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I have a question, has anyone posted photos of nice accommodations? I assume Sochi has existing decent hotels, but among the newly constructed stuff around Adler where the Olympic Village is, are these photos all from a few unfinished projects and there actually are some halfway decent hotels? Or just everything is like the terrible press quarters? I know Sochi is like 20 miles from the Olympic village, so are most spectators just staying there and taking a bus down or what?
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This sure didn't feel like the opening ceremony of a 51 billion dollar event.
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Feb 7, 2014 19:33
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Wait 100 rollerbladers? I thought Russia didn't allow gay displays in public.
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Feb 7, 2014 19:43
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Yay rebel alliance symbol!
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Feb 7, 2014 19:55
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SarutosZero posted:Putting tarps on top of more tarps isn't going to solve the problem. It couldn't hurt!
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Feb 7, 2014 20:02
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Do you all not use adblock plus? I didn't see a single ad on that site.
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Feb 7, 2014 20:26
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You know if they had taken 0.01% of all that olympic money they could have thrown together a program to feed, vaccinate and neuter as many of those dogs as they like. Hell you could have payed people salaries for a decade to just sit around and play with them full time.
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Feb 7, 2014 21:58
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Spacedad posted:Don't be absurd. How would they have been able to build all those cinder-block and tarp-based Winchester mansion hotels if they spared any money for dealing with a longstanding unchecked stray dog problem. I dunno, just thrown something together out of tarps? The dogs wouldn't even care, unlike bourgeoisie (man at first I didn't even come close enough for spellcheck to suggest the proper spelling) reporters. Edit: Are you suggesting glorious Russia has insufficient tarps for both? Don't let your showerhead hear talk like that.
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Feb 7, 2014 22:19
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Greyhawk posted:But is the elevator made of cardboard too? No but it is suspended by simple coax cable. That's why the rooms have no tv's.
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Feb 10, 2014 17:17
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peanut posted:So... are Paralympics going to be held in this hot mess next? They're still working on making Russia wheelchair accessible. Don't worry, it will be done in time. The tarps are almost finished.
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Feb 19, 2014 01:42
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At least us United Statesians can take pride that all the best female players from every Olympic team will just end up right back in our country playing for the WNHL. That's a thing... right?
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Feb 20, 2014 20:55
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Azerban posted:this forever That would be really immature to gloat "forever." I mean you don't see any Americans still hashing up a gold medal hockey victory from say 30 years ago.
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Feb 20, 2014 21:05
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Lawman 0 posted:This Olympics went better than I expected. I certainly didn't pick up on there being 51 billion dollars put into it, but it did end up going a lot smoother than I expected. I guess we can just assume that had Russia spent a normal amount on the games it would have been a disaster, but that any disaster can be avoided with a few dozen extra billion dollars.
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CLAM DOWN posted:The games didn't cost 51 billion. Corruption/bribes/payoffs/Russians did. You have to include those in the costs. They're very important. You think you get tarps of this quality without greasing the right wheels?
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