| Anyone been to Qatar? 10:10 - Feb 1 with 6548 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
Doing some ads for their tourism, just wondered if anyone had any insights, what they love/don't love about the place etc. |  |
| Trust the process. Trust Phil. |
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| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:42 - Feb 1 with 747 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:37 - Feb 1 by giant_stow |
i built a site for a ticket tout once and got paid in £50 notes. i drew the line at the escort agency gig though. |
Are you mad? You may have been paid in kind. |  |
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| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:46 - Feb 1 with 744 views | giant_stow |
| Anyone been to Qatar? on 18:59 - Feb 1 by Seablu |
He’s cleverly diverted attention from his other project.
Delia Smith - My life in football. |
There was s a multimillion pound bidding way between authors offering to pay to write that book. Honest |  |
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| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:46 - Feb 1 with 742 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:29 - Feb 1 by The_Flashing_Smile |
If we looked too closely at most of the companies we've worked for I doubt most of us would ever work again for someone else.
Then there's the things we buy. Other than Callis, has anyone got a completely clear conscience? |
Heck imagine if people stopped working for sh!t companies, companies making sh!t and my goodness even trading these companies on the markets. Where would we all be then!! |  |
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| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:48 - Feb 1 with 737 views | giant_stow |
| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:42 - Feb 1 by GlasgowBlue |
Are you mad? You may have been paid in kind. |
I honestly never thought of that. Nicely off the books too. | |
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| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:48 - Feb 1 with 736 views | Seablu |
| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:42 - Feb 1 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Some people even encourage tourism to our blood soaked Isles! |
Visit Glasgow.
We even deep fry our pomposity whilst getting helplessly pis*ed on our own self-importance. [Post edited 1 Feb 2022 19:51]
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| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:57 - Feb 1 with 712 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:41 - Feb 1 by BanksterDebtSlave |
If it helps Dollers we're all prostitutes to one degree or another, it's just a matter of how far you're prepared to bend over.
I just remembered you like rocks, how about something to do with throwing rocks? |
"Forget Amsterdam. Get stoned in Qatar". | |
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| Anyone been to Qatar? on 22:21 - Feb 1 with 631 views | Coastalblue |
| Anyone been to Qatar? on 19:37 - Feb 1 by giant_stow |
i built a site for a ticket tout once and got paid in £50 notes. i drew the line at the escort agency gig though. |
I did one of them once, true story. Was back in the day when everything, well not everything but everything I did was handcoded HTML.
Wasn't so much an escort agency, more of a massage parlour/knocking shop. Paid well though, and yes in cash. |  |
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| Anyone been to Qatar? on 23:33 - Feb 1 with 596 views | giant_stow |
| Anyone been to Qatar? on 22:21 - Feb 1 by Coastalblue |
I did one of them once, true story. Was back in the day when everything, well not everything but everything I did was handcoded HTML.
Wasn't so much an escort agency, more of a massage parlour/knocking shop. Paid well though, and yes in cash. |
Haha! Mine was in the early days too. | |
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| Anyone been to Qatar? on 15:54 - Feb 2 with 526 views | WeWereZombies |
| Anyone been to Qatar? on 17:11 - Feb 1 by bluelagos |
Either way - the point is valid.
Is promotion of tourism to Qatar more or less likely to bring about improvements in the human rights record within Qatar?
It is possible to have different opinions on that. You think it will likely improve the human rights record, I'd argue it legitimises the existing human rights and makes changes less likely.
None of us know for sure and it can only ever be a judgement call.
But by your argument of engagement bringing change, I wonder if there are any regimes you would draw a line at? |
Coming to this thread very late but I was catching up with a three month old Sunday Times article by David Walsh about the Royal Greens Golf and Country Club tournament in Saudi Arabia which had this quote from Paul Casey in it:
'signing a deal and being paid to be down there...I would be a hypocrite if I did that. Anybody who says sport isn't political, that's rubbish. Sport is very political, I'm glad I took a stance, more so if it highlights the issues within the region,
Casey is an ambassador for UNICEF but last year he changed his stance on Saudi Arabia. "At that time a couple of years ago, I was a little bit torn. I'm a father, I've got two kids. My charitable ties with UNICEF, and I felt that it was right for me to play. I've spent the last two years thinking about that a lot. I've learnt an awful lot. And one of the things that I was flat-out wrong on was...UNICEF is not a political organisation.
I was reminded that if you stay away, you don't engage. If you don't talk and you don't visit, then you're merely kind of hardening positions. And that doesn't actually do any good. I think things are not black and white."'
My inclination is to keep away from Saudi Arabia but I have not been in the position Paul Casey was so I feel his opinion is more relevant. As far as Qatar goes, I have only been through the airport airside once and wouldn't mind having a squint at Doha, maybe on the way to Oman (which is high on my list of places to go at the moment, it's hot and dry.) The repressive and exploitative side of the regime is tempered for me by the presence of Al-Jazeera, which seems to campaign on some rights issues better than 'Western' news media, e.g. their highlighting of the disproportionate number of Maori in New Zealand prisons, comparable with the USA and black prisoners. |  |
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| Anyone been to Qatar? on 18:19 - Feb 2 with 490 views | WeWereZombies |
| Anyone been to Qatar? on 15:54 - Feb 2 by WeWereZombies |
Coming to this thread very late but I was catching up with a three month old Sunday Times article by David Walsh about the Royal Greens Golf and Country Club tournament in Saudi Arabia which had this quote from Paul Casey in it:
'signing a deal and being paid to be down there...I would be a hypocrite if I did that. Anybody who says sport isn't political, that's rubbish. Sport is very political, I'm glad I took a stance, more so if it highlights the issues within the region,
Casey is an ambassador for UNICEF but last year he changed his stance on Saudi Arabia. "At that time a couple of years ago, I was a little bit torn. I'm a father, I've got two kids. My charitable ties with UNICEF, and I felt that it was right for me to play. I've spent the last two years thinking about that a lot. I've learnt an awful lot. And one of the things that I was flat-out wrong on was...UNICEF is not a political organisation.
I was reminded that if you stay away, you don't engage. If you don't talk and you don't visit, then you're merely kind of hardening positions. And that doesn't actually do any good. I think things are not black and white."'
My inclination is to keep away from Saudi Arabia but I have not been in the position Paul Casey was so I feel his opinion is more relevant. As far as Qatar goes, I have only been through the airport airside once and wouldn't mind having a squint at Doha, maybe on the way to Oman (which is high on my list of places to go at the moment, it's hot and dry.) The repressive and exploitative side of the regime is tempered for me by the presence of Al-Jazeera, which seems to campaign on some rights issues better than 'Western' news media, e.g. their highlighting of the disproportionate number of Maori in New Zealand prisons, comparable with the USA and black prisoners. |
And by strange coincidence this coda to my Saudi slant on the OP has just surfaced:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/60229911
Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood were also mentioned in the David Walsh article. | |
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