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Beijing’s big air jumps at the 2022 Winter Olympics look like a dystopian hellscape
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Torrent of Pork
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I know somebody already made the GOW joke, but all the colors in the world, and China chose the color pallette of the 2008 videogame industry for their reality.
I'd watch that. It would be awesome if they could wear what the want. Cow costumes and such.
"And from the US, dressed like Santa Claus, Uncle Sam. On deck in the leiterhosen, Germany."
Cyberpunkd
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She doesn't care, she is making top money. The citizenship part is the interesting part, my guess is she did what many people do when a country does not allow for dual - they just ignore it and keep the two anyway. She is high profile so my guess is China looks the other way and doesn't require the proof she got her US one revoked.
Will be funny when one day she slips and will use her US passport for travel.
Hero of Spielberg
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I think they were going for ‘industrial cool’ because, you know, snowboarding is cool. Might have been able to pull it off in a country that’s mostly nice & picturesque and that was the contrast. But because it’s China, it just seems representative of the country, an industrial wasteland.
Also, on another note is it mandatory for women snowboarders to have wisps of blonde hair poking out either side of their beanie or something?
Also, on another note is it mandatory for women snowboarders to have wisps of blonde hair poking out either side of their beanie or something?
jufonuk
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I think it's pretty metal. The article says that the participants are praising it, but one has to wonder if it's not a threat to safety/foreign relations/social credit to say it looks bad.
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The dumbest thing from what I read is that they're leaving it up all year to encourage people to try winter sports, but like...who the fuck that isn't already expertly trained in ski jumping is just going to wake up one day and say "yea what the fuck, I'll give it a shot".
ForAcademicPurposes
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Have the winter Olympics where it doesn't snow bruhs
AJUMP23
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I will just use this thread to talk about the Olympics. I really feel for Mikeala Shiffrin, who is possibly the best skier in the world and has gated out on her 2 best events. She sat on the hill for 20 minutes after the second event, and then in her interview she questioned her entire life's work.
But on the other side, Jacobellis finally won gold, since her silly trick cost her gold in 2006. Nice to get the monkey off the back.
ipukespiders
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[Eddie the Eagle enters the game]
StreetsofBeige
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Talking about bad environment, dont forget bad food for athletes holed up in hotels.
My snack before bed is better than this. LOL
theblast.com
My snack before bed is better than this. LOL
2022 Winter Olympics Athlete Says Food Is Disgusting, 'I Want This To End'
Olympic athlete and Russian biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova says the food inside the Olympic village is so bad, and shared a brutal picture.
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StreetsofBeige
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There was one article that said pasta, charred meat, potatoes. But they never said hat that white thing in the top right corner is. lol
Dural
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That is something else, pushing the puck into the other skater. SMH.
Love that Jacobellis got gold, great moment.
AJUMP23
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Cornish hen?
RAÏSanÏa
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The result of a mighty civilization showing its capable hospitality.Talking about bad environment, dont forget bad food for athletes holed up in hotels.
My snack before bed is better than this. LOL
2022 Winter Olympics Athlete Says Food Is Disgusting, 'I Want This To End'
Olympic athlete and Russian biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova says the food inside the Olympic village is so bad, and shared a brutal picture.
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Stitch
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$30 Chinese mealTalking about bad environment, dont forget bad food for athletes holed up in hotels.
My snack before bed is better than this. LOL
2022 Winter Olympics Athlete Says Food Is Disgusting, 'I Want This To End'
Olympic athlete and Russian biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova says the food inside the Olympic village is so bad, and shared a brutal picture.
StreetsofBeige
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It would be hilarious if news got out foreign hotel athletes got bad food but Chinese athletes there got great room service.
Cockles & Whelks
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But boy, is Eileen Gu pretty.
AJUMP23
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Really? I don't really find her aesthetically pleasing. I do like Mikaela Shiffrin though.
GU BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Cockles & Whelks
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Really? I don't really find her aesthetically pleasing. I do like Mikaela Shiffrin though.
So do I
BouncyFrag
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I like where this thread is going.
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She is, but she is also a massive asshole. Some of her comments that I read are so tone deaf and self-centered that I honestly have a hard time believing someone actually said them, especially to a reporter.
AJUMP23
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She is 18 raised with social media. She is bound to be self centered.
Alx
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Woah, she's still competing 16 years later ? Impressive. I remember watching her 2006 final live, it was hilarious. I even kept a video record of it on my computer for a few years, such an entertaining show.
Tuff McNutt
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It looks like a raw chicken/hen/duck.
Tams
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It's probably boiled chicken.
Actually pretty tasty (if boiled in a nice broth/with some nice sauce) and nice and soft, but it never looks good and absolutely not something you'd serve to people who have never tried it before when trying to impress them.
FullMetalx117
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idk...when I see those the first word I think of is not "dystopian" but rather "industrial". I'm all for hating on china...but come on, we can do better than that
Tams
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It just doesn't fit in with the Winter Olympics. The Winter Olympics and it doesn't even look like there's any fucking snow.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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The weird part is some hundreds of Kms further up there is a quite snowy region of China. Why they didn't have it there is beyond me. Beijing gonna Beijing I suppose.
Hawking Radiation
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Beijing’s big air jumps at the 2022 Winter Olympics look like a dystopian hellscape
The big air ramps inside a former Beijing steel mill have created a surreal backdrop at the Winter Olympics.www.sbnation.com
this really the best place they could come up with to set up this event?
LOL WTF is this ??!!!
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nush
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I've seen food made for factory production line workers in China that looks better than that.
Laieon
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It's no Italian meal, that's for sure.Talking about bad environment, dont forget bad food for athletes holed up in hotels.
My snack before bed is better than this. LOL
2022 Winter Olympics Athlete Says Food Is Disgusting, 'I Want This To End'
Olympic athlete and Russian biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova says the food inside the Olympic village is so bad, and shared a brutal picture.
I'm a teacher in the US and this honestly looks on par if not slightly better than what the cafeteria at my school serves. The kids very rarely finish their food, it's abhorrent and disgusting. We've gone through 4 vendors in 3 years and have yet to find one that's good.
I collect VHS tapes
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My middle school and high school contracted with some local Mexican restaurants, it was pretty great
One of the advantages of living in Southern California I guess
No idea if they still do this, but the burritos were amazing
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StreetsofBeige
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From what I see in media, at least lots of US schools have lunch programs. When I went to school, there was no real organized lunch offered. Everyone had to brown bag it themselves. If you forgot to bring your lunch, you were toast and had to ask friends to half a sandwich.
Here's the food I had offered growing up at school.
Elementary school = a long table where lunch ladies sold juice (I think for 35 cents)
Middle school = a long table where lunch ladies sold juice and giant cookies
High school = a small kitchen where if you had money you could buy some breakfast stuff like a coffee or muffin in the morning and pizza slices were offered at lunch. Nothing was free. I dont even think many students even bought the morning food. It was more for the teachers. There was a vending machine if you wanted to buy soft drinks. There was no place within walking distance for lunch so you were stuck. Closest thing with food was a small gas station across the street selling their usual junk food and snacks.
Never been to a school where they had a real kitchen selling or offering trays of food. Not that I'd care since the trayed food is probably crap any way.
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HoodWinked
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Im not really bothered by it. But nuclear power unfortunately is unfeasible there is simply too much nimby associated with it. Even the Germans whom are pragmatic will shut down every nuclear power plant in thier country by the end of 2022. And moving to more domestic coal and Russian oil. 
Ya that one chick is a traitor. She does look like a sociopath.
Ya that one chick is a traitor. She does look like a sociopath.
nush
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I have, England. Early 80's shit food no choice, by the late 80's buffet style and you could choose what you wanted. If what you wanted was chips then you could, back before that chips were the devil and powdered mashed potato was the only choice because it was "Healthier". There were actual big kitchens in the schools back then.
TheGrat1
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That is the famous #2 Plate at the local wet market. It is best not to ask questions.
nush
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Powerful? No. They just throw money at a project to look that way when anybody else with any sense would see it was not worth the effort. The technology to make fake snow has been around for a long time. China just wanted a sequel to the last Beijing Olympics, the one with the CGI fireworks.
Beijing Olympics II: Arctic Boogaloo
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StreetsofBeige
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C'mon guys, it's not that bad. They got that temple in the top right corner that covers a 5 mile radius.
That was my point, though. You really shouldn't have deleted what else I said. Lol
JayK47
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Worst Olympics EVER! I can't even be bothered to watch. So much cheating and poor treatment of the athletes. No way is it even close to competitive. Truly this is all the proof we need to see that the IOC is corrupt. China should not be allowed to host under the current circumstances. Just a horrible waste of so much talent. Imagine training for 4 years to go to this shithole to compete.
BennyBlanco
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Talking about bad environment, dont forget bad food for athletes holed up in hotels.
My snack before bed is better than this. LOL
2022 Winter Olympics Athlete Says Food Is Disgusting, 'I Want This To End'
Olympic athlete and Russian biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova says the food inside the Olympic village is so bad, and shared a brutal picture.
what a waste of lamb chops
fuck
Cyberpunkd
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You could say Tokyo could be - MAYBE - salvaged but still considered a bastard child, but this...
Terrible isolation condition for the athletes, multiple tests per day coming positive, then negative, then positive again. Athletes being turned back at the very minute before they are set out to participate due to positive test...
It's a sham of a sport's event.
Terrible isolation condition for the athletes, multiple tests per day coming positive, then negative, then positive again. Athletes being turned back at the very minute before they are set out to participate due to positive test...
It's a sham of a sport's event.
Cyberpunkd
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Not to get into politics but the Germans have nuclear hysteria that is jeopardizing the climate change targets. You hear more and more scientists saying the same thing - without nuclear we will not make it when it comes to CO2 reduction.Even the Germans whom are pragmatic will shut down every nuclear power plant in thier country by the end of 2022. And moving to more domestic coal and Russian oil.
What is even more hilarious is that France - a border country - has 56 active nuclear reactors and plans to build more. What do you think will happen, a wind will just blow the other way?