2006-02-12

Canadian Olympic Hockey: can we cheer?!

Our men's and women's teams are posed to defend the Gold; in the coming two weeks we expect to see a couple of scenes like this one:

Let's forget about the figure skating, it is so lame and way too subjective. Remember 2002 when figure skating vomited all over itself on the international stage? I don't know why anyone likes to watch it anyway. It seems to attract mostly effeminate men to the sport. Think about it, what type of guy would rather go practise his ice dancing routine over going to a hockey practice or over going snowboarding??! Enough said; that was a rhetorical question, we know it is a Brokeback-Mountain sort of guy. Furthermore, who gives a rip about figure skating when compared to hockey or snowboarding or skiing? It bothers me that there are people who do not recognize just how lame and unmanly figure skating is; yet this fact only really bothers me because of the effect it has on the broadcasting of the olympic events. The CBC broadcasts hours of the artistic malarkey and they do so because lots of people want to see it. To me watching figure skating is on par with reading and valuing astrology or harnessing the creative energies of crystals. I mean let's get real, no manly man believes people can cast spells or that stars and planets have anything to do with how financial investiments will fare on a given day. "Oh, excuse me while I consult my $50.00 crystal to determine whether the 'creative energy' is right for investing with you...or to find out if I should cheer for the Russians or Chinese in ice dancing???!" It is all unmanly and terribly superstitious and full of horse hockey pucks! Give ice skating a rest, instead cheer for the hockey, snowboarding and skiing. Curling is much more manly than figure skating; they bang their rocks together to make a very manly sound: arggggh!
Or something like that :p

Go Team Canada!

6 comments:

RW said...

I find it amusing that there are some folks complaining about the women's team... that they have been scoring too many goals...

We are never happy. Either we complain that we don't win; and Canadians are always a disappointment - now we are too good!

Sigh.

Kassianni said...

no complaints from this quarter.
love your rants to-mah.
go team canada

MommaKim said...

Welcome back Thomas! Nice to see you are over your fear of blogging....Go, manly man, go!

Jenny said...

Er-- let me get this straight -- guys banging their rocks together and grunting is a /good thing/?

thomasw said...

hahah ...and yelling hurrry at the stone! when i was little i wondered if that yelling actually had an effect on the rock's motion:)

Jenny said...

Well, they say that the brain is the biggest curling organ, after all.