No Shorts Allowed !!!

Originally posted by Bob McAdams No. It's just that they have good taste in Czechoslavakia!;) Unfortunatley Czechoslavakia doesn't exist anymore since 1992 ;)

In the '70's here in the US, it was very odd to see many men have on shoprts if they were lap swimmign. I remember having to tell men that they couldn't swim inthe pool if there shorts had pockets, snapps, or anything attached to them.

Bottom line, any pool that mandates the swimwear that is required will lose my business. This might be one of the few times I would practice civil disobedience. Jump in the pool with some real loud hawaiian surf shorts and see what happens.

Originally posted by 330man Bottom line, any pool that mandates the swimwear that is required will lose my business. This might be one of the few times I would practice civil disobedience. Jump in the pool with some real loud hawaiian surf shorts and see what happens. See what happens? Well I guess you'll be let out - just like what happened to the guy. Why would you want to insist on your surf shorts in a facility that clearly does not allow them?

Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com In the '70's here in the US, it was very odd to see many men have on shoprts if they were lap swimmign. I remember having to tell men that they couldn't swim inthe pool if there shorts had pockets, snapps, or anything attached to them. What were the particular reasons for disallowing shorts back then? Do you think that those reasons in the 70's no longer apply today? What do you think happened?

Originally posted by Alex Comming from a US forum, It is a surprice for me to find out that some people have no tolerance for different cultures, and use a contemptuous way of talking for thinks that are from outside the US. I think you are taking this a little too seriously, after all, we are talking about swim trunks here, not cultural norms. But, how come is it that if an American disagrees with another culture, that is America being self-centered and ugly. But, if any other culture decides what Americans do is wrong, that's considered fashionable and trendy? For example, if we don't like Euro man thongs, we are culturally biased. But, if you don't like our Anglo Surfer Dude trunks, that's you sticking it to the man.

Comming from a US forum, It is a surprice for me to find out that some people have no tolerance for different cultures, and use a contemptuous way of talking for thinks that are from outside the US. There is a popular phrase down here in Mexico (may be it also exist in the US, I just don´t know) that says: "where you go, you do what they do". I also remember that in the past, you where not allowed to use a T shirt to play tennis, and this was in almost any tennis court in the US. Of couse that now it seems that you may wear almost anything to play tennis as long as you have a short and a shirt. Alex

Read that the local muslim population was upset at these same requirements at some pool in France. The pool director said that they had been pulling lots of hair out of the filters and it was disgusting. I don't remember whether it was explicit or implicit that he meant pubic hairs. In the article. It was not entirely clear to me at the time how swim briefs cut down on pubic hairs in the filter, although I could see it. But it did lead me to wonder if he was simply mistaking regular old black hairs for pubic hairs. I wonder if my jammers would be allowed?

The US is always the bad guy until another country gets invaded, typhooned, tsunamied, earthquaked, or what have you. Once people are in need the US is the tower of power that everybody looks to for help. What am I saying, even when we do help we still wind up being the bad guy somehow (Look to the Thailand Tsunami and the outcry over our limited support). I'll get off of my soapbox and into the pool now.

Aguageek is may be rigth about me taking this too seriously, but there are some little comments that may be we foreigners find agresive comming from US citizens, for example I can undestand that an European calls you Americans, but calling yourselves Americans is like saying Brazilians, Argentinians, Canadians, Mexicans, etc. are part of another continent, and we are not. We all know that the US helps others countries, but may be you are not taking into considerations that many other countries also help when there are difficult times in others countries, it is only that nor the CNN or else US media takes count on it, and of course other help is not as big as the US help economically talking. US many times seems as the bad guy because the US does what it pleases without taking serious what other countries may think, not even the United Nations. "If you are not with us, you are against us" (from George Bush). But do not get me wrong, I like the US and understand very well your culture, there is a reason why you are very succesfull, but I just want to let you know what many people from different countries think. Of course many times happend that, the bad things that other countries say about US is like when we talk bad about the boss with another fellow from the office. The good thing is that swimming it is much the same all around the world. Alex