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2010/01/13 01:41:59
Subject: HEY! The rich people's Olympics are coming up!
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Battleship Captain
The Land of the Rising Sun
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BluntmanDC wrote:one major problem with the whole 'the winter olympics is for rich people' seeing as:
Algeria
Andorra
Argentina
Arminia
Azerbaijan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Belarus
I can't be arsed to list them all, but for a rich persons platy time there seems to an awfull lot of poor countries
and how can you ever forget the Jamaican bob slay team, shame on you.
Hey take Andorra from your list! Where do you think rich Spaniards and French put their money?
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2010/01/13 02:23:40
Subject: Re:HEY! The rich people's Olympics are coming up!
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Kid_Kyoto wrote:Hey the People's Republic of Red China won the most Gold Medals last time! And they won't ever let anyone forget it.
China has the second largest GDP on Earth - it isn't a poor country.
And we see people like Jamaican Usain Bolt and African runners clean up in the most basic of sports like Run Real, Real Fast, Jump Pretty High and Throw Stuff Far.
Sure there's BS like Sail Your Very Expensive Boat and Ride the Horsie but at least there are some real sports that real people can play without tons of expensive gear.
You don't think there's vast amounts of resources put into getting guys to run real fast and throw stuff far? There is a lot of much money spent on bio-mechanics and the like - the bit where the guy runs 100 metres really fast has thousands of hours from dozens of specialists behind it.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2010/01/13 02:37:08
Subject: HEY! The rich people's Olympics are coming up!
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Otiose in a Niche
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usernamesareannoying wrote:Lord-Loss wrote:I dont get it....I thought there was only one olympics?
me neither but who know what goes through KK's head at times.... its probably best we don't ever find out...
There's at least 4.
The International Olympic Committee has the Summer Olympics, the Para Olympics (athletes with physical disabilities, same year and city as Summer games), the Winter Olymics (used to be same year as Summer, now 2 years after) and the Winter Olympics.
There's also the Special Olympics (athletes with developmental disabilities) but it's a seperate organization that has the right to use the Olympic name.
Automatically Appended Next Post: sebster wrote:Kid_Kyoto wrote:Hey the People's Republic of Red China won the most Gold Medals last time! And they won't ever let anyone forget it.
China has the second largest GDP on Earth - it isn't a poor country.
YOu've not spoken to the Red Chinese lately, China is a very, very poor country that's why they can't cap carbon emissions, or have democracy, or stop piracy or...
And for the record they are #3 in GDP.
w00t Japan!
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2010/01/13 02:49:52
Subject: HEY! The rich people's Olympics are coming up!
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Fireknife Shas'el
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It may not be everybody's cup of tea, but the Curling and of course the ICE HOCKEY make the Winter Olympics at least slightly awesome for two events.
Rooting for Russia in the hockey because of Ovechkin (Unless GBR has a qualified team...)
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2010/01/13 03:03:42
Subject: HEY! The rich people's Olympics are coming up!
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Committed Chaos Cult Marine
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Agreed chaplaingrabthar.
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2010/01/13 03:28:28
Subject: HEY! The rich people's Olympics are coming up!
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Kid_Kyoto wrote:There's also the Special Olympics (athletes with developmental disabilities) but it's a seperate organization that has the right to use the Olympic name.
The Para Olympics and the Special Olympics are different things? I had no idea, cheers for that.
YOu've not spoken to the Red Chinese lately, China is a very, very poor country that's why they can't cap carbon emissions, or have democracy, or stop piracy or...
And for the record they are #3 in GDP.
w00t Japan!
Only if you convert GDP by nominal exchange rate, and not purchasing power. Either way, China has a lot of poverty but it also has tremendous resources on hand for national projects like developing Olympic talent.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2010/01/13 03:33:36
Subject: HEY! The rich people's Olympics are coming up!
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[MOD]
Otiose in a Niche
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Actually I think the #3 ranking is by PPP not exchange rate. By exchange rate the PRC would be much lower.
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2010/01/13 04:05:00
Subject: HEY! The rich people's Olympics are coming up!
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Kid_Kyoto wrote:Actually I think the #3 ranking is by PPP not exchange rate. By exchange rate the PRC would be much lower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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