Sochi Olympics is a clusterfuck so far

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Sochi Olympics is a clusterfuck so far

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Hard to quote because it's mostly tweets from journalists, but here are some links and pictures:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wor ... periences/

http://globalnews.ca/news/1130404/sochi ... oom-rules/

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SochiProblems&src=hash

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Painting a grass in Sochi, Russian style.
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Tap water at a hotel

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Deadspin has a few articles on that, too. Three of the Nine hotels weren't finished, and those happened to be ones where lots of reporters were slated to be housed. The athletes have better accommodations, although they're a little cramped (there was a picture of the Canadian hockey team's rooms where they were three to a room in small beds).
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In fairness, there are a lot of toilets in Asia where you're not supposed to flush the toilet paper into it (apparently the toilet paper there isn't very dis-solvable).
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https://twitter.com/SebToots/status/429 ... 52/photo/1
Sit on the toilet seat. Reasonable
No standing to pee. Reasonable.
No drinking from the toilet. Does that really need to be there ?
No squatting on the seat. Reasonable.
No fishing. WTF ?
The one in the bottom right. I have no clue what it's telling people not to do.

With problems like the toilet seat on wrong and no stalls for the toilets it seems the problems are way worse than the hotels just being unfinished.
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bilateralrope wrote: No drinking from the toilet. Does that really need to be there ?
This may be the former college student in me coming out, but could this just be them telling the people to find somewhere else to vomit when you get drunk? Just saying. :lol:
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Guardsman Bass wrote:Deadspin has a few articles on that, too. Three of the Nine hotels weren't finished, and those happened to be ones where lots of reporters were slated to be housed.
Somehow, given the somewhat acrimonious relationship between the Russian state and the overseas press, I doubt that was wholly unintentional.
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Pelranius wrote:In fairness, there are a lot of toilets in Asia where you're not supposed to flush the toilet paper into it (apparently the toilet paper there isn't very dis-solvable).
Yeah, that photo is dumb. I saw similar warnings on my old university campus, it depends on local pipes, water or staff in building.
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bilateralrope wrote:The one in the bottom right. I have no clue what it's telling people not to do.
I'm tempted to say 'No shooting up in the bathroom', but your guess is as good as mine.

They've known this was coming for years. You would think they could have gotten their shit together by now.
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The last one appears to be "don't get falling down drunk in the bathroom."
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Tanasinn wrote:The last one appears to be "don't get falling down drunk in the bathroom."
I guess that makes sense. Still not getting why they felt they needed to remind people a toilet is not a fishing pond though.
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phred wrote:
bilateralrope wrote:The one in the bottom right. I have no clue what it's telling people not to do.
I'm tempted to say 'No shooting up in the bathroom', but your guess is as good as mine.

They've known this was coming for years. You would think they could have gotten their shit together by now.
It's kind of obvious to me why their shit isn't together. It's because nuHitler and his cronies were skimming a fuckton of money. These are people that make Tony Soprano look like a fucking saint after all.
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phred wrote:
bilateralrope wrote:The one in the bottom right. I have no clue what it's telling people not to do.
I'm tempted to say 'No shooting up in the bathroom', but your guess is as good as mine.

They've known this was coming for years. You would think they could have gotten their shit together by now.
pretty sure that is supposed to be a needle so you're probably right.
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Do junkies usually shoot up on the bathroom floor ?

I thought that, if they are going to shoot up in a public bathroom, they would do it while sitting on the toilet seat. Not sitting on the floor with their legs spread like that.
Gaidin wrote:This may be the former college student in me coming out, but could this just be them telling the people to find somewhere else to vomit when you get drunk? Just saying. :lol:
That fits.

Meaning the fishing is the only thing that needs explaining.
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English is not their native language, so what's new? Go to Japan, Korea, China and you get tonnes of street signs with weird sentences.

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It could also be...a joke. Ha ha, no fishing or shooting up! I've seen similar signs in the US in novelty stores.
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Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:English is not their native language, so what's new? Go to Japan, Korea, China and you get tonnes of street signs with weird sentences.

Much ado about nothing.
The difference between those signs, and this one, is that those signs have text. This one doesn't.
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bilateralrope wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:English is not their native language, so what's new? Go to Japan, Korea, China and you get tonnes of street signs with weird sentences.

Much ado about nothing.
The difference between those signs, and this one, is that those signs have text. This one doesn't.
Well these signs are meant to be understandable to the generic foreign guest that might not speak English.
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Pelranius wrote:In fairness, there are a lot of toilets in Asia where you're not supposed to flush the toilet paper into it (apparently the toilet paper there isn't very dis-solvable).
I'm not sure if the picture is calling attention to just the fact you can't flush toilet paper. Or the fact that the bin provided seems to that black bucket in the bottom of the picture. Where you'd expect something with at least a lid to reduce the smell.
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Or is it just a bad translation and its aroused to be paper towel?
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bilateralrope wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:English is not their native language, so what's new? Go to Japan, Korea, China and you get tonnes of street signs with weird sentences.

Much ado about nothing.
The difference between those signs, and this one, is that those signs have text. This one doesn't.
What's the real difference? The Japanese are notorious for even having accidental innuendo jokes for signs.
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Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:
bilateralrope wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:English is not their native language, so what's new? Go to Japan, Korea, China and you get tonnes of street signs with weird sentences.

Much ado about nothing.
The difference between those signs, and this one, is that those signs have text. This one doesn't.
What's the real difference? The Japanese are notorious for even having accidental innuendo jokes for signs.
Really? Could you give us an example?
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Purple wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:
bilateralrope wrote: The difference between those signs, and this one, is that those signs have text. This one doesn't.
What's the real difference? The Japanese are notorious for even having accidental innuendo jokes for signs.
Really? Could you give us an example?
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SirNitram wrote:As the books I used to read compiling lovely collections of Engrish have, my favorite is 'Women are to be having fits upstairs', in a two story dress shop.
Jesus. We need a thread for these things. So funny....
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Cracked is getting into the act. Yes, I know they're primarily a humor site, but they do get serious every now and then.

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/5-aw ... -olympics/

They don't even talk about what the athletes and reporters have to put up with... this is all what's happening within Sochi (and around its borders in one part). The "we have no gays" part we know about, and I did see something about them killing stray animals, but $51 billion for 98 events? Holy shit.
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Crazedwraith wrote:I'm not sure if the picture is calling attention to just the fact you can't flush toilet paper. Or the fact that the bin provided seems to that black bucket in the bottom of the picture. Where you'd expect something with at least a lid to reduce the smell.
To what then? It's just ambiguous, but it seems to focus on the note. Black in bucket looks like trash bag to me, seems like there is a fold inside.
Elheru Aran wrote:Cracked is getting into the act. Yes, I know they're primarily a humor site, but they do get serious every now and then.

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/5-aw ... -olympics/
That jab about Abkhazia is nonsense, the point about abandoned premises of old Olympics has nothing to do with Sochi, rest was already mentioned here, except maybe orcas bit.
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