is this socially acceptable?
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dont pregnant women do it?
are you pregnant and a woman?
no
im a man with a beautiful coat of lustrous shiney hair on my back
primary school "lifesaving" lessons ftw!
Not really
i thought it was what spoddy kids on holiday did.
Hi!
in france a few years ago
QUITE few years ago. i was very self conscious about my body so i went swimming in the sea with a t-shirt and a wooly skirt on, all holiday :(
Wouldn't it make your clothes
go really.. salty?
WOOLY SKIRT?!
But didn't it soak up water and make you so heavy you sunk to the bottom of the ocean?
maybe that was the plan...
^
maybe if you're a sunburnt infant
No
especialy not at ATP.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/fat_kid_successfully_avoids
I'm just going to wait for somone (probably guntrip) to post that Onion article
it win i win!
when you have epic manboobs like mine
it's a social necessity.
i really don't think anyone wants to see what's under my shirt
and i fear being judged.
i havent been in a swimming pool for about 6 years as a result
im not fat, BTW
superfluous 3rd nipple?
Kuato from Total Recall?
embarrasing "I <3 DALE WINTON" tattoo across your torso?
horrendous scarring
from an arson attack on my cot when i was a child, actually
Have you been judged before about it?
I wouldn't wear a t-shirt.
Are you even being serious?
:(
an arson attempt on your COT?
are you serious?
also im sure i've seen your belly before. it looked fine.
1) someone did throw a match into my cot when i was a babby
2) i'm not really scarred
3) i'm perfectly comfortable with being naked in front of people during the sexytimes, and im not overweight at all. i just have a really hairy back and this is officially sick, disgusting and wrong.
i really want to see it
:D
i'll take you aside and show youy
oh man
i'm actually so excited :D
seconded
lots of hair fascinates me
*plait
:D
well played champ.
That sounds horrorfyingly similar to me
My unclothed flabbiness is only made worse by the fact there are no clues or warnings to it when I'm clothed. It makes it all the more shocking
This is why I've started eating more
to add external clues. That way, no-one's that shocked when I whip out the moobs.
:D
<3
i positively flaunt my boobs
i'll be the one at atp with a rug on his shoulders and 50 lbs of jelly attached to his front.
Are you going to ATP?
Should I be excited?
i am going to the explosions in the sky one
i thought (through eager checking and then disappointment) that you were pitchforking?
I am.
BUGGER. My hopes = raised, then cruelly ripped apart like a wasp in the mouth of an Alsatian.
i am that wasp
darn it. one day, one day...
this summer zonino thing, when and where? i don't know how to check...
June 28, Brixton Windmill
All-dayer, BBQ, bands, banter, bamos, big dogs, bruising choons.
Shit
Now i remember why i didn't think i could go. it's because i can't go.
fuck! i am on the last day of my annual trip to scotland.
Why would you go to a public swimming pool
why?
i cant afford a private one
im really not getting answers here
i need answers. this is important
Don't wear a t-shirt you chump.
i have a really, really hairy back
You've got an horrific face but you've not posted the
'Should I wear a balaclava ALL THE TIME' thread yet.
Double standards.
not true, and you know it
have you also recently had appendicitis?
hint: you have recently had appendicitis.
no
i've just got hella testosterone/genetics
No
Get a wetsuit
my answer is that yes, it is socially acceptable
but people will assume you have some sort of huge scar that you're trying to hide and feel sorry for you. then they'll crowd round you going 'but alcxxk, we're all friends here, why don't you just take off you t-shirt?' and you'll eventually crack, rip it off, to which people will then say 'you're fine, what the hell were you worried about?' and then move away from you in a slightly disgusted manner.
unless you do have a massive scar.
It's fine.
really.
if it was during "free swim" hour
you'd probably get a load of funny looks
most pools have an hour or two per day where the pool becomes a haven for people lacking in social confidence, or people wishing to cover up for religious reasons, where you would likely be amongst others in t-shirts, which should make the whole thing more comfortable
another option: a guy I work with swims in a full-body lycra suit, as he does some outdoor swimming and wants to stay used to the slightly restricted movement a swimming wetsuit provides. could be less weird than a t-shirt, but more frogman-like. choices choices.
i'm reallly talking about atp
i cannae afford no other swimtimes
then it's a festival
everything is socially acceptable.
ha
i might dress up in fancy dress, just to be the crazy festival LOONY OMG
swimming AS BATMAN
lolololol
so atp is going to be full of
awkward indie boys standing at the pool edge wearing t-shirts BUT OH NO
do you wear dino jr or patti smith tee? Why must things be so awkward.
:D
personally
i don't think anyone would really care.
the will now there is a thread on the internet
about it :)
that's what i'm hoping
no one else will care
because they'll be too busy worrying about themselves and the way THEY look in a swimsuit.
Rather than making a new thread
can i ask, is is socially acceptable for girls under the age of 12 to wear one pieces?
why are you asking pieces?
is he in charge of these things?
should i PM him?
i think its for the best
also, are you going to both ATPs? I know you said something about it, but i forgot.
yesh, both
and i shall wear tshirts in the pool at both
great, now steve will think its okay for him to wear a t-shirt in the pool..
wow
me and steve ar gonna be the cool kidz. and yeah, like hbs says, if yo udont wear a tshirt, how can we know how cool you are???
by having a dinosaur jr teeshirt tattooed onto your torso.
fo definite
i dont think i will EVER wear a bikini, i'd feel mega uncomfortable. I bought a new blue swimsuit for ATP :D it was literally the only one that fit me in debenhams and wasn't a really hideous flowery pattern.
for all the boys that are saying they are embarassed about their beer bellies
a bit of belly is LUSH
cuddly and cute and boy-y
Define 'a bit'.
noah AND THE WHALE
Less than me, more than Jarvis Cocker
I'd presume to be the standard definition...
Huw Edwards?
i think he is the only person in the world
with physical characteristics inbetween paul hawkins and jarvis cocker, yes.
For some reason I could only actually think of
him and Nicky Campbell. My brain is malfunctioning.
try and think of someone else in the world?
I'd be a rubbish psychotherapist.
it depends on the man
im not saying FATTIE fat fat but being bigger than me is good
what about beer belly+hairy back+hairy nips+stupidly skinny arms and legs?
yummy
*+ leg hair that stops halfway down the shin
The Why do I imagine you're describing George Galloway?
Ignore the "The" there...
No one will care
if no one would care
why does anyone go nekkidbodied?
I HAS AN MISFORMED SEXBRAIN.
yeah
he bloody thinks everyones's gonna be looking at him or somehting
is they saw the back, they would
I've been to the swiming pool
with a right bush, I couldn't shave cos I was growing it to get it waxed. I pretended I was one of those people that didn't care. The worst that'll happen is people will stare and point or young girls will laugh
there won't be young girls
its a Serious Music Festival. there will be girls that i'll at some point attempt to molest tho, and i dont want to show them the goods too early
Shave your back?
1) not easy
2) a stubbly back is worse than a hairy back
2) -
especially on the flumes !
come round and i'll wax it
omg i would rly like to do that
tonight?
i don't think anyone will care
as others have said.
i'm not going to go into any pools as i'm scared of water :(
You're going to EITS, right?
I won't be upset if happen upon you in the pool and you're wearing a t-shirt. Although I wouldn't be upset if you weren't and had your hairy back exposed.
Those of you going to EITS ATP may even get to see the commandercool birthmark in the swimming pool :o