And the gold for Olympic cognitive dissonance goes to …

 Posted by on 18 February 2010  Modern Life
Feb 182010
 

I’ve always found it sort of sad that the Olympics are brought to you by mega corporate sponsorship in the first place, but the choices of some of the sponsors are so at odds with the pure athletic lifestyle that it’s even worse than sad, somehow. And perfectly summed up in this hilarious image from The Daily What.

Grant Hamilton

  • thebanana

    And our first gold medal winner celebrated by going to mickey d’s for a meal. Good grief.

  • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Grant Hamilton

    Are you serious??? I didn’t see that, but talk about either:

    a) not knowing how to live it up; or
    b) craven kowtowing to a sponsor.

  • thebanana

    I think b) is the right answer.