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Polidoro posted:I really hate him and hope Jack Warner has him killed.
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:John Oliver owns nah
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Jun 10, 2015 09:15
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Great comeback, noted posted with no sense of humor.
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Jun 10, 2015 09:28
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the only funny thing john oliver has done is community and that was in spite of him
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I like how, when John Oliver thinks he's made a funny, he repeats it twice just to make sure we've heard it.
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:All your awful posts in TFF have been wiped clean fagg*t
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2026 World Cup bidding has been suspended.
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Good article by Gary Linekers agent in the new statesman about why there's no joy in any of this. http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2015/06/celebrating-fall-fifa-s-sepp-blatter-english-football-should-get-its-own-house
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Bad Moon posted:Jack Warner held up an Onion article as proof of something. Really, how can you follow that up. Pretty smart actually. It will figure into his plea defense of, ah..... pdfs (psycho-dissociative fiduciary syndrome) from visiting Haiti
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Has Oliver had his Big Mac and Budweiser yet?
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Truly the right place to hold a world cup.
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hecko posted:Truly the right place to hold a world cup. Who cares? The stadiums will be built for the World Cup not local things. The venues in China, Brazil, Greece etc are all abandoned as well.
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:John Oliver owns also Moktaro posted:Has Oliver had his Big Mac and Budweiser yet? Yeah, in his last show. Should be up on Youtube.
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jyrka posted:Who cares? The stadiums will be built for the World Cup not local things. The venues in China, Brazil, Greece etc are all abandoned as well. Are you defending building stadia that have a bigger capacity than the host city? Is there going to be such a thing as a host city in Qatar WC 2022, or will everyone hang out in Doha?
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It's cool guys, remember the Qatar bid said they were going to build modular stadiums and then ship them to Africa once they were done with the World Cup, presumably along with the shade-generating artificial clouds and magical zero-emissions open air stadium cooling technology.
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I would be 100% behind Qatar if every stadium was a SHIELD helistadium what with the technology they were promising
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qatar is prob pretty nice if youre a rich tourist though
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El Hefe posted:qatar is prob pretty nice if youre a rich tourist though I dont think they let you drink though do they?
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That Works posted:I dont think they let you drink though do they? With Budweiser being a major World Cup sponsor, I imagine they'd have to let you drink. FIFA pulled the same stunt with Brazil in 2014.
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That Works posted:I dont think they let you drink though do they? it's cool in the hotels but they're pretty uptight about alcohol anywhere public
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Xenomrph posted:With Budweiser being a major World Cup sponsor, I imagine they'd have to let you drink. FIFA pulled the same stunt with Brazil in 2014. I believe FIFA went as far as forcing the government to pass or repeal a bill that wo allow them to?
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Rad Valtar posted:I believe FIFA went as far as forcing the government to pass or repeal a bill that wo allow them to?
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Rad Valtar posted:I believe FIFA went as far as forcing the government to pass or repeal a bill that wo allow them to? I could definitely see that as grounds for a suicide bomber, they loving don't need much
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Dirk Pitt posted:Are you defending building stadia that have a bigger capacity than the host city? You don't have to dig too deep to find American Football stadiums that are like that. The University of Alabama stadium is about 10k capacity larger than the town it lives in. Even a few of the NFL teams are close. Lambeau Stadium has a capacity of around 86k and Green Bay itself is only ~110k edit: Not that I'm defending Qatar in any way
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Azhais posted:You don't have to dig too deep to find American Football stadiums that are like that. The University of Alabama stadium is about 10k capacity larger than the town it lives in. I don't think calling up examples of stadiums that have regular tenants that sell out every single game in established major North American sports is quite apples and apples to some 4k sand dune on the Arabian peninsula. davecrazy fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jun 11, 2015 |
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I was lolling for the entire 2 minutes it took for me to drive through 2022 host city Al Khor back in april. There is gently caress all to do in Doha itself anyway, and the rest of the country has about a negative entertainment rate, but those were two good minutes.
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davecrazy posted:I don't think calling up examples of stadiums that have regular tenants that sell out every single game in established major North American sports is quite apples and apples to some 4k sand dune on the Arabian peninsula.
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Azhais posted:You don't have to dig too deep to find American Football stadiums that are like that. The University of Alabama stadium is about 10k capacity larger than the town it lives in. And they sell out every single game and aren't abandoned after one event. America is better than China, Greece, and Brazil. Comparing how loving awesome America is to those shitholes is insulting and deeply hurtful.
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Who cares about the loving stadiums? Let them waste their money if they want to. The only thing wrong about the Qatar bid is the heat. Everything else is bullshit.
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maybe the players need to man up and play in 40C weather without whining so much then loving pussies
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Polidoro posted:Who cares about the loving stadiums? Let them waste their money if they want to.
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Isn't one of FIFA's ,relatively recent, conditions that new stadiums get built for the World Cup? Or was that just construction companies going hog wild in the host countries?
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Brazil built new stadiums because they wanted matches to be played in ridiculous places. They didn't need to but they probably stole a lot of money. South Africa needed stadiums built because they didn't have enough and they probably stole a lot of money. Germany didn't need to build any but they renovated some stadiums and probably stole a lot of money.
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Polidoro posted:The only thing wrong about the Qatar bid is the heat. Everything else is bullshit.
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Crazy Ted posted:Well no that wasn't the only thing wrong. There was the whole everything they were going to do to mitigate the heat, like air conditioning open-air stadiums and creating artificial clouds, which were basically hilarious pipe dreams that they made up. You want to mitigate the summer heat? Build a loving retractable roof and wheel the grass inside. There are number of stadiums that already do this. This is what never made sense to me about their move to the Winter. Indoor stadiums with grass are not at all a new technology and with all the money they're wasting on everything else an indoor air conditioned stadium isn't some crazy untried theory. gently caress, the city hosting the opening and final games in Qatar, Lusail, doesn't even exist yet. They not only need to build a brand new 85,000 seat stadium (which is NEVER getting filled again), they have to build a city to put it in first.
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Conartist posted:Not to mention that, despite the low populations of these cities, there is a large population of alumni and fans who travel just for the games which is why the stadiums are as big as they are in the first place. The team was there first and as the attendance grew they built a larger stadium. They didn't build the big-huge stadium first. I know the States and its stadiums is a really popular topic around here, but our two biggest stadiums, the Big House in Ann Arbor, and the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, are both approximately the size of their host cities. Now, granted, attendance feeds off of local universities and the much-bigger cities for which they're suburbs, but the numbers stack up.
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El Hefe posted:qatar is prob pretty nice if youre a rich tourist though i visited it for 3 days on leave when i was deployed to iraq its a shithole
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