World is Falling Apart Thread (Locked forever)

[Ack]

Oh, I remember. But Brazil's already been having problems preparing for this competition. They've flooded the favelas with troops and have been engaging the gangs that run them in firefights, resulting in innocents getting shot and killed in the crossfire. And supposedly there have also been a few work accidents from things like crane's falling.

ah yes I know, but it's not even as bad a Qatar where apparently the people working to build the stadiums are being treated like slaves.

About Brazi: how the fuck did a country of 140 million people manage to be more behind schedule than us at preparing for the Olympics?

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-s ... 60406.html

At a comparable planning stage in 2004 Athens had done 40 per cent of preparations on infrastructure, stadiums and so on. London had done 60 per cent. Brazil has done 10 per cent - and they have just two years left. So the IOC is thinking, ‘What’s our plan B?

And I just noticed that it's been 20 years since the last time the US hosted the Olympics and it will be AT LEAST 30 years before you get the chance to do so again....that's weird.

Not so. We hosted the Winter Olympics in 2002(Salt Lake City), so 12 years ago, and 18 years ago for the Summer Olympics(1996 in Atlanta. A security guard with a pipebomb terrified everyone). We've hosted the Summer and Winter Olympics more times than any other nation, nearly double the next highest (8 overall to France's 5). And besides, the US is considered to be waning, and nations like Brazil are on the rise. They're going to be hammering to show off way more than we are.

[ZeroAX]

Not so. We hosted the Winter Olympics in 2002(Salt Lake City), so 12 years ago, and 18 years ago for the Summer Olympics(1996 in Atlanta. A security guard with a pipebomb terrified everyone). We've hosted the Summer and Winter Olympics more times than any other nation, nearly double the next highest (8 overall to France's 5). And besides, the US is considered to be waning, and nations like Brazil are on the rise. They're going to be hammering to show off way more than we are.

ah yes....that winter sports event you guys call "olympics"....yeah, none of us southerners consider those real olympic games .

It's also impossible to take them seriously when this thing is an olympic event
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfazPNC4lJc

lol. Europe's been "waning" for a century and it's still fine (more or less), I believe you can "afford" it and it would help the economy too.

The thing about these developing countries hosting these events:

It's just a waste of valuable resources for propaganda sake's.

What countries like Brazil, South Africa, Turkey and Russia need isn't stupid white elephants towering over them. They need better roads, hospitals and schools for their people.

The IOC and FIFA should really stop giving these events to rich state/poor people countries, specially when they have such a bad human rights record (see Russia invading Ukraine during the same time it was hosting the worst organized winter games in history).

[Ack]

Ok, come on now, curling is the best part of the Winter Olympics.

[Pulsar_t]

I was going to rag on hashtagivism bullshitism but this bloke put it in words much better than I could



The age of Idiocracy is already here, and it's sweeping the world like wildfire. People were always stupid and gullible, mind (and that includes me, I'm not riding a high-donkey here). Now we have virtually-empowered stupid and gullible.

[Ack]

I was going to rag on hashtagivism bullshitism but this bloke put it in words much better than I could



The age of Idiocracy is already here, and it's sweeping the world like wildfire. People were always stupid and gullible, mind (and that includes me, I'm not riding a high-donkey here). Now we have virtually-empowered stupid and gullible.

What's a hashtag?

[Pulsar_t]

A keyword(s) preceded by the # symbol, popularised by Twitter. Reductionism in its ultimate form.

[fastbilly1]

I was going to rag on hashtagivism bullshitism but this bloke put it in words much better than I could



The age of Idiocracy is already here, and it's sweeping the world like wildfire. People were always stupid and gullible, mind (and that includes me, I'm not riding a high-donkey here). Now we have virtually-empowered stupid and gullible.

What's a hashtag?

the icon for pound, aka the tic tac toe board. hastagivism must mean something like wanting measurements of weight to be more important in ones daily life.

[Pulsar_t]

the icon for pound, aka the tic tac toe board. hastagivism must mean something like wanting measurements of weight to be more important in ones daily life.

[fastbilly1]

the icon for pound, aka the tic tac toe board. hastagivism must mean something like wanting measurements of weight to be more important in ones daily life.

Correct that I do use a CRT monitor sometimes, but I dont hold my cup like that ever!

[mjmjr25]

#saynotoarthritis