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From the sickbed (well, sick computer chair)
Yes, I'm going back to bed soon, assuming I don't need to get up to throw up (again).
But before I go... can someone explain to me why curling is a sport? I mean, seriously. What the fuck? I actually watched some of this the other day, and the guys doing this looked like no kind of athlete I've ever seen. One of them, I swear, had a beer-belly.
Don't get me wrong, I can easily see that there is some level of skill involved, but there's a level of skill involved in playing pinball, and that fucker isn't at either the Summer or Winter Olympics. It's just... I don't know... any "sport" that depends just as much on a couple guys with glorified ice-scrapers as the guy actually moving the whatsis (rock? Is that what it's called?)... well, it's just not the same as say, soccer, or pole-vaulting, or something like that. Those are sports. Those are athletic endeavors just a bit more worthy of being Olympic events...
But before I go... can someone explain to me why curling is a sport? I mean, seriously. What the fuck? I actually watched some of this the other day, and the guys doing this looked like no kind of athlete I've ever seen. One of them, I swear, had a beer-belly.
Don't get me wrong, I can easily see that there is some level of skill involved, but there's a level of skill involved in playing pinball, and that fucker isn't at either the Summer or Winter Olympics. It's just... I don't know... any "sport" that depends just as much on a couple guys with glorified ice-scrapers as the guy actually moving the whatsis (rock? Is that what it's called?)... well, it's just not the same as say, soccer, or pole-vaulting, or something like that. Those are sports. Those are athletic endeavors just a bit more worthy of being Olympic events...
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