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The Chef de Mission of Australia's Olympic team Kitty Chiller is meeting with Olympic Village and IOC officials after a small fire at the team's accommodation revealed fire alarms had been silenced. Lmao
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# ? Jul 30, 2016 05:01 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 08:40 |
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quote:Kitty Chiller
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# ? Jul 30, 2016 06:45 |
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quote:Just days after his controversial quip that Australian athletes might have felt more at home in their Olympic accommodations if a kangaroo had been placed outside, Rio de Janeiro’s mayor has placed the blame for the problems in the athletes’ village on the city’s Olympics organizing committee. THEM DIRTY FOREIGNERS RUINING THE OLYMPICS
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# ? Jul 30, 2016 06:48 |
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Less than a week before the 2016 Rio Olympics are set to start, the Brazil Ministry of Justice terminated its contract with a private firm that was supposed to provide security for the games. The ministry cited “incompetence and irresponsibility” from the Rio de Janeiro-based firm Artel, and moved to strip them of their duties. It’s not hard to see why the Ministry of Justice reacted so harshly. With only a few days left until the first venues are set to open, Artel admitted that they have only hired 500 security personnel. They were supposed to hire 3,400. These staff members were going to be responsible for screening visitors outside each Olympic venue. X-ray machines and body searches are now going to be handled by local police forces to secure areas that are expected to have tens of thousands of screaming fans.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 14:30 |
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uh, is this the police force that went on strike over not getting paid?
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 15:21 |
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AriadneThread posted:uh, is this the police force that went on strike over not getting paid? as reasons to strike go, that's a pretty good one IMO
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 15:28 |
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AriadneThread posted:uh, is this the police force that went on strike over not getting paid? Yes.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 15:29 |
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AriadneThread posted:uh, is this the police force that went on strike over not getting paid? Also the same police force that mugged that jun-jitsu dude. Who will guard the guards? After that, who guards those ones? The sailing venue collapsed too. http://espn.go.com/olympics/story/_/id/17181259/main-ramp-collapses-rio-olympics-sailing-venue Oh, and 3 IOC members decide russias fate, International Olympic Committee sets up 3-person panel to rule on Russian entries The IOC's ruling executive board, which met Saturday for the final time before Friday's opening of the games, said the panel will decide on the entry of Russian athletes whose names have been forwarded to compete by their international sports federations and approved by an independent arbitrator. "This panel will decide whether to accept or reject that final proposal," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. "We want to make it absolutely clear that we are the ones making the final call." The move comes amid a doping scandal that has led to the exclusion of more than 100 Russian athletes connected to state-sponsored cheating. More than 250 Russian athletes have been cleared to compete by the federations. The panel will have to make its ruling before the opening ceremony, just six days away. "We're working on a very, very tight timeline," Adams said. "It has to be finished by Friday at the very latest." Same link, second story. I think the IOC might be shady, I have a feeling.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 15:50 |
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this olympics is pretty much free market to the max
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 16:43 |
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Xandu posted:There's no shortage of rich dictators that want to host the olympics. But in democratic countries where people have a say, it makes very little economic sense.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 18:23 |
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I like the idea of having a permanent Olympic base in Greece. It would make far sense logistically. Where would a likely permanent base for the winter Olympics be, though? That would probably a far more contentious choice.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 19:08 |
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Blut posted:I like the idea of having a permanent Olympic base in Greece. It would make far sense logistically. Take all of the cities that currently have hosted Winter Games and rotate between them, adding in new cities only when they have the infrastructure necessary to host. So Vancouver, SLC, Turin, Nagano, Lillehammer, maybe Pyongyang if it goes well, etc. Alternately, just give it to SLC and put Mitt Romney in charge so he can stay out of politics for good.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 19:21 |
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Blut posted:I like the idea of having a permanent Olympic base in Greece. It would make far sense logistically. What makes more sense about Greece than any other point on the globe?
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 19:59 |
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Kawasaki Nun posted:What makes more sense about Greece than any other point on the globe?
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 20:13 |
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A Buttery Pastry posted:It's literally the origin of the Olympic games? That's not a very good logistical argument.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 20:36 |
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Kawasaki Nun posted:That's not a very good logistical argument.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 20:48 |
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Kawasaki Nun posted:What makes more sense about Greece than any other point on the globe? They could use the money.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 22:05 |
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Kitty Chiller is now claiming that Australian athletes got their poo poo stolen while evacuating from the dumpster fire.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 22:43 |
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SynthOrange posted:Kitty Chiller is now claiming that Australian athletes got their poo poo stolen while evacuating from the dumpster fire. They left Rio? This Olympics is very careful what you wish for. In my ignorance I had imagined Rio as a pretty nice place but they had to just go shine a light on it.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 22:55 |
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SynthOrange posted:Kitty Chiller is now claiming that Australian athletes got their poo poo stolen while evacuating from the dumpster fire.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 22:57 |
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A Buttery Pastry posted:A basic rule of fire safety is that you grab anything you don't want to lose when the alarm goes off. You'd think Australians would know that, considering their country turns into a raging inferno every year. No, the rule is to get the gently caress out immediately because there's a fire.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 23:25 |
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Lid posted:Less than a week before the 2016 Rio Olympics are set to start, the Brazil Ministry of Justice terminated its contract with a private firm that was supposed to provide security for the games. The ministry cited “incompetence and irresponsibility” from the Rio de Janeiro-based firm Artel, and moved to strip them of their duties. So now they don't even have the 500 guards? That's stupid.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 23:32 |
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clockworkjoe posted:No, the rule is to get the gently caress out immediately because there's a fire. No, that's just what you're told, that's not what anyone who has to do it regularly does.
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# ? Jul 31, 2016 23:50 |
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If you have to do it regularly, either you're in the wrong line of work or you're a fireman.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 00:48 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:If you have to do it regularly, either you're in the wrong line of work or you're a fireman. Hotels have false alarms all the time. Especially if a bunch of teenagers are staying there for some sporting even or something.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 01:08 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:If you have to do it regularly, either you're in the wrong line of work or you're a fireman. or you live in an apartment where no one knows how to cook and has ancient wiring like I do. There are at minimum 5 times a year where a fire breaks out in our building alone
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 02:47 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:If you have to do it regularly, either you're in the wrong line of work or you're a fireman.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 02:56 |
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Dude. I had no idea how sheltered a life I was living. (And yeah, in college it was totally a thing.)
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 03:40 |
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Fanatic posted:When I lived on college campus the fire alarm would get triggered about once a week by a drunk student. The local fire dept hated us. Were you in my dorm? The fire alarms started on move in day, and continued all year. My friend counted out more than 50 by the end of the school year. In Rio news, I read a story about a Chinese hurdler from a couple days ago. Some dude throws up on him, and while the hurdler is cleaning up in the bathroom, someone stole his luggage. Apparently the vomit-attack is a common con there. Blame it on Rio!
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 04:28 |
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Yeah I'm in a large apartment block and it regularly gets tripped. We have a few stages of alarms. 1st one is 'get out if you need exercise or have nothing better to do'. 2nd is 'maybe get your valuables together, we're going to do an warning over the building intercom. 3 is the actual fire.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 04:38 |
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In my old apartment complex we had a very loud and obnoxious fire alarm that triggered about once a week, usually because someone was cooking. Naturally, it failed to trigger the night the building partially burned down, we got woken up by someone going door to door at 5 AM telling people to get the gently caress out. We might have died if not for him.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 05:14 |
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duz posted:No, that's just what you're told, that's not what anyone who has to do it regularly does.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 06:12 |
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A very apt political statement left behind to future generations. Fire alarms that cause crime.
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# ? Aug 1, 2016 18:07 |
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The Olympics' opening ceremony will represent a slice of life in Brazil, including a mugging scene with supermodel Gisele Bundchen the unlikely victim. I so want this to be true.
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# ? Aug 2, 2016 02:15 |
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Lid posted:The Olympics' opening ceremony will represent a slice of life in Brazil, including a mugging scene with supermodel Gisele Bundchen the unlikely victim. They're gonna hold the opening ceremony outside the stadium huh? edit; lmao you're not kidding, it's being reported in a bunch of places. If this happens satire is truly obsolete dex_sda fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Aug 2, 2016 |
# ? Aug 2, 2016 10:32 |
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Lid posted:The Olympics' opening ceremony will represent a slice of life in Brazil, including a mugging scene with supermodel Gisele Bundchen the unlikely victim. What is the likelihood of stadium collapse during the opening ceremony? The odds I am going with is 1:25.
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# ? Aug 2, 2016 18:09 |
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I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that they feel that it's totally okay to hold an international event in the middle of a virus outbreak. I guess I'm just being paranoid though, what about inviting people from all over the world to a place with a fairly debilitating virus that apparently also attacks the reproductive system and has multiple avenues of infection could possibly go wrong? EDIT: To take it to a hyperbolic extreme, it's like "Welcome to the International Games held in AIDStown, the town where everyone has and contracts the dangerous HIV virus. Also there's no law, because at this point gently caress it." Yinlock fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Aug 3, 2016 |
# ? Aug 3, 2016 00:04 |
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The showers are literally holes in the wall.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 00:17 |
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Yinlock posted:I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that they feel that it's totally okay to hold an international event in the middle of a virus outbreak. but there is vast sums of money to be made
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 00:21 |
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# ? May 28, 2024 08:40 |
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Of all the reasons to criticize this Olympics, Zika is the silliest. Infection rates are ridiculously low this time of the year in Rio.
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# ? Aug 3, 2016 00:23 |