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Staying In Sochi Is A Hilarious Adventure in the ass.
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Our hockey team had problems entering the main hockey arena - security did not let several staff members and players in and locker room was locked. So they had 5 minutes to unpack whole gear. And they even had problems getting out, because security locked them in....
meanwhile from our journalists
This is hilarious. They need to get the water fixed at minimum. You can't host thousands of people and not give them clean water.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
You mean the small hose? I've only ever seen them in Thailand. And I thought it was just for cleaning the toilet. I've yet to come across them in Taiwan, Japan and Korea.
I don't know about rest of the "mainland", but from where I am from, I have never seen no TP in toilet signs ever.
Also check for TP before taking a dump and save yourself a trouble - this is protip for everyplace in the world.
And for the winter games - damn, Russia doesn't mess around, right? Seriously surprised by some pictures and tweets.
Also it looks like they want to get the "good looking city" down, but aren't able to handle the little stuff.
edit: I was showing the no TP post to a colleague and he told me that his mother and sister were in Greece, and they had it written there - because the pipes were so thin - for the paper to go throug (otherwise pisswater everywhere).
Mamont1537
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Yep, sounds like my country. Welcome to Russia.
I imagine Coke or Pepsi has the contract for bottled water. Probably no hurry on cleaning the water.
I think Beijing would be the best host city to compare this to but I don't think they had any problems like this. Being corrupted to the core results it.
Funky Papa
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It stores the shells.
I expect at the least a hotel fire, food poisoning, late entrants and mugged journalists.
captainnapalm
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Well in South Africa we managed to hold a pretty decent World Cup, vuvuzelas aside.
You can actually drink tap water in this country. And flush your TP down the toilet.
And these are the kind of places the teams were staying at:
http://conradhotels3.hilton.com/en/hotels/south-africa/conrad-pezula-GRJPRCI/index.html
http://www.irenecountrylodge.co.za/
If Sochi does turn out to be a fiasco, it would be interesting to know what the real reasons are.
Not even remotely close. Even the 2012 G4S security fuckup was quickly remedied by the army.
London and Vancouver are massive, established cities. When the landowner and construction contracts went out, they were snapped up immediately because the buildings had value regardless of the Olympics (e.g. London's Olympic Village was quickly repurposed as affordable housing a year later). With Sochi, most of these facilities and hotels are going to be empty and abandoned the moment the games end, so the only way to get them built is through handouts and corruption. It will never become the international tourist destination Putin wants.
People also forget the Winter Olympics is much smaller in scale compared to the Summer games. Far fewer athletes attend and you only need a fraction of the stadiums and facilities. For Russia to spend so much on so little, with such poor results, is mind boggling.
I've seen this in many Countries incl Spain and Israel. It's just that in some old cities the pipes are to thin. Has nothing to do with communism. More with the last update of the sewer system.
dapperbandit
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Christ I hope their security is of a higher standard.
It's a massive target for Chechen terrorists, haven't there already been kidnapping threats against some of the atheletes?
It's a massive target for Chechen terrorists, haven't there already been kidnapping threats against some of the atheletes?
shira
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lol wikipedia
The Russian Government provided nearly 327 billion roubles (about US$10 billion) for the total development, expansion and hosting of the Games.[citation needed] 192 billion roubles coming from the federal budget and 7 billion roubles from the Krasnodar Krai budget and from the Sochi budget. The organizers expect to have a surplus of US$300 million when the Games conclude.
Financing from non-budget sources (including private investor funds) is distributed as follows:[10]
Tourist infrastructure: $2.6 billion
Olympic venues: $500 million
Transport infrastructure: $270 million
Power supply infrastructure: $100 million
captainnapalm
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Can't watch that now, but I'm guessing then mismanagement and some corruption at the highest level. As long as the actual sporting facilities and tracks and courses are decent, the Games should still be ok, though.
I don't think we should be laughing or trying to ridicule the entire Russia because of this, though. One or two of the posts here are a bit questionable. But I guess it's the perfect storm because of the gay laws stuff and Russia's general opposition to American/UK foreign policy, so a lot of people are really ready to hate on them.
Yeah, that's nice, but probably not so smart to copy/paste Wikipedia for on-going, complex issues and definitely not for uncited figures. Especially ones that involve as much corruption as this.
Have a little read about how those low Wikipedia numbers came about.
One of my favourite quotes:
teruterubozu
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Apparently the security is super Draconian and handled by the Russian military.
Basically Sochi is going to be like a prison camp.
dapperbandit
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You say that likes its terrible and the security should be incredibly lax.
teruterubozu
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Well security can be harsh, but whether the Russian military is effective is a whole different story.
Mike Works
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That's where they keep the seashells.
"So why do you think you are suited for this job?"
Nicktendo86
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Just to wade into the toilet paper discussion, been to Greece and Turkey and they both had the no paper down the toilet rule. I can't remember if Egypt did when we whent, but they did have one of those mini fountain things on the floor to 'clean' yourself with.
Anyways, yeah this doesn't look good. Everything has been done so last minute and cheaply the bribery is so obvious.
Anyways, yeah this doesn't look good. Everything has been done so last minute and cheaply the bribery is so obvious.
Has this been posted yet?
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/54273832/#54273832
Basically, people visiting Sochi should not use any device that has personal information on it, due to rampant hacking. I had no idea it was that bad.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/54273832/#54273832
Basically, people visiting Sochi should not use any device that has personal information on it, due to rampant hacking. I had no idea it was that bad.
shira
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51 bill, woooooooooooooo
lol, are those chairs for people waiting for to use the single toilet?
How does it make sense to keep a bin full of paper covered in shit in every toilet? There's a reason why toilets and sinks have a U-bend.
TheDefinitionOfInsanity
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Looks like gas stations take terrorism threat quite seriously.
I look forward to naked pictures of athletes online by the weekend. :lol
Zomba13
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OMG the wrong way round toilet seat in that Twitter feed. Someone hold me please, I've never seen anything as hilariously shambolic.
I don't understand how that can happen. Did the person installing it never see a toilet before? Are toilets that different in Russia?
captainnapalm
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That's definitely the worst for me. Would never be able to go in a toilet that has someone else's dirty paper in a bin next to it. The horror, the horror...
Not quite. It's for taking turns after you drank some water.
How is it perfectly normal in East Asia? Never seen this.
OMG the wrong way round toilet seat in that Twitter feed. Someone hold me please, I've never seen anything as hilariously shambolic.
Oh come the fuck on
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