Author Topic: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water (Read 8263 times)

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

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #1 on:** February 04, 2014, 09:21:13 PM »

Good luck, athletes! For your own sakes, I hope none of you are gay! o7

Tengukami · « **Reply #2 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!"

Iced Fairy · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2014, 10:00:12 PM »

Quote from: Kilgamayan on February 04, 2014, 09:21:13 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

DX7.EP · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2014, 09:53:21 PM »

Americans yet again receive idiocy and delays from the network broadcaster.

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

Edible · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2014, 10:04:04 PM »

Quote from: DX7_EP on February 05, 2014, 09:53:21 PM

Americans yet again receive idiocy and delays from the network broadcaster.

NBC is fucking awful, news at 11.

http://sochi.fbk.info/en/ < Also, have this corruption infographic!

Stuffman · « **Reply #6 on:** February 05, 2014, 11:19:35 PM »

Quote from: Edible on February 05, 2014, 10:04:04 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.

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #7 on:** February 06, 2014, 04:19:59 AM »

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #8 on:** February 06, 2014, 04:35:44 AM »

Quote from: DX7_EP on February 05, 2014, 09:53:21 PM

Americans yet again receive idiocy and delays from the network broadcaster.

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

GUESS WHEN NBC DECIDED TO RUN A COMMERCIAL.

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #9 on:** February 06, 2014, 04:40:24 AM »

It's not like their moron announcers wouldn't have talked through the whole performance anyway.

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #10 on:** February 06, 2014, 04:56:40 AM »

I'd've been okay with that! At lest compared to what we got. :V

Drake · « **Reply #11 on:** February 06, 2014, 07:06:32 AM »

I'd've, really.

redlakitu · « **Reply #12 on:** February 06, 2014, 11:43:59 AM »

I only care about the ski jumping events, and there are good reasons for optimism.

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.

Dr Rawr · « **Reply #13 on:** February 07, 2014, 05:31:08 AM »

https://twitter.com/SochiProblems

apparently people in sochi are having adventures

Quad City QBs · « **Reply #14 on:** February 08, 2014, 12:45:47 AM »

beautiful Sochi

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #15 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!

Quad City QBs · « **Reply #16 on:** February 08, 2014, 04:47:20 AM »

AHAHAHAHA

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #17 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?

Stuffman · « **Reply #18 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.

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #19 on:** February 08, 2014, 06:47:54 AM »

Quote from: Chaos Purvis on February 08, 2014, 04:52:50 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

Women's Downhill Skiing Halted Because Jump Was Too Big

Or hell, just keep tabs on Deadspin's Sochi Olympics and Sochi tags. Here's one of my personal favorites from the latter, because I am five years old.

redlakitu · « **Reply #20 on:** February 08, 2014, 09:24:15 AM »

Since you appear to ejnoy this sort of thing: the biathlon track was too short.

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #21 on:** February 09, 2014, 12:49:38 AM »

No hilarious disasters yet today, so I post this instead.

http://instagram.com/p/kJltYPFQ4d/#

Quad City QBs · « **Reply #22 on:** February 09, 2014, 04:29:31 AM »

as usual, chainsawsuit da bes

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #23 on:** February 09, 2014, 04:40:55 PM »

http://teespring.com/sochitees

Who's gonna get one?

Tengukami · « **Reply #24 on:** February 09, 2014, 04:46:32 PM »

I haven't had this much fun since the Goodwill Games.

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #25 on:** February 10, 2014, 10:32:32 PM »

Good luck to everyone out there in Sochi!

Alfred F. Jones · « **Reply #26 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.

Kilgamayan · « **Reply #27 on:** February 12, 2014, 05:39:27 AM »

Yeah, the luge/bobsled/skeleton events do that to people.

Quad City QBs · « **Reply #28 on:** February 24, 2014, 05:02:49 AM »

that's all folks

Helepolis · « **Reply #29 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

Author Topic: Winter Olympics 2014 Topic - Dangerous Face Water (Read 8263 times)

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