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Jose posted:she's a member of the aristocracy lol Is she?
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If she's not she's pretty drat close.Wikipedia posted:Hyde is the daughter of Sir Alastair Edgcumbe James Dudley-Williams, 2nd Baronet, and his wife, the former Diana Elizabeth Jane Duncan. Through her father, she is the granddaughter of aviation pioneer and Conservative politician Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams, 1st Baronet. whypick1 fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Nov 18, 2022 |
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vyelkin posted:They've spent like $200B on this tournament, something like 10x the previous most expensive World Cup. The economic ROI was never there, and so far they're throwing away every last bit of sportswashing ROI by failing to maintain even a facade of progress on anything except advancing the interests of the state of Qatar. On that note, one of the few new bits of information I saw in that Netflix FIFA documentary was about just how many trade deals and arms contracts and so on Qatar was signing with various countries using the World Cup as a bridge. Who are they going to get to use the weapons with their 300,000 actual citizens? Ann Arbor goes to war.
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They just hand them out to the local sides they like. Helps keep the violence in Yemen ticking over etc.
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Jose posted:she's a member of the aristocracy lol Low hanging fruit amongst the media class. She's consistently brilliant and moreorless focuses her barbs on the right targets, so she gets a pass from me.
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mods rename me Baronet Alastair Edgcumbe
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Jose posted:she's a member of the aristocracy lol 
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The Perfect Element posted:Low hanging fruit amongst the media class. She's consistently brilliant and moreorless focuses her barbs on the right targets, so she gets a pass from me. wasn't she one of the jeremy cromybn antisemite smearers
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stupid kufir, you cant buy booze if we take your money away too!!!
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Elliptical Dick posted:Did anyone say "what a shitshow" yet? This is the pre-shitshow entertainment.
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I found the clouds https://twitter.com/b24pt/status/1593570335529410560?s=46&t=O4-FObjrdYwpAFtyjBp1_A
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They're going to die. It will be funny, then sad.
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mila kunis posted:wasn't she one of the jeremy cromybn antisemite smearers yes
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Jose posted:she's a member of the aristocracy lol its basically a requirement to get a column in the british press
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This photo of a fan accommodation site from the Guardian looks more like a prison camp where you break rocks all day
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vyelkin posted:This photo of a fan accommodation site from the Guardian looks more like a prison camp where you break rocks all day Well you have to repurpose the venues after the event
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Those things have air conditioning. Those things have air conditioning, right? Right?
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This is like Sochi but a billion times worse. And the true shitshow hasn't even started.
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The Perfect Element posted:Low hanging fruit amongst the media class. She's consistently brilliant and moreorless focuses her barbs on the right targets, so she gets a pass from me. Lol
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Malloc Voidstar posted:attempts Yes please
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KazigluBey posted:Those things have air conditioning. Those things have air conditioning, right? Right?
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Crazy Ted posted:I believe they have fans. Those count as air conditioning, right? Realfans don't need no steenkin air conditioners!
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Migrant workers flown back to their home countries before the games started, without being paid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-idyCP-YHo
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You can't stay a wealthy country by spending a ton of money! 
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mila kunis posted:lmfao This is extremely funny. quote:Fans were told in a message, seen by the Guardian: “Due to the recent developments in the media, we are keen to protect our visiting fans from the erroneous misinformed statements regarding ‘fans receiving payment for the trip’. Accordingly, the daily allowance will unfortunately no longer be issued. The allowance was intended as a small uplift on your own personal funds to assist with refreshments during your stay.” As a result of bad press we're going to confirm we paid you and then not do it anyway.
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Forgive the stupid question, but what exactly are those "Fan accommodation"s? Surely Qatar has enough hotel rooms to accommodate the anticipated dozens of international visitors? But are those all 5 Star rich people style hotels, and they couldn't be arsed building normal person hotels, (dont make enough money and have no utility in Doha beyond the WC), so they made a refugee camp instead? Are these fan shipping containers at least segregated into different countries fans? Or will they room an Uruguayan Ultra with his Brazillian equivalent, in a confined space in the heat with no booze? That will go well.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Forgive the stupid question, but what exactly are those "Fan accommodation"s? It's expected Qatar will have over a million visitors. It has a population of 2.7m people. There is no way they would have enough accomodation for everyone because the stadiums are all close together. Like everything else wrong with giving it to them this was known at the time They're parking a cruise ship on the coast to house 4000 people lol
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BrigadierSensible posted:Forgive the stupid question, but what exactly are those "Fan accommodation"s? You can fit the whole population of Doha into the stadiums they've built so there was no way they could build enough hotel space.
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And the other thing is that, as it should be clear by now, once the checks cleared and the wc was qatar's, they really didn't give a gently caress. Like, they could have done the whole olympic village prefabs like beijing did for the winter olympics but they really didn't give a gently caress.
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