Speedos at french swimming pool

realistic anorak

Have you ever been forced to wear speedos at a swimming pool in France ?

Sauve

I have not.

Have you?

black & white

Yes, in a holiday village near Montpellier a couple of years ago, no shorts allowed and signs up everywhere. I had rugby shorts and they were banned. When I asked about it I was told that this is the rule everywhere in the country. I have no idea if that's true or not but it's what I was told. To be honest, I didn't give a shi'ite about wearing speedos but my teenage daughter wouldn't sit near me when I was wearing them.

naughtysmurf

Don't know if it's all France but was looking at a Disneyland Paris hotel last week, had a pool and the rule was speedo's only, may be a hygiene thing

Duck's hoop

It's ben like that for over 20 years. But I used to use an outdoor pool in board shorts with no problems. But was turned back from 2 indoor pools.

Aubrey loves Joe

If i got into a pair of speedos they wouldn't be long changing the rules

Autonomous

Yip..i got asked to change to "stick-on" swim shorts, even though the ones i had on were speedo!!
Fecking french perverts.

The Backwards Man

I've never been in a swimming pool in France.

Or speedos.

wilhelm roentgen

se il vous plaît porter ces trafiquants de perruche

To Elland Back

It's a hygiene thing and I wish we had it here. Where I go swimming, the place is full of disgusting lads who come straight down from the gym and hop in the pool/jacuzzi wearing sweaty jocks under their football shorts

Manky creatures :mad:

Autonomous

wilhelm roentgen wrote: »

se il vous plaît porter ces trafiquants de perruche

sacré bleu :-0

SEPT 23 1989

I have my 25m,50m and 100m swimming badges sewn on mine

suicide_circus

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6O3HYeLATas/TDnAHWTet2I/AAAAAAAAAII/NpBgX129ydk/s1600/speedos.jpg

One eyed Jack

I thought for a minute "This can't really be a thing?" when I read the opening post, I'm a bit mystified at the reasons behind it tbh.

Why?

I know that in Lourdes alright they have you wear just a small towel before they whip it off you and throw you in the pool, but what's the story with the speedos?

Do you have to wear a rubber cap too?

Do they put chlorine in the water?

Banjo String

Lé Budgié smuggloúrs.

IvyTheTerrible

Yes it's a widespread rule and it makes perfect sense. It's hot here in the summer so you have people wearing shorts all day, doing god knows what, and it'd be really unhygienic if they were to then get into a pool.
Speedos aren't pretty but I don't have a problem with the rule at all.

Kim Kardashi Un

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I have my 25m,50m and 100m swimming badges sewn on mine

I would have been happy if the manufacturer just sewed their logo on more securely. The 's' came off mine and I hadn't realised. Caused quite a fuss.

GAAman

naughtysmurf wrote: »

Don't know if it's all France but was looking at a Disneyland Paris hotel last week, had a pool and the rule was speedo's only, may be a hygiene thing

This the pool near the Sequoia Lodge? I swam in that in shorts, plenty of others with shorts on too

topper75

Swimming in rugby shorts is like playing indoor soccer in a duffle coat.

Long live proper swimming togs.

Not sure where they would be going with a hygiene argument though.

Buona Fortuna

I only ever swim in the nip

topper75

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

I only ever swim in the nip

Get some togs mate and you'll get anything up to 10 secs off your 100m time.

josip

topper75 wrote: »

Get some togs mate and you'll get anything up to 10 secs off your 100m time.

Depends on how much drag there is in the nip

Wossack

mon dieu! la banane hamac?

ElvisChrist6

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Yes it's a widespread rule and it makes perfect sense. It's hot here in the summer so you have people wearing shorts all day, doing god knows what, and it'd be really unhygienic if they were to then get into a pool.
Speedos aren't pretty but I don't have a problem with the rule at all.

I wouldn't have had a problem with the rule when I had to years ago, if everyone in the complex wasn't riding and getting blowjobs in the pool. Really defeats the purpose! Got straight out after that!

Chips Lovell

Where is this swimming pool?

ElvisChrist6

Oscar Gateaux wrote: »

Where is this swimming pool?

It was a large swimming complex yoke near Stade de France, I think... or maybe not, can't remember, was with the school!

DazMarz

Unhygienic? Well, what's the point of the chlorine in the pool then?

I agree with a previous poster: French perverts... :P

rainbow kirby

One of the pools I swim at in London has a poster up at the front desk reminding people not to wear jeans or tracksuit bottoms in the pool :eek:

I'm all in favour of people having to wear proper togs, and definitely showering before they go near the pool.

The J Stands for Jay

Was in France almost 20 years ago, and can confirm. Apparently it's the law, but most places didn't enforce it. Except the one in the campsite where I stayed for most of my holiday...

catallus

Speedos should be mandatory for all water-based activity.

stimpson

Went to France this year and there was only a handful of idiots in speedos. Nobody seemed to care.

Son Of A Vidic

realistic anorak wrote: »

Have you ever been forced to wear speedos at a swimming pool in France ?

Have you?

Oink

1. Totally agree with the idea from a hygiene point of view.
2. Not a fookin hope in hell I'd wear them

Santa Cruz

topper75 wrote: »

Swimming in rugby shorts is like playing indoor soccer in a duffle coat.

Long live proper swimming togs.

Not sure where they would be going with a hygiene argument though.

or washing your feet with your socks on, Oh sorry, that's something else

_Brian

We've been over to France about a dozen times on holidays and near all campsites enforce the speedo's only swimming attire..
I don't really care too much but there's no doubt that those in worse shape look much worse in them.. Its not uncommon to see lifeguards call lads out of the pool for not wearing them..

Chunners

catallus wrote: »

Speedos should be mandatory for all water-based activity.

People who engage in "Golden showers" would probably tell you that Speedo's would defeat the purpose :pac:

Nadser

I like a man in speedos. So much easier to check out their package.

One eyed Jack

Nadser wrote: »

I like a man in speedos. So much easier to check out their package.

Not if there's a beer belly hanging over it that's turned the speedos into a thong! :pac:

Chunners

Nadser wrote: »

I like a man in speedos. So much easier to check out their package.

Now see it is comments like that that have been the fuel for all the feminist/misogynist crap of late. If a guy said "I like when women wear bikinis. So much easier to check out their snatch and tits" there would be a **** storm :rolleyes:

Lucena

C'est pour des raisons d'hygiène. Otherwise manky shorts that've been jammed into someone's sweaty hole for the last two days end up in the pool.

c_man

Nadser wrote: »

I like a man in speedos. So much easier to check out their package.

Ah here, that's no indication of the mobilised stature *shifts position in seat*

Cantremember

Do they allow wellingtons?

Mountainsandh

I concur ! Hygiene reasons, better weather, shorts worn all day then worn in pool is not something I relish, even with the chlorine. Spend every summer staying in loads of campsites, and it is consistently enforced. Considering women going topless on the beach is commonplace, don't think a bit of nylon clad bulge is an issue. Don't think French people are very ... Hung up about it.

Careful_now!

realistic anorak wrote: »

Have you ever been forced to wear speedos at a swimming pool in France ?

Yeah, we were on a school tour to Paris. There were about 20 fellas all with shorts ready to go swimming, and they wouldn't let us in. But the swimming pool had some to spare. That was probably the most uncomfortable hour of my life. God only knows how many people wore them before I got them.

ahnowbrowncow

stimpson wrote: »

Went to France this year and there was only a handful of idiots in speedos. Nobody seemed to care.

Why are they idiots?

Cookie_Monster

Do women have to wear only bikinis too?

Mountainsandh wrote: »

I concur ! Hygiene reasons, better weather, shorts worn all day then worn in pool is not something I relish, even with the chlorine.

what with this notion that everyone wears shorts all day and doesn't change when going to the pool?

Magico Gonzalez

Do those charlic chomping chain smokers not just wear the budgie smugglers under their shorts? Is everyone whipping out a pristine set of ball tight speedos for the dip in the pool. Washed once a month I'd say. Hygiene indeed.

Fake socialist, champagne quaffing snail botherers.

Magico Gonzalez

Do those charlic chomping chain smokers not just wear the budgie smugglers under their shorts? Is everyone whipping out a pristine set of ball tight speedos for the dip in the pool? Washed once a month I'd say. Hygiene indeed.

Fake socialist, champagne quaffing snail botherers.

TheBeardedLady

My Spanish luva man wears a Speedo swimming (he'd go most days) as would most men here. Last Christmas I noticed it was falling apart and he had to wear two to compensate for the shoddiness of each of them.

I was home visiting over xmas so went into Arnotts to get it for him and asked the assistant working there where the Speedos werem presuming that's what all men wore to swim and he gave me a look like I was out of my mind and responds with,

"Budgie Smugglers? Jaysus we haven't had them in stock for years! I don't think we've had them in since the 1970s!" in the thickest north Dublin accent.

I was in tears laughing....and then started to feel really homesick.

I personally think they're dead sexeh!

Son Of A Vidic

A global ban on all Speedos is long overdue imo.

Kim Kardashi Un

Nadser wrote: »

I like a man in speedos. So much easier to check out their package.

It's this kind of objectification that has me "tuck" so that I am smooth like a baby dolphin.