News of the Tweet: Little Voices Loud Noises

@BriceMag, @morga_deth and the most incredible Swedish woman you have ever seen.

Twitter allows us to shout out to the world (the world being your number of followers) without actually having to raise your voice.

You can even act as the voice of your whole nation. @Sweden is the official twitter account of Sweden and each week a different citizen is chosen at random and gets handed the log-in for the nation’s Twitter account. As you can imagine things get a little wild from time to time.

The first time I had vaginal fungus I suspected I had syphilis and were doomed to die as deaf and confused as Beethoven.

— @sweden / Ell (@sweden) June 17, 2012

I don’t want any more kids, Im thinking about ripping the uterus out and eat it. But if I had another baby, it would be with Lil Wayne.

— @sweden / Ell (@sweden) June 15, 2012

There is obviously a little bit of displeasure at such freedom for one person to speak out on behalf of their whole nation, especially when it is a little coarse. However, the organization behind campaign – Visit Sweden – are not backing down. “It’s very important for us to let everyone take a unique viewpoint,” Tommy Sollén, social media manager at VisitSweden, told The Wall Street Journal. “Every one of our curators is there with a different perspective.”

I’ve got severe body issues. I don’t think its ugly or anything. But it can’t fly, can’t shapeshift, can’t shoot laser beems into space.

— @sweden / Ell (@sweden) June 15, 2012

Sonja Abrahamsson, who was in charge of the account last week, was the most famous twitterist for @sweden. She made a lot of bizarre comments and seemed like a cross between Sarah Silverman and a foul mouthed, five-year old boy with a concussion.

It may be true I am third grading the spelling, but I am third basing the grammar.

— @sweden / Ell (@sweden) June 14, 2012

I think she is absolutely brilliant. Check out this video of her explaining her week on twitter. Get ready for weird.

The BC Bike Race (@BC_BikeRace) kicks off in twelve days time. The now legendary, week long race takes in more singletrack than any other race and visits some largely unheard of, yet divine locations throughout SouthWest British Columbia.

On the 30th of June, 500 people will be lined up for the start of the BC Bike Race. We can only speculate on what most people will be thinking right then and there as they see seven back-to-back 50-kilometer singletrack days lined up in front of them, but this year there will be a unique opportunity to hear the inner mumblings of two of those racers.

Prince of publishing, Morgan Meredith, and the grey knight of lexical analysis, Brice Minnigh, will be in tweeting away throughout the whole event. Despite being members of the same team (#goteamsadsacksgo) they have been engaged in a spot of what I believe is referred to as ‘trash-talk’ leading up to the event.

@BriceMag I was riding with someone faster than me. T-minus 16 days till blast off. The fear has officially set in. #goteamsadsacksgo

— morgan meredith (@morga_deth) June 14, 2012

Hey, are those @pavedmag socks covered in @bikemag dirt? And @morga_deth are you ready for the @bcbikerace? instagr.am/p/Ly5LNPpB1u/

— Brice Minnigh (@BriceMag) June 13, 2012

Most of the bravado fueled muck slinging has come from Brice’s corner of twitdom while Morgan has been content to float about taken emotional pictures of his bicycles in various locations.

I went exer-ploring today. It’s a lot like exercising but I stopped a lot.@ Entrance To The BatCave instagr.am/p/L_yP1Hk2IJ/

— morgan meredith (@morga_deth) June 18, 2012

Get lostinstagr.am/p/LUTbwlE2Kg/

— morgan meredith (@morga_deth) June 1, 2012

Anarchy is the LB #santacruzbikes instagr.am/p/LIwGtlk2Du/

— morgan meredith (@morga_deth) May 27, 2012

Who knows what is the best preparation for the @BC_BikeRace, Brice’s Strava-centric dick measuring approach or Morgan’s slow and silent pigeon feeding.

Brice has chosen his whip. Here we can see it propped against a bench he used to climb onto it.

@morga_deth OK so I broke out the whip for @bcbikerace but that Pacific Ocean in the background is made forinstagr.am/p/KLtLrjpByh/

— Brice Minnigh (@BriceMag) May 3, 2012

Anyway, the point of all this is to introduce you to Team Sad Sacks. Follow them on Twitter and you will be able to track them as they attempt to get around the full BC Bike Race course faster than you can say “Shit, it is ship week!”