The Wrong Trousers

From yesterday's Times:

"Three young swimmers were prevented from using their local pool because they were wearing the wrong type of trunks. Marc S, 13, his brother Ryan, 12, and cousin Eliot L, 12, were told to change out of their knee-length shorts for health and safety reasons by officials at Harlow Pool in Essex... Marc and Ryan’s mother, telephoned the pool and was told that long shorts could hamper weaker swimmers".

Of course, elsewhere on Planet Stupid, other swimming pools are having Muslim-only days, at which "men wear shorts which hide the navel and extend below the knee. Women wear a swimming costume that covers their body from the neck down to the ankle. There are separate sessions for men and women".

Are they completely stark staring f***ing mad?

Or am I mad for thinking that they are mad?

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