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Wizchine posted:I think this is where we have to get technical if we are going to score properly - the Danish team wasn't robbed, they were burgled. A robbery occurs when a person is confronted and there is force or the threat of force, whereas a burglary occurs when someone breaks into a locked domicile or vehicle and steals the contents. And theft means you left your poo poo unsecured and it was gone when you checked on it or something. You should be doing commentary.
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No one is going to the olympics, except the expendables, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-04/global-leaders-avoid-olympics-amid-leadership-limbo-in-brazil Brazil will host only a fraction of the heads of state during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics as London did four years earlier, dampening its ambitions to make the 2016 summer games a moment of international acclaim. Only about 40 countries will send delegations, several of them lower-ranking officials. Many world leaders are staying at home amid security concerns and uncertainty over Brazil’s future government. Acting President Michel Temer will preside over the inauguration ceremony and welcome foreign dignitaries at a reception in Rio Friday afternoon, while suspended president Dilma Rousseff awaits an impeachment trial later this month. .... The U.S. will be represented by John Kerry, who is expected to meet with Brazilian Foreign Minister Jose Serra at Friday’s reception. Tentative plans for Kerry to meet with Temer in the capital city Brasilia never materialized, according to a government official involved in the Olympics planning who asked not to named because the information isn’t public.
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Aug 5, 2016 00:57
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All this schadenfreude and the games haven't officially started yet!
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Aug 5, 2016 01:05
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NBC is sugarcoating the poo poo out of Rio. I mean, sure, they want folks to tune in, but holy crap, it feels like the broadcast of the hunger games, IN the movie. Totally spinning everything, sugar coating it.
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I feel like the better way to spin it is as it actually is.quote:HOLY poo poo, BUSSES ARE GETTING HIJACKED AND AQUATIC SPORTS PARTICIPANTS MIGHT GET MENINGITIS, TUNE THE gently caress IN
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Oh man, they literally are describing the opening as MacGyver'ed Olympic organisers invoke MacGyver to describe spirit of opening ceremony Olympic organisers invoked the spirit of cult 1980s television show MacGyver to describe their attempts to make Rio’s bargain-bucket opening ceremony live up to the memory of its predecessors. “Athens was classic, Beijing was grandiose, London was smart - ours is going to be cool,” said Andrucha Waddington, the Brazilian film director who is part of the team behind Friday’s ceremony in Rio’s Maracana stadium. The ceremony is a joint creative effort, headed by Italian executive producer Marco Balich, a veteran of 17 such bookends of major sporting events, and creative director Fernando Meirelles, the Brazilian whose films include City of God. Team GB’s medal hunters at Rio Olympics: which sports and how many? Read more The team made repeated references to MacGyver – a show about a secret agent who solved complex problems by repurposing everyday items – in portraying a pared-down if not cobbled-together effort that has been produced for a fraction of the cost of Danny Boyle’s London 2012 extravaganza or China’s drummer-laden display of state muscle in 2008. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/04/olympic-organisers-invoke-macgyver-to-describe-spirit-of-opening-ceremony I wonder if they have the ring failure sochi thing as a backup joke, just in case.
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magnificent7 posted:NBC is sugarcoating the poo poo out of Rio. I mean, sure, they want folks to tune in, but holy crap, it feels like the broadcast of the hunger games, IN the movie. Totally spinning everything, sugar coating it. If you offend the IOC you quickly start losing access to trackside interviews and other such broadcastery poo poo.
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goatface posted:If you offend the IOC you quickly start losing access to trackside interviews and other such broadcastery poo poo.
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magnificent7 posted:NBC is sugarcoating the poo poo out of Rio. I mean, sure, they want folks to tune in, but holy crap, it feels like the broadcast of the hunger games, IN the movie. Totally spinning everything, sugar coating it. Are you new here? So has Facebook, and Google!
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Lime Tonics posted:Oh man, they literally are describing the opening as MacGyver'ed theres a new macguyver movie or tv show or something coming out. Maybe they bribed the opening ceremonies director to make it all about macguyver also channeling the spirit of macguyver in 2016, lol Gisele B said that the opening ceremonies will feature her being robbed, Ifeel we wont be able to tell if the shitshow we're watching is staged or not
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wow that articlequote:The ceremony will be based on three “pillars” according to Abel Gomes, another executive producer. The first of these portrays Brazil as humanity’s last remaining “garden” and will carry a strong environmental message. The second is Brazil’s human diversity, which the organisers referenced as a message of hope in dark times, mentioning the uncertainties of both the upcoming US presidential elections and Brexit. Its going to be about polluted water, macguyer, and donald trump
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Madcosby posted:wow that article the third pillar was stolen prior to the opening ceremonies
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Want to make gifs? DO NOT MAKE GIFS! "Internet and Mobile Platforms Notwithstanding any other applicable limitation included in these NARs, Olympic Material must not be broadcast on interactive services such as "news active" or "sports active" or any other related Video on Demand services, which would allow the viewer to make a viewing choice within a channel and to thereby view Olympic Material at times and programs other than when broadcast as part of a News Program as set out in Clause 1 above. Additionally, the use of Olympic Material transformed into graphic animated formats such as animated GIFs (i.e. GIFV), GFY, WebM, or short video formats such as Vines and others, is expressly prohibited." http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/4/12379224/olympics-rio-2016-gifs-rules-policy No webms either, make a gif, get sued. Have a good sports event with a bunch of circular things as a logo.
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Aug 5, 2016 01:32
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Wait is the guy from City of God really involved in this event
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Madcosby posted:wow that article You'd figure they would mention their own impeachment undertaking rather than pointing out two other countries political poo poo shows
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Aug 5, 2016 01:34
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Russia is back in http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/36970627 quote:Russia will have 271 athletes eligible to compete at the Rio Games, says the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Dely Apple posted:Wait is the guy from City of God really involved in this event Yes, blood spattered corpse #1 and and blood spattered corpse #5 both will have torch-bearing parts.
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Aug 5, 2016 01:36
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I'm in the Atlanta airport right now, no sign of the Nigerian soccer team.
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Aug 5, 2016 01:36
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Good luck enforcing a worldwide gif ban. Oh noes, someone made a 30 frame loop of a sportman and gave him googly eyes! Our sacrosanct intellectual property!
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The Light Eternal posted:I'm in the Atlanta airport right now, no sign of the Nigerian soccer team. Flash some money around
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Madcosby posted:Gisele B said that the opening ceremonies will feature her being robbed
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Explosive Tampons posted:Don't go. I'm talking about your trip to brazil in general. No can do. I'm best man at a wedding in Fortaleza (on Brazil's north coast) so I gotta go. Fortaleza is more a resort kind of city where I will spend most of my time (with locals too) so I'm not too worried. As long as I make it through the three days in Rio (during which time the Paralympics will be on, so maybe poo poo will have settled?) unscathed I'm good 
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Brannock posted:Russia is back in I really do think this is the West's way of making GBS threads on Putin's face publicly for invading Ukraine. "You think you can get away with little green men because Ukraine is too close to Russia? Fine! We will hit the only thing you care about, you face!"
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goatface posted:If you offend the IOC you quickly start losing access to trackside interviews and other such broadcastery poo poo. they paid over $12 billion for all the olympics through 2032 you don't earn back money by just catering to goons
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Aug 5, 2016 02:26
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nbc is the worst presenter of the olympics in the world by a considerable margin because of their tape delay policy. i'll just watch the opening ceremony on the same site where i watch sports streams
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Y-Hat posted:nbc is the worst presenter of the olympics in the world by a considerable margin because of their tape delay policy. i'll just watch the opening ceremony on the same site where i watch sports streams Not to mention the fact that they talk their asses off over anything that isn't the american national anthem.
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Powershift posted:Not to mention the fact that they talk their asses off over anything that isn't the american national anthem.
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I think what they really need to do is make a formal announcement that athletes will not be tested for cocaine during this Olympics, and turn it into a Scarface free-for-all out there. See if any event can rack up a body count as fast as the coke-fueled javelin throwing, that kind of thing.
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If you greet the US delegation and it's John Kerry, you got loving SNUBBED. Even North Korea got Jimmy Carter and Dennis Rodman.
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Y-Hat posted:that got canceled because of outcry over racism. btw is she descended from nazis? if you've got a german last name and you're from brazil, the odds are pretty good There's a fuckload of people with German ancestry in southern Brazil but hey who knows. Yeah I know it sounds crazy but not every Brazilian is brown. 
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:If you greet the US delegation and it's John Kerry, you got loving SNUBBED. Even North Korea got Jimmy Carter and Dennis Rodman. he's the secretary of state bro
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Negrostrike posted:Yeah I know it sounds crazy but not every Brazilian is brown.
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Aug 5, 2016 03:01
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Well whatever enjoy the latest from our favorite Taiwanese CG animators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28i2U9IuuQs
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Negrostrike posted:Looks like some dudes opened fire at the torch relay as well. Look at them fuckers go. 
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In Barcelona in the 90s they had some dude light the Olympic flame by shooting a flaming arrow at it Surely Rio should have some drug lord with an RPG take care of that?
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tacodaemon posted:In Barcelona in the 90s they had some dude light the Olympic flame by shooting a flaming arrow at it can pele cosplay
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Also they're claiming that the thing with Gisele in the opening ceremony was supposed to represent her bodyguards chasing away someone bugging her for an autograph, or something like that (???) but they decided to drop it from the opening ceremony after people watching the rehearsal thought it was a mugging
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Who would want Gisele's autograph when Miss BumBum is likely to be in the building?
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Negrostrike posted:Well whatever enjoy the latest from our favorite Taiwanese CG animators: holy lol, burning trash barrel is the best olympic torch.
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