# I pit men in thongs. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 23, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857 "2008-06-23T00:34:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/1 "2008-06-23T00:34:52Z")
Imagine yourself in America’s west, big red rock canyons and spires along the banks of the Colorado river. I’m pulling up to the dock to launch our boats, my friends are following. Then, there at the water’s edge, a man steps out of the bushes. He’s wearing a shirt and a silvery thong, not a speedo or banana hammock but a damn thong. It’s silver and it’s soiled. He says ‘Hi Brother!’ and walks away. Bile rose in my throat. The guy was like 50 something. Gross. Can anyone suggest why in the hell someone would attired like this? Way out in the middle of the desert? yuck. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/2 "2008-06-23T00:38:37Z")
Euro. What do you mean by soiled? ---
**Author:** ![whatami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/85f322/32.png) [@whatami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatami)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/3 "2008-06-23T00:41:17Z")
[QUOTE=chacoguy420] Imagine yourself in America’s west, big red rock canyons and spires along the banks of the Colorado river. I’m pulling up to the dock to launch our boats, my friends are following. Then, there at the water’s edge, a man steps out of the bushes. He’s wearing a shirt and a silvery thong, not a speedo or banana hammock but a damn thong. It’s silver and it’s soiled. He says ‘Hi Brother!’ and walks away. Bile rose in my throat. The guy was like 50 something. Gross. Can anyone suggest why in the hell someone would attired like this? Way out in the middle of the desert? yuck. :eek: [/QUOTE] Probably because that’s what he wanted to wear. I’d be surprised if he gave a fuck what you thought. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/4 "2008-06-23T01:22:41Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] Euro. What do you mean by soiled? [/QUOTE] Just plain dirty, no feces, urine or semen, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/5 "2008-06-23T02:43:56Z")
Middle of the desert with nobody else around? You’re lucky he was wearing anything at all. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/6 "2008-06-23T02:52:03Z")
How perfectly horrible for you. Well-a-day, well-a-day. I can’t imagine how you’ll ever get over that. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/7 "2008-06-23T03:04:00Z")
Funny, on my trip on the Colorado, one guy in our party had a shiny purple satin thong which he occasionally wore. We all thought it was funny as hell. Perhaps you ought to chill out. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/8 "2008-06-23T05:13:41Z")
What are you, some sortta togophobe? [http://youtube.com/watch?v=UjtdQ9JP7h4](http://youtube.com/watch?v=UjtdQ9JP7h4)😃 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/9 "2008-06-23T07:06:52Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] How perfectly horrible for you. Well-a-day, well-a-day. I can’t imagine how you’ll ever get over that. [/QUOTE] That is the first time I have ever seen the word Well-a-day (welladay) used in a sentence. A soiled, silvery sort of a sentence. > [@](#): > > Welladay \Well"a\*day, interj. [Corrupted from wela way.] > Alas! Welaway! --Shak. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/10 "2008-06-23T07:13:39Z")
[Man thong!](http://justjared.buzznet.com/gallery/photos.php?yr=2006&mon=05&evt=borat_neon_green_swimsuit&pic=borat-neon-green-swimsuit10.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/11 "2008-06-23T07:54:45Z")
[QUOTE=chacoguy420] Just plain dirty, no feces, urine or semen, but still… [/QUOTE] Well, you did say there was a lake or something there. Maybe he was about to take a dip? Sometimes people wear swimsuits like that because it’s as far as they can go and still be legal. If our damned repressive culture were a little more relaxed about nudity, then there’d be more places where one can actually be nude, and you’d probably not see nearly as many people wearing extreme swimsuits like that. Though I haven’t seen anyone wearing a thong in years, male or female. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/12 "2008-06-23T18:54:01Z")
[QUOTE=chacoguy420] I\ Can anyone suggest why in the hell someone would attired like this? Way out in the middle of the desert? yuck. :eek: [/QUOTE] “If you do it in the country, they like it just fine. If you do it in the city, it’s a twenty-dollar fine.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/13 "2008-06-24T09:12:42Z")
**Men in Thongs** Band name!\* \*I’ve never done a Band name drive by before, I’m sorry, but **Men in Thongs** just… well rolled off the tongue suddenly doesn’t seem so apt, but whatever… ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/14 "2008-06-24T12:18:08Z")
[QUOTE=Charlie Tan] **Men in Thongs** Band name!\* [/QUOTE] Performing their hit single, _Banana Hammock_! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/15 "2008-06-24T13:51:36Z")
[QUOTE=chacoguy420] Just plain dirty, no feces, urine or semen, but still… [/QUOTE] Just how thorough an inspection _did_ you give your brother? ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/16 "2008-06-24T13:59:01Z")
[QUOTE=Daithi Lacha] Performing their hit single, _Banana Hammock_! [/QUOTE] And oddly enough, that also just rolls off… I’m bored, you can tell, right… ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/17 "2008-06-24T14:21:00Z")
So, you’re saying the goggles, they did nothing? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/18 "2008-06-24T14:56:45Z")
[QUOTE=chacoguy420] …Bile rose in my throat. The guy was like 50 something. Gross. Can anyone suggest why in the hell someone would attired like this? Way out in the middle of the desert? yuck. :eek: [/QUOTE] So, was it the attire you objected to, or the fact that it was an older man? I hate the attitude that the old, the fat, and the ugly should remained covered at all times, especially in sweltering heat in the middle of nowhere, or else it’s “gross.” If you just don’t like revealing clothes, well, we can agree to disagree, but if the sight of a less-than-perfect body revolts you, I’d suggest therapy. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/19 "2008-06-24T15:09:51Z")
It was “gross”? Really? What are you, 12? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857/20 "2008-06-24T19:12:01Z")
If chicks can walk around with their ass cheeks hanging out then men should be able to too. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-men-in-thongs/453857.md?page=2)