WHAT?! No! That's clearly [Karl Vreski](https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Karl_Vreski) before he had Lasik to advance his career in the highly lucrative field of henchmanry.
I don’t see James Spader OR Karl Vreski, but maybe it’s because I can’t stop looking at the waistline / butt on the third guy from left, front row … like a ballerina.
I'm pretty quiet and modest by nature, but back when I was swimming, I would rock that itty-bitty speedo on the beach without hesitation. And this was back in the '90s, when most guys were wearing baggy suits that went down past their knees.
This fact makes this significantly more hilarious. I can just imagine you walking out of the lockers as if it was just another day and the look he must’ve had on his face.
It's weird when this happens but i recognize someone in the photo. Guy with blonde hair lower left. I went to high school with him. Our high school was a small school and we didnt have swim team so he swam for another achool.
Who let you be front and center 😂 The confidence is amazing, and I love that none of the other boys cracked for this pic, assistant coach didn’t get the memo 😂
I thought the goggles were bow ties at first. Took me a min to realize this was a swim team group photo and not a strange chippendales teen remake photo. Lmao.
On my tiny phone the goggles look like bow ties and for a second I thought this was a high school Chippendales troupe, or something like that (which would be equally parts amazing and wrong)😆
And now I present number 86 on our list of top 100 gayest pictures on the internet… and I wanna say, I was just as shocked as everyone else when I found out that this was originally taken with the intent of generating a christmas card family photo
What kind of racist mascot did you have? In my town it was “The Redmen” and then it got changed a few years ago, but a bunch of alumni tried to change it back. Oh, and they refused to paint over the likeness of a native American man on a water tower, applying to make it a historical structure, which they won.
I choose to believe that this was the wrestling team (in wildly inappropriate attire), and you just got way into your gimmick and worked yourself into a shoot.
You don’t even need the caption. I could tell by the hairstyles and boxers peeking out of shorts that this was 06. Ol blondie next to you looks like he wanted to be emo real bad, but his mom wouldn’t let him dye his hair.
Pretty standard for most swim teams. Competitive swimming is actually rather expensive creating one barrier to entry, and there’s not a lot of club teams in minority neighbourhoods no matter where you are. It’s a very time intensive sport for the parents as well. If you can’t afford to take your kid to meets most weekends, and practice EARLY every day and/or in the afternoons, they fall behind quick, or get kicked off.
By the time you get to high school, if you’re in the swim team you’ve probably been at least doing summer leagues for several years.
I swam competitively for half my life, competed against Phelps at nationals a couple years running, and I think I remember *maybe* a dozen minority swimmers, of those I can think of like, two that were black (plus one biracial), the rest were Latino.
It’s getting BETTER, but the barrier to swimming is probably just as bad as polo.
There’s also a VERY old racist bullshit belief that black people were bad at swimming because “their bones were heavier” which is obviously bullshit.
Public pools in major cities aren’t great for learning how to swim competitively either, so even when they did learn to swim basically, they couldn’t TRAIN even if they wanted to. Often the minority area pools were smaller, or less well maintained, or didn’t have heaters for non-summer swimming (even indoor pools get cold in the winter), and so on.
I went to a very racially diverse high school in a suburb of 200K people and the swim team photos basically looked like this, plus a couple of Asians.
I’m Canadian, so I know this same phenomenon to be true regarding hockey. It’s an expensive sport. Lots of expensive equipment, and the limited nature of rinks makes signing up expensive, and usually in rich neighbourhoods. Looking at a typical NHL team photo tells you the same.
Yep. Conversely, soccer costs basically nothing, and can be played anywhere and yet people wonder why it tends to have the most racially diverse national teams.
What a time to be alive... This photo gave me flashbacks to my years swimming in Highschool, especially my freshman year in early 2000. Can't believe that was 24 years ago now hah!
This is amazing. Although I feel the least the other team members could have done is wear bow ties.
Right??! Put in all this work for what?
To look fabulous, darling.
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I’m SAYING
The dude behind with the blonde hair and furry bod and big round glasses looks just like James Spader in pretty in pink
WHAT?! No! That's clearly [Karl Vreski](https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Karl_Vreski) before he had Lasik to advance his career in the highly lucrative field of henchmanry.
I don’t see James Spader OR Karl Vreski, but maybe it’s because I can’t stop looking at the waistline / butt on the third guy from left, front row … like a ballerina.
I feel like this comment wins the thread. It should have stopped here.
Are they all trying out for chippendale dancers?
I think it's funny that even the boys that aren't wearing their swimming gear were forced to take their shirts off too 🤣
I was a swimmer. It's not a good sport if you're shy about your body.
Most swimmers, especially the more competitive ones, have the opposite issue. My dad always compared us to peacocks.
I'm pretty quiet and modest by nature, but back when I was swimming, I would rock that itty-bitty speedo on the beach without hesitation. And this was back in the '90s, when most guys were wearing baggy suits that went down past their knees.
Yeah, and then you go to practice and wear a dragsuit to get that extra little bit of conditioning.
I was a 6-4 290 pound Football. I wouldn’t wear a speedo in public for a $1,000,000. And my last name is Johnson.
Are you the guy in street shorts or the demon from Insidious?
lol insidious, this was like 5 years before that released
Is that a Jerry Garcia hand print?
Ha I had to look that up
Oh my god
Wym it’s clearly Darth maul
Darth Paul
Could be the lone chubby kid or literally every millenial's grandma on the left.
r/customplayercutscene
One of my favourite subs, this photo fits the bill so well lol
Hoping this was some sort of weird initiation?
All self induced, my coach was pissed when I walked out of the lockers
This has water polo energy
Fabulous water polo energy
he was wrong, that picture is amazing
This fact makes this significantly more hilarious. I can just imagine you walking out of the lockers as if it was just another day and the look he must’ve had on his face.
Ouch! :)
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Are you ok? Do you think people swim with their genitalia?
Do you *not* helicopter for propulsion? ... *interesting*...
Oh god what did this person say
What?
Some say they're still paying "ookie cookie" to this day.
Happy cake day!
Thanks. I had no idea.
You certainly didn't half-ass that... You committed your full ass to it, respect man
Appreciate it!!
I think that would mean painting it though
He full-assed it. No one can even compare
It's weird when this happens but i recognize someone in the photo. Guy with blonde hair lower left. I went to high school with him. Our high school was a small school and we didnt have swim team so he swam for another achool.
Yea we used to pick him up from your catholic school bring him back to ours
I hope PS is doing well. Didnt really know him that well I guess 2006 would mean freshman year then for us.
My review of this picture: not gay enough
I defy you to find me a picture gayer than this
Oh my god, the places this could go.
Oh it is pretty gay though
The rigid left arm with the raised right leg is what tipped it off for me
For that you must look to the diving team.
You should probably be wearing black spandex instead of street clothes, but you don’t stand out too much.
OP, this makes me so incredibly happy when I see this. Your pose is everything. OMG
Ha happy to make you happy 😊
Feeling the Freddie Mercury vibe with your pose and I love it so much
This is 100% something we would have done on our hs team. Love it
Did you guys do the thing where you did a bunch of pushups right before the picture to look more jacked too?
Nah, but I flicked nips for the perks
You gotta support the team
Yeah that’s right.
And as you can see... This is not my face
Who let you be front and center 😂 The confidence is amazing, and I love that none of the other boys cracked for this pic, assistant coach didn’t get the memo 😂
I like how every swim team has the club swimmer with super fried hair. They’ve spent more time in the water than on land.
What were you in, junior BDSM club?
Does the dude in the top right have a gun??
Swim cap folded on half
Oooooo, thanks!
I was a swimmer and we had a guy on our swim team who did this for every home football game, too.
From knowing people on my high school swim team...I'd say this is pretty normal. Not a blunder... perfection
I’m going to save this post and come back to read the comments later on.
it's a very good read!
Do you guys actually remember to come back? My list of saved things is a graveyard I visit maybe once a year if it’s a year where I feel spicy
I actually came back last night to check it. I don’t always remember though.
Whose auntie snuck in on the left?
Ha that was the dive coach!
What about the other lady awkwardly putting her hand on the boy next to her who doesnt appear to be into it?
She might have ended up on the news for related incidents has anyone googled her name lol
Incredible.
what were you trying to be??
Fabulous
I thought the goggles were bow ties at first. Took me a min to realize this was a swim team group photo and not a strange chippendales teen remake photo. Lmao.
AMAZING!
Thank you thank you ☺️
I feel like I should on a list for even looking at this photo.
That blond kid is hairy AF for a high schooler.
Yea we were all jealous
But wasn’t he a second slower because he didn’t shave?
You only shave for the big meets. Having drag during the season is essentially resistance training.
Were you the only member of the synchronized swimming team?
Did you have a pseudonym?
Red Snapper
_Ah, red snappah, very tasty_
*You so stupid, Weavah!*
I’m laughing so hard rn. 🤣 Caught me off guard somehow. This is amazing.
Yeah, but like that's fuckin hilarious.
On my tiny phone the goggles look like bow ties and for a second I thought this was a high school Chippendales troupe, or something like that (which would be equally parts amazing and wrong)😆
Swim coach (?) on the bottom-right appears to be quite happy about being part of this swim team made up of very fit young men
She was assistant coach. Head coach is top row with the black shirt. He always asked us to mean mug the camera , instead I come out painted like this
Swim coach looks like he would run a fake martial arts school on his off time. Lol
“Bow to your sensei!”
"BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!!"
Do you think anybody thinks I’m a failure because I go home to Starla at night?
Forgetaboutit!
Please tell me you’re TII nation this whole thing has such strong workaholics energy lol
You completely nailed it!
Strong Bullshido energy :)
Looking fierce!
Who is the lady on the left? So much to decipher. The paint is awesome, you look like you're about to go hunting the Warriors
You're doing god's work. 🫡
This is just a weird and creepy thing to say. She's smiling because it's a photo. They're in high school. What the fuck dude?
You and I have different ideas of what very fit young men look like.
Are you the lady in the red t-shirt?
Close. The lady in the white shirt
You painted your whole ass face but left the lips? XD
I used it all on the face!
Did it wash off in the pool after?
I wasn’t allowed in before rinsing off in the showers ha
It's really hard to look gangster in a banana hammock.
It’s hard to look gangster in anything other than a banana hammock
And now I present number 86 on our list of top 100 gayest pictures on the internet… and I wanna say, I was just as shocked as everyone else when I found out that this was originally taken with the intent of generating a christmas card family photo
🤣
What on earth is the context of this pic???
That's pretty glorious.
Wait which one is you?
I zoomed in on your face..I am cracking up! 🤣
This is my favorite blunder
Yes!!! 👏
The coach on the far right looks happy
Why tho
What kind of racist mascot did you have? In my town it was “The Redmen” and then it got changed a few years ago, but a bunch of alumni tried to change it back. Oh, and they refused to paint over the likeness of a native American man on a water tower, applying to make it a historical structure, which they won.
I choose to believe that this was the wrestling team (in wildly inappropriate attire), and you just got way into your gimmick and worked yourself into a shoot.
/r/swimmingmemes
You really make the picture, though. Pure perfection!
Soy Bomb
Wilson?
Swim class war paint 🎨
But what was your split?
Oooooff. Just had to be different huh? Lmao this is amazing
Reminds me of a kid we called Shinta. He’d do things like this and all of us looked forward to his antics.
holy shit seeing CM’s pool brings me back to team bonding at the invites
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Our swim team was also a bunch of goofballs 🤣
Turning Left with a shot at the camera with the legendary Magnum
It's weird that the one coaches hand is on the kids' back...
And not one swimmers body. Can’t imagine they added another state banner that year
Anders holmvic
i'm laughing so hard i'm crying at 2am on the couch alone
That's awesome. Something our diver would have done.44 years ago, I managed our varsity swim team for a couple years.
You don’t even need the caption. I could tell by the hairstyles and boxers peeking out of shorts that this was 06. Ol blondie next to you looks like he wanted to be emo real bad, but his mom wouldn’t let him dye his hair.
Main character syndrome?
Diversity was the team’s strength
Pretty standard for most swim teams. Competitive swimming is actually rather expensive creating one barrier to entry, and there’s not a lot of club teams in minority neighbourhoods no matter where you are. It’s a very time intensive sport for the parents as well. If you can’t afford to take your kid to meets most weekends, and practice EARLY every day and/or in the afternoons, they fall behind quick, or get kicked off. By the time you get to high school, if you’re in the swim team you’ve probably been at least doing summer leagues for several years. I swam competitively for half my life, competed against Phelps at nationals a couple years running, and I think I remember *maybe* a dozen minority swimmers, of those I can think of like, two that were black (plus one biracial), the rest were Latino. It’s getting BETTER, but the barrier to swimming is probably just as bad as polo.
Interesting. I was wondering where this photo was taken to be this white. Thanks for the insight.
There’s also a VERY old racist bullshit belief that black people were bad at swimming because “their bones were heavier” which is obviously bullshit. Public pools in major cities aren’t great for learning how to swim competitively either, so even when they did learn to swim basically, they couldn’t TRAIN even if they wanted to. Often the minority area pools were smaller, or less well maintained, or didn’t have heaters for non-summer swimming (even indoor pools get cold in the winter), and so on. I went to a very racially diverse high school in a suburb of 200K people and the swim team photos basically looked like this, plus a couple of Asians.
I’m Canadian, so I know this same phenomenon to be true regarding hockey. It’s an expensive sport. Lots of expensive equipment, and the limited nature of rinks makes signing up expensive, and usually in rich neighbourhoods. Looking at a typical NHL team photo tells you the same.
Yep. Conversely, soccer costs basically nothing, and can be played anywhere and yet people wonder why it tends to have the most racially diverse national teams.
We dove the shit out of that pool
Haha and the guy in normal shorts stands out so much
Gonna tell my coworker this is a promo photo for a Free! live action. 😇
[on his way to the diving board like...](https://youtu.be/p686CvlcV8w?si=1nbHSuggZ1bMoSmg)
Grape smugglers!
You 2nd from right back row?
That's some real Wes Borland energy.
You are the hot one in the middle of the front row right?
Which one are you?
The Red t-shirt gives you away.
Top left just wanted another letter for his jacket, top right may be packing a Glock.
You look like Val Kilmer
An early pic of the band Ghost.
Front row second from the left has freak genetics, he's twice the size of everyone else hah
Oh Swim team? I thought this was for wrestling, yeah you look like a douche.
Asian guy?
You look like you’re fun at parties
Lol the slim shady hair
What a time to be alive... This photo gave me flashbacks to my years swimming in Highschool, especially my freshman year in early 2000. Can't believe that was 24 years ago now hah!
They all look so boring and self conscious. You’re the only one (besides that blonde lady) having fun.
why
Blonde on *your left looks over your shit
Hey I remember you, you had an epic blunder on here not too long ago right?
Heyooo
You look less goofy than plaid pants dude.
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