In Sochi, sheets cover you with semen!

[makattak]

This is about the Winter Olympics!

Putin needs to cuddle a leopard while riding a bear down a ski jump. Bare-chested, of course.

With a falcon on his shoulder. Firing a grenade launcher. (His version of the biathlon.)

[AZRedhawk44]

With a falcon on his shoulder. Firing a grenade launcher. (His version of the biathlon.)

And Chuck Norris wins silver.

[Fly320s]

And Chuck Norris wins silver.

Seattle Seahawks take bronze.

[HankB]

Sounds like Russia's hotel industry is on a par with their national airline.

I remember once when I was leaving Seattle for Japan, on the parallel runway an Aeroflot plane was landing - and a tire blew up. Pretty loud.

I mentioned this later on to a Russian immigrant, and he said that when sitting on an Aeroflot flight, one should NOT sit near the head - when the plane banks, it may overflow into the aisle.

And Aeroflot often wouldn't divert or make an emergency landing until two of the plane's four engines failed.

As for corruption . . . it was right after the official fall of Communism that Russia had a whole gaggle of overnight billionaires; I guess it was nice to be KGB.

[BlueStarLizzard]

When you have loads of foreign reporters and the eyes of the world desend on an single, isolated area, it behooves you to make sure that they have nothing worthwhile to report.

Which is really not that hard, when you consider the big picture.
They could have dialed down on fancy pants BS, focused on the details and clean up one town in plenty of time and no one would be all that wiser if other things got neglected in the rest of Russia.

At the least, stick the reporters in the decent hotels and leave the crappy, unfinished, sticky with semen ones for the tourist and fans.

[Fly320s]

And Aeroflot often wouldn't divert or make an emergency landing until two of the plane's four engines failed.

No big deal. British Airways has done the same.

[KD5NRH]

No big deal. British Airways has done the same.

As I recall, they've done that a few times in twin engine planes, too.

[vaskidmark]

When you have loads of foreign reporters and the eyes of the world desend on an single, isolated area, it behooves you to make sure that they have nothing worthwhile to report.

Which is really not that hard, when you consider the big picture.
They could have dialed down on fancy pants BS, focused on the details and clean up one town in plenty of time and no one would be all that wiser if other things got neglected in the rest of Russia.

At the least, stick the reporters in the decent hotels and leave the crappy, unfinished, sticky with semen ones for the tourist and fans.

Aren't the Rooskies so famous that the definition of doing that is named after their effort?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

Seems like all the old skills have been lost.

stay safe.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Aren't the Rooskies so famous that the definition of doing that is named after their effort?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

Seems like all the old skills have been lost.

stay safe.

exactly!

[Doggy Daddy]

At the least, stick the reporters in the decent hotels and leave the crappy, unfinished, sticky with semen ones for the tourist and fans.

I'm thinking that's probably just what they did.  We're seeing the "good" side.

[Scout26]

And the East German judge gives you a 7.6....