“Has Bells gone mobile? Like REALLY mobile?
The World Surf League has been forced onto the back foot again following an embarrassing blunder on their various surf media channels.
In a post to the billionaire-owned organisation’s 3.4 million Instagram followers, a map of Western Australia is presented with the line,
“With less than 24 hours until the first call, let’s take a look at the official @surfline forecast for the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach…” etc.
Surf fans, predictably, went wild.
“Bells is now in WA?”
“Where is Bells?”
“At least they had the right country. Maybe next time try to get the right coastline.”
“Has Bells gone mobile? Like REALLY mobile?
“I hope the judges haven’t flown to WA.”
The effort was, likely, the work of an inexperienced intern or a non-surfer, Surfline’s graphic cropped to fit the IG square.
The post has since been amended to include Bells Beach.
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Meanwhile, the event looks like it’ll run in unpretty three-foot, maybe four-foot, junk.
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Am I dreaming or is Bells on? Can we get a live comment thread?
JMD isn’t banging his sister
We need to know more about Angelica!!!
So why did Mikey Wright get one?
or Curren?
Its Sunday shouldn’t they be out at Church(s)?
Rottnest Island II : Lenny’s revenge!
They’ve had internment camps for people with the flu/cold. Just base all your directions in Australia on how far a distance from the internment camps.
Remember, Americans are culturally prudish, and this was merely a bit of self-censorship to show the opposite coast, because they felt obscene showing a picture of the BELL-END.
Julian doesn’t surf for RC.
WSL have gone into full F1 clone mode. On YouTube there is Grill the Grid where F1 drivers get asked a the history of the sport. The WSL completely aped thus by asking competitors about Bells history, using the same sound effects when they got the answer wrong. Embarrassingly Tyler Wright got the Who has won the most Bells question wrong. Every self respecting feminist knows it was Gail (I forget her surname) with ten Bells!
Couper, though if you are Ben Marcus you’ll swear black and blue it’s Cooper (ala Jodie) and then when busted claim he is still right because Americans don’t spell Colour with a U either.
100%. …It’d be one thing if it was guaranteed triple overhead every time it ran but anything else is quite lackluster to say the least about Old Man Bells.
ehh Sarah?
Triple La Nina (TLN22) was created in a laboratory in China and was accidentally released at a wet market in Pooraka. Bad batch of Bok Choy. All of southern Australia is now in a surfless lockdown until at least June.
THIS is tragic due to the lack of outsiide English speakers coming to help them evolve out of their tattered British English…
Tally ho and go fuck oneself, old bean.
Trust me, I would if I could!
Gotta wonder who shells more. VIC or WA gov? Great to see QLD Gov shut their purse!
#wildcardforbrutus
He’ll be on the step for sure, all rugged up and with an air of mysticysm about him.
Think I’d prefer to read a BG whoop article than watch 3 foot Bells. Bring back whoop? Actually, no please don’t.
‘The Search …for a new venue.
Imagine if we held a comp in Sheboygan Wisconsin then got all pissed at the ausies for not knowing where the place is on the map. Nobody cares about bells beach outside of Australia.
Obviously you’ve never watched Point Break…
I think the bigger issues is understanding that while this appears embarrassing to US surfers, the bogans in Oz are used to this sort of mistake.
FYI- Johnny Utah morphed into Surfline Man
It would be like having the Trestles event and the Surfline map showing the swell hitting Florida.
Califlorida Über Alles
Über Alles Califlorida
That would upset sailor Karen
I hear the WSL is big in Sheboygan.
Almost at big as brats and large beer drinking women
“Bells schmells. It’s all the same down there in upside down land. Whatever. I mean at least we didn’t show AUSTRIA! Huh?!? LOLOLOLOL”
Isnt surfline being headed up by ol mate nick carroll?
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Yep, that’s him