on second thought nm
― fwiw: lol iirc sb'd u tbqh (dan m), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:14 (fifteen years ago)
ed now picture me speaking slowly to yr inbred english self - imagine yrself pluralizing every loan word as it is in its native tongue - that would be ridiculous - which is why you dont do it - there are however a few greek and latin words for which you fetishize the pluralization - why do you do this - its because you think it make you look smart
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:20 (fifteen years ago)
hey heres a dictionary editor speaking sensibly on the topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyY2mK8pxk
PWN
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:21 (fifteen years ago)
It's how we built an empire,elevating the wisdom of the ancients through latin and greek pluralisation, that and beating boys in school.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:22 (fifteen years ago)
fair
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:24 (fifteen years ago)
friends are pretty harsh tbh, tho i did think she was going to say 'slut'.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:26 (fifteen years ago)
dudes, do you say mediums instead of media?
― ailsa, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:31 (fifteen years ago)
i say mediaz
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:34 (fifteen years ago)
srsly tho my official stance is 'all words are words' media mediums stadia stadiums, whatevs - people think they make up the laws of language, but they dont, they abide by them
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:39 (fifteen years ago)
a data learn the language
― fwiw: lol iirc sb'd u tbqh (dan m), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 18:02 (fifteen years ago)
well the USA and Qatar can go home now, we just pwned you guys with a CARTOON KANGAROO and PAUL HOGAN
― Culture: only gays have it (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 22:13 (fifteen years ago)
oh oh oh and HUGH JACKMAN WEARING A POLO SHIRT
― Culture: only gays have it (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 22:15 (fifteen years ago)
Yep, you guys have even blown the bookies away - no-one's taking bets on 2022 anymore.
England now universal favourites for 2018 btw, as the patriotic wall of money creates a surge only previously seen in the team's odds prior to every major tourney ever. Good omen I reckon.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 22:23 (fifteen years ago)
http://i55.tinypic.com/hsrkhh.gif
― con suelo, Thursday, 2 December 2010 07:48 (fifteen years ago)
WHO THE FUCK IS PAUL HOGAN AGAIN
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 09:46 (fifteen years ago)
what a bunch of corrupt bullshit
― con suelo, Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:32 (fifteen years ago)
Cosign. I wouldn't be surprised if this kills FIFA ultimately - football running itself has now been tested to destruction.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:00 (fifteen years ago)
fifa out
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
RIP Football, heaven needed a lot of cash.
― Hip Hop MCs in Neighbours in my lifetime (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:46 (fifteen years ago)
One vote? Really? Even after Paul Hogan?
gutted for ya mate
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)
Nah mate, it's our fault. We really didn't promise anything exciting or go on about taking the Cup to a new continent/region much.
Also, we forgot to bribe anyone.
― Hip Hop MCs in Neighbours in my lifetime (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:51 (fifteen years ago)
lol
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:27 (fifteen years ago)
^ valuable contribution orrite
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
an acquaintance of mine, just back from a tour at the USAF base in doha, on qatar:
True, there is no alcohol... men and women can not ride in the same taxi, even if you are married. They have people that walk through their hotels listening at doors to make sure that no one is having sex, they will confiscate the dvd of Beerfest because of the cover art, it is not discrimination exactly but less than 500,000 of their population are "citizens" (out of 1.35 mil) the rest are what you could call minorities of ethnic ambiguity. Ratios are 4-1 men to women... did I mention there is no alcohol?On the plus side there is little to no crime, they will not make the World Cup itself, they will pay for most everything FIFA wants.This is going to be the best World Cup ever!YAY FIFA!
On the plus side there is little to no crime, they will not make the World Cup itself, they will pay for most everything FIFA wants.
This is going to be the best World Cup ever!
YAY FIFA!
― fwiw: lol iirc sb'd u tbqh (dan m), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
Australia does everything it can to collude against football in this country (especially broadcasting), most of the people here STILL insist it's called 'soccer' and that various codes of deformed rugby are 'the REAL football' (the code to which this applies is wholly dependent on the state you're in at the time) and the rest of the entire planet is 'wrong', and to top it off we just submitted a bid video featuring PAUL HOGAN. Qatar probably deserved this despite its offensive conservatism/racism/prohibition.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:39 (fifteen years ago)
I mean if I were on the committee and I saw the way Australia treats football and had to choose between it and a pumpkin, I'd be looking at the merits of a pumpkin, honestly.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:41 (fifteen years ago)
wasn't australia trying to imprison paul hogan five minutes ago? was this part of his plea bargain?
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:10 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah I think the world cup trophy forms part of his fine to the tax office. Also I swear he didn't pay the GST on that motorbike.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)
Qatar 22 website is down i see
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:24 (fifteen years ago)
web servers must have overheated right
― Hip Hop MCs in Neighbours in my lifetime (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:25 (fifteen years ago)
It was all a hoax, there's no such place.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 2 December 2010 22:49 (fifteen years ago)
I suspect somebody pulled a few qatar strings.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:03 (fifteen years ago)
The FIFA 2022 office will be called Base Qatar.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 23:04 (fifteen years ago)
The official airline of the world cup will be oh look forget it.
This guy has found a slightly less evil than FIFA: http://twitter.com/#!/madpie90/status/10489040537124864
― Hip Hop MCs in Neighbours in my lifetime (King Boy Pato), Friday, 3 December 2010 04:15 (fifteen years ago)
but hosts do no longer qualify automatically? sort of bummed about that, as i was going to predict Qatar advancing through group stage thanks to 2 dubious referee decisions (one referee from Guinea, one from Tahiti) as well as 7 naturalized Brazilian players.
― Ludo, Friday, 3 December 2010 09:19 (fifteen years ago)
of course hosts automatically qualify - it would be too ridiculous even for FIFA to have a WC where the host couldn't actually take part.
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Friday, 3 December 2010 13:37 (fifteen years ago)
oh I'm being thick it's the defending champion that doesn't automatically qualify
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 December 2010 13:49 (fifteen years ago)
I hope that world's-worst-miss guy is still around in 2022
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 3 December 2010 13:54 (fifteen years ago)
anything's possible. :D
― Ludo, Friday, 3 December 2010 14:05 (fifteen years ago)
Wasn't Luxembourg a non-qualifying co-host on your bid?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 3 December 2010 14:08 (fifteen years ago)
A non-qualifying co-host who wouldn't be holding any matches, in fact?
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 3 December 2010 14:10 (fifteen years ago)
don't think we've had a tournament where the hosts were ranked 113th in the world before
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 December 2010 14:10 (fifteen years ago)
― Ismael Klata, vrijdag 3 december 2010 15:08 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah and also failed the provide enough $$$$ bribes (you'd think they could've done something for us there!)
.. beginning to like the absurd bizareness of this whole Qatar thing though. (for example hadn't until today realized it was soooo small)
― Ludo, Friday, 3 December 2010 18:04 (fifteen years ago)
i kind of like beckenbauer's idea of having the tournament in january. i'd like to see players in mid-season form once in the WC
― con suelo, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 03:18 (fifteen years ago)
When it comes to bidding for the next tournament, a country with a sense of humour should put together a satirical bid based around park football and jumpers-for-goalposts, but openly promising €10m each to the thirteen corrupt members, and see how far it gets. I'd've proposed Ireland 2026, but fear that may be a financial burden too far.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 08:07 (fifteen years ago)
Uefa members back winter World Cup. BBC top story for some reason, maybe because the EPL is opposed. I kind of think Qatar has done well to make it this far, they should see it through now, in the summer and everything.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:55 (twelve years ago)
http://news.sky.com/story/1191990/fifa-moves-2022-qatar-world-cup-to-winter
Christmas World Cup!
― Blandford Forum, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 11:57 (twelve years ago)
i thought i'd be more outraged but on many levels the EPL and FIFA deserve each other
― Emilia Fabbo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 12:02 (twelve years ago)