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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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PurpleFlower1983 · 26/07/2024 14:13

I find it more funny that’s she was posing in such a shit pool in the first place.

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 26/07/2024 14:04

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 12:02

I find it very weird that if a woman on these boards starts a thread about how a random man tells her in the street to 'cheer up love' or 'smile' other posters are up in arms about the patriarchy and mens entitlement to think they can control a woman's public behaviour/persona.. yet this is fine....hmmm

Well that's because being told to "smile" is the idea women cannot express any emotions which might make men uncomfortable and that smiling "looks better" thus making women objects of beauty and not free thinkers

Whereas this was a man acting to stop a woman being a self obsessed twat, ruining everyone else's enjoyment of the pool

Laserwho · 26/07/2024 13:46

He more than likely jumped into the pool because the girl was blocking the steps. She was posing for photos. How long was the guy supposed to wait? Pools are for swimming not posing. If she's blocking the way to get into the pool what did she expect to happen?

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 13:33

It's pretty simple.

I think the 100 s of 1000s of followers these people have tells you it's probably not.

But well done Crumpet . Breezy up there?

LadyCrumpet · 26/07/2024 13:28

NotSmallButFunSize · 26/07/2024 13:11

The culture affects everyone - it affects the kind of shit my daughters have to be surrounded by as they grow up and live with the shitty value that society places on such a vacuous existence.

So yeah, they can fuck off!

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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.

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 13:25

You know what else will affect your daughters? Entitled men.

They sure will.

But it's a matter of opinion whether this is one.

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 13:22

I would have laughed it had happened to me.

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 13:13

NotSmallButFunSize · 26/07/2024 13:11

The culture affects everyone - it affects the kind of shit my daughters have to be surrounded by as they grow up and live with the shitty value that society places on such a vacuous existence.

So yeah, they can fuck off!

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You know what else will affect your daughters? Entitled men.

NotSmallButFunSize · 26/07/2024 13:11

LadyCrumpet · 26/07/2024 09:37

Why? What they do has nothing to do with you.

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The culture affects everyone - it affects the kind of shit my daughters have to be surrounded by as they grow up and live with the shitty value that society places on such a vacuous existence.

So yeah, they can fuck off!

ItsTheGAGGGGGGGG · 26/07/2024 12:13

sanogo · 24/07/2024 20:22

I saw it on Reddit a few days ago

Bit cunty

Do you have a link?

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 12:12

If there had been a togged up bloke posing for the camera ,instead of a woman it would have been equally as funny/not funny.

The " funny " is the risk factor of dangling around a pool, on the edge, doing other things and not noticing.

Whether it's ending up in the pool or being dive bombed or whatever.

This is SO overthinking though.

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 12:06

yet this is fine....hmmm

Are they all in bathers around a you know what in those descriptions?

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 12:02

I find it very weird that if a woman on these boards starts a thread about how a random man tells her in the street to 'cheer up love' or 'smile' other posters are up in arms about the patriarchy and mens entitlement to think they can control a woman's public behaviour/persona.. yet this is fine....hmmm

ButWhatAboutTheBees · 26/07/2024 11:38

He wasn't trying to humiliate her so much as get her to stop treating it as a photoshoot

If she'd been there ages then everyone else was probably fed up

It's not like he ran up and dumped a bucket of water on her head. He just used the pool as a pool

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 11:23

Would he have done it to a man I wonder?

Probably.

You know, pool etc

sunglassesonthetable · 26/07/2024 11:22

What was particularly wrong about it? She was posing ..ok, maybe a bit cringe but so what

And he dive bombed her and splashed and got a laugh. Bit cringe but you know... POOLS.

So not anything to get worked up over.

rosiers · 26/07/2024 11:22

bridgetreilly · 26/07/2024 10:50

If she’s blocking the steps, how is he supposed to get into the pool?

They’re both as bad as each other.

Hmmm I don't know, maybe "excuse me"?

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 11:22

Would he have done it to a man I wonder?

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 11:20

TinyYellow · 26/07/2024 11:03

Why? Are we supposed to automatically side with other females even if we think their behaviour was wrong?

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What was particularly wrong about it? She was posing ..ok, maybe a bit cringe but so what

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 11:19

MrsSkylerWhite · 26/07/2024 11:05

TinyYellow · Today 11:03
Comedycook · Today 10:31
Honestly can't believe so many women are excusing this behaviour.
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Why? Are we supposed to automatically side with other females even if we think their behaviour was wrong?

Yes, obviously 🤣 Drink the kool aid. Daft, isn’t it?

I see this kind of behaviour as similar to when men say to women in the street "cheer up love".

MrsSkylerWhite · 26/07/2024 11:05

TinyYellow · Today 11:03
Comedycook · Today 10:31
Honestly can't believe so many women are excusing this behaviour.
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Why? Are we supposed to automatically side with other females even if we think their behaviour was wrong?

Yes, obviously 🤣 Drink the kool aid. Daft, isn’t it?

MrsSkylerWhite · 26/07/2024 11:03

toastofthetown
Swimming ≠ cannonballing

Ah, ok. Either way, the twit posing would get splashed. That’w what happens at pools, you get wet.

TinyYellow · 26/07/2024 11:03

Comedycook · 26/07/2024 10:31

Honestly can't believe so many women are excusing this behaviour.

Why? Are we supposed to automatically side with other females even if we think their behaviour was wrong?

Idontjetwashthefucker · 26/07/2024 11:02

She could've been there hours posing for the 'perfect shot' and potentially blocking the steps for people getting in and out - don't want to get wet, don't be a dick around the pool

FamiliaF · 26/07/2024 11:02

I would have found it funny AFTER she took her picture.