We don’t understand Icelandic but we think they’ve made their point (Picture: IcelandMag)

We all know the hard and fast rules of swimming pool etiquette: no diving in the shallow end, no running, no heavy petting.

However, there are surely some rules that are just unspoken – such as not using the communal hairdryers to blow-dry your scrotum.

That’s a given right?

Apparently not, as an Icelandic swimming pool has been forced to put up posters reminding its male visitors that the communal hairdryers aren’t for use on private parts.


The laminated posters, featuring a gentleman brazenly blow-drying his scrotum – one leg up – with a large red X over his naked torso, were put up by staff at the Sundhollin pool, in Reykjavik, towards the end of last year.

Managers were forced to remind customers of the rules after a letter from affronted patron Haraldur Jónasson was published in the local newspaper Frettatiminn.



Haraldur, who entitled his letter of complaint, ‘This is not a ball sack dryer,’ called his fellow guests’ hairdryer misuse ‘inconsiderate and offensive’, prompting the swimming pool to impose official rules around the use of the communal dryers, Iceland Magazine reported.

Scrotum blowing is now VERBOTEN in Switzerland where men have have taken liberties with the ladies blow dryers. pic.twitter.com/GAeCzBd4E9 — Scorpius Funk (@propheces) April 26, 2016

Translation: 'This is not a scrotum dryer'

Icelandic pool asks men to stop using hair dryers on their privates. ??? pic.twitter.com/vRxbKDi9rm — Cruise (@CruiseZ953) April 26, 2016

The pool rules, which have been widely shared – to much hilarity – on social media, now state: ‘Don‘t dry your ball sack or your butt with the communal hairdryer in the swimming pool or the gym. Bald older gentlemen with hairy torsos must either bring their own blow-dryers or just buy a more absorbent towel.’

Glad we’ve cleared that up. We just hope they don’t move on to abusing the hand dryers.

Ugggh, I hate it when guys use the hand dryers in the gym locker room to dry their scrotum — Glen Ma (@Mr_Melonhead) May 1, 2009

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