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paranoid randroid: Mar 4, 2007

*journo opens continental breakfast chafing dish*
*wild dog lunges out*

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:17

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 11:40

SmokaDustbowl: Feb 12, 2001; by vyelkin; Fun Shoe

exclusive interview with the russian bobsled team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RJXP1tfSBM

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:17

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

not sure its any better once it is

Are those doors or windows?

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:18

That DICK!: Sep 28, 2010

Entropic posted:

Are those doors or windows?

both, all are equal in glorious homeland

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:19

whoflungpoop: Sep 9, 2004; With you and the constellations

Agrajag posted:

poo poo man this loving poo poo is like post-modernist architecture or something.

i thought the stairs one was pure laziness, like they didn't want to cut one of the pre-built stairs to fit and just picked up the nearest one that would

the other one is like groverhaus on acid

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:19

A Buttery Pastry: Sep 4, 2011; Delicious and Informative!

redshirt posted:

Good article. I learned this Olympics is a mere 40 billion over budget (51 billion total now). How about that!

Apparently the standard rate for getting a building permit is 10% of the total cost (already vastly inflated by the construction companies), paid directly to the guy handing out the permits. Finally, the engineers and foremen replace the construction materials with the cheapest alternative without telling anyone, pocketing the difference.

Entropic posted:

Are those doors or windows?

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:19

Monkey Fracas: Sep 11, 2010; ...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!; Grimey Drawer

Entropic posted:

Are those doors or windows?

One is window, one is door for leetle man

hoo ho ho it is construction joke

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:19

bamzilla: Jan 13, 2005; All butt since 2012.

drive-thru windows

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:20

Al Nipper: May 7, 2008; by XyloJW

whoflungpoop posted:

gently caress yea abe this thread is goin places

BRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHMMMMMM

I love how randomly things are placed in all these pictures. It's like venues were built by children playing The Sims for the first time. Like they literally put in a fire extinguisher BEFORE the stairs, and had to build around it.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:20

Chamale: Jul 11, 2010; I'm helping!

I feel like Russia is a fascinating opportunity for economists. gently caress capitalism, gently caress communism, it's straight corruptionism.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:21

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK: Sep 11, 2001

no seriously who gave grover 50 billion dollars to build poo poo

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:21

Entropic: Feb 21, 2007; patriarchy sucks

I like how we're just kind of taking the broken light fixture for granted, it's not even the real focus of the picture.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:21

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

not sure its any better once it is

Portal: Sochi edition

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:22

paranoid randroid: Mar 4, 2007

t3h z0r posted:

BRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHMMMMMM

I love how randomly things are placed in all these pictures. It's like venues were built by children playing The Sims for the first time. Like they literally put in a fire extinguisher BEFORE the stairs, and had to build around it.

the ukrainian athletes wake up, not remembering anything after getting that drink at the moscow airport, to find themselves sealed into 1x1 rooms with no doors

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:22

Al Borland: Oct 29, 2006; by XyloJW

Man, painted grass, run down poo poo shacks, this can only get better.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:22

A Buttery Pastry: Sep 4, 2011; Delicious and Informative!

AATREK CURES KIDS posted:

I feel like Russia is a fascinating opportunity for economists. gently caress capitalism, gently caress communism, it's straight corruptionism.

Don't sell them short just because they do capitalism harder than the US ever did.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:23

RCarr: Dec 24, 2007

Entropic posted:

Are those doors or windows?

Yep.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:23

Chamale: Jul 11, 2010; I'm helping!

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Don't sell them short just because they do capitalism harder than the US ever did.

I think there may be some kind of snapback effect from the Cold War, Russia needs to cram 84 years of missed capitalism into one Olympics.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:24

Fat Ogre: Dec 31, 2007; Guns don't kill people.

I do.

You know how on Hoarders the people who hoard poo poo can't see how terrible their house is.

That is what it is like to be Russian when you look at Russia.

Broken light, missing shower curtains, wild dogs, yellow water, no heat, cans next to the toilet for poo poo covered rear end wipes? Is normal comrade.

Like they look at it and say "Eh close enough." :effort:

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:25

Al Nipper: May 7, 2008; by XyloJW

Hoarders can't exist in Russia because their neighbours would steal all their poo poo.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:27

01011001: Dec 26, 2012

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

not sure its any better once it is

thats a pretty pro foot-window

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:27

paranoid randroid: Mar 4, 2007

Fat Ogre posted:

You know how on Hoarders the people who hoard poo poo can't see how terrible their house is.

That is what it is like to be Russian when you look at Russia.

Broken light, missing shower curtains, wild dogs, yellow water, no heat, cans next to the toilet for poo poo covered rear end wipes? Is normal comrade.

Like they look at it and say "Eh close enough."

lot of them are probably super pissed because after the soviets keeled over people thought the west was gonna swoop in Truman style and help them

and we were like, lmao no

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:27

01011001: Dec 26, 2012

01011001 posted:

thats a pretty pro foot-window

either that or its a door for the wild dogs to come and go

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:28

Chamale: Jul 11, 2010; I'm helping!

318 died in a soccer riot following a qualifier for the 1964 Olympics. Can Russia break the record?

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:28

treasured8elief: Jul 25, 2011; Salad Prong

Pinterest Mom posted:

toronto star journalist has luxury seating in his hotel room

Their bare walls would drive me mad

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

amazing

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:29

That DICK!: Sep 28, 2010

AATREK CURES KIDS posted:

318 died in a soccer riot following a qualifier for the 1964 Olympics. Can Russia break the record?

Russians must break everything

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:29

A124!: Jun 28, 2009

http://sochi.fbk.info

My fave one is the road that cost 9 billion dollars.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:30

Judge Bread: May 31, 2012; DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED.
DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED.
DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED.
DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED.

SmokaDustbowl posted:

guys look somebody leaked footage of the opening ceremonies rehearsal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Uy2JvqNjU

I think this guy would be better for job

:nws:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5tsxDlfUzI :nws:

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:32

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK: Sep 11, 2001

now i am hoping these are both from the same building

and i want to see how crazy this building can get

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:33

Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

now i am hoping these are both from the same building

and i want to see how crazy this building can get

Do you remember Springfield's attempt at rebuilding Ned Flanders' house?

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:35

DEEP STATE PLOT: Aug 13, 2008; Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

not sure its any better once it is

What the gently caress :psypop:

I don't fully get what I'm looking at?

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:36

satanic splash-back: Jan 28, 2009

A124! posted:

http://sochi.fbk.info

My fave one is the road that cost 9 billion dollars.

so how does this domain exist without its owners' sudden and unexplained disappearance?

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:37

whoflungpoop: Sep 9, 2004; With you and the constellations

Uncovered manholes double as dog traps #SochiHax

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:37

FlapYoJacks: Feb 12, 2009

I just want to know how you do this?

1) Somebody had to get up on a ladder, measure, and cut the hole for the door.
2) MORE THAN ONE PERSON had to get up there and put the door in upside down.

What in the gently caress Russia?

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:38

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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whoflungpoop posted:

Uncovered manholes double as dog traps #SochiHax

wait for a stray dog/western tourist to walk by then the hands snap out and drag them in like a trapdoor spider

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:38

Al Borland: Oct 29, 2006; by XyloJW

Lobok posted:

Do you remember Springfield's attempt at rebuilding Ned Flanders' house?

I am really disappointed with the amount of good simpsons clips missing on youtube.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:39

Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

ratbert90 posted:

I just want to know how you do this?

1) Somebody had to get up on a ladder, measure, and cut the hole for the door.
2) MORE THAN ONE PERSON had to get up there and put the door in upside down.

What in the gently caress Russia?

it's pretty amazing what $50 billion and incompetence will get you

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:39

Agrajag: Jan 21, 2006; gat dang thats hot

ratbert90 posted:

I just want to know how you do this?

1) Somebody had to get up on a ladder, measure, and cut the hole for the door.
2) MORE THAN ONE PERSON had to get up there and put the door in upside down.

What in the gently caress Russia?

That is not how buildings are built.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:40

Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

ratbert90 posted:

I just want to know how you do this?

Let's say someone gives you a construction project for something you're not 100% sure how to do. Now they give you a severe time limit. And they give you lovely equipment. And you're also so drunk you would be blind if you had grown up in any other nation on Earth. Get building!

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:40

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A Buttery Pastry: Sep 4, 2011; Delicious and Informative!

ratbert90 posted:

I just want to know how you do this?

1) Somebody had to get up on a ladder, measure, and cut the hole for the door.
2) MORE THAN ONE PERSON had to get up there and put the door in upside down.

What in the gently caress Russia?

The workers aren't being paid, and they're being fed essentially dog food. No wonder they're not at the top of their game.

# ? Feb 5, 2014 22:40

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