Apr 29, 2014

Fashion, Sports, and the Bug-Eyed Luddite

No matter how fast I run, I can't even catch the first slight rise in the cultural curve.

For instance, watching the Drake Relays, I wonder when girl pole vaulters started buying their leaping suits from Victoria's Secret.

(I can not find it in myself to condemn this instance of gratuitous modernism.)


5 comments:

Knucklehead said...

huh... wha... wait! Link, please! Not all progress is bad progress.

Stepped off a plane at JFK the other day and nearly nearly lost my airline pretzels and peanuts looking at all the burqas or whatever the heck they are called.

I could watch me some women's pole vaulting, or volley ball, or water polo, or...

Jim said...

No link, sorry. It was a time filler on the local Medicom net. And yeah, better than a burqa. :)

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Joel said...

Pics or it didn't happen! :)

Jim said...

As I told Knucklehead, it was just a clip on my electric teevee, but since you insist, Joel, here's some evidence:

http://worldnewsondesk.blogspot.com/2011/07/pole-vaulting-olympic-girl.html

Charge your batteries. :)