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Just because you’re sometimes relegated to watching from the sidelines in life — when someone else at a meeting is talking, or when you’re in line behind someone at a grocery store, or when your daughter is performing at the Olympics, or when two dogs are barking at each other, or when you see a couple fighting on the subway, or when you see someone carrying lots of grocery bags and trying to unlock their front door, or when someone else at the restaurant is ordering their dinner, or when someone else is driving — doesn’t mean you have to act like you’re on the sidelines. Let’s get serious. Let’s take life in our own hands, like the parents of this gymnast, refusing to just sit back while it all goes by in front of us like a couple of chumps. C’mon. You got it. Let’s go. Let’s go now. STICK IT. (Via Gawker.)
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Stick it!
I can’t watch this again, it made me so uncomfortable the first time that I ended up doing the same thing she did.
Pooping or sex act? Also, are they from Boston?
If they’re from Boston, it’s probably both at the same time.
Well that’s what you get when you root for the red sox (look a gay made a sports joke).
“You know what will make our game REALLY exciting? If we have not one, but TWO teams named after socks!”
-Ye Olde Baseballe Forefathers
“That sands lahk a sensabale thang ta dah” – The First Kennedy ever and a bunch of beantowners.
The Raismans are from Needham, which is a suburb not too far from Boston. I’ve lived there too, and that’s definitely typical suburban Massachusetts parent behavior at sporting events.
My younger brother used to look like this when he played videogames, like he thought that leaning helped the guy on the screen move quicker.
IT DOES. Also, pantomiming the controls like you have a controller in your hand will help your friend play better.
I always thought it worked when I was younger, but now that I’m older and nothing happens when I mash on the imaginary passenger-side brake pedal in my girlfriend’s car, I know better.
Not sure about that, but I’m pretty sure that science has proven that sticking your tongue out while playing video games helps you to play better.
if i’ve learned one thing from buffy the vampire slayer, it’s that these parents are probably up to no good. if other olympic contestants start to go missing, i’d say look at mr. and mrs. shifty pants first.
I’ve seen that movie like 200 times, and I don’t remember any untrustworthy parents!
uhhhh, i’m talking about the tv show, which is CANON, and i’m referencing amy the witch girl’s mega witch mom. JEEEEEEZ.
I’ve been reading the boards covering the Illuminati messages hidden in plain sight at the Olympics, anbe well, if people go missing… I would look to the lizard people first. The opening ceremonies were a warning.
WAKE UP SHEEPLE.
Anbe = autocorrect of and. Yet another way we are being controlled.
This is what my parents looked like during the USA Womans soccer game, while i was just screaming get off the ground you babies at the columbians. Sports bring out the WORST in everyone.
I’m pretty sure that’s racist!
“Xenophobic! Not necessarily racist! There’s a difference!” –a food visage… well, an *ethnic* food visage… which kind of damages his credibility, if you know what I mean (What I mean is I’m xenophobic, but definitely not racist)
Says an egg, the single whitest food in the history of white foods.
Um…
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=brown+eggs
You know most eggs are brown, right? Or is this a ‘only white people eat eggs!’ thing, because I’ve never heard that one.
Olympic parents are adorable. Seriously thinking about setting up a tumblr.com to document the great facial expression of Olympic parents.
Are you gonna be like DJ Freshie, all talk and no follow through?
Most likely. It would help if I could get screencaps from my TV as I watched but I don’t have that kind of technology! I’m not Lucius Fox over here!
When exactly did Polo decide to make their logo 9 inches tall? It was obviously the right choice, because I see them everywhere.
I guess if your goal is to tell people half a block away that you paid $60 for a knit shirt, mission accomplished.
I just leave the price tag on unless I bought it at TJ Maxx.
Oh, and of course I white-out the size and write in a smaller size. I mean, I’ve seen Girls.
“Let’s broadcast her parents’ reactions in a painful closeup the entire time she’s performing, so from now on NO parents will be able to just be in the moment watching their child compete in the Olympics without having to worry about putting on their ‘TV Face…’ just in case we do it to them too. Bwa ha ha ha…”
Whatever, they’re probably old enough to not care about what other people think about the faces they make while cheering. Or if they do care, they care more about cheering on their daughter at the Olympics.
Or mulling over her corporate sponsorships that will come streaming in when she takes home a medal… Or they are worried about spinal injuries. Either or.
They were probably just Wii Bowling.
That was an exact recreation of the night the gymnast was conceived.