Olympics

[lethargic_man]

I can't believe how close the officials stand at the Olympics to where the projectiles come down; I'm surprised we haven't yet seen anyone skewered by a javelin or brained by a discus or shot put.

After all, don't forget all these sports were originally hunting techniques.

<considers beach volleyball as an Olympic sport>

Damn, I seem to have slipped into an alternate universe.

Comments

[troo.livejournal.com]

Haaretz printed out a piece about beach volleyball, claiming it's the sexiest sport ever... Verging on soft porn.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

ISTR some Islamic republic last Olympics forbidding their athletes from taking part in beach volleyball and synchronised swimming...

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

It's clearly a sport based on team hunting of something that lives on a beach, is pretty large, not very mobile and has absolutely no way of fighting back. [ Which suggests that early humans would hunt it to extinction pretty fast, but never mind ]

ISTR David Attenborough talking about stromatolites in ways that make them a better fit for this than anything I can think of short of seriusly drugged walruseseseseses.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

ROTFL! :-D :-D :-D (http://www.michael-grant.me.uk/laughter.au)

[liv]

chickenfeet2003 thinks that beach volleyball has a different *cough* evolutionary rôle...