Wtf ! French Budgie smugglers !

[Jamouk]

Currently in the south of France with the family, took the kids in the pool to be told by the life guard my French made Vilbrequin swimming trunks are not acceptable in French swimming pools ???? And I have to buy some speedo type trunks and walk round with everything on display in front of my children and other people's children ! For hygiene reasons ! What a load of Sxxt , I politely declined to go and buy some and went to the beach instead, obv being very well endowed I would have had women chasing me round the pool , who thinks this rubbish up !!!!

 

[charlie-fox]

I have just returned from euro camps in south of France we had the same out there stupid rule
Yet my son who burn his shoulders was allowed to have a cotton T-shirt on no questions asked in the pool

 

[scotch_egg]

Good advice for anyone going to France. Be in the know and go prepared…

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[Foxyboy43]

Good advice for anyone going to France. Be in the know and go prepared…

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For Christ’s sake! I will never unthink that image……

 

[sauer]

only french could come up with some sh1te like that

 

[ofbiro]

Pardon my ignorance, due to the combined effect of old age and life in a mountain village. What the **** are "Crankshaft (english for vilebrequin) trunks?

 

[JockStalk]

It’s a long standing rule, sadly.

Don’t try to figure it out, it defies logic.

Keep thinking you look like you belong on Baywatch, even if you look like Matt Lucas in undersized spandex.

 

[Dalua]

Pardon my ignorance, due to the combined effect of old age and life in a mountain village. What the **** are "Crankshaft (english for vilebrequin) trunks?

Vilebrequin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I've learnt three things from this thread:
1. As a user of modest bathing-dress, I must avoid French swimming-pools
2. The name of a French bathing-dress maker, which nevertheless produces non-France-compliant garments
3. The French word for a crank-shaft.

Thanks to all involved.

 

[bluesako]

just as well i dont go to france

 

[old keeper]

Totally beyond me in every way!

 

[8x57]

I got caught out by this very same rule 10+ years or so ago in the Seine-Maratime department. The campsite owner told me at the time that it was a new regulation and only introduced into certain regions. Obviously it has become more widely adopted in France.
My wife and eldest daughter went into fits of laughter at the thought of me wearing budgie smugglers.

 

[opticron1]

Yep....this has been the rule in some campsites/pools for years.
However, the last time I was in the pool at a campsite in Verdun, no-one gave two hoots what you were wearing as long as you weren't naked. I think rules are put there just to see if anyone can be bothered to read them and thankfully most just ignore them....

 

[8x57]

Yes application of the rule does seem inconsistent. The campsite owner just outside La Havre was paranoid about being caught allowing swimming shorts to be worn in the pool (heavy fine), yet on a busy site to the west of Calaise almost anything accepted including cut off jeans.

P.S. I think I was glad that I was wearing swimming shorts and not budgie smugglers when an extremely healthy young lady was frollocking topless in the pool on a site in the Somme region. I doubt that budgie smugglers would have been able to contain my excitement/embarrassment.

 

[Liveonce]

Good advice for anyone going to France. Be in the know and go prepared…

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Think I now need to see a shrink after viewing that, anyway could never fit me as only do one size, i would need extra large or is that extra small

 

[JockStalk]

Think I now need to see a shrink after viewing that, anyway could never fit me as only do one size, i would need extra large or is that extra small

Those mankinis always make me think of a catapult at full stretch.
Wouldn’t enjoy the Lycra snapping and sending my cojones hurtling through the air

 

[fixedwheel]

Those mankinis always make me think of a catapult at full stretch.
Wouldn’t enjoy the Lycra snapping and sending my cojones hurtling through the air

As it is already at full stretch, wouldn't it mean they would just drop back down to your knees?

 

[Hod]

We frequently holiday in the south of France, Argeles-sur-Mer, where this rule has resulted in me purchasing holiday-specific budgie smugglers. Got to wear those bad boys with confidence.

 

[gixer1]

Had exactly the same happen a few years ago….baffling…it felt obscene walking out in these ridiculously small pieces of linen…

Perverts!

Regards,
Gixer.

 

[Smellydog]

The only good thing to do in France is ride through it on a motorcycle.