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Community => The Lounge => Topic started by: Ultimate Paragon on February 07, 2014, 04:57:13 pm
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Before we begin discussing the games, I think I should speak my peace about the Russian government and how they've handled this.
Russia has had a chance to show that they've moved beyond their past, and they took a big steaming shitski all over it. Their construction still isn't finished, they mistreated the locals and workers, and they've taken part in some of the most audacious corruption since Bernie Madoff. On top of that, their homophobia is utterly rampant. I'm half hoping this results in some kind of debacle that results in a huge backlash.
By the way, is anybody else hoping for a Jesse Owens moment, where a gay athlete wins it big?
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They also put thousands of stray dogs to death for some reason.
Russia sounds like a shit country. It was bad under communism and it's bad now.
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So if you're a real lesbian, you're gonna be arrested. If your lesbianism is part of a stage act, it's a-ok!
Ironbite-t.A.t.U preformed in case you missed my context.
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They also put thousands of stray dogs to death for some reason.
Russia sounds like a shit country. It was bad under communism and it's bad now.
In most countries, it's a choice between freedom and despotism. In Russia, it's a choice between despotism and lawlessness.
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Well that was a boring opening ceremony. *yawn*
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Yeah, it wasn't the greatest opening, though I admit the lighting of the flame had me jaw dropping.
Also, the American commentators were fucking annoying. Yes, I get it, you hate the Soviet Union. Please shut up already.
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So if you're a real lesbian, you're gonna be arrested. If your lesbianism is part of a stage act, it's a-ok!
Ironbite-t.A.t.U preformed in case you missed my context.
They're still around? Very persistent for a one-hit-wonder from the early 2000's.
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Many sports!
Such competition!
Wow!
The Finnish Womens Hockey Team loses to USA 3-1! Shit! They play Canada on the 10th! Shit!
Who else is pumped for some sports?
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I only ever watch it for the fencing. *raises saber*
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I only ever watch it for the fencing. *raises saber*
Does the Winter Olympics even have fencing?
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I only ever watch it for the fencing. *raises saber*
Does the Winter Olympics even have fencing?
It should.
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(this thread should be merged into the other Olympics thread)
There should be fencing...with katanas...while the combatants ice skate down a luge run...using their swords as the skate runners. I'd watch that.
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Also, the American commentators were fucking annoying. Yes, I get it, you hate the Soviet Union. Please shut up already.
Oh, I'm glad I wasn't the only person who disliked the commentators. One, for interrupting the shorts, and another being what you've just mentioned.
God, I'm sick of how everybody is still stuck with this Cold War era antagonism. When will this society just grow up and move on?
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I will now post the most homeerotic things:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9QzBhqxwfTQ/TgI8dnIsjcI/AAAAAAAAAFk/Ykfe_UnQmQo/s1600/gay-men.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_X5vvzE4wJEk/SkcQkKR45-I/AAAAAAAAEF4/RxctII8YIpQ/s400/Man_Flag_gay_travel.jpg)
(http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/shared-blogs/austin/outandabout/upload/2009/07/bruo_a_gay_man/bruno2.jpg)
(http://blu.stb.s-msn.com/i/89/514A83ADD3638D1056D5C3D05B2355.jpg)
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Merged both Olympics threads.
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(this thread should be merged into the other Olympics thread)
There should be fencing...with katanas...while the combatants ice skate down a luge run...using their swords as the skate runners. I'd watch that.
I'll argue that the following (from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) needs to be an Olympic event:
(http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0066/2852/products/smbc-dangerous_large.png?v=1310617065)
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I nominate ski-jousting for the 2018 winter games.
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James Brown remains my favorite of the figure skaters. I know his wasn't the most technically complex, but he had so much personality that many other dancers didn't add to their performances. Not to mention he incorporated some of his Irish step dancing background into the footwork and had an awesome song.
I won't take away from him for falling, either. The slow motion video showed a chip in the ice that caused it, and at least one other skater was taken out by it too.
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A chip on the ice? Wow.
Ironbite-Russia has really screwed up these games.
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There's a Vine of it here (https://vine.co/v/MWe517UxBjD). You can see how his left skate (the one he lands on) just suddenly stops and seems to hit something with a puff of ice that causes him to fall. It was a great performance and he really won over the crowd, but that fall didn't help him.
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Yeah, at least the 1936 Olympics weren't incompetently done.
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Vice News (one of my favorite independent journalism sites) has an article (http://www.vice.com/read/why-the-hell-are-the-olympics-being-held-in-sochi-anyway) covering exactly why a small summer resort town in the Caucasus was chosen as the site of the Olympics.
Basically, it's described as the equivalent of George W. Bush proving that he won the Iraq War by holding the Super Bowl in Kuwait.
Many Russians are still pretty upset about the breakup of the Soviet Union; imagine the US losing all of their territory west of the Rockies. The fall of communism meant that Russia was no longer a superpower, and even the ones who don't want to return to the communist government want their power back. The effective tie during the first Chechen war of independence was an embarrassment: the great Red Army beaten bloody by a pack of rebels with homemade submachine guns. Putin is former KGB and practically a James Bond villain, and he wanted revenge. So he started the new Chechen war and turned Grozny into literally the most destroyed city in the world, then rebuilt it.
Holding the Olympic games in Sochi is basically Putin's way of "proving" that he won the war against the rebels. He's mocking them.
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Yeah, at least the 1936 Olympics weren't incompetently done.
Those Games introduced a fair deal of what we now consider typical trappings, such as the torch relay. Avery Brundage (so take this with a grain of salt) considered them the best Games ever held.
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It seems likely that the Kim dynasty of PDK got their inspiration for massive crowd synchronized displays from the '36 Olympics, too.
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You see the story behind the American bobsledder who got locked in his bathroom?
Poor guy's sledding partner thought the mysterious banging noise (read: his teammate trying to get attention for help) was annoying, so he put his earbuds in and just ignored it. So he punched the door to pieces:
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19f22gbnlj7dfjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg)
His partner said that he turned and just saw the door torn to shreds and Johnny Quinn, wearing nothing but a towel, standing on the other side with a blank look on his face.
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He and a couple of other guys ended up stuck in an elevator recently, too.
Poor guy can't catch a break.
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Jesus christ this place is a joke!
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Jesus christ this place is a joke!
I'm sure you've seen the bevy of Instagram and Twitter pictures from the visitors and athletes. The whole place, Olympic Village included, is barely even first world in quality. I saw a toilet with the seat installed upside-down. How do you even accomplish that?
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Interviews with the construction workers, who were shipped in from other regions, indicate that they were getting paid US 10 to 15 dollars a day, were being charged $150 a month per man to live in a trailer, 5 or 6 guys in each. Private construction companies with zero supervision as to how they spent the money (they obviously pocketed most of it). 51 billion dollars. Fucking mobster mentality.
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Assuming the sources provided by a Cracked article on this are correct (they usually are), Putin gave a lot of the jobs for creating the Olympics to his friends. USSR-level corruption still occurs in massive amounts.
Not only did they send in the police to beat the workers for complaining, they apparently invented crimes and deported them as illegal immigrants once the construction was done.
If Putin wanted to use the Olympics as his major sign of glory and power, he's failing miserably. These are some of the absolute most balls-out terrible Olympics ever, both on the athletic side (like the melting snow because it's climbing into the 60s Fahrenheit because they stupidly shoved the games into a summer resort town and trucked in snow just to make a political statement against the Caucasus rebels) and on the guest side. All we need now are serious investigations into corrupt judges and cheating and we'll have the perfect storm.
These might be the most memetic Olympics ever.
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Now this sounds interesting enough to make me give a damn about the Olympics now.
Chit, do you mind posting those photos you mentioned and any others you happen upon?
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This (http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6951577/sochi-olympics-athletes-press-journalists-tweeting-horrific-photos-of-accommodations-hotels-upon-arrival) is a collection that College Humor created. The only ones that are confirmed inaccurate are Steven Rosenberg's (apparently that's actually a storage closet converted from a bathroom) and Sebastian Toutant's (that's a novelty sign).
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Guys, it just fucking hit me...
The reason they'e having all these building design problems is because the sent all the gay guys to Siberia! The good news is that I hear the Vorkuta gulag now has wonderful interior design and the coal mines are just fabulous.
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The only thing I enjoy about these Olympics is the hockey. I just watched the US Women kick the crap out of the Swiss, 9-0. And as for Japan, it's pretty bad when their coach is satisfied with a 0-1 loss.
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(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/696/109/c0a.png)
Now this is embarrassing.
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Graphics guy musta been dizzy from drinking the beer colored tap water....
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This (http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6951577/sochi-olympics-athletes-press-journalists-tweeting-horrific-photos-of-accommodations-hotels-upon-arrival) is a collection that College Humor created. The only ones that are confirmed inaccurate are Steven Rosenberg's (apparently that's actually a storage closet converted from a bathroom) and Sebastian Toutant's (that's a novelty sign).
I don't get why the triple room the mens hockey team is staying in is on that list.
Yeah, it's very basic, but nothing about it jumps out as being particularly awful. It's not like the other photos that have dodgy toilets, undrinkable water and unfinished rooms.
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This (http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6951577/sochi-olympics-athletes-press-journalists-tweeting-horrific-photos-of-accommodations-hotels-upon-arrival) is a collection that College Humor created. The only ones that are confirmed inaccurate are Steven Rosenberg's (apparently that's actually a storage closet converted from a bathroom) and Sebastian Toutant's (that's a novelty sign).
I don't get why the triple room the mens hockey team is staying in is on that list.
Yeah, it's very basic, but nothing about it jumps out as being particularly awful. It's not like the other photos that have dodgy toilets, undrinkable tap water and unfinished rooms.
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This (http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6951577/sochi-olympics-athletes-press-journalists-tweeting-horrific-photos-of-accommodations-hotels-upon-arrival) is a collection that College Humor created. The only ones that are confirmed inaccurate are Steven Rosenberg's (apparently that's actually a storage closet converted from a bathroom) and Sebastian Toutant's (that's a novelty sign).
I don't get why the triple room the mens hockey team is staying in is on that list.
Don't hocky teams normally have a lot more than 3 people in them?
I just hope this one is completely genuine. The mind boggles (and conjures up some pretty hilarious images) as to what they were thinking with this:
(http://0.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/67/96/3199b349fe45c9107e038ee6adfcdb64.jpg)
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This (http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6951577/sochi-olympics-athletes-press-journalists-tweeting-horrific-photos-of-accommodations-hotels-upon-arrival) is a collection that College Humor created. The only ones that are confirmed inaccurate are Steven Rosenberg's (apparently that's actually a storage closet converted from a bathroom) and Sebastian Toutant's (that's a novelty sign).
I don't get why the triple room the mens hockey team is staying in is on that list.
Don't hocky teams normally have a lot more than 3 people in them?
I just hope this one is completely genuine. The mind boggles (and conjures up some pretty hilarious images) as to what they were thinking with this:
(http://0.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/67/96/3199b349fe45c9107e038ee6adfcdb64.jpg)
The tweet says its one of the rooms their hocky team is staying in. So presumably they have other rooms as well.
As for the chairs in the toilets, that's just weird.
The only rational explanation I can think of is that they needed to get some chairs out of the way at some point, stuck them in there and then completely forgot about it.
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When I first saw the chairs in front of the toilet picture, a comment further down translated the Russian text as; "Toilet and the scoring judges' chairs" ;D
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(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/696/109/c0a.png)
Now this is embarrassing.
I'll admit, I spent several minutes counting and recounting the medal count, until my eyes shifted over and I noticed it.
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I like our new maple leaf flag! Always thought the stars and stripes were way too busy a pattern.
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I like our new maple leaf flag! Always thought the stars and stripes were way too busy a pattern.
It was like the American peoples thought "Hmm, the British flag isn't gaudy enough, how can we make ours even GAUDIER? I know!"
(Sorry, Brits, your flag is pretty damn gaudy. Not as gaudy as ours, but still.)
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I like our new maple leaf flag! Always thought the stars and stripes were way too busy a pattern.
It was like the American peoples thought "Hmm, the British flag isn't gaudy enough, how can we make ours even GAUDIER? I know!"
(Sorry, Brits, your flag is pretty damn gaudy. Not as gaudy as ours, but still.)
To be fair it is three flags combined into one.
And just imagine how much gaudier it could be if we included the Welsh flag by adding a big red dragon to it.
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I like our new maple leaf flag! Always thought the stars and stripes were way too busy a pattern.
It was like the American peoples thought "Hmm, the British flag isn't gaudy enough, how can we make ours even GAUDIER? I know!"
(Sorry, Brits, your flag is pretty damn gaudy. Not as gaudy as ours, but still.)
To be fair it is three flags combined into one.
And just imagine how much gaudier it could be if we included the Welsh flag by adding a big red dragon to it.
Why did we NOT add a dragon?
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I like our new maple leaf flag! Always thought the stars and stripes were way too busy a pattern.
It was like the American peoples thought "Hmm, the British flag isn't gaudy enough, how can we make ours even GAUDIER? I know!"
(Sorry, Brits, your flag is pretty damn gaudy. Not as gaudy as ours, but still.)
To be fair it is three flags combined into one.
And just imagine how much gaudier it could be if we included the Welsh flag by adding a big red dragon to it.
Why did we NOT add a dragon?
How about something more American, like a rattlesnake or a bald eagle?
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I like our new maple leaf flag! Always thought the stars and stripes were way too busy a pattern.
It was like the American peoples thought "Hmm, the British flag isn't gaudy enough, how can we make ours even GAUDIER? I know!"
(Sorry, Brits, your flag is pretty damn gaudy. Not as gaudy as ours, but still.)
To be fair it is three flags combined into one.
And just imagine how much gaudier it could be if we included the Welsh flag by adding a big red dragon to it.
Why did we NOT add a dragon?
No dragons in our Mythology.
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I like our new maple leaf flag! Always thought the stars and stripes were way too busy a pattern.
It was like the American peoples thought "Hmm, the British flag isn't gaudy enough, how can we make ours even GAUDIER? I know!"
(Sorry, Brits, your flag is pretty damn gaudy. Not as gaudy as ours, but still.)
To be fair it is three flags combined into one.
And just imagine how much gaudier it could be if we included the Welsh flag by adding a big red dragon to it.
Why did we NOT add a dragon?
No dragons in our Mythology.
Maybe you could add an american mythological creature.
Bigfoot perhaps?
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The way we tend to stomp around like a 900lb gorilla as it is, yeah, why not Sasquatch?
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I like our new maple leaf flag! Always thought the stars and stripes were way too busy a pattern.
It was like the American peoples thought "Hmm, the British flag isn't gaudy enough, how can we make ours even GAUDIER? I know!"
(Sorry, Brits, your flag is pretty damn gaudy. Not as gaudy as ours, but still.)
To be fair it is three flags combined into one.
And just imagine how much gaudier it could be if we included the Welsh flag by adding a big red dragon to it.
Why did we NOT add a dragon?
No dragons in our Mythology.
You seem to be missing the point.
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You asked a question, I gave an answer.
Ironbite-suck on it.
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So some American evangelicals went to Sochi to protest homosexuality. It think picture perfectly illustrated how it turned out.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6UuIWHE5AgE/UveVCxU8NqI/AAAAAAACvLk/tJkPN_biVUY/s1600/QNgraphic.jpg)
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I like our new maple leaf flag! Always thought the stars and stripes were way too busy a pattern.
It was like the American peoples thought "Hmm, the British flag isn't gaudy enough, how can we make ours even GAUDIER? I know!"
(Sorry, Brits, your flag is pretty damn gaudy. Not as gaudy as ours, but still.)
To be fair it is three flags combined into one.
And just imagine how much more awesome it could be if we included the Welsh flag by adding a big red dragon to it.
FTFY.
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If the flag had a dragon on it I think I could actually feel some sort of pride in it.
Stupid dragon hating founding fathers D:<
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Not that I've been following particularly closely, but I have noticed that the only time Australia ever seems to win anything is when the other athletes fuck up sufficiently. Not surprising, considering the general climate over here, but it's quite funny that our medal tally isn't so much a testament to the quality of our competitors, but rather to the fuck ups of everyone else's.
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And just how blatantly obvious it is that this town was no where near prepared for the Olympics.
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Sochi is nearly equivalent to having Charleston, South Carolina host a winter Olympics. Interesting to guess how many of the 51 billion, not the stolen part, will go into procuring imported and manmade snow by the Games' end.
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Sochi is nearly equivalent to having Charleston, South Carolina host a winter Olympics. Interesting to guess how many of the 51 billion, not the stolen part, will go into procuring imported and manmade snow by the Games' end.
They already spent more than the cost of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics just building the road from Sochi to the site of the games in the mountains.
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(http://i.imgur.com/Jta7ybG.jpg)
No olympic medal for the Russian hockey team again, we (Finland, muthafucka) just wiped them out of the quarterfinals. Again we'll be competing for a medal for the 4th time in the last 5 olympics. we gon' git ya, Sweden!
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I like our new maple leaf flag! Always thought the stars and stripes were way too busy a pattern.
It was like the American peoples thought "Hmm, the British flag isn't gaudy enough, how can we make ours even GAUDIER? I know!"
(Sorry, Brits, your flag is pretty damn gaudy. Not as gaudy as ours, but still.)
To be fair it is three flags combined into one.
And just imagine how much gaudier it could be if we included the Welsh flag by adding a big red dragon to it.
Why did we NOT add a dragon?
No dragons in our Mythology.
Maybe you could add an american mythological creature.
Bigfoot perhaps?
Wait, wait, I got it. A Tyrannosaurus rex. That would be worth respecting.
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(http://i.imgur.com/Jta7ybG.jpg)
No olympic medal for the Russian hockey team again, we (Finland, muthafucka) just wiped them out of the quarterfinals. Again we'll be competing for a medal for the 4th time in the last 5 olympics. we gon' git ya, Sweden!
Don't fuck with the Finns.
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The womens gold medal game for hockey will start in an hour and 45 minutes from the time of this post, it's Canada vs USA so it should be a pretty thrilling game.
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Team Finland get their second straight bronze medal at hockey, beating USA 5-0!
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
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Enjoy your bronze. Canada will soon be enjoying its second hockey gold (suck it, Sweden). :)
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Go get 'im, I'd prefer not to have to deal with Swedish gloating if they win :P
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We'll grind 'em into the ice. For Finland! (Well, mostly for Canada, but maybe 5% will be for you guys. We got your backs. You did, after all, give us Miikka Kiprusoff -- even if the bugger did go and retire on us.)
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Enjoy your bronze. Canada will soon be enjoying its second hockey gold (suck it, Sweden). :)
One must keep in mind that Canadians are only pacifists outside of hockey rinks.
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Enjoy your bronze. Canada will soon be enjoying its second hockey gold (suck it, Sweden). :)
One must keep in mind that Canadians are only pacifists outside of hockey rinks.
And off the battlefield. Ask Erich Ludendorff.
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Enjoy your bronze. Canada will soon be enjoying its second hockey gold (suck it, Sweden). :)
One must keep in mind that Canadians are only pacifists outside of hockey rinks.
Indeed. Any country that invents a sport where fist fights are part of the gameplay can't be all sugar and spice. We'll apologize if you bump into us on the sidewalk, but get in our way on the ice and we'll beat the shit out of you.
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We'll grind 'em into the ice. For Finland! (Well, mostly for Canada, but maybe 5% will be for you guys. We got your backs. You did, after all, give us Miikka Kiprusoff -- even if the bugger did go and retire on us.)
Sadly, we have not yet been able to engineer an ageless goalie. We keep on churnin' the buggers out so you might be able to snag a new one ;D
Oh well, bring on 2018! And thank you for everything Teemu, a true national icon!
(http://i.imgur.com/1OVBZ1x.jpg)
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(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8076177920/h41171C04/)
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(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8076177920/h41171C04/)
Basically.
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I know it's kind of unrelated but if you're looking for more Russian-related diversions, these are some great pictures. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2014/02/22/280433245/beyond-sochi-photos-of-russia-by-russians)
(http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/02/20/rodinki-11_fyodor-telkov_custom-7411bae9f3b9778b0694f12c8b6783a631c50f34-s40-c85.jpg)
That kid is bored as shit.
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Well when you're the youngest and lowest ranking officer at the table you tend to be.
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I have been told that in the last 8 winter olympics Finland has managed to get 6 medals for Ice Hockey. USA gotten 2 medals in those same olympics.
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Finland is very much in their element when it comes to winter. USA, not nearly as much.
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I have been told that in the last 8 winter olympics Finland has managed to get 6 medals for Ice Hockey. USA gotten 2 medals in those same olympics.
Still no gold tho :(
I remember the school day after we lost the gold medal game to sweden in 2006. you could have beaten an infant to death in the middle of the classroom and it wouldn't have made anybody more upset than they already were.
EDIT: HOLY SHIT SWEDEN JUST GOT BLOWN THE FUCK OUT THANK YOU CANADA MAPLE SYRUP FOR EVERYONE
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Can we turn this person into a meme?
(http://3ms4ve1eb1we30q8w527h1j9f4u.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content//uploads/2014/02/fan-930x600.jpg)
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You mean to tell me South Korea didn't make into the podium for figure skating this year?