Monday, 20 June 2011

Skinny dipping

While I was swanning about in the Sussex Downs yesterday, having fun, a hardy group was engaged in Wales in an attempt on the world record for skinny-dipping.


The "official" requirement is to spend at least 10 minutes waist-deep in water. Which is a tough call in Wales, as these shrivelled people emerging from the freezing greyness demonstrate:


It was all, apparently, for charidee (breast cancer, actually, which explains the high ratio of women to men).


400 people doesn't seem like such a large number, although to beat it maybe you'd need to hold the event somewhere with slightly more attractive water conditions.

3 comments:

Stewart Jackel said...

Today's issue of Melbourne, Victoria's, The Age has an image of this even taken ON THE WAY IN!
Pikers!
Cowards!
We are truly Victorian.

Some of us have such wee willie winkies that 10 minutes in a Welsh 'Summer' sea would render them invisible except to an electron microscope. :-)

tastigr said...

Spike might be right-we are indeed Victorian in many respects, but as for the wee parts of the anatomy, there is much that goes on under the covers of...well, anything really!

Could the rear view be related to being truly down under?

Could be the subject of a new book for Spike to compose

Alan said...

Top photo, fat man in foreground on the left, on the phone. Why? Lady in the foreground, center right with finger in her twat. Why?