57pm
 
Great boardies Gordon
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Bobby. wrote on Dec 30th, 2019 at 5:07pm:




gordy doesnt mind what others look like...... Wink Wink he is ok with that on his beach...
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