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I thought you were an atheist, that sounds a bit like Noah's Ark.
This is a good read if you are interested in sea levels http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/28/freaking-out-about-nyc-sea-level-rise-is-easy-to-do-when-you-dont-pay-attention-to-history/
2.77mm a year atm, I shan't be getting my waders out for a while;)

fuck. i bought this bastard house specifically because it is about 20 metres up a bastard hill and wanted a beachfront property.

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam has ruled out moving the 2022 World Cup in Qatar from summer to winter or sharing matches around the Gulf region.

Fifa has said a request from the Qatar Football Association is needed for date changes to be discussed, which Bin Hammam has insisted will not happen.

He also dismissed any chance of a "Gulf World Cup", as suggested by the Uefa president Michel Platini this week.

"We're not interested. Qatar can stand alone and organise by itself," he said.

"We are very happy and we are promising the world that we are going to organise an amazing World Cup in June and July," the Asian Football Confederation president, who is from Qatar, added.

Frenchman Platini - who is on the Fifa committee - said the 2022 World Cup should be shared around other Gulf countries because of Qatar's relatively small size, while Fifa president Sepp Blatter has expressed a desire to switch it to winter because of summer temperatures that can hit 50C.

But Bin Hammam, who has been tipped as a successor to Blatter, said both were wrong to suggest potential changes so openly.

"I'm really not very impressed by these opinions to distribute the game over the Gulf or change the time from July to January," he said.

"It's actually premature. It's people's opinions and they're just discussing it on no basis or no ground.

"It's not up to one, two or three members of Fifa to talk about changing the time without getting the real stakeholders' opinions.

"I know that football in Europe has quite a history, it is quite a business involving a lot of financial, media, marketing - a lot of things.

"It is unfair to these people that we talk about changing the calendar or the time without their full consultation and their full approval and their full agreement - I'm actually not happy to see that happening without the real stakeholders' part of this discussion."

On Thursday, Iran's coach, Afshin Ghotbi, said it would be better to re-open the contest than to allow other Gulf nations to co-host with Qatar.

"I think if they are now talking about sharing it with other countries, I think it is very unfair to the United States, to Australia, all the other countries that were bidding at the same time," he suggested.

"My feeling is if they want to take a decision on that then they should go back to the bidding countries and ask them to bid again.

"Qatar has shown it can host it, so it should be here and it should be in the winter time - that is a logical change, but it is not fair to talk about changing the venues at this stage."

Qatar has insisted that its small size will be an advantage as it will enable visiting fans to easily travel between games.

Fifa awarded the finals to the Gulf country last month ahead of rival bidders Australia, South Korea, Japan and the United States.

Meanwhile, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has approached Fifa to ensure that match dates for the 2022 Cup do not clash with that year's Winter Olympics

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Keep Calm and follow Jesus Navas

In other news, Platini is to take his summer holidays on his new island in the Arabian Peninsula. Michael has recently taken up yachting and his new 45m launch will share the same paint work as his also recently acquired Embraer jet.

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KYPU

i woudl suggest that europe should sooooo fucking boycott this world cup, but that woudl be exactly what platini wants so that he can become the next fifa big knob and then really start to screw us over

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'Fabio, the round thing there is the ball'

Aguero

It's exactly what should be done but won't happen because players want to play and supporters want to watch.

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KYPU

There are far worse FIFA folk than Platini.

*shivers*

stop it. you're scaring me

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'Fabio, the round thing there is the ball'

Aguero

Just imagine Warner in charge.

you bastard darlo, i need mind bleach now



this illustrates exactly what they think of football. their cash cow, and fuck the fans. hence a world cup in qatar, with fuck all history for football, fuck all provisions for games and fuck all attention paid to sense.

c nts.

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"It felt like a really pointless version of ketamine: no psychedelic effects, no pleasant slide into rubbery nonsense, just a sudden drop off the cliff of wrongness."
"i'm gonna wreck you so bad we're going to have to change church"

Lol why?

I love people who have seriously suggested that England should withdraw from FIFA. If we did that, we'd also have to draw from UEFA. No Champions Leage or Europa League for English clubs then. Serious loss of revenue in English football and no decent player wanting to play here. What a grand idea that would be.

I do realise you said the whole of Europe should boycott it, so presumably that would mean they'd set up their own independant competitions. I was just making a different point.

I also love the arrogance of people who think a winter World Cup is a terrible idea because it would mess with our season. I don't want it either, I just like a summer World Cup, but it's not really a good basis for an argument.

It's our own fault we didn't win the 2018 bid anyway. We should've been more corrupt

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A double-bed and a stalwart lover, for sure
These are the riches of the poor

I will be retiring from international football after the 2018 World Cup.

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Tristitia vestra vertetur in gaudium

No

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The Senior Member

It's not just our season it'd mess with. It's more the arrogance displayed by FIFA in basically saying "we're going to do what we fucking want and everyone else can pick up the pieces". If the country you're considering hosting the world cup in is so fucking hot in the summer that there is a real risk of players and fans dying of dehydration then perhaps don't host the world cup there?

But then they wouldn't have got loads of oil money bribes (allegedly), duh:rolleyes:

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tbf.

But FIFA are a clean and transparent organisation! Seppity Sepp even said so himself!

Whenever I see Sepp he strikes me as Silvio's evil brother. He's kind of like him but without the charm.

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tbf.

Requesting that someone throws a miniature die-cast model of one of the Qatar stadiums in Sepp's face

Corruption and fifa being a pack of c##ts aside, this World Cup isn't happening until 2022. Plenty of time to iron all this out. If I'm not mistaken, no matter what time the World Cup is held... it's going to inconvenience some leagues somewhere. It usually suits Europe's schedule... this one wont.

When Australia was bidding, some Sydney residence were up in arms about the potential inconvenience of it all. For 4 weeks in 10 years time they MAY have had to endure a bit more traffic than usual... ffs!

...or don't host it in the summer?

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