Sochi Problems may be the most informative, scary twitter account on Sochi Olympics.

[Drunken Irishman]

https://twitter.com/sochiproblems

It's mostly retweets of people who are attending the games. This has disaster written all over it.

Ivan Watson ‏@IvanCNN 29m
We paid for 3 Sochi hotel rooms days ago,then left for 2 days on a trip (with the keys!). Came back to find guests living in all 3 rooms.

@MarkConnollyCBC 12h
A lot of complaints about the accommodations. This is the foyer of my apartment. #SochiProblems pic.twitter.com/gKnxCywKF0

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Ewww! I didn't realize until this morning that Pooty has spent $50 billion on this fiasco. That's

more than all the Olympics combined, according to a report on NPR. Of course, it's Russia, so most of that is rumored to have been doled out through government corruption.

[justiceischeap]

2. This image, I think, is the best

This toilet in Sochi features an audience. See more Sochi horrors: http://t.co/AbOyeOZPf8 — Kami Mattioli (@kmattio) February 4, 2014

[pinboy3niner]

3. That's not an audience--those chairs are for the judges

[SomethingFishy]

5. LOL...

9.2 8.6 9.3

[11 Bravo]

6. The Russian judge docked the US competitor ONE WHOLE POINT for "improper grunting".

The fix is in, I tells ya!

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Heh. +1 n/t

[SMC22307]

4. I'm finding I can't get too plussed about this.

"Disaster" is Syrian kids living in caves, wondering if their parents will return from their search for food. Or Syrian refugees living in Bulgaria, burning toxic plastic in their tiny huts in order to stay warm.

I look at that pic and think of my awesome stepfather. If there, he would have been yukking it up with the construction workers or hotel staff, and asking for a push broom. But this is a guy who grew up poor in Pennsylvania coal country.

Inconvenienced journalists are low on my list of concerns. As are people wealthy enough to afford the Olympics. If you don't like the pic of Putin on your dresser, stuff it in a damn drawer.

That being said, I find the money spent on modern Olympics rather obscene, whether Sochi or not.

[progressoid]

8. Enjoy your peach juice, it comes directly from the tap! Oh wait, that's water...

[Bluenorthwest]

9. People taking part in the Putin Winter Bigot Follies deserve crappy lodgings.

Hopefully the food is every bit as good as the housing.

[Control-Z]

10. The buddy system.

[tblue37]

11. I originally assumed Putin wanted the Olympics so Russia could display

its pride to the world, as China did, by putting on a heckuva show and covering up all the negative stuff that everyone knows is there below the surface.

But now I think maybe he really and truly doesn't care what the world thinks, and that the whole point of getting the Olympic bid was to have a chance to shovel $50 billion to his cronies, to give them even more reasons to continue supporting him. (No doubt his own bank account has grown noticeably, as well.)

If he meant for the Olympics to showcase Russian competence, then obviously this is the most massive fail imaginable. But if he really doesn't give any more of a sh** than ol' honey badger does, then he and his buddies have won.

One good thing could maybe come out of this: the IOC is famous for being corrupt. Maybe this will draw more scrutiny to the way venues are awarded.

BTW, I bet Brazil is going to be a big fat fail, too.