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D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
October 02 2009 19:14 GMT
#21
On October 03 2009 04:09 xMiragex wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 03 2009 03:55 EsX_Raptor wrote:
On October 03 2009 03:53 nitram wrote:
Everyone loves Brazil!

Word

Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Cafu, Anderson Silva, BJJ, Macaws, half naked chicks, Samba, Ronaldinho, Portuguese, etc, etc...


How dare you not mention Kaka. Kaka is the best brazilian atm by quite a bit IMO.


Kaka is a monster agreed, but Nilmar is the next big thing coming ... anyway back on topic

Yea we were the ones that cared the most about winning I think.
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Fzero
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1503 Posts
October 02 2009 19:14 GMT
#22
I really really really want to go to Rio for these. I almost want to start saving my 10g's right now.
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Alur
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Denmark3900 Posts
October 02 2009 19:23 GMT
#23
Rio must need alot of preparations, according to a danish newspaper; the suggested contruction budget for Rio is above 11 billion dollars, compared to the other countries "only" 1-4 billion.
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D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
October 02 2009 19:37 GMT
#24
Yes we do, and that is wonderfull, because most of the reforms will last forever, and wouldnt come otherwise.
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-02 19:40:37
October 02 2009 19:40 GMT
#25
Wonder how much of the billions that will be used in preparation will be used by the Police Force on the BBC it was said that if Rio got the bid a plan was to just wall off certain neighborhoods due to the crime rate.
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
zazen
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Brazil695 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-02 19:51:24
October 02 2009 19:40 GMT
#26
As someone who lives in Rio, I couldn't be less thrilled about the fact we're hosting the olympic games.

Every single cent we earn from tourism is gonna be spent twice in over-budgeted projects invented by our corrupt government. The olympics are the perfect excuse they need to explain our insanely high taxes and to give a sense that "everything is allright", when clearly it's not.

The only sports I have interest into are Mixed Martial Arts and Starcraft, and neither will be present. If you have any desire to come to Rio in 2016, you should be expecting INSANE traffic jams (already a problem, will be close to unbearable once the games start), robbery and crime of all kinds, brazilian locals trying to rip tourists out of their money because they think they are smart-asses, and of course, the uneducated brazilian crowd boo'ing at non-brazilian athletes and being assholes in general.

If you're into this, prostitution and drugs are of unparalleled low prices compared to the rest of the world, so have fun.

Rio can truly be a nice experience if you come here just to have fun for a couple of days. But living here is just plain terrible. I think I just have the absolute wrong mindset compared to most people in my country. I'm just hoping we don't come out of this looking even worse than we already do to the eyes of the outside world...

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randombum
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2378 Posts
October 02 2009 20:00 GMT
#27
Awww I'm from Chicago so this is boo for me.
[X]Ken_D
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
United States4650 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-02 20:03:20
October 02 2009 20:01 GMT
#28
Samba De Amigo!

Congrats to Brazil. Zazen, hopefully from this event Brazil progress forward.

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FBS1
Profile Joined April 2003
United Kingdom875 Posts
October 02 2009 20:02 GMT
#29
can you do 2012 as well please
kidd
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
United States2848 Posts
October 02 2009 20:04 GMT
#30
I just read this in the news and I think it's pretty cool. Hopefully it will bring in a lot of tourism and help the country out much like it has done in other parts of the world.
Hi
uberMatt
Profile Joined May 2004
Canada659 Posts
October 02 2009 20:14 GMT
#31
can you do 2010 as well please
D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-02 20:23:17
October 02 2009 20:19 GMT
#32
Dont listen to Zazen, he is a hater, if theres public on it, he will be hating.

EDIT: after all 80% of the investments will be in transportation and security infrastructure, but someone who just wants to hate wouldnt care to search for that, or wouldnt believe in it anyway.

someone who just wants to hate, wont believe that even if they say they will do such things that it will be done, even with all the foreign oversight these events offer, because he is not in the business of getting an informed opinion.
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
zazen
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Brazil695 Posts
October 02 2009 20:36 GMT
#33
I don't trust my government as a source of information. As someone who works with economics and numbers, I know for a fact that most numbers they throw at the public is mostly pulled out of their asses. Our tributary system really doesn't work. It would be really stupid to expect our politicians to play honestly with the shitload of money they are getting their hands into.

Governments are incompetent in dealing with money, and we have a specially corrupt and nationalist party currently in power. I'm not going to trust anything they say. I don't think they can do any good for me as a citizen. Lula would fuck anyone working with finance without thinking twice if he could, he thinks it's something "evil". Poor Lula. He NEVER read a book about economy before - just like the huge majority of people who try to discuss economy with me...

You think I'm uninformed? I think you're pretty naive.

But this topic is about cheering for Rio, so keep going...
"The quest for nexus has brought many men of genius to insanity... HUEHUEHUE!"
D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
October 02 2009 20:41 GMT
#34
Thank god lula is not running the economy, hes only a talking head.

Get real man, even with money being stolen, its billions being injected into our economy, and infrastructure, along with tourism, and probably more security, anyway you look it, we will get better off in the long term.

Its sad the the govt needs these special events to do their jobs, but if it helps motivate them to show proper work im all for it, and for all its worth, at the end of the day, we will have some stuff build to show off for the money spend.
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
October 02 2009 20:45 GMT
#35
So has Brazil said what they would/plan to do about the Crime rate now that the Olympics are Brazil bound?
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32130 Posts
October 02 2009 20:52 GMT
#36
It will totally help Brazil in so many ways (jobs created to build everything, tourism, etc), but I'm really surprised they got it considering how bad the crime and all that stuff is there.
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s_side
Profile Joined May 2009
United States700 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-02 20:53:38
October 02 2009 20:53 GMT
#37
Good Lord, I cannot believe Rio got it. It's nice that a South American city will host for the first time, but I'm not so sure why the IOC picked a city known primarily for affordable hookers and incredible levels of violence and crime.

No love for Medellin?
emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
October 02 2009 20:57 GMT
#38
On October 03 2009 05:14 uberMatt wrote:
can you do 2010 as well please


Heretic.

133 days until Team Canada starts to rip it up in Vancouver, hell ya!!!

Good luck to Brazil, it may highlight some social inequities that are present- like what happened at the 2008 China games.
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D10
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Brazil3409 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-02 21:11:28
October 02 2009 21:04 GMT
#39
On October 03 2009 05:45 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
So has Brazil said what they would/plan to do about the Crime rate now that the Olympics are Brazil bound?


In the Pan American games, they put thousands of military on the streets with tanks and everything aimed at the slums, it worked =p

heres some insight on Rio police.

http://www.belavista-rio.com/blog/item/2008/10/police-uniforms-in-rio-de-janeiro
" We are not humans having spiritual experiences. - We are spirits having human experiences." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Etherone
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1898 Posts
October 02 2009 21:08 GMT
#40
On October 03 2009 06:04 D10 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 03 2009 05:45 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
So has Brazil said what they would/plan to do about the Crime rate now that the Olympics are Brazil bound?


In the Pan American games, they put thousands of military on the streets with tanks and everything aimed at the slums, it worked =p


lololol and they were praised for it too.
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