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Sounds like Americans aren't too proud of their bodies. The fattest and ugliest to the most beautiful wear them at the beach here. Boardies are usually for surfing and when it's Winter - a wet-suit.
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I shall step in as official representative of the "country that is less prudish than the US but more prudish than Europe":
(And we say swimming trunks for the skimpy things, and swimming shorts for the, er, shorts).
Swimming trunks/speedos are scary, evil things, and they only tend to be worn by atheletes and prats.
Oh, and any older family member who could potentially be embarrassing. Especially fathers.
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While my skin is presumably somewhat less pasty than Liam's father's, I am much more aware about the public's tolerance for expanses of glaringly white flesh. So for the benefit of mankind I've become more modest now about the wearing of 'swim-trunks' (which is weird for me to say since that's what we'd call what you call swim-shorts (but since we Americans are just borrowing the language (without asking), I'll assume Liam's usage is correct.)) Anyway, so, like, even though I don't feel like I'm advertising my package and more whiteness is concealed, actual swimming in 'swim-shorts' now feels very sloppy and lame and needlessly slow with all that extra drag and pockets and stuff. Like driving on a windy freeway in a panel truck versus a sportscar.
Also I marvel at Liam's restraint in not commenting on Tim's choice in swimwear.
Kleenex, Xerox, Speedo.
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My choice in swimwear? I don't even have any swimwear. I don't think I've been in a swimming pool in years. And that was a single occasion where I was fully clothed. The last time I wore swim trunks (or "shorts" for some of you) was years before that.
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I just bought a pair of swimming-somethings. Nice, baggy, and come down to the knee. Very comfortable. Black with red racing stripes. Has a DVD hookup in the rear and a coffee maker in the front.
I'm be styling at the campus pool Monday morning when I see how much about swimming I remember.
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If you're desperatly worried about speed, you can get slightly tighter fitting ones that still have leg parts.
And we call them shorts because they're, er, like shorts.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: And we call them shorts because they're, er, like shorts.
And you call the others 'trunks' presumably because they look like...
My lady friend from New Zealand (who talks funny in a similar way to the peoples of England) has confirmed that she and her friends use the more American 'Speedo' and 'trunks' versus the 'swim shorts'. The signifigance of this is... well not much really is it.
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