Sochi / Olympics thread?

[duovamp]

FFS

[duovamp]

We don't have one yet?

Reports I've heard so far:
You can't use the water in some facilities because it contains some unsafe chemical
Many rooms have no furniture except the bed
Very any rooms do not have door knobs
Most rooms do not have lights


Yeah that's going pretty well, and I'm pumped. Anti-gay and corruption aside, this is going to be a beautiful disaster.

[duovamp]

Oh drink it you pussies.

http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/im...630&h=420&q=75

[Order 66]

mmm homophobe pee

[duovamp]

Just throw your ass wipes in the garbage. The smell gets you high as fuck.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfpGUmiCIAA6ty2.jpg

[duovamp]

I hope you all read this before going to sleep tonight.

http://news.sky.com/story/1206201/so...efore-olympics

Thousands of stray dogs are being killed in Sochi so visitors to the Winter Olympics are not bothered by them.

Until now, the dogs have been living amid the mud and rubble of Olympic construction sites, roaming the streets and snowy mountainsides.

But as the Games draw near, Sochi authorities have commissioned a company to catch and kill the animals so they do not create a nuisance.

[Order 66]

theyre making up for the homophobia by pandering to scatophiles

[duovamp]

They eat the poo poo.

[pavementtune]

These rooms are where some journalists ended up, right? No hot water either.
I haven't read much, but the rooms for athletes seem to be better.

Ski. Flying!

[redbreegull]

all the shit about the bad conditions in hotel rooms and stuff, I assume these people have never traveled outside the US before?

[hnibos]

Russia is a shithole and even though their holding the olympics they can't mask what a shithole it is. Who would have thunk that?

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by pavementtune

These rooms are where some journalists ended up, right? No hot water either.
I haven't read much, but the rooms for athletes seem to be better.

Ski. Flying!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfoRofRIQAEhSEe.jpg

One of rooms Canada men's hockey team will stay in

[redbreegull]

or maybe they are just used to getting really cushy accommodations?

[hnibos]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

all the shit about the bad conditions in hotel rooms and stuff, I assume these people have never traveled outside the US before?

Yeah people that can afford to go to the olympics half way across the world have never left the us. Makes sense.

[redbreegull]

I mean the shit paper going into a bin instead of down the toilet, that's how it is in a lot of places in the world...

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by hnibos

Russia is a shithole and even though their holding the olympics they can't mask what a shithole it is. Who would have thunk that?

Well they bought the Olympics (surprise) and their government is selling the Olympics to the most corrupt, lowest bidder, who will split the extra money. TOC should be having a fucking field day with this dump, except it's all true so it's mostly depressing.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by hnibos

Yeah people that can afford to go to the olympics half way across the world have never left the us. Makes sense.

then I'm not exactly sure why they are surprised that their hotel rooms have issues with hot water or that you can't flush toilet paper?

[pavementtune]

Originally Posted by duovamp

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfoRofRIQAEhSEe.jpg

And what's wrong with this room?

The dog killing was done for the European (soccer) championship in 2012, too. Ugly shit.

[hnibos]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

then I'm not exactly sure why they are surprised that their hotel rooms have issues with hot water or that you can't flush toilet paper?

Because it's the olympics and this corrupt piece of shit organization can't even have clean or hot water for it's guests.

[hnibos]

I mean, isn't this an opportunity for Russia to showcase the best of the best they have to offer and people get orange water? I mean really

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

then I'm not exactly sure why they are surprised that their hotel rooms have issues with hot water or that you can't flush toilet paper?

Originally Posted by pavementtune

And what's wrong with this room?

The dog killing was done for the European (soccer) championship in 2012, too. Ugly shit.

M-maybe Russia therefore shouldn't have hosted it?

[hnibos]

Originally Posted by pavementtune

And what's wrong with this room?

The dog killing was done for the European (soccer) championship in 2012, too. Ugly shit.

Well, hockey players are usually pretty big guys and this team is one of the main competitors for the Russian team and if they move an inch they'll fall off the bed. Fair play out the window.

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by hnibos

I mean, isn't this an opportunity for Russia to showcase the best of the best they have to offer and people get orange water? I mean really

In the six and a half years since the I.O.C. awarded the 2014 Winter Olympics to Russia, the state has disbursed more than $50 billion to prepare Sochi and its surroundings for the Games. Most of that money is being paid directly from the federal budget to various contractors. Billions go through Olympstroy, the state Olympic construction authority, which has had four directors in six years. These will be the most expensive Olympic Games ever mounted. (The Games in Vancouver, site of the previous Winter Olympics, cost only $7 billion.) How much of Russia’s $50 billion has gone to fund Olympics-related activity and how much covers kickbacks, bribes, and shakedowns is anyone’s guess. Basic bookkeeping is not prioritized. A Moscow friend, a foreigner who has worked as a senior manager for several Olympics, says, “I have never seen a budget in Sochi.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...sia-corruption
Money well spent taking care of the world's athletes.

I'd expect throwing your used turd paper into a bin beside your feet out of Yemen or Somalia, but for costing 4x as much as Vancouver, you sort of wonder where the money spent on it went.... Oh wait...

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by hnibos

I mean, isn't this an opportunity for Russia to showcase the best of the best they have to offer and people get orange water? I mean really

*shrug* I dunno, this is pretty much what I would expect if I went to a developing country. I guess you are right, they should have been able to fix problems with the water and shit like that? Dunno, there are places in the US where it's not even safe to drink tap water. Just feels a lot like some pampered first worlders being shocked at how other people live

[duovamp]

IT ISN'T A DEVELOPING COUNTRY. IT HAS TAKEN OVER FOUR TIMES THE AMOUNT OF MONEY ALREADY AS VANCOUVER.

[duovamp]

FFS.

[duovamp]

Look guys, this is the best we could afford with what we had. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to be leaving on my golden helicopter to land on my crystal yacht where I will drink unicorn jizz from the antler of an esquilax, to discuss an unrelated matter.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by duovamp

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...sia-corruption
Money well spent taking care of the world's athletes.

I'd expect throwing your used turd paper into a bin beside your feet out of Yemen or Somalia, but for costing 4x as much as Vancouver, you sort of wonder where the money spent on it went.... Oh wait...

I mean there are countries in Western Europe where you can't flush toilet paper. Vancouver also is located in a rich developed country that has probably had good pipes for the better part of the last century. Sochi is in a poor as shit, corrupt as shit, backward as shit, quasi dictatorship with an economy built on ejaculatory soviet military spending and gulag slave labor, which made up 5% of the country's entire population just a few decades ago.

all I'm saying is, I'm not surprised and I'm not sure why others are either

[pavementtune]

Originally Posted by hnibos

Well, hockey players are usually pretty big guys and this team is one of the main competitors for the Russian team and if they move an inch they'll fall off the bed. Fair play out the window.

Ah I see, the bed size. Didn't London last summer manage to provide 165cm beds and the athletes ended up sleeping on the floor?

[duovamp]

Correction, it isn't poor as shit, it's just corrupt as shit.