India's Commonwealth Games athletes' village a mess

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Riceninja

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What a joke!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...gland-Chef-de-Mission/articleshow/6567832.cms

NEW DELHI: England's Chef de mission Craig Hunter on Thursday said the arrangements at the Delhi Games village is much better as compared to the Beijing Olympics.

"The Commonwealth Games Village here is better than the Beijing Olympics," Hunter told reporters, adding that the Delhi Games would set a high standard for the hosts of London Olympics 2012.

"Every Games Village has progressed and this one sets a new standard. In other Games villages four athletes use one bathroom, whereas here only two would share one bathroom. Even the training facilities are wonderful," added Hunter, who has been staying in the capital for the last four days.

:awe:

is this guy the new baghdad bob?
 

sandorski

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WTF are the "Commonwealth Games"? Something only members of the British commonwealth can partake in?



I dunno, i mean child labor can be bad and all, but these pictures look like little Jimmy and Susie or their Indian equivalent were merely hanging out at Daddy's job site for the day. I don't mean to belittle the problem of child labor, but really, how much "work" could these kids actually be doing? Look at picture 8, that's just a 3 year old who happens to be there where his parents are working. The caption says, "This child also worked directly on construction for the games." Doing what??? Pouring concrete? Raising girders? Operating a bulldozer? :rolleyes: I don't think you can get much "work" out of a 3 year old in ANY culture.

yes
 

BoomerD

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Why in the fuck would any nation subject its athletes to conditions like that?

Commonwealth nations or not...Everyone from a "civilized" country should refuse to participate and should just boycott the games entirely.

If India wants to use shitty construction practices, let them eat the costs.
 

Jadow

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well, considering that every smart Indian who grew up in the last 30 years has moved to the USA, no wonder that country is shlt.
 

Narmer

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I still can't get over the fact that people use their hands to wipe shit from their ass. India, you have so much potential. Get it together.
 

Double Trouble

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A majority of the country wipes their butt with their hands? I knew the country was a hell-hole, but wow, I didn't know it was that bad. Yowser.
 

datalink7

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A majority of the country wipes their butt with their hands? I knew the country was a hell-hole, but wow, I didn't know it was that bad. Yowser.

Iraq does that as well. When I was deployed over there our interpreters would always disappear into the porta-johns (once we got porta-johns) with a bottle of water. That's because they'd squat over the hole and wipe with their hands, then pour water over their hand and ass to clean up. After they'd go in there, there would always be sh!t all over the walls and seat and everywhere.

So I'd only go in the porta-johns that had sloped sides as opposed to flat. The interpreters wouldn't go in those because you couldn't squat over the hold, you actually had to sit on the seat which they wouldn't do.
 

Riceninja

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After the high of the opening ceremony, the Commonwealth Games came quickly crashing back to earth with a farcical boxing weigh-in and sparse crowds on the first day of competition.

It didn't take long either, with the first official event of the Games descending into chaos as the 8am (1330 AEDT) boxing weigh-in was abandoned after faulty scales registered nearly all fighters overweight.

Boxers were sent running around the steamy athletes village and into saunas to lose weight only to return to the scales to find themselves heavier than before, some by as much as two kilograms.

After irate coaches demanded the scales be checked, Monday's weigh-in was eventually scrapped and officials will try again on recalibrated scales on Tuesday, only hours before fighting begins, but not before many fighters have unnecessarily drained themselves one day out from competing.

"It is a farce, but there is not a lot more we can do, I have never seen this before," said Australia's assistant boxing coach Don Abnett.

"I thought last year when I witnessed a bloke in Victoria win a fight with one arm I had seen it all, but this even tops that."

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/chaos-on-day-one-of-games-20101004-164c3.html
 

KeithTalent

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I read that they hired a gang of larger monkeys to fend off the smaller monkeys that have been terrorizing people. :D

KT
 

HumblePie

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Yay for India.

The only country in the world with a whole city population that reveres rats. One of the few countries that cows are sacred and are allowed to roam just about anywhere and shit everywhere. Where people wipe their ass with their left hand so they only shake and eat with their right. There people are literally living stack on one another. Where the food is so gross that EVERYTHING has to be drenched in curry sauce to make it edible. (which is not a knock on their food prepared in the states with actual good ingredients)

Just watch part of slumdog millionaire and it is fairly spot on with the main character's early life as a child. That is still modern India.
 

HumblePie

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why did someone shit in the sinks

Because the toilet overflowed because chances are the workers don't know the handle flushes it. Many of the workers are used to pooping outdoors and aren't used to modern plumping over there. They just know that the room is the "shit" room and basically do it where ever they please.
 

OneOfTheseDays

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Yay for India.

The only country in the world with a whole city population that reveres rats. One of the few countries that cows are sacred and are allowed to roam just about anywhere and shit everywhere. Where people wipe their ass with their left hand so they only shake and eat with their right. There people are literally living stack on one another. Where the food is so gross that EVERYTHING has to be drenched in curry sauce to make it edible. (which is not a knock on their food prepared in the states with actual good ingredients)

Just watch part of slumdog millionaire and it is fairly spot on with the main character's early life as a child. That is still modern India.

This is quite possibly the dumbest post I've ever read on this forum, coming close to some of the shit Nemesis1 posts. Congrats.
 

Albatross

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India`s misery has metaphysical causes,traditionally India never believed in the reality of the world,so why care too much for what they think is an illusion?
Contrary in the West people put too much emphasis on the visible part of the world to the risk of being sometimes a bit philistines.
That being said ,the comfort that an advanced economy brings is a nice thing to have,but it`s not the end all criterion to judge a country.