Holy fuck, work is crazy.
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Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
Fever's gone down.
Instead, I've now got a headache. Hooray!
Instead, I've now got a headache. Hooray!
You shoulda just gone out and gotten the cowbell.
Makes sense, there's no Reich to show off this time... 
Aren't you supposed to want to win an Olympic bid?Berlin lost the Olympic bid!
I think Oslo understands. And Montreal. We don't need a white elephant to ruin the city, it's faring bad enough as it is.
All depends on how well it's run, I think. Montreal's Olympic committee was one of the worst of all time.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
CongratulationsBerlin lost the Olympic bid!
I think I can understand, yes. No mass evictions of tenants to make way for tourists, no missile systems on rooftops, to name just two of the benefits.
Yax
Ancient Mariner
Nicko's playing has always sounded, to a non drummer like me, very interesting. He might not be the perfect time keeper, but he keeps the listener intrigued.
Now take this guy. A good drummer, and has a few legendary records under his belt. But man does The Trooper sound blatantly boring with him (granted, it's just a jam, and he obviously doesn't know how to play the song, but just listen how dull it sounds compared to Nicko).
Now take this guy. A good drummer, and has a few legendary records under his belt. But man does The Trooper sound blatantly boring with him (granted, it's just a jam, and he obviously doesn't know how to play the song, but just listen how dull it sounds compared to Nicko).
Yes, and everything indicates that Berlin would top that. This is a city that can't get it's trains to run, it has spent hundreds of millions on an airport that was set to open three years ago and still isn't finished, it just barely manages to cover potholes and its public schools don't even manage to teach the kids to read properly, all that despite that it gets over two billion Euros in federal funding every year. Now imagine, Vancouver made a debt of $1 billion in 2010 - for the Winter Olympics. It is a city that is extremely wealthy and well-managed. Berlin is neither, and I shudder at the thought of the debt that would amount, and the austerity the government will find necessary to pay it off. It's not worth it.
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
I think some of Greece's problems stem from the 2004 Olympics.
Has to be said, I did wonder at the time where all the money came from.
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
India hosted the Commonwealth Games in 2010 yet can't get millions of people out of poverty. It also has a space program and Formula One-standard race track.
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
Meme Only Account
And what about Glasgow?
One of those things will help with the poverty. I'll let you guess which one.
This is extremely fair. Berlin is not the efficient German paradise we would believe it is. Vancouver had an excellent Olympic committee and they ended up using the Olympics as a vehicle for urban improvement at a real cost of zero dollars and zero cents. It sounds like Berlin would fail to do the same.
It's less efficient than Amsterdam, and that city is literally run by a bunch of potheads.
"dude, we gotta, like, fix the dyke."
"yeah, dude, but first, smoke this green."
"whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. dude, we gotta, like, get some chips."