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Title: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Black Wolf on December 01, 2010, 07:00:53 am
I'm annoyed at the news. The 2022 World cup bid is coming! We might host the World Cup!

**** off. We don't want it. Give it to Qatar or some ****.
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Flipside on December 01, 2010, 07:02:25 am
London Olympic Syndrome.

It's contagious ;)
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Dilmah G on December 01, 2010, 08:31:46 am
2022? What the ****? I'll be like...not a child, in 2022...

And where on Earth are they going to have the world cup down here?  :wtf:
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Kosh on December 01, 2010, 09:52:07 am
2022? What the ****? I'll be like...not a child, in 2022...

And where on Earth are they going to have the world cup down here?  :wtf:


Yeah like Australia is so crowded....... :P
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Dilmah G on December 01, 2010, 10:00:21 am
You'd be surprised at some of the things people say about Australia WRT crowding. :P

But like, we have Melbourne. And...that's it.
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: CommanderDJ on December 01, 2010, 11:04:59 am
We have a huge desert too!
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Rodo on December 01, 2010, 11:27:50 am
Your gov gets the chance to waste some money in building unnecessary infrastructure in the middle of the desert, you might see it as an opportunity to populate "unpleasant" areas :p

Also WC FTW!
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: StarSlayer on December 01, 2010, 12:05:56 pm
Just think you guys could hand out thousands of Didgeridoos and annoy the **** out of the planet just like those South African Vuvuzelas.
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: General Battuta on December 01, 2010, 12:06:52 pm
Just think you guys could hand out thousands of Didgeridoos and annoy the **** out of the planet just like those South African Vuvuzelas.

I would prostitute myself to see this happen.
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Herra Tohtori on December 01, 2010, 01:34:34 pm
And to one-up the South Africans in cheapness... you should make them out of cardboard and THEN claim that they are culturally relevant part of Australian football.

The contradictions built into that argument are quite staggering, but FIFA would be powerless to stop it from happening with the precedent in South Africa last summer. :lol:
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Dilmah G on December 01, 2010, 06:27:01 pm
Just think you guys could hand out thousands of Didgeridoos and annoy the **** out of the planet just like those South African Vuvuzelas.
One catch, Didgeridoos are notoriously hard to play. From memory, it involves breathing out with one's mouth whilst inhaling through the nose. Or something like that. 
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Klaustrophobia on December 01, 2010, 07:00:36 pm
if you want to play it continuously yeah, but i'm sure that's not required just to make a sound.
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Dilmah G on December 01, 2010, 07:01:51 pm
Oh yeah, you could easily turn it into some kind of Vuvuzela if all you wanted to do was blow into it.

Wait. :nervous:
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Enigmatic Entity on December 02, 2010, 01:27:56 am
Well, yes, but you might have numb, puffy lips in a short while. Now if everyone who yelled had one of those things up to their mouth, what a sound! Or just make a modified version with a Vuvuzela hidden inside... ;)
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Flipside on December 02, 2010, 08:42:42 am
I think I may be the only person in England who actually hopes we won't be hosting in 2018...
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Flipside on December 02, 2010, 09:47:03 am
Phew.

Russia : 2018
Qatar : 2022

Footballs buggered off ;)
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Black Wolf on December 02, 2010, 10:17:16 am
Excellent. Now we won't have to pay for it, and we can get our proper stadium built here in Perth, rather than a rectangular one. :D
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: StarSlayer on December 02, 2010, 10:33:47 am
Wiki'd traditional Russian instruments and they all look a little to complex to be the next Vuvuzelas, mostly string instruments and flutes.  The only one that really looks simple enough to mass produce and use is the Treshchotka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treshchotka), but really all that would probably do is amplify the the applause.
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Flipside on December 02, 2010, 10:45:57 am
As long as we don't get 20,000 balalaika singing what my guitar wants to sing....
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Klaustrophobia on December 02, 2010, 12:36:40 pm
really?  Qatar?   WHY?????????  :wtf: :eek2:
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: General Battuta on December 02, 2010, 01:13:58 pm
really?  Qatar?   WHY?????????  :wtf: :eek2:

Because it's incredibly rich, no?
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Herra Tohtori on December 02, 2010, 01:48:22 pm
So...

2014 Brazil
2018 Russia
2022 Qatar

 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Mongoose on December 02, 2010, 02:34:51 pm
I know we were trying to get it too, but given the fact that I wasn't even aware we had it in 1994 until years later, I'm not entirely sure why. :p
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Klaustrophobia on December 03, 2010, 05:42:54 am
Qatar in action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQLylizGmDs)

and we gave them the world cup host?  wow.
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Grizzly on December 03, 2010, 05:55:33 am
FIFA has something against western countries :P.
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Dilmah G on December 03, 2010, 05:59:21 am
Qatar in action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQLylizGmDs)
:lol:
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: TopAce on December 03, 2010, 06:37:29 am
Well, they don't have to be able to play football to host a World Cup, right?
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Mongoose on December 03, 2010, 02:23:58 pm
Haa, that made #1 on SportsCenter's weekly Not Top Ten. :D
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Flipside on December 03, 2010, 02:31:46 pm
As someone who was in a pub in Glasgow as Robert Green performed his own version of the nutcracker suite, I tend not to comment on stuff like that ;)
Title: Re: **** off with this World cup ****
Post by: Klaustrophobia on December 03, 2010, 04:11:57 pm
Well, they don't have to be able to play football to host a World Cup, right?

well since they get an automatic qualification for hosting, it would be nice.  there's also the matter of the extreme heat and tiny size of the nation.