What you feel about to be the only one guy wearing speedos?
 

As we know in a lot of countries is less common to wear speedos, them a lot of guys who wear speedos are the onlyone to wear it at the beach or a pool, them I would like to make a question to the guys here .What you feel about to be the only one guy wearing speedos? Adrenalin? The cooler at the place? Shy? Afraid? the “alfa guy”? the guy with more personality? great to the ego? Happy to all the people have their eyes over you???
Be free to responded at real you feel.

the only one...
 

What you ask has been covered in many posts over many months already.
Some members have expressed extreme self-conciousness and others have
said be confident and wear what you wish to wear and ignore the opinions of others.
That sums it up - I really cannot see that you will learn any more by repetitions of posts on the subject (and I think it was Dooley who rightly pointed out that this could go on ad infinitum)

Be pretty cool if anybody response the question and no one response for other. By the way Byron I think you have a big problem, I don’t know what kind of problem but always when I make a question you repeat thinks like “it was responded may times for many people and bla bla bla…” I don’t have time to read all the forum (I work and have life XD) but I think you feel threatened sometimes like if anybody show independence at the question you have the impulse to keep the control of the questions and answers :-)

No problem..
 

A rather silly post there . I am not a control freak and have no power nor wish to restrict anybody's "independence" on this forum and any replies can come to you from any of the members as and when they feel they want to add more in a VERY well trodden path of past AND recent subject matter. Any decisions on controlling content will be taken by Mike the administrator and I will say no more as I have already heard too much similar rubbish from STS.

I will of course exercise my own right to post with an opinion and say, as I clearly imply , that this forum becomes utterly boring if people too lazy to learn from existing threads keep flogging a dead horse.
Btw have you considered joining "the rest of us" (whoever that may be) in just ignoring me?

It don’t deal about “Be Lazy”. Each tread have a link in the forum, if I search and read all the titles of the treads and the topic and it is not between this , them, the question is valid, if somebody exposed some idea about my question (or another question in other tread) it is exactly the same like search about (for example) “sizes of Speedos” but read in the topic conversations about “why you and me speak about how valid is a question” if anybody have time to read all the forum “response for response” like “searching the Sorcerer's Stone” COOL FOR HIM!!!!!

It is the nature of forums to be repetitive, for new members to ask the same old questions and usually to be given the same old answers.
New members can't be expected to trawl through the archives and should be encouraged to ask any question they wish to.

Being the only person in a pool in speedos one quickly gets into the water and starts swimming. One keeps swimming hoping to go further and faster than anyone else in the pool. I want to show that I am a better swimmer than the younger guys in their big, dragging shorts, if they want to swim better too they should get their own speedos. I don't care if you don't like my speedos or my body, I can out-swim you, in the sea if you got into trouble I could rescue you.

Whenever I wear a speedo I am at a pool or beach -- appropriate location for the garment. I don't really pay that much attention to if I am the only one or not - it simply doesn't matter to me.
Here is one observation I have made on that subject. Often times I have seen other guys checking out my speedos and as time passes I see them sliding their board shorts off to reveal a speedo. It seems that being the first one to be in a speedo isn't possible for they level of confidence - but if another guy is wearing one, it is ok for them to wear theirs too.
Think about it when you go to the beach the next time and are too self conscious to drop your shorts and expose your speedos. There may be another guy, or even many other guys with the same insecurities and if you lead the way there may be a lot of guys in speedos before the day is over.

I said that the debate is endless and there won't be agreement on any one conclusion. Having said that, let's not discourage newcomers from asking a question even if it is a repetition. If having the question raised again bothers you, then don't participate in the debate and just let it go. Mike is the leader of the board, no one else is.

I think that PSDave makes a very good point about others' possible insecurity about being the first one to be seen wearing a speedo on the beach. But, that shouldn't discourage others. For me, I don't care if I'm the only one; I want to feel comfortable in what I wear and that happens to be a speedo. And since I've become a serious swimmer just 2 months ago, that has provided me with an even greater incentive to be comfortable in what I wear, and maybe be admired for being in pretty decent shape at my age and wearing a speedo.

So Zungaboy, ask whatever questions you want and don't let anyone tell you to not raise a question for a thread starter.

Dooley67

Zungaboy, I agree with Dooley67, PSDave and Torch water as long as you are confident in you speedos other guys may have them on and just need to see another guy wearing briefs to be confident enough to shed the board shorts.
I wear my briefs when I'm at the beach or pool it doesn't matter if I'm the only one wearing briefs at the time

I'm with many of you. I actually feel more confident and less self conscious in a speedo. Like I said in a recent Thread I just wore one to the US Open of Surf and I was one of maybe 5 on the beach wearing one out of possibly 10-20 thousand attendees and the only one with a striped bikini plus I was dumb enough to carry around 3 cameras (2 digitals & a speed graphic). My 1934 speed graphic got more comments than my bikini... It was surreal tho standing in nothing but a striped bikini in front of that many people felt a bit weird.


Give it 2 years and this question will resurface as a thread lol.

On the main topic, I am usually the only guy on the beach in a speedo (or smaller), so I've become used to it. I was wearing an orange Ami Sanzuri brief at the beach yesterday, and a young lady came up to me and said, "I really like the color of your swimsuit. I think that's the first time someone has commented on my swimwear in a long time.
Knikon, as a camera collector, I'd have noticed your Speed Graphic too

Lol it definitely drew much more attention than my "bikini" did. I got 2 compliments and one sneer at the event regarding my swimsuit so I was happy. Normally being the only guy in a speedo I give it no second thought but that event took it to a whole new level.

I have often been the only guy in a brief cut swimsuit. It has never been an issue, and I see no reason to worry about it. For me, it is not about any male ego thing, I just like the swimsuits I wear and see no reason not to wear them. I feel the same for the guys in boardies. If that is what they like, then by all means do so.

As for the criticism of your posting this string, only one person on this board would raise such a remark. Ignore him. He likes to drive members away, and he does it with regularity. I am happy to have members start or restart discussions.

STS

For humans to repeatedly ask the same questions and eventually to get a new answer is how progress occurs. A new answer to an old question happens when a philosophical or technical advance takes places in a related field so moving the goalposts.
Keep asking innocent questions and keep wearing brief or even briefer swimwear wherever you feel you will be accepted or tolerated.
Intolerance creates religious or political states that repress their own subjects.

thesis
 

Having waded through a quagmire of mixed philosophies I reach dry land
to discover that an intolerant authority in some form "represses its own subjects".
As point one it surprises me that such free thinking as expressed there produces the incongruous word subject instead of citizen.

As point two the emotive word repress hides the simple fact that as civilised beings we are all "repressed" in order to live in harmony and safety - and to say "standard of behaviour" would therefore be far more appropriate terminology.
For example, authority "represses" me by not allowing me to drive on the opposite side of the road to every other vehicle . Have I therefore unacceptably lost my freedom of choice to act as I wish, being under the control of an oppressive regime of some sort?
The rituals of politeness in Japan also result from the necessity of millions of people to live as happily as possible, being packed together in small spaces as they are.
As for "states created by intolerance" I should like to know why, as demonstrated in human history, so many peoples who gain "independence" immediately plunge themselves into bloody civil war.
In those seemingly inevitable circumstances who exactly are the subjects and who is then repressing them?

BBC TV Comedy, Bad Education "You will learn more if you don't ask questions."

comedy...
 

Splendid quotation - it encapsulates intolerence far better than any efforts of mine.

I'm going to invoke Rodney King's words " Can't we all just get along".

I'm with Shaulis. What is the big deal about somebody raising a question a second or third or fourth time - talk about intolerance. As I said in an earlier post, if someone is irritated because a topic is revisited, then that someone should just suck it up and stay out of the discussion. Finally, let's keep the judgments out of posts and not refer to others' posts as silly or stupid.

D67

I'm just not a person for following fashion, so to change from Speedos to board shorts would just be doing that, as anyone with eyes can see they're not comfortable to swim in.

So if I'm the only one wearing Speedos - I don't worry about it.

A brave teen
 

This morning when I went to the Y to swim laps, again I was the only one in briefs, a Turbo, USA Polo team suit. No matter. In the lane next to me a teenager, probably about 15 or 16 got out because he was finished. He was wearing jammers and he had a bit too much girth to him which spilled over the top of the jammers. I thought, what a brave kid at that age, wearing a swimsuit that maybe even accentuated that he was somewhat overweight. Obviously he felt OK with it and it made me feel good that someone his age could have such confidence. That should be a lesson to all of us; wear what feels good and don't pay attention to what others say about it.

D67

on checking post#19...
 

Found silly - couldn't find stupid (rubbish seems to have been forgotten)

Btw, I would have preferred a quotation from a different Mr King and not a violent druggie.

Good and bad
 

Byron,

Your "good" side provides many interesting and insightful posts to the board. Unfortunately, however, when your "bad" side erupts, it places a major damper on the members. If every member posted snarky comments, as you do and refer to as "freedom of speech", the board would burn up like a funeral pyre. As mentioned at the beginning, you do provide much good to the board. Please let that part of you be for ever remembered.

to Zungaboy
 

I love that you asked your question and you certainly have received many thoughtful replies. I hope you continue to join in the conversation and feel free to ask questions. It gets people talking. Most of us on the board are welcoming and genuinely appreciative of sharing conversation. Sorry your post got such an early unwelcoming reply.

STS

to make a point.....
 

http://www.beachbelievers.com/node/5180
....does any of this article sound rather familiar?
(it was written nearly FOUR YEARS ago)

The obese man in the photo in the article above actually has good legs and an acceptable loin area. The problem is the overhanging belly. If he was wearing boardshorts down to his ankles his belly would still hang over the waistband just as much. He has gone to the beach presumably to swim and sunbathe, which are legitimate pursuits (even in speedos).
So why attack him for wearing speedos when it is his exposed belly that is the issue and would remain the issue whatever swimwear he chose, unless the public were to demand that obese men and women wear singlets/vests to hide their excessive chests and bellies?
Since the average man in the West is slightly overweight these days such demands would result in nearly all men wearing vests and baggy shorts for swimming, a return to Victorian values perhaps.
We should give moral support to the older and bigger men who choose to wear brief swimwear not because we lust after them but because depriving them of their freedom to choose their own swimwear ultimately deprives everyone else of their right too.

Torchwatch, you are right on target with your very well thought out post.

D67

2 Mornings
 

Yesterday at Y in Addidas brief with high school junior swim team guy and this morning in Australian Water Polo brief=both real tight. Addidas had very small gap area in left groin which leads me to beleive that it was not sewed up properly. Great to see HS junior in speedos-he thought nothing of wearing them as did the US team member who I swam with last winter. His US team suit was so brief that they kind of pinched his butt checks but he was such a great swimmer I heard no complaints. I really think that serious lap swimmers like myself have little to be self conscious about when wearing briefs and believe me the turbos I wore this morning were really tight.

In re:post 25
 

What was the point?

Also
 

When I wear brief swimwear I take my time when I put it on in the locker room and at the pool. When I'm not in the water I still hang around talking to people with no hesitation. In other words I consider wearing my speedo as nothing unusual. The pool is for swimming-the suit is for swimming-so swim! Same in the locker room. Many just like to see what suit I'm going to wear next-I have may but have mostly settled for Caussie and water polo suits which are just the opposite in their feel and toughness. The Caussie is as if you had nothing on where as the polo is double lined. I may cut one of the layers out but I hate to completely ruin the suit.

I just ordered two Turbo suits for lap swimming. Dooley and STS influenced me to finally add these Turbo suits into my mix of swim briefs.

When cutting out linings one nick and the suit is ruined, don't do it. If you ant an unlined suit buy an unlined suit.

Thank you friends for the answers.
I think when we make some questions and it is responded freely them always we learn more than and we win more knowledge. The speedo for a lot of people is a taboo, and sometimes don’t care if we use it, the taboo is in the brain, them some people want to keep the control about when, how, why speak about the speedo.
Some time I read a guy asking in a forum because he feels a little shy about wear speedos at his swim train class (was his first time) he never been show his bulge to other people and also he have some insecurities with his “penis size”-…. Unfortunately for him a swimmer teacher was the first one to response him at the forum and the response was like this” “are you fool !!! We use speedo because is the perfect dress to swimm , you mustn’t have care or think about show the bulge and bla bla bla”.. them the answer never been response and also no buddy in the forum give the correct response or any person will have de courage to make the same question in the forum… also The swimmer teacher show with this response that for him the “bulge” at the speedo is a taboo (NO BUDDY SPEAK ABOTH THIS IN MY FORUM!!!!!!!)

Turbo suits
 

Shaulis,

What a chain of influence. I was influenced to order Turbos by Turbofan and STS and now you've been influenced by STS and me. You're going to love them, the low cut, the tight fit, holding your package in place. Which ones did you order?

D67

Shaulis
 

You will love Turbo suits. They are fun prints and hold up really well. Let us know what you think.

STS

the dead horse....
 

In answer to post #29 the point of post#25 was to emphasise four years in relation to the well trodden path as referred to in post#4.
(sorry if that was too abstruse for you but let's have a breathing space of at least two years as ingeniously and amusingly predicted by knikon in post#10)

Byron
 

Yes, it was far too obtruse for me. You are clearly the smarter of the two of us, in fact smarter that the whole damn board. I am in awe of your brilliance. I genuflect to your posts. I masturbate to your wisdom. Oh wise one...

snarky (looked it up now)
 

My thanks to Crail for post#23 - it sounded a bit like a eulogy on a tombstone
at the end (do you know something I don't?) but I will take it as genuine (as I prefer not to use childish* words such as "I don't care what you think").
LOL - your reference to a funeral pyre produced a great urge for snarkiness but I resisted temptation you will be pleased to hear.



Btw:
"freedom of speech" confused me - are they words of mine? (which I cannot find).
I also seek your advice on a post from Chris in 'age to wear speedos' thread.
As he has said numpty (which I vaguely recognise I think) is that of Scottish origin and/or adopted as American slang now ?

Lang may yer lum reek (and I hold my head in shame if misspelled - but I do know it is a wonderfully evocative expression about smoke and chimneys)

*oh dear me - now I see I have to contend with genuflect and a JO above - and do I dare explain to an author the meaning of abstruse ?

Byron
 

Byron,

I refer back to Crail's post in which he describes the good information you provide members of the forum as well as the bad aspects of your posts. Clearly what he wrote had no effect on you.

Either you don't know how your posts and the language you use affects people, or you don't care. If you don't know, then be informed that your words are hurtful, insulting, provocative and nasty. If you don't care, then be informed that others' have feelings that you are stomping on and many folks have told you this in varying ways. I urge you to re-consider your approach to members of this forum and change your behavior, and please, stop judging the quality of others' posts.

D67

yes please
 

Byron, please do explain the meaning of abstruse. I await your infinite knowledge... if only we could all be as intelligent, loved and well liked as you.

One day you will conquer this board... and then off timed posts will no longer be an issue. Only those at your totally superior level will be able to post. In fact, if will be a very private, singular conversation. Until then, I await my answer to abstruse....

STS