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One thing the Poms have got right: a budgie smuggler ban

by Natasha Lee

17 Aug 05:35am

Filed under: Budgie Smugglers, Fashion, Speedos

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So, British tourist hot-spot Alton Towers has put the kybosh on budgie-smugglers. Well done the Poms, I say.

Apparently there's something wrong with Speedos. Photo: Angelo Soulas

The reason behind the ban on Speedo’s and ‘other tight swimwear’, the fun park says, is to ‘prevent embarrassment among fellow members of the public and to maintain the family friendly atmosphere of the resort’.

This being so, I can’t think of a more apt time to call on the Rudd government to roll-out a similar kind of initiative.

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Mark says:

07:02pm | 11/08/10

Natasha Lee, where are you from, Alabama or Kansas? Obviously you are an American spy from the US swimwear industry which is desperately trying to wipe out low cost, long lasting Speedos with overpriced swim “shorts” (which have begun to appear more like “pants” already in the US, where obesity… Read more »
Steve B says:

06:17pm | 18/08/09

EvaDiva says: Come on guys….. How do you think it is like for us girls at the beach seeing a saggy, wrinkly, gravity deprived bodies with balls covered by a piece of material??? I would suggest it’s about as appealing as the saggy, wrinkly, gravity affected camel toe that get… Read more »

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