A question of validity: curling, as a sport

[ishuca]

margolia has just spent the past ten minutes (earnestly!) attempting to convince me that curling, if all things, is a valid sport (and not the sporting-equivalent of mumus). She also, I am hoping insincerely, tried to argue that curling deserves to be an Olympic sport.

My faith in her good taste and discrimination is shaken, perhaps permanently. And to

Comments

[mildlunacy]

.....what *is* curling?
is that like.... it's not hair-curling, right?

um. this is reena, btw.

[margolia]

Hey, just because you're not sophisticated enough to understand curling...

Apparently Wall Street types have figured out what you cannot: Curling is Cool.

Canadian grandmothers understand: Rock Star Curler.

Even TThe Simpsons get it: Boy Meets Curl.

I don't know what is wrong with you that you don't get it. It's sad, really really sad.

[spyderqueen]

Don't worry Margo, I'm on your side.

[margolia]

See? See?!? spyderqueen gets it too!

[foleyartist1]

And seigyoku agrees with you too, but she is too chicken to say so in case ishuca flies over here and maliciously coughs typhoid at her and makes her too sick to continue fangirling the Norwegian curling pants.