Psychotext
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Pretty sad. =/
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Staying In Sochi Is A Hilarious Adventure in the ass.
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Pretty sad. =/
NotMyRealName
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Combined with the broken English, this is really hilarious.You seem really defensi...
Nevermind.
KillerMan91
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Pretty distasteful to criticize someone for trying to write in his secondary language and for being citizen of russia. I don't think he has anywhere in this thread denied that the preparations have been a bit clusterfuck. He is just trying to explain some of these fuck ups as well you know, he is a russian and maybe knows what is common there.
ab.aeterno
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He also implied that the growing negativity due to these issues was solely from western countries because they hate Russia. You want to talk distasteful? Lumping a bunch of countries and their citizens together and insinuating insidious motives is a pretty low blow, too.
Featheredkitten
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Hmmm lofts and modern constructions architect houses would be classified as rare. Not rare for that style of building, no, but rare for the grand total of western construction? Probably...in fact I'd say definitely.
This is the OT.
I love how there's one shit bin, but each toilet has its own brush!
KillerMan91
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Well sure was mature way to respond. ''lol he is from russia'' ''lol he writes bad english''.
RustyNails
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Didn't India host a similar event recently? How bad is this compared to India?
ab.aeterno
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I'm not saying it was, I actually agree that is was pretty fucking tasteless. I'm just pointing out he isn't exactly being a respectful poster either.
Featheredkitten
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Agreed, my response to that kind of thing is usually: "Do you speak really really good "X-language"? No? Then I'd shut the hell up."
Spike Spiegel
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Being booked in that room makes him the hotel's honorary fireman. In case of fire, he will be expected to valiantly give his life fighting the blaze while the hotel's other guests escape.Best bidet ever.
EDIT: Before anyone asks, the second toilet brush also makes him the honorary janitor.
TangoAlphaLima
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The Cold War never thawed, comrade!
Serious. How awesome it is to have someone from Moscow to offer his take on things whether or not you always agree. Digging up twitter pages is sketch. Happy to have the variety of voices.
Puppet Shadow
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Come on, lets go down this road. It's not easy watching the world ridicule where you live. It sucked for a lot of us living in Vancouver before the games got started with many of the press (especially from the UK) questioning everything.
Save your ire for Putin, not Gaf members from Russia.
AlucarD.eq
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Is there any poll of the opinion from Russian citizens related to this topic?
TangoAlphaLima
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Not enough THC in the B.C. Bud?
Featheredkitten
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Are you implying he's being uptight and needs to relax? Because he's got a point and you've got nothing but a poorly thought out joke.
NotMyRealName
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There is not one single person with a positive opinion on the whole Sochi 2014 story in my social circle, I can tell you that much. A lot of people are still going to be excited for the games, because they only listen to the TV and the TV says that everything is all right. It's the same with everything in this country: there are those in the know, those who are being fooled constantly, and finally there are those in denial.
As for the ceilings, this is probably indeed a design choice, not a last minute effort as some people seem to think. You often see these in fancy places, especially if the owner's trying to show off a bit (which is definitely the case here, albeit everything has been going terribly wrong). I don't get what's supposed to be so great about that type of ceiling, personally, but you can't blame them for that.
TangoAlphaLima
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I was insinuating that the press was complaining about Vancouver's weed. Geez, man, take a joke.
I did neither of those things, but believe whatever makes you feel self righteous
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Team Canada's hockey team will be staying in rooms like this.....lol
Where is the Russian team staying?
Puppet Shadow
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According to Google, in similar rooms. Maybe someone that understands Russian can confirm this from the video at the link.
Probably in a 5 star hotel with 100s of beautiful Russian women on call at anytime
Featheredkitten
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ooooooooh ooooooooooooooooh man i put a comma between B.C. and Bud which made you come off a jerk. Wow, yea, sorry about that. :/
I can. They say that most of the athletes are to stay in rooms like the one in the video. Supposedly, there is also a small amount of rooms that are somehow different, but they did not elaborate.
What a weird design though: a large room with a huge ass window and those ridiculous tiny beds put so close to each other, otherwise empty.
Team Canada's hockey team will be staying in rooms like this.....lol
Actually Sidney Crosby said that conditions at Vancouver in 2010 were pretty much the same thing, with multiple people to a room. I live in Vancouver and can tell you that the Olympic Village isn't very big at all.
My ceiling and walls
That looks depressing.
A lot of people think that as well, reminds them of a cell. I like it much more than white walls though.
Puppet Shadow
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Those look like twin size beds though. I'd be shocked if they didn't have at least queen size beds in Vancouver.
Edit: Couldn't find any pictures, but a few articles like this:
Some teams did have three athletes to a room, hence the 'dorm' phrasing from Crosby.
I was about to say, "Where's the damn OT?" :lol
Dr.Guru of Peru
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Those are single size man.
India hosted the 2010 commonwealth games.
I'm pretty sure there was similar incomplete facility stuff flying around before that also. Don't remember the games themselves being effected.
Succinct Verbosity
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India were forced to call in foreign contractors at the last minute iirc.
Puppet Shadow
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Ya, judging by the pillow I suppose you're right. I'm average size, and I know I'd have a hell of a time sleeping in something that size as I like to sprawl out. Must suck if you're a 6' 3", 250lb hockey player. At least it appears all teams (including the Russians) have the same beds. We might see a bit more stretching than usual before each game.
Upsidedown Fuji
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Are you in Japan? I know many buildings and residences in cities use bare concrete as a design choice.My ceiling and walls
Yeah. Designer mansions and apartments seem to be pretty popular here these days.
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Never encountered an apartment that does not have concrete ceilings in my entire 30 years of living in my country (Singapore). I guess every country has its own ways of designing and building living spaces
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.
Upsidedown Fuji
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Yep. Although it can look drab and dreary if the lighting is poor or the cement was poured unevenly in the building casts. What I do know is that it's got a great echo factor and very poor heat retention.Never encountered an apartment that does not have concrete ceilings in my entire 30 years of living in my country (Singapore). I guess every country has its own ways of designing and building living spaces
I can't stand that NBC refuses to show it live. I wanna see it LIVE you assholes.
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