Drawing the line (Qatar)

[Pickman's model]

It’s pretty clear?

there are none so blind as those who will not see

 

[editor]

Not one for editor - opened just in time for the World Cup

KFC Is Opening the ‘Colonel’s Arms,’ Its First-Ever London Pub

Tickets to attend the pub are available to pre-purchase now.

hypebeast.com

AWESOME dude!!!!

*Hops on scootstick and heads west.

 

[editor]

It’s pretty clear?

Haven't you got anything better to do?

 

[editor]

We've had World Cup Willie - here's World Cup Cock!

 

[platinumsage]

Has anyone boycotted the Box Tunnel on the GWR line on account of over 100 workers dying during its construction? I guess time is a healer so you can watch replays of this WC in 2070 when the current Qatari regime is long gone.

 

[hash tag]

Has anyone boycotted the Box Tunnel on the GWR line on account of over 100 workers dying during its construction? I guess time is a healer so you can watch replays of this WC in 2070 when the current Qatari regime is long gone.

We have learnt from that and introduced many health and safety measures to cut down of stuff like that.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Has anyone boycotted the Box Tunnel on the GWR line on account of over 100 workers dying during its construction? I guess time is a healer so you can watch replays of this WC in 2070 when the current Qatari regime is long gone.

We've had nearly 200 years to learn H&S since that tunnel was started, 100 dead there, >6500 dead in Qatar building stadia that will be used for less than a month before lying empty for ever after.

 

[hash tag]

None of the Iranian players singing

Given what's happening in Iran at the moment, that took some guts. Good on them.

 

[bcuster]

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[bcuster]

i guess this is not the thread for that

 

[hash tag]

with all the greed & hypocrisy involved in high level entertainment (Hollywood, Broadway, music industry, etc), i think it'd be great if we enjoy the games as they are supposed to be; athletic spectacles , in the ideal

The joy of non league footie. I was going to say amateur sport of which the Olympics is supposed to be such a competition, not.

 

[hash tag]

A political statement by a BBC employee
She didn't have to go.

BBC’s Alex Scott wears rainbow armband for England World Cup match

Pundit opts to wear OneLove armband in apparent gesture of solidarity with LGBTQ+ people in Qatar

www.theguardian.com

 

[Elpenor]

Has anyone boycotted the Box Tunnel on the GWR line on account of over 100 workers dying during its construction? I guess time is a healer so you can watch replays of this WC in 2070 when the current Qatari regime is long gone.

1/10

 

[JimW]

Surprised Wolves have made it to the finals, fair play.

 

[CNT36]

The '1love' armband was a meaningless PR led empty gesture. But now it could actually take on some actual meaning and have some solidarity impact if the 8 or 9 teams committed to it face down FIFA and their FA's.

I hope some have more courage than Kane/the England management. If he'd decided not to do it a week ago so what but for him to pull out now for the sake of a fucking yellow shows it up for the empty bullshit it is.

 

[1927]

Given what's happening in Iran at the moment, that took some guts. Good on them.

I doubt any of them will be going home after the WC!

 

[Raheem]

I hope some have more courage than Kane/the England management. If he'd decided not to do it a week ago so what but for him to pull out now for the sake of a fucking yellow shows it up for the empty bullshit it is.

The FA can be forgiven if England and Wales both make it to the final and then withdraw from the competition.

 

[editor]

The FA can be forgiven if England and Wales both make it to the final and then withdraw from the competition.

Or come on in full rainbow strips.

 

[The39thStep]

Fair play to Keane here

 

[Raheem]

"And what do you make of the highly-paid commentators, Roy?"

 

[bcuster]

I don't know if this is for real...

 

[editor]

I don't know if this is for real...

Why should anyone 'respect' values where gay people are beaten and imprisoned, political dissent is outlawed and mistreated foreign workers die in terrible conditions?

 

[Wilf]

Fair play to Keane here

Yep, that slightly surprised me. Not that I'd thought he was homophobic or anything, more that I'd never seen him as that sympathetic to protests in and around football.

 

[bcuster]

I wonder who built these....

 

[Yossarian]

Looks like the Fyre Festival.

 

[bcuster]

Meanwhile in Qatar








Sluggo's dad was forced labor

 

[scalyboy]

We've had World Cup Willie - here's World Cup Cock!

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They must’ve seen that Phoenix Nights episode with Sammy Snake; “It’s a 20ft cock’n’balls man!”

 

[SpookyFrank]

Why should anyone 'respect' values where gay people are beaten and imprisoned, political dissent is outlawed and mistreated foreign workers die in terrible conditions?

You must respect our culture of not respecting people.

I would say if the state has to enforce it using violence and intimidation, it doesn't really count as 'culture'.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I wonder who built these....

Serco, looks like.

 

[planetgeli]

Looks like the Fyre Festival.

Suggested reading (for everyone).

David Squires on … Qatar 2022. We’re really doing this then, are we?

Our cartoonist gets ready for the World Cup’s big kick-off and asks the burning question on so many people’s minds

www.theguardian.com