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If there's one rule I've lived by in this life, it's this: Never try to separate a New Zealand rugby fan from his mankini. The charming gentleman here is both a fan of the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and of fine rugby. But he and other fans like him are banned from wearing the Borat-style mankini at this year's International Sevens competition in Wellington. And now I, also, feel a bit sheepish about wearing mine at sporting events. Sorry, girls!
"It's a family event and there will be children there," a police spokesperson told the New Zealand media, asking the 70,000 fans expected at the event to show "a sense of decency." While some New Zealanders told the national media that they would prefer to see more emphasis on the rugby and less on some fans' "self-serving exhibitionism," the sudden attack on the two-day tournament's long-established dressing-up culture left others reeling. Participants are long-used to seeing men in drag and women dressed as sailor girls or policewomen on the terraces for the tournament, said critics who called police fashion prudes.
New Zealand fans are none too happy about his, and plan to protest the event. How does this effect us? I'm not sure, but suddenly I have the urge to load a slingshot with kiwi fruits and go hunting for squirrel.
New Zealand Rugby's "Mankini" Fans Protest Ban [Yahoo Sports]
Police Crackdown On Sevens Tournament (Plus Photos) [New Zealand Herald]
Comments
NIGHTMARE FUEL!! Dammit Rick...
oscar de la hoya thinks this ruling is atrocious
The color of the mankini? Kiwi Green.
A promo for the long-awaited sequel to DC Cab.
Funny, I have the urge to vomit. To each his own I guess.
i really need one of those. Who doesn't? Please post links if anyone knows where to get one.
In my country there is problem.
What's the ruling on wearing tighty-whiteys and painting your entire body pink?
Is Deadspin installing an eye wash station anytime soon? Because I'd hate for OSHA to hear about this.
Just sayin'.
You stay at my place, you gotta hammock up.
Nice to see someone is taking up Daulerio's mantle in using photos that will get me a pink slip.
Now that SSW is dead, Tuesday is now "Gay Day" at Deadspin.
The woman on the right looks like she has an arm coming out of her stomach.
Before I saw the tags, I thought that this better have nightmare fuel.
@ASox: Tim Hardaway hates Deadspin.
Is the moritorium on Borat jokes still in effect? References to that movie got played out more quickly than Napoleon Dynamite quotes.
@LeagueofShadows: So does Warren Sapp
@Stay Away From Oprah:
HUNGER GET WHAT HUNGER WANT
PLUMP, JUICY, MANKINI BULGE
there's a whole lot of yes in that photo that's eclipsed by one giant no.
@ASox: Hopefully it's limited to odd numbered Tuesdays...In months that start with "J"...in years that end in "8"
@ASox: I was thinking more along the lines of Awful Day.
I can only tomorrow will be Puppy Bowl Day.
At least the balls remain inside the scrum.
I always thought you were crazy, but now I can see your nuts.
Forget trail. That, ladies and germs, is what we call a "happy highway."
@EdFinnerty: there should be a "hope" in there somewhere.
@racistmascot_inc: +1
Shoulda been you, media day.
Tony Parker thinks that's a disgusting outfit and also, uh, is wondering, uhmm, uh, where one might buy such a thing?
That reminds me, I need more Gold Bond powder...
This is truly unrepresentative for a team nicknamed the "All Blacks".
That mankini will almost certainly be the only thing cradling his balls in the near future.
Ish don't think so.
That mustache doesn't help matters.
Yes, Yes, Yes, Dude, Yes, Yes.
@TZNJoe: Ask and ye shall receive.
"sheepish" is a humorous choice of words considering the proclivity Kiwis have for fucking sheep.
Got to admire his balls. Actually we had no choice in the matter thanks to the photo.
The love he is getting has me thinking all new strategy.
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