RIO wins 2016 Olympics

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**Frazzled**

SAMBA!!!!

**Kilkrazy**

Thank goodness for that.

**radiohazard**

Who were the other contenders?

**Kilkrazy**

Madrid, Chicago, Tokyo.

**Frazzled**

Tokyo, Chicago, and another country

Tokyo never had a chance against Brazil's hyperpower status in regards to her natural resources:

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youngblood wrote:I still think its all some bs yall, as I pointed out in another thread, Rio has some ridiculous crime rates again tourists not to mention that Brazil is an all around mess.

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I clearly must restate. Lets review the comparison of natural resources again.

**youngblood**

I still think its all some bs yall, as I pointed out in another thread, Rio has some ridiculous crime rates again tourists not to mention that Brazil is an all around mess.

**reds8n**

You can have the LOndon one instead if you'd like ....

... no ? Damn, didn't think you'd fall for that.

**H.B.M.C.**

I wanted Tokyo to win.

Why?

Total cliché cutesie anime mascots and 'Tentacle Rape' as an event.

**dietrich**

I'm kinda surprised that President Obama wasn't able to get enough support for Chicago. He did soooo well with the health care reform.....er, uhm......

Actually, I am surprised. I figured that Chicago would get it.

But, Rio is good for America. It's only one hour ahead of the Eastern US Time Zone. Brazillian women are hotter and wear less clothes than the ones in Chicago. There's hot women in Chicago, but a 10 in the US is like a 5 in Rio (the capital of cosmetic surgery).

**dogma**

Frazzled wrote:Tokyo, Chicago, and another country

Tokyo never had a chance against Brazil's hyperpower status in regards to her natural resources:

Brazil: leading exporter of booty.

The school girls never had a chance.

**Frazzled**

Dogma and Dietrich now see the way of things. Let Brazil lead us all into Olympic paradise. You know, GC will be pushing 18. I might be able to get She Who Must Be Obeyed t take a trip down there.

SAMBAAAAAAAAA!!!!

**dogma**

So that's where she'll buy her first thong....

**youngblood**

dogma wrote:So that's where she'll buy her first thong....

I'll be supplying the funds... through my secret swiss bank accounts

**Frazzled**

Y'all are just jealous because all the voices talk to me!

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dogma wrote:So that's where she'll buy her first thong....

Edit no you silly me and the Wife. GC can trash the house up here with parties.

**youngblood**

Frazzled wrote:
Edit no you silly me and the Wife.

ewwww..... old folks

**Frazzled**

Exactly. Exactly.

Ma, where's ma cane?

**gorgon**

It's funny...ESPN the magazine just ran a little article breaking down the contenders. They concluded that it'd be Rio based on the fact that the OC tends to pick the most problematic site, and Rio has the most issues. LOL.

I hope people don't stay away because of crime fears. I still feel for poor Greece, which spent like a billion in security (huge for a nation their size) only to see a total of like 17 Americans make the trip other than the team itself, LOL. Now, I understand their infrastructure improvements are paying off in other ways (and I can attest that the metro in Athens is nice and convenient), but that's a helluva bill to pay for a couple weeks of sporting events.

**DarthDiggler**

Speaking as a spurned Chicagoan (suburbs) I can say if the 5000 murders in Rio last year don't scare me away, it's the idea that they don't let you flush toilet paper in the city either.

**dogma**

Its rare that the Olympics economically benefit the host city. Its far more significant in terms of national pride and other such intangibles. Indeed, there are usually just as many people against hosting the games as there are for it. I know some of the cost projections in Chicago had the city losing as much as 30 million.

**Ahtman**

So you are saying we can't buy your wife a thong? Perhaps it might be inappropriate?

Slaanesh wins this battle over Tzeentch...or did he/she?

**dogma**

Is there any Chaos God who goes un-worshiped in Brazil?

Probably Nurgle, Africa has the lock on that.

**dietrich**

Uncle Vinny ain't happy wit demz. He's sending Moose and Rocko over to get da IOC to 'reconsider' their decision.

**Kilkrazy**

gorgon wrote:It's funny...ESPN the magazine just ran a little article breaking down the contenders. They concluded that it'd be Rio based on the fact that the OC tends to pick the most problematic site, and Rio has the most issues. LOL.

I hope people don't stay away because of crime fears. I still feel for poor Greece, which spent like a billion in security (huge for a nation their size) only to see a total of like 17 Americans make the trip other than the team itself, LOL. Now, I understand their infrastructure improvements are paying off in other ways (and I can attest that the metro in Athens is nice and convenient), but that's a helluva bill to pay for a couple weeks of sporting events.

Most Olympics are a financial disaster unless they are done on the cheap, like London post-WW2. Montreal is still paying for 1976, I think. London 2012 is probably going to be a financial disaster because of the recession and British mismanagement. Plus, all the new infrastructure is concentrated in far east London where the people most able to get to it are the ones not yet living in the 150,000+ new homes promised for the Thames Estuary flood plain, in defiance of rising sea levels.

Recent exceptions where Barcelona and Sydney, which put their cities on the world map and generated some useful infrastructure.

**radiohazard**

dogma wrote:Is there any Chaos God who goes un-worshiped in Brazil?

Probably Nurgle, Africa has the lock on that.

Sigged

**reds8n**

dogma wrote: Indeed, there are usually just as many people against hosting the games as there are for it. .

Oh, you have been to London.

I think we shoul just all stick Greece X amount of moolah and just hold the poxy things there every 4 years and be done with it.

And ban all the opening ceremonies too.

**JohnHwangDD**

reds8n wrote:I think we shoul just all stick Greece X amount of moolah and just hold the poxy things there every 4 years and be done with it.

And ban all the opening ceremonies too.

Tthe Summer games are just too big. Break it into Sprng & Fall to drive the cost down and participation up. Also, rotating contents would make better sense, to help with travelling for various countries.

Psh. China put on one hell of a show, totally worth watching, aside from the parade of athletes.

**Quintinus**

Yesssss.

Screw the parade of athletes, I just want a parade of scantily clad Brazilian women.

**JohnHwangDD**

Vladsimpaler wrote:Screw the parade of athletes, I just want a parade of scantily clad Brazilian women.

Seconded. I could watch a couple hours of Brazilian dancers gyrating in their little costumes, no problem.

**Kilkrazy**

That happens every year at Mardi Gras.

**MeanGreenStompa**

The right wing in America somehow thinks this is a victory?

Very odd.