Ok…so my wife and I have been watching the Olympics every night. We are looking forward to the women’s long program tomorrow night in Ice skating. But my wife exclaimed, “gosh, those Russians…how come they are always right up there” To which I had a hearty laugh and said, “Those damn Americans…they’re always hogging all the medals…and we won’t even talk about the Summer Olympics.”
So I guess I’d like your answers to the question (especially if you are outsied the US)…are you sick of the Americans always walking up onto the medal stand? And also…do you even care about the Olympics??
i follow the Olympics as best as can be done in term time but do not find any particular annoyance with the Americans, for they distinctly are not dominating. in the current medal standings Germany (pop. 82 mil.), Austria (8 mil.) and Russia (143 mil.) hold the top three positions, whereas the US, which puts far more funding into its Olympic sports programmes and has a population over 50,000,000 greater than these three countries combined (296 mil.), currently lags in fourth.
The Germans can have as many gold medals as they want they still have to go home to a country in which a grocery store is a Wurst, women are 400lb hairballs in leather, there is no speed limit on motorways so dass people can get into Switzerland as quick as possible, Beer runs from the taps, ‘diet’ coke contains 0.5% less alcohol, little boys look like fat men with beards, the alphabet is a giant umlaut, the genitive is obsolete, and every one is called Hans.
Thank you for your Wishes, I hope too, that we will some more Medals win, because then I am going to buy my beloved Kunigunde a new Furcloak and take her quick out, for Polka dancing with subsequent Pancake eating.
But you Weaklings could also good Athlets be, if you wouldn’t so much Softdrinks drink, for these take the Marrow out of the Limbs of your Women and let your Beards thin grow.
Himmerherrgottnochmal! Sorry, I must a Bear, that tries my Schnapps to steal, shove off! So I can’t give you any more Advice, about, how to improve your olympic Results, very sorry! Ask perhaps an Austrian!
Hans von Thunder ten Tronck, Waldberghofftrarbkdickdorff
Kudos, Kopio. You’ve managed to bring a smile to my lips—a wolf’s smile.
As whiteoctave wisely stated, it’s necessary to factor in the populations of the medal winnings nations to get a true picture where they each stand in the rankings. Here is the medal tally—as of today—by world population.
Heavens to Betsy! What have we here? America’s tally equates to 1 Olympic medal for each 12,000,000 of its citizens, half of whom most likely voted for homo chimpanzus (a.ka. the chimp). This ranks America in twenty-first position, just edging powerhouse Poland.
Ordinarly, I’d be blaming America’s not-so-impressive peformance (when the pop. is factored in) on the chimp that currently resides in the beautiful white house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Not this time. As a matter of fact, he’s starting to impress me. He has shown, over the last couple of weeks, a remarkable prevalence of loyalty to his relatives and friends (notwithstanding they’re all crooks). I like that in a man. Also, the chimp has taken obvious, concrete measures to improve his poor geography. Just the other day in the news, I was engulfed by the chimp’s knowledge of the Middle East. He seemed to know a whole lot about the United Arab Emirates. I dare say, he probably even knew that country’s capital—even how to spell it!
GO, Canada, Go!
Have a great weekend.
~PeterD
p.s. The above em dash is dedicated to Bardo de Saldo. From now on, three dashes in succession.
Yes, I have just been watching the replay - but I must admit to not knowing much about some of the sports. Snow is not what you would call a regular item on my weather menu (in fact, I don’t think we have ever had a temperature below freezing in the last 16 years I have lived here).
Re Channel 7 - the coverage is a bit of a mixture at times and the poor dears don’t seem to know much more about winter sports than I do, but at least they are enthusiastic!
I think I would prefer to be a spectator at the summer Olympics, how anyone stands around in that wet & mushy cold snow beats me!
Wow, brilliant. Why not factor in average age of the population, percentage of the young population that lives year-round in snow-covered areas, and average temperature?
The U.S. finishes second; Canada 3rd. Bummer, dude!
I understand your concerns about our “chimp”. But he’s smarter than he sounds. He has us working very hard on global warming. The goal here is to raise the earth’s temperature by so much that, well, there won’t be any Winter games at all! Just think of it - nothing but the Summer games wherein our oppressed minorities will kick y’alls butt.
Why not factor in average age of the population, percentage of the young population that lives year-round in snow-covered areas, and average temperature?
PeterD, simply seeing your name in one of my threads is enough to bring a smile to my face…BTW, you’d love what’s going on at the corner of the street where I work. The last two days running, there’s been a bunch of hippies (ok, they’re not really hippies…it’s just sort of one of those catch alls us conservatives use) standing on the street corner with homemade signs that read “Impeach Bush” and other assorted witty sayings. I just smile as I drive by (in my heart I’m honking and flipping them off, but I’ll confess later tonight, pray for them, and try to be a better person). It’s been pretty entertaining!
I was very glad to see your post though. I hope you and your family are well.
Smashing! Let’s not forget the fact that we have per capita more left handed people than any other country, and everyone knows that lefties are only counted as half people (as in 2.5 children), as well as lumberjacks, lepers, and people who wear knickers
Yeah…everybody knows those summer games are so much better anyhow. I mean…who wants to be out in the cold? I can always count on you two to cheer up any thread! And yes, I know Paul, PeterD started it!
He can’t help starting it. I suspect this has something to do with a perpetual state of reactivity common to all leftists, oops, I mean democrats. But this latest effort of his was a bit weak, eh? Perhaps he’s trying to divert our attention from Canada’s new “chimp” PM…
