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We live in a world where Canada might very well qualify for this world cup and still won't be the worst team there
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Poonior Toilett posted:We live in a world where Canada might very well qualify for this world cup and still won't be the worst team there Wait for the expanded WC in 2026
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Nov 27, 2021 12:54
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You only have to be better than Qatar to not be the worst team at the tournament
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Nov 27, 2021 12:55
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 If you're going to have the world cup in boring, car-dominated cities, why not just give it to the US?
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has anyone said the shatar world cup yet
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ItohRespectArmy posted:has anyone said the shatar world cup yet i think you're the first
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ItohRespectArmy posted:has anyone said the shatar world cup yet Its all yours - Own it.
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ItohRespectArmy posted:has anyone said the shatar world cup yet In spanish it would be mundial de cacar. It checks out
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Al2001 posted:
Seattle is already putting in a bid for 2026. It’s part of a joint Canada/Mexico/US bid. I just want to know how you do that without violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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Very carefully
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Solkanar512 posted:
You probably don't but instead hope someone looks the other way
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Solkanar512 posted:Seattle is already putting in a bid for 2026. It’s part of a joint Canada/Mexico/US bid. You give them a nice box of domestic wine as a courtesy and then make a surprised face when your bid loses to the guys who slipped an envelope of cash under the hotel door.
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vyelkin posted:You give them a nice box of domestic wine as a courtesy and then make a surprised face when your bid loses to the guys who slipped an envelope of cash under the hotel door. Who then burned down the hotel to hide the evidence.
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Last time I posted in TRP I got shot down, if I recall, for the crime of (checks notes) living in Qatar. I've recently returned to the UK after 21 years living in Doha - AMA. Except about corruption. I don't know anything about that.
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What's the best spot for cruising?
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Teach posted:Last time I posted in TRP I got shot down, if I recall, for the crime of (checks notes) living in Qatar. I've recently returned to the UK after 21 years living in Doha - AMA. You think it’s gonna be a disaster or…?
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How many slaves can i get for a tenner
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How many escorts did you gently caress
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How did you get your passport back in order to leave?
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Which stadium most looks like a giant vagina?
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Would you go back?
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Total Meatlove posted:Which stadium most looks like a giant vagina? Which stadium looks most like a stadium and not an unfinished pile of construction materials
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In order,jeebus bob posted:What's the best spot for cruising? Weaponized Cum posted:How many escorts did you gently caress Seems to be essentially the same question. Cruising? Dunno. I had a couple of colleagues sacked (over the twenty years) for being gay. They were given a couple of weeks' notice to leave the country and paid off something like six months' salary. Cruise around the malls on a Friday night if you want a local twink, or hit the beach hotels, I guess, IDK, I'm nearly fifty and was married for all the years I was there. But cool Gotcha!s about how prostitution and homosexuality both exist, I guess. L.H.O.O.Q. posted:How did you get your passport back in order to leave? Eau de MacGowan posted:How many slaves can i get for a tenner Again, maybe the same question. I always had my passport, but then I'm a white male. My family (including kids) could come and go without me, without my say-so, but then Qatar has always been more liberal than Saudi, or Bahrain. There was a big problem with unscrupulous employment agencies operating out of Nepal and Pakistan, mainly, selling young men a dream of a fortune that they could send home to their families - dreams that turned out to be just that. This is less of a problem in the country now, but I'm sure it's still there. There's a better question to be asked of the Qataris about what they think of other nations, other nationalities. During my time in Doha, my school hired a very well qualified Chemistry teacher from Nepal, and that went to poo poo quite quickly. Many of the younger kids, the early teens, behaved terribly towards him because the Nepalese were, in their experience, the bottom end of that caste ladder - they were the construction workers, the cleaners. Not Diploma/A-Level/AP Chemistry teachers. He ended up doing ten days in chokey while the police investigated (spurious) allegations that he'd insulted some students. He was departed after that. Not a proud moment for my school Gigi Galli posted:You think it’s gonna be a disaster or…? A cautious "No". Remember the run-up to Russia 2018 when everyone was predicting riots, clashes, violence? Pundits are more often right than wrong, and Qatar has a lot riding on this. There will be things happening in 2022 that Qatar have never done before - I think the drinking will be contained in large Fan Zones, for example, but as someone said, this thread or another, I don't know how prepared the authorities are for how entrenched, how central, alcohol is to football, for much of the world. But remember, that for much of the world, it isn't. For the Arabic world, and for much of Africa, alcohol doesn't have an instant association with beer. It's a world cup - the cultural approach to football isn't the same around the world. (Of course.) Transport is going to be tricky. Hotels are going to be full. Roads might be crammed. But schools will be out, and I think there will be a spike of Air B'n'Bs. Cruise-liners docked off the port? Who knows. Total Meatlove posted:Which stadium most looks like a giant vagina? A competition of one, sadly, but the winner's a doozy.  The stadia are nice, and pretty finished - the Club World Cup was held at the Education City stadium, and it went off fine. (I used to work at Education City.) https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sport/football/qatar-world-cup-stadiums-2022/ Al Bayt stadium looks like a traditional Arabic house of hair. Al Thumama stadium looks like a gahfiya, the cap that Arabic men wear under their head-dress. Andoman posted:Would you go back? Yeah. I've got friends there, I can stay there for free, and walk to Education City. It was a good place to live, and we had a great 21 years there. Qatar is a young country and has some growing pains, but it has experienced huge developments over the last couple of decades. We left, with perfect timing, just the year before the WC. So it goes.
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You'll never recover from this
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mods rename me Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy
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Sounds like a real shithole, op. I’m happy for your bank account.
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 I could say I was doing my bit to help a developing country - I taught siblings of the current Emir, and some very important people. And I enjoyed my time there. But I wouldn't have spent 20 years away from my friends and family for peanuts. I saw some great football teams - England, Barcelona, Liverpool - and other great sport. Qatar understands that the gas money won't last forever and is trying to branch out - sport, education, art. Tsaedje posted:You'll never recover from this I'll leave the typo in for my shame. Try this - quote:football doesn't have an instant association with beer
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I'm not gonna poo poo on you for earning a living but if you do that checks notes thing again for taking flack for how you earned that living so help me I'm gonna press buttons
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OP, I also did the sexpat teach abroad thing in the mid-2000's in a different authoritarian hellhole whose desperate thirst for international validation led them to embark on similar vanity projects to show they'd "arrived," so I'm always interested to hear from others things like:
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NinpoEspiritoSanto posted:I'm not gonna poo poo on you for earning a living And this is why you will never make it as a D&D mod
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sticksy posted:I'll hang up and listen, thanks Check your PMs.
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qatar's liberal as hell, except for the massive racisms that got a guy arrested and deported for no reason
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I mean, Poonior Toilett posted:INSERT COUNTRY HERE liberal as hell, except for the massive racisms that got a guy arrested and deported for no reason kinda works, too.
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As a semi-serious question: how will the authorities react to any naughtiness? Like you said there's probably going to be alcohol-friendly fan zones and I've just got visions of the qatar qops just wading into a crowd of badly sunburned England fans who've been drinking nonstop since they got off the plane. Is it likely they'll be told to cool it a bit from how they'd typically deal with such incidents? Obviously the cost of flying out will put off a lot of fans who were breaking into Wembley because it was easy to get to but it just feels set up for Baz and Gaz to get their passports taken off them and detained indefinitely for doing the German bombers song and Boris is going to have to give a statement about it and it's all I will hear about for months
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dont bring gareth barry into this, hes a good lad
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the sex ghost posted:As a semi-serious question: I've slept on this, and I'm not sure I'm any closer to answering your question. I've got a few data points, but I don't feel confident enough to extrapolate them into a prediction for what's going to happen at something that's never happened before. Back in January 2020 I took my family to meet friends for a low-key boozy brunch, and the hotel had been taken over by Liverpool fans, there for the club world cup, and it was all very good-natured and friendly. The competition went off without a hitch, no worries.   Things had clearly improved since 2011 when I wrote this about the Asian Cup Final between Japan and Australia - note my last line. a younger Teach posted:I was at the match last night, and most of the bits have been covered - great display from the Japanese keeper, Aus profligate in front of goal, and these two things coming together with two fluffed one on ones. The Japanese spent most of the game passing the ball round the midfield hoping that the Aus goal would move closer. (Lovely goal to win it, though.) So which way is it going to go in 2022? I think it'll be OK. The rate of development in Qatar is incredibly fast, and the government are very aware that everyone will be watching. I think there will probably be a softly-softly approach to fans, but I do worry about fans pushing past that cotton wool approach and hitting the hard surface underneath. All organisations in Qatar have a strict hierarchy and there's a very jobsworth attitude, as people don't want to make a mistake, they don't want to act on their initiative in case they make an error and get poo poo-canned. There's very little scope for improvisation. The police will be the same - if one particular group of officers have been told to "keep fans in that section there", then they will do so. I think that the location, the difficulties in getting there, the lack of hotel rooms, etc, might prevent boozy fans from reaching a critical mass. We'll see. TLDL: dunno, be OK I guess?
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Don't FIFA set up their own courts and take over the police to an extent during tournaments? I know they did in 2010 and I would guess it'll happen here, with a lot of fines handed out.
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Just 9 months away! https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1506251618320277513?s=20&t=bYjJMchUilzieqav21FyMw quote:“Now, everybody knows that I find that ridiculous,” said Van Gaal, whose Dutch side have qualified for the finals after missing the 2018 tournament. “It’s ridiculous that we are going to play in a country – how does Fifa say it? To develop the football there. That is bullshit. But it doesn’t matter – it’s about money, commercial interests. That’s the main motive of Fifa." Van gaal rules and I appreciate his commitment to just kicking off at all times. Also in predictable cursed world cup news: crypto.com announced as official world cup sponsor. Looking forward to someone trying to explain cryptocurrency to mark lawrenson during some group stage game where players boots are melting off their feet
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Also it's come to my attention that the world cup is 8 months away. It's early and I can't count. I'm not changing it
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