Olympics in Rio

bootlegger10

I felt completely safe in Rio last November even walking around on my own in the evening. It may have been a false sense of security but nonetheless I didn't feel like my life was on the line. With that said I would stick to the tourist areas and walk in groups.

But...the dirty water, potential dangerous/unfinished event structures, etc... is another story and certainly somewhat unique to RIo versus other cities wanting the Olympics.

g under p

We Now have Super-Bacteria in the Rio water
This is it folks. This is how we all die.
People from all over the world go to 1 place for 2 weeks and all return to every little corner of the earth with some sort of viral disease.
Maybe I watch too many films.......

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-05/rio-olympics-facing-a-new-problem-super-bacteria?src=usn_fb

Peace

Godfather.

g under p said:

We Now have Super-Bacteria in the Rio water
This is it folks. This is how we all die.
People from all over the world go to 1 place for 2 weeks and all return to every little corner of the earth with some sort of viral disease.
Maybe I watch too many films.......

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-05/rio-olympics-facing-a-new-problem-super-bacteria?src=usn_fb

Peace</blockquote

good grief ! somebody should slap the shit outta the Olympic committee or who ever accepted Rio's bid to hold the games, what a shithole !

Godfather.

g under p

Godfather. said:

g under p said:

We Now have Super-Bacteria in the Rio water
This is it folks. This is how we all die.
People from all over the world go to 1 place for 2 weeks and all return to every little corner of the earth with some sort of viral disease.
Maybe I watch too many films.......

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-05/rio-olympics-facing-a-new-problem-super-bacteria?src=usn_fb

Peace

Well like the old saying money, money talks enough of it did, therefore Rio gets the bid.

Eventually in the future like the NFL, cities around the world should be on a rotation to be chosen to host these games. The IOC Set up a fund to maintain the sites to somehow lower the costs to host and secure the games.

Peace

Godfather.

g under p said:

Godfather. said:

g under p said:

We Now have Super-Bacteria in the Rio water
This is it folks. This is how we all die.
People from all over the world go to 1 place for 2 weeks and all return to every little corner of the earth with some sort of viral disease.
Maybe I watch too many films.......

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-05/rio-olympics-facing-a-new-problem-super-bacteria?src=usn_fb

Peace

Well like the old saying money, money talks enough of it did, therefore Rio gets the bid.

Eventually in the future like the NFL, cities around the world should be on a rotation to be chosen to host these games. The IOC Set up a fund to maintain the sites to somehow lower the costs to host and secure the games.

Peace

wow ! cool news, something needs to be done.

Godfather.

g under p

Godfather. said:

g under p said:

Godfather. said:

g under p said:

We Now have Super-Bacteria in the Rio water
This is it folks. This is how we all die.
People from all over the world go to 1 place for 2 weeks and all return to every little corner of the earth with some sort of viral disease.
Maybe I watch too many films.......

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-05/rio-olympics-facing-a-new-problem-super-bacteria?src=usn_fb

Peace

Well like the old saying money, money talks enough of it did, therefore Rio gets the bid.

Eventually in the future like the NFL, cities around the world should be on a rotation to be chosen to host these games. The IOC Set up a fund to maintain the sites to somehow lower the costs to host and secure the games.

Peace

wow ! cool news, something needs to be done.

Godfather.

Now let's get this straight that's just an idea of mine that I hope the IOC would try to implement someday going forward. Cities around the world just don't have the money to host these games then once they do most of the venues are then torn down.....this concept just doesn't make sense to me.

Peace

PJ_Soul

g under p said:

We Now have Super-Bacteria in the Rio water
This is it folks. This is how we all die.
People from all over the world go to 1 place for 2 weeks and all return to every little corner of the earth with some sort of viral disease.
Maybe I watch too many films.......

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-05/rio-olympics-facing-a-new-problem-super-bacteria?src=usn_fb

Peace

I don't know if that will happen because of the Rio Olympics, but I do believe that this kind of things is most likely to wipe out a large portion of humankind at some point. If not now, someday.

dimitrispearljam

mcgruff10 said:

dimitrispearljam said:

its the same dangerous as every big,crowded city in the world..diodn t feel unsafe more than any other place i visit..
the only city in brazil is kinda scary of the ones i visit..was porto alegre...

I think this is definitely different than lots of other big cities. No way a gang is going to go on the beach/major tourist area in the USA, Canada or Europe and rob 50 people in broad day light .

Sure..but no way in brazil a student go with guns and granades at school and kill 10 -20 teachers and students like happens in america

dimitrispearljam

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NvustDmW7bk

PJ_Soul

dimitrispearljam said:

mcgruff10 said:

dimitrispearljam said:

its the same dangerous as every big,crowded city in the world..diodn t feel unsafe more than any other place i visit..
the only city in brazil is kinda scary of the ones i visit..was porto alegre...

I think this is definitely different than lots of other big cities. No way a gang is going to go on the beach/major tourist area in the USA, Canada or Europe and rob 50 people in broad day light .

Sure..but no way in brazil a student go with guns and granades at school and kill 10 -20 teachers and students like happens in america

True, but that kind of thing doesn't impact tourists.

dimitrispearljam

PJ_Soul said:

dimitrispearljam said:

mcgruff10 said:

dimitrispearljam said:

its the same dangerous as every big,crowded city in the world..diodn t feel unsafe more than any other place i visit..
the only city in brazil is kinda scary of the ones i visit..was porto alegre...

I think this is definitely different than lots of other big cities. No way a gang is going to go on the beach/major tourist area in the USA, Canada or Europe and rob 50 people in broad day light .

Sure..but no way in brazil a student go with guns and granades at school and kill 10 -20 teachers and students like happens in america

True, but that kind of thing doesn't impact tourists.

Well..nice france..is a tourist area
There is no safe place anywhere

hedonist

dimitrispearljam said:

PJ_Soul said:

dimitrispearljam said:

mcgruff10 said:

dimitrispearljam said:

its the same dangerous as every big,crowded city in the world..diodn t feel unsafe more than any other place i visit..
the only city in brazil is kinda scary of the ones i visit..was porto alegre...

I think this is definitely different than lots of other big cities. No way a gang is going to go on the beach/major tourist area in the USA, Canada or Europe and rob 50 people in broad day light .

Sure..but no way in brazil a student go with guns and granades at school and kill 10 -20 teachers and students like happens in america

True, but that kind of thing doesn't impact tourists.

Well..nice france..is a tourist area
There is no safe place anywhere

Fuck, I was a tourist in Nice, late 80s. A city of beautiful people, environment, food!

We're all exposed, no matter where.

Pretty sure my city is somewhere on the list.

Bentleyspop

This is sure to make Muskydan crazy.....

The Black Lives Matter Movement Is Heading To The Rio Olympics

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5786f996e4b08608d332f81f?google_editors_picks=true

catefrances

polaris_x said:

the olympics are a fraud ... like everything else it has been corrupted by greed ...

^^^^ this.

Thirty Bills Unpaid

I know several Olympic athletes. They speak to the event with reverence.

Yes... corporations have dug their fangs into it and at times the IOC has acted questionably among other items, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the Olympics.

At the core of these events are our world's greatest athletes on the world's greatest stage: a really nice break from shitheads mowing down innocent people or blowhard idiots appealing to idiots and running for president of the most powerful country in the world.

PJ_Soul

I love the Olympics from a viewers perspective. I watch practically everything. It's what I do for 2 weeks, lol. I am not ashamed to admit that. It is very entertaining to watch, and all the profiles about the athletes and everything, so much variety ... high TV drama, haha. I fucking love it.

I have also known several Olympic athletes... TBH, most of them are total assholes. They tend to be really self-centered. I suppose you need to be to spend all that time and energy on just being "the best". But I definitely wouldn't go out of my way to spend time with most Olympians, lol. That said, yes, of course, they are earnest about the competition. Despite all the political (and criminal) crap that is intertwined with the games, it is still true sport, true competition, and I can appreciate that.

Godfather.

keep your eye on the BMX race the American team is a group of very cool people, I know them very well along with a bunch of others from other countries.

Godfather.

catefrances

what amuses me, and I use that term loosely is that golf is an olympic sport... GOLF!! ffs... I thought tennis being included was bad enough...

I cant remember the last time I watched an olympic event... though id go out on a limb and suggest it was perhaps the closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympics.

Godfather.

golf.....it like watching grass grow.

Godfather.

Jason P

I enjoy watching the US kick the crap out of the rest of the world every 2 years! We are even daring everyone by resting our NBA best players this year.