# So...um...is anyone else watching men's synchronized diving? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 2, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126 "2012-08-02T00:29:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newsbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@newsbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newsbunny)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/1 "2012-08-02T00:29:08Z")
I am watching for purely athletic interests, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Patience\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@Patience\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patience_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/2 "2012-08-02T00:32:17Z")
I am. Was wondering why they show so much of it. I guess it’s all the men in tiny, tiny pants. ---
**Author:** ![newsbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@newsbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newsbunny)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/3 "2012-08-02T00:36:20Z")
Oh, I’m sure it’s the artistry and athleticism of the dive, the majesty of the leap and the… Aw, hell. It’s the dudes in tiny pants. ---
**Author:** ![Patience\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@Patience\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patience_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/4 "2012-08-02T00:36:43Z")
Very tiny. ---
**Author:** ![nogravity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@nogravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nogravity)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/5 "2012-08-02T00:48:36Z")
Congrats to the very tiny pants winning the Bronze. ---
**Author:** ![newsbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@newsbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newsbunny)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/6 "2012-08-02T01:42:39Z")
They all head to the little pool afterwards. I wonder if they do that for any athletic reason, or because they need to stay damp at this point, like a walrus, because they’ve spent so much time in the water. ---
**Author:** ![Patience\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@Patience\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patience_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/7 "2012-08-02T02:07:08Z")
I thought it was a maintaining temperature thing. But keep in mind that I don’t know anything. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/8 "2012-08-02T02:29:02Z")
They might as well start sponsoring synchronized basketball and synchronized soccer and synchronized table tennis if they’re going to be making up “sports” like this. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/9 "2012-08-02T02:38:14Z")
So in the competition for Most Homo-erotic Olympic Sport, does this one take the gold? ---
**Author:** ![Patience\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@Patience\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patience_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/10 "2012-08-02T02:39:57Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > So in the competition for Most Homo-erotic Olympic Sport, does this one take the gold? I thought that was wrestling? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/11 "2012-08-02T03:12:17Z")
I don’t know, two ripped dudes spending hours upon hours performing repeated strenuous, yet graceful and delicate, physical activities together, while practically naked and in a pool seems pretty homo-erotic to me. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/12 "2012-08-02T04:17:29Z")
> [@Patience\_Jones](#): > > I thought that was wrestling? I keep getting Tumblr posts about men’s Turkish oil wrestling, which is exactly what it says on the tin. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/13 "2012-08-02T05:21:45Z")
> [@Patience\_Jones](#): > > I thought it was a maintaining temperature thing. But keep in mind that I don’t know anything. It looks kinda like it was a hot tub of sorts. It took me awhile to figure out why they apparently kept leaning up against the wall (it’s a shower in case anyone is wondering). Such beautiful athletic men of so many different colours & ethnicities. I just wish India or Pakistan sent divers. And I can watch in the breakroom at work without anyone batting an eye (most my female crowokers seemed really into the games that day. > [@Patience\_Jones](#): > > I thought that was wrestling? I wish the wrestlers wore speedos instead of singlets. If they were truly in the spirit of the Olympics I’d make it to London in person even if a had across the ocean in a swimming canoe. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/14 "2012-08-02T06:50:16Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > So in the competition for Most Homo-erotic Olympic Sport, does this one take the gold? You need to watch more womens Beach Volleyball 😉 “_glistening like wet otters_,” according to Boris Johnston (mayor of London). Si ---
**Author:** ![Ele\_the\_Stoic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ele\_the\_Stoic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ele_the_Stoic)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/15 "2012-08-02T07:00:33Z")
I did. I walked in a room while others were watching it on a computer, and figured I had some time to kill. I pretended to judge the dives, and was usually pretty close to the final results, actually. Though I think the Ukrainians usually deserved a bit more. After having watched it though, I really… don’t get why it’s in the Olympics. I also thought there would be more crazy twisty-turny dives. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-um-is-anyone-else-watching-mens-synchronized-diving/630126/16 "2012-08-02T09:14:26Z")
Off to the Game Room.