The 2014 Winter Olympics

Hey, they still have a few days. I'm sure it'll all be finished on time. Everyone is acting like it's a Potemkin village or something!
 
Russell Street said:
Hey, they still have a few days. I'm sure it'll all be finished on time. Everyone is acting like it's a Potemkin village or something!
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For 51 billion you would expect to be able to flush some toilet paper and not have yellow drinking water.
 
Well, there's a bit of culture shock for the Western visitors, admittedly. But the stadium and whatever are surely to global standards.
Russia is not quite up to North Korean levels of decadence, but look how far they've come!
 
Russell Street said:
Well, there's a bit of culture shock for the Western visitors, admittedly. But the stadium and whatever are surely to global standards.
Russia is not quite up to North Korean levels of decadence, but look how far they've come!
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I've got money on some sort of stadium architecture collapsing.
 
I've heard and read a lot of things. The dual toilets per stall. Reporters showing up to unfinished rooms or rooms that are still under construction greeted with brownish water in the water glasses. Toilets that say the toilet paper must be disposed outside of the toilet. And yesterday the snow leopard photo op with Putin where afterwards, the leopard scratched one reporter and did something to someone's knee.

Quite comical really. I reckon the Brazilian one will be even more comical.
 
This might be the best one yet:

http://gawker.com/russia-says-its-sochi-bathroom-spy-cameras-show-no-plum-1517448908

The Wall Street Journal reports that Russia is aggressively defending itself against complaints that the much-maligned bathrooms in its Olympic accommodations are in any way substandard. The Russians are, in fact, keeping a very, very close eye on the bathroom situation:

Dmitry Kozak, the deputy prime minister responsible for the Olympic preparations, reflected the view held among many Russian officials that some Western visitors are deliberately trying to sabotage Sochi's big debut out of bias against Russia. "We have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the nozzle at the wall and then leave the room for the whole day," he said. An aide then pulled a reporter away before Mr. Kozak could be questioned further on surveillance in hotel rooms.
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How am I watching Olympics on NBC when the opening ceremonies haven't happened?
 
The entire spectacle. The awesome costumery, the throbbing music, the theatric telling of Russky history.
And bad Vlad is there!
 
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