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Offline fohat.digs

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No Beer at FIFA World Cup in Qatar
« on: Fri, 18 November 2022, 14:10:17 »
Budweiser paid $75M to sponsor the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

They must be pleased that this announcement somehow wasn't made until today.

Let's all lift a glass to the separation of church and state !
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Re: No Beer at FIFA World Cup in Qatar
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 18 November 2022, 15:30:08 »
Tp4 is not fundamentally anti_alcohol.

But he is very weary of the system of capitalism which hijacks the minds of the populace to indulge to excess.

Are there negative downstream cascading effects ?  Research and observation seem to indicate yes !
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Re: No Beer at FIFA World Cup in Qatar
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 18 November 2022, 15:41:13 »
I would expect alcohol to be banned in Quatar, because it is a muslim country. But did the games ban non-alcoholic beer as well?

In some markets, non-alcoholic beer is the only beer that you are allowed to advertise anyway (even though companies use the same brands for alcoholic beer as well ... which gets around that rule in practice).
BTW. in the '80s, some enterprising nut-head tried to sell beer to Saudi Arabia: It was sold in freeze-dried form, and did of course not contain any alcohol. My dad tasted it and said it was awful.
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Re: No Beer at FIFA World Cup in Qatar
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 18 November 2022, 16:03:22 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 18 November 2022, 15:30:08

the minds of the populace


Sports fans are a special sub-population.
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“Any split that is higher than 5%,” the letter states, “will be seen favorably by the RNC and President Trump's campaign and is routinely reported to the highest levels of leadership within both organizations.”"

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Re: No Beer at FIFA World Cup in Qatar
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 18 November 2022, 16:14:59 »
People riot when they are too drunk... or not drunk enough

No one likes an angry sober person
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Re: No Beer at FIFA World Cup in Qatar
« Reply #5 on: Fri, 18 November 2022, 16:41:07 »
should be in alaska imo
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Re: No Beer at FIFA World Cup in Qatar
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 20 November 2022, 12:29:59 »
Quote from: granola bar enthusiast on Fri, 18 November 2022, 16:41:07
should be in alaska imo
Should be in a place where people actually like football :p .

BTW, I mean real football. The type that you play with feet and balls.
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Re: No Beer at FIFA World Cup in Qatar
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 20 November 2022, 12:51:59 »
Quote from: chyros on Sun, 20 November 2022, 12:29:59

Should be in a place where


If Qatar is going to colossal lengths to enhace its image through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportswashing, is it actually going to succeed?

In the end I wonder whether it will achieve the benefit it sought.
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Re: No Beer at FIFA World Cup in Qatar
« Reply #8 on: Sun, 20 November 2022, 13:04:52 »
why wouldn't it, we did vietnam, and then we made the movie Annie, and people thought Warbucks was a great kinda guy.
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