A Chinese company called Elasun has rolled out these clever Olympic-inspired ads that combine the little sporty stick figures of the Olympics with condoms and the ill-translated phrase "Sports make you health". Because sports do make you health.Perhaps they imply that sex is a sport, or that sex is everywhere we look, or maybe that the Olympics are just all about fucking. With their start in a few weeks, that's about the only thing that may get my attention. The Sydney Morning Herald Olympics blog has the rest of the ads, plus this nugget of information:
Speaking of prophylactics, the phrase "avoiding pregnancy" has become a euphemistic way of saying that you're going to avoid the Olympics. In Chinese, "bi-yun", means contraception. "Ao-yun" means the Olympics. So bi-yun in the context of the Games is a sort of double entendre meaning avoiding the Games.
Now that dog is off the menu, what other reason could you have to miss the games?
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