"I just wanted to highlight what a woman in sport looks like."
But are you bored of, excited by, infuriated with the lightning rod actress-spokeswoman Sydney Sweeney at this point in 2026? The buxom 29-year-old recently made controversy, once again, in a video spot for a prediction market application by placing various sporting equipment over the pieces of her nude body while asking, “Think you know sports? Prove it.”
The reaction, predictably, predictable. Those on the left excoriated Sweeney for playing into stereotypes while completely diminishing the feats of real sportswomen. Those on the right defended Sweeney, declaring that “feminists are furious at her skin.”
All fairly dull until, that is, surfing’s most inspirational story Bethany Hamilton waded in. The 36-year-old mother of four usually presents right, but blew shade Sweeney’s way in a devastating Instagram takedown.
The carousel featured many photographs of Hamilton in action over the years accompanied by a devastating caption reading:
What one do you like the best?!
Im not waste my time with any statements here orrr bring any attention to any individuals out there but… I just wanted to highlight what a woman in sport looks like.
Phi Slamma Jamma.
Back to Sweeney, though, do you find her a brilliant marketeer? Or do you think it is the work of manager-boyfriend Scooter Braun? He, allegedly, thinks his girlfriend is the second coming of Marilyn Monroe.
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We’ve spoken about this numerous times here. When you’re walking down legian road and you hear what appears to be a building site moving towards you. Take a lane to mataram.
Go Fund Yourself.
if you read my previous piece, you know dat’s da thang I was referring to…
heart-breaker, dream-maker. honey don’t you mess around with me. brekkie in my H2O bed?
Never fake the funk on a nasty dunk.
Argo fund yaself !
Ben Affleck fan ey? 🦆
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Was Jeffrey Epstein Mossad?
I’d have to remove his pants to tell you. And that train has left the station
Both Bethany Hamilton and Sydney Sweeny are playing the same game – competing for attention.
Just using different methods to get your attention. Posing nude with sports equipment is a lot less painful and pays better than getting your left arm taken off by a tiger shark –
The re-edit of Sea of Darkness for general release has been years in the making – cut out all the libelous bits and what do you have left?
Martin Daly talking about . . . Martin Daly
Fucken incredible. Still not a fan . Voice like a seppo starling
drug smuggling, whoring, using funds obtained from drugs to wash into surf cos.
Some presumed it was something to do with Martin Daly being involved in that kind of ratbaggery, if it was him who bought the film to bury it.
Or did he buy amd bury it on someone else’s behalf, to keep their name(s) completely kept out of it ?
Already in discussions…
Negs comments on there so it’s OK.
I’ve never made $ off of surfing and would donate every nickel since penny’s are being fazed out.
I think they’re supposed to be two versions of that film.
I don’t live in good cell and refuse to get Starlink.
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Just curious, can anyone here do a one-handed pop-up?
I can’t.
You need big tiddies.
Xox
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I hope it’s not rude of me to say that that is a peachy derrière.
STOP sexualising women
it’s just a thang~
Call me old fashioned but id vote Sweeny over old Christian hatred anyday
Surfing is too weird to be candid about things. They want to brag about things that make them look cool without incriminating themselves. Then you have the “journalists” barely scratching the facade and calling it a discovery.
Imagine if Tyson showed up for a match looking like shit, disappeared and died in a hotel room and Bob Arum or Don King led the PR campaign to clean the crime scene?
How long was your version of it ?
The one I have is about 85 mins, but have been told it’s still missing a bit.
The most salacious part (near the end that has blurry vid and sound) that I hadn’t already heard from anyone else back then is about the ‘Maui boys’ killing Boyum in the Philippines for stealing their cash stash…
and/or the torture in prison~
I know a Maui boy…
Waves were dogshit but I needed the bath, new windswell heading your way for the tide push tommoz
Most of those stories hide the real info anyway.
Surfed the warmest water in California in my lifetime today
If this is what you’ll californians are dealing with, then my country is soon to be completely fucked with gas prices. People used to complain bout $5.00
Prices are much higher in other first world nations that produce less energy, but their economies are accustomed to these prices. I hope the truckers do strike soon. That’d be fun to watch.
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Mid to high 6 dollar mark here now
Dunno where that is, but that’s a very unusually high price. I’m in one of the wealthiest counties in the state and country and it’s like $6.30 here.
there was a sticker of Don placed on the pump face that said, pointing at the price per gallon….
“I did that!”
Exactly ,fight the climate terrorists with high prices!!
knew we were in trouble (common men) when I heard a politician say he ‘liked’ that gas prices were soaring. Like, some 20 years ago.
and that was like sometime near when Sydney was wombed. by her Dad?
she’s a fav and a Valley girl-like.
Shes a doll!!
look close. she’s got a lazy eye~
Her third eye is the sexiest!!
The description said northern california.
I once had to buy gas in what I presume to be the most expensive gas station in california, in big sur, because I foolishly had forgotten to fill up that morn. If I remember correctly I paid approx $5.50.
I was going to say most expensive in the US, but maybe there are places in nantucket, connecticut and long island that are more expensive.
my relative’s bakery. performed enviro due diligence on the property before he moved in.
I’m in NorCal, but not super north NorCal. I always forget Humboldt County is wildly expensive for gas, ’cause it’s so isolated and all the gas has to get driven there from hundreds of miles away.
$6.60 for gas and 8.50 for diesel here.
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Could be worse…Read the red sign.
AI is going to kill us while we watch the meme’s
Not ai. Ukraine
I just read a NYT article about the urgent need to have a global alliance against AI
Chilling
100%
And Purps barely just started.
But NYT uses AI
the photo dipshit.
Owen fucken Wright. What a thinker you are to come up with a username like that.
That’s a guarantee.
The only dispute is how long it’ll take.
we’ll be right Hip.
Stop buying gas you climate terrorist!!!
This joke will really hit if you try it a third time.
Drive us off a climate cliff!
I saw an incredible report on this the other night. Russia is the #2 producer and exporter of diesel. Due to the Russia Ukraine conflict, Russia’s exports have decreased, and Zelensky keeps bombing Russian refineries, further decreasing production and increasing diesel prices worldwide. U.S producers have now decreased gasoline production and increased diesel because there’s more money in diesel. greedy bastards. combined with the Iran conflict and decreases in gasoline production, gas and diesel prices are rising.
Zelensky and the Iranians are trying to cause as much pain as they can before the mid-terms in an attempt to disadvantage Reps and The President.
Tiddies for the win !
Xox
So have we all fully transitioned now? That was a heap less painful than I thought it was gunna be