# Hilarious photos of Gymnast's giving everyone the stink eye. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 7, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756 "2012-08-07T16:58:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/21 "2012-08-08T16:05:30Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Yeah, this [pretty blatant hug rejection](http://youtu.be/DgPdfPQDLYU) reinforces that view of it. I’ve heard that it’s not actually called Gym-nice-tics. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/22 "2012-08-08T16:57:53Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > The gymnast that went before her was 41 years old. She’s 37 and is not a data-point worth mentioning, as she is extremely rare in gymnastics. It is an anomaly in gymnastics, not something others would likely achiever. As for 20? Yeah, it is doable. Not a certainty, but doable if she wants to. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/23 "2012-08-08T18:12:50Z")
[McKayla is not impressed](http://mckaylaisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/) has become a meme! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/24 "2012-08-08T18:27:35Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > As for 20? Yeah, it is doable. Not a certainty, but doable if she wants to. 'Round here, the cut-off for doable is 18. Wait a minnit! What are we talkin’ about? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/25 "2012-08-08T18:30:13Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Poor kid! To have come that far and have something like that happen. I’d be pretty pissed off too if something like that ever happened to me! My line of thinking tends to be more, “Poor kid! Her entire life has been subsumed by this sport and the ridiculous expectations forced on her means she has absolutely no perspective on how amazing it is to get a silver medal in the Olympics.” Heard an interesting article on NPR about how silver medalists tend to be extremely disappointed on the podium (“I can’t believe I didn’t get the gold”) while bronze medalists tend to be extremely jubilant (“Haha! Look at all those suckers who didn’t get medals!”). ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/26 "2012-08-08T22:42:38Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > Personally I’m inclined to give a 16-year old kid a break when she misses out on a gold medal because she failed to stick a landing on a vault she’d no doubt practiced thousands of times before. Of course she was angry and disappointed. This. Maroney is usually the best in the world on vault and _everyone_ expected her to win gold. That’s gotta be a huge disappointment. The Russian gymnasts were crying after practically all of their routines during the team and all-around competitions. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/27 "2012-08-08T23:56:51Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Yeah, this [pretty blatant hug rejection](http://youtu.be/DgPdfPQDLYU) reinforces that view of it. That is absolutely an “I-will-not-cry-I-will-not-cry” performance. Look at the way she looks up at the ceiling and then down at the floor - anywhere in the world but at a human face, least she totally lose it. Internet memes suck. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/28 "2012-08-09T09:18:42Z")
I see in the article that she scored 9.666 for execution on her first vault…it was Satan’s fault! ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/29 "2012-08-09T09:40:24Z")
Teenagers. Nadia Comaneci was unrecognizable at 21. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/30 "2012-08-09T18:03:29Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > [McKayla is not impressed](http://mckaylaisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/) has become a meme! Some of those are sublimely hilarious 😃 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/31 "2012-08-09T18:15:05Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Nadia Comaneci was unrecognizable at 21. What difference would it have made? Where can you go from **up**??? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/32 "2012-08-11T04:54:07Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > [McKayla is not impressed](http://mckaylaisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/) has become a meme! > [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Some of those are sublimely hilarious 😃 Hah! I think my favorite is the one with Carlton dancing. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/33 "2012-08-11T05:05:49Z")
Nope, still not funny. That “not impressed” is like taking someone’s words out of context and twisting the meaning. Like if someone took the image of JKF Jr. saluting and had him saluting different things. not funny ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/34 "2012-08-11T06:20:15Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > She’s 37 and is not a data-point worth mentioning, as she is extremely rare in gymnastics. It is an anomaly in gymnastics, not something others would likely achiever. > > As for 20? Yeah, it is doable. Not a certainty, but doable if she wants to. Rare, but not [extremely](http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/london/gymnastics/story/2012-07-28/jordan-jovtchev-oksana-chusovitina-older-gymnasts/56565460/1) rare. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/35 "2012-08-11T20:56:03Z")
At least this kinda proves McKayla has a sense of humor. [http://www.stltoday.com/sports/olympics/blogs/mckayla-maroney-gets-in-on-the-mckayla-is-not-impressed/article\_33f5a494-94bc-584b-8ba9-7aa4f4579122.html](http://www.stltoday.com/sports/olympics/blogs/mckayla-maroney-gets-in-on-the-mckayla-is-not-impressed/article_33f5a494-94bc-584b-8ba9-7aa4f4579122.html) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/36 "2012-08-15T12:21:04Z")
> [@ThisSpaceForRent](#): > > At least this kinda proves McKayla has a sense of humor. > > [http://www.stltoday.com/sports/olympics/blogs/mckayla-maroney-gets-in-on-the-mckayla-is-not-impressed/article\_33f5a494-94bc-584b-8ba9-7aa4f4579122.html](http://www.stltoday.com/sports/olympics/blogs/mckayla-maroney-gets-in-on-the-mckayla-is-not-impressed/article_33f5a494-94bc-584b-8ba9-7aa4f4579122.html) Except, of course, that this is exactly the right way to respond to make this whole thing go away–stop feeding the trolls. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/37 "2012-08-16T20:15:34Z")
She did good as one of Stephen Colbert’s Five Fierce Interns last night. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/38 "2012-08-17T01:13:09Z")
> [@MacCat](#): > > She did good as one of Stephen Colbert’s Five Fierce Interns last night. And, I’m pretty sure, was making her trademark face when the rest of the team was smiling… I’m pretty sure she can laugh about it now. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/39 "2012-08-17T02:41:05Z")
I wasn’t impressed by _A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving_ either. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756/40 "2012-08-17T02:44:29Z")
OH yeah she was doing it on Colbert. It’s pretty funny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-photos-of-gymnasts-giving-everyone-the-stink-eye/630756.md?page=3)