Posted on 02/05/2014 10:31:12 AM PST by Morgana
Amid continued debate over whether or not Sochi is prepared to host the 2014 Olympics (here are 15 alarming signs that Russia might not be ready) reporters from around the world are starting to check into local hotels — to their apparent grief. Some journalists arriving in Sochi are describing appalling conditions in the housing there, where only six of nine media hotels are ready for guests. Hotels are still under construction. Water, if it’s running, isn’t drinkable. One German photographer told the AP over the weekend that his hotel still had stray dogs and construction workers wandering in and out of rooms.
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My initial thought was that it’s a shame sports journalists aren’t being treated like the gods that they are, but after a look at the used toilet paper disposal bin I’m almost ready to work up a sympathetic grin. Scratch another prospective destination off the Drill Vacation List.
Do you remember this from the 1980’s?
Wendy’s Commercial - Soviet Fashion Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ
“Very Nice”
DIS - GUSTING.
Perhaps it is a recycling bin....
agreed, and those journOlists will never, ever acknowledge that this is the legacy of their beloved communism. They will continue to claim it just hasn’t been done right.
I say an article that claimed half the $50 billion was outright stolen.
Russia figured the accommodations they would skimp on are the media ones. With Sports media so leftist...kinda nice idea...
Sports media are wusses compared to war correspondents
so let me see if I understand this correctly, it’s not called toilet paper in Russian? it’s called Bin Paper? Got it.
Is that similar to a mexican jumping bean?
we dont need to know where they’ve bin
It appears to be as foul as it is disgusting.
That video is good. Is it from the Olympic trials?
please dont throw BOMBS in the toilets!
Could be
The whole panel is too funny, fishpole and all. It’s almost too good to be true
No jamming a syringe into your arm?
when real life IS parody
IMO, this picture doesn’t look like it is coming from a hotel room.
More likely an outdoor bar or something, equipped with a septic tank (that is why they ask to dispose paper apart).
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