Australia wins first ever Winter Olympics Gold medal after everyone else falls over

[Ming]

Hey Piggy Wiggly... you're such a moron

[Asher]

Oh come on, everyone here secretly knows Wiglaf is right.

The United States should launch an invasion of Australian for this attack on its citizens. China as well.

I also believe the US should invade Canada because of the Canadian's involvement in the pileup.

[Wiglaf]

Hey Piggy Wiggly... you're such a moron

Are you a mod here or am I missing something?

Apparently I can do that insecure and evasive rolleyes tactic as well. Look out, comrade mingster...

And Piggy Wiggly? Wahat the haeel?!

[Chowlett]

Ok, I haven't been following this closely, but let me see if I get this right.

Wiglaf is suggesting that falling over while competing in a speed-skating competition (presumably accidentally), and thereby causing the participant for the home nation to fall over as well is to be considered an act of terrorism against the Geneva Convention, and America would be quite within its rights to declare war on whichever nation it was that fell over for this heinous act? Is that about it?

That has to be the funniest thing I've heard all week!

[Paul Hanson]

OK Wiglaf, I'm a fair person, and am therefore going to give you a chance to redeem yourself. Simply answer this question:

Are you taking the piss?

[Ming]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
Are you a mod here or am I missing something?

Yeah... you are missing something... your brain.
I may be a mod, but I'm welcome to my opinion, just like you are yours. Just because I'm a mod doesn't mean I can't recognize a moron when I see one

[Wiglaf]

Wiglaf is suggesting that falling over while competing in a speed-skating competition (presumably accidentally), and thereby causing the participant for the home nation to fall over as well is to be considered an act of terrorism against the Geneva Convention, and America would be quite within its rights to declare war on whichever nation it was that fell over for this heinous act? Is that about it?

That's the general idea, yes.

Would you please just side with me for a second here, friend? We're onto something huge and I can't understand why anyone would want to avoid being a part of the big discovery when it happens. Agreed?

I'm also taking applications from Mr. Glonk and Mr. Paul Hanson.

Yeah... you are missing something... your brain.

*throws up*

[Chowlett]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
Would you please just side with me for a second here, friend? We're onto something huge and I can't understand why anyone would want to avoid being a part of the big discovery when it happens. Agreed?

Erm, no. Although I am interested in an answer to Mr Hanson's question as well.

[Wiglaf]

You shock me.

Anyone up for it? This has much interesting potential.

[Alexander's Horse]

If there is a moral to this story its keep trying.

We've had our share of athletes tragically miss out on medals too.

[Skanky Burns]

Some interesting quotes from the link AH posted before:

The raging United States favourite, Apolo Anton Ohno, was brought down by Li Jiajun of China, in turn bringing down Canada's Mathieu Turcotte and Korea's Hyun-Soo Ahn.

Li Jiajun was later blamed for the crash and disqualified.

As if we needed proof that Wiglaf doesn't have a legal leg to stand on.

"Whatever you do don't bloody well fall over."

Typical Aussie advice

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
If there is a moral to this story its keep trying.

The exception being trying to reason with Wiggy, of course. The biggest waste of time since the 2000 election.

[Wiglaf]

Someone please explain, right now, why in the hell you people keep posting that odd critter in my face all the time for kicks or whatever. According to my informant over at muppets.com at least (http://www.muppets.com/profiles/beaker.htm), he "never leaves the house without medical coverage" and likes to say "Meep! Meep! Meep!" over and over again. But that's all I have right now on this "Beaker" character.

In short, I don't get it.

We've had our share of athletes tragically miss out on medals too.

Such as...?

[Alexander's Horse]

Just for starters, one of our walkers was disqualified when coming first at the entrance to the stadium at the Sydney games.

At the last winter games, our women's aerial competitor, who was world champion, fluffed a jump in qualifying and missed the final.

This year our women's aerial competitor, also world champion, injured her knee in training at the games and couldn't compete.

Our world champion cyclist in the sprints couldn't get his foot into pedal stirrup on the start line at the Sydney games and lost the race.

The list goes on. All countries have these stories.

[Wiglaf]

Those are all big screwups by your country and your country alone, AH. The American yesterday was knocked to silver because of someone else. It was in no way his fault.