Speedos News Update: Speedos Are Now Globally Approved!!

[speedomatt]

Speedos News Update: Speedos Are Now Globally Approved!!

http://www.gadling.com/2013/07/18/speedos-globally-approved/

[Byron]

I don't know what Expedia are playing at but see post#9 already submitted under "need to be fit".
This is supposedly a result which we are now told is a conclusion from a commission undertaken by Harris Polls although you submit here a report of July 2013 which is from someone called an "expedia guest author".
This survey is supposed to come from 8000+ customers questioned from 21 countries - though clearly a big chunk of the world is missing as I have already pointed out.
We have been given the "top five" in speedo tolerance but I did not see and STILL do not see the full league table.
My request to Expedia to see all countries has simply resulted in a PR reply to ask why I want to know.
Just how much we believe from an Aussie travel agency which calls itself the biggest and likes a lot of p.r. hype , I leave to you.

[Torchwatch]

Expedia are selling holidays.
Speedo friendly locations sell holidays.
Go where the speedos are and buy a holiday from Expedia.
This is Speedo Tourism.....

[Byron]

.....but still doesn't change my distaste at being treated like the village idiot by such operators !

[knikon]

I find it annoying how a speedo is considered much skimpier than a bikini by the average article writer... Now a kolaswim suit. That IS much skimpier.

52 percent seems somewhat accurate. Once I wore one of mine during a very crowded day at Venice beach. I got an outright "ick what a creepy disgusting guy" and a "hey good lookin" in a few minutes...

Have an Expedia story to tell Byron?

[Byron]

What you post reflects the thread on terminology and I have never booked a holiday with that company (and my opinion of marketing copywriters is down alongside second hand car salesmen as you might guess)

[knikon]

The one commenter hit the nail on the head.

[Torchwatch]

In the UK vacuum cleaners are called Hoovers although Hoover haven't made them for years.
Copy writers aren't interested in the accuracy of what they write more in creating a reaction in their readers. To them and therefore the unwashed public speedos are tiny and anything tiny is a speedo.

[sebbie]

Are you sure about that?

http://hoover.com/

[Torchwatch]

Hoover in the UK got bought out by an overseas rival, everything is imported and re-branded. The old Hoover factory not far from where Byron lives has been demolished.

[Byron]

...didn't know that - it was art deco Listed and Tesco took it as a supermarket.

Funny old world - the Dyson Turbo guy took his manufacturing to Malaysia for lower wage costs.

[Byron]

Seems unlikely - it's Grade I which means it's on the same List as Buckingham Palace: http://www.74simon.co.uk/hooverbuilding.html
(might you be thinking of the similar Firestone Tyre factory on the A4?)