• ExLisperA
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    Ski jumping is the dumbest sport out there. There are points for style which is arbitrary and already takes it down couple of levels compared with real sports. Weight is super important so the ‘athletes’ are all starving all the time. Wind has a big influence so they have to guess when gust will happen but since it changer during the day judges will arbitrarily change the length of runway at different points of the competition. It’s barely fair. And on top of that the suit has such a huge influence that the jumpers can’t even touch it after they were certified. Like they literally can’t touch the suit they are wearing because just changing how it adjust to the body will affect the score. And now we learned that adding 1cm to the length of the suit have such a big influence that they will inject stuff in their dicks to get an advantage. This ‘sport’ is more about starving yourself, having luck and finding ways to cheat the rules then it is about athleticism.

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      Suit circumference I think means “of the entire suit”. Its a weird way to say it but in the context they’re using it, it makes sense.

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        That is just how the olympics and pro sports works.

        95% training 5% finding the mutants. The 5% is basically the only way to break records these days when people aren’t trying to engineer victory.

        This is why we should have events targetted at everyday tasks: “endurance sitting” “quickest 1000 stair steps carrying a heavy box” etc

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    11 hours ago

    Ok but what if a guy just has a massive hog, should he get into this sport early?

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      Apparently some countries are now testing boys in puberty with a method of determining just how large their penis will become. They then train those with the largest hog potential on how to ski jump

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          Your child failed the Hog Potential portion of the exam.

          “But she doesn’t have a hog…”

          That’s why she failed, sir.

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          9 hours ago

          To be fair and equal should the same be done with girls and use the term “rack size potential”

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      11 hours ago

      research shows that the only advantage is with length and girth of the penis shaft. Testicles do not play a significant part

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    11 hours ago

    Remember the good old days when guys would shove socks into their underwear and girls would shove them into their bras?