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Non-urban Odyssey Winter Olympics Observations
- Olympic Observation on Curling: Curlers must be experts in masturbation. All you do is repetitively jerk a broom back and forth with immense concentration! I mean some of them even look like they have PJ bottoms on. Check out Norway’s pants.
- Bobsledding is Nascar driving on ice.
- Ice-skating: Most skaters either look like they are skating with their partner (pairs), skating to the music (ice-dancing) or skating by themselves (individual). Kim Yu-Na, female Gold Medalist, skates as if the ice is her partner. Most elegant skaters look like performers showing off their stuff. I get goose bumps seeing Yu-Na because she skates as if the ice is her lover, the audience is simply there as a silent witness. Truly the queen.
- Speed skating short track is great. Roller derby on ice.
- People should back off from trying to make Snow-boarders into suits. Telling them how to act, what to do, blah blah. They are what they are, that’s their sport!
- Basically, the Winter Olympics is great for anyone who likes fast sports.What makes it funny is that some of these guys look like couch potatoes, unlike the physique of the summer Olympians.
What are some urban Olympic Sports that we can add?
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Tis the Season for Scum Bombs
Those urbanites who have subways and elevated train stations know the gross factor that cometh with melting snow. It’s the slowly dripping, murky droplets of liquid substances that drop onto your head (or life-ending incidents of landing in your eye) from the beams and ceilings of an aging rail system. Unlike the drops that fall with rain, these scum bombs are highly concentrated with grossness: the filth of the subway and all that hath accumulated in the old snow. What are they made of? Who knows? Human feces, dirt, rodent excrement, spit, toxic waste….? Survival tactics: Avoid the wet spots you see on the floor. They are usually the ground zero of falling globs. Tread like Indian Jones in a Peruvian ancient temple to avoid any unpleasant surprises.
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