Qatar World Cup thread of off-the-pitch drama and debauchery

[InkaUtexas 26025]

29 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

I agree.  But it’s the InBev HQ.  I like the idea of giving to the troops on base but I’m sure there’s some agreement in place the installations have to stay dry.  Wait, just got an idea for another ‘real kingdom of evil’ voiceover.  

Yeah, those bases were always dry. But they have C-17's flying back stateside. Send that shit to Bragg and practice tactical air drops. let the 82nd have a party out at a drop zone. 

 

[YGIFS 19452]

Your reboot idea for ‘Point Break’ sounds lit as fuck. 

[usmc0331horn 959]

Just send the steak and Budweisers to Vietnam for Forrest and company.

[texasdago 7576]

17 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

whoever thought that qatar would be a good location for anything is a clown.

I think they have a nice airline.

[cabowabo 4492]

"There is no impact to the sale of Bud Zero which will remain available at all Qatar's World Cup stadiums," FIFA added.

lulz.

[NorthLoop 14219]

gonna be a lot of bud zero spiked with hooch 

 

gonna be a lot of vomit too. 

[InkaUtexas 26025]

Just now, NorthLoop said:

gonna be a lot of bud zero spiked with hooch 

 

gonna be a lot of vomit too. 

No one is getting hooch in the stadiums except for the Rich Qataris in their luxury boxes. 

I drank more in the UAE with locals than I did at UT. 

[Brothahorn 10087]

Alcohol is still allowed in the luxury suites.  Just no sales to the poors

Now that is real fucked up.

[YGIFS 19452]

23 minutes ago, usmc0331horn said:

Just send the steak and Budweisers to Vietnam for Forrest and company.

For a whole five minutes, I thought you were referring to Forrest Whitaker in "Good Morning Vietnam."  Then I remembered, it was Ba Muoi Ba beer with a little added formaldehyde for flavor.  /jimmy  

so yeah, about the same taste as Bud Light.  

[Guadaloopy 10996]

1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

I agree.  But it’s the InBev HQ.  I like the idea of giving to the troops on base but I’m sure there’s some agreement in place the installations have to stay dry.  Wait, just got an idea for another ‘real kingdom of evil’ voiceover.  

Most of the military installations in the Gulf states have an exception that allows alcohol on base, Al Udeid included.  During my time, Kuwait was the only one that didn't relent (we were out of Saudi by then) and we had to schmooze visits to the various embassies to get a drink. 

[YGIFS 19452]

Well then thank you for your sacrifice.  Alcohol, defense, all that shit.    

 

[crash_davis 23114]

LOL. 

[Spankytoes 1743]

1 hour ago, Nicole44 said:

What stupid TV do I watch? 

Texas football

[conVINCEd 21469]

[ztejas 43526]

No one that cares about soccer isn't watching the World Cup. I mean, it's unfortunate that it's being held in Qatar, but the blood is on FIFA's hands - not the fans. 

[Nicole44 22072]

8 minutes ago, Spankytoes said:

Texas football

 

[Brisketexan 105187]

8 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

I mean, tomorrow, during the Kansas game, there's this alternative on:

AN UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS

A speech writer makes a deal with his ex-girlfriend to pretend they're a couple to save his family's Christmas. It's not long before both the ruse and their feelings catch up with them. Stars Bethany Joy Lenz, Tyler Hynes.

It's surely a better alternative than watching Texas find a way to shit the bed in a road game at Kansas.

[AUS-97HORN 11812]

7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I mean, tomorrow, during the Kansas game, there's this alternative on:

AN UNEXPECTED CHRISTMAS

A speech writer makes a deal with his ex-girlfriend to pretend they're a couple to save his family's Christmas. It's not long before both the ruse and their feelings catch up with them. Stars Bethany Joy Lenz, Tyler Hynes.

It's surely a better alternative than watching Texas find a way to shit the bed in a road game at Kansas.

I love how you trot this shit out like you JUST discovered it in the guide.

 

we all know the truth.... Your DVR doesnt lie..... this shit was set to record by your DVR and you had to cancel it to allow for the game to be recorded instead.

[FartingMonk 3608]

Honestly, I think the royal family did this because the Wahabbi clerics threatened them.  They can withstand the western countries getting a little perturbed at them, but having the clerics turn on them wouldn't be a good idea.  The second thing is if you've never been to Qatar the weather there is fucking brutal.  It's like Houston on steroids.  I could see a lot of alcohol poisoning and hospitalizations.  You get a bunch of dudes from mild climates try to party there for two weeks and you're gonna have a lot of deaths.  That's also not a good PR outlook.  It should never have been hosted there in the first place.  Man, it would be like having Texas play in a night game.  Then Alabama kicking off right afterwards in the same location.   You'd get some Germans waking up at 6 in the morning and drinking until 2AM when the last match starts.  I don't like it but now that I think about it.  It's probably a smart move.

[Dahobbs 17627]

1 minute ago, AUS-97HORN said:

I love how you trot this shit out like you JUST discovered it in the guide.

 

we all know the truth.... Your DVR doesnt lie..... this shit was set to record by your DVR and you had to cancel it to allow for the game to be recorded instead.

Why in god's name would anyone want to record the game!?

[Brisketexan 105187]

4 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

I love how you trot this shit out like you JUST discovered it in the guide.

 

we all know the truth.... Your DVR doesnt lie..... this shit was set to record by your DVR and you had to cancel it to allow for the game to be recorded instead.

False.

I wouldn't DVR that.

Because I've already seen it.

It's like you don't even know me.

[Brisketexan 105187]

3 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Why in god's name would anyone want to record the game!?

And this.

If I want to watch Texas shit the bed in a road game, I can just watch the replay of pretty much any Texas game from the past few years on the LHN.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21913]

3 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Why in god's name would anyone want to record the game!?

So you can fast forward to the 2 minutes worth watching

[ztejas 43526]

6 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:

The second thing is if you've never been to Qatar the weather there is fucking brutal.  It's like Houston on steroids. 

It's November. Not August. It's humid but the highs for the foreseeable future are in the 80s. I don't think anyone would die from just drinking beer outside in a shaded stadium. 

[Brisketexan 105187]

1 minute ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

So you can fast forward to the 2 minutes worth watching

So....when the camera is on the Pom Squad before a few commercial breaks?

[Deej 76870]

1 minute ago, ztejas said:

It's November. Not August. It's humid but the highs for the foreseeable future are in the 80s. I don't think anyone would die from just drinking beer outside in a shaded stadium. 

Challenge accepted. 

[FartingMonk 3608]

2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

It's November. Not August. It's humid but the highs for the foreseeable future are in the 80s. I don't think anyone would die from just drinking beer outside in a shaded stadium. 

Ah.  Thanks for the correction I was told they stayed the same

[ztejas 43526]

Just now, FartingMonk said:

Ah.  Thanks for the correction I was told they stayed the same

The entire reason we have this stupid fall WC is because it's in Qatar and it literally would kill people if they had it there in July. 

Now, 85 with 60% is still hot... but Qatar is far north enough to still have seasons to a degree. It's at a similar latitude as Miami. 

[UTexasFight 9517]

Fans of every country should do what apparently Wales is doing:
 

Thousands of Wales Fans Travel for the World Cup—To Bars in the Canary Islands

Beer-drinking soccer fans are expected to fill barstools around the palm-fringed party capital of Tenerife to watch the Welsh team play in Qatar

https://www.wsj.com/articles/world-cup-2022-wales-fans-qatar-beer-11668723750

 

Spoiler

From the mo­ment Wales punched its ticket to the 2022 World Cup in June, Bethany Evans knew she wanted to fol­low the Welsh team for its first ap­pear­ance in the tour­na-ment since 1958.
 

She just wasn’t con­vinced she wanted to fol­low them all the way to Qatar.

In­stead of an ex­pen­sive trek half­way around the world to the tiny desert king­dom—with its check­ered hu­man-rights record and strict con­trols on al­co­hol—Ms. Evans set her sights on a more ac­com­mo­dat­ing World Cup party spot.

“Some­where warm and cheap,” said Ms. Evans, a health-and-safety man­ager from Pon­typridd, Wales. “So, as a bit of a joke, I posted on Twit­ter: Who’s com­ing to Tener­ife?”
 

Thou­sands of Welsh fans, it turns out. Tener­ife, Spain, the palm-fringed party cap­i­tal of the Ca­nary Is­lands, is a long­time British get­away and more wel­com­ing of the singing, swear­ing and drink­ing of rau­cous soc­cer fans than Qatar.

The is­land’s bars and restau­rants are ex­pect­ing more than 3,200 Welsh fans for the team’s open­ing game Mon­day against the U.S., po­ten­tially a larger Welsh crowd than in Qatar, where only around 2,000 tick­ets have been al­lo­cated to Wales fans for each match.
 

“The tweet got a lit­tle bit of trac­tion. About 200 peo­ple liked it and shared it and that got the word out,” Ms. Evans said. In­ter­est surged af­ter she pitched the idea on an evening TV news show in July.

“It re­ally snow­balled from there,” she said.
Ryan Howard joined the ava­lanche headed to the Span­ish sun­shine this week­end. He was on the verge of book­ing a trip to watch the team in per­son and had planned to stay in Dubai, United Arab Emi­rates, and then fly to matches in Doha, Qatar.

Then he caught wind of the un­of­fi-cial Wales watch party in the At­lantic for the group stage games against the U.S., Eng­land and Iran. Tener­ife spoke to him for two rea­sons.
 

“Hon­estly, the cheap hol­i­day and the beer,” said Mr. Howard, a cre­ative de­signer from Llan­beris in North Wales, who will be joined by 13 friends.

“We’re mak­ing the best of the sit­u­a­tion,” he said.
 

So are the is­land’s bar and restau-rant own­ers. Kelly Spiers has lived in Tener­ife for 26 years and runs The Orig­i­nal Wigan Pier pub, as well as its sis­ter bar, La Flaca. She had ex­pected a quiet crowd while the World Cup played out in Qatar. Now, it looks like she struck oil.

“There’s so many of them com­ing, I was just say­ing to my hus­band, ‘We don’t know what we’ve let our­selves in for.’ ” Ms. Spiers said. “The cater­ing com­pany is ter­ri­fied.”
 

In the past week, she or­dered an ad­di­tional 18 bar­rels of the lo­cal Do­rada beer. “Our sup­plier has set me up with a hot­line in case we run out,” she said.

Ms. Spiers ex­pects to wel­come roughly 400 Wales sup­port­ers to her two bars for each game. They have been dec­o­rated with red-and-green bunting, the col­ors of the Wales team. Welsh flags hang on the wall, and a Welsh choir will ser­e­nade fans at half­time.
 

Pints of beer will sell for €1, or roughly one dol­lar. A spe­cial red-and-green cock­tail, made of straw­berry liqueur and creme de men­the, will be avail­able in 1- or 3-liter pitch­ers. It’s been named the “cwtch,” the Welsh word for a hug.

“It’s go­ing to be like a sup­port­ers vil­lage for us,” said Rho­dri Mor­gan, a 39-year-old ac­count man­ager for a re­tail pack­ag­ing com­pany. He is headed to Tener­ife for four days with 23 friends, in­clud­ing two neigh­bors, both in their 80s. “They still like to have a drink and have a party,” Mr. Mor­gan said.
 

In Qatar, the of­fi­cial FIFA Fan Fes­ti­val in Doha’s Al Bidda Park promises fam­ily friendly en­ter­tain-ment. Beer, which costs nearly $14 and comes in a com­mem­o­ra­tive cup, will be sold only from 6.30 p.m. to 1 a.m. On Fri­day, beer sales were abruptly banned from des­ig­nated spots out­side sta­di­ums, mean­ing the only adult bev­er­age sold at matches will be Bud­weis­er’s zero-al­co­hol beer.

 

For Gareth Brook­man, knock­ing back a beer is as much a part of the Wales match­day ex­pe­ri­ence as singing the na­tional an­them and root­ing against Eng­land. Six years ago, he went to the Eu­ropean Cham­pi­onship in France, where Wales staged a Cin­derella run to reach the semi­fi-nals.
 

This time, he picked Tener­ife over the host na­tion be­cause it will have more of a tour­na­ment vibe. “The 90-minute game, don’t get me wrong, that’s one thing I will miss,” said Mr. Brook­man, who coaches youth soc­cer in Cardiff. “But for me, it’s about the whole ex­pe­ri­ence, be­ing able to walk down the street with a pint in your hand.”

 

Tener­ife has its draw­backs. The three-hour time dif­fer­ence with Qatar means Welsh fans will have to ne­go­ti­ate some un­usu­ally early kick­offs.
 

The team’s sec­ond match against Iran starts at 10 a.m. lo­cal time. Ms. Spiers said she would open her two pubs three hours early, in case any fans need some­thing to calm pregame jit­ters.

“That’s my fa­vorite part, the buildup to the games,” Mr. Brook­man said. “I’ll prob­a­bly just head straight to the bar for break­fast.”

Wales could eas­ily have one foot in the round of 16 by the end of the first week of the tour­na­ment. If that hap­pens, the team will re­main in Qatar and an­other red-and-green wave is likely to hit the Ca­nary Is­lands.
 

“I’m only out there for four days,” Mr. Mor­gan said. “But look­ing at the team we’ve got now, we might never have a bet­ter chance. There’s al­ready talk that we might go back.”

 

[Brisketexan 105187]

Breakfast in a bar in Tenerife with a buncha drunken Welshmen?  IN.  Sounds like a blast.

[FartingMonk 3608]

8 minutes ago, ztejas said:

The entire reason we have this stupid fall WC is because it's in Qatar and it literally would kill people if they had it there in July. 

Now, 85 with 60% is still hot... but Qatar is far north enough to still have seasons to a degree. It's at a similar latitude as Miami. 

Yeah.  I was there from June to July.  I described it to my buddies as the Vegas heat with the Houston humidity.  It literally sucks the life out of you

[ABSR 5320]

56 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

LOL. 

Thanks!

[InkaUtexas 26025]

1 hour ago, Guadaloopy said:

Most of the military installations in the Gulf states have an exception that allows alcohol on base, Al Udeid included.  During my time, Kuwait was the only one that didn't relent (we were out of Saudi by then) and we had to schmooze visits to the various embassies to get a drink. 

Must have changed from my visit there. The rule I knew was you could drink if on leave in the city (at a hotel) but not on base due to General Orders. And yeah, Kuwait sucked. Bahrain's O-Club at the Naval Base was pretty cool. Oman was the best. Got hammered at Masirah Island with the brits when on a site visit. 

[Dnaguy 12023]

1 hour ago, AUS-97HORN said:

I love how you trot this shit out like you JUST discovered it in the guide.

 

we all know the truth.... Your DVR doesnt lie..... this shit was set to record by your DVR and you had to cancel it to allow for the game to be recorded instead.

DVR?

Guide?!

What year is this?

 

 

[JesusSweatDuck 17785]

2 hours ago, cabowabo said:

"There is no impact to the sale of Bud Zero which will remain available at all Qatar's World Cup stadiums," FIFA added.

lulz.

To be fair, inside stadiums it was always going to be Bud Zero only (as I understood it).  It was outside the stadiums where the alcohol was to be sold.

[InkaUtexas 26025]

Yep, you can get that plenty of non-alcoholic beers in any gas station in the Middle East. Now why you would spend a Dinar on it is the question. 

[956 Worldwide 34742]

Real talk, it’s really been a mistake to bring big events to the rest of the world. Europe. North America. Latin America. Oceania plus Japan and Korea. South Africa. 
 

We will put on our own sports stuff and you’re welcome to come play. No, we’re not coming to your place, don’t ask. 

[UTexasFight 9517]

7 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

 

We will put on our own sports stuff and you’re welcome to come play. No, we’re not coming to your place, don’t ask. 

“Nothing at all we can do to try and change to your mind?”

 

 

[C-Man 27239]

2 hours ago, ztejas said:

No one that cares about soccer isn't watching the World Cup. I mean, it's unfortunate that it's being held in Qatar, but the blood is on FIFA's hands - not the fans. 

I'm hoping it's a complete fucking disaster off the field but wonderful matches on the field.

[BrazilHorn 6624]

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

And this.

If I want to watch Texas shit the bed in a road game, I can just watch the replay of pretty much any Texas game from the past few years on the LHN.

Just watch it Monday on “Rewind”. This way you can hear Sark talk about complementary football for 60 minutes 

[Fudge Nuggets 19210]

3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Breakfast in a bar in Tenerife with a buncha drunken Welshmen?  IN.  Sounds like a blast.

I've done breakfast in a bar in Bangkok with a bunch of drunken Welshmen and Poms.  It's far from being a blast.

[Brisketexan 105187]

48 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

Just watch it Monday on “Rewind”. This way you can hear Sark talk about complementary football for 60 minutes 

[atomheartbevo 89766]

2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Real talk, it’s really been a mistake to bring big events to the rest of the world. Europe. North America. Latin America. Oceania plus Japan and Korea. South Africa. 

We will put on our own sports stuff and you’re welcome to come play. No, we’re not coming to your place, don’t ask. 

I’m going to try and watch the World Baseball Classic next year.

[TornACL 7722]

2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

 

We will put on our own sports stuff and you’re welcome to come play. No, we’re not coming to your place, don’t ask. 

Oh but I bet your tune would change if you were presented with briefcases of cash, and a bevy of hookers at your beck and call.

[conVINCEd 21469]

2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I’m going to try and watch the World Baseball Classic next year.

Watch or do not watch.  There is no try.

[staboner 4984]

7 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

Without the alcohol, people might realize how bored they are. 

I keed, I keed.

 

7 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

This post brought to you by golf and baseball. 

[utee94 15835]

 

[Victor Lazlo 1777]

2 hours ago, TornACL said:

Oh but I bet your tune would change if you were presented with briefcases of cash, and a bevy of hookers at your beck and call.

I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter, good sir.

[Ghost of LL 15539]

7 hours ago, texasdago said:

I think they have a nice airline.

QSuites are very nice.

[royiv 9333]

2 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

QSuites are very nice.

Do they serve booze?