It´s all sports. Should be called: People are awesome because they skate and ski.
Posted by El Gordo at January 26, 2013 6:19 AMI tried to do them all, but could only do 3.
Posted by MOTUS at January 26, 2013 6:55 AMJust don't scroll any further down the screen, else you see what a piece of work is man!
Posted by Jewel at January 26, 2013 7:52 AM"Man" is the right word. Every potentially neck-breaking action in the video is done by a man. As a woman, it is quite clear to me that women simply do not do these kinds of things nor do we want to. Why? Obviously it is genetic.
I understand that life on this planet may have originated with spores from outer space. I suspect that a bodily memory of a planet with less gravity remains in the male half of the human race. That it is primarily males who explore space and primarily males who want to "levitate" supports this view. I think it's wonderful and I will be happy to accompany whatever man takes me to outer space.
Posted by Gloria at January 26, 2013 10:37 AMThat great video brought to mind this piece from
"I sing the Body Electric"
I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons,
And in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons.
This man was a wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person,
The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and
beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness
and breadth of his manners,
These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also,
He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were
massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,
They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him,
They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal
love,
He drank water only, the blood show'd like scarlet through the
clear-brown skin of his face,
He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat himself, he
had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had
fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,
When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish,
you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of
the gang,
You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit
by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
Gloria, it's called "testosterone poisoning". And, we pay for it later in life. Boy, do we pay for it!
Posted by Ogrrre at January 27, 2013 8:00 PMWhen you die and go to heaven you get to do shit like that every day.
JWM
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