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[Demon Ice]

BEFORE PEOPLE JUMP ON THIS, Daily Currant is satire

Shit, I completely fell for it

 

[twobear]

Doesn't the top right ring stand for America though

 

[Dead Man]

No, I mean the treatment of gay people isn't improving anywhere by the American politicians pointing at Russia. If the US lead by example, it could legalize gay marriage for instance for the entire country. It would help gay people in the US. Pointing the finger at Russia isn't doing anything for the gays in Russia or the gays in the US.

So no complaining unless you can fix something outside your control. Cool. I expect no complaints from you about people complaining then.

Edit: Missed your post Besada, apologies.

 

[Mesoian]

http://dailycurrant.com/2014/02/08/man-responsible-for-olympic-ring-mishap-found-dead-in-sochi/

WELP.

Vladimir Putin Kills Grizzly Bear With Bare Hands

Удивительно!

Doesn't the top right ring stand for America though

No, it stands for Asgard.

 

[Maninthemirror]

The coverage, picking up every thing in a negative light especially among the western general public and especially US media is getting a bit ridiculous. It kind of seems to be a case of still having the Cold War rivalry blues and everything negative is thrown at the wall. There seems to be a sort of jelousy among many that the opening ceremony in particular blew the opening of vancouver and previous Winter Olympics away and the focus was on the one negative, the white ring formation of 10 seconds out of the multiple hours show

 

[AlucarD.eq]

It seems China started printing the t-shirts

 

[cr_blah_blah]

It seems China started printing the t-shirts

US Media probably made them.

 

[AlucarD.eq]

Also in Weibo (microblogging website for China). Beside that a lot of pictures of the Japanese Prime Minister and Putin

 

[Dead Man]

The coverage, picking up every thing in a negative light especially among the western general public and especially US media is getting a bit ridiculous. It kind of seems to be a case of still having the Cold War rivalry blues and everything negative is thrown at the wall. There seems to be a sort of jelousy among many that the opening ceremony in particular blew the opening of vancouver and previous Winter Olympics away and the focus was on the one negative, the white ring formation of 10 seconds out of the multiple hours show

The comedy stylings of Maninthemirror, presented to you exclusively on NeoGAF.

 

[May16]

Funny you should say that because Crosby seems to have no issue with it.

People often don't know what's best for them. My sister in law also didn't see a problem with her abusive boyfriend. Doesn't mean it was a good idea!

Sid needs to stop being enamored with this abusive boyfriend of an Olympic town. Come home, Sid. Come home. (To America.)

 

[flamingotripod]

Lol. Come back to me when Russia elects a black president. Racism against black people in the US is extremely rare, even in much of the deep south.

lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

not sure where you are from but no

 

[Spring-Loaded]

The coverage, picking up every thing in a negative light especially among the western general public and especially US media is getting a bit ridiculous. It kind of seems to be a case of still having the Cold War rivalry blues and everything negative is thrown at the wall. There seems to be a sort of jelousy among many that the opening ceremony in particular blew the opening of vancouver and previous Winter Olympics away and the focus was on the one negative, the white ring formation of 10 seconds out of the multiple hours show

There are trash cans. For shit paper.

They're asking guests to put shit paper in a can.

 

[hirokazu]

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the association of homosexuality with paedophilia on an institutional level in Russia. It's sick.

In Australia, a politician said last year that legalising gay marriage was a step towards bestiality.

 

[Dead Man]

In Australia, a politician said last year that legalising gay marriage was a step towards bestiality.

Cory Bernardi. The gift that keeps on giving. Just like herpes.

 

[Milamber]

Doesn't the top right ring stand for America though

EDIT: Added FUNK!

 

[Dead Man]

The white outline on the dark theme makes it even better.

 

[MIMIC]

Is it just me, or does this door not even look real? lol

 

[Marky Mark]

Internal doors are never very solid. I've seen doors with a really thick cardboard or chipboard webbing inside, and that doesn't look too dissimilar.

 

[Jezbollah]

That reminds me when Rampage Jackson took some anger out on such a door:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdqM8WvDnp0

 

[KHlover]

Is it just me, or does this door not even look real? lol

Looks about as real as the internal walls in US homes

 

[Piggus]

lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

not sure where you are from but no

A very liberal part of Oregon, so I'm sure my perspective is very skewed. I was trying to make the point that the US as a whole is not as racist as people from other places seem to think. You don't really hear about people throwing bananas at black athletes for example. Again, I apologies for my comment sounding really stupid though. I still think I would ask people this... If racism is widespread in the US today, how would you describe what it was like 60 years ago? We've come along way.

Edit: back on topic... The worst hotel I ever stayed in was an extremely cheap hotel in Cusco, Peru and even it was 10x nicer than some of these pics suggest. The tarp ceiling is hilarious

 

[Norua]

The worst hotel I ever stayed in was an extremely cheap hotel in Cusco, Peru and even it was 10x nicer than some of these pics suggest. The tarp ceiling is hilarious

Which hotel was it? Near the plaza de armas?

 

[Guileless]

The protests are making the Russian people think 'see, those gay people are coming for our culture'. Putin is getting more popular and the radicals are getting strengthened, not the normal people.

This was the argument of southern white supremacists in the civil rights era about 'outside agitators.'

 

[verbum]

At least the games seem to be running smoothly. And there is snow.

 

[Zeroth]

I'm really surprised at the amount of complains regarding the TP thing. The olympics in Brazil will be very entertaining in this aspect.

 

[Maninthemirror]

I'm really surprised at the amount of complains regarding the TP thing. The olympics in Brazil will be very entertaining in this aspect.

Yep and it will be very hypocritical if the complaints are overlooked as oh it happens at a big event

 

[Particle Physicist]

Yep and it will be very hypocritical if the complaints are overlooked as oh it happens at a big event

Depends on how much money will be spent in Brazil. But instead of castigating people for hypothetical hypocrisy four years from now, let's all take a little break and have a some lemonade....

 

[Dead Man]

Yep and it will be very hypocritical if the complaints are overlooked as oh it happens at a big event

How about you wait and see? Or do you think pre emptive accusations of hypocrisy are really going to help you make a point?

 

[jond76]

Depends on how much money will be spent in Brazil. But instead of castigating people for hypothetical hypocrisy four years from now, let's all take a little break and have a some lemonade....

Sounds refreshing. Where should we have it?

 

[Demon Ice]

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I mean this is the guy that has defended Quaran-mandated violence against women, no surprise there.

 

[Nicktendo86]

Yep and it will be very hypocritical if the complaints are overlooked as oh it happens at a big event

There has already been plenty of criticism towards Brazil regarding the safety of building stadia, how they have treated locals etc. There will be more scrutiny as we get closer to their games, to claim or allude that Sochi criticism is purely anti Russian related is ludicrous.

I mean this is the guy that has defended Quaran-mandated violence against women, no surprise there.

Not to mention that he thinks shia labeef is a great actor, so I wouldn't take him very seriously.

 

[Yaboosh]

Castigating is a rad word.

 

[Maninthemirror]

I mean this is the guy that has defended Quaran-mandated violence against women, no surprise there.

I would be very interested to know how your false assumption of me 'defending quran mandated violence against women' has anything to do with my opinion of over criticizing of Sochi Winter Olympics.
PM me i dont want this to go off topic

Not to mention that he thinks shia labeef is a great actor, so I wouldn't take him very seriously.

And this pm me how it relates to this

 

[.Q.]

Less QQ, more funny pictures please. I haven't seen these in here yet:

From https://twitter.com/tinoseeber/status/431766196653129728

From https://twitter.com/SochiProblems/status/430802887359209472

 

[-COOLIO-]

There are toilets like this:

That's gonna be one awkward shit...

where's the tp?


....do we use the dryer?

 

[-COOLIO-]

From one of the hotels:



Hotel room has Putin picture in it:



A menu:

comic sans?

too far.

 

[Psychotext]

Well, that's a different way of getting up the hill.

 

[axisofweevils]

Wow. This is disturbing.

http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/russian-olympic-official-to-re.html

 

[.Q.]

 

[cameron]

Am I seeing this correctly? Mirrored ceiling above bathroom stalls?

 

[raindoc]

Oh man, couldn't they've just shot them all?

 

[Kinyou]

Poor doggies

They should be the mascots of those games.

 

[BeerSnob]

Am I seeing this correctly? Mirrored ceiling above bathroom stalls?

Well, where else would you put the surveillance cameras?

 

[MrCunningham]

http://olympics.cbc.ca/

I don't know whether that's content blocked outside of Canada, but the CBC does seem to plan on having the most extensive coverage according to a chart I saw on Reddit. Although that 1,500 hour figure might be a bit skewed by broadcasting in two languages.

Hard to say, since the CBC runs pretty much simultaneous coverage for everything in French and English. The CBC takes their winter sports coverage god damn serious.

Some of these Sochi hotel photos are hilarious though. The Vancouver 2010 accommodations must have been like paradise compared to this.

 

[Joni]

She has the toilet seat up...

 

[Zaph]

Wow. This is disturbing.



http://boingboing.net/2014/02/07/russian-olympic-official-to-re.html

The surveillance in the shower comment was disturbing, but BoingBoing just completely made that headline up. Nowhere in the article, nor the source article they linked to, does it have a threat to a WSJ reporter that bathroom surveillance will be leaked. They've just taken the original story and put a clickbait headline on it.

 

[Maninthemirror]

Backlash against the backlash begins

The term cold war could probably be applied to any Winter Olympics, but one day into the Sochi Games, it appears to have a particular poignancy here.

Americans, it would seem, have been led to believe that journalists in Sochi are living out of pup tents, foraging for berries, and having to kill itinerant yak for sustenance. In some cases, journalists have arrived to find their hotel unbuilt or the water undrinkable.

Then the fifth Olympic ring failed to open from a snowflake during the signature opening sequence of the opening ceremony Friday night, and many suspicions seemed confirmed: Sochi is a mess. The "Sochi Problems" Twitter feed, after all, has more followers than the official feed.

Yet by the measure of early hiccups at an Olympic Games, Sochi isn't particularly remarkable. "These are standard problems," says David Wallechinsky, president of the International Society of Olympic Historians.

So then why all the fuss?

Yet the fervency of the narrative here in Sochi suggests that lingering cold war perceptions of Russian incompetence, as well as fears and anger about the Olympics being given to Russia in the first place, could be playing a subtle role.

To be sure, much of the American press arrived in Sochi in a grumpier mood than usual.

First, some felt that by granting the Games to Russia – and Sochi, in particular – the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was gambling innocent lives to curry favor with a man many Americans see as a pseudo-dictator, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Sochi lies in the shadow of the Caucasus, the heartland of Russian terrorism, and indeed, the Sochi Games are the first post-9/11 Olympics to face a specific and credible terrorist threat.

Congressional hearings and official comments on security threats during the runup to the Olympics stoked fears further. Add to that the anger over Russia's law against gays and lesbians, and questions about the Sochi Olympics gained momentum. No major Western leaders, including President Obama, attended the opening ceremonies Friday as a pointed poke in the eye to Mr. Putin.

But those experiences have not all been typical, and other Olympics have not been models of clockwork organization, either. In Athens, for example, I was told to flip a certain switch before taking a shower or I would get electrocuted.

http://m.csmonitor.com/World/Olympi...-Olympics-being-blown-out-of-proportion-video

The surveillance in the shower comment was disturbing, but BoingBoing just completely made that headline up. Nowhere in the article, nor the source article they linked to, does it have a threat to a WSJ reporter that bathroom surveillance will be leaked. They've just taken the original story and put a clickbait headline on it.

Here is an example

 

[Purkake4]

Am I seeing this correctly? Mirrored ceiling above bathroom stalls?

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

 

[ChainedMaster]

Does he not know they wiretapped the bathroom? If he had just waited several more minutes, the Russians would have bailed him out.

 

[speculawyer]

From https://twitter.com/SochiProblems/status/430802887359209472

That has got to be fake . . . right?

I'm not even sure what the sign is supposed to be telling me.