February 05, 2014


— Slublog

The Winter Olympics begin on Friday. Athletes and journalists are starting to arrive in the coastal city of Sochi. The Russian government has spent seven years and $51 billion dollars preparing to welcome the biggest athletic competition in the world.

Well, mostly preparing.

Sochi? Well, three of the nine mountain hotels have not been completed, and the IOC estimate that 97 per cent of the rooms are ready appears to ignore the little things.

Almost every room is missing something: lightbulbs, TVs, lamps, chairs, curtains, wifi, heat, hot water. Shower curtains are a valuable piece of the future black market here. (One American photographer was simply told, “You will not get a shower curtain.”)

Be sure to scroll down for the worst hotel bedding tale you're likely to read this week.

Some of the pictures and stories coming out of Sochi are shocking or deeply weird, but Olympic corruption is nothing new. Russia just decided if there's going to be corruption, they might as well dream big.

The good czar's $50 billion gift to the world — by far the most expensive Winter Olympics in history (Vancouver's cost about $7 billion all in) — has raised a number of eyebrows.

An International Olympic Committee official, Gian Franco Kasper, has said that as much as one-third of the $50 billion has been siphoned off by corruption.

The CBC engages in a bit of wishful thinking and suggests that an unsuccessful games will hurt Putin's government. (Spoiler alert: Nope). Putin has always been more popular with Russians than with those in other countries, and if the games go forward without a major catastrophe (and if Russian athletes do well), he'll come out of this without much political damage in his own country.

That said, stories like this and this are unlikely to improve Putin and Russia's international image.

Well, until the next viral dash cam video.

Posted by: Slublog at 11:17 AM | Comments (394)
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1 Did Ace go to Sochi?

Posted by: grammie winger at February 05, 2014 11:19 AM (P6QsQ)

2 No, no valu-rite there.

Posted by: Gmac at February 05, 2014 11:19 AM (4pjhs)

3 An International Olympic Committee official, Gian Franco Kasper, has said that as much as one-third of the $50 billion has been siphoned off by corruption.



Pfft.  Pikers.

Posted by: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 at February 05, 2014 11:20 AM (8ZskC)

4 What you call corruption we call retirement planning.

Posted by: Vlad at February 05, 2014 11:20 AM (Aif/5)

5 Michael Jackson would have loved the Sochi boys rooms.


Posted by: dananjcon at February 05, 2014 11:20 AM (NpXoL)

6 Russian hookers hardest hit.

Posted by: joncelli at February 05, 2014 11:20 AM (RD7QR)

7 In Soviet Russia, Olympics metal YOU!

Posted by: Mr. Dave at February 05, 2014 11:20 AM (qP/0b)

8 Commies.  Excellence on display.

Call me when the shooting starts.

Posted by: tangonine at February 05, 2014 11:20 AM (x3YFz)

9 The slide show going around showing the group toilets (and the don't flush TP sign, throw it in the bin) with that picture of the torch going out and some old Russian guy just pulling a lighter put and starting it back up was great. Pretty much exactly what I expect from Russia.

Posted by: brak at February 05, 2014 11:21 AM (NaTky)

10 I hope they don't include      sporting event spoilers each time there is a terrorist attack update.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 05, 2014 11:21 AM (q5wSU)

11 Hey, a Slu post. Hilarious photoshop or GTFO.

Posted by: Countrysquire at February 05, 2014 11:21 AM (LSJmV)

12 Oh...the ol' "Spoog under the covers of the 'unused' second bed" trick. I do that one all the time.

Posted by: Squidboy at February 05, 2014 11:21 AM (8DQ+S)

13 The ruskies never were very good at building anything unless it was walls and even those needed a lot of improvement before they were able to hold people in.

Posted by: Gmac at February 05, 2014 11:21 AM (4pjhs)

14 One of the reporters tweets showed a picture of the one piece of art in the room. Putin's picture. Sounds like something Obama would dream up.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 05, 2014 11:21 AM (/o+xv)

15 So is Sochi a "planned city" that had no real infrastructure before they decided to host the Olympics there?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2014 11:22 AM (TGgNi)

16 Where is the worst olympic bedding story? Did I miss it?

Posted by: shibumi at February 05, 2014 11:22 AM (25HWz)

17 An International Olympic Committee official, Gian Franco Kasper, has said that as much as one-third of the $50 billion has been siphoned off by corruption.
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What's funny is, the exact same sentence would have been written had Chicago "won" the Olympics.

Posted by: RoyalOil at February 05, 2014 11:22 AM (VjL9S)

18

Sure, the bribes and kickbacks have all been processed.

 

 

Oh wait - you mean the venues and stuff?  Oh heck no, none of that is ready, only the important stuff like the graft.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Innuendoes for Both Men and Women at the Outrage Outlet! at February 05, 2014 11:23 AM (hLRSq)

19 I have a sick feeling that athletes are going to be hurt either by incompetence or terrorism.

Posted by: Lauren at February 05, 2014 11:24 AM (hFL/3)

20 What  I'm secretly hoping for is Costas going on the air to complain about how poorly teh  gheys  are being treated, and sometime in the middle of the night he gets a visit from the NKVD, never to be seen again. 

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2014 11:24 AM (TOk1P)

21 One American photographer was simply told, “You will not get a shower curtain.”

Gotta suffer for art.

Posted by: HR at February 05, 2014 11:24 AM (hO8IJ)

22 Sochi? Sounds delicious. Make mine California Roll, with brown rice, please.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 11:25 AM (7ObY1)

23 Sochi is a resort ( a summer beach resort usually), but the whole Olympics complex was built from scratch. Why Sochi? It's Putin's favorite.

Posted by: brak at February 05, 2014 11:25 AM (M2qTM)

24 What I'm secretly hoping for is Costas going on the air to complain about how poorly teh gheys are being treated, and sometime in the middle of the night he gets a visit from the NKVD, never to be seen again.

If I was a guy, I'd be typing "it moved."

Posted by: HR at February 05, 2014 11:25 AM (hO8IJ)

25 Reminds me of High Speed Trains and Green Energy.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at February 05, 2014 11:25 AM (oDCMR)

26

Some scientists think the universe is overdue for a quantum energy shift that would cause everything to cease to exist at any moment.

 

Science!

Posted by: eleven at February 05, 2014 11:25 AM (fsLdt)

27 Not unusual at all for the buildings to not be finished. Makes it easier to demolish after the Olympics.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at February 05, 2014 11:25 AM (jsa6I)

28 No shower curtain? This is something up with which I will not put!

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 05, 2014 11:25 AM (JQuNB)

29 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Mitt at February 05, 2014 11:25 AM (hFL/3)

30 2 No, no valu-rite there. And it's a bitch finding Kaboom there.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 11:26 AM (7ObY1)

31

You want a shower cutain.

 

You'll settle for a bath.

 

You'll get a wetnap.

Posted by: eleven at February 05, 2014 11:26 AM (fsLdt)

32 The athletes quarters look okay, typical problems the beds are too short. Based of the pics I've seen the journalists dorms look terrible, the water apparently looks like beer and they are telling people not to wash their faces with it.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 05, 2014 11:26 AM (WdbF7)

33

No shower curtains?

I guess Big Mooch isn't going, what on earth would she do for formal wear?

Posted by: wth at February 05, 2014 11:26 AM (wAQA5)

34

I heard on the radio from someone who should know that you can't turn on your phone, ipad, or computer there without it being almost immediately set upon by hackers.

 

Should be a fun time.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 05, 2014 11:26 AM (PFy0L)

35
I really needed this post.  I haven't had a decent laugh in days.  Freaking Putin is nearly as big of a bonehead as our own bonehead.

At least we can still lay claim to having the first famous black bonehead.   Plus ours has the better initials.

But that's racist so I'll just go out in the global warming and condemn myself.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 05, 2014 11:26 AM (BZAd3)

36 I refuse to believe that 1/3 has been siphoned off. That seems way way too low. I have a sick feeling that athletes are going to be hurt either by incompetence or terrorism. Posted by: Lauren at February 05, 2014 03:24 PM (hFL/3) I have a sick feeling that so long as it's athletes from certain countries who get it, Putin would be thrilled to be able to engage in a wee bit of the ultraviolence.

Posted by: alexthechick - Come to us, oh mighty SMOD at February 05, 2014 11:26 AM (VtjlW)

37

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2014 03:24 PM (TOk1P)

 

 

Continue please.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Innuendoes for Both Men and Women at the Outrage Outlet! at February 05, 2014 11:26 AM (hLRSq)

38

Oh, and the sinister foreign guest host today  said something about how these days there are more butlers in London than there were during  Victorian times.  But it's not Dukes and Viscounts who have them, it's the Russian oligarchs. 

 

 

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2014 11:26 AM (TOk1P)

39 Yeah, before this it was a sleepy "resort" town in one of the few sub-tropical zones in Russia. But I think all the locals were "quaint" and the richies brought their own luxuries, bought their own hotels, to give it any kind of reputation. Supposedly a thirty mile road-tunnel highway is a "marvel", but everything else seems to be made of spit and tissue paper.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 11:26 AM (ZshNr)

40 21 If the water from the tap is "Unsafe to use on your face" I am pretty sure I would not want the boys getting blasted by it in the shower. A different type of chemical castration.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2014 11:27 AM (TGgNi)

41 Sounds like a complete clusterfark over there. Not surprising really.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 05, 2014 11:27 AM (/o+xv)

42 Not to mention the terrorism!

Posted by: shredded chi - cereal killer at February 05, 2014 11:27 AM (u8vcQ)

43 Soap? Towels? Shower curtain? Where do you think you are? At a Holiday Inn Express?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 05, 2014 11:27 AM (HsTG8)

44

It appears they got the venues and the athlete dorms got completed.  Everything else?  Not so much. 

I do wonder if the brown water is a problem in the athlete village?

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2014 11:27 AM (hdpay)

45 The two-toilet stalls are good for athlete couples. Fire up the romance, folks! Next, Cuba will be picked to host the winter Olympics. No snow, you say? It's not fair to discriminate against unfairly marginalized counties because of small issues like their climate. *scoff* And we all know commies can do anything. On a related note, I loved reading PJ O'Rourke's account of his visit to USSR in the 80s and the American useful idiots on the trip that Maet linked on the ONT. unfortunately, Google didn't make the entire essay available so I may have to go out and get the book.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 05, 2014 11:27 AM (r+7wo)

46

Light bulbs aren't green anywise, so who cares?

 

Posted by: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus at February 05, 2014 11:27 AM (YYJjz)

47 I had to break out my Atlas of the World last night just to finally find out where Soschi is. Black Sea resort town. And my Atlas needs replacing. It's from the early 90s when the USSR was breaking up. Half the borders in Eastern Europe are shown as "disputed."

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 11:28 AM (7ObY1)

48

One American photographer was simply told, “You will not get a shower curtain.”

 

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In Putin's Russia, shower curtain gets you.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 05, 2014 11:28 AM (q5wSU)

49

I'm a terrible person.  I know this because the hacking story cracked me up. 

 

Maybe it was just the way it was written. 

Posted by: Sam Hill at February 05, 2014 11:28 AM (zgHLA)

50 It is fun though to listen to the media whine like little bitches.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 05, 2014 11:28 AM (/o+xv)

51

37 -

 

Eh... ummm, he was   "sharing his hotel room"  with Chris Mathews  at the  time?   

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2014 11:28 AM (TOk1P)

52 For a terror attack or for the games?

Really though, I think it's 'no' in either case.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 05, 2014 11:28 AM (fwARV)

53 The ruskies never were very good at building anything unless it was walls and even those needed a lot of improvement before they were able to hold people in.

Posted by: Gmac at February 05, 2014 03:21 PM (4pjhs)

 

 

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Reminds me  of when my Cav unit crossed Checkpoint Charlie and visited East Berlin.  There was about a half-mile to a mile square of  high-rise  concrete  apartment buildings that had to be abandoned because they all started to lean dangerously one way or the other.  The  reason?  The commies built them without any rebar.

Posted by: Soona at February 05, 2014 11:28 AM (WLKl0)

54 Hey, every room is fully stocked with 160 proof turnip vodka, a carton of prairie pie cigarettes and erzatz coffee made from pine cones and tree bark. What more could you want? The Glories of Soviet Communism on display. Suck it, Capitalist Running Dogs! This is your future!

Posted by: Sharkman at February 05, 2014 11:29 AM (Up1CS)

55 Two-toilet stalls? I am SO going to Soschi.

Posted by: Larry "Tapper" Craig at February 05, 2014 11:29 AM (7ObY1)

56 You have nothing to fear... come to Russia and enjoy the games my friend.... bring your smart phone and laptop my friend, we have plenty of charge stations.... and bring visa card

Posted by: russian hackers everywhere you want to be at February 05, 2014 11:29 AM (B/3gr)

57 There's a puppy in every room, so that's cool.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 05, 2014 11:29 AM (NRYdU)

58 I watch a Russian dash cam video every Friday before I head home from work to put a smile on my face.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 05, 2014 11:29 AM (38LLM)

59 Dash cam, what, you're not going to help the other driver exit his vehicle?

Posted by: Justin Lately Jr at February 05, 2014 11:29 AM (nQE02)

60 "Almost every room is missing something: lightbulbs, TVs, lamps, chairs, curtains, wifi, heat, hot water."

With the exception of wifi, this description could be of any hotel room behind the Iron Curtain back in the good old days.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 05, 2014 11:29 AM (gqT4g)

61 I take all unmarried members of the moron horde attending these games will be bringing a new hawt Ruskie girlfriend home with them?

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at February 05, 2014 11:29 AM (A1Dcl)

62 Russia is like white Mexico.

Posted by: eleven at February 05, 2014 11:30 AM (fsLdt)

63 No, no valu-rite there.
Of course there's no Valu-Rite---it's a premium brand at Sochi.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 05, 2014 11:30 AM (LLfr9)

64 Maybe this Russian Olympics thing might be fun to watch.


What happens when the skaters get to the rink and there's no ice?





Posted by: EC at February 05, 2014 11:30 AM (GQ8sn)

65 Be sure to scroll down for the worst hotel bedding tale you're likely to read this week. Back in 2006, I checked into the West Hollywood Radisson, and promptly went to my room to pass out. But when I pulled back the sheets (I don't know what possessed me to pull the sheets rather than "slip in")... I found a nice big pile of shit smack in the middle of the bed. And then the front desk wouldn't give me a refund, until I started yelling about calling the health inspector (speaking clearly so all the people in the check in line heard about the shit).

Posted by: wooga at February 05, 2014 11:30 AM (1GhKT)

66 I keep joking, but the security really is a big deal. If they have no control over who goes in and out of the hotels, and there are multiple stories to that effect, then isn't that a miscreant's dream?

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 11:31 AM (ZshNr)

67 Vodka and cheap hookers. What else do you need?

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 05, 2014 11:31 AM (NRYdU)

68 Where's the ping-pong venue?

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 05, 2014 11:31 AM (JQuNB)

69 Souvenirs . . . novelties . . . shower curtains. Souvenirs . . . novelties . . . shower curtains.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at February 05, 2014 11:31 AM (m0h0I)

70 Russia is like white Mexico.

Posted by: eleven

Internet winner.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at February 05, 2014 11:31 AM (cxs6V)

71 62 Russia is like white Mexico. With bears instead of donkeys.

Posted by: wooga at February 05, 2014 11:31 AM (1GhKT)

72 The boss says we can leave at 4:00. Only problem is, there's a driving ban in my home county but not my work county, so I can legally only drive halfway home. "Breaking the law, breaking the law..."

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 11:31 AM (7ObY1)

73 Have they installed the trap door in the floor behind the lobby desk in that hotel yet?

Is the water still urine yellow?

And have the manhole covers been installed on the paths?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 05, 2014 11:31 AM (NNjb2)

74 After looking at pictures of the Olympic park,  I can easily see this place becoming another wasteland like Greece's.  It has about as much charm as Detroit.

Posted by: WisRich at February 05, 2014 11:32 AM (hdpay)

75 Heard earlier today that Barky's Ghey Figurehead, Billie Jean King, isn't going to Sochi. Something about tending her sick mother, washing her hair, or a badly ingrown toenail, IIRC.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 05, 2014 11:32 AM (HsTG8)

76 So if you were an athlete who'd trained your whole life for this...would you risk it?

Posted by: Lauren at February 05, 2014 11:32 AM (hFL/3)

77 #62, they have better women and manufacture their guns domestically. Russia>Mexico

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at February 05, 2014 11:33 AM (A1Dcl)

78 What happens when the skaters get to the rink and there's no ice? In Russia, skaters bring ice to rink! (Don't mind me, I've been hitting the turnip vodka again.)

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 11:33 AM (7ObY1)

79 "Hey babe....let's go take shit!"

Posted by: eleven at February 05, 2014 11:33 AM (fsLdt)

80 In Russia, Olympics plays you!


Posted by: EC at February 05, 2014 11:33 AM (GQ8sn)

81 Chique On a related note, I loved reading PJ O'Rourke's account of his visit to USSR in the 80s and the American useful idiots on the trip that Maet linked on the ONT ________ There was also some good reading recently on someone's visit to Cuba - I don't know if it was Maet, or if it was only in the sidebar, but it should be mandatory reading for any lefty "celebrity" or anyone wanting to call themselves a "journalist" Ties in nicely with earlier comments about Cuba and food production vs. the Global Confusion Gang.

Posted by: shredded chi - cereal killer at February 05, 2014 11:33 AM (u8vcQ)

82 Two toilet stall?  Piffle, one Russian journalist found at Sochi a toilet with three chairs facing it.  New sport of Olympic Dumping?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 05, 2014 11:33 AM (NNjb2)

83 65 Be sure to scroll down for the worst hotel bedding tale you're likely to read this week. In Russia, bed with shit cost extra.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 11:34 AM (7ObY1)

84 There aughta be a law. Dash cams for everyone, side cams, mirror cams, rear view cams, 360 degree cams. Put one on every driver.


Posted by: Justin Lately Jr at February 05, 2014 11:34 AM (nQE02)

85 Bring on the Russian Women's Curling Team Bikini Calendar and all is forgiven.

Posted by: Fritz at February 05, 2014 11:34 AM (UzPAd)

86 I know it's unlikely, but giggle at the prospect of Bob Costas being forced to stay up in one of these crapshacks.

Posted by: Xander Crews at February 05, 2014 11:34 AM (5IHRz)

87 And no puking, pouring vodka, or fishing in the toilets either.

This means you, Yankee dog

Posted by: grognard at February 05, 2014 11:34 AM (/29Nl)

88 This story and the ONT story about the Russian high school graduation party makes me think there's going to be some awesome mayhem coming up next week.


Posted by: EC at February 05, 2014 11:34 AM (GQ8sn)

89 This is like an American football/baseball stadium boondoggle every 2 years.
WHy don't they just narrow it down to a few venues and then rotate?
I know: graft, politics, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2014 11:34 AM (POpqt)

90 Excuse me, but did anyone turn in my bag of shit?

Posted by: Martin Bashir at February 05, 2014 11:34 AM (8ZskC)

91 61 I take all unmarried members of the moron horde attending these games will be bringing a new hawt Ruskie girlfriend home with them? Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at February 05, 2014 03:29 PM (A1Dcl) Not sure there are that many lesbians on the blog. Sexist cissexist misogynist homophobe. (Did I leave anything out?). Oh, how could I forget? Racist.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 05, 2014 11:34 AM (r+7wo)

92
Vee hav goot prostitutes in Russia.


http://tinyurl.com/mnv2qln

Posted by: Vlad the Cock Impaler at February 05, 2014 11:35 AM (nQjHM)

93

A reporter walks into a bar in Sochi and orders a beer.  

 

After a  short time  he  goes up to the bar and  asks  the bartender  "   Can  I get  a pile  of napkins   from you?"

 

The bartender says, " What,  did you spill your beer?"

 

The reporter  replies,  "  No,  I have no towels in my hotel room"

Posted by: polynikes at February 05, 2014 11:35 AM (m2CN7)

94 Yeah, I think almost every athlete would go. Might affect performances though. Anxiety, shitty sleep, even crappy hygienic facilities.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 11:35 AM (ZshNr)

95

Be sure to scroll down for the worst hotel bedding tale you're likely to read this week.

-

"You put sheet on my bed and I keel you!"

(Mexican athlete overheard        at the check-in counter)

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 05, 2014 11:35 AM (q5wSU)

96 The Russians are pretty low on my list. But whiny sportswriters are even lower. Give me a break.

Maybe we should throw these sportswriters on a FOB in Kunar Province so they can complain about the lack of running water or fresh towels.

Posted by: Marcus at February 05, 2014 11:35 AM (GGCsk)

97 In Soviet Russia, bed shits on YOU.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 05, 2014 11:36 AM (PFy0L)

98 Russia just decided if there's going to be corruption, they might as well dream big. I thought you said it only cost $50 billion?

Posted by: 1/6th of the US Economy at February 05, 2014 11:36 AM (FcR7P)

99 In Soviet Russia, bed sheets come on you!

Posted by: Vladimir at February 05, 2014 11:36 AM (Aif/5)

100 It's not just the accommodations. A bunch of skiers and snowboarders are getting busted up on an apparently poorly designed course.

Posted by: Xander Crews at February 05, 2014 11:37 AM (5IHRz)

101
I'm not in Sochi because the hookers are as ugly as Laura Ingraham's twat.

Posted by: Keef Olbermann at February 05, 2014 11:37 AM (nQjHM)

102 Everything so far has been incredible, the food, the lodgings, just exceptional. The rabble-rousers causing all the trouble are members of the proletariat upset with the workers being given a special place of honor at these Olympics. And who doesn't want 2 toilets in their bathrooms? Nazis, that's who.

Posted by: Walter Duranty at February 05, 2014 11:37 AM (38LLM)

103 Texas is getting ready to do it again. Some woman lured a mentally retarded guy to Texas with the promise of marriage. She, her son, and other losers tortured him to death. So, fire up the gurney!

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 05, 2014 11:37 AM (NRYdU)

104 Didn't Paul McCartney's Wings headline the Sochi Theater in 77'



Posted by: dananjcon at February 05, 2014 11:37 AM (NpXoL)

105 the water apparently looks like beer and they are telling people not to wash their faces feces with it.
Fixed.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at February 05, 2014 11:38 AM (LLfr9)

106 Light bulbs?  Incandescent? Hey guys!  Bring some back!

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 11:38 AM (JBggj)

107 Bikini curling pics? Ya gotta see this. Hey, I aim to please. http://tinyurl.com/kqtde24

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 11:38 AM (7ObY1)

108 Russia is like white Mexico. Or Brazil, if you've got your eye on the next Olympics.

Posted by: t-bird at February 05, 2014 11:38 AM (FcR7P)

109

I hope the fucking  journalists suffer  (and I mean suffer a lot).  They need a good taste of  this socialist paradise.

Posted by: Soona at February 05, 2014 11:38 AM (WLKl0)

110 I worked from home today & had Rush live on this computer & used old Dell Laptop to work with. I have had same wireless router for six years. I might have to replace because I lost my internet connections. I put Steyn on the radio. At the end of the show I heard commercial of same type I heard when Rubio was behind the immigration bull! In other words CALL the REPUBLICANS! I apologize for all caps but I canÂ’t format on Mac but I do have &&& ampersands.

Posted by: Carol at February 05, 2014 11:38 AM (z4WKX)

111 81 I think you were talking about Michael Totten blogging about his visit to Cuba. Some horrific stuff. http://tinyurl.com/mxryj69

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2014 11:38 AM (TGgNi)

112 Posted by: Walter Duranty at February 05, 2014 03:37 PM (38LLM)

I think we have our threadwinner.

Posted by: HR at February 05, 2014 11:38 AM (hO8IJ)

113 Billie Jean King's mother is seriously ill. They're sending another "openly gay" athlete to replace her at the opening ceremonies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2014 11:38 AM (7kkQJ)

114 >>A bunch of skiers and snowboarders are getting busted up on an apparently poorly designed course.

Wasn't the scandal at the last winter games the dangerous bobsled course where some athletes died during a practice run?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2014 11:38 AM (POpqt)

115 Sochi, the SCTV of Olympic Games

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 05, 2014 11:38 AM (NNjb2)

116 Is it true that one of the Sochi games' mascot is Gulag the Gummi Bear?

Posted by: Comrade Roberto Luongo at February 05, 2014 11:39 AM (wsLRF)

117 I wonder what the food will be like?

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 05, 2014 11:39 AM (NRYdU)

118 The grossest story/pic I saw was the truckload of used pillows that had been taken from the Olympic employees/construction workers and was being delivered to the athletes dorm. Would you sleep on one of those or take your chances staying out all night with the street dogs?

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 11:39 AM (ZshNr)

119 Racist.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 05, 2014 03:34 PM (r+7wo)

How you doin'?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 05, 2014 11:39 AM (fwARV)

120 those athletes better hold on to their skis, boots and other stuff, may disappear together with lamps chairs and curtains

Posted by: runner at February 05, 2014 11:39 AM (yrk2K)

121 The story of Sochi is much like the story of Obama. Terrible.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 05, 2014 11:39 AM (38LLM)

122 Quit caring long ago.

Posted by: backhoe at February 05, 2014 11:39 AM (ULH4o)

123 >>They're sending another "openly gay" athlete to replace her at the opening ceremonies.

Phew! Priorities still in place.
Wonder if they put this much thought into security for the US athletes.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2014 11:39 AM (POpqt)

124 In Amerika, you pee on water. In Soviet Russia, water pee on you.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 05, 2014 11:40 AM (36Rjy)

125 Or Brazil, if you've got your eye on the next Olympics.

No need to look so far ahead; they've got the World Cup (metric football) this summer.  Much smaller scale, and they're not doing so hot.

Posted by: HR at February 05, 2014 11:40 AM (hO8IJ)

126 Don't mention Brazil and distract people.

Rio has its own Olympic problems.  Where they will be running the sailing the water is polluted.  And Brazil promised last year they will have it fixed.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 05, 2014 11:40 AM (NNjb2)

127 FenelonSpoke Obviously the start of the Cold Shoulder War

Posted by: Comrade Roberto Luongo at February 05, 2014 11:41 AM (wsLRF)

128 91 61 I take all unmarried members of the moron horde attending these games will be bringing a new hawt Ruskie girlfriend home with them? Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at February 05, 2014 03:29 PM (A1Dcl) Not sure there are that many lesbians on the blog. Sexist cissexist misogynist homophobe. (Did I leave anything out?). Oh, how could I forget? Racist. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 05, 2014 03:34 PM (r+7wo) Hahaha!

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 05, 2014 11:41 AM (36Rjy)

129 Billie Jean King's mother is seriously ill. They're sending another "openly gay" athlete to replace her at the opening ceremonies.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2014 03:38 PM (7kkQJ)

 

 

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They're sending Richard Simmons?

Posted by: Soona at February 05, 2014 11:42 AM (WLKl0)

130 Ok where's the bed horror story? I don't see it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 05, 2014 11:42 AM (oFCZn)

131 Good. Let the globalists get a taste of what their policies buy.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 05, 2014 11:42 AM (hjRtO)

132 They're sending Richard Simmons? I figured it would be the untalented, unemployed NBA benchwarmer guy.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 11:42 AM (7ObY1)

133 It's not just the accommodations. A bunch of skiers and snowboarders are getting busted up on an apparently poorly designed course.


Like what I was saying earlier....there's a chance for some awesome mayhem next week if what I think is going to happen really happens.

Posted by: EC at February 05, 2014 11:43 AM (GQ8sn)

134

Reminds me a little of a skit from 20 some years ago...

 

Russian Radio Announcer:  And now, comrades, we have playing #2 song in all of USSR, here it is:

 

Song plays:  bum bum bum bum.

 

Announcer:  Now we have caller from Minsk, what do you think of #2 song?

 

Caller: I don't like #2 song?

 

Announcer:  You have to like song, it's #2 song. 

 

Caller:  I don't like #2 song.

 

(gunfire)

 

Announcer:  And now, comrades, we play #1 song in all of USSR

 

Song plays, same fucking song as before.

 

Announcer:  We have caller from Stalingrad.  What do you think of #1 song?

 

Caller:  I love #1 song!

 

Announcer:  Of course you do.

 

-----

 

OK, I guess you had to be there.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 05, 2014 11:43 AM (eytER)

135 They're sending another "openly gay" athlete to replace her at the opening ceremonies. Isn't it time for an openly gay President, Barry?

Posted by: t-bird at February 05, 2014 11:43 AM (FcR7P)

136 It's like Chicago was a country or something.

Posted by: --- at February 05, 2014 11:43 AM (MMC8r)

137 >>126 Don't mention Brazil and distract people.<<

And the tremendous crime problems they are have. Wonderful things like flash mobs robbing and beating people on the beach. Armed robbery and other sundry accoutrements.

Posted by: Marcus at February 05, 2014 11:43 AM (GGCsk)

138 Garry Kasparov has been tweeting about it as well. He's more concerned with the Russians than the event itself. https://twitter.com/Kasparov63

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 05, 2014 11:44 AM (DmNpO)

139 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 05, 2014 11:44 AM (PYAXX)

140 EC, "At Sochi we will see the agony of Da Feet, Da legs, Da arms..."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 05, 2014 11:44 AM (NNjb2)

141 That's a pretty big mint on my pillow.

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 05, 2014 11:44 AM (wAQA5)

142 In Soviet Russia, shower take you!

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at February 05, 2014 11:44 AM (PYAXX)

143 141 That's a pretty big mint on my pillow. Don't eat the brown mints. Nothing good can come of that.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 11:45 AM (7ObY1)

144 Did you guys see the poster on Drudge showing what not to do in the toilets.  No fishing among other things.  I have the idea these people are not terribly familiar with indoor plumbing.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 05, 2014 11:45 AM (XUKZU)

145 There's a reason Sochi doesn't have a Four Seasons or Ritz.

And it has zero to do with the water.

Posted by: Marcus at February 05, 2014 11:45 AM (GGCsk)

146 I think you were talking about Michael Totten blogging about his visit to Cuba. Some horrific stuff.  http://tinyurl.com/mxryj69 _________ Yep. That was him. I read for quite a while that night (following links). Maybe after $ochi, some of these lefty journalists will start to see the socialist light? Yeah, sure.

Posted by: shredded chi - cereal killer at February 05, 2014 11:45 AM (u8vcQ)

147 Wasn't the scandal at the last winter games the dangerous bobsled course where some athletes died during a practice run?

Luge. 

(Link to NY Times: http://is.gd/7NJhSJ)

Posted by: HR at February 05, 2014 11:45 AM (hO8IJ)

148

Bikini curling pics?

Ya gotta see this. Hey, I aim to please.

http://tinyurl.com/kqtde24

[[/i]

 

Very nice.  Some curling hotties, oh yeah I'm be watching that.

Posted by: eleven at February 05, 2014 11:45 AM (fsLdt)

149 Also Russia has the world cup 2018, along with Qatar in 2022. Don't forget Brazil this summer with soccer, and then in 2016 with the Olympics fan fucking tastic.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 05, 2014 11:45 AM (WdbF7)

150 EC, "At Sochi we will see the agony of Da Feet, Da legs, Da arms..."


We'll have two Olympics.  One that NBC broadcasts, and another on Liveleak and Youtube.



Posted by: EC at February 05, 2014 11:45 AM (GQ8sn)

151 Sochi has been a resort city since the times of the Tsars and of course every commie bastard has a dacha there, too. Sochi is also known for it's gay nightlife.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 05, 2014 11:45 AM (NRYdU)

152 I came for the Soviet Russia jokes, I left with feces jokes.

Well done.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at February 05, 2014 11:45 AM (pgQxn)

153 All they know how to build over there is gulags.

Posted by: --- at February 05, 2014 11:45 AM (MMC8r)

154

Don't eat the brown mints. Nothing good can come of that.

-

Don't eat the pink mints in the urinals, either.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 05, 2014 11:46 AM (q5wSU)

155 At that first link: Miles Evans @milominder Follow First rule of staging an Olympics. Keep the hacks happy. Rooms, facilities sound atrocious. #Sochi Really? The FIRST rule is to make the journos happy?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 05, 2014 11:46 AM (DmNpO)

156 144 Did you guys see the poster on Drudge showing what not to do in the toilets. No fishing among other things. I have the idea these people are not terribly familiar with indoor plumbing. Yeah, that was awesome! I cracked up at the "no toilet fishing" symbol. I was trying to figure out how to embiggen that so I could post it on FB, but I gave up.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 11:46 AM (7ObY1)

157 The Olympics are at a Gulag? Maybe I'll watch this year.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 05, 2014 11:46 AM (hjRtO)

158 62 Russia is like white Mexico. Posted by: eleven at February 05, 2014 03:30 PM (fsLdt) ---------------- Nah. White Mexico --- that is, stuff run by and for the mostly white ruling class there --- works pretty well. And they at least have artistic taste, as compared to the modern Ruskis, whose sensibilities have been dulled by Soviet utilitarianism. (Compare the buildings Mexico put up for the 1968 Olympics to the Sochi stuff.)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 05, 2014 11:46 AM (dfYL9)

159 No fishing among other things. I have the idea these people are not terribly familiar with indoor plumbing.

The sewer goes directly into the Black Sea.  You drop a line down there, you may actually catch something.

It's a warning, not a prohibition!

Posted by: grognard at February 05, 2014 11:47 AM (/29Nl)

160 138 Reading his tweets, I have to say I like the cut of his jib. Surprised he has not gotten a Polonium cocktail.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2014 11:47 AM (TGgNi)

161 : Marcus at February 05, 2014 03:35 PM (GGCsk) Let the sports journalists cover Buzkashi. With no bodyguards. Rinse, repeat.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2014 11:47 AM (u82oZ)

162 EC, so the NBC broadcast will be six hours of the stunning Sochi scenery and 5 minutes of the Games.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 05, 2014 11:48 AM (NNjb2)

163 Also Russia has the world cup 2018, along with Qatar in 2022.

I just can't imagine GLAAD et al giving Qatar the crap they give Russia.

And they're going to play soccer in 114F weather with "green" HVAC.  I might actually tune in to watch that.

Posted by: HR at February 05, 2014 11:48 AM (hO8IJ)

164 Still better than the Commonwealth games that were held in India

Posted by: The Dude at February 05, 2014 11:48 AM (bStrg)

165 Let's make sure we pick only dysfunctional countries for the Olympics, why don't we. It's all about fairness, after all. Or corruption. Same thing.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 05, 2014 11:48 AM (r+7wo)

166 so did we ever get an explanation for the synchronized crappers? was this all a way for putin to pad his cronies?

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 11:48 AM (rDidD)

167 Posted by: Comrade Roberto Luongo at February 05, 2014 03:41 PM (wsLRF) Good one.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 05, 2014 11:48 AM (7kkQJ)

168 160 138 Reading his tweets, I have to say I like the cut of his jib. Surprised he has not gotten a Polonium cocktail. Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2014 03:47 PM (TGgNi) IIRC, it has been tried.

Posted by: baldilocks filipova at February 05, 2014 11:48 AM (36Rjy)

169 Bikini curling pics? Ya gotta see this. Hey, I aim to please. http://tinyurl.com/kqtde24 Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 03:38 PM .......................WOW.......Uuum.... Chemmy Alcott – Alpine Skiing, UK.......Ill be in my bunk.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 05, 2014 11:48 AM (/o+xv)

170 Ya gotta see this. Hey, I aim to please. http://tinyurl.com/kqtde24 Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 03:38 PM (7ObY1) Give me a urine water and make it a double!!!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 05, 2014 11:49 AM (oFCZn)

171 82? Anna Puma?

The last time my late wife & I were so deathly ill with flu- 1989? We invented "the Olympic toilet sprint" as a new event.
Only one toilet downstairs- the loser of the race had to sprint up 3 flights of stairs in a very tall Victorian house ( 12 foot ceilings) to get to the other bathrooms. We were sick as dogs but at least we could laugh at our situation....

Posted by: backhoe at February 05, 2014 11:50 AM (ULH4o)

172 Don't eat the pink mints in the urinals, either. Texas A & M Aggies would argue that. A & M Breath Mints(tm).

Posted by: rickb223 at February 05, 2014 11:50 AM (xorT2)

173
The Olympics are at a Gulag? Maybe I'll watch this year.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 05, 2014 03:46 PM (hjRtO)









Can't wait for the Electified Barbed Wire and Mine Field Pole Vault event. Right after Syncronized Sawdust Bread Smuggling.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 05, 2014 11:51 AM (TIIx5)

174 163 I just can't imagine GLAAD et al giving Qatar the crap they give Russia. Posted by: HR at February 05, 2014 03:48 PM (hO8IJ) ------------------------------- THIS. You won't hear a word, even though Qatar's policy on gays is far, far more strict than Russia's.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 05, 2014 11:51 AM (dfYL9)

175 I just can't imagine GLAAD et al giving Qatar the crap they give Russia. I don't imagine Russia gives a tenth of a shit what GLAAD thinks.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 05, 2014 11:51 AM (hjRtO)

176 Ya gotta see this. Hey, I aim to please. http://tinyurl.com/kqtde24 *** Team USA is seriously representin' Norway too

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 05, 2014 11:51 AM (DmNpO)

177 130 Ok where's the bed horror story? I don't see it _________ I think he meant in the first link. The "mostly preparing" one. Scroll down there. Or just read the while thing.

Posted by: shredded chi - cereal killer at February 05, 2014 11:52 AM (u8vcQ)

178 Isn't this place a bit light on the snow too? I heard some radio talkshow discussing how they've been collecting and saving snow to ensure they had enough. And can you not just wait for the "awesome" nbc prime time coverage? You know where they have a replay of some event that occurred at noon eastern time that lasts 10 minutes but before it includes a 20 minute puff piece on an athlete that doesn't even medal.

Posted by: Buzzion at February 05, 2014 11:52 AM (hK4IF)

179 Waiting list for shower curtain, two years. Unless you are Party Member. Then twenty-four months.

Posted by: --- at February 05, 2014 11:52 AM (MMC8r)

180 Ya gotta see this. Hey, I aim to please. http://tinyurl.com/kqtde24 Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 05, 2014 03:38 PM (7ObY1) Some very attractive female athletes at the Olympics this year. Although I suspect the Thai chick may have been a man in her past life.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 05, 2014 11:52 AM (r+7wo)

Posted by: Beckster at February 05, 2014 11:52 AM (kj0P/)

182 148 The curlers are nice, but the alpine skiers and the snowboarders are insanely hot. Is there some sort of "Hotness" requirement where you have to show your maxim pictorial to have it graded?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2014 11:52 AM (TGgNi)

183 Let's make sure we pick only dysfunctional countries for the Olympics, why don't we. It's all about fairness, after all. Or corruption. Same thing. Posted by: chique d'afrique ---------------- Well, Chicago lost out on it's Olympic bid, so there's that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 05, 2014 11:53 AM (aDwsi)

184 Side by side toilets? Homophobic Russians? IT'S A TRAP!!

Posted by: RWC at February 05, 2014 11:53 AM (fWAjv)

185 >>Luge.

Thanks!

>>First rule of staging an Olympics. Keep the hacks happy.

Gee, and we wonder why the MSM is so easily manipulated by Obama - what a bunch of pampered, self-centered idiots. *Almost* makes one wish that if there were a terrorist attack, that they would target the press instead of the athletes.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2014 11:53 AM (POpqt)

186

107 -

 

Hey, nice Baver! 

 

(See gal #22)

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2014 11:54 AM (TOk1P)

187

@81 There was also some good reading recently on someone's visit to Cuba

-------------------

 

Probably Michael Totten's write-up of his trip there.

 

Posted by: junior at February 05, 2014 11:54 AM (UWFpX)

188 Hey the wee little beds are no problem for Midget Costas. That little fuck is annoying as hell. I hope his room is the shittiest in Sochi and he has to sit on the toilet next to Brian Boitano.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 05, 2014 11:54 AM (/o+xv)

189 how do any hot women get involved in curling? is there some curling path to fame and fortune? is it a coup in the mail order bride business? I suppose you get to say you are an olympic athlete. it is not gymnastics but if you word it right you could make curling sound sexy.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 11:54 AM (rDidD)

190 Unannounced additional event this year: Getting out of Sochi.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2014 11:54 AM (POpqt)

191 169 16. Anna Fenninger – Alpine Skiing, Austria Not sure how the leopard motif works into alpine skiing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2014 11:54 AM (TGgNi)

192

180 -

 

Be nice.  She can't help it  she was born with a lantern jaw. 

Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2014 11:55 AM (TOk1P)

193 Shoulda called Romney....

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 11:55 AM (ZshNr)

194 I like curling. Something about a team of women yelling "Faster, Faster!!!" and "Hard, Harder!"

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 05, 2014 11:55 AM (u82oZ)

195 I didn't leave those semen stains on the sheets indiscriminately. I was trying to help all of those "brave" lesbians coming to Russia as part of the US delegation in case they wanted children.

Posted by: Helpful Russian at February 05, 2014 11:55 AM (tv7DV)

196 Curling is a sport for old men with beer guts.

Posted by: --- at February 05, 2014 11:55 AM (MMC8r)

197 They showed a photo on FNC earlier of the "single" bed in one Sochi hotel room. It was a child's bed, about 4' long.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 05, 2014 11:55 AM (DmNpO)

198 The curlers are nice, but the alpine skiers and the snowboarders are insanely hot. Is there some sort of "Hotness" requirement where you have to show your maxim pictorial to have it graded? Brazzers judges are enroute!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 05, 2014 11:55 AM (xorT2)

199 Why is Curling considered a sport. A game, yes, but a sport?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 05, 2014 11:56 AM (DmNpO)

200 Some very attractive female athletes at the Olympics this year. Although I suspect the Thai chick may have been a man in her past life. Posted by: chique -------------------- I miss the E. Germans, especially the shot-puters. They were very essence of femininity.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 05, 2014 11:56 AM (aDwsi)

201 Well, Chicago lost out on it's Olympic bid, so there's that. Posted by: Mike Hammer at February hey now, even the ioc has standards. besides chicago is more corrupt than the ioc - ioc would have lost money.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 11:56 AM (rDidD)

202 I think he meant in the first link. The "mostly preparing" one. Scroll down there. Or just read the while thing. Posted by: shredded chi - cereal killer at February 05, 2014 03:52 PM (u8vcQ) I see. Thank you. Hey isn't that the traditional Russian greeting for someone who is gay?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 05, 2014 11:56 AM (oFCZn)

203 Sexist cissexist misogynist homophobe. (Did I leave anything out?). Oh, how could I forget?

Racist.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 05, 2014 03:34 PM (r+7wo)

now you're just trying to win us over with flattery.

Posted by: tangonine at February 05, 2014 11:56 AM (x3YFz)

204

Why is Curling considered a sport. A game, yes, but a sport?

 

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Technically, it is Bocci Ball on ice, and I don't see the original listed as a    Summer event.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 05, 2014 11:57 AM (q5wSU)

205 ABC World News ‏@ABCWorldNews 3m BREAKING: Olympic Threat: US warns airlines about toothpaste tube bomb: http://abcn.ws/1isX2MW - more tonight on @ABCWorldNews

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 05, 2014 11:57 AM (DmNpO)

206 "I suppose you get to say you are an olympic athlete. it is not gymnastics but if you word it right you could make curling sound sexy."

Hillary already has a broom, so she's good to go.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 11:57 AM (JBggj)

207

I guess it's just me, and it looks like the real concerns are far bigger here, but it really rubbed me the wrong way that the US team was told not to wear their US gear outside the village because it could make them targets.

 

If the olympics were being held here, right here in the backwards, repressive and there were foreign athletes out in the streets in their gear, they would be celebrated and welcomed by people here. People would be buzzing for months about how they were lucky enough to bump into a Scandi biathlon team at a Starbucks. Yet we're the haters and the ones who ruin the world.

 

To me, if our athletes aren't safe to go out and catch a dinner outside the village while wearing their gear, that country shouldn't be the host. Period.

 

Have a bit of a feeling of dread about safety. Pray all goes well.

Posted by: RM at February 05, 2014 11:57 AM (fRppw)

208 And can you not just wait for the "awesome" nbc prime time coverage? You know where they have a replay of some event that occurred at noon eastern time that lasts 10 minutes but before it includes a 20 minute puff piece on an athlete that doesn't even medal.


Try to find a CBC stream, if you can.  It still sucks, and the coverage is Canuck-i-centric, but it's much easier to deal with.

Posted by: grognard at February 05, 2014 11:57 AM (/29Nl)

209 189 how do any hot women get involved in curling? is there some curling path to fame and fortune? is it a coup in the mail order bride business? I suppose you get to say you are an olympic athlete. it is not gymnastics but if you word it right you could make curling sound sexy. Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 03:54 PM (rDidD) Why are there so many hot women in curling? Easy. Because it doesn't require you to be 85 lbs and flat as a board to be successful at it.

Posted by: Buzzion at February 05, 2014 11:57 AM (hK4IF)

210 200 See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Krieger

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 05, 2014 11:57 AM (aDwsi)

211 They're sending another "openly gay" athlete to replace her at the opening ceremonies.
--

Maybe they could send Scott Hamilton? Or any other former American male ice skater for that matter.

Posted by: Mayday at February 05, 2014 11:57 AM (eHc+1)

212 so the NBC broadcast will be six hours of the stunning Sochi scenery sob stories and Gay Pride and 5 minutes of the Games.

Posted by: HR at February 05, 2014 11:57 AM (hO8IJ)

213 Probably ex-skaters or something. Being in a rink or "ice center" all day is for only a certain type of person. I ain't one of them, by the way.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 11:57 AM (ZshNr)

214 180 - Be nice. She can't help it she was born with a lantern jaw. Posted by: BurtTC at February 05, 2014 03:55 PM (TOk1P) It is Thailand we're talking about.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at February 05, 2014 11:57 AM (r+7wo)

215 One thing about a curler..., they know how to use a broom.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 05, 2014 11:58 AM (aDwsi)

216 196 Curling is a sport for old men with beer guts.

Posted by: --- at February 05, 2014 03:55 PM (MMC8r)

Your recruiting efforts have paid off.  Where do I sign?

Posted by: tangonine at February 05, 2014 11:59 AM (x3YFz)

217 Yeah, and how much biathlon will we get to see on TV?
Inquiring minds want to know: will Apollo Ono gauge his earlobes?

Posted by: Euthyphro T Jones at February 05, 2014 11:59 AM (1/4XQ)

218 Technically, it is Bocci Ball on ice, and I don't see the original listed as a Summer event. Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 05, 2014 03:57 PM .........It's really fun to play. Bonus is that you can drink a beer while on the ice . It is actually harder than it looks though.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 05, 2014 11:59 AM (/o+xv)

219 *Almost* makes one wish that if there were a terrorist attack, that they would target the press instead of the athletes. Posted by: Lizzy at February 05, 2014 03:53 PM (POpqt) Hey now none of that! *slides a few bucks over to Lizzy* *whispers* From your lips to God's ears.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 05, 2014 11:59 AM (oFCZn)

220 They should have built it near Leningrad. I think there are some mountains there and no shortage of snow and ice.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 05, 2014 12:00 PM (NRYdU)

221 Tango - Hold it. Does this mean you want to be the broomer? Doesn't sound right.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 05, 2014 12:00 PM (aDwsi)

222 IF our local curling club had members like that I'd have joined. Me thinks that drinking and smoking don't play a part in their curling...

Posted by: H Badger at February 05, 2014 12:00 PM (n/0Nw)

223 I want to go it look pretty.

Posted by: elrobalo at February 05, 2014 12:00 PM (wH5Tk)

224 I think curling should be a co-ed sport. The guys can push that stone-like thingy and the women can do the sweeping in little elf costumes or something. I denounce myself.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 05, 2014 12:01 PM (dfYL9)

225 EEeeeeevening Vear!

Posted by: Soviet Fashion Show from the old Wendy's commercial at February 05, 2014 12:02 PM (MMC8r)

226 The GDR gave steroids to about 10,000 kids who were athletes. It really fucked them up physically and mentally.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 05, 2014 12:02 PM (NRYdU)

227 Too bad Perm didn't get the bid.  The glow from the radioactive lakes are quite romantic, so I hear.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 12:02 PM (JBggj)

228 221 Tango - Hold it. Does this mean you want to be the broomer? Doesn't sound right.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 05, 2014 04:00 PM (aDwsi)

uh.... if it gets me to a place where I can think dirty old man thoughts about girls in tights... whatever.

Posted by: tangonine at February 05, 2014 12:02 PM (x3YFz)

229 I have a theory to explain Olympic level hawtness:

I don't think anyone would argue with the amount of time and dedication it takes to be a world class athlete.

Especially for winter sports, I don't think anyone would argue that it is REALLY expensive to buy equipment, lift passes, coaching, and ice time for the length of time it takes to be a world class athlete.

Therefore, these athletes, one way or another, had access to means.

While some may have benefitted from donations, etc., most likely come from well-to-do families.

Rich guys get hot chicks, and make hot offspring, then pay for said hot offspring to get good at skating, hockey, skiing, or curling.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: grognard at February 05, 2014 12:02 PM (/29Nl)

230 Yeah, and how much biathlon will we get to see on TV? Inquiring minds want to know: will Apollo Ono gauge his earlobes? Posted by: Euthyphro T Jones at February 05, 2014 03:59 PM (1/4XQ) Probably none. I'd like to watch it. Skiing coverage seems to have dropped off, too. Now it's like luge, then bobsled, figure skating, more bobsled, more figure skating, followed by figure skating, and coverage ends with figure skating.

Posted by: Mainah at February 05, 2014 12:03 PM (659DL)

231 So, when are the opening ceremonies?

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 05, 2014 12:03 PM (NRYdU)

232 Also Russia has the world cup 2018, along with Qatar in 2022. That Russian mob money and Arab oil money can buy anything these days. They already own half of London.

Posted by: brak at February 05, 2014 12:04 PM (M2qTM)

233 EEeeeeevening Vear! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ

Posted by: Soviet Fashion Show from the old Wendy's commercial at February 05, 2014 12:04 PM (MMC8r)

234 The Olympics has curling but not nails. That's retarded, sir.

Posted by: Rachel Jeantel at February 05, 2014 12:04 PM (JQuNB)

235 So, when are the opening ceremonies? Posted by: Judge Pug

I think everyone is waiting for the Olympic Flame.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 12:04 PM (JBggj)

236 So, when are the opening ceremonies? Posted by: Judge Pug at February 05, 2014 04:03 PM (NRYdU) Tomorrow I think. I hear the explosions will be delightful.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 05, 2014 12:05 PM (oFCZn)

237 And, here are folk who make the stones. Turns out that they are pricey. http://www.kaysofscotland.co.uk/about.php

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 05, 2014 12:05 PM (aDwsi)

238 That Russian mob money and Arab oil money can buy anything these days. They already own half of London.

Posted by: brak at February 05, 2014 04:04 PM (M2qTM)

on the up side, the food is better.

Posted by: tangonine at February 05, 2014 12:05 PM (x3YFz)

239 Man the beds here are huge!

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 05, 2014 12:06 PM (/o+xv)

240 Give me gal #11 in all her wretched Scandiness.

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at February 05, 2014 12:06 PM (m0h0I)

241 235 I think everyone is waiting for the Olympic Flame. Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 04:04 PM (JBggj) ----------------------- Huh? Are they REALLY sending Richard Simmons?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 05, 2014 12:07 PM (dfYL9)

242 I for one await Bob Kostas' lecture on how Obama could be more like Stalin and lead America forward with five year plans and shipping dissenters to Gulags to collectively farm and provide organic food to food insecure communities in the ghetto.

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at February 05, 2014 12:07 PM (A1Dcl)

243 Those filthy scandis have quite the hawt delegation.

Posted by: Soona at February 05, 2014 12:07 PM (WLKl0)

244 And we're back...Coming up next, Shit that happened 12 hours ago that you already know the results of. And after that another Lindsey Vonn story! Stay tuned.

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 05, 2014 12:08 PM (/o+xv)

245 As I read the online schedule, the first Olympic broadcast on NBC is 8 pm Eastern tomorrow, but it's not the Opening Ceremony, it's a slopestyle comp.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 12:08 PM (ZshNr)

246
Yeah, and how much biathlon will we get to see on TV?

Posted by: Euthyphro T Jones at February 05, 2014 03:59 PM (1/4XQ)







Biathlon: Also known as a "Finnish Drive By"

When do they change over to laser rifles? I seem to remember that being announced a couple of years ago.


Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 05, 2014 12:09 PM (TIIx5)

247 And we're back...Coming up next, Shit that happened 12 hours ago that you already know the results of. And after that another Lindsey Vonn story! Stay tuned. Posted by: Bob Costas at February 05, 2014 04:08 PM (/o+xv) But first, political commentary!

Posted by: Mainah at February 05, 2014 12:09 PM (659DL)

248 that russian HS grad set of pics in last nights ONT looks like partying in Russia could be fun in a live dangerous sort of way

Posted by: moron lifestyle at February 05, 2014 12:09 PM (F3rNE)

249 245 Are they getting into the superbowl act? Pre-Pre-Pre games show?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2014 12:10 PM (TGgNi)

250
Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the future obamacare camps.  Always go for an end toilet when possible.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 05, 2014 12:10 PM (n0DEs)

251 244 And we're back...Coming up next, Shit that happened 12 hours ago that you already know the results of. And after that another Lindsey Vonn story! Stay tuned.

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 05, 2014 04:08 PM (/o+xv)

Right?  It's like they never discovered the internet.

Posted by: tangonine at February 05, 2014 12:10 PM (x3YFz)

252 Kerry said. “Last year, not one Israeli was killed by a Palestinian from the West Bank.” Yes, he's that stupdi. Sheesh!

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 05, 2014 12:11 PM (NRYdU)

253 Is Sochi Ready?

Da!

Posted by: Sochi: a wretched hive of scum and vilainy at February 05, 2014 12:11 PM (5ikDv)

254 that russian HS grad set of pics in last nights ONT looks like partying in Russia could be fun in a live dangerous sort of way Posted by: moron lifestyle

Yeah, and those kids have drivers licenses, too.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 12:11 PM (JBggj)

255 Biathlon: Also known as a "Finnish Drive By" Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 05, 2014 04:09 PM (TIIx5) in Finnish, the proper term for Biathlon is "we whooped some Russian ass in 1939 with our skis and our rifles"

Posted by: moron lifestyle at February 05, 2014 12:11 PM (F3rNE)

256 so what is costas gonna call the indians?

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:11 PM (rDidD)

257 According to my atlas, Sochi sits right along the border with Peruvia. Any athletes caught on the Peruvian side of the border will be conscripted to compete in the Peruvian Winter Games, mostly consisting of Peruvian curling- chasing a greased pig across a frozen pond with a broom.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 05, 2014 12:12 PM (g4TxM)

258 247 I would like him to take up the cause of gays in that part of the world. You know, where he might actually show some balls for doing so. Not quite the same as bagging on the Redskins.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2014 12:12 PM (TGgNi)

259 The opening ceremonies are on Friday night, but they are showing some Olympic coverage on Thursday night.  I'm not sure why, perhaps Thursday is qualifying trials or something else.  And if it is something else, I hope it is not NBC airing a bunch of "heartwarming stories of the incredible hardships, and of the odds they overcame to make it to the Olympics" crap.

Posted by: Mayday at February 05, 2014 12:12 PM (eHc+1)

260 Right? It's like they never discovered the internet. Posted by: tangonine at February 05, 2014 04:10 PM .............Internet? Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at February 05, 2014 12:13 PM (/o+xv)

261 Most will be forgiven if the Event venues hold up,meet standards, but if some railing breaks or some rink melts or some ramp collapses in the midst of competition, shit will get ugly.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 12:13 PM (ZshNr)

262 Yeah, and those kids have drivers licenses, too. Posted by: mrp at February 05, well yeah, but in russia, before you take your license exam they give you a shot of vodka to steady your nerves dull your reflexes before you get on the road with all the other russians.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:13 PM (rDidD)

263 >>Technically, it is Bocci Ball on ice, and I don't see the original listed as a Summer event. Technically, it is housekeeping on ice.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2014 12:13 PM (g1DWB)

264 ...And even today, couples figure skating still does not allow same-sex pairings. We'll be back with more oppression after this...

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 05, 2014 12:13 PM (M2qTM)

265 29 Miss me yet? Posted by: Mitt at February 05, 2014 03:25 PM (hFL/3)

WTC attack September 2001, SLC games February 2002, less than six months after, no terrorism, biggest scandal a French judge, most profitable games in ages. Yes Mitt, you will indeed be missed.

Oh and until I watched curling live at the SLC games (cheap tickets yay), I never would have believed it was an interesting sport. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it. But then any sport is better live.

Posted by: LizLem at February 05, 2014 12:14 PM (BF+2f)

266 They showed a picture of the hotel rooms that the hockey players would be staying in. They had 3 beds side by side and unless every hockey player is the size of Patrick Kane (5'10" 170 lbs) there is no way anyone is getting a good night sleep.

Posted by: Capitalist Infidel at February 05, 2014 12:14 PM (jqvOA)

267 I really needed this post. I haven't had a decent laugh in days. Freaking Putin is nearly as big of a bonehead as our own bonehead.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 05, 2014 03:26 PM (BZAd3) 

Nah- Russia is indisputably much better off now than when Putin took over.  Obviously, the same can't be said about America and Obama.

Under Putin, Russia has risen from the world's 10th largest economy to 5th, life expectancy has risen from 63 to 69, and the fertility rate has risen from 1.2 to 1.7. 

Putin isn't a good guy, but at least he loves his country, wants to make it stronger, and has succeeded in doing so.

Posted by: Jon (not the troll) at February 05, 2014 12:14 PM (DPMu1)

268 give you a shot of vodka to steady your nerves dull your reflexes before you get on the road with all the other russians. Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 04:13 PM (rDidD) Don't forget the dashcam!

Posted by: moron lifestyle at February 05, 2014 12:14 PM (F3rNE)

269  so what is costas gonna call the indians?

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 04:11 PM (rDidD)

 

 

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Native mid-asians.

Posted by: Soona at February 05, 2014 12:14 PM (WLKl0)

270 We now will interrupt our 4 hours of athlete's personal sob stories to show you the American delegation entering the opening ceremonies. OK, great, wow those sweaters are really nice. Now back to the sob stories...

Posted by: Bob Costas at February 05, 2014 12:15 PM (M2qTM)

271

Never fear!  I'm on the way to save the day!

Posted by: Mitt "Man you guys fucked up" Romney at February 05, 2014 12:15 PM (r5sZy)

272 Just wait until the NSA hacks this for monitoring...  NSFW
http://tinyurl.com/jwqns66

And it makes a Sybian seem so antiquated.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 05, 2014 12:15 PM (NNjb2)

273 Sorta O/T Has anyone seen the Saratov Approach movie? It's about two LDS missionaries kidnapped in Russia and held for five days. Bastards lured them to an apartment and beat them with baseball bats, handcuffed them, then drove them out to the middle of nowhere. They fed them like half a hotdog per day. One kid has permanent nerve damage in his hand because they kept him cuffed so tightly. They demanded 300K, but nobody paid because they didn't want to encourage more people to do copycat crimes.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 05, 2014 12:16 PM (45N4D)

274 yeah how hard is it to do the olympics right, turn on a cam, record everything, cut out the time between runs, play. oh yeah, and shut up.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:16 PM (rDidD)

275 No Indians this year. A few of their guys qualified, but the country wouldn't sponsor them. They'll compete under the Olympic flag.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 12:16 PM (ZshNr)

276 Looked up more images of Anne Fenninger (Austrian Alpine Skier) and came across this: (SFW) http://tinyurl.com/lavdtgk I would like to go to that ski resort.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 05, 2014 12:16 PM (TGgNi)

277 The guys can push that stone-like thingy and the women can do the sweeping in little elf costumes or something. **** Any possibility of a sammich or two being made while they are at it?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 05, 2014 12:17 PM (g4TxM)

278 "One American photographer was simply told, “You will not get a shower curtain.” As a frequent traveler to Russia, I appreciate the directness. Wouldn't you feel stupid waiting for something that they could have told you is just not going to arrive?

Posted by: jwest at February 05, 2014 12:17 PM (u2a4R)

279 I wonder if we will hear again how some of the countries competing may disappear as they are swallowed up by AGW-caused sea rise.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 05, 2014 12:17 PM (aDwsi)

280 Dashcams, vodka, giant meteorites, bears, and packs of wolves... russia has lots to offer.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 05, 2014 12:17 PM (NRYdU)

281 Glad to see the SNL Love Toilet is now a reality, thanks to Putin.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 05, 2014 12:18 PM (XrGnJ)

282 The opening ceremonies are on Friday night, but they are showing some Olympic coverage on Thursday night. I'm not sure why, perhaps Thursday is qualifying trials or something else. And if it is something else, I hope it is not NBC airing a bunch of "heartwarming stories of the incredible hardships, and of the odds they overcame to make it to the Olympics" crap.

Posted by: Mayday at February 05, 2014 04:12 PM (eHc+1)

 

 

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Better not watch then.  We know it's coming.

Posted by: Soona at February 05, 2014 12:18 PM (WLKl0)

283

 ...And even today, couples figure skating still does not allow same-sex pairings. We'll be back with more oppression after this...

 

Chicks in flannel shirts just aint sexy.  ...and I don't think you can get those blades to stick to Doc Martens.

Posted by: Icedog at February 05, 2014 12:18 PM (wFGr5)

284 Yeah, that was awesome! I cracked up at the "no toilet fishing" symbol.
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I have no idea what you're not supposed to do thaqt the guy in the bottom right corner is doing.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 05, 2014 12:18 PM (XUKZU)

285 Wouldn't you feel stupid waiting for something that they could have told you is just not going to arrive? Posted by: jwest -------- If only Fedex would adopt the same policy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 05, 2014 12:18 PM (aDwsi)

286 Dashcams, vodka, giant meteorites, bears, and packs of wolves... russia has lots to offer.


You forgot mass graves and radiation, but that's all in the past now, da?

Posted by: grognard at February 05, 2014 12:18 PM (/29Nl)

287 random thoughts.  I'm pretty sure all the american commie journolisters will declare that Russia becoming 'more capitalistic' vs remaining commie is the cause of the issues.     I denounce myself in advance but as long the athletes are protected I'm not going to shed any tears if a few or even a lot of (especially American)  'journalists'  are hit by a terrorist attack.   Its getting to the point where I think a commie vs muzzie fight may be needed to save republic/democrat/western values. 

Posted by: palerider at February 05, 2014 12:18 PM (dkExz)

288 You have to love whining journalists on expense accounts. Fuck you people.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 05, 2014 12:18 PM (0FSuD)

289 We now will interrupt our 4 hours of athlete's personal sob stories to show you the American delegation entering the opening ceremonies. OK, great, wow those sweaters are really nice. Now back to the sob stories... The sweaters ARE the sob story......

Posted by: rickb223 at February 05, 2014 12:18 PM (xorT2)

290 I think Pixy ate my comment. Let me try again : .........It's really fun to play. Bonus is that you can drink a beer while on the ice . It is actually harder than it looks though. - Minnfidel _________ You really play, Minn? It looks fun to me. Something that I would actually enjoy. Do you guys have your own curling stones? Like a lot of people have their own bowling ball?

Posted by: shredded chi - cereal killer at February 05, 2014 12:19 PM (u8vcQ)

291 Don't anyone tell Bob Costas the native Russians are called 'Russians'

Posted by: moron lifestyle at February 05, 2014 12:19 PM (F3rNE)

292 I can't wait to hear the bitching about how "white" the Olympics is.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 05, 2014 12:19 PM (oFCZn)

293

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 04:13 PM (rDidD)

 

My brother described coming into Kosovo in a Russian cargo plane doing nap-of-the-earth flight at night, with the typical quality in NVG for the crew* and the pilot, copilot, and flight engineer bickering.  They almost clipped a high-tension transmission tower and some idiot shot at them.  Needless to say there was no need to explain why Russians drink like they do.

 

 

*Quality was somewhere below piss-poor.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Innuendoes for Both Men and Women at the Outrage Outlet! at February 05, 2014 12:19 PM (hLRSq)

294 Better not watch then. We know it's coming.
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I may talk tough, but I actually love the Olympics.  : )

Posted by: Mayday at February 05, 2014 12:19 PM (eHc+1)

295 I do not care about the shower curtain but the pillows - mother russia confiscating pillows from the locals to put them in hotels because they do not have enough - sheesh, skeevy. few years ago a local news station had a story about the second hand mattress business. buy or find an old mattress, sew a piece of fabric over the stains, sell. you should have seen what was on those beds.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:20 PM (rDidD)

296 I have no idea what you're not supposed to do thaqt the guy in the bottom right corner is doing.
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I think it means don't eat any fish you catch out of the toilet.  I wish I were kidding.

Posted by: Mayday at February 05, 2014 12:20 PM (eHc+1)

297 Are any of our athletes competing in the hetero-athlon?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 05, 2014 12:20 PM (g4TxM)

298

The guys can push that stone-like thingy and the women can do the sweeping in little elf costumes or something.

 

 

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The guys wear dirty wife-beater tshirts.  And they all must have at least a 3-day old beard.

Posted by: Soona at February 05, 2014 12:20 PM (WLKl0)

299 well yeah, but in russia, before you take your license exam they give you a shot of vodka to steady your nerves dull your reflexes before you get on the road with all the other russians. Posted by: yankeefifth

I thought the only question on a Russian drivers license exam was "What is the obverse image on a 100 ruble note?  Show your work.  Five times."

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 12:20 PM (JBggj)

300 Hey, if there's no snow or ice for some reason, our athletes will use the alternative roller-skating equipment that we just happen to have on hand.  Russia wins all the medals!

Posted by: Vladimir Poutine at February 05, 2014 12:20 PM (tv7DV)

301 Wait, Russia has "Free Health care" Don't forget to mention that MSNBC!

Posted by: injuin Black foot Barry, Dog eater. at February 05, 2014 12:20 PM (0FSuD)

302 What's the over/under on how soon into the games Costas or one of his toadies blames Sochi's lack of snow on the dreaded global warming? A relatively warm climate city on the sea shore has no snow. Shocking I tell you, shocking!

Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at February 05, 2014 12:21 PM (X+nFp)

303 You forgot mass graves and radiation, but that's all in the past now, da?

Posted by: grognard at February 05, 2014 04:18 PM (/29Nl)

 

 

You forgot despair.  They have that in truckloads.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Innuendoes for Both Men and Women at the Outrage Outlet! at February 05, 2014 12:21 PM (hLRSq)

304 I have no idea what you're not supposed to do thaqt the guy in the bottom right corner is doing.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 05, 2014 04:18 PM (XUKZU)


I guess they don't want people taking their PED's in the bathroom would be unsafe.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 05, 2014 12:21 PM (WdbF7)

305 No Indians this year. A few of their guys qualified, but the country wouldn't sponsor them. They'll compete under the Olympic flag. What? Microsloth's Help Desk wouldn't pony up a few bucks?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 05, 2014 12:21 PM (xorT2)

306 The Chicago Machine was beating-off to the thoughts of all the graft around a potential Olympics

Posted by: phreshone at February 05, 2014 12:21 PM (Q6pxP)

307 Don't anyone tell Bob Costas the native Russians are called 'Russians' Posted by: moron ----------------- No Jamaican bobsled team this year?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 05, 2014 12:22 PM (aDwsi)

308 So will there be the Pripryat Pistol Range for the Olympians?  Where Polonium tea will be served?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 05, 2014 12:22 PM (NNjb2)

309 No Jamaican bobsled team this year?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at February 05, 2014 04:22 PM (aDwsi)


No, mon.  John Candy has been dead for years.

Posted by: grognard at February 05, 2014 12:22 PM (/29Nl)

310 few years ago a local news station had a story about the second hand mattress business. buy or find an old mattress, sew a piece of fabric over the stains, sell. you should have seen what was on those beds.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 04:20 PM (rDidD)

 

 

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What do you think they did with all those shotgun-suicide mattresses?  Duh.

Posted by: Soona at February 05, 2014 12:23 PM (WLKl0)

311 You really play, Minn? It looks fun to me. Something that I would actually enjoy. Do you guys have your own curling stones? Like a lot of people have their own bowling ball? Posted by: shredded chi - cereal killer at February 05, 2014 04:19 .....We use the club's. The pro's I believe use their own but they are spendy. I don't play as much as I'd like because, kids and their sports, business etc. I started playing it a few years back after my knees went to shit and I had to quit playing hockey. A buddy of mine talked me into trying it and I was like, really? But It's actually a blast!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 05, 2014 12:23 PM (/o+xv)

312 Jamaica n bobsled should be here.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 12:23 PM (ZshNr)

313 "No Jamaican bobsled team this year?" I heard they are coming. The Olympic committee picked up their traveling expenses.

Posted by: jwest at February 05, 2014 12:24 PM (u2a4R)

314 I hope it is not NBC airing a bunch of "heartwarming stories of the incredible hardships, and of the odds they overcame to make it to the Olympics" crap. **** Don't forget the heartwarming backstory of the plucky Minnesotan girl who is America's great hope in the Nordic events who is destined to finish 25th (or lower) in the 10 kilometer race.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 05, 2014 12:24 PM (g4TxM)

315 >>No Jamaican bobsled team this year? Yep, they are there. Their equipment, however, has not arrived yet. This is going to be the Olympics of fuckups.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2014 12:24 PM (g1DWB)

316 The Indian Olympic Committee didn't want a "tiny delegation". Lest the world think India is too small, I guess.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 12:25 PM (ZshNr)

317 No Jamaican bobsled team this year? *** Yes. But the airline has lost their luggage.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 05, 2014 12:25 PM (DmNpO)

318 The last guy on Drudge toilet instructions is trying to take a shit on the floor.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 05, 2014 12:25 PM (0FSuD)

319 Jamaica? Nah, I didn't even know her?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 05, 2014 12:25 PM (g4TxM)

320 I hope it is not NBC airing a bunch of "heartwarming stories of the incredible hardships, and of the odds they overcame to make it to the Olympics" crap.

Posted by: Mayday at February 05, 2014 04:12 PM (eHc+1)



You mean just like Obama's story?

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 05, 2014 12:26 PM (o3MSL)

321 WTH they didn't UPS their luggage and gear, I have no idea.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 05, 2014 12:26 PM (DmNpO)

322 This story, in many ways, is the story of Obama.

Posted by: grognard at February 05, 2014 12:26 PM (/29Nl)

323 Olympic Threat: US Warns Airlines About Toothpaste Tube Bomb Looks as though it's as dangerous to go to Sochi as it is to visit the obamacare website.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 05, 2014 12:26 PM (IXrOn)

324

Everything should be fine so long as you can drink like a Russian and leave like an American.

 

 

PJ O'Rourke (I think)

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Innuendoes for Both Men and Women at the Outrage Outlet! at February 05, 2014 12:26 PM (hLRSq)

325 back in the sarajevo olympics the commies, who did not have sno cats, had grunts marching up and down mountains, locked arm-in-arm to pack the snow for the skiiing events.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:26 PM (rDidD)

326 "No Jamaican bobsled team this year?"

I heard they are coming.

The Olympic committee picked up their traveling expenses.

Posted by: jwest at February 05, 2014 04:24 PM (u2a4R)



Actually, they crowdsourced their expenses, to the tune of $100,000 in two days. But their bags, and the blades for their sled, are lost in baggage hell.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 05, 2014 12:26 PM (XrGnJ)

327 The last guy on Drudge toilet instructions is trying to take a shit on the floor.
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That's how they work over there.  Asian-style.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 12:26 PM (JBggj)

328 You mean just like Obama's story? Posted by: Hrothgar at February 05, 2014 04:26 PM (o3MSL) Someone will definitely be saved by Russia's free health care. Want to take bets?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 05, 2014 12:27 PM (0FSuD)

329 Where Polonium tea will be served?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 05, 2014 04:22 PM

No, but they're using depleted uranium bullets.


Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 05, 2014 12:27 PM (KQp38)

330 That's how they work over there. Asian-style. Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 04:26 PM (JBggj) No, that's the guy sitting on top of the toilet squatting.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 05, 2014 12:28 PM (0FSuD)

331 The story of the Sochi Olympics is really the story of Obamacare.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2014 12:28 PM (g1DWB)

332 Yep, they are there. Their equipment, however, has not arrived yet. This is going to be the Olympics of fuckups. Posted by: JackStraw at February 05, 2014 04:24 PM (g1DWB) the kgb is busy implanting AI devices and hit a backlog...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 05, 2014 12:28 PM (IXrOn)

333 every country should get to have at least one participant in every event. also, you should have to train and live in the country you represent in the olympics. no living in the US and going to the olympics for some other country.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:28 PM (rDidD)

334 The Meteor in the video was not the SMOD we've been looking for.



**sigh**


 

Posted by: dananjcon at February 05, 2014 12:28 PM (NpXoL)

335 "No Jamaican bobsled team this year?" I heard they are coming. The Olympic committee picked up their traveling expenses. Have to root for them just for guts alone.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 05, 2014 12:28 PM (xorT2)

336 Yes. But the airline has lost their luggage.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 05, 2014 04:25 PM (DmNpO)

 

 

They lost a bobsled?  How do you lose a four man ice torpedo?  What the heck would anyone else do with a bobsled if you stole it?  I can't imagine there is much of a market for one of those in Kingston.

 

 

Lost a bobsled?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Innuendoes for Both Men and Women at the Outrage Outlet! at February 05, 2014 12:28 PM (hLRSq)

337 273 Sorta O/T Has anyone seen the Saratov Approach movie?
It's about two LDS missionaries kidnapped in Russia and held for five days.
Bastards lured them to an apartment and beat them with baseball bats, handcuffed them, then drove them out to the middle of nowhere. They fed them like half a hotdog per day. One kid has permanent nerve damage in his hand because they kept him cuffed so tightly. They demanded 300K, but nobody paid because they didn't want to encourage more people to do copycat crimes. Posted by: bonhomme at February 05, 2014 04:16 PM (45N4D)

I have! But I'm in Utah so there you go. I liked it. I teared up in a few spots; I blame becoming an old softie in my old age. The parts showing how the whole religious community worldwide, not just Mormons, prayed for their safe return was really touching.

Posted by: LizLem at February 05, 2014 12:29 PM (BF+2f)

338 few years ago a local news station had a story about the second hand mattress business. buy or find an old mattress, sew a piece of fabric over the stains, sell. you should have seen what was on those beds. I saw a report like that. They showed a couple of mattresses that were making people sick. They took off the outer "new" fabric cover and the mattress underneath looked like it'd been recovered from a crack-house. Pee, blood, and semen in multiple overlapping stain patterns covered the thing. It was from some discount mattress store in New York or Jersey.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 05, 2014 12:29 PM (45N4D)

339 No, that's the guy sitting on top of the toilet squatting.
====
Whoa.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 12:29 PM (JBggj)

340
Lost a bobsled?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Innuendoes for Both Men and Women at the Outrage Outlet! at February 05, 2014 04:28 PM (hLRSq)


No they got the bobsled, the lost everything else though, equipment, blades, helmets.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 05, 2014 12:30 PM (WdbF7)

341 So, next question. How many Israeli security guys are there? How many of our guys are there? And will any of it make a rats ass when the "Black Widow" takes out a few hundred?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 05, 2014 12:30 PM (0FSuD)

342 325 "back in the sarajevo olympics the commies, who did not have sno cats, had grunts marching up and down mountains, locked arm-in-arm to pack the snow for the skiiing events." You'll be proud to know that the blades on the Zambonis at Sochi are being ground by a machine supplied (at a large mark-up) by your truly, through my Russian distributor.

Posted by: jwest at February 05, 2014 12:30 PM (u2a4R)

343 Everything said about the Olympic games in Russian could've been said of the Beijing games.

NPR et al are full court press on Sochi because of the "out and proud" anti-gay Putin agenda - versus the closeted and repressed anti-gay PRC laws.

If shower curtains were missing from Fidel Castro's 2015 Olympic summer games, then it would be America's fault.

Plus, the EU / internationalist progs want to rump-hump Putin for UKR going sideways on the EU's unilateralism deal.

Posted by: 13times at February 05, 2014 12:30 PM (fGPLK)

344 Don't forget the heartwarming backstory of the plucky Minnesotan girl who is America's great hope in the Nordic events who is destined to finish 25th (or lower) in the 10 kilometer race.
--

So true.  I wish they would spend more time letting us get to know some of the leading athletes from other countries. 

Which reminds me...whatever happened with the African sprinter from the last Olympics, the one with the artificial leg who killed his girlfriend by shooting her through his bathroom door not too long after the Olympics.  Has he gone on trial yet?

Posted by: Mayday at February 05, 2014 12:30 PM (eHc+1)

345 I saw a report like that. They showed a couple of mattresses that were making people sick. They took off the outer "new" fabric cover and the mattress underneath looked like it'd been recovered from a crack-house. Pee, blood, and semen in multiple overlapping stain patterns covered the thing. It was from some discount mattress store in New York or Jersey. Posted by: bonhomme at February 05 we must have seen the same story. I am glad sochi came along and we probably shipped them all over there.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:30 PM (rDidD)

346 Want to take bets?

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 05, 2014 04:27 PM (0FSuD)


I am willing to bet that we get a good "indoctrination" on the efficiency of the Soviet style of government, the graft will not be mentioned, and the Walter Duranty byline will an invisible but effective model for the our press.

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 05, 2014 12:30 PM (o3MSL)

347 I love the winter vs. the summer Olympics. Maybe because I have played some of the sports. But I've always enjoyed them more. I actually did try ski jumping one time. I stress once. It ended like the agony of defeat from the Wide World of Sports. Picture a DoDo bird on skis.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 05, 2014 12:31 PM (/o+xv)

348 Dark horse this year is the unheralded Guatemalan hockey team.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 05, 2014 12:31 PM (g4TxM)

349 Sochi is approaching tiger blood levels of Winning.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 05, 2014 12:31 PM (NNjb2)

350 'Black Devil' Moscow commute on ice should be an event.

Posted by: RWC at February 05, 2014 12:31 PM (fWAjv)

351 I have! But I'm in Utah so there you go. I liked it. I teared up in a few spots; I blame becoming an old softie in my old age. The parts showing how the whole religious community worldwide, not just Mormons, prayed for their safe return was really touching. It's playing a few places in Western Washington State too. Very touching, and emotionally difficult.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 05, 2014 12:32 PM (45N4D)

352 Most of the journos/athletes who have been to multi-Olympics are calling this something different. Every place has hiccups, but China was a model of efficiency compared to Sochi.

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 12:32 PM (ZshNr)

353 so you can't pee standing? top right what is the bottom right?

Posted by: moron lifestyle at February 05, 2014 12:32 PM (F3rNE)

354

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 05, 2014 04:30 PM (WdbF7)

 

Oh, I can see that part.  I was just trying to imagine some guy trying to sell a bobsled in some back alley in Kingston and my imagination just went and gave up.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Innuendoes for Both Men and Women at the Outrage Outlet! at February 05, 2014 12:32 PM (hLRSq)

355 No, that's the guy sitting on top of the toilet squatting. ==== Whoa. Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 I have a feeling it is telling the women not to do that, they always do that so they do not have to sit on the filthy seat, sigh.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:32 PM (rDidD)

356 Posted by: bonhomme at February 05

But did Gov Christie know about this?

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 05, 2014 12:32 PM (o3MSL)

357 So the whole universe is Francis from Stripes?

Posted by: Beagle at February 05, 2014 12:32 PM (sOtz/)

358 348 Dark horse this year is the unheralded Guatemalan hockey team. Because? They will get all their opponents stoned.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 05, 2014 12:32 PM (0FSuD)

359 I am willing to bet that we get a good "indoctrination" on the efficiency of the Soviet style of government, the graft will not be mentioned, and the Walter Duranty byline will an invisible but effective model for the our press.
Posted by: Hrothgar
====
Thank God for the Daily Mail.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 12:33 PM (JBggj)

360 Which reminds me...whatever happened with the African sprinter from the last Olympics, the one with the artificial leg who killed his girlfriend by shooting her through his bathroom door not too long after the Olympics. Has he gone on trial yet?

Posted by: Mayday at February 05, 2014 04:30 PM (eHc+1)


Going on trial pretty soon, getting a full 24 news channel just to cover the trial in south africa.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 05, 2014 12:33 PM (WdbF7)

361 Whoa.
Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 04:29 PM

Back in the '70s when the Iranians used to get trained at USAF bases, there would always be footprints on the toilet seats.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 05, 2014 12:33 PM (KQp38)

362 Which reminds me...whatever happened with the African sprinter from the last Olympics, the one with the artificial leg who killed his girlfriend by shooting her through his bathroom door not too long after the Olympics. Has he gone on trial yet? Posted by: Mayday at February 05, no, someone said something about some sa television station covering the trial 247365.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:33 PM (rDidD)

363 @361 I believe it.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 05, 2014 12:34 PM (0FSuD)

364 Posted by: bonhomme at February 05, 2014 04:29 PM...Thanks for the mattress story. I think I just threw up a little. I hope Costas gets one.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 05, 2014 12:34 PM (/o+xv)

365 Sochi, the new capital of Trashcanistan.

Posted by: jim oberg at February 05, 2014 12:34 PM (x1cuw)

366 Has Bob Costas gone missing yet? Not that I want that to happen, but has it happened?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 05, 2014 12:35 PM (oFCZn)

367 I just got a vivid mental image of the Jamaican bobsled sliding down the conveyor belt onto the luggage carousel at the airport. Hope they have their claim check.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 05, 2014 12:35 PM (g4TxM)

368 In Soviet Union, mattress gets you!

Posted by: Hrothgar at February 05, 2014 12:35 PM (o3MSL)

369 326 "No Jamaican bobsled team this year?" I heard they are coming.
The Olympic committee picked up their traveling expenses. Posted by: jwest at February 05, 2014 04:24 PM (u2a4R) Actually, they crowdsourced their expenses, to the tune of $100,000 in two days. But their bags, and the blades for their sled, are lost in baggage hell. Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 05, 2014 04:26 PM (XrGnJ)

I posted this in an earlier thread, but a cousin served his LDS mission in Russia, and when we mailed him care packages we had to write "Bibles" on the boxes, no matter the contents, so they would not get ransacked by customs, the good stuff mysteriously disappearing. Jamaicans should just have written "BIBLES" on their gear, prob solved!

And I hear Sochi has palm trees, so they will totes feel at home.

Posted by: LizLem at February 05, 2014 12:35 PM (BF+2f)

370 You'll be proud to know that the blades on the Zambonis at Sochi are being ground by a machine supplied (at a large mark-up) by your truly, through my Russian distributor. Posted by: jwest at February kinda cool

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:35 PM (rDidD)

371 I have a feeling it is telling the women not to do that, they always do that so they do not have to sit on the filthy seat, sigh. Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 04:32 PM (rDidD) It is a muslim thing, Our guys in A-Stan and Iraq had the same problem with squat shitting locals trying to squat shit on a sit shit toilet

Posted by: moron lifestyle at February 05, 2014 12:36 PM (F3rNE)

372 Nood fluke up.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 05, 2014 12:36 PM (xorT2)

373 I bet FedEx international express has been killing it for the last 24 hours with orders for amenities but would you really even trust them getting stuff to you trough the rings of corruption around Sochi? Even if price was no object?

Posted by: Lincolntf at February 05, 2014 12:36 PM (ZshNr)

374 When I talk to a college-educated Brit, I go out of my way to say "Oh, yeah. I read about that in the Daily Mail."   Priceless.  Drudge, keep 'em coming.

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 12:36 PM (JBggj)

375 My brother described coming into Kosovo in a Russian cargo plane doing nap-of-the-earth flight at night, with the typical quality in NVG for the crew* and the pilot, copilot, and flight engineer bickering. They almost clipped a high-tension transmission tower and some idiot shot at them. Needless to say there was no need to explain why Russians drink like they do. *Quality was somewhere below piss-poor. Posted by: Mikey NTH - Innuendoes heh. poor training was their defensive edge, impossible to hit anyting flying like that

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:36 PM (rDidD)

376 Thank you for the update ADIPH and Y5th.

Posted by: Mayday at February 05, 2014 12:38 PM (eHc+1)

377 It is a muslim thing, Our guys in A-Stan and Iraq had the same problem with squat shitting locals trying to squat shit on a sit shit toilet Asia too. If everyone would just sit the freaking seats wouldn't be awful. But one person stands on the seat and you have to too. Or hover.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at February 05, 2014 12:38 PM (45N4D)

378 I enjoy watching the winter olympics more than the summer too but I have to say the winter olympics are pretty much useless. bob sledding, luge, ski jumping, hockey, ice skating, what is the usefulness of any of em. cross country skiing and shooting, ok, but cross country skiing is worse than getting effin shot .

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 05, 2014 12:39 PM (rDidD)

379 My Russian is a little rusty non-existent but I think the comment in Cyrillic under the pictures of the toilets says, "We aim to please. You aim, too, please"

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at February 05, 2014 12:40 PM (g4TxM)

380 I think this is going to be a scary Olympics in many ways: lousy snow, strange hotels without water, walls, or pillows, possibly bugged rooms and hacked accounts, toothpaste bombs (?great, now I can't bring travel-size toothpaste on board), and terrorist threats. Please do pray for our athletes and others there. I wish it were over.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky survived 2014 Polar Vortex at February 05, 2014 12:40 PM (baL2B)

381 Sochi will be wonderful.  It'll be a delightful romp through a socialist paradise.  All the little discomforts will be forgotten in favor of how happy the Russian people are.  And the countryside itself.....so pristine.  So pure.  A model in governments involvement in the well-being of mother gaia.

Posted by: Soona at February 05, 2014 12:43 PM (WLKl0)

382 heh. poor training was their defensive edge, impossible to hit anyting flying like that Posted by: yankeefifth

And then there's this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593

Posted by: mrp at February 05, 2014 12:44 PM (JBggj)

383 Posted by: moron lifestyle at February 05, 2014 04:36 PM (F3rNE) How many shits would a shit squatter shit if a shit squatter could shit shit.

Posted by: RWC at February 05, 2014 12:44 PM (fWAjv)

384 I really don't see the point of having an Olympics if Alicia Sacramone isn't going to be there:

http://is.gd/wBNOYe

Posted by: DamnDirtyRINO at February 05, 2014 12:47 PM (m0h0I)

385 I've been to Russian on business trips. Lets just say that western companies who want to do business there should factor in bribes for about 3% of their budget costs. Those who insist on being SOX compliant won't last long. G-d knows how much SOX has "saved" the investors from bad choices. cough cough

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at February 05, 2014 12:58 PM (7TvJ4)

386 The big difference between Sochi and Brazil is that we aren't going to hear about all the problems Brazil will have (and they will have problems that will make Sochi look like the Ritz) because the MSM hates Russia now (back when it was the USSR, of course, the MSM loved the place -- hell, they awarded Pulitzers to that "reporter" -- forget his name -- who helped cover up mass murders to protect it). If Putin hadn't shown up their god-king so often and been less inclinded to bring in capitalism, we wouldn't be hearing about all the Sochi problems now.

Posted by: Dancing Queen at February 05, 2014 12:58 PM (ZFXqT)

387 @381 Soona "And the countryside itself.....so pristine. So pure. A model in governments involvement in the well-being of mother gaia." Because most of the Russians who could emmigrate, did. It's ideal for the enviroment, because we know mother nature is an incompetent child who cannot take care of herself.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at February 05, 2014 01:00 PM (7TvJ4)

388  "Is Sochi Ready?" -- in a word, no and never will be. There are two reasons for this:
 
1) The Olympic committee are a bunch of dolts. Why you may ask?
2) Take a geography lesson. Go to Google maps and up where Sochi is located. They picked a seaside resort town that only in the best of times gets a lot of snow.

Russians go to the Black Sea for R&R. Odessa used to be `the place` to go before the USSR breakup. Sochi is south of Odessa. The committee did the equivalent of selecting Maui, Hawaii for the winter Olympics. 

Posted by: PissAntinPA at February 05, 2014 01:11 PM (RHBWt)

389 So, okay, when can we start seeing it on T.V.? Where is the definitive schedule? So many ads, so much bullshit! When can I start watching! And where !! Death to all networks that obscure the truth from the people!

Posted by: and irresolute at February 05, 2014 01:33 PM (RqHWH)

390 Come stop by Fyedorov's Motel in Sochi and we give you good time! Vodka and cockroaches are complimentary, bedsheets not included.

Posted by: Fyedorov_Anatoly_77 at February 05, 2014 01:50 PM (xMSfj)

391 One of the speed skater chicks tweeted her hotel had no water, then advised when it came back on not to use it on your skin because of dangerous chemicals.  Apparently it was still okay to drink? 

She tweeted she was washing her face with Evian and felt like a Kardashian.

CNN reserved 11 rooms five months ago, one was ready.  Another reporter found his hotel had no lobby, hadn't been built yet, he had to find the manager's room to check in, that's where the phone and credit card swiper were.

Rooms being let lacked doors, door knobs, furniture, heat, and curtains, in addition to shower curtains.  Some floors had workers and stray dogs wandering the halls.

Yet Putin is the guy who made Obama his bitch. 

Posted by: Adjoran at February 05, 2014 01:54 PM (QIQ6j)

392 I am so sick of hearing the reporters crying about the conditions there. TO DAMN BAD.

Posted by: Coldwarrior57 at February 05, 2014 02:31 PM (rO5kl)

393 The pillows! Cuddle your face into one of these:

http://www.vocativ.com/02-2014/sochi-running-pillows/

Posted by: soggybottom at February 05, 2014 03:32 PM (O/MaX)

394 I'm ready!

Posted by: Hillary! at February 05, 2014 07:41 PM (kQh9Z)

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