Has anyone else noticed that public swimming pools in France insist on fellas wearing Speedos and ban wearing shorts?
The last one I visited has Speedos to rent – eek.
What is that all about?

Speedos to rent

Eeeuuww!

Sounds a bit odd. My local pool just states that all swimwear to be ‘appropriate’ for a public pool. There are some quite interesting interpretations of the term ‘appropriate’…

so yer ‘tail’ dunt pop out. innit.

great excuse to get the thong out.

Yeah, but what about proper swimming shorts, with the liner thing?

It seems to be because baggy shorts might be worn outside in the street so they think they’re not clean enough to wear in the pool.

But then surely lots of speedos will get worn on the beach.

I know this one, after arguing the toss with the French pool attendant on holiday he explained in his best English, ”You have to wear trunks because what the French resorts have found is people wear their swimming shorts all day at the beach, then the bar, then shopping, then get back to the pool and dive in it wearing a filthy pair of shorts, leaving sand and all sorts of other muck at the bottom of the pool” Makes sense if you think about it, I stopped arguing after that.
😉

Yeah please someone has to know – i’ve been wondering this since 1996…We were turned away from a pool in avignon. It got too hot, so we got the 11.37pm train to Bern in switzerland.

Thank you Oxboy, thank you for explaining that

I got thrown out of the swimming pool wearing Speedos
Apparently the S had came off them. 😳

Avez vous les budgie smugglers ?

he he, it’s nothing to do with muck being on the shorts.

It’s so French blokes can strut about showing their package and tight buns off. It’s a european thing. Go to Italy, the swimming pools there are filled with young muscular blokes rubbing oil over each other.

Les francais adore les tourists anglais avec les hammocks de banane.

If you plan to put a potato down your speedos to enhance your lunchbox, make aure you put it down the front. Just saying.

The oil on italian men is to stop them sticking together in the warm water.

IGMC. 🙁

lol @ gf!