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I remember the Sochi thread, it was all "you get no wall in toilet, but you also get three stray dog"
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Feb 8, 2018 17:12
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Guy Goodbody posted:Munich's Olympic Stadium train station OMG, I JUST SPIT MY LUNCH OUT ALL OVER MY KEYBOARD AND THEN MY SIDES LITERALLY SPLIT OPEN AND I'M PROBABLY GETTING FIRED FOR MAKING SUCH A MESS!
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Feb 8, 2018 17:12
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Phy posted:I remember the Sochi thread, it was all "you get no wall in toilet, but you also get three stray dog"  My understanding is that they killed most of the stray dogs before the games, so it wasn't a problem.
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Feb 8, 2018 17:14
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chitoryu12 posted:Let's all remind ourselves that this is the current Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Information Technology Reform. aka DA poo poo'R
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Feb 8, 2018 17:15
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Tokyo is going to be such a poo poo show, it's already so crowded, add millions of Olympic idiots and the city is going to shut down.
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Feb 8, 2018 17:17
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I just don't understand why Olympic facilities always get abandonded. You spent billions of dollars on this poo poo, why not have a series of the best rec centers in the world?
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Feb 8, 2018 17:19
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Brewmaster posted:Anyone have any funny olympics pictures? I'm trying to get psyched for the opening ceremony. Finnish team's hotel room: 
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Feb 8, 2018 17:23
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Inzombiac posted:I just don't understand why Olympic facilities always get abandonded. Are you seriously asking why the City of Athens doesn't maintain it's world class kayaking venue? For the millions of kayaking enthusiasts in the greater Athens area?
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Feb 8, 2018 17:23
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Has any funny stuff come out of the current Olympics? I haven't heard of Rio-level hijinks.
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Feb 8, 2018 17:28
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Kennel posted:Finnish team's hotel room: Is this from this year or from Sochi? After the hilarity of Sochi, this year as been pretty light for Olympic disasters. By this time before Sochi we had a huge dump of picture of terrible building.
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Feb 8, 2018 17:28
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Guy Goodbody posted:Are you seriously asking why the City of Athens doesn't maintain it's world class kayaking venue? For the millions of kayaking enthusiasts in the greater Athens area? Okay fine but you'd think SOME of the facilities would still be used.
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Feb 8, 2018 17:29
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Brocktoon posted:Is this from this year or from Sochi? After the hilarity of Sochi, this year as been pretty light for Olympic disasters. By this time before Sochi we had a huge dump of picture of terrible building. Sochi. I'm not sure there's been a Winter Olympics that was a bigger clusterfuck in recent history. To top it all off, Bob Costas got conjunctivitis  vvv Whaaaaaaat? Seriously? You'd think any host city would have at least tried to learn from the Sochi disaster. Fritz Coldcockin has a new favorite as of 17:33 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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Feb 8, 2018 17:29
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Brocktoon posted:Is this from this year or from Sochi? After the hilarity of Sochi, this year as been pretty light for Olympic disasters. By this time before Sochi we had a huge dump of picture of terrible building. It's this year.
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Feb 8, 2018 17:30
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Guy Goodbody posted:
Did they at least eat them so they didn't go to waste?
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Feb 8, 2018 17:37
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Inzombiac posted:I just don't understand why Olympic facilities always get abandonded. Don't forget that the purpose of Olympic facilities is to funnel government money into the pockets of your friends who own construction companies. Once they are built, they have fulfilled their purpose and can be ignored. Who cares about athletes? They are poor and rarely award large contracts to your friends.
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Feb 8, 2018 17:37
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I would assume it's not exactly cheap to maintain them either. It's almost like the whole thing's a big scam 
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Feb 8, 2018 17:40
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https://twitter.com/naevaypal/status/955113049576411137
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Feb 8, 2018 17:42
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You'd think they would plan on a secondary purpose after the games are finished so they just don't sit there and rot. Even very specific events like kayaking you can fill with inflatable ramps and pwc's. Maybe build a wipe out obstacle course. Do anything besides absolutely nothing. Money seems like a pointless thing to mention when it never seems to be a issue getting them built to begin with.
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Feb 8, 2018 17:43
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So I guess Russia wasn't allowed to send athletes but nobody seems to mind that there are about 200 athletes competing who just happen to be from Russia?
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Feb 8, 2018 17:49
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Shnag posted:You'd think they would plan on a secondary purpose after the games are finished so they just don't sit there and rot. Even very specific events like kayaking you can fill with inflatable ramps and pwc's. Maybe build a wipe out obstacle course. Do anything besides absolutely nothing. Money seems like a pointless thing to mention when it never seems to be a issue getting them built to begin with. when the whole thing's a vehicle for 
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Feb 8, 2018 17:59
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Olympic villages are great Keynesian infrastructure projects. I think they're supposed to rot afterwards. Not that turning them into community housing or free clinics would break my heart...
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Feb 8, 2018 17:59
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Brewmaster posted:Anyone have any funny olympics pictures? I'm trying to get psyched for the opening ceremony. 
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Feb 8, 2018 18:00
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They reuse some of the facilities. I remember you used to be able to use a bunch of the stuff in Lake Placid in upstate New York. I had some friends who went down the bobsled track but I was like lol gently caress that I've seen Cool Runnings I know how this turns out.
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Feb 8, 2018 18:01
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Hey n00b, show the whole picture so we can read what the asterisk is referring to.
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Feb 8, 2018 18:05
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No ring.
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Feb 8, 2018 18:08
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Aleph Null posted:Hey n00b, show the whole picture so we can read what the asterisk is referring to. Trump's Presidency
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Feb 8, 2018 18:08
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The Olympics have been a festival of graft for years. And kicking people out of their homes. London had McDonalds be the only company allowed to serve chips during the games, and anti-air missile silos literally mounted on suburban homes.
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Feb 8, 2018 18:18
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BRISTOL PALINS BABY posted:Olympic villages are great Keynesian infrastructure projects. I think they're supposed to rot afterwards. Not that turning them into community housing or free clinics would break my heart... Technically all the stuff built for an Olympic event is supposed to be used, but in practice it ends up not having the necessary demand and the cost of upkeep is too great so it just gets left to rot.
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Feb 8, 2018 18:19
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:So I guess Russia wasn't allowed to send athletes but nobody seems to mind that there are about 200 athletes competing who just happen to be from Russia? Russia is barred from competing as a nation, but the athletes are still allowed to compete as "Olympic Athletes from Russia" under the Olympic flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Athletes_from_Russia_at_the_2018_Winter_Olympics
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Feb 8, 2018 18:28
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LifeSunDeath posted:Tokyo is going to be such a poo poo show, it's already so crowded, add millions of Olympic idiots and the city is going to shut down. They were "awarded" the Olympics during the middle of the controvery about doing the Olympics in Rio, and Tokyo's bid was basically "it will be pretty clean, the trains will run on time, and you probably won't get mugged" At the time of course nobody could predict how high the odds would be that by 2020 Tokyo will primarily be a transit and storage depot for the US military engaged in Korea War 2, but whadayagonado
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Feb 8, 2018 18:38
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Shnag posted:You'd think they would plan on a secondary purpose after the games are finished so they just don't sit there and rot. Even very specific events like kayaking you can fill with inflatable ramps and pwc's. Maybe build a wipe out obstacle course. Do anything besides absolutely nothing. Money seems like a pointless thing to mention when it never seems to be a issue getting them built to begin with. they typically do plan secondary purposes, but after the olympics are over political will and funding evaporates and it's easier to just let all the brand new poo poo fall to ruin if there's no immediate need for it. plus there's a problem if the city doesn't have already extant transportation infrastructure and sport facilities, the 1996 atlanta games could be had on the cheap because they didn't have to build many venues vs. just renting venues all around atlanta and the southeastern united states. plenty of cities build all that stuff from scratch, where it didn't previously exist for a reason
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Feb 8, 2018 18:50
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Inzombiac posted:Okay fine but you'd think SOME of the facilities would still be used. Olympic Stadium in Berlin gets used still. Yep, the one during THAT olympics.
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Feb 8, 2018 18:58
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P sure Vancouver turned their athletes' village into college dorms and still use a good portion of the venues. They also didn't blow absurd money on it (comparatively speaking). And they got some long needed infrastructure! I mean, it was still corrupt as hell and lined the pockets developers, but in a slightly more quaint  way.That said, gently caress the Olympics.  Gallery link
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Feb 8, 2018 19:02
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https://twitter.com/thepunningman/status/961610172237074434
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Feb 8, 2018 19:07
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Stockholms Olympic arena is still standing and in frequent use. It was built for the 1912 summer olympics
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Feb 8, 2018 19:09
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chitoryu12 posted:Has any funny stuff come out of the current Olympics? I haven't heard of Rio-level hijinks. Well, it could turn into a literal shitshow.
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Feb 8, 2018 19:17
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JoelJoel posted:P sure Vancouver turned their athletes' village into college dorms and still use a good portion of the venues. They also didn't blow absurd money on it (comparatively speaking). And they got some long needed infrastructure! Re: Vancouver, as someone who lives in the massive part of British Columbia that is not the Vancouver area, the Olympics involved a lot of the provincial government (because it was definitely handled on a provincial level, not a federal) ignoring northern infrastructure issues in order to pay to make the lower mainland a bit more shiny. Sure, Vancouver got some great infrastructure. I live ten hours away, provincial debt was increased by $24 billion, and we sure didn't get any of the tourism or job creation benefits they liked to tout. But then, the provincial government screwing over the the rest of the province is nothing new. "We're going to close a whole bunch of small schools. Somehow this is going to mean only schools outside the lower mainland and mostly rural, and they can just go to other schools, who cares if that means we're expecting six year olds to ride the bus for two hours every morning to schools that are now very overcrowded because three schools are now one school? We don't have overcrowding! If you take the average of the province, including all the small schools in Vancouver we didn't touch, there's no problem!" I like opening and closing ceremonies, though. They're fun and ridiculous.
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Feb 8, 2018 19:28
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JoelJoel posted:P sure Vancouver turned their athletes' village into college dorms and still use a good portion of the venues. They also didn't blow absurd money on it (comparatively speaking). And they got some long needed infrastructure! That last one should be titled "calm3.jpg".
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