They haven't even built the rooms yet. The squat toilets will never be.
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So Sochi is turning out how western reporters were hoping Beijing would be like.“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
"Capitalism ho!"
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For $50billion, one would hope to get more.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostReg, the whole point of a potemkin village is that there ain't anything there. This seems to fit the bill.
Potemkin villages is nothing, but a historical myth (created after his death). But, since you are an American it's normal that you don't know a sh!t about real history.Last edited by Serb; February 7, 2014, 10:00.
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Originally posted by C0ckney View Postmost of the things there look pretty bad, although i am astonished that a journalist was surprised by the 'don't put toilet paper in the toilet' notice. it must be his first time in a non-first world country.
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Originally posted by Serb View PostTry typing Sebastopol in google maps, for example, or Dnepropetrovsk, Herson, Nikolaev, if you really want to see one of those "villages" nowadays. The Crimea was nothing, but thinly populated wilderness, before the Russians took in from the Ottomans. And everything you can see there now, is Potemkin and Catherine the Great legacy. Every goddamn city. And Dnepropetrovsk is Ukraine's 4th largest city. Nice "village", my ass. Just for Americans - Ukraine is the largest country in Europe (after Denmark and Russia of course and I'm not kidding about Denmark, guess why, Gringo?).
Potemkin villages is nothing, but a historical myth (created after his death). But, since you are an American it's normal that you don't know a sh!t about real history.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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