Are you watching the World Cup?

I forgot that was today. I have NOT been watching, but that’s not unusual for me. I’m not really a soccer-guy. I can watch it. But I don’t really enjoy it.

If my actions had any impact on it, I’d boycott b/c of the whole Qatar/FIFA bruhaha, but… honestly, I wouldn’t have watched anyway. So saying “I’m not watching b/c you’re corrupt, tyrannical a-holes!” lacks punch when I wouldn’t have watched anyway.

I would, but the ones I have wanted to see are on channels that my cable company wants me to pay extra for. And I see no reason to pay them any more.

Oh oh oh. I found this for you on Facebook.

I never watched it before, and I sure as hell am not watching it now.

Yes, and today’s win was fantastic!

I watched the Wales vs England game. It was free to watch on BBC 1 tonight.

No. I’m not into sports.

I enjoy soccer exactly this much. One tournament every four years is good enough for air gun, bobsled, soccer, water polo and all those other oddities of competitive sport.

It’s not interesting to me.

I’m not into it. I am paying slight attention to who is winning, as I do to baseball teams.

Fuck no. Those fuckers in Qatar enslaved people and let hundreds of them die. Homosexuality is punishable by death. Women having sex besides their husband can be imprisoned up to 7 years, especially if they get pregnant.

So no. Fuck the world cup. And shame on anybody who watches it.

Besides soccer is boring as fuck.

Hey @Caravanfan Tell us how you really feel. :-)

I am not watching it. Selecting Qatar to host is all the evidence needed to prove corruption.
I rarely watch sporting events or any kind. I will do it to be sociable if I’m in someone else’s home and it is on.

Are we playing tell me you’re an American without telling me you’re an American?

@Caravanfan And they can’t drink all that BUDWEISER BEER that was shipped over there! That is SO criminal!!

@Lightlyseared No, we’re playing “I refuse to watch the advertising of a sports event that’s in a country that so abuses it’s non-white, non-male, non-Sunni population.” And, the proven scientific fact that soccer is boring as fuck.

; D

No. I’m not even watching real football. My Denver Broncos, Wisconsin Badgers and my own fantasy football team all suck this year. I’m patiently waiting for baseball to start.

@Caravanfan – I know the murderous American slavery system is now only used to make license plates and school desks and not stadiums, and l but I think you’re being a little obtuse. Economic slavery is a reality of the whole world. Do you count the overworked single mother who dies of untreated melanoma a victim of the American labor system, too? I do, and at least a dead migrant laborer gets a payout for their family In Qatar. They obviously has a long way to go, but we aren’t that far from each other in a historical perspective, and fucking Russia had the last World Cup so….

@Smashley Wow. So you’re defending Qatar and it’s treatment of slaves. women and homosexuals all so you can enjoy a sportsball event. Got it.

I’m saying put it in context. Most of the world had laws against homosexuality until recently, and no protection of law for women in the home or minorities in the streets. Qatar isn’t what we want it to be, but isolating and disengaging the Muslim world is senseless. Every culture that could, has enslaved others. Most, including the United States, still literally do. We want these practices to end, but evangelizing over international sport about countries not having as high of a human rights score as us, is paternalistic and hypocritical.

@Smashley No, it’s not paternalistic and hypocritical to not want to support and give money to advertisers who are showing a sports event in a country who have laws to imprison women for 7 years for having extramarital relations, flogging foreigners pubically for alcohol consumption, and who import workers for slave labor. Oh, but wait, you say, it’s all okay because the government gives a paltry sum to their families when they unceremoniously die on the job.

You do you.

My brother loved soccer and died for it.

For the record not only did they not get compensated, but the family didn’t even get his belongings back.