who will host the 2022 world cup?

usa bid presentation streaming live on fifa's site

morgan freeman, wha???

blatter just basically equated him with mandela

that is hilarious. i mean, esp cuz he sorta is the mandela of our imaginations

o fuck freeman u just screwed it up for everyone

everybody be cool, they've all already decided who to vote for (via bribes)

would gwb have made a personal appeal to fifa u think?

all those qatari stadiums are super dope add one vote for qatar congrats qatar!

^^^valuable new poster

the qatar stadiums do look bloody cool. reminded me that i have no idea what london's olympic stadium looks like.

yeah those stadia are fuckin dope, esp the dhow one

still hope they don't get it

qatari stadia

i meant to say stadia but i'm definitely arguing that stadiums is a legitimate alternative here.

الملاعب

general rule of thumb - pluralize as you would in the language youre speaking not the one from which the word originates - stadia is pretty fun tho

stadia is the plural of stadium in English

gtfo u snooty brit

stadia is the plural of stadium in greek, in english we add an s to the end of a word to pluralize it

nice soccerdromes, whatever

although it derives from the greek stadion (στάδιον) it is actually directly from the Roman 3rd declension noun stadium. so it declines:

stadium
stadium
stadium
stadii
stadio
stadio

stadia
stadia
stadia
stadiorum
stadiis
stadiis

of course στάδιον is second declension neuter in ancient greek so has the plural στάδιοᾰ in any case but one has to get these etymological routes right.

(this brit can get snootier, finally my classical education becomes useful for pwning people on the internet)

what's the greek for Lucas Oil Stadium

http://indianapolis.ismyhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/lucas-oil-stadium-interior.jpg

on second thought nm

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

hey heres a dictionary editor speaking sensibly on the topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyY2mK8pxk

PWN

It's how we built an empire,elevating the wisdom of the ancients through latin and greek pluralisation, that and beating boys in school.

fair

friends are pretty harsh tbh, tho i did think she was going to say 'slut'.

dudes, do you say mediums instead of media?

i say mediaz

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

a data learn the language

well the USA and Qatar can go home now, we just pwned you guys with a CARTOON KANGAROO and PAUL HOGAN

oh oh oh and HUGH JACKMAN WEARING A POLO SHIRT

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.

http://i55.tinypic.com/hsrkhh.gif

WHO THE FUCK IS PAUL HOGAN AGAIN

what a bunch of corrupt bullshit

Cosign. I wouldn't be surprised if this kills FIFA ultimately - football running itself has now been tested to destruction.

fifa out

RIP Football, heaven needed a lot of cash.

One vote? Really? Even after Paul Hogan?

gutted for ya mate

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.

lol

^ valuable contribution orrite

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!

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.

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.

wasn't australia trying to imprison paul hogan five minutes ago? was this part of his plea bargain?

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.

Doesn’t really feel like there’s a Group Of Death this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbOSUsKqQ-8

just thinking about all of this. it sounds corny to say, but canada qualifying was the best thing that could happen to this country. you can tell the vibe is changing. the team has achieved its main goal. even if we get eliminated in the group stage, this is already a big win for soccer in canada. anything else is just gravy

Xp group A I'd say, contrary to all the confident predictions that Qatar would get Tunisia, the Chagos Islands and Haringey Borough

When I was up in Scotland I saw (ex-Ranger) Chris Burke talking about the World Cup and saying maybe Scotland should just do the decent thing and withdraw and allow Ukraine to go through, which brought the instantaneous response of "Get tae fuck!" in households the length and breadth of the country.

Lol

Sky News understands the Qatar World Cup is set to start a day earlier than scheduled to allow the host nation to be the opening game of the tournament

For more on this and other news visit https://t.co/NEDMP2uP6W

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) August 10, 2022

Surprised this is happening

Extraordinary from Denmark kit supplier Hummel: "We don’t wish to be visible during a tournament that has cost thousands of people their lives. We support the Danish national team all the way, but that isn’t the same as supporting Qatar as a host nation." pic.twitter.com/ENVJtzYUHn

— Nick Harris (@sportingintel) September 28, 2022

Still going well I see

qatar bids seems ludicrous

― rouxymuzak (nakhchivan), Monday, 29 November 2010 bookmarkflaglink

In retrospect, Japan/S.Korea had both hosted World Cup too recently and, frankly, it was never going to go to Australia which left the USA and Qatar. The USA are getting the next tournament.