Four (or Five!) Reasons Why

….Figure Skating is Not a Sport

1. Figure skaters wear frilly, glittery “uniforms” that look more like something you’d wear to a 1970s dance party than an athletic competition. While the women look like tarted up ballet dancers, the men look down right weird with form-fitting outfits that leave little to the imagination.

2. Female figure skaters - and probably some men as well - wear gobs of make-up. Come on, it absolutely can’t be a sport if the participants are wearing make-up! That’s just so, well, unsporting.

3. There’s far too much crying involved. It’s such an integral part of figure skating competitions, that the place where the skaters wait for their scores to be posted after they finish their routines is called the “Kiss and Cry” area. Real athletes don’t cry; it just looks bad, especially if you’re wearing make-up.

4. The scoring system is a joke. Any competition where judges rate you on artistic impression is not a sport. And the politics involved in figure skating is atrocious to the point where the scoring system is always being questioned and criticized.

5. The “competitors” often perform to classical music. Classical music? Don’t get me wrong, Mozart and Beethoven rock the house but you can’t seriously describe yourself as a sport if classical perform is a key element.

For another take on why figure skating is not a sport, check out this column written during the last Winter Olympics

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…You Should Reach For Dark Chocolate This Easter

1. It tastes damn good and certainly better than all the crap you can buy at the corner store. While it can be an acquired taste, once you have the bug for dark chocolate, there’s no going back. And true chocoholics will always opt for the pure flavour of dark chocolate, unspoilt by the addition of nougat, caramel or other fillings.

2. Over any other kind of chocolate, dark chocolate is good for your heart. A small bar a day can keep the heart and cardiovascular doctors away. As it is packed with flavonoids, resulting in levels of anti-oxidants that are eight times of those found in strawberries, dark chocolate can help reduce high blood pressure and has been shown to reduce LDL cholesterol (the bad stuff) by up to ten percent.

3. Eating dark chocolate stimulates endorphin production, which provides a feeling of pleasure. In addition, it contains serotonin, which acts as an anti-depressant. It also contains trace amounts of theobromine, caffeine and other stimulants which will give you a little boost when you’re feeling down.

4. There is actually less sugar and slightly fewer calories in dark chocolate than in a comparable amount of milk chocolate. According to the CBC, 40 grams of dark chocolate contains 213 calories, 16 grams of fat, 11 grams of saturated fat and 12 grams of sugar. 2 Kinder Surprise milk chocolate eggs (40 grams) contain 230 calories, 15 grams of fat, 9 grams of saturated fat and 20 grams of sugar.

Remember - everything in moderation! Just because dark chocolate has some beneficial properties doesn’t mean you should overload on it. More does not necessarily equal better. A little goes a long way. For more, check out The Food Doctors Guide To Chocolate.

Happy Easter!

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…. Airline Movies Are Terrible

1. Airlines have to serve the broadest audience possible so they need to show movies that appeal to children, teenagers and adults. As a result, you usually get some terrible comedy such as Wild Hogs. (Note: How John Travolta and William H. Macy were convinced to star in Wild Hogs is totally beyond me! Maybe the idea of spending a few months riding motorcycles in the desert was too enticing a gig to pass up)

2. Airlines can’t show movies with sex and/or violence, which eliminates a massive number of movies that are downright fun. Wouldn’t it be great to see a film starring “The Rock” rather than Ann Hathaway?

3. All the airlines are watching their costs oh-so-closely so it’s not like they’re going to actually pay the studios to show first-run movies. Instead, we get movies that have already been shown at theaters, which means most people have seen them.

4. Most important, airlines know that flying is dull, dull, dull so no matter what movie they choose show, people will still watch them just to have something to do. I mean, I watched Alvin and the Chipmunks yesterday.

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….No 4RW for a Few Days

1. We’re going on vacation. Given the snow, snow and even more snow in our part of the world, it will be a welcome respite to sip on drinks with little umbrellas in them as opposed to drinking scalding hot beverages in paper cups that cause all kinds of problems in you put one of them between your legs while you pay the drive-through person.

2. It’s good to take a digital break once in awhile. You can’t be connected all the time, right? Once in awhile, you’ve got to disconnect from the grid, turn off the Blackberry, and take an e-mail holiday. No better way to escape the rat race than not knowing what’s going on.

3. It gives us time to recharge the creative juices. Coming up with this stuff is hard work. Okay, it’s not that hard but you try doing it every day. It’s like having to brush your teeth except it takes a little more time, doesn’t involve personal hygiene and each post is kind of different as opposed to brush, rinse, floss, brush, rinse, floss.

4. It will give all of you an excuse to miss us so that when we’re back, everyone will be so excited, you’ll tell your friends about us, traffic will boom, and we can quit our day jobs and live off all that advertising revenue that will flow in. Gee, we’re not even officially on vacation yet, and the daydreaming has already started!

See y’all soon!

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….Gym Memberships Are a Ripoff

1. They advertise low prices but when you go to sign up, you soon discover it’s not the advertised price. Usually, it’s something along the lines that the advertised price is only valid for the first two months before it balloons to the regular rates, or you have to sign up for three-year, no-escape membership if you want the super-low price.

2. Unless you’re really keen, it’s difficult to get full value from a gym membership. At first, you go on a regular basis but, before long, it’s down to a couple times a week, and then once a week. Of course, that’s exactly what gyms want you to do because if everyone who joined a gym went every day, the place would be over-crowded - prompting everyone to cancel their memberships.

3. There are always better deals that are never advertised. For example, corporate rates tend to be much lower than those offer to a person walking off the street. Why is that?

4. People who sell gym memberships are usually on commission so they want to sell as an expensive package for the longest time as possible. It means they often don’t have your best interests in mind as opposed their own financial aspirations.

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