Yahoo Succeeds In Pissing Off China

I stumbled across this whilst searching for Chinese soft-core pornography (it's for a research project I'm doing about Chinese soft-core pornography)

Apparently this caused a bit of a ruckus on the "internet". Amid all the controversy however, people seem to be overlooking the most important aspect of this story - namely, what the f*ck are those mascots all about?

Judging by their colours, I THINK they are supposed to represent the five rings of the Olympic logo, which in itself is supposed to represent the five continents of the world - Africa, North America, South America, Asia and Europe.

And before you all write in, YES I know that Australia isn't included in all this, but when the logo was originally created, Christopher Columbus hadn't discovered Australia yet, and by the time he had, the International Olympic Committee had already paid millions to the graphic design agency for their concept (the same company that did Pick n Pay's new logo, interestingly enough)

I can't quite work out what they are supposed to be though (Chinese emperors? Teletubby knock offs with birds on their heads?) but I dig the poses they are whipping out.

Note the Blue and Green guys with their classic muscle poses you used to do as a kid whilst watching Hulk Hogan on WWF wrestling. The Black guy is doing the old sexual climax stance, just before you realise that you may have impregnated your girlfriend because you "didn't feel like" wearing a condom. The Red dude is running his hand through his hair, because he knows he is way cooler than the other guys, and is probably secretly sleeping with all their girlfriends. The Yellow guy is going "What the f*ck?", as he thought this was an audition for an action movie starring Jackie Chan, and is now contemplating having his agent eliminated.

Anyhoo, that's all we have time for today. Until next time, take care of yourself, aaaand each other.

[Applause and roll credits, as Shaun shakes the hands of everyone in the audience]



[ | ]

Did you enjoy this post? Of course you did! Now join my growing army of subscribers and get free updates in your Inbox whenever I write something breathtakingly new. Become cool by association and get ShaunOakes.com in your Inbox.