8/23/2005: Indonesian water boxers

Undertoad • Aug 23, 2005 1:29 pm
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These men are "water boxers", in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Apparently the sport involves being a huge spazz until your opponent laughs uncontrollably.
wolf • Aug 23, 2005 1:33 pm
I thought this was going to be about some new clothing fad.
Hobbs • Aug 23, 2005 1:52 pm
Large amounts of stagnet standing water and boxing...wow, who'd a thunk it? What will those crazy Indonesians think of next?
John • Aug 23, 2005 2:01 pm
I didn't realise "water boxers" was an INSTRUCTION.
Uryoces • Aug 23, 2005 2:18 pm
wolf wrote:
I thought this was going to be about some new clothing fad.
Aiiieee! Cold! Cold!
:worried:
Hobbs • Aug 23, 2005 2:26 pm
John wrote:
I didn't realise "water boxers" was an INSTRUCTION.

:question: :question: :question:
Happy Monkey • Aug 23, 2005 2:28 pm
Step 1: Wear Boxers
Step 2: Get water
Step 3: Water boxers.
Step 4: :question: :question: :question:
Step 5: Profit!!!
Clodfobble • Aug 23, 2005 2:29 pm
Step 4: Harvest your new crop of boxers in September.
wolf • Aug 23, 2005 2:32 pm
I also wondered about what kind of non-Friday animal horror I would be opening a new window ...
lookout123 • Aug 23, 2005 2:32 pm
But what's step 4?!?!?!
wolf • Aug 23, 2005 2:35 pm
Shrinkage
Hobbs • Aug 23, 2005 2:55 pm
The last time I watered my boxers, I almost fell off a cliff on my mountain bike. :eek:
Trilby • Aug 23, 2005 4:29 pm
Lordy, wolf, stop it! I'm blowing Coke out my damn nose!! :lol:















(uh, that's Coca-COLA)
Elspode • Aug 23, 2005 5:50 pm
Watering one's boxers usually leaves one with a brief, warm feeling, then a smelly and clammy sort of air.
lookout123 • Aug 23, 2005 6:01 pm
I'm blowing Coke out my damn nose!!
*flipping through notes* Nope. it most definitely does NOT go OUT.
Leah • Aug 23, 2005 6:07 pm
Watch out tourists, they are probably undercover police officers entertaining themselves between another drug bust on Stupid Aussie Tourists. :eek:
BigV • Aug 23, 2005 6:43 pm
This is what I expected...
Wombat • Aug 23, 2005 7:40 pm
Undertoad wrote:
Apparently the sport involves being a huge spazz until your opponent laughs uncontrollably.

lol! A great desription of the pic :lol:
wolf • Aug 24, 2005 1:43 am
Brianna wrote:
(uh, that's Coca-COLA)


At least that's less expensive ...
BigV • Aug 24, 2005 2:01 am
You know, you just can't wind up an clock somebody properly when you're straddling a bamboo pole! Look ma! No hands! No nuts either. Just where is the left boxer's weight being supported from? I think right boxer is cracking up thinking "Dude, your nuts just burst!"

The picture is still funny, but funny like those scenes from Jackass where the guy takes a croquet mallet to the crotch. *wince*
chrisinhouston • Aug 24, 2005 8:09 am
Looks like the spectators are getting a good show for their money!
glatt • Aug 24, 2005 9:05 am
BigV wrote:
You know, you just can't wind up an clock somebody properly when you're straddling a bamboo pole!


I didn't even see the bamboo pole. Wierd optical illusion. I thought it was the top of a sort of retaining wall holding up the muddy bank behind the boxers. The picture makes a lot more sense now, and the guy on the left looks far less spazzy than before, when I thought he was jumping up out of the water while simultaneously striking out in an awkward way.
Clodfobble • Aug 24, 2005 10:22 am
:eek2: Hey, there's a pole there! That makes the left guy much less spazzy, I agree. Still well within the realm of spazz, though.
CharlieG • Aug 24, 2005 1:50 pm
I'll agree - the photo makes a lot more sense now (duh)
capnhowdy • Aug 24, 2005 4:12 pm
I didn't see the pole either at first. Maybe this is the Indonesian version of log rolling. I've always wondered why the hell those log rolling guys didn't just knock hell out of their opponent.
gerstle • Aug 25, 2005 12:45 am
so do they put electric eels in the water just to spice it up a bit?
gerstle • Aug 25, 2005 12:49 am
You know, i'm not one to judge, but...

what kind of individual does it make you if you get your kicks from throwing rather feminine punches at other men while squeezing a large wooden pole between your legs and dangling above a large pool of water while people watch in amusement?

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Ok, i'm sorry, i couldn't help myself.
Griff • Aug 25, 2005 7:38 am
gerstle wrote:
so do they put electric eels in the water just to spice it up a bit?


[Dr. Evil] I have one simple request - sharks with friggin' laser beams attached to their heads, and it can't be done? Remind me again why I pay you people? What do we have? [/Dr. Evil]