Straw Poll...

[Brown Nose]

Quick straw poll. Are you planning to watch it?

I've got no interest whatsoever. I intend to avoid the entire tournament.

 

[tedfoxxx]

Quick straw poll. Are you planning to watch it?

I've got no interest whatsoever. I intend to avoid the entire tournament.

Nope, they can ****ing shove it.

 

[FOX Franks]

Quick straw poll. Are you planning to watch it?

I've got no interest whatsoever. I intend to avoid the entire tournament.

I intend to avoid it, but will probably end up watching a few games through sheer boredom.
Stupid time, stupid location, masses of bribery. It represents everything wrong with the modern game.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Quick straw poll. Are you planning to watch it?

I've got no interest whatsoever. I intend to avoid the entire tournament.

Not a chance

 

[parafox]

Quick straw poll. Are you planning to watch it?

I've got no interest whatsoever. I intend to avoid the entire tournament.

I plan to whinge about it up until the point it starts and then watch it anyway like the complete bellend I am

 

[Blue Maniac]

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Just guessing this is about Qatar

 

[Payne74]

I thought it was about crops being grown or bits of hollow plastic tubes in drinks, until I started reading the options

 

[parafox]

These virtue signalling protests are enough to save face for people who still want to make money from the event. No one cares about anything anymore.

Just look at the news about us heading closer and closer to a direct conflict between NATO and Russia and the annihilation that would bring. I haven't heard anyone mention it personally. It's a strange planet we live on.

 

[FOX Franks]

These virtue signalling protests are enough to save face for people who still want to make money from the event. No one cares about anything anymore.

Just look at the news about us heading closer and closer to a direct conflict between NATO and Russia and the annihilation that would bring. I haven't heard anyone mention it personally. It's a strange planet we live on.

Truss spent the morning telling everyone the reason why markets are spooked and interest rates went up was becuase of Putin and the possibility of a Labour government. It's all crackers.

 

[Lako42]

Truss spent the morning telling everyone the reason why markets are spooked and interest rates went up was becuase of Putin and the possibility of a Labour government. It's all crackers.

She is a ****.

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Truss spent the morning telling everyone the reason why markets are spooked and interest rates went up was becuase of Putin and the possibility of a Labour government. It's all crackers.

The most worrying thing about Truss for me is that I get the impression she actually, genuinely believes some of the shit she comes out with.

With Boris you knew he knew he was lying & just daring you to try to prove it.

40 years of privatising everything in sight results in this. Governments are now so utterly divorced from actually running the things that really matter that nobody who wants to make a difference bothers to go into party politics anymore as they know it's impossible to affect anything in a meaningful way.

They become campaigners, activists & lobbyists. They work for charities or set up foundations & trusts for this that or the other in their areas of interest. Which means that those who go the party political route end up being the jobsworths, chancers & clueless middle managers of the world. Nothing but bland, uninspiring, talentless nobodies since 2010.

What a ****ing shitshow.

 

[Biffa Bacon]

I was planning to go to New Zealand for most of the tournament to miss it but business class flights got stupidly expensive so I'm now planning a road trip around Scotland for the first few weeks of it.

 

[Lako42]

I was planning to go to New Zealand for most of the tournament to miss it but business class flights got stupidly expensive so I'm now planning a road trip around Scotland for the first few weeks of it.

Posh twat

 

[tedfoxxx]

I was planning to go to New Zealand for most of the tournament to miss it but business class flights got stupidly expensive so I'm now planning a road trip around Scotland for the first few weeks of it.

Hi Kwasi

 

[Miles Away]

I plan to whinge about it up until the point it starts and then watch it anyway like the complete bellend I am

Yeah, same

 

[Elon Bust]

I rarely do any virtue-signalling but I am not watching it. Even if it wasn't for the 6,500 migrant workers who died building the stadiums, or the fact that women who are sexually assaulted or raped will be treated as criminals by the Qatar police, it's just the corruption.

Sure, Russia is an authoritarian regime too but at least it was a rich footballing nation. Russia is full of people who love football and its teams have competed convincingly at the European level. To that end, there is justification awarding it a World Cup.

Qatar has nothing to do with football and I see this as Fifa's way of saying to the public: We know you know we're corrupt and we don't even care any more. From a football point of view, it would make more sense having the whole World Cup in the Faroe Islands, let alone a more sensible choice like Spain.

And the way Beckham is popping up everywhere saying Qatar is brilliant is absolutely unforgivable.

 

[pork pie fox]

I've had a few interesting chats with my 9 year old son about it recently, who appears to be surprisingly aware of issues of discrimination and the abuse of workers in Qatar. Not sure quite how, but that's another issue. He asked me if I'd be watching and I was honest and said that I wasn't planning to and he asked if he should. It's a tricky one, as he has loved watching the past couple of tournaments and it's a difficult thing to suggest to a 9 year old that he shouldn't, so I kicked the can down the road and said we'd have a chat about it nearer the time. Not quite sure what the answer is to it.

 

[tedfoxxx]

I've had a few interesting chats with my 9 year old son about it recently, who appears to be surprisingly aware of issues of discrimination and the abuse of workers in Qatar. Not sure quite how, but that's another issue. He asked me if I'd be watching and I was honest and said that I wasn't planning to and he asked if he should. It's a tricky one, as he has loved watching the past couple of tournaments and it's a difficult thing to suggest to a 9 year old that he shouldn't, so I kicked the can down the road and said we'd have a chat about it nearer the time. Not quite sure what the answer is to it.

My gut instinct is to say let him enjoy it. He sounds like a switched on kid (well done!) but 9 is too young to be worrying about this shit. Off the back of Covid and with all the concern and war in the news I think a bit of football will do him more good than learning a lesson about morality.

I know you know this but it’s amazing what kids pick up on. My wife is a primary school teacher and is always amazed at how much 8-11 year olds understand or at least know of. I imagine there’s a lot of chat about Russia and soon it will be people losing their houses.

I don’t think you should feel bad about it if you let him watch. Might be tricky to say ‘I don’t want to watch it with you’ though!

 

[homer]

I've had a few interesting chats with my 9 year old son about it recently, who appears to be surprisingly aware of issues of discrimination and the abuse of workers in Qatar. Not sure quite how, but that's another issue. He asked me if I'd be watching and I was honest and said that I wasn't planning to and he asked if he should. It's a tricky one, as he has loved watching the past couple of tournaments and it's a difficult thing to suggest to a 9 year old that he shouldn't, so I kicked the can down the road and said we'd have a chat about it nearer the time. Not quite sure what the answer is to it.

Every bit of TV and social media will be saturated with it, and will be a constant topic of conversation at school, so he's hardly going to avoid it - would therefore be a bit odd for him to deal with not watching any of it

 

[pork pie fox]

My gut instinct is to say let him enjoy it. He sounds like a switched on kid (well done!) but 9 is too young to be worrying about this shit. Off the back of Covid and with all the concern and war in the news I think a bit of football will do him more good than learning a lesson about morality.

I know you know this but it’s amazing what kids pick up on. My wife is a primary school teacher and is always amazed at how much 8-11 year olds understand or at least know of. I imagine there’s a lot of chat about Russia and soon it will be people losing their houses.

I don’t think you should feel bad about it if you let him watch. Might be tricky to say ‘I don’t want to watch it with you’ though!

Every bit of TV and social media will be saturated with it, and will be a constant topic of conversation at school, so he's hardly going to avoid it - would therefore be a bit odd for him to deal with not watching any of it

Yeah I did say that at the time to him, that he was too young to worry about things like that (whilst also saying that it was good that he was aware of it), but it just surprised me that he asked me, to be honest.