Friday, August 22, 2008

All I Care About Right Now Is the Olympics

And hating China. I get weirdly patriotic when the games come to town (come to NBC). This column was actually pretty funny, and I agree with its Russel Stover and score keeping proposals.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

The dumbest aspect of sports lies in cutthroat competition ("Yeah, I'm better than YOU because I have an utterly worthless and completely useless skillset!").

If you actually believe the Olympics are about "sports" in the "fucking-stupid-sportsfan-cheering-'his'-team" sense, then you are beyond help.

If, though, this blog was written more in a "tongue-in-cheek" sense, then please disregard the above intellectual spanking I just gave you.

taylor said...

No, it's like "we're better than YOU (insert country) because we are motherfucking AMERICA." you should watch the US/Brazil volleyball gold medal match tomorrow....I think it's on at 8 EST.

i can't say no to a thorough spanking, though.

Anonymous said...

Woah baby!

Then I shall spank away. Yowza.

PS:
A minor correction (in bold): it should be, "we're better than YOU (insert country) because we are the motherfucking U.S.A.

We are not America. America consists of two entire continents, the majority of which are not a part of the U.S.

taylor said...

food for thought.

taylor said...

it seems that the skillset would be useful to the extent that it can be applied to the sport. note, the utility of leg kicking, arm extension and general splashing about to swimming fast, for instance. these skills are domain-specific and thus not so easily extended to such other things, like public speaking, to clarify.

Anonymous said...

You're right: swimming could potentially be useful to society.

Now how about a case for, say, basketball or soccer?

Will said...

basketball is how we elect our presidents

Anonymous said...

Apparently the Cubans got it right.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/2008/08/25/bc.cuba.castro.olympics.ap/index.html

Anonymous may be right though, being able to beat the shit out of someone (tae-kwon do) has always been considered utterly worthless and completely useless.

Anonymous said...

Ok, so the link didn't exactly come out right. Basically a Cuban tae-kwon do guy got mad at the judges and round house kicked one of them in the face. Castro says he was well within his rights

Anonymous said...

Anybody who thinks that tae-kwon do will allow you kick the shit out of people has clearly never fought (a real fight... not this pussy refereed shit) someone who uses tae-kwon do as their method of fighting.

A good, dirty, bare-knuckles no-rules brawler will always beat the shit out of a martial-arts pussy. Period.

Anonymous said...

Props to dave for being a dumb shit.

Anonymous said...

omg i's watch dat fuckin Cuban and e was like fuckin kickin that ref and i was be like, "ohoohohh glad that's not me! LOL!"

Anonymous said...

albert, clearly tae kwon do enabled that Cuban to kick the shit out of the ref.

Anonymous said...

What's a real mindfuck is that you're such a dumb fuck.