Things that make you go.......WTF? Part II

[Dark Beanie]

On a mission from god...

[David]

I'm wary of exceeding my quota of Olympics-bashing for the year, but if you ever wanted an example of how idiotic these big sports organisations are, look no further than this:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/norway-beach-handball-team-fined-bikini-bottoms/

[think positive]

bit late, signed the petition 2 days ago! madness

[stui magpie]

It is interesting but it's not the Olympic rules, each sport has their own rules.

Women Beach Volleyballers don't have to wear bikinis but most do.

The German female Gymnasts wore full piece long limbed leotards instead of the usual crotch flossers as a form of protest, but it's fine because they're allowed under the rules.

You want to do a true Olympic WTF, check out the start of the Triathlon. They did the start gun while a camera boat was in the road of the competitors so half couldn't dive in, then the boat tried to get out of the road by reversing toward the competitors that were n the water, with potential to mulch some with it's propeller

[PyreneesPie]

[think positive]

that was crazy, so dangerous.

love the germans full suits, they look so good,

and Pink is paying the fines!!!

[eddiesmith]

[David]

This article is just a massive WTF on all fronts. It almost seems like a wind-up:

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-toxic-truth-about-my-age-gap-marriage-20210802-p58f2f.html

Quite aside from the question of why this guy – who, as a twentysomething consenting adult, freely chose to ask out, sleep with, and then subsequently get into a relationship with an older woman – now considers himself to have been victimised, I find it hard to believe that there are people out there who get paid to write columns regularly slagging off their ex-partners, or that anyone thinks it worth giving newspaper space to the other half of this soap opera (and subsequently reprint it in Australia, where we have all presumably never heard of these people). Perhaps this is just one of those "only in the UK" things.

[stui magpie]

Not knowing a thing about either party and just going on face value, seems totally plausible to me.

[David]

Oh, it's certainly a plausible story, in most respects (though I draw the line at being "tricked" into a wedding … like, how does that happen!?) What I find bizarre is that such dreadful people – that is, both the guy who's writing this and the woman he's writing about – exist and seem to be able to command a lucrative op-ed platform.

[stui magpie]

I have zero surprise that they exist, I'm discovering increasing numbers of utterly self absorbed people who think they're being attacked at the mere suggestion that they may not be 100% correct.

And if people will watch them on reality TV shows like Bachelor or MAFS, I'm sure someone will read their op-ed's

[ronrat]

A bloke at work who had a bad history of sexual harrassment (and nowadays would have been booted out of the Army) was selected by the female contestant as her date on a show (forgot its name) and they sent them to Great Keppell for a holiday. Within 10 minutes of being there this grub went into her room demanding sex. She went straight to the producers and she flew back to Melbourne an hour later. Show never went to air.

He is now working at RMIT in a HR position. Unbelievable.

[think positive]

sounds like they deserved each other,

and then the other, Go Kitty!!!
he still looks pretty $£$%^%%$ hot, and by the time she starts to fade and sag, he will be too old to want another!!

[stui magpie]

[Pi]

I didn't know anything like this existed,

https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/indonesian-army-finally-ends-virginity-tests-for-female-recruits-20210805-p58g1d.html

presumably they will just ask