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webmeister posted:which of the actors said something like "i haven't seen the film, which i've heard is very bad, but i have seen the house it paid for, which is very nice" Pretty sure Tim Roth said something along the lines of "I'm well aware the film is garbage but they paid well and I have three kids in college."
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webmeister posted:which of the actors said something like "i haven't seen the film, which i've heard is very bad, but i have seen the house it paid for, which is very nice" IMDB tells me that was Michael Caine, said in reference to one of the Jaws sequels.
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Grimson posted:german tv ratings are coming in cold and slow Re: German WC TV ratings. I read an article that said that several pubs/bars/beer halls etc. are actively not showing any WC games, and using that as an advertizing selling point to get people to drink there. i.e. "We aren't promoting this farce of a WC, and neither should you. buy your beer here."
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Starsfan posted:IMDB tells me that was Michael Caine, said in reference to one of the Jaws sequels. I remember Richard E. Grant saying similar about Spice World.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Re: German WC TV ratings. I read an article that said that several pubs/bars/beer halls etc. are actively not showing any WC games, and using that as an advertizing selling point to get people to drink there. I didn't think much to it till I read this but I live in a town (UK) of 26k, only 1 pub was showing the England game on the high street which has 7 pubs on it. All of them were showing it for the euros last year lol e - I should add there are more pubs around the town not on the high street that could of been showing the games. Just weird the high street ones weren't.
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German WC TV? jesus i knew they were freaky but goddamn
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vyelkin posted:Pretty sure Tim Roth said something along the lines of "I'm well aware the film is garbage but they paid well and I have three kids in college." this is the one i was thinking of, thanks everyone
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Alan Smithee posted:jesus i knew they were freaky but goddamn That’s South Korea and it’s a real problem OP
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why does the world cup need eight new stadiums anyway there's 3? 4? matches per day, so even assuming you can only play one match a day (getting people in and out, groundskeeping) that's still 4 stadiums. or does it take a whole extra day off to reset a stadium?
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Arivia posted:why does the world cup need eight new stadiums anyway If you care about the quality of play, you should leave at least a day in between matches for the field to recover otherwise the turf gets all hosed up.
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Walking into a Muslim country dressed as a crusader is literally the exact thing as walking into a Jewish event dressed as a Nazi the crusades are a major major part of history textbooks and drilled into everyone at a young age here lol those loving idiots deserve to get arrested.
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vyelkin posted:If you care about the quality of play, you should leave at least a day in between matches for the field to recover otherwise the turf gets all hosed up. gotcha, that makes sense. thanks!
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Arivia posted:why does the world cup need eight new stadiums anyway Traditionally you’re hosting the World Cup over 6-7 cities, and timing the expansion or redevelopment of some of the stadia/surrounding areas to coincide with your bidding, so having 6-8 modern 60k+ stadia is a lasting and positive legacy sustainable by your domestic league. Germany did it in ‘06, so you saw the Allianz Arena built (with the requisite corruption scandal) and Dortmund's ground upgraded. Because each country association operates on a one man one vote system, canny FIFA Presidents like Havelange and Blatter made the expansion of the World Cup to all confederations on a tick-tock cycle a key plank in their electioneering, alongside brown envelope deals on World Cup broadcast rights and the expansion of the competition to more teams.* There is also a lot of political history between FIFA and UEFA as the strongest and richest of the confederations, and then a lot more politics beyond that because of actual history. You can argue that it is a good and laudable aim to move the World Cup away from being hosted permanently by UEFA nations, but to give legitimacy to the FIFA direction the requirements to act as World Cup host weren’t changed, so all grounds must meet minimum capacities that are hard to maintain for weaker domestic leagues. There’s the added benefit that if you’re spending billions of taxpayer money on these new venues that the opportunities for grifting multiply exponentially for everybody involved. There’s the added, added benefit that hosts qualify automatically and so different countries have an opportunity to enjoy the World Cup. Italy excepted. Where it gets tricky is justifying the white elephant stadia slowly rotting away in the Amazon/South Africa. Similar to how the IOC don’t want anyone looking too closely at the legacy of abandoned concrete structures in Athens post 04. Qatar can barely justify a ground the size of Stamford Bridge, the rest are just bollocks posturing. They might spend some money to maintain them past the point their rotting would cause embarrassment but I don’t think they’ll be arsed. * Italia 90 , USA 94, France 98, South Korea and Japan 02, Germany 06 , South Africa 10, Brazil 14, Russia 18 , Qatar 22, CUM 26. The change in voting patterns and the move to announcing two hosts at a time hosed it slightly and it now appears to be a tick-tock-tock cycle, though there’s a strong shout Uruguay might get 2030 for the centennial.
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Al-Saqr posted:Walking into a Muslim country dressed as a crusader is literally the exact thing as walking into a Jewish event dressed as a Nazi the crusades are a major major part of history textbooks and drilled into everyone at a young age here lol those loving idiots deserve to get arrested. Woke bitch
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Total Meatlove posted:Traditionally you’re hosting the World Cup over 6-7 cities, and timing the expansion or redevelopment of some of the stadia/surrounding areas to coincide with your bidding, so having 6-8 modern 60k+ stadia is a lasting and positive legacy sustainable by your domestic league. Germany did it in ‘06, so you saw the Allianz Arena built (with the requisite corruption scandal) and Dortmund's ground upgraded. Once again, this is not at all a UEFA vs FIFA thing. Only 22 federations vote on host, and Spain/Portugal and Qatar traded votes (estimated about 7 of the 12 votes Qatar won were gotten that way). UEFA was every bit complicit with Qatar
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Weaponized Cum posted:Woke bitch Crusaders getting owned is woke now? Lol
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joepinetree posted:Once again, this is not at all a UEFA vs FIFA thing. Only 22 federations vote on host, and Spain/Portugal and Qatar traded votes (estimated about 7 of the 12 votes Qatar won were gotten that way). UEFA was every bit complicit with Qatar Only 22 voted because two FIFA exec members got caught touting for bribes in the bidding process, and those exec members were put in place by their confederation countries. It should have been 24. Every bid from outside UEFA for ‘18 was strongly discouraged and pushed to ‘22, so that it could return to Europe after South Africa/Brazil. Qatar bought every vote they got with football clubs and watches.
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Al-Saqr posted:Walking into a Muslim country dressed as a crusader is literally the exact thing as walking into a Jewish event dressed as a Nazi the crusades are a major major part of history textbooks and drilled into everyone at a young age here lol those loving idiots deserve to get arrested. It's entirely inappropriate but also insanely funny, so something of a mixed bag
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Total Meatlove posted:Only 22 voted because two FIFA exec members got caught touting for bribes in the bidding process, and those exec members were put in place by their confederation countries. It should have been 24. And none of that changes the basic fact that UEFA was complicit at every step in getting the WC to Qatar.
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Think either I’ve written a defence of UEFA I’m not seeing or you’re reading one I’ve not given. UEFA are and were up to their necks in awarding and moving the World Cup, as was the French government with PSG. As was the ECA and Rummenigge and the really nice friend with the 100k euro watches.
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goatface posted:Great Britain and Ireland.
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Yeah I get the olympics/world cup infrastructure idea, i just didn't know why 8 in particular. Vyelkin answered what I was asking about, sorry for accidentally starting a fight.
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Here's a thought: Given that Infantino now lives part of the year in Qatar, how long after the WC do you think he will continue this arrangement? Will they kick him out? Stop paying the rent on his luxury apartment, (as I assume they are doing)? Or will he just get somewhere nicer, (maybe Monaco?) to pay for his new one, and he'll gently caress off there.
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Al-Saqr posted:Walking into a Muslim country dressed as a crusader is literally the exact thing as walking into a Jewish event dressed as a Nazi the crusades are a major major part of history textbooks and drilled into everyone at a young age here lol those loving idiots deserve to get arrested. Nah
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Everyone calm down we all agree that the crusades were a bad series of fixtures but don't call your fellow posters 'woke' like you're 100 years old
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Big props to the croatians for mooning the cameras Thats a lotta rear end tatoos
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the sex ghost posted:Everyone calm down we all agree that the crusades were a bad series of fixtures but don't call your fellow posters 'woke' like you're 100 years old It would also be useful if the broke brained cspan poster stopped calling everyone nazis
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I don't care what other forums people post in, if you're in here you're a TRP poster. Don't call other TRP posters broke brained. Don't call other TRP posters Nazis or woke or ask mods to make a ruling on England fans dressing like st George celebrating the crusades or whatever this is. It is 9 in the morning and more football will be here in an hour everyone please chill
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Let’s all clam down and watch the Catholics vs the Muslims in half an hour.
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lol the croatians mooning the cameras en masse rule
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https://twitter.com/tariqpanja/status/1595344576964861953?t=ya34xNz-EgVNpw97LMmxfA&s=19
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Jose posted:https://twitter.com/tariqpanja/status/1595344576964861953?t=ya34xNz-EgVNpw97LMmxfA&s=19 worth watching the video to see the actual flag in question, and: lol. lmao. EVERYONE IS WELCOME
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Qat_ar's rainy season is coming soon. Some security guy is going to see an actual rainbow and start firing randomly into the sky
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Failed Imagineer posted:Qat_ar's rainy season is coming soon. Some security guy is going to see an actual rainbow and start firing randomly into the sky In theory there can be one or two days of rain per month, yes. Shooting can continue until weather improves, nevertheless
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Artificial cloud technology repurposed to create a big net to try and catch the rainbows
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The reason there are no artificial clouds is they found out water droplets make rainbows
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Nice flag tbh
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Crusaders and gays? Couldn't be more offensive if you tried
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pretty funny that the rainbow, a natural phenomenon ubiquitous in iconography throughout human history, is so terrifying to everybody involved that literally anything with a rainbow on it gets you banned for life
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