Yes tights ! It's all the patterns for me. It's pretty stupid too because I live in Houston where its seldom cold.

Is Paul Wylie gay? I don't even know the proper way to ask that. It seems such an intimate thing to ask perfect strangers on the internet about a total stranger. It's really none of my business.

This is why Elvis Stoyko had so many problems. The official want masculine yet when they get it, as in Stoyko they don't give a hoot about it and degrade him. That guy was always caught in the middle during his career.

I remember watching these olympics and thinking he was adorable.

Aww, my mom and sister loved Paul Wylie. I think because he looked like he was a member of the Dead Poet's Society.

This is somewhat unrelated, but I would just like to say that contrary to the coverage around this story, there are a WHOLE lot of straight male skaters (SHOCKING, I know).

You get some comments about being a male ballroom dancer, too. I take one look at the female competitors and I'm like, "Really?! They can't see the appeal of this to a straight man?"

No shit.

No mention of Rudy Galindo? Seriously? WTF! I realize he hasn't competed since the 1990's, but he was one of the few to come out while still competing. I really wish the figure skating articles could be written by someone who actually follows the sport. Boitano was both athletic and artistic. If you had ever watched…

I blame these things. I spent half my childhood labelling everything...

I always remember Michael Weiss, and how the U.S. commenters always seemed to emphasize his wife and two children. Dude never did well at the Olympics though.

Boys are afraid to pursue figure skating because, even if they're good at it, they will be tagged as "fags." If they're very good, they funnel themselves into hockey or speed skating, and develop those skills instead.

Did they find his previous owner and euthanize him/her? Asking for a friend.

Showering isn't really going to stop wrestlers from sweating.

You gave me this once, now I'm giving it back.

I knew it would be this story when I clicked. What does that say about me?

Heh heh, my dad's a former ER doc and he'd LOVE this reddit and want to contribute his own stories. The human body + impulsiveness + alcohol = grody hilarity.

My Mom is a wound care nurse. She has the craziest stories, all of them gut-wrenchingly gross. For some reason, she finds it fascinating. She had to cut the dead, necrotic toe of a client off the other day. Didn't phase her in the least. Had to clean out the gaping face/eye wound of a client who was recovering from…

Rotting means gas, and gas means pressure. By breaching the cavity with the scalpel, they released that pressure very suddenly, through a very small opening.