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Redgrendel2001
Sep 1, 2006

you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

whose fans was it who threw bananas at a black player
Half the countries in the world.

I'm trying to remember the name of the black player who responded by eating the thrown banana.

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el B
Jan 30, 2004
holler.

fits my needs posted:

max payne 3 is an accurate portrayal of brazil

Last night I was talking to my buddy about Rio, and he said exactly the same thing.

Root Bear
Nov 15, 2004

DARKEST SKETCH


The combined intellect of both the interviewers and the athlete is still less than that of a bag of hammers. Jesus Christ.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Lime Tonics posted:

It gets worse. Mike Tirico is going to be doing prime time coverage.

Can't hit the mute button fast enough soon.
is doc emrick gonna be announcing water polo again? he did that in london and he sounded bored as hell

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

whose fans was it who threw bananas at a black player

most countries not america have done it at some point or nother

Alternative pants
Nov 2, 2009

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.


Kinda odd how it's countries other than America that are cartoonishly racist.

Glass Joe
Mar 9, 2007

SurfaceDetail posted:

most countries not america have done it at some point or nother

Because attendance at games in America is roughly five people on average

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Alternative pants posted:

Kinda odd how it's countries other than America that are cartoonishly racist.

america is a sack of poo poo but yeah it's still a lot better than most other places

america gets a lot of flak because it is currently top empire of the world but the UK arguably did things way more brutally when they had their time in the sun. Same for Spain, and Japan wasn't exactly very nice to its neighbors. Mongols made pyramids of skulls.

France was pretty chill to the natives, relatively though. vive la france

though you'd expect things to be better in 2016 ofc we can't hold ourselves to the standard of Ghengis Khan but you know the fact that we haven't ended the world in nuclear fire yet is pretty cool

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
Russia is sad.

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has issued a plea for Russia's athletes to be allowed to compete in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and apologized for the "deceptive" sportsmen caught doping in the past in an article he wrote for Britain's Sunday Times.

With less than three months before the Rio Games open in August, Moscow is seeking to have a global ban overturned to allow its track and field athletes to compete.

The All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) was suspended from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after several high-profile Russian athletes were caught red-handed in using banned performance-enhanced substances.

"We are very sorry that athletes who tried to deceive us, and the world, were not caught sooner. We are very sorry because Russia is committed to upholding the highest standards in sport and is opposed to anything that threatens the Olympic values."

http://www.newsweek.com/russian-sports-minister-pleads-rio-olympics-entry-460053

We are sorry we allowed, wait they allowed, wait, which one is the official apology?

So yeah, it's official, russia banned.

edit : condom situation for australia is figured out.

https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/sport/aussie-athletes-will-get-super-strength-condoms-be/4c5f88a6-f1c1-4c3c-9379-f7c4cb13921b.htm

In addition to the 450,000 condoms (seriously) that will be available in vending machines throughout the Olympic Village, Aussies will get 1500 extras from local manufacturer Starpharma, that come with "dual protection" in the form of an antiviral lubricant.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Alternative pants posted:

Kinda odd how it's countries other than America that are cartoonishly racist.

Alternative pants
Nov 2, 2009

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.



Yeah, that's what I said.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Lime Tonics posted:

Russia is sad.

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has issued a plea for Russia's athletes to be allowed to compete in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and apologized for the "deceptive" sportsmen caught doping in the past in an article he wrote for Britain's Sunday Times.

With less than three months before the Rio Games open in August, Moscow is seeking to have a global ban overturned to allow its track and field athletes to compete.

The All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) was suspended from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) after several high-profile Russian athletes were caught red-handed in using banned performance-enhanced substances.

"We are very sorry that athletes who tried to deceive us, and the world, were not caught sooner. We are very sorry because Russia is committed to upholding the highest standards in sport and is opposed to anything that threatens the Olympic values."

http://www.newsweek.com/russian-sports-minister-pleads-rio-olympics-entry-460053

We are sorry we allowed, wait they allowed, wait, which one is the official apology?

So yeah, it's official, russia banned.

Russia thinks apologizing for the doping while blaming it on the athletes makes sense because in Russia that's how it is done kinda - the state can't take 100% fault because then it implies weakness or something so they always have to disappear the person who is really at fault.

So it's more like 'sorry we allowed it to happen but these are the true serpents behind it all!' and thus it makes sense to them.

that's what my inner slav tells me anyway

Jaramin
Oct 20, 2010



people_who_know_they_should_be_ashamed_for_racism.jpg

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
what's up with India always on the top of those kinds of charts?

it's like they are the South of the world

Plucky Brit
Nov 7, 2009

Swing low, sweet chariot

Moridin920 posted:

what's up with India always on the top of those kinds of charts?

it's like they are the South of the world

For fun, look up Gandhi's comments on Africans.

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013
With the games falling apart it falls to Rio's massive stable of child prostitutes to save Brazil from total economic collapse.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Moridin920 posted:

what's up with India always on the top of those kinds of charts?

it's like they are the South of the world

Caste system really primes the pump for racism?

Oh poo poo, is it racist to speculate and generalize on why a country is racist? *blinks out of existence*

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

thanks to cold war 2 putin boogaloo, its not racist to hate slavs

the india/pakistan red splotch is because of india/pakistan

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Moridin920 posted:

what's up with India always on the top of those kinds of charts?

it's like they are the South of the world


Pakistan

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

"Chsrt showing honesty on surveys"
red indicates countries more likely to answer truthfully on surveys

Khazar-khum
Oct 22, 2008

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
2nd Battalion

Mange Mite posted:

"Chsrt showing honesty on surveys"
red indicates countries more likely to answer truthfully on surveys

Hey, I have white people pn either side of my house. I don't mind them being there at all.

Nicodemus Dumps
Jan 9, 2006

Just chillin' in the sink

Alternative pants posted:

Kinda odd how it's countries other than America that are cartoonishly racist.

The reason why it seems that the USA is "more racist" is that many other countries don't have to confront racism in the same way because they are much more heterogeneous. Just because one never meets any black people to be directly racist towards doesn't mean that person doesn't hold horrendous views about them.

Edit: mixed up heterogeneous and homogeneous because I'm a big dummy

Nicodemus Dumps fucked around with this message at 03:36 on May 16, 2016

White Phosphorus
Sep 12, 2000

popewiles posted:

The reason why it seems that the USA is "more racist" is that many other countries don't have to confront racism in the same way because they are much more heterogeneous. Just because one never meets any black people to be directly racist towards doesn't mean that person doesn't hold horrendous views about them.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the land of the free has the highest prison population in the world made up primarily of minorities. It doesn't matter what race is your neighbor, if they act up the cops will loving shoot them. Or you can shoot them yourself if you are in Florida/Texas. Other countries are loving zoos and the animals are out of their cages. When an ethnic gang is beating your family to death the cops will just laugh or maybe join in.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Alternative pants posted:

Kinda odd how it's countries other than America that are cartoonishly racist.
bringing this back to sports: russian and italian soccer fans make boston fans look like MLK. mario balotelli is a black soccer player and italian citizen, but that didn't stop silvio berlussconi (who owns the Milan club he plays for) from calling him a "little friend of the family." this is in a country where the "whiter" northern italians look down upon their darker southern counterparts

also there's a st. petersburg club whose major supporter group didn't want them to get a black Brazilian player because they wanted to stay a white club due to "tradition." that player still gets racial slurs shouted at him

count your blessings, america

popewiles posted:

The reason why it seems that the USA is "more racist" is that many other countries don't have to confront racism in the same way because they are much more heterogeneous. Just because one never meets any black people to be directly racist towards doesn't mean that person doesn't hold horrendous views about them.
america is heterogeneous, europe is more homogeneous. and that's why i feel someone like Marine Le Pen or Geert Wilders has a better chance of leading a European country than donald trump does here

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

PostNouveau posted:

Caste system really primes the pump for racism?

Oh poo poo, is it racist to speculate and generalize on why a country is racist? *blinks out of existence*

Gandhi was SUPER PISSED to be treated the same as the blacks.

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


I am of the opinion that hinduism is to blame and that it's a bad religion. India should have stuck with Buddhism

boom boom boom
Jun 28, 2012

by Shine

hemophilia posted:

I am of the opinion that hinduism is to blame and that it's a bad religion. India should have stuck with Buddhism

hinduism is a lot older

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


boom boom boom posted:

hinduism is a lot older

Yeah? Buddhism was the dominant religion for a while.

Mughal style islam would've been fine too.

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


I feel the Jainist vows of celibacy, nudity and non-bathing should put them at the fore of any goon-endorsed religion.

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


I serve a God named Magran who is a a filthy whore! :goonsay:

been playing pillars of eternity sorry

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

one theory of why the caste system exists is that central asian (and lighter-skinned) invaders took over India and used it to subjugate the darker-skinned people there. so that would explain the racism there

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc
India still has straight up race riots where people from one lovely village go over to rape and murder the women and children of another village while the men are at work. This might have something to do with it

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

White Phosphorus posted:

Another thing to keep in mind is that the land of the free has the highest prison population in the world made up primarily of minorities. It doesn't matter what race is your neighbor, if they act up the cops will loving shoot them. Or you can shoot them yourself if you are in Florida/Texas. Other countries are loving zoos and the animals are out of their cages. When an ethnic gang is beating your family to death the cops will just laugh or maybe join in.

Agreed

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

has john oliver done a main story on the rio olympics yet, or is he still making people wonder why he repatriated to america in the first place? he's stale and lazy as hell but i'll watch his expose on the IOC

boom boom boom
Jun 28, 2012

by Shine

Y-Hat posted:

has john oliver done a main story on the rio olympics yet, or is he still making people wonder why he repatriated to america in the first place? he's stale and lazy as hell but i'll watch his expose on the IOC

He moved to America because "being British" isn't enough to qualify you for a showbiz career in Britain

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

boom boom boom posted:

He moved to America because "being British" isn't enough to qualify you for a showbiz career in Britain

Are you sure? Their celebrity chefs are actually celebrities over there. "Big Brother" contestants are legitimate stars in England.

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


Y-Hat posted:

has john oliver done a main story on the rio olympics yet, or is he still making people wonder why he repatriated to america in the first place? he's stale and lazy as hell but i'll watch his expose on the IOC

That is going to be a delicate comedic route to travel as J/O has to be very careful not to blame the serial ineptitude, self-destructive corruption and lovely, short sighted behavior of the native Brazillians themselves and instead blame everything on the serial ineptitude, self-destructive corruption and lovely, short sighted behavior of the IOC while making it funny and digestible for his audience of repeat-my-views-back-at-me-unchallenged John Stewart's Very White Incarnation of The Daily Show diaspora.

Because this mess is all traceable down to the character of the average Jeorge Q. Brazillian and I dont think J/O can permit himself to admit that. China knew it was hosed and was pre-planning to implement doorside phlegm-catching taxi spittoons from before their bid was submitted. They knew their faults and limits and worked within their talent for corruption to address them. Brazil has no such talent and needs to be hauled up as an example for what happens when there is a lack of capacity for introspection on a national level.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

seeing as that's what he did on his two FIFA stories, that's almost certainly the route he'll go down. his main stories are usually "america is bad and it's all your fault" but he never gives any other place that kind of courtesy, even though they're as hosed up (if not more so) in other ways

also i'm gonna call john "J/O" from now on, thanks

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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Mange Mite posted:

India still has straight up race riots where people from one lovely village go over to rape and murder the women and children of another village while the men are at work. This might have something to do with it

yes but i think that you will find that america is just as racist because

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counterfeitsaint
Feb 26, 2010

I'm a girl, and you're
gnomes, and it's like
what? Yikes.

Fojar38 posted:

yes but i think that you will find that america is just as racist because

Just look up a few posts, and you'll see how white people are also responsible for India's racism.

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