Why do medalists bite their awards?

malmo wrote:

is this for real? wrote:

Your Asperger's is showing again.

1. They don't actually bite hard enough to "damage" the medal. This is called "miming" and the medal is mostly "not gold" and therefore wouldn't be damaged even if they did bite down hard (which, again, nobody would actually do for a photo).

2. Nobody is actually suggesting it is real gold and using the bite test. You get that, right? It could be 1% gold or 0.01% gold, the point is it is a "Gold Medal."

Face plant of epic proportions. It's called "miming"? OMFG

verb (used with object), mimed, miming.

to mimic.

As in mimicking the act of testing the medals, genius.

Honestly, just stop. You are embarrassing yourself by dragging this on.

You wrote one of the dumbest posts of the year and it's right there for all to see. You literally suggested that the athletes have poor "critical thinking" because they would "damage" their medals to "test" them (in your mind). You went on to argue that they shouldn't do this because the medals 'aren't gold' anyway.

Do you even understand why your first post was so bad?

Why don't we ask the first person whoever did it. I could be blind, oblivious, or selective attention but wasn't Kenny Harrison the first athlete to do it in Atlanta Olympic Games?

Also, the phrase you are trying for is "face palm."

If you are going to try to talk like someone under 60 get the words right.

You are ridiculous. Of course they are miming what they've seen others do on the podium before. But my post was in response to this one:

Blow your crazy fuse. some more....

one more thing wrote:

Also, the phrase you are trying for is "face palm."

If you are going to try to talk like someone under 60 get the words right.

Geee really? Something I've said correctly a thousand times before that "Smart" phones change for me in mid thought? Pathetic attempt. Keep trying.