Since when are Speedos indecent exposure?

[TrogL]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=817&u=/ap/20030904/ap_on_fe_st/indecent_exposure&printer=1

I spent four hours riding my bicycle on some trails wearin' nothin' but Speedos, running shoes and a helmet.

I got a few wolf-whistles (geez, at my age??) and thumbs up and a coupla' kids yelled that they could see the crack in my ass (and promptly fell of their bicycles) but I'm hardly alone.

What gives?

[Richardo]

1. If you weigh one ounce more than the guy in the picture, you're pushing it

...the bounds of decency, that is.

:scared:

[TrogL]

2. The Ldotters want pictures

http://www.lucianne.com/threads2.asp?artnum=71023

Maybe there's hope for them yet.

[zbdent]

3. Think Danny DeVito

in a Speedo, then there you go.

Just remember, Rush was one of the advocates of an Ugly law - if you are determined to be Ugly by society's standards, stay home or risk fines or jail time. (Although Rush would probably ask for the death penalty for a homely Dem and leniency for Annthraxx).

[xchrom]

4. it's ''circumstance''

that young lad looks great. yummy!
my three hundred pound, hairy backed neighbor -- well let's just say you'd have to acquire a taste for that.

[MuseRider]

5. When my husband

started wearing them! I finally told him how stupid he looked on a dive boat full of young boys in baggies. He was surpeised that he was the source of their amusement. Really, he can wear them if he wants but......
Speedos look great if you don't have a pot belly hanging over the top of them. It would be like me in a thong! The time for that passed 30 years ago. Eeewwwwwww.

[LittleApple81]

6. Hello MuseRider!

That reminds me of the last time I wore a bikini. My husband took pictures and when I looked at them I asked "Why didn't you tell me that is what I look like in a bikini?" He said, lovely person that he is "You look beautiful!" I am glad that all of us lose our sight at the same time...

[MuseRider]

8. I have a couple of

pictures like that! Funny how one year I looked really hot and the next, well, I had had a baby after all!

[maxanne]

7. when it's a 70+

year old guy on the beach in Florida, with everything swaying from side to side as he walks - then it's indecent exposure.

:scared:

[LittleApple81]

9. If you are the person in the picture

It is perfectly OK, but it is not restaurant attire. Overweight people should be free to wear them but other people will look at their own peril.

[TrogL]

11. Yeah, I wish

I'm a touch older, but similar stature (if I'm not totally deluding myself).

[LisaM]

10. My sister calls them "Scroters"

which is generally a good tactic to dissuade people from wearing them. The ones in the picture are pretty tame, too.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

25. We used to call them 'Nutcrackers'

when we were kids-it's how you could tell the French Canadian tourists apart from the locals on Massachusetts beaches.

[Kat45]

30. I forgot about that, RR. There were lots of them on NH beaches too.

LOLOL

[TrogL]

31. It's a European thing

They're still really popular in Europe, just not here. For that matter, European naturists are complaining that casual nudists are ruining the artform.

[PAMod]

48. I heard them called banana hammocks

[WillParkinson]

12. I agree! They ARE indecent....

He's got too much on.

[TrogL]

36. that's the spirit

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[Kolesar]

13. aka "marble sack". Need I say more? n/t

[Skittles]

14. I DON'T CARE HOW F***ING FIT YOU ARE

YOU SHOULDN'T WEAR A SPEEDO PAST THE AGE OF 28. DITTO FOR WOMEN AND THEIR FREAKING THONGS.

[dawg]

17. Come on now, Skittles ....

I've seen lots of women in their thirties and forties that looked really hot.

[Skittles]

34. NO F***ING EXCEPTIONS

YOU GOTTA DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE. LET'S DRAW IT EARLY TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE. My eyes still hurt from some of the sights I saw two months ago. :(

[dawg]

44. I'm over 30 and I'd look really good in Speedo's ....

that is, if I could ever get around to losing those last 20 lbs. :)

[TrogL]

45. well, get working on it

show us the results

[dawg]

46. Well, I could use more of a tan, too ...

I'm pretty pale. But age has nothing to do with it.

[TrogL]

49. No, you've got it backwards

Speedos first, tan second.

[dawg]

50. For me, tanning would involve ...

Maybeline sunless tanner! I only have two natural colors .... ghostly white and sunburn red.

[TrogL]

15. I hate baggy bathing suits

I'm sensitive to how clothes feel at the best of times and I hate how wet baggy bathing suits feel - drives me into panic attacks.

I like to swim fast especially with flippers and baggy suits slow me down.

The other day at the Y there was a swim-team-calibre swimmer doing laps in Speedos. Not too many people noticed I was drooling.

[FlaGranny]

22. I can't imagine

wearing those baggy suits that go down to the knees and actually going into the water with them on. Even suits for old fat ladies aren't made like that. They stay wet and get heavy when they're wet and slip down. I'm not freaked out by older, heavier bodies either. So I say, go for it.

[TrogL]

26. Whatever happened to Spandex regular size suits?

I found one pair to wear when I was a bit heavier but I had to search through five bathing-suit stores to find them.

Speedo carries a few things.

http://www.speedousa.com/IWCatSectionView.process?IWAction=Load&Merchant_Id=1&Catalog_Id=10&Section_Id=313

[dfong63]

16. i admire "ugly" people who have the "guts" to wear revealing clothes

... even though i may wince when i look at them, i admire their "guts" (no, not their bellies, i mean their psychological fortitude). i think it makes a nice statement - "I am comfortable with my looks, even if they are not perfect."

[arwalden]

18. Wasn't Jim Morrison Arrested For Indecent Exposure...

... when you could see the clear and provocative outline of his manhood through his skin-tight pants.

Seems like that was the case. Can anyone confirm?

-- Allen

[maxanne]

23. I think

he was arrested for allegedly exposing himself on stage.

[arwalden]

19. I Like These Speedos

Would these guys get arrested?

[TrogL]

21. Ooooooohh! More please

*drools*

[TEXASYANKEE]

33. I wonder

What the guy in the black 'n white Speedo is reading ... looks like it's, ah hem, sparked his interest! ;-)

[sangh0]

20. Since the moment

my Dad started wearing them.

[ButterflyBlood]

24. i wish they were

I don't want to see any guy in one. ick.

[trof]

27. Isn't anyone going to tell the potato joke?

It would sure fit right in here.
;-)

[trof]

28. Well, now they often call me Speedo

but my real name is Mr. Earl

Well, now they often call me Speedo but my real name is Mr. Earl

And I'm just the kind fellow's always takin' other folks' girls


They often call me Speedo 'cause I don't believe in wastin' time

They often call me Speedo but I don't believe in wastin' time (don't believe in) wastin' time]
I've known some pretty women and I've caused them to change their
mind

Some they call me Moe and some they call me Joe
But just remember Speedo, he don't never take it slow

[zanana]

29. Why is he sunbathing at a gas station?

I know that's not the point, but I'm curious.

[TrogL]

32. Not a gas station

Looks like some sort of outdoor takeout place. The blue thing is an ice-cream cooler and the silver thing near the right concrete post is a drink cooler.

[trof]

35. Looks like a motel

or public pool.

[Alenne]

37. I think people should wear whatever they want

People are too judgemental. If you like the way it looks on you wear it.

[regnaD kciN]

38. Arkansas, eh?

I wonder which Taco Bell denizens were doing the complaining? Were the Hutchinsons there?

;-)

[newsguyatl]

39. is that an OAR in your bikini

or are you just happy to see those other guys around you?

[TrogL]

40. They're cute - how about this one

[Dookus]

41. I went to

Hawaii years ago with an ex-boyfriend. He was the most-hung guy I've ever known in my life (and I've known a few).

When we got there... he put on a speedo. I nearly died.

I mean, he was gorgeous and tall and lean, but good lord, his "thing" was wrapped halfway around his waist. I actually felt better when we went to the nude beaches.

[cosmicdot]

42. Police ticketed the man and took photos of him in the Speedo

... for use in court ... (be sure and have dupes made, Joe)

gee ... in the good ol'days ... someone might have gotten a warning ... or just a chat from the neighborhood police officer ...

[TrogL]

43. The furry swimsuit (with speedos) competition

Thread

http://forums.keenspot.com/viewtopic.php?t=56421&start=0

The competitors

http://home.speedynet.aunz.com/litho/comp/pics.htm





and finally

[watercolors]

47. Hey, wear what you want!

my hubby is 70 and still looks great in a speedo, he is an avid SCUBA diver and feels they are the easiest to wear.

[geniph]

51. We are so f***ing hung up about bodies in this society

so weirdly phobic about people showing their bodies, or seeing other people's bodies, and at the same time fascinated with it to the point of obsession. Jesus, who cares if he wears a speedo, a thong, or only a smile? If he's ugly, don't look! Same goes for women. I don't care if a 400-lb mother of 12 wants to wear a thong and a pair of pasties in the supermarket. Who gives a shit? It's not actually going to turn me to stone.

We are a bizarrely judgemental culture.

[TrogL]

52. Please do not post stuff like this during business hours

My boss just yelled across the cubicle to find out if I was OK 'cause I choked on my Coke and sprayed it all over the monitor and keyboard.