Day: August 1, 2012

Eating these Snickers bars will really make you become Batman

My parents recently got back from Europe, and when I went to visit them this past weekend, I was given oodles of strange and oddly worded candy-bars. This was a particular bit of joy for me because I find any bit of candy not found in the United States of America to be of high interest. I don’t think I’m the only person on this gigantic planet to have this specific character trait.

However, I don’t think it builds good relations to have Japanese people think that the American Snickers bar is nothing more than a chocolate-covered bar of meth.

Customs agents at LAX apparently feel the same way.

Very bad badminton, indeed

The world of badminton is caught up in an Olympic scandal: players intentionally tanking games for easier playoff matches. Eight women in all have been disqualified from the 2012 London Games after very obviously underplaying, including teams from China, South Korea and Indonesia.

The scandal reached a head when both teams in a match were actively trying to lose, with the South Koreans and Chinese each hoping to outlast the other with net serve after net serve and wide returning shots. The longest volley of the entire match — which can last up to three games — was four volleys. China eventually lost the first two matches, so that means they won?

The takeaway from this story, we guess, is that even lady athletes can act like a bag of shuttlecocks.

[Special thanks to Patrick H. for bringing this story to our attention!]

Winning a medal in dumbass

The Olympics are on! There’s all sorts of people from different countries doing their best at what they’ve trained most of their lives to do! It’s a big party! It’s inspiring! It makes us all want to go out and find our inner Olympian! It must be even more so for those who live in London, where, according to sources, the Olympics are being held.

A man from London on vacation in the south of France, probably to avoid the festivities in his city, caught Olympic fever despite his best efforts. He was at the beach with some of his friends, when he decided he was going to swim across the Atlantic Ocean to New York, some 3,600 miles away.

A helicopter found him out at sea, and told him swimming across the ocean may not be the best idea, but the 34-year-old man said he could handle it. So they brought in a boat and hauled his ass out of the water.

Go for gold, until the Coast Guard show up!