CURLING - THE SPORT OF HAIRDRESSERS

I’m currently slumped over my couch after a long night of playing texas hold em with the boys where I only ended up five quid down after which I cashed out due to terminal boredom. I’ve been channel surfing and have astonishingly found myself totally transfixed by curling. Its like lawn bowls on ice. It combines the extremely practical skill of sweeping with the not so practical skill of sliding a stone across ice.

I wonder about how these sports first originated as often it’s not so clear cut as something like javelin or the marathon so I did some research on the internet. Curling was invented by the Vikings. After a hard month’s raping and pillaging up and down the English coastline they liked nothing better than to relax by the fjords of Scandinavia with a good old game of curling. It was designed for the surprisingly cuckolded Viking men to practice their homemaking skills by the even larger Viking ladies. The stone replaced the traditional heads that were first used in the early 1900s when decapitation became socially unacceptable.

After watching it for an hour I was still baffled as to what was going on but totally agreed with the commentators about the Italian’s tactical naivety being their undoing and surprised about the Japanese’s adeptness at this sport though of course they are a very fastidious people.