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Splashing people in the pool?

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bullofred · 24/07/2024 19:03

I saw a video where a woman was posing on some pool steps, she was about knee high in the water and her friend was taking photos.

This man purposely cannonballs into the water and soaks her and she visibly pissed off. All the comments are laughing saying she deserved it, they hate influencers (no evidence she’s an influencer) and that “not all hero’s wear capes”, it’s a public pool and she should expect to get wet.

Aibu to just not find it funny?

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OhmygodDont · 26/07/2024 16:19

There shouldn’t be a need to say excuse me at steps. Because people should just be using them for there purpose so in an excuse me case your be rushing someone struggling to get in and out.

If you want to ponce for photos private hire the whole pool and space around it. Maybe they should have asked everyone else there is they minded them hogging the pool steps for their photo shoot.

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 16:14

People don't generally queue at pool steps tbh.

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 16:12

sweeneytoddsrazor · 26/07/2024 16:10

Chance you take in a pool. If you are on the steps and I can't get past then I am going to jump in.

You never heard of saying excuse me

OhmygodDont · 26/07/2024 16:11

If you want a perfect pool shoot you hire a pool. You don’t block access to a pool that others are using or get to expect to stay bone dry dancing over the stair rails 🤷🏻‍♀️ man or women. The steps are for getting in and out not posing.

sweeneytoddsrazor · 26/07/2024 16:10

Chance you take in a pool. If you are on the steps and I can't get past then I am going to jump in.

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 26/07/2024 16:05

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/07/2024 15:26

Yeah. Feminists are the reason women's football isn't taken seriously.

Saying MEN take up space for football makes it a MALE thing... so ye

TinyYellow · 26/07/2024 16:03

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 15:29

Yep exactly this.

Cannot believe so many women can't see this for exactly what it is.

Or, seeing as none of us can really give any more than an opinion on what it is, we just disagree.

Photobombing has been going on for longer than phones have had cameras and it’s happened to men, women, groups of friends, families, couples etc. This is just photobombing in a pool, which is inevitably going to involve splashing.

Highlighta · 26/07/2024 15:42

Meh, I couldn't get very upset by this.

I see it's a hotel pool, but I have a pool and I don't think I've yet seen a many walk into it using the steps. It is always usually a dive bomb into the pool. I use the steps as I don't like getting my face wet 😂 but the DC do not. Nor do most of the males in my immediate family.

If you don't want to get wet, don't be right by the pool. It's hardly rocket science.

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 15:40

Pleased you're amused. Personally I cringe at women desperate to be the cool girl...

Don't be soft I'm not desperate to be anything.

But i think funny things happen around the edge of pools. like this.

Do take the stick out of your ass.

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 15:37

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 15:34

Cannot believe so many women can't see this for exactly what it is.

Crack on.

Funny you think yours can only be the correct view.

Pleased you're amused. Personally I cringe at women desperate to be the cool girl...

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 15:36

NotSmallButFunSize · 26/07/2024 14:48

I do thanks and believe me I do not watch or consume any of that shite.

I am not a teenage girl however and it is very simplistic to say "oh I ignore it so they can too" Teenagers are at an impressionable age and it would be a hell of a lot easier if this kind of shit just wasn't a thing in the first place.

So do you think this man did it because he's concerned about the effect of social media and influencers on young women and girls?

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 15:34

Cannot believe so many women can't see this for exactly what it is.

Crack on.

Funny you think yours can only be the correct view.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 26/07/2024 15:31

I fucking hate being splashed. I love the water and swimming but having water splashed at me is just not on.

The best way to get in is by diving in though- inching down the steps does no one any favours

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 15:29

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/07/2024 15:06

Having seen the video, if it's the one, a little feminist analysis.

Men take up space. Patriarchy chicken, using vast quantities of space for golf and football, practically the whole of the internet, man-spreading. Men are very used to taking space and shoving women over.

Influencers and women who aspire to it take up space. They are obvious and out in public space and the internet. That makes men confused and angry. So they have to be taken down a peg. They can't just say, "sorry can I get past" like a normal human. They have to take their space back.

Yep exactly this.

Cannot believe so many women can't see this for exactly what it is.

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/07/2024 15:26

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 26/07/2024 15:25

Influencers taking up public space piss everyone off, irrespective of gender

Also, the football comment is why even after the women's team have had such great victories they are still not regarded as well....

Yeah. Feminists are the reason women's football isn't taken seriously.

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 26/07/2024 15:25

Influencers taking up public space piss everyone off, irrespective of gender

Also, the football comment is why even after the women's team have had such great victories they are still not regarded as well....

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 15:23

*Having seen the video, if it's the one, a little feminist analysis.

Men take up space. Patriarchy chicken, using vast quantities of space for golf and football, practically the whole of the internet, man-spreading. Men are very used to taking space and shoving women over.

Influencers and women who aspire to it take up space. They are obvious and out in public space and the internet. That makes men confused and angry. So they have to be taken down a peg. They can't just say, "sorry can I get past" like a normal human. They have to take their space back.*

Granted. That's one way of looking at it.

Or when people dangle around the edge of a pool, a charlie chaplin moment is asking to happen when some smart arse is looking on.
Regardless.

I'm a feminist too.

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/07/2024 15:06

Having seen the video, if it's the one, a little feminist analysis.

Men take up space. Patriarchy chicken, using vast quantities of space for golf and football, practically the whole of the internet, man-spreading. Men are very used to taking space and shoving women over.

Influencers and women who aspire to it take up space. They are obvious and out in public space and the internet. That makes men confused and angry. So they have to be taken down a peg. They can't just say, "sorry can I get past" like a normal human. They have to take their space back.

Anon4once · 26/07/2024 14:54

I don't find it funny but it's a pool. I hate being splashed at the pool but I accept it, it's a pool!
As the old saying goes- if you can't stick the heat, stay out of the kitchen 😂

Flumpie59 · 26/07/2024 14:51

It sounds hilarious to me! If you're in a public pool then you KNOW some people will dive in instead of just getting in! Expect to get wet!

NotSmallButFunSize · 26/07/2024 14:48

LadyCrumpet · 26/07/2024 13:28

Maybe you should teach them to consume better then. I am online in various places all day every day and my life isn't impacted by influencers at all.

I use facebook, Instagram, Snap, MN, TikTok, X, YouTube, I have a reddit account. I have a phone. I watch TV, and other than scrolling past something I have no interest in - which isn't often as I don't engage with it, I don't see influencer bollocks at all. I don't watch Love Island or TOWIE or Made or Chelsea or any other vacuous nonsense, so my life isn't affected by vacuous people.

It's pretty simple.

I do thanks and believe me I do not watch or consume any of that shite.

I am not a teenage girl however and it is very simplistic to say "oh I ignore it so they can too" Teenagers are at an impressionable age and it would be a hell of a lot easier if this kind of shit just wasn't a thing in the first place.

DoreenonTill8 · 26/07/2024 14:42

tennesseewhiskey1 · 26/07/2024 08:37

Where is this from please?! @DoreenonTill8 - promise I won’t pose in it - I just like it !

Pretty Little Thing... remember it's like a Gremlin, don't get it wet!

NeverDropYourMooncup · 26/07/2024 14:29

The most effective thing for getting rid of an annoying, obstructive internet person in those circumstances is to be visible. Had them at the gym before and it's surprising how quickly they stop monopolising the area once there's a fat, sweaty middleaged woman in the background, as it completely disrupts the perfect, aspirational fat free ambience they're trying to create. If they want a clear shot, they pay to hire the entire place and not intrude upon others.

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/07/2024 14:21

PurpleFlower1983 · 26/07/2024 14:15

Double post

Edited

If it is, he's 100% the dick. He's not 'trying to get in'. He's just a dick trying to humiliate a woman. Wanker.

PurpleFlower1983 · 26/07/2024 14:15

Double post