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Frye Festival writ large. No sympathy for these fans deciding to travel to Qatar with zero tourist infrastructure, and Muslim sensibilities around drink. Embrace the suck.
1 posted on 11/19/2022 3:45:49 AM PST by C19fan
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Having performed consulting work in the region I can speak from my experience that in their view there are Arabs, royal Arabs, and kaffir they barely tolerate.

The condescension is palpable.

It’s not that they’re rude per se, it’s just that you need to realize your place in their nation and culture.


2 posted on 11/19/2022 3:55:11 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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All that - to watch soccer?


3 posted on 11/19/2022 3:56:16 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Related -

Sad: With Beer Sales Outlawed, World Cup Attendees Forced To Just Sit There And Watch Soccer
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4110261/posts


4 posted on 11/19/2022 3:58:00 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I love a happy ending


5 posted on 11/19/2022 4:00:19 AM PST by RockyTx
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Hysterical. It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks.


8 posted on 11/19/2022 4:36:21 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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Spoiled babies


9 posted on 11/19/2022 4:42:44 AM PST by Rural_Michigan
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Morally, I can understand the rules around alcohol. But I cannot understand the lax attitude about hospitality. Guests are paying a lot of 2022 money to be catered to. If they are not, it will reflect not only on Qatar, but their neighboring countries, too.

I know F1 has held events in the region. But I have not heard of any problems at those events that I am hearing about Qatar and the World Cup.

I have heard and read that Qatar changed many rules on the eve of the event. I will marvel if they don’t face some sort of sanction over this.


12 posted on 11/19/2022 4:56:53 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Somebody gueue the Simpsons ha ha guy.


13 posted on 11/19/2022 5:05:07 AM PST by Hammerhead
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Thats what u get for liking ‘succer’ suckers. Lol


14 posted on 11/19/2022 5:06:22 AM PST by Hammerhead
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Have the game in a 3rd world country and be surprised it’s 3rd world like


15 posted on 11/19/2022 5:18:17 AM PST by Pollard ( )
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I can’t stand the tension in a 1-0 soccer game!


16 posted on 11/19/2022 5:21:13 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
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This should teach them to not hold events in Islamic Cult countries—hellish conditions, no alcohol, and oppressive police.


17 posted on 11/19/2022 5:21:37 AM PST by Reno89519 (Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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Surprise, surprise! A muslim country has muslim rules.

These complaining soccer fans sound like American basketball players who try to smuggle marijuana into Russia and then find out that Russia actually enforces its laws.

Can't wait to hear about the first homosexual soccer fan who tries to get a beer to go with their joint. Triple threat.

18 posted on 11/19/2022 5:21:48 AM PST by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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They could have traveled to the south side of Chicago for half the price and twice the excitement.....


19 posted on 11/19/2022 5:23:04 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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They needed more slaves to finish it, but too many had already died, and the new slave shipments were overdue because of supply chain issues.


21 posted on 11/19/2022 5:33:18 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Pay no mind to the jabbed athletes dropping like files after running around a bit>look at the Fans


26 posted on 11/19/2022 5:51:34 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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Stick and ballgames. Soma for the masses while the global elites rob us blind and destroy our liberty. Fans get what they deserve. Maybe they’ll give us soccer balls in the gulag.


27 posted on 11/19/2022 6:17:33 AM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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Having spent time in Dubai...but not Qatar...it seems likely to me that people assumed that they were the same. Dubai is,by Arabian Peninsula standards,pretty liberal. But that only goes so far.
28 posted on 11/19/2022 6:42:55 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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Who would even go to that chit hole for any reason. No beer and its 120 degrees in the shade. 😆


29 posted on 11/19/2022 7:15:03 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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“Others are already comparing the 2022 Qatar World Cup to the infamous Fyre Festival.”

My first thought too, except this place looks FAR BETTER than Fyre. I suspect they could get the AC to work during the day if they simply had a some type of shade on top, kind of like a carport, but then they’d have to build it strong enough to handle the wind there.


30 posted on 11/19/2022 7:15:29 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 21 degrees, burrr!)
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