The world really has gone mad

@Ineeddentures That only means that the lifeguard should be fired for stupid.

According to Paul the lifeguard said he had to make the woman's complaint known to Paul and he thought the best way to resolve it was for Paul to put shorts over his Speedos which Paul rightly refused to do

@marguicha I suppose it was the first time he experienced such a complaint

@Ineeddentures Exactly. Now if they were budgie-smugglers she might have something to complain about. Or are they the same thing maybe?

A swimming pool is the place to wear Speedos If not there, where?

@JudyEv i thought they were essentially the same thing - the same style at least. This is from WordHistories.net: This noun refers to the appearance of the male genitals in figure-hugging trunks. This was explained by Reg Henry in One vote for Olympian modesty, published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) of Wednesday 13th August 2008—Reg Henry recalls “the Speedos of [his] youth”: The Speedo company was founded in Australia and many is the summer I put on one of their suits—you didn’t get much material for your money—in order to impress the girls. […] Back then […], a Speedo suit was shockingly revealing considering the strait-laced times. While it was thought (by men) to turn every fellow into Greek statuary with a fig leaf of nylon covering, it mostly revealed male vanity and absurdness. Indeed, so vulgar and gross were these male mating displays on public beaches that the Aussies came up with an expression for the abbreviated Speedo—the budgie smuggler. Budgie is short for budgerigar, the native Australian parakeet, and the idea was that a fine figure of a man would wow the crowd if he looked like he had a parrot up his pants.

Weird , a guy wearing Speedos in a pool Or the girl asking....

@Ineeddentures Shorts in the swimming pool are worse than Speedos, when they are wet they get almost transparents.

Shorts I assume which don't hug the figure Anna

@LadyDuck Very true Anna Anyway, I've seen women wearing bikini bottoms like thongs, everything almost on display I have never complained

Well you wouldn't because you appreciate there is no logical reason to complain And yes, the woman should have explained to the wee girl.

@Ineeddentures presumably the woman hadn't complained about female swimmers wearing bikini-style swimwear - but why not?

@Fleura Who knows But this is hot on the heels of a guy being asked by police to put his shirt back on when walking in the city centre last summer after a lady complained

Nothing was sticking out lol

I guess some people just like complaining

He hasn't been himself since his heart attack and he was really upset. He felt he had been made out to be a pervert

Aye well I was a lifeguard when I left the Army and I saw costumes which did not cover a women parts but were actually worn inside her, if you get my drift. Front and back, like a thong, but men didn't complain lol

Exactly But too many people just cannot do that

Nobody should have a problem it as men have worn Speedos for decades