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[ganbaru]

Originally Posted by aohige

I question their ability to even point the location of the said nation on the map.

Talking about the American, the North Korean or even both ?

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

Talking about the American, the North Korean or even both ?

your average American can't even the Capital of a neighboring state.

[JokerD]

Federal report: Bag with bomb was at Detroit building guard desk for weeks

Somebody did not read the use-by date for that bomb

[sa547]

Probably only in my country, where high-powered motorcycles are replaced by a single Seadoo:

[ganbaru]

DC man orders TV, gets assault rifle instead
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...08-09-07-36-15

[Dhomochevsky]

Originally Posted by sa547

Probably only in my country, where high-powered motorcycles are replaced by a single Seadoo

And next you do this

Spoiler for russians...:

[Mr. DJ]

Condoms are serious freaking business
http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/st...s-durex-080812

Don’t mess with the official condom of the 2012 London Summer Olympics.

That’s essentially the message being sent by LOCOG, the organizing committee of these games, after a bucket of unauthorized condoms was discovered in the Olympic Village.

Condom-gate came to light when Australian BMX cyclist Caroline Buchanan posted a photo of the bucket on her Twitter account, according to The Guardian newspaper.

The bucket was adorned with a sign bearing the message, “Kangaroos condoms, for the gland downunder," and a photo of a boxing kangaroo.

Organizers of the London Games, following a tradition started in Barcelona in 1992 and backed by the IOC, placed 150,000 free Durex condoms in dispensers for the more than 10,000 athletes competing this summer. Durex paid for the right to supply the condoms.

LOCOG officials are trying to determine how the Kangaroo condoms got into the athletes village, a spokeswoman told The Guardian. The condoms apparently came from Durex rivals Ansell Ltd., an Australian company, and Pasante, a private British firm.

Though athletes and officials were permitted to bring personal items into the village, the spokeswoman told The Guardian that LOCOG "will look into this and ask that they are not handed out to other athletes because Durex are our supplier."

The promotion of products is strictly controlled by Olympic organizers, who make sponsorship deals with a limited number of companies and, thus, want to limit any free publicity by competitors.

A company spokeswoman told The Guardian that Durex was "proud to be supplying free condoms for the Olympics Games" but declined further comment. An Ansell spokeswoman told The Guardian her company was unaware of the situation and suggested it might be a prank. "We have had no official participation or association with the Olympics at all," she said.

Pasante manging director Lawrence Boon denied any involvement by his company and also suggested it was a prank.

"We have no association with the Olympics, but we did launch a gold condom this year for champions," Boon told The Guardian. "With such high teenage pregnancy and STD rates, we try to make people carry condoms by making them fun and interesting."

The number of condoms supplied at London broke the record of 100,000 offered in Beijing four years ago. Organizers of the 2000 Sydney Games had to pull out an additional 20,000 condoms after the athletes worked their way through the initial allocation of 70,000.

Hell...even soy sauce

Japanese are aghast to learn that the 2012 Olympics has banned sushi sellers from providing soy sauce as there are no makers sponsoring the event, making the dish practically inedible to Japanese and further drawing attention to the increasingly farcical nature of the event.

According to the Japanese reporters swarming the event to give blanket coverage of their team’s humiliatingly tearful judo losses and the anticipated crushing victory of their women’s football team, all sushi on sale at the games has been banned from including wasabi or shouyu.

Diligent investigations lead to the discovery that all this was due the hyper-draconian sponsorship rules in force at the games – sushi suppliers say that as the condiments are supplied in sachets bearing the logo of non-Olympic sponsors, the event’s “logo police” have warned them they face a £20,000 fine if they use them.

Similar restrictions have affected the sale of lesser foodstuffs, with hawkers being forced into under the counter sales if they wish to provide branded snacks which have not paid up millions in advertising fees to the organizers.

Whilst mere foreigners and certainly the British may not know any better, the exclusion of rotten soy bean juice from raw fish bits on rice has prompted some unusually critical reporting from the Japanese media, not generally known for its willingness to confront marketing excesses.

With the likes of McDonald’s and Coca Cola proudly dominating sponsorship of the world’s biggest sporting event with their notoriously healthy produce, it is however perhaps understandable why organizers feel the need to exclude inferior foodstuffs.

[GDB]

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

Condoms are serious freaking business
http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/st...s-durex-080812

Holy crap... Olympic athletes are horny! That's an average of 30 condoms per athlete (assuming a relatively even split between male and female athletes).

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by GDB

Holy crap... Olympic athletes are horny! That's an average of 30 condoms per athlete (assuming a relatively even split between male and female athletes).

Wait, female athletes can use condoms?

[Skane]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Wait, female athletes can use condoms?

Well, unless they're having lesbian sex... they can use the condoms on their partners.

Cheers.

[GDB]

Which is why I said 30 per athlete, with the assumption that you need 2 athletes to necessitate the use of a condom, and with 10k athletes and 150k condoms...

[Mr. DJ]

Olympic Village is orgy central. They increased the amount of condoms donated.
http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2...-espn-magazine

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

Olympic Village is orgy central. They increased the amount of condoms donated.
http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2...-espn-magazine

I am shock, there is gambling at this establishment.

considering the Greeks started the Olympics, Orgies are in the spirit of the Olympics.

[Mr. DJ]

only as long as you're using sponsor provided protection!

[ganbaru]

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

I am shock, there is gambling at this establishment.

considering the Greeks started the Olympics, Orgies are in the spirit of the Olympics.

The ''original Olympic'' were also men-only...
I will lets you think about some of the implication .

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

The ''original Olympic'' were also men-only...
I will lets you think about some of the implication .

where do you think the term "Greek Sex" comes form

[Dextro]

Originally Posted by Mr. DJ

Hell...even soy sauce

Sounds like a job for Kikkoman!

[aohige]

It's an international gathering of best physical specimen of human beings from the entire world.

Results of orgy is quite welcomed into our gene pool.

Think about it.

[Anh_Minh]

I'm sure a lot of the women are on the pill, so I'm thinking "STD".

[MrTerrorist]

The Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Conspiracy!

Really? It's a secret subliminal recruitment video for the Illuminanti?

YouTube

https://youtu.be/NLy4cvRx7Vc

Sorry; dynamic content not loaded. Reload?

Nope. Not seeing it. Just a video that was possibly made on drugs.