Sochi 2014

[Malcador]

Rather glad to read all the 'journalists' complaining, though.  Problem when you practice corruption too greedily, I suppose, rather than the subtle way we do it.

Edited February 5, 2014 by Malcador

[Walsingham]

Monte. You have to read the comments section!

 

Apparently, all the faults are being overblown because of 'gay rights'.

[Monte Carlo]

Yes, it's a well-known fact that in Russia all problems are down to men spontaneously bursting into show tunes now and then. Nothing to do with rampant corruption and bigotry.

[obyknven]

Rather glad to read all the 'journalists' complaining, though.  Problem when you practice corruption too greedily, I suppose, rather than the subtle way we do it.

Cost of corruption in EU is 120bn euros per year. Situation in North America is not better certainly. I can't name this as "a subtle way".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26016467

[Malcador]

 

Rather glad to read all the 'journalists' complaining, though.  Problem when you practice corruption too greedily, I suppose, rather than the subtle way we do it.

Cost of corruption in EU is 120bn euros per year. Situation in North America is not better certainly. I can't name this as "a subtle way".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26016467

 

 

Well, subtle in so much that people don't notice the effects easily.  Not implying that we're squeaky clean or anything here, though I guess it's a toss up whether it's inefficiency or crookedness for the most part.

 

Have there been any complaints by the athletes ? So far all I've seen is the Canadian hockey players having to bunk next to one another.  Looks like they built barracks

[obyknven]

 

This gives me warm fuzzy feelings of reassurance regarding the competitiveness of my country. Where we may not be able to manage complex multifaceted data centres. But we can at least install a lavatory.

 

EDIT: I'll admit we can only do it by paying Polish and Bulgarian people to install the toilet. but at least we have the good sense to do so.

Isn't that a bit of a contradiction? We're basically holding you by the by the balls, without us, you'd be still ****ting into buckets.

 

Toilet cleaner 99 lvl detected.

 

If seriosly Poles make problem for for yourself. Instead of to be independent, or be frendly with Russians ( who maybe evil and insane, but Slav bro anyway ), they trying be nice servants of Western Europeans ( who consider them as dirty untermenschen from East).

 

Just few quotes.

Poland: The heaven of the nobility; paradise of the Jews, purgatory of the common man, and hell of the peasant; the gold-mine of foreigners, and the source of feminine luxury. Rich in wool, it is yet without cloth, grows flax in overabundance, and yet imports linen from abroad, favours all foreign goods and belittles its domestic products, boasts of its costly purchases and despises everything that is cheap.

Italian saying

 

 

 

“* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet régime, or any other régime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore.”

― George Orwell, As I Please: 1943-1945

Whores. It's ecological niche prepared by West for Poland.  It's how they see you all.

[Monte Carlo]

Internet connection - £20 / month

 

London Olympics - £8.92 bn

 

Trolling insane Russian .alt on Obz forums - Priceless

[Malcador]

You paid for the London Olympics ?  If not, that old joke doesn't quite work

[Monte Carlo]

^ Yeah, the cash was down the back of my sofa. It was no biggie.

[Zoraptor]

I have to admit that Europe having 3 Sochi's/ year worth of corruption was something I found somewhat amusing given all the comments about Russian corruption. Physician, heal thyself!

[ShadySands]

On a slightly more positive note

Can Sochi Get Its **** Together

 

On a moderately more positive note

Before-And-After Pictures Show How Sochi Has Changed In The Year Leading Up To The Olympics

 

On a much more positive note

Russia's female Olympians

[Keyrock]

 

On a much more positive note

Russia's female Olympians

 

This is a form of athlete exposure I can definitely get behind.

[BruceVC]

 

 

On a much more positive note

Russia's female Olympians

 

This is a form of athlete exposure I can definitely get behind.

 

 

Wowzers, go Russia

 

I think that's one thing we can all agree on, Russia does have some of the most  beautiful women in the world

Edited February 6, 2014 by BruceVC

[Walsingham]

 

On a much more positive note

Russia's female Olympians

 

 

WHAT. DID. I TELL. YOU. ABOUT. LINKING. THE. DAILY MAIL????

[HoonDing]

So they're all models who do sport in their free time.

[obyknven]

 

And why is an orthodox nation saying "Allahu Ackbar" or whatever?

 

And why is Akatosh nation saying "Almsivi" or whatever? This question really looks stupid in Tamriel Empire? Imagine how stupid  looks this question in Russia where 180 different ethnicities live instead of 9 in Tamriel.

[Malcador]

Those are some really impractical boots.  Yet I see ladies wearing them here too, boggling.

[Tagaziel]

Toilet cleaner 99 lvl detected.

Actually, a freelance writer working for a Canadian company. Thanks for asking.

 

If seriosly Poles make problem for for yourself. Instead of to be independent, or be frendly with Russians ( who maybe evil and insane, but Slav bro anyway ),

It's interesting you equate independence with subjugation by the Russian state, given that the "Slav bros" already enslaved Poland twice in less than two hundred years (1795 and 1939).

 

they trying be nice servants of Western Europeans ( who consider them as dirty untermenschen from East).

I told you to get a real book to read, not the one with Stalin on the cover, didn't I?

 

Just few quotes.

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." --Winston Churchill

 

Whores. It's ecological niche prepared by West for Poland.  It's how they see you all.

That's funny, because I get the exact opposite impression and I've been living in Germany for two years now. My diagnosis: Projection.

 

I have to admit that Europe having 3 Sochi's/ year worth of corruption was something I found somewhat amusing given all the comments about Russian corruption. Physician, heal thyself!

Europe is also the biggest market in the world. Some decay is inevitable in a sea of money.

[Malcador]

 

Toilet cleaner 99 lvl detected.

Actually, a freelance writer working for a Canadian company. Thanks for asking.

 

Are those different ?

[BruceVC]

 

 

Toilet cleaner 99 lvl detected.

Actually, a freelance writer working for a Canadian company. Thanks for asking.

 

Are those different ?

 

 

Malc you should  be trying to bond with a fellow Canadian, or at least someone who works for a Canadian company. Where are your manners  

[Malcador]

Yeah, no.  This month is going to be hell with all this Canadian patriotism and BS with the Olympics. 

[213374U]

Europe is also the biggest market in the world. Some decay is inevitable in a sea of money.

 

Yeah... "some" has the advantage of being a completely arbitrary amount so it facilitates a reasonable-sounding retort while making it impossible for you to be strictly wrong. Read the report itself, the corruption costs amount to a bit under the annual budget for the EU. Oh, and while we're at it, let's also gloss over the fact that corruption is by no means homogeneously spread, being worse in countries in the lower wealth brackets... or where the sea of money is actually rather dry.

 

Nah, accusations of corruption coming from the EU are an exercise in hipocrisy, no matter how you spin it.

[Monte Carlo]

The EU budget has never been written off by auditors. Whistle-blowers are hounded out of office.

 

Europe is pretty seedy.

 

OTOH in Russia, whistle-blowers are fitted up with bogus charges, poisoned, machine-gunned etc.

 

Russia is really, really seedy.

[Tagaziel]

Are those different ?

The **** I deal with in writing doesn't smell as bad. And it's definitely more amusing, like the week when I wrote a series of articles on genital piercing.

 

Yeah... "some" has the advantage of being a completely arbitrary amount so it facilitates a reasonable-sounding retort while making it impossible for you to be strictly wrong. Read the report itself, the corruption costs amount to a bit under the annual budget for the EU. Oh, and while we're at it, let's also gloss over the fact that corruption is by no means homogeneously spread, being worse in countries in the lower wealth brackets... or where the sea of money is actually rather dry.

 

Nah, accusations of corruption coming from the EU are an exercise in hipocrisy, no matter how you spin it.

The EU budget has never been written off by auditors. Whistle-blowers are hounded out of office.

 

Europe is pretty seedy.

Edited February 6, 2014 by Tagaziel

[Zoraptor]

Those are some really impractical boots.  Yet I see ladies wearing them here too, boggling.

And, while her jacket seems quite practical I'd have to question the choice of jeans in snow. They'll get wet, don't hold heat well and are a recipe for hypothermia.

 

Talking fashion, I am also somewhat amused by the profusion of faux rainbow uniforms people and teams have come up with. Mainly because I'm unsure who is being genuinely being subversive and when it's just the media leaping on things to get reaction (as with the Russian official liking the 'rainbow' gloves who was obviously making a political statement. The 'rainbow' in question being the colours of the olympic rings...)