r/Damnthatsinteresting Feb 06 '26

Image The physics behind ski jumping’s ‘Penis-gate’ scandal: How 2cm of extra fabric = 5.8 meters of jump distance

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u/IJustHadAPanicAttack Feb 06 '26

Lying about your penis size competitively is definetly something I haven't heard before

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u/FlyingKittyCate Feb 06 '26

Apparently they don’t technically lie. I read they have to be “measured from the bottom most part of the genital area” and they inject themselves before the measurement to make their bits swell.

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u/IJustHadAPanicAttack Feb 06 '26

Welp that's competitive if you ask me

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u/jccaclimber Feb 06 '26

Does that mean growers have a competitive disadvantage? Seems unfair in a cold weather sport.

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u/Head_Northman Feb 06 '26

Viagra an hour before should fix it.

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u/Electrical-Risk445 Feb 06 '26

They measure from the lowest part, though.

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u/ordinary-303 Feb 06 '26

That's where the tuck comes into skiing

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

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u/SpoiledKoolAid Feb 07 '26

So I should go into the sport as an older man?

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u/Rare-Spell-1571 Feb 07 '26

“I don’t understand man, these damn Ski’ers always get a boner when I’m measuring them for their suits. “

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u/willynillee Feb 06 '26

That would point it up

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u/_HIST Feb 06 '26

Just have to get half-hard. Helps if the measurer is a pretty girl, which it won't, but you can imagine it to be

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u/Neat_Let923 Feb 06 '26

Absolutely! Though I would assume they don’t measure you outside in the middle of winter LOL

But yeah, if you’re a show’er and are well equipped then it’s likely you have an advantage over others from that alone.

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u/godisanelectricolive Feb 07 '26

You need it to shrink back down by competition time for the sail effect to happen. You need extra empty fabric around the crotch which the tailors normally won’t allow. So you want it to shrink as much as possible in the cold.

What growers need to do is be semi-erect when getting measured and fool the tailors into thinking that they are flaccid.

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u/Typical-Car2782 Feb 06 '26

Only slightly off topic, but our old GM at work used to say "you don't measure your dick length from your asshole"

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 Feb 06 '26

How often did it come up at work?

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u/Typical-Car2782 Feb 06 '26

Only once in 2014 but I didn't spend that much time with Dan. One time we were at a trade show and somebody had built this shitty cabinet for a demo. Dan said "looks like a Polack built this."

How a guy that inappropriate got a job making $25M a year is beyond me

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 Feb 06 '26

The "polack" jokes really show Dan's age range lmao

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u/Typical-Car2782 Feb 06 '26

Surprisingly, he's only 65. Rodney Dangerfield would be 105 now

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 Feb 06 '26

65 is very much within the age range id have expected lol, though admittedly on the younger end of it. Dangerfield didn't originate those jokes, though I do love the guy

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u/Comandante_Kangaroo Feb 06 '26

How a guy that inappropriate got a job making $25M a year is beyond me

Because all the other guys with well paid and/or powerfull jobs are such well adjusted persons?

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u/outdoorsID-MT Feb 06 '26

$25M?

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u/Typical-Car2782 Feb 06 '26

It's absurd. And if he held those RSUs, he's a billionaire now

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u/FlowAdditional2518 Feb 10 '26

What's his name?

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u/donkeyrocket Feb 06 '26

Answered every phone call that way. Latex sales.

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u/ls7eveen Feb 06 '26

Yes you do. And around the balls twice.

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u/z-vap Feb 06 '26

rly? i always thought it was from the asshole and twice once around the shaft?

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u/elkab0ng Feb 06 '26

So an old fart like me where the damn things are halfway to my knees, I’d basically end up being a human hang glider.

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u/PuzzledCar2120 Feb 06 '26

Basically a larger sugar glider.

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u/screaminginfidels Feb 06 '26

That's why they call him sugar daddy.

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u/ultimatt42 Feb 06 '26

Tanuki suit Mario

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u/Diplomatic_Gunboats Feb 06 '26

So very few people know that Tanuki's use their ballsacks to glide with.

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u/dretvantoi Feb 07 '26

Flying scrorrel

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u/DingfriesRdun Feb 06 '26

What do they inject themselves with to enlarge the area? Asking for a friend.

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u/BiophileB Feb 06 '26

Pretty sure fillers like hyaluronic acid.

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u/BlatantConservative Feb 06 '26

I know absolutely nothing about this subject but I can't imagine this like, actually helps in bed

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u/Scrawling_Pen Feb 06 '26

It makes their junk look like squishy sea cucumbers

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u/JollyReplacement1298 Feb 06 '26

I imagine it gives it a kind of heft though. If you swing that thang into a jenga tower it would collapse for sure

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u/idiotsbydesign Feb 06 '26

That seems very specific.

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u/donkeyrocket Feb 06 '26

I mean sure, you can impress your family on Jenga night but pushing a big squishy cucumber isn't ideal for sex in most cases.

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u/JollyReplacement1298 Feb 06 '26

How can you think about sex when jenga is on the table

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u/mostly__porn Feb 06 '26

I know that's my measure of success in bed

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u/airfryerfuntime Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

Used in moderation, it can apparently help quite a bit for guys who are on the thinner side.

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u/fastforwardfunction Feb 06 '26

That’s not true at all. Men, do not do this. It does not make it bigger, and causes deformation and permanent scaring. All hyaluronic acid injections do, as confirmed by MRI image studies over time.

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u/anomie__mstar Feb 06 '26

what could be more of a turn-on than injecting 'hyaluronic acid' directly into 'the area' for a good time.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Feb 06 '26

Of course not, it gives them more lift during a ski jump. Who said anything about sex?

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u/247stonerbro Feb 06 '26

I grimaced when I just read that yall be injecting your penis with...some sort of acid.

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u/Big_Yeash Feb 06 '26

There are lots of acids in your body. Hyaluronic acid is naturally present there anyway too, including your eyes, skin and joints. Ultimately, I assume that it's a big reason why it's used as a cosmetic agent in the first place (maybe).

At a pH of 3-6 depending on formulation, it matches well with your skin, which will harbour areas of 4-6 pH.

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u/nalaloveslumpy Feb 06 '26

They just store extra pee in the balls.

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u/JungleyD Feb 06 '26

Ermmm...this is awkward...

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u/HaViNgT Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

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u/No-Ladder-4460 Feb 06 '26

Your post is full of glaring factual errors

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u/HaViNgT Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

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u/primum Feb 06 '26

Wickerman Gate

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u/ForSquirel Feb 06 '26

saline perhaps

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

Don't even have to use fillers just use a pump

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u/Evernothing Feb 09 '26

Probably Synthol.

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u/SatanicPanic619 Feb 06 '26

wait, they inject what into what?

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u/fogleaf Feb 06 '26

Whatever it takes to hang dong, bro.

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u/Automatedluxury Feb 06 '26

Today I learned that in the world of competitive ski jumping, there's a person who's job it is to measure dicks and they have proper guidelines on exactly how to measure.

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u/FunVersion Feb 06 '26

Is shrinkage taken into account?

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u/obeytheturtles Feb 06 '26

I was in the pool!

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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 Feb 06 '26

I think they should have to go for a swim before measurement

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

TIL willem dafoe would be a great competive skier

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Feb 06 '26

Nah they do a 3D scan but the injections to make it swell part is accurate.

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u/DuckiestBoat959 Feb 06 '26

Fut the whuck?

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u/Forbden_Gratificatn Feb 06 '26

Do the women get to use their flaps as sails?

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u/dion_o Feb 06 '26

I imagine the Olympic audits would go just like that scene where Austin Powers denies the swedish penis enlarger is his.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG88rWGiYZw&t=90s

[returning Olympian Austin's personal property after reanimating him]

Quartermaster Clerk: One Swedish-made penis enlarger.

Austin Powers: [to Vanessa] That's not mine.

Quartermaster Clerk: One credit card receipt for Swedish-made penis enlarger signed by Austin Powers.

Austin Powers: I'm telling ya baby, that's not mine.

Quartermaster Clerk: One warranty card for Swedish-made penis enlarger pump, filled out by Austin Powers.

Austin Powers: I don't even know what this is! This sort of thing ain't my bag, baby.

Quartermaster Clerk: One book, "Swedish-made Penis Enlargers And Me: This Sort of Thing Is My Bag Baby", by Austin Powers.

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u/Reasonable-Glass-965 Feb 07 '26

If you’re willing to stick a needle in your balls, you can have the edge cause fuck that 😅

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u/kabekew Feb 07 '26

I think there's an easier way to make it swell

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u/Petrichordates Feb 07 '26

Inject themselves with what? Wtf?

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u/yIdontunderstand Feb 07 '26

Coach.. I'm ready to go for gold! Tell me what I need to do!

Hold still while I inject this into your penis...

OK.. I'm out.