ArtIsResistance posted:

hell yeah a copied and pasted news article, take that rio 2016 games

SocketWrench posted:

There should be a "Government collapses during games" square

social vegan posted:

this is a v good thread but where's the bingo card at i only started reading yesterdya

social vegan posted:

thanks! free space should be bumbum

Raar_Im_A_Dinosaur posted:

Goddamnit cancel the Olympics

tater_salad posted:

^^ again ISIS will get there and say hmm.. someone beat us here drat.

social vegan posted:

thanks! free space should be bumbum

social vegan posted:

thanks! free space should be bumbum

ArtIsResistance posted:

hell yeah a copied and pasted news article, take that rio 2016 games

simplefish posted:

I like Lime Tonics giving a link, choice paragraphs. He is my Rio news aggregator so I get the scoop on literal poo poo but don't have to wade through metaphorical poo poo

Lime Tonics posted:

Brazil has replaced the head of its antidoping agency just weeks before the Olympics begin, adding to the uncertainty around efforts to keep the Summer Games clean.

The move comes after the World Anti-Doping Agency earlier this month suspended the Rio lab that was to be the center of athlete drug testing during the August games.

Marco Aurélio Klein will be replaced by Rogério Sampaio, a former Olympic judo athlete, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Sports.

The Ministry of Sports said in a statement Thursday that the change in leadership at the antidoping agency, which the ministry oversees, “has nothing to do” with the suspension of the Rio lab and that the recently appointed minister of sport had previously said he would make personnel changes after assuming office.

This inspires confidence,

http://www.wsj.com/articles/brazil-replaces-antidoping-agency-chief-1467296189

Newspapers are against the striking police saying,

Police officers and firefighters in Rio de Janeiro protesting their lack of pay as the Olympics approaches are engaged in “ethically reprehensible” actions “bordering on terrorism,” according to an editorial on Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro’s largest newspaper, O Globo. The newspaper, a property of Grupo Globo, which is owned and controlled by the billionaire Marinho family, is Brazil’s dominant media conglomerate and a primary sponsor and beneficiary of the 2016 Summer Olympics.

In attacking the police, the paper was not criticizing the epidemic of police killings of black and brown youth, nor the militarized occupation of many of Rio’s slums that has failed to improve public security, nor the criminal gangs of off-duty and former officers, known as milícias, that violently control and extort vast swaths of the city. Instead, Globo’s indignation was targeted at public servants non-violently demonstrating for a basic worker’s right — being paid — as part of a protest that happens to threaten Globo’s own business interests worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a fact the paper neglected to disclose to its readers.

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/30/razils-globo-protects-huge-olympic-payday-by-attacking-police-protest-over-unpaid-wages/

Here is a writeup of tl;dr of the weeks happenings,

Rio's horror week: Body parts wash up near Olympics beach volleyball site

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/30/americas/rio-olympics-body-parts-found/

edit: link didn't paste for some reason.

ArtIsResistance posted:

shameful but expected that posters would rather look at an anime little girl than a voluptuous rear end

Unity Gain posted:

Lime Tonics is the official link aggregator of the 2016 olympics, already doing a better job than the IOC and remaining tatters of what passes for the Brazilian government.

Adventure Pigeon posted:

I feel like every word in that sentence should be in quotation marks.

Serious Frolicking posted:

RobobTheGreat posted:

The Summer Olympics should just be held the same place every four years. Greece is the natural choice.

Not gonna hold my breath, though.

ha, yeah. a country that is sprinting toward full fascism is a better choice than a disease-ridden kleptocracy.

WAR DOGS OF SOCHI posted:

These articles are an ethical necessity and form the bedrock upon which our ceaseless mockery of the games can be erected.

In other words, we put more care into our poo poo-posts than Brazil has put into the Olympics.

social vegan posted:

thanks! free space should be bumbum

WAR DOGS OF SOCHI posted:

I mean, I know... "something awful dot com, bitch!"... but there's something especially pathetic about flushing billions of dollars down non-existent toilets when infrastructure is literally collapsing, basic services aren't being funded, and an entire political class is in full meltdown. Brazil desperately needs that money for... like...real stuff that people need in order to live day-to-day, not some fancy track to race bmx on. It's so completely absurd.

My only hope is for some cartoon-level hilarity (ala Sochi) in the Olympic quarters where we get some good photos of toilet handles being used as doorknobs to take my mind off of how hosed up the whole situation is.

Pvt.Scott posted:

None of that real stuff was going to have money spent on it in Rio if Brazil hadn't won the Olympics bid. If anything, the Olympics may be a positive because a total catastrophic collapse forces change rather than allowing the horrible status quo to continue to limp along. It certainly can't get much worse there short of deadly plague or other mass deaths.

Kaiju Cage Match posted:

It is the White man's burden to save Miss Bum Bum.

Kaiju Cage Match posted:

It is the White man's burden to save Miss Bum Bum.

Kaiju Cage Match posted:

It is the White man's burden to save Miss Bum Bum.

AugmentedVision posted:

no thigh gap = fat

Darth123123 posted:

Which one was a "ho"?

WAR DOGS OF SOCHI posted:

I mean, I know... "something awful dot com, bitch!"... but there's something especially pathetic about flushing billions of dollars down non-existent toilets when infrastructure is literally collapsing, basic services aren't being funded, and an entire political class is in full meltdown. Brazil desperately needs that money for... like...real stuff that people need in order to live day-to-day, not some fancy track to race bmx on. It's so completely absurd.

My only hope is for some cartoon-level hilarity (ala Sochi) in the Olympic quarters where we get some good photos of toilet handles being used as doorknobs to take my mind off of how hosed up the whole situation is.

etalian posted:

SocketWrench posted:

I'll take them all into shelter except for the one in jeans, those legs are too skinny

WAR DOGS OF SOCHI posted:

I mean, I know... "something awful dot com, bitch!"... but there's something especially pathetic about flushing billions of dollars down non-existent toilets when infrastructure is literally collapsing, basic services aren't being funded, and an entire political class is in full meltdown.

AugmentedVision posted:

no thigh gap = fat