Anybody watching? I know that String is because he's posted on the viral dual toilets.
I watched a few events yesterday and was interested by the show of nationalistic flag waving among spectators. Since what I watched came from a US TV network, nothing that was of remote interest to Americans was overlooked. A US woman came in fifth in speed skating...we got a clip of that non-medal accomplishment.
I'm anxiously awaiting the women's ice-wrestling/shooting event. Go ladies!
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Ice wrestling?
If there were and Team USA were in sniffing distance of a medal, it would be covered. Of course it is the same phenomena everywhere, the trick is to get an athlete from a major sponsoring country to get a medal. Cross-country skiing is currently dominated by the Norwegians, and speed skating by the Dutch, which is a kiss of death for these exciting and intensely dramatic sports.
Anybody watching? I know that String is because he's posted on the viral dual toilets.
Yes I'm watching a little - heard a funny remark yesterday about those toilets, calling them a "
Twobog'n".
Yes I'm watching a little - heard a funny remark yesterday about those toilets, calling them a "Twobog'n".
Oh, I do love that one. The toilets are the best event so far.
Since toilets seem to be so fascinating for some, a TV show about toilets would bridge a gap in the market.
Russian toilets, Chinese toilets, Iranian toilets, North Korean toilets, Afghani toilets...
To make things more fascinating, toilets could be equipped with microphones and/or cameras so we could watch the events live.
There could be organized some contests as well which could become more popular than the Olympic Games :)
The loudest fart, the longest fart or the fart torch could be three of several disciplines for men and women.
Sponsoring shouldn't be a problem neither 8)
How about: This farting contest was brought to you live and sponsored by Coca-Cola and McDonalds.
I'm not sure about contests in this area, but excreting is not an unimportant matter, and culture in this area differs as widely and wildly as in the area of eating. There are eating contests, but I would never participate. For some people, dogs and rats are normal meals, but I would decline even in the pain of being considered rude. The same way, Russian (and Asian) culture of public collective group excretion are a topic, where a differing opinion has its legitimate place even when Russians may complain.
No, I am not fully rejecting those toilets. I have used huge public sh*thalls where you could well conduct your contests, Krake, and I survived. But it's really just a survival issue for me, or at best an adventurous amusing little incident. I won't do it for a living or to win, not even to prove a point. It is what it is.
Sponsoring shouldn't be a problem neither
Double negative?
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Double negative?
No no. We patented it. ::)
Only in Brazil, the South American counterpart of Scotland.
Are you RjBarulheira?
There's no counterpart of Scotland across the pond.
(Oops...)
There's no counterpart of Scotland across the pond.
You even talk like you-know-who.
An Olympic event that nobody but a participant could love? Curling. The little teakettle thingees are called rocks. These folks are Rooskies.
http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/olympic-crush-the-russian-women-s-curling-team-1392098637-slideshow/ (http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/olympic-crush-the-russian-women-s-curling-team-1392098637-slideshow/)
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Kettling.
Kettling is a police tactic for controlling large crowds during demonstrations or protests. It involves the formation of large cordons of police officers who then move to contain a crowd within a limited area.
Kettling.
Only among Russian thugs.
An Olympic event that nobody but a participant could love? Curling. The little teakettle thingees are called rocks. These folks are Rooskies.
http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/olympic-crush-the-russian-women-s-curling-team-1392098637-slideshow/ (http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/olympic-crush-the-russian-women-s-curling-team-1392098637-slideshow/)
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Hei Jim, what on earth is eating you? The above one is the wrong picture >:(
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Your teakettle booster engine is better than mine.
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English Professor "A double negative makes a positive, but a double positive never makes a negative."
Bored voice from the back of the class "Yeah, right."
English Professor
"Double negative", they say.
Someday, the world will assist to Anglo-Saxons claiming to have invented logics...
Anybody watching?
Nope, our winter sports are equal to our summer sports.
Both boring, by the way.
Language doesn't pretend to use logic in its formal structures - as it is a product of human psyche, not reasoning.
An Olympic event that nobody but a participant could love? Curling. The little teakettle thingees are called rocks. These folks are Rooskies.
The men are the ones to watch, so far it is Norwegians–Russians 9:8.
Sochi Olympics: Norway vs. Russia In Battle Of The Curling Pants (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/02/10/sochi-curling-norway-russia_n_4758835.html)
English Professor "A double negative makes a positive, but a double positive never makes a negative."
Bored voice from the back of the class "Yeah, right."
I can't never believe that.
The men are the ones to watch, so far it is Norwegians–Russians 9:8.
Sochi Olympics: Norway vs. Russia In Battle Of The Curling Pants
It happens in golf, too...at least with John Daly.
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Do you like satire? So do I, so try this on for size.
Snippet.
SOCHI (The Borowitz Report)—Construction in Sochi is “very much on track” to be finished in time for the 2018 Winter Olympics, Russia’s head of Olympic planning said today.
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/sochi-expected-to-ready-by-2018-olympics.html (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/02/sochi-expected-to-ready-by-2018-olympics.html)
For @Josh:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peVdsTglebA[/video]
All this bunkum and led by the West and it's "leaders." Can I tell you jimbro that in Edinburgh Zoo one of the toilets is actually like this. An adult and a child can be taken in for example.
Anyway on a more important note all the damn hype that has went on about sneering and sniping at Russia overlooks something. The interviews with the athletes is a totally different picture. The US media and some here have been at this for no good reason at all. Russia has produced the best facilities of any Winter Olympic and the participants would back that. One could almost tolerate such immaturity if oit was the USSR but the country is a capitalist one now but there again however not controlled by the American corporates so fodder for sniping.
Well done Sochi and well done Russia.
Anyway on a more important note all the damn hype that has went on about sneering and sniping at Russia overlooks something. The interviews with the athletes is a totally different picture. The US media and some here have been at this for no good reason at all. Russia has produced the best facilities of any Winter Olympic and the participants would back that. One could almost tolerate such immaturity if oit was the USSR but the country is a capitalist one now but there again however not controlled by the American corporates so fodder for sniping.
I don't understand why you're so quick to jump on the Putin bandwagon. Do some snooping on some of the things that have gone on, from the $8,000,000,000 spent on the road to Sochi, the contract given to an old friend, to shabby accommodations.
Arkady Rotenberg, the boyhood friend and former judo partner of black-belt President Vladimir Putin, already is collecting his winnings from 2014’s Winter Olympics. Rotenberg’s companies have been awarded at least 227 billion rubles ($7.4 billion) worth of contracts for the Sochi Games, according to figures compiled from corporate and government filings. That’s more than the entire budget for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, though it represents just 15 percent of Russia’s latest estimate for the event, which promises to be the most expensive ever.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-21/putin-friend-bags-at-least-21-russian-olympic-contracts (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-21/putin-friend-bags-at-least-21-russian-olympic-contracts)
You're always quick to castigate everything American and show no skepticism toward anything else with the singular exception of Edinburgh. Why is that?
Olympics are not sports.
Even less "winter games" that no one sees.
You're always quick to castigate everything American and show no skepticism toward anything else with the singular exception of Edinburgh. Why is that?
When you get tired and your concentration wavers you sometimes take rj seriously.
A sad spectacle.
What a surprise from jimbro and tt92. ::)
How is that one for brass neck stuff on me jumping so quickly on Putin's bandwagon! You both have to look in your own corner and the ill based quick approach by your media on Sochi. It was a case of mumblings, sneers from the very start so no surprise you two follow the braining so take the thing out your own eye before you sideswerve to mine. And anyway how much Russia wants to spend is it's right and they have the money. Plus the fact that athletes have been praising the facilities. Jimbro was fast off the mark at sniping Putin so no moral high grouns there. He and his fellow ex-colonist get ired at my views on the USA and I have no intention of aplogising for such. A country that interferes everywhere, tries to destabilise "enemies" who are usally not wishing to give in to big business attempts. Half the world's military expenditure from America. Constantly creating trouble and mayhem. Has an electoral system controlled by the millionaires and not the people. The comfortable off can passingly agree on some of it but think that because their corner is fine the greed and arrogance shown across the world is a passing phase. Well tough it isn't.
So right from the start we had the US and some here getting digs at Sochi for no good reason and there were Americans who cancelled trips because of the over the top hints about terrorism. The same moaners of course ignore previous matters such as in Germany when terrorists killed Israel athletes or in Mexico City where authorities killed dozens. On top of this i gave a degree of credence when the USSR was in existence but is now capitalist inclined and is on economy the US cannot control or undercut so not surprising the media and others will brain their people. As long as America does what it does in the world and create conflicts it will remain open for challenge. Both jimbro and tt92 can do nothing about either so adopt an attitude it is not them so that's okay we can forget the deplorable things that go on. Kid of laughable when people swipe at Russia on democracy especially from a land that doesn't really fit that word itself! Have a nice day.
Well done to Russia and Sochi for putting on a great show, wonderful facilities and promoting the Olympic principles. Even more so at the people quick enough to ignore the same principles here.
I have to agree with RJ there that security and the facilities are in good order in Sochi. Compared to Vancouver for example http://www.canada.com/health/cms/binary/2556861.jpg
Not sure how much should have been spent and through which one of Putin's buddies, but the result manages to be both challenging and safe for the sportspeople and entertaining for the spectators. Gays were afraid that the authorities wouldn't treat them tenderly enough, but there's been no official interest in gays at all, so these fears were baseless too.
When you get tired and your concentration wavers you sometimes take rj seriously.
A sad spectacle.
Thanks for the observation, sir. Never again.
DnD needs a "block" feature like D&D has.
DnD needs a "block" feature like D&D has.
Already there in Profile > Modify profile > Buddies/Ignore List. ersi tells me it works.
Already there in Profile > Modify profile > Buddies/Ignore List. ersi tells me it works.
Thank you, sir. You're now officially blocked/ignored/banned.
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An American competitor saw a wolf walking inside her hotel.
It seems she didn't liked and is complaining about...
Things are going very well in Sochi! That's Robocop in the foreground.
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Winter Games are always an imitation of true Olympics.
What's that picture got to do with Sochi??
An American competitor saw a wolf walking inside her hotel.
It seems she didn't liked and is complaining about...
Are you sure it was a wolf?
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Maybe the wolf wasn't so gifted by nature and she was complaining about that...
An American competitor saw a wolf walking inside her hotel.
It seems she didn't liked and is complaining about...
Are you sure it was a wolf?
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Ftr, that is (or looks a heck of a lot more like) a tanuki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_raccoon_dog).
Are you sure it was a wolf?
No, it was a dog, but it was deceased.
Thousands of dogs have been killed. Despite promising there wouldn’t be a street cull in preparation for the Olympic Games, the Sochi local government hired a private exterminating company to kill “as many as possible” for the Olympic Games, referring to the dogs as “biological trash.” The International Olympic Committee has done nothing to stop it.
What's an International Olympic Committee to do? :'(
An Olympic event that nobody but a participant could love? Curling. The little teakettle thingees are called rocks. These folks are Rooskies.
David Attenborough's alternative curling commentary (http://www.wimp.com/curlingcommentary/)
That lavatory story has been done so many times but I have seen one of these elsewhere and even the Russians have satired it as it happens. For one who always moans about going on the same take all the time you do it yourself with anything to do with Russia. Time you were told this instead of trying to warp at me! Heavens you are almost as bad as Fox News so waken up and get out of that damn chair for some fresh air. Oh and by the way your terrible snow was not due to Russia either.
Maybe the wolf wasn't so gifted by nature and she was complaining about that...
"She"? You'd better go back and look at that video snippet again.
I was wrong...for the first time in my life. Curling is everywhere!
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The Detroit Curling Club is a dedicated curling facility with four sheets of ice and a spacious lounge and viewing area. We're in Ferndale, Michigan, close to Downtown Detroit and centrally located between major freeways (I-75 and I-696). We are the only curling club in the Detroit metropolitan area and have an active membership who joins for one primary purpose - to enjoy the grand old game of curling!
For the interested curlers in DnD, see this.
http://www.detroitcurlingclub.com/ (http://www.detroitcurlingclub.com/)
David Attenborough's alternative curling commentary
It's hard to believe that Sir David said that. I'm shocked!
I hear that he has a guest spot coming in next season's
Downton Abbey.
Oh-oh a dreaming Abbey fan. Can we expect definitive reactions from such? I bet if you had lived then jimbro you would have been a footman and I as butler running the staff.
More likely, you'd have been a lady's maid.
Make fun of Downton Abbey and you'll have my beloved, but sometimes violent, wife to deal with.
This pic I took of her spells it out.
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I take it she doesn't wash often.
Just a postscript on the double lavatory matter. A year ago I was at a Zoo here and there were different toilet blocks around the place but as the child with me wanted to use one we stopped at a brand new one just at the exit. Be musingly each of the 2 toilets instead had a double seat just like that Sochi example. The Zoo is in Edinburgh.....
Just a postscript on the double lavatory matter. A year ago I was at a Zoo here and there were different toilet blocks around the place but as the child with me wanted to use one we stopped at a brand new one just at the exit. Be musingly each of the 2 toilets instead had a double seat just like that Sochi example. The Zoo is in Edinburgh.....
Edinburgh! Where else?
My wife and I are considering side by side toilets. Togetherness is everything.
You forgot Siamese... They've introduced for the overweight, for those, who's undecided about their sex/gender...
Minority treatment!
Yes where else jimbro. I think that is a wonderful idea of side by side situ in the bathroom. You could read the papers together (on the rare occasion you buy one) and sort out all the problems. Very unique.
Yes where else jimbro. I think that is a wonderful idea of side by side situ in the bathroom. You could read the papers together (on the rare occasion you buy one) and sort out all the problems. Very unique.
Very.