Drawing the line (Qatar)

[friedaweed]

it looks like a fucking butlins concentration camp

Imagine it will look like Lapland when the start ripping open all those beanbags.

 

[friedaweed]

Have many fans arrived yet?

Still in a queue awaiting their anal probing and micro chipping I would imagine.

 

[Wilf]

Still in a queue awaiting their anal probing and micro chipping I would imagine.

Aren't we all?

 

[Elpenor]

Still in a queue awaiting their anal probing and micro chipping I would imagine.

Well if they will buy the VIP package

 

[Sasaferrato]

What time will the matches be on in UK time?

 

[strung out]

What time will the matches be on in UK time?

10am, 1pm, 4pm and 7pm

 

[editor]

The closer the World Cup gets the more I fucking hate the fact that it's in fucking Qatar.

 

[The39thStep]

Have many fans arrived yet?

 

[Sasaferrato]

10am, 1pm, 4pm and 7pm

Thank you.

 

[friedaweed]

Beardy army!

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

When the world cup has been held in time zones that really don't tally with the UK and you wonder who the hell the 0.7m viewers are that ITV managed to pull in for Australia vs Paraguay at stupid o'clock, it was me. Always me, I bloody love the world cup.

Not watching this one. I'll look up England scores but that's about it, as far as I'm concerned the winners of this will always have an asterisk after their name and on-field stories are secondary to everything else that goes with this circus.

 

[hash tag]

It reminds me a little bit of Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics.

 

[MickiQ]

I can't shake off this feeling that something really horrible is going to happen in Qatar.

Like England winning?

With this Danish reporter being hassled it occurs to me that even if the World Cup Organisers and the Qatari Royal Family want to be a little more open, the enforcers down on the streets are probably having none of it.
It will be interesting to see how many fans will end up imprisoned/flogged/shot by the end of it.

 

[teuchter]

I can't help thinking there's something a little bit off about all the linking in of Qatar denying fans' rights to get pissed at games with their actual genuine human rights abuses tbh.

Indeed, much of the discussion on this thread seems to be complaining about a country's decision to partially restrict tourists' rights to take a particular drug whilst watching sport.

 

[Bingoman]

Like England winning?

With this Danish reporter being hassled it occurs to me that even if the World Cup Organisers and the Qatari Royal Family want to be a little more open, the enforcers down on the streets are probably having none of it.
It will be interesting to see how many fans will end up imprisoned/flogged/shot by the end of it.

Can someone tell me why the Danish Reporter was hassled in the first place?

 

[Yossarian]

Indeed, much of the discussion on this thread seems to be complaining about a country's decision to partially restrict tourists' rights to take a particular drug whilst watching sport.

"Why is everybody talking about this thing that just happened instead of the things that have been going on for a really long time?"

 

[A380]

Like England winning?

With this Danish reporter being hassled it occurs to me that even if the World Cup Organisers and the Qatari Royal Family want to be a little more open, the enforcers down on the streets are probably having none of it.
It will be interesting to see how many fans will end up imprisoned/flogged/shot by the end of it.

Why? They have brought in Turkish riot police to do the heavy lifting. A police service renowned the world over for their inclusive, low key and community focused style of policing...

 

[kabbes]

I can't shake off this feeling that something really horrible is going to happen in Qatar.

It already has.

 

[TopCat]

Indeed, much of the discussion on this thread seems to be complaining about a country's decision to partially restrict tourists' rights to take a particular drug whilst watching sport.

Al Jazeera made a few comments about the restrictions. They made mention of uk booze at football restrictions inc Premier league booze having to be consumed out of sight of the playing area. Implying it was because fans are pisshead hopligans.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I can't shake off this feeling that something really horrible is going to happen in Qatar.

My suspicion is that some poor sod(s) are going to mildly fuck up drinking somewhere they shouldn’t, and be used as a brutal “sorry, didn’t mean to flog them, it won’t happen again honest” example to deter others.

 

[twistedAM]

Still in a queue awaiting their anal probing and micro chipping I would imagine.

Suella Braverman already sorted that out at Heathrow?

 

[editor]

Al Jazeera made a few comments about the restrictions. They made mention of uk booze at football restrictions inc Premier league booze having to be consumed out of sight of the playing area. Implying it was because fans are pisshead hopligans.

I like hopligans. People who get drunk on IPAs and other hoppy beers.

 

[Wilf]

Indeed, much of the discussion on this thread seems to be complaining about a country's decision to partially restrict tourists' rights to take a particular drug whilst watching sport.

No.

 

[spellbinder]

I can't help but think they were a load of "fans" rounded up by qatar officials who demanded them to sing, put football shirts on and look happy - out of shot of the camera they have guns pointed at them - cynical moi?

Looks as bogus as fuck, i was going to say half of them don't even know the right words- just like real fans

 

[teuchter]

"Why is everybody talking about this thing that just happened instead of the things that have been going on for a really long time?"

I thought the thread was supposed to be about Qatar's serious human rights issues rather than whether football fans can buy a beer. And certain drugs being restricted in certain countries is not a thing that just happened.

 

[TopCat]

Just think though of the millions of litres of Budvisewer (spit) that will be thrown away.

 

[Yossarian]

I thought the thread was supposed to be about Qatar's serious human rights issues rather than whether football fans can buy a beer. And certain drugs being restricted in certain countries is not a thing that just happened.

I don't think many people actually give a shit about whether fans who traveled to Qatar can get beer inside stadiums or not, as far as I'm concerned it serves them right for going there - the relevance to this thread is schadenfreude at how FIFA and Budweiser are getting fucked over by Qatari authorities after ignoring the country's human rights issues.

 

[Elpenor]

Even the fans are migrant workers

 

[planetgeli]

Even the fans are migrant workers

Just in case someone doesn't know the scale of this thing.

Migrants make up more than 90% of the country's labour force

Qatar has the highest ratio of migrants to citizens in the world

That's not some multi-racial attempt at harmony and world peace through the sharing of culture. That's naked, extreme capitalism at its worst.

 

[not-bono-ever]

COBA poster from 78. Just remembered this today