Qatar Bans Beer At Stadiums 48 Hours Before World Cup Starts
“Well, this is awkward,” FIFA sponsor Budweiser said in a now-deleted tweet.
Qatar Bans Beer At Stadiums 48 Hours Before World Cup Starts
“Well, this is awkward,” FIFA sponsor Budweiser said in a now-deleted tweet.
I don’t like football, or Budweiser – if it was Budding IPA and rugby I might be more concerned – but the utter cunts involved in all this shit make me laugh.
A tournament playing in stadiums built by slaves, many of whom died during the construction, in a dictatorship funded by fossil fuels and conspicuous consumption which is run by anti-semitic wankers who despise women and murder poofs, and Gary Lineker and the rest of the BBC bellendry suspend every last one of their pious fucking principles because some multi-millionaires will be kicking balls around for a bit.
Hilarious.
This world cup is proving to be a lot more amusing that I’d expected. I can’t wait for all the horror stories from idiots who’ve paid through the nose to attend.
Here’s a horror story and it hasn’t even started: https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/16/germany_world_cup_apps/
The crowds will be tempting targets for terrorists. If you can get a huge crowd to panic you can get far more people killed than your bomb would have managed on its own.
World Cup apps from the Qatari government collect more personal information than they need to, according to Germany’s data protection agency, which this week warned football fans to only install the two apps “if it is absolutely necessary.” Also: consider using a burner phone.
There’s no such thing as a burner phone in Germany. Last time I was there I bought a data SIM and it took for ever to sign up. In the end I gave up and gave the SIM to the couple in the motorhome next to me.
That stuff that Budweiser sell is an insult to the word beer.
Nice rant Interested. The hypocrisy from the BBC is breathtaking.
Last time I had Bud was at Wembley for a FA cup semi 7 or so years ago.
Cost a fiver for a tiny bottle and it was the only beer available.
Thought i’d been poisoned.
Budweiser the VX of beers.
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Our Panto cancellation has become quite a news story. The DM lifted most of the Faceache page and ran it this morning, and included pictures lifted from the Director’s Faceache page.
I had a local reported knocking on my door last night, there was a Radio Solent radio care outside the village hall this morning, might even still be there, and now I’ve just had a reporter from the Sunday Mail knocking on the door asking for quotes.
Should be fun in the pub tonight.
Oh well, at least it shows there’s nothing serious going on in the world.
There’s no such thing as a burner phone in Germany.
Of course there is BiND Thanks to the Krauts’ tedious insistence on form filling there’ll be a thriving market in them. Like there is here. If I was ever misguided enough to visit Germany I’d be putting a moody SIM in a phone within an hour of leaving the airport. I could probably order & pay for it from here. Simply a matter of knowing the right people.
If you ever want one anywhere, go chat up the local immigrant community. (used to be Turks for DE) You’ll usually get a goto
If you think Bud is bad – and it is – you should try Miller or Coors. Both are far worse.
Joe Jackson once described American beer as weasel piss. The weasels were insulted.
Why did Budweiser even sponsor a tournament in a devoutly Muslim country that is anti-alcohol in the first place? It’d be like British Beef sponsoring the tournament if it was held in India.
Apparently the ban doesn’t extend to the corporate boxes and corporate hospitality areas
Love-in-a-canoe beer.
When younger I used to get really confused by American films with people drinking “a dozen beers”. Wow, how are they still conscious, they must be really hard. Until I met some Americans at university who passed out halfway through a pint of Alloa Export, I realised that American “beer” is actually shandy.
Ah BNiC, but those are “private”, and that’s different, and why are you asking these questions, Citizen…
Besides… Can’t see them serving Bud in those places. May stock it, even display the Banners for Contractual Obligations, but serve the stuff? Seriously…
Why did Budweiser even sponsor a tournament in a devoutly Muslim country that is anti-alcohol in the first place?
My bet is on them being morons.
They should serve Bud Light instead. That isn’t beer.
Budweiser has been the official beer sponsor for about 30 years.
They are serving Bud Zero which may qualify as another human rights abuse by the Qataris
Last time I went with my son to White Hart Lane there was no beer on sale in the ground due to it being a Europa League game.
Addolff
That surprises me. UEFA are usually in the thrall of Heineken.
German footy around Xmas is a laugh with gluhwein sellers walking the terraces.
I’m guessing they thought contractual obligations and the fear of lawfare were enough to keep the taps flowing. Nearly 250 years of a constitutional republic might have led them to forget quite how bad absolute monarchy can be at its worst. One of those “Unstoppable force vs Immoveable object” kind of things.
If I’d paid thousands of quid to attend World Cup games in Catarrh [sic] and couldn’t even get a decent pint, I’d be rightly pissed, never mind the FIFA corruption (thanks Sepp!) to buy the games in the first place, or the amount of blood spilled getting the venues built.
It’s gonna be a shit show whatever happens.
As for the strength and quality of Budweiser beer, I’m always amazed that they managed to get the cats to sit on the bottles…
Re the ‘intrusive’ apps – I thought Apple did some auditing of apps submitted to the app store partly to look for app ‘overreach’…I am obviously mistaken.
Not just that, they actively block apps from being abusive via the platform they sit on. This is why Facebook is so pissed at Apple, their privacy violations generate vast revenues and Apple have blocked a lot of that.
Addolff
Bit slow this morning, so I’ve only just worked out why that might be.
If UEFA still have an exclusive deal with Heineken, it might be too complicated / not worth the effort for Spurs to change all the barrels or stock bottles for these midweek matches.
Or Plod decided it was a higher risk game, depending on the opposition, and barred the sales.
Do Budweiser still advertise on Twitter or have they clutched their pearls and fled.
For that matter I wonder if any of the woke brands who refuse to support Musk are happy to follow the example of messes Lineker, Beckham and Neville by willingly doing business in the land where pretty much every “ism” is practiced.
Oh but it’s all ok. Gary has made clear he’s only going there to report on the world cup, not to support it. Phew.
Actually both Gary’s have come up with the same line.
UEFA used to ban alcohol at all Champions League and Europa League matches. The ban was rescinded from the beginning of the 2018/2019 season, with alcohol being allowed to be supplied in terms of national and local laws.