It is nice to know that tackiness has no cultural boundaries.
On the other hand, they earned those medals so they can do with them as they please.
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It seems like this blog is becoming a lot of “random crap.”
Haha, aren’t the olympic gold medals actually gilded silver? Must be tough on the athlete’s teeth.
They know that there is no chocolate inside those medals, right?
The Olympic Committee is looking to the claims the China used under aged gymnasts in the the Olympics.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....583174.ece
US may have some gold medals coming their way.
meant to say “looking into the claims that China”.
Let them have their 15 minutes!! It’s no biggie. Most of these athletes perfrom for 4 years in front of a handfull of spectators and get no where the back page. If the elation of their hard earned victories compels them to bit their medals for a chessy photo op then good on them.
As far as those athletes are concerned the value of the medal as a resource is about 0.001% of the value of what the medal represents as an achievement.
Get off their case bro!
Sensitive today, Andy ?
I’ll second #1 and petition for 5 minutes of my life back.
Re: #3
“The Olympic Committee is looking to the claims the China used under aged gymnasts in the the Olympics.”
I’ll eat my shorts if at least half those girls aren’t under-aged. Small bodies aside, there’s no freakin’ way they’re 16. I mean, just look at their faces.
#1 gbevers
As opposed to your blog, which is a lot of “focused crap.”
#5
Relax guy. Read the second sentence of the post before you fall off your high horse.
#6
Five minutes? Really?
#10 Andy
He read it 20 times, just to make sure.
…and followed the links, mistakenly thinking there was actually some substance to this post.
Touché!
#3,
The IOC has already swept it under the rug, accepting the Chinese government’s documents without any further investigation.
…then again, we don’t often hear about how the US Olympics team set up a drug program in the early 60’s because it was being beaten by the Soviet. The program was set up after a Russian weightlifting coach got drunk with some American coaches and let it slip that they had been injecting testosterone to their athletes during training.
@7,
My mom put it perfectly, upon watching those Chinese gymnasts on TV: “I can smell the 젖비린내 through the TV.”
#15 “젖비린내”?
What is that? I broke it into two parts: nipple, and fishy smell.
My mom put it perfectly, upon watching those Chinese gymnasts on TV: “I can smell the 젖비린내 through the TV.”
Tell your mom to stop being crude, vulgar, and sexist.
@16,
젖 also means “breastmilk”. So it means the slight fishy smell that breastmilk has, usually coming from babies. Generally, when one says one can smell 젖비린내 from a person, it’s an idiom meaning that the person is too young, like a baby.
@17,
There is absolutely nothing vulgar, crude, or sexist about that idiom. It is a commonly used phrase. How about you learn a thing or two before you say anything about my mom?
Here is something vulgar, crude, and sexist for you: You are the load that your mom should have swallowed.
Ladies! No hand bags, please.
Question:
What’s so “tacky” about biting the gold medal?
It’s not like the atheletes are making “spinner chains” outta them? I don’t think biting the medal shows any lack of “class”.