No Shorts Allowed !!!

They probably forbid shorts for hygiene reasons. They know your speedos are used for swimming only, but many people use regular shorts to go into the pool, the shorts they've been sweating in at a game or something. While with the speedo, chances are you don't wear outside of the pool.

Originally posted by Kevin in MD 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? Well the picture clearly shows a pair of loose shorts and with pockets even. Like another poster mentioned, it's the kind that you can just casually use anywhere - the gym, basketball court, tennis. But jammers - I don't know, maybe they can be allowed. Lots of hair in the pool: I'd suspect that this hair is mostly from ladies with long hair (on the head!) who do not wear swim caps. Ladies' hair especially the long flowing thin ones get cut easily especially when there's plenty of thrashing and playing in the pool. I've noticed this a couple of times in our pool and it's yucky all that long hair floating around.

Originally posted by CCSR79 They probably forbid shorts for hygiene reasons. They know your speedos are used for swimming only, but many people use regular shorts to go into the pool, the shorts they've been sweating in at a game or something. While with the speedo, chances are you don't wear outside of the pool. I guess that's one reason to prohibit them, Carla. As LindsayNB speculated: why would they wash their stinkin' sweaty "I'm baaaaad dude" shorts at home when they can sorta wash them in the pool?

If your shorts have pockets, you are putting yourself at risk. If the pockets fill with water they can change the wait of the shorts. They might either fall off or weigh you down.

Originally posted by Alex I discovered that as we have learn in Mexico from junior school, these guys from other countries also manage the idea that there are 5 Continents: Europe, Asia, Oceanía, Africa and América What about Antarctica? Also, it seems to me if you are going to consider North and South America as a single continent--which is fine--then you also should consider Europe and Asia to be a single continent. And America was named for Amerigo Vespucci, I believe.

Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com If your shorts have pockets, you are putting yourself at risk. If the pockets fill with water they can change the wait of the shorts. And I, for one, refuse to wait more than five minutes for shorts ;)

I’m not quite sure how we got he from no shorts allowed, but since we’re on the topic… How can we say the Spanish discovered American, when upon their arrival they were greeted by people who had been there for over 1,000 years? And to stray even farther a field… unless I’m mistaken, wasn’t it these same Native Americans who introduced “freestyle swimming” to the rest of the world? I don’t think their loin clothes had any pockets so they might have qualified as proper swimming attire.

I have heard reports of North American Indians swimming crawl style. But apparently it took it's competitive foothold from Australians who learned it from polynesians. Thereafter it got adopted by other competitors and swept the world. So you could say that the polynesians "invented it" or more correctly the crawl stroke that wa spopularized is derived from that of the polynesians. Much like archniedes discovered a way to integrate HUNDREDS of years before Newton and Liebniz. But since it was never taken up by anyone other than Archimedes, we say that Newton and Liebniz "discovered' calculus.

Look, gripe all you want about some poor dude in Argentina who is offended that the US rules but the rest of the Western Hemisphere is nothing more than our protectorate, well, except poverty striken Cuba, where you can still get a good 1950s car and polio. Who do you think this fellow is gonna call when the next hurricane or mudslide wipes out Argentina? He might even call us Americans and smile but only if we dole out enough money to save his shantytowne villa. And, as to sports, we are without equal in general. Sure, some team from nowhere will beat us every now and again and proclaim some holiday about it. I'm proud of my country, proud that wimps who don't stand up for it can moan and complain about just how bad we are but still live here and flourish. Why don't we go poll the Iraqis on how easy it was to denounce Sadam and get away with it? As a proud, arrogant and ugly American, I officially proclaim a worldwide ban on the man thong or beach speedo. It's now against the law. Since we are the bully, we can enforce this rule.

Was Canada on that poll? No, they were at home trying to decide what their national language is, French or English. I can only imagine the horrific violence caused by that debate. If that donneybrook get's too out of control, call us in to sort your problems out but don't expect us to solve your Mad Cow issue.