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Title: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Edible on February 04, 2014, 09:15:45 PM
The winter olympics start in a couple days.  Here's a summary of the facilities.

http://www.canada.com/olympics/sochi-guide/sochi-facilities-still-a-work-in-progress
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Kilgamayan on February 04, 2014, 09:21:13 PM
Good luck, athletes! For your own sakes, I hope none of you are gay! o7
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Tengukami on February 04, 2014, 09:54:21 PM
Talking to Russians about this is an exercise in hair-splitting. "The anti-LGBT laws aren't 'draconian and evil'! They're only, like, stupid. No one's getting arrested! Lalalala i can't hear yooooou!"
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Iced Fairy on February 04, 2014, 10:00:12 PM
Good luck, athletes! For your own sakes, I hope none of you are gay! o7
Pretty sure a number of the US delegation are openly gay, just as a "fuck you."

Here we are : http://www.mercurynews.com/national-sports-news/ci_25025987/president-obama-selects-gay-athletes-sochi-delegation
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: DX7.EP on February 05, 2014, 09:53:21 PM
Americans yet again receive idiocy and delays from the network broadcaster. (http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5383086/nbc-sochi-winter-olympics-coverage-tape-delay-live-streaming)

Good luck to all participants, and I'll probably be skipping this and hibernating sports-wise until FIFA. At least that's on a different network states-side. :V
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Edible on February 05, 2014, 10:04:04 PM
Americans yet again receive idiocy and delays from the network broadcaster. (http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5383086/nbc-sochi-winter-olympics-coverage-tape-delay-live-streaming)

NBC is fucking awful, news at 11.

http://sochi.fbk.info/en/ < Also, have this corruption infographic!
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Stuffman on February 05, 2014, 11:19:35 PM
http://sochi.fbk.info/en/ < Also, have this corruption infographic!

Man, Russia is so fucked up. I mean, every country has corruption, but in Russia it's just staggering how common and blatant it is.
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Kilgamayan on February 06, 2014, 04:19:59 AM
lel (http://www.vocativ.com/02-2014/sochi-running-pillows/)
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on February 06, 2014, 04:35:44 AM
Americans yet again receive idiocy and delays from the network broadcaster. (http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5383086/nbc-sochi-winter-olympics-coverage-tape-delay-live-streaming)

I watched the closing ceremony for the London Olympics entirely to see Muse play.

GUESS WHEN NBC DECIDED TO RUN A COMMERCIAL.
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Kilgamayan on February 06, 2014, 04:40:24 AM
It's not like their moron announcers wouldn't have talked through the whole performance anyway.
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Shizumarashi Mayuzumi on February 06, 2014, 04:56:40 AM
I'd've been okay with that! At lest compared to what we got. :V
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Drake on February 06, 2014, 07:06:32 AM
I'd've, really.
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: redlakitu on February 06, 2014, 11:43:59 AM
I only care about the ski jumping events, and there are good reasons (http://www.fis-ski.com/ski-jumping/leader-board/) for optimism. (http://www.fis-ski.com/ski-jumping/events-and-places/event=33544/race=3872/index.html)

If there are any German ski jumping fans around here, I'd like to ask if there's any controversy surrounding Werner Schuster's decision to pick Wank instead of Neumayer for the Olympic team. Same question goes to readers from Austria and Kraft vs Kofler.
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Dr Rawr on February 07, 2014, 05:31:08 AM
https://twitter.com/SochiProblems

apparently people in sochi are having adventures
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Quad City QBs on February 08, 2014, 12:45:47 AM
beautiful Sochi
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Hello Purvis on February 08, 2014, 03:32:58 AM
I want an hours long stream of incomplete and shoddy facilities in Sochi, accompanied with the Papers Please theme. I cannot get enough of this shit, it is so horrifically hilarious!
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Quad City QBs on February 08, 2014, 04:47:20 AM
AHAHAHAHA
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Hello Purvis on February 08, 2014, 04:52:50 AM
Glory to Arstotzka!


Man, I wonder if any actual events are going to get ruined by this? I remember one women's fencing match got ruined because of equipment malfunctions during the Beijing Olympics; and  I think a gymnast got paralyzed due to a collapsing scaffolding?
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Stuffman on February 08, 2014, 06:12:30 AM
I would be very worried if I was an athlete there. But it's not like they can just say "nope" and go the fuck home.
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Kilgamayan on February 08, 2014, 06:47:54 AM
Man, I wonder if any actual events are going to get ruined by this?

It's entirely possible!

Stray Dog Wanders Onto Cross-Country Skiing Course, Barks At Everyone (http://deadspin.com/stray-dog-wanders-onto-cross-country-skiing-course-bar-1517391652)

Women's Downhill Skiing Halted Because Jump Was Too Big (http://deadspin.com/womens-downhill-skiing-halted-because-jump-was-too-big-1517321814)

Or hell, just keep tabs on Deadspin's Sochi Olympics (http://deadspin.com/tag/sochi-olympics) and Sochi (http://deadspin.com/tag/sochi) tags. Here's (http://deadspin.com/all-the-sochi-food-is-in-the-ass-1517381077) one of my personal favorites from the latter, because I am five years old.
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: redlakitu on February 08, 2014, 09:24:15 AM
Since you appear to ejnoy this sort of thing: the biathlon track was too short. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554108/Whoops-Olympic-biathlon-track-short.html)
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Kilgamayan on February 09, 2014, 12:49:38 AM
No hilarious disasters yet today, so I post this instead.

http://instagram.com/p/kJltYPFQ4d/#
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Quad City QBs on February 09, 2014, 04:29:31 AM
as usual, chainsawsuit da bes
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Kilgamayan on February 09, 2014, 04:40:55 PM
http://teespring.com/sochitees

Who's gonna get one?
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Tengukami on February 09, 2014, 04:46:32 PM
I haven't had this much fun since the Goodwill Games.
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Hello Purvis on February 10, 2014, 10:32:32 PM
Good luck to everyone out there in Sochi! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6RID82Ru-k)
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Alfred F. Jones on February 12, 2014, 03:41:23 AM
As always, I told myself I was going to focus on the figure skating this year, and then I got dragged into watching everything else and blowing several hours watching events I don't even actually care about, like luge and hockey. Oops.
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Kilgamayan on February 12, 2014, 05:39:27 AM
Yeah, the luge/bobsled/skeleton events do that to people.
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Quad City QBs on February 24, 2014, 05:02:49 AM
that's all folks
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Helepolis on February 24, 2014, 07:36:02 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUEZRDU-2OE

Sometimes, it is better to just stay quiet :V
Title: Re: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water
Post by: Kilgamayan on February 25, 2014, 04:20:40 AM
http://deadspin.com/athletes-who-ate-it-at-the-olympics-a-gif-gallery-1529682045