Proving that nothing can keep a good man down.
Are Phelps' hands small or average for omega-class swimmers?
It also appears to give women some pretty vicious cameltoes.
I don't know about his hands, or the identity of the third swimmer.
Emerson has taken over at Speedo and is producing the relationship-retarding uniforms of the future.
2: You're asking about the size of his *hands*?
7: I dunno about that. Think of how liberating it must be to take one of those things off.
Swimming fashions and the aesthetic of fascism clearly have deep affinities.
He looks like the CEO of the Neuterbot corporation, unveiling the new "female" line for 2008.
8: One tends to pay particular attention to hands after a certain number of punches in the face, to paraphrase Al Swearengen on Deadwood.
Huh, the other woman is Natalie Coughlin.
Get punched by a lot of swimmers, Flippanter?
Get punched by a lot of swimmers, Flippanter?
Depends on what you mean by "a lot."
It also appears to cause distracted bloggers to drop words in their posts about it.
So does the design of the suit force one answer to the age-old question of "up, to-the-side, tucked under or aggressively forward-pointing?"*, or is he just expressing a personal choice.
*Below some threshold size ε**, how this question is answered is irrelevant.
**Reached more frequently than one might think due to the agency of cold water.
*Below some threshold size ε**,
that being the point where diameter ≥ length, I believe.
18: diameter ≥ length
For some values of diameter, lest we forget the Coke canned among us.
I believe it depends on the size of the ε-ball.
In the future, this will be standard workplace attire.
"And now Amanda and Natalie will present the conclusions of the subcommittee."
to the age-old question of "up, to-the-side, tucked under or aggressively forward-pointing?
I don't know about this swimming gear, but in general about 45 degrees works best.
I have a friend who was a competitive swimmer of reasonable enough caliber to be interested in these kinds of suits and to be in circles where the companies would have people testing them out. She has stories of suits like this quite literally coming apart at the seams in the pool. As she tells it, these are not the most resilient suits (at least in their testing versions, a handful of years back).
As she tells it, these are not the most resilient suits
That's my understanding. These are to be worn to one meet, and then they're pretty much done.
A journalist friend actually offered a couple of months ago to get me one of the new suits (not the speedo) and let me write about it, but I thought someone who's a better swimmer should do it.
A journalist friend actually offered a couple of months ago to get me one of the new suits (not the speedo) and let me write about it, but I thought someone who's a better swimmer should do it.
Also, the demand from your fans for pictures would have been too much to handle.
"BEHOLD! MY DONG IS SQUISHED!"
This does sort of look like Michael Phelps as Frankie Avalon in "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine". But in the future.
How delighted Phelps, Beard, and Coughlin all look to be there.
The lighting on Beard's face argues that she is Gestas, despite being on stage right. The rules of 19th-century Romantic painting composition clearly make her the villian.
What Gonerill said. Between the fascist stylings and the Christ pose, that photo creeps me out.
Maybe he just hangs from his belly-button.
Figured out what his pose really minded me of, Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. In fact, I bet you can find the schematic for the suit in one of Da Vinci's notebooks.
I for one welcome our new fascist Neuterbot overlords.
I think if Ogged posted while wearing one of those suits it would constitute an unfair advantage over his co-bloggers.
That's actually the steroids, not the suits.
37: Are you serious? Ogged is always posting wearing one of those suits.
Not that I am spending the evening staring at Michael Phelps' cock squished toothpaste tube the two women the suits, but seeing these pictures illustrates to me that one of the main concerns about them is surely excess streamlining. Imagine the logical endpoint of those suits as being a kayak shell with human arms and legs (fie on those silly bumps and geegaws that mar the human frontside). I note that there is also a ban on hard hats or helmets, so any natural coneheads are at an advantage.
He's at 2 minutes to midnight.
On the cover of The Bulletin of Priapic Swimmers.
42: Recommended technique for combatting strong crosswinds during outdoor meets (not recommended for backstrokers).
Lowering centerboard!
That is simply the ugliest fucking thing I've ever seen and every one of them looks like they want to die.
I had to read the thread to realize the dude on the right wasn't a dude.
44 comments--has anyone pointed out that Ogged forgot the word "like" in the post?
You mean there are words after "cock" and some of them are wrong or missing? Hadn't noticed.
Are you serious? Ogged is always posting wearing one of those suits.
He won't wear it at the pool for fear of being thought a git. Got to wear it somewhere, right?
45: That was the intent of 16. But I suspect it was both too subtle and too poorly worded.
48: 16 was enough to prompt me to go back and find the missing word in the post.
[It] will make a cock look a stepped-on tube of toothpaste and eliminate boobies entirely.
I can't shake the feeling that there's a way to parse this sentence that will make sense.
It made me look.
anything that makes natalie coughlin look ugly is not a good product.
Ha, I read 16, read over my post twice, and didn't notice any missing words, so I clicked through to the scaq post and sure enough there was a missing word, and I was surprised that anyone had clicked through to read it.
"BEHOLD! MY DONG IS SQUISHED!"
He looks like he's smuggling jalapeños.
54: Squished (and unsquished) genitalia are always the size of fruits and vegetables. Eggplants, for instance (ask Ben).
Yes, but are they vegetables from Wales or Rhode Island?
>>Yes, but are they vegetables from Wales or Rhode Island?
Aren't they from Down Under? (To coin a phrase...)
52: I'm skeptical. Can a Speedo suit really make a cock...eliminate boobies entirely? I've never seen a cock do that.
Rhode Island is famous for its chickens, so, cocks.