And the official death of American Exceptionalism.
These are not proud days for the United States of America. Not proud days at all. We didn’t make it into the World Cup in soccer, the closest American to the Jeep Leaderboard Yellow Jersey is Kolohe Andino in surfing (all the way down there at 12), the most exciting picks in the recent NBA draft are from the Bahamas and Slovenia, jailing babies is the new national pastime and Israel, a nation 300% smaller, just beat our record for “most people ever in a paddle out.”
Fuck.
Reuters tells us:
Hundreds of Israeli surfers in black skull-and-crossbones shirts took to the waves on Friday in what they said was a record-breaking protest against potential environmental damage from off-shore gas development.
Organizers said 992 people, among them athletes and actors, paddled out and held hands to form a circle opposite Herzliya, promoting their demand that a planned gas rig be relocated further from Israel’s Mediterranean coast.
A slogan on their shirts read: “Don’t poison us.”
Israeli authorities say the new platform poses no environment or health threat.
Friday’s event would be submitted to Guinness World Records for recognition, organizers said. Guinness currently lists a 511-person circle of surfers off Huntingdon Beach, California last year as the world-record “surfing paddle-out”.
Damn it. Not only did Israel beat our record they smashed it. Is there anything left for us or is American Exceptionalism dead?
(A video of Israelis celebrating their victory).
They Israeli govt is well recognised as the global leader of listening to the people, so I’m sure this protest will be noted and they will do what the protesters want asap.
The bastardization of the paddle out circle continues.
Good to see the Israelies as so environmentally conscious, now those pesky palistinians maybe another paddle out to ask them chill out a bit.
Wait til they decide Snapper Rocks is their ancestral homeland and are going to take it back by force…
Israel will use US military to “Annex” Coolangatta as the US’s most exceptional work is done for Israel. And the Saudi’s. You can call the US exceptionally loyal to their military leaders.
Israel couldn’t settle for lording over Europe by having the most amount of transgender Eurovision winners, they also had to get one over on the Americans by doing this!
Did that Israeli babe Kelly dated paddle out>?
Can you imagine the maiden ride between these banana yellow thighs? Whee-baby! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
She may have been the cause of many crispy socks.
Didn’t her mummy and daddy tell her that putting strings like that around her neck is dangerous?
Going through the archives. She’s simply, in my opinion, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. Everything about her was perfect.
She didn’t make it past the Bar ( Refaeli ) ?
We are the absolute best at being medium-free and proclaiming we are the most free. We do that at least as well as Costa Rica does smug and Australia does skin cancer.
And in turn Australia does obesity pretty well.
Oh us seppos got Oz beat there, mate.
True, but we’re giving it a good tilt.
Australia does racism pretty well too. But yours is more fun and light racism where ours is more the insidious type.
Australia loves a spot of casual racism! We also established the current trend of first world nations imprisoning refugees semi-permanently.
In no other place except America can you grab an In N’ Out double-double, drive over to a Krispy Kreme doughnuts, extricate those double-double patties and repurpose them between two glazed Krispy Kreme donuts. It’s exceptional, and oh so American. It’s called a Luther Burger. Named after Luther Vandross, who it’s reported invented the burger. And he was American. And an exceptional music talent.
I think Laird is missing out on a prime energy source there.
It’s 1400 calories. Laird says the meat patties scare away the calories in donuts. He felt safe saying that. Just cause. Period.
The Zohan will win the Paul Mitchell Super Girl Pro this year as well !