To be honest, I don't really watch the summer Olympics. I find it pretty boring comparatively... For example, I just found myself watching -actually, I find myself watching... It's still on...- the women's singles badminton gold medal match (at this point it's just a matter of which Chinese player gets gold and which gets silver) and one player (Zhang) returned the birdie, which landed just inside the tape, and the commentator described the shot thusly:
"That birdie, hit with incredible force, landed inside the tape like a butterfly with sore feet!"
The art of metaphor is truly lost, like the virginity of... A particularly... Umm... Busy prostitute... With sore feet.
Ugh.
There have been some pretty ridiculous controversies at this year's Olympic games, which is amazing considering they're being hosted by a communist government bent quite literally on world domination (America's national debt is owed to whom???) and not above committing unimaginable atrocities against it's opposition... I'd have to say that choosing some cute little girl to lip synch to the voice of some homely little girl is probably one of the more honourable moves perpetrated by the Chinese government in recent times. At least they didn't "disappear" the actual singer and her entire family to cover their tracks. Nice restraint, China!
To me, the most amazing and one of the lesser reported controversies has nothing to do with China, but instead is the advertising campaign used by the Spanish basketball teams to promote themselves in their homeland. The ads feature the men's and women's basketball teams gathered around a Chinese dragon painted upon centre court... And what they're doing, with "love" say the players, is using their fingers to pull back the skin at the corners of their eyes so they look Asian. They are making chinky eyes. With "love."
Here's the men's basketball team's ad:
"That birdie, hit with incredible force, landed inside the tape like a butterfly with sore feet!"
The art of metaphor is truly lost, like the virginity of... A particularly... Umm... Busy prostitute... With sore feet.
Ugh.
There have been some pretty ridiculous controversies at this year's Olympic games, which is amazing considering they're being hosted by a communist government bent quite literally on world domination (America's national debt is owed to whom???) and not above committing unimaginable atrocities against it's opposition... I'd have to say that choosing some cute little girl to lip synch to the voice of some homely little girl is probably one of the more honourable moves perpetrated by the Chinese government in recent times. At least they didn't "disappear" the actual singer and her entire family to cover their tracks. Nice restraint, China!
To me, the most amazing and one of the lesser reported controversies has nothing to do with China, but instead is the advertising campaign used by the Spanish basketball teams to promote themselves in their homeland. The ads feature the men's and women's basketball teams gathered around a Chinese dragon painted upon centre court... And what they're doing, with "love" say the players, is using their fingers to pull back the skin at the corners of their eyes so they look Asian. They are making chinky eyes. With "love."
Here's the men's basketball team's ad:
And a detail, so you can see all their racist love close-up:
And here's a detail from the women's team's ad:
Awesome.
There's been a history of racism at sporting events in Spain, with Japanese, Chinese and Korean teams complaining about being subjected to racist taunts from Spanish players, coaches and fans at world events for some time.
And to make the case for a racist Spain -and also to show their support for their basketball heroes- the 2008 Spanish Federation Cup Tennis Team recently posed for this little picture:
There's been a history of racism at sporting events in Spain, with Japanese, Chinese and Korean teams complaining about being subjected to racist taunts from Spanish players, coaches and fans at world events for some time.
And to make the case for a racist Spain -and also to show their support for their basketball heroes- the 2008 Spanish Federation Cup Tennis Team recently posed for this little picture:
Those are the members of the tennis team, with the circles around their racist but loving heads...
Go Spain! I can't wait to see them play the Confederates in the finals!
Oh, and that thing I said about the women's badminton match being boring? Zhang came back from nine points down, after she was completely counted out and won the gold, all in a matter of about twelve minutes...
Go Spain! I can't wait to see them play the Confederates in the finals!
Oh, and that thing I said about the women's badminton match being boring? Zhang came back from nine points down, after she was completely counted out and won the gold, all in a matter of about twelve minutes...
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