White elephants

[Smiling Buddha]

This is a thread to discuss white elephants. Post your favourites.

Anybody who looks beyond the gov/msm hype will quickly discern that major international sporting events invariably cost their hosts money. Big money. Like parasites, the IOC, FIFA etc move in, collect billions, and move on, leaving host nations to deal with useless stadia and huge public debts.

See Greece (host of 2004 Olympics).

The pool where Phelps won six gold medals.

The baseball stadium. Take me out to the ball game.

Fancy a canoe? Howabout a kayak? There used to be water in this structure...

 

[JeffDunne]

 

[Thrawn]

This is a thread to discuss white elephants. Post your favourites.

Anybody who looks beyond the gov/msm hype will quickly discern that major international sporting events invariably cost their hosts money

 

[Gough]

Any new coal mine is a white elephant for mine.

 

[Hamingja]

The greeks don't make things like they used to.

 

[ioppolo]

Pripyat.

 

[little graham]

Pripyat.

No, there is great lesson in that. The big bad secretive Russians tried to tell the UN atomic energy agency the extent of the damage. They were told since you're broke and need help, you better shut up about that or else. The thing was they were broke because the west deliberately dragged them in to any proxy war they could for the express purpose of sending them broke.

It is far more than a white elephamt.

 

[kanye_best]

 

[JuddsABlue]

Sporting events are a funny one

I hate the look of these instantly built sporting arenas splashed with basic color and bad turf

Look at a country like ours, imagine seeing Brazil v Argentina play a game of soccer at Adelaide oval or Bolt running 100m at the MCG

The stadiums have no character, and always end up like the photos from the OP

 

[little graham]

As far as sporting events go...

 

[Ross Prunster]

Just spent a little bit of time staying at Homebush, the upkeep of th precinct starting to look a little ragged.

 

[The Speaker]

There are a number of Perth building you could pick. The Bell Tower is not one of them.

It should've been bigger, were it not for a Sunday Times scare campaign complaining about the cost.

 

[The Speaker]

A real white (or brown) elephant in Perth is the Public Transport Centre.

http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2013/11/01/3882016.htm

The inside of the building is nice, and functional enough that they won't get rid of it, but it is a genuine eyesore.

 

[woopedazz]

The biggest image for the biggest white elephant ever.

 

[Holy Foley!]

I was expecting an albino elephant.

 

[Mateyman]

 

[Gough]

This is a thread to discuss white elephants. Post your favourites.

Anybody who looks beyond the gov/msm hype will quickly discern that major international sporting events invariably cost their hosts money. Big money. Like parasites, the IOC, FIFA etc move in, collect billions, and move on, leaving host nations to deal with useless stadia and huge public debts.

See Greece (host of 2004 Olympics).

The pool where Phelps won six gold medals.

The baseball stadium. Take me out to the ball game.

Fancy a canoe? Howabout a kayak? There used to be water in this structure...

You wouldn't be getting ideas from the dreaded MSM would you SB? I could have sworn I saw these pictures in one of the Murdoch rags this week.

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

Can someone please tell me what a 'White Elephant' is?

 

[kanye_best]

A real white (or brown) elephant in Perth is the Public Transport Centre.

http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2013/11/01/3882016.htm

The inside of the building is nice, and functional enough that they won't get rid of it, but it is a genuine eyesore.

makes a good backdrop if u wanna shoot a rap music video though

 

[Beavis07]

The biggest image for the biggest white elephant ever.

They have only exceeded their expected finish time by 25 years and still counting.

 

[bradrowe#32]

They have only exceeded their expected finish time by 25 years and still counting.

What building is that?

 

[The Speaker]

What building is that?

It's in North Korea. I believe it's a hotel.

 

[bradrowe#32]

It's in North Korea. I believe it's a hotel.

Cheers. Maybe I'll nip over and celebrate their recent world win with them there.

 

[Beavis07]

Yeah it's the Ryugyong Hotel in Best Korea. Was going to be their answer to the Seoul Olympics and the world's tallest hotel in Singapore (Built by a South Korean Company). They might just miss the boat there.

 

[little graham]

Can someone please tell me what a 'White Elephant' is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant