Thank you Billabong!
With much of these United States of America being put under lock and key, once again, in order to combat the robust spread of a novel Coronavirus, you might be feeling bleak and sad about the future of a once great economy.
How are restaurants and bars supposed to survive without being able to sell food and/or drinks?
Salons without trimming hair?
Well, at least we have the surf apparel industry.
You are certainly aware that surf branded soft goods, like t-shirts and hooded sweatshirts, became not popular some decades ago spinning the surf apparel industry into a great apocalypse.
Many fired.
Much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Yet it appears that all that was needed to pull The Stone, The Mountain and Wave, The Search etc. out of its nose dive was a real great apocalypse.
According to market specialists Grand View Research, the global surfing apparel and accessories market, valued at USD 1.04 billion in 2019 is set to grow at an annual compounded rate of 5.3% over the next seven years and reach an overall valuation of USD 1.56 billion by 2027.
Exciting.
The reason for this stratospheric spike may surprise you.
“In October 2016, Trinity Board Sport announced the launch of a surfboard based on parabolic rail system technology. The board offers 20%-30% more volume than a conventional surfboard, thus offering high degree of balancing and significant performance advantages.”
And
“In July 2019, Billabong, an Australia-based company announced the launch of a graphene-enhanced surfing apparel named Furnace Graphene. This product is intelligently designed where graphene wrapped yarns trap and retain heat more efficiently, thereby offering warmth to the wearer.”
Have you ridden one of these magic parabolic rail surfboards?
I can attest to the power of Billabong’s graphene-enhanced surfing apparel.
Very warm.
But what will you do with this glowing report? Start a surf brand? Send out the resume to existing surf brands?
Much to ponder.
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TLDR: Chubby, cold-sensitive VAL’s are going to save the surf industry, not coronavirus.
I wonder how many businesses can’t possibly survive in a post covid world…
All the extra cleaning costs
Staff to monitor new operating protocols
Covering sick leave…every time someone gets a sniffle they can’t go to work
Closing and reopening whenever there’s a scare
Less potential partonage in many industries and businesses
Doubt the list ends there
Anti viral surfwear…social distanced surfboards…waterproof facemasks…thats the future
Just think of all the car air fresheners you‘ll sell.
Pretty much favoring the yellow dress, second place the blue dress because she is certifiably crazy and probably fucks wildly…. an important fact you have to consider.
Everyone is praising the lack of pop ups and I just keep missing Anonymous riding the Cabianca.
Red dresses always have that little sparkle in the eye of the owner. Elizabeth Hurley like
devil is in the details my brother… look at the photo again… it appears that red dress is wearing shorts under her dress. Yellow dress has panties and longer legs to remove said panties off her feet…. intoxicating, yes.
Now Blue dress is a different story because she most likely is not wearing panties.
oh, you devil you… so true.. i am not one for panties either to be honest. the wife used to go full on buck with the sundresses, “just in case” which was quite often to be honest.. oh those were the days.. where’d they go.
Mine too… just knowing she was open while we shopped or seated at a restaurant, so intoxicating.
Menopause killed my party. Will take out most of our friends here… just a matter of time. Someone needs to tell young men about this inevitability. No one told me, I’m looking at you Pop and Uncles. Well, dead pop and uncles, but you failed me!
Maybe derek making the switch had some good timing although not my cup of tea.
They all look like ex’s
Red head with no panties, who fucks like crazy, definitely first place.
Liz Hurley… Are you like over 60?
haha, Negs, I always thought you were in your 40’s.. Liz Hurley was the hottest red dress chick of the 90’s. smoke show.. still is actually, How??? modern medicine or genes? south of 50, feeling 20 in the water and in the bedroom fucker!
I just tried to find a terrible photo of an aged Liz to rub in your face… I couldn’t. She’s still quite attractive, so comment retracted!
Praise Billabong for coming up with new wetsuit tech and still being the coldest option out there! Also for inexplicably making a campaign around Dr. Seuss to match their team’s reading level!! Huzzah!
Check out some of the comments on poor old Griff‘s new edit over on Stab
Better to die of drink than to die of thirst.
Chaz and Derek- Really appreciate you guys getting rid of all the pop ups on the site, makes a big difference.
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