Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: freeplancer
Actually I prefer sports that people can actually clearly win such as beach volleyball, swimming, etc. Gymnastics is kind of gay. And it makes no sense whatsoever. People get up on bars, rings and other "apparatus" and do the same damn thing over and over with some breathless announcer (who is obviously gay) getting all emotional about it all.

And how the hell do you "score" such routines? They all look the same to me. Yet you got people scoring them to hundredths of a decimal point. What I also don't understand is that when somebody "falls off" the apparatus, the announcer gasps (like a little girl) and says what a shame.

If I was a gymnastic, I would just pretend that "falling off" was part of my routine. I would just continue without pausing and make believe that this was what I had been practicing the past 11 years. They would score me all "tens" for sure because I'd be so sure of myself.

Then again, there is no way I could ever get my body to do that kind of stuff. Plus, it's kind of gay. I suppose if you are a girl, it's okay but how do men get in those weird positions? It is really kind of creepy.

And the diving makes no sense whatsoever. How do you score a dive? When I dive, I just hold my nose and fall to the water below, trying to make as big a splash as I can. They should give you MORE points for making a big splash. For this is a manly way to dive. If I'm going to dive, I want to make as big a splash as possible and make all the girls in the front seats wet - just like Shamu the whale (who is cool). Maybe one of the judges will throw me a fish. I like fish.

78 posted on 08/19/2008 2:34:32 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 10 days away from outliving Kirby Puckett)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: SamAdams76
And the diving makes no sense whatsoever. How do you score a dive? When I dive, I just hold my nose and fall to the water below, trying to make as big a splash as I can. They should give you MORE points for making a big splash. For this is a manly way to dive. If I'm going to dive, I want to make as big a splash as possible and make all the girls in the front seats wet - just like Shamu the whale (who is cool). Maybe one of the judges will throw me a fish. I like fish.

LOL. Spoken like a true, red-blooded, heterosexual American.

And if I ever see male synchronized diving appear again on my TV screen, I'm cancelling my satellite service, dashing my HD screen to bits with a sledgehammer, and taking up a new life as an Amish farmer.

If that doesn't work I'll gore my eyes out with a red-hot steak knife.

82 posted on 08/19/2008 7:22:39 AM PDT by Oliver Optic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson