Originally Posted by Jaimito Cartero (Post 22298263)

Do they hold up score cards?

American Judge: 9
German Judge: 8
Bulgarian Judge: 6 (Yelling, you call that a plunge drop!)

Originally Posted by Letitride3c (Post 22301949)

A spectator's sports now take on new meanings - center & front row seating. :D

N95 face masks & ear plugs available too ? Yikes!

Originally Posted by djk7 (Post 22302265)

You can hardly evaluate the sport properly wearing that kind of gear!

Originally Posted by P50sundevil (Post 22297069)

They should really just quit giving the Olympics to places that don't already have a capable infrastructure. It isn't feasible to construct an entire city and the appropriate infrastructure, transport, venues, and so on, for a two-week sporting event. They're spending billions constructing something which will never receive that sort of use again. Brazil will have all of the same problems, added with the fact that they're even more incompetent. Some of the FIFA venues for this summer are completely screwed (one likely unable to complete in time), they botched their transport upgrades and will be using tents instead of terminals (as promised), one key rail line hasn't even been started, and there's already a massive shortage of acceptable hotels...how are they supposed to run an Olympics?

The IOC should only consider applicant cities with appropriate infrastructure already in place, especially with a sufficient number of hotel rooms already built. Building loads of new hotels that won't be used again is ridiculous. Sure, there can be leeway given when improvements or upgrades need to be made, but as in the case of Sochi where nearly all of the infrastructure had to be created for these games, it becomes far too difficult to complete on-time and becomes unsustainable when they'll be left to rot after the events.

But none of this will happen, because the IOC doesn't care when countries spend more and more to one-up the last, not to mention the IOC is as corrupt as the next couple of Olympics hosts. $50 billion to host a two-week event is shameful in countries like Russia or Brazil with such high poverty levels. It seems like the IOC thinks they're doing them a favor as charity cases, and they're generating investment in the infrastructure to improve the lives of the locals. Bollocks. Sochi is Putin's Berchdesgaden (where Eagle's Nest is) and the money spent on these improvements will not improve the lives of 99.7% of Russians -- the 0.3% being those who took their share of bribes/siphoned money from the budget, or the few people who happen to live in the area who aren't confined to Dagestan.

But I digress...

Originally Posted by callum9999 (Post 22303422)

While I agree this has been a PR disaster for Russia, I completely disagree that from now on it should only be in places that can already host it. So that's half a dozen locations for eternity then (assuming they even want to host the games so regularly)?

What people seem to forget is that this is all about the SPORT. While these are certainly major stuff-ups, the Olympics will go ahead and it will work out perfectly fine. There were few mistakes on this scale but the run-up to London 2012 was full of people (even Mitt Romney!) denigrating it and saying it's going to fail etc. because of various issues. It is now widely acknowledged to be one of the best Olympic games of the modern era.

I don't know if it's because it's Russia, or you're all just natural pessimists, but I see no reason why the games can't still turn out to be a success. Ditto with the Brazilian World Cup.

Originally Posted by orthar (Post 22304147)

Give. Me. A. Break.

IMO, this thread was supposed to be humorous - a focus on all the silly mistakes Russia has made while planning these Olympic games (also, what posters like to do with their toilet paper).
To suggest that this follows from some anti-Russian bias demands complete ignorance (willful or otherwise) of these games.
If they were any success, people would be going (yes, people go to Winter games too) like they did to Vancouver.
And then there's the human rights' abuses, people getting out of their homes, transportation issues, etc. So far, enough to validate one's opinion that the Olympics should be constrained to appropriate vanues.

Originally Posted by orthar (Post 22304147)

Give. Me. A. Break.

IMO, this thread was supposed to be humorous - a focus on all the silly mistakes Russia has made while planning these Olympic games (also, what posters like to do with their toilet paper).
To suggest that this follows from some anti-Russian bias demands complete ignorance (willful or otherwise) of these games.
If they were any success, people would be going (yes, people go to Winter games too) like they did to Vancouver.
And then there's the human rights' abuses, people getting kicked out of their homes, transportation issues, etc. So far, enough to validate one's opinion that the Olympics should be constrained to appropriate venues.

Originally Posted by makos (Post 22303365)

I have managed to clog US toilets countless time:) Epsecially the older style where the water has no pressure at all and just drain down real slowly.

But who needs paper when you have somethiing like this:

http://simplyember.com/wp-content/up...neseToilet.jpg

Washes and dries it :)

Thugh this one is also quite interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKkryfdtMNQ

Originally Posted by makos (Post 22303365)

I have managed to clog US toilets countless time:) Epsecially the older style where the water has no pressure at all and just drain down real slowly.

But who needs paper when you have somethiing like this:

http://simplyember.com/wp-content/up...neseToilet.jpg

Washes and dries it :)

Thugh this one is also quite interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKkryfdtMNQ

Originally Posted by Flyingfox (Post 22301883)

This is not a credible statement. Sorry.

Originally Posted by orthar (Post 22297323)

MY personal favorite, the toiletheater:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfkW-TWIEAABoJ2.jpg