As an aside, a return trip to Qatar is around £600, with probably £100 for a ticket to a game (plus hotels etc.), so I dare say if you can afford to go to this thing, you can probably afford an extra £1.50 on your beer.
Qatar introduces 100% alcohol tax in 2019
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Just giving people something to fume about innit?
Just a reminder that people need to delve further than just the headline before they launch their outrage.
Doha is meant to be a good place to visit, not for me personally.
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So how much was a pint originally?
Is it near $5 a bottle/can in Ingerland? Like from the supermarket? Not at a stadium or bar, mind, just from the liquor store.
The cost per 24 pack is over 80 pounds/$100 per the NY Times. That's for crap beer like Bud. Basically about 4 times what one would pay for it Stateside. FFS, a six pack of quality craft beer comes in around $8-9 in Arizona. You could get 60+ cans of Dale's Pale Ale, Deschuttes, Stone, Sierra Nevada or most mid-sized craft brewers for that.
No, it's £5 or so if you buy a pint in a pub, probably half that in a supermarket. It shouldn't really be a surprise though as Qatar is an Islamic country where it's an offence to drink alcohol in public. Those might not be values you support, but the tournament is in that country, so I tend to err more on respecting the country you're visiting than trying to impose your (royal you) largered up at the footie values on them.
I agree with this, we can bitch about how & why it was selected and there is no doubt (in my mind) that there was corruption involved but it is there and the laws of that country should be recognised...although I heard Qatar are agreeing to alcohol zones/areas where people can drink alcohol legally during the World Cup.
I'm sure something like that will happen, as beer companies are traditionally among the heaviest sponsors of these things, but you go there and you're a visitor in their land, so you abide by their rules and customs.
This might work at Goodison and get folk out of the bar for the fifteen minutes either side of the break.
Disagree here.
When the Mrs and I travel, yeah, we understand and accept norms of where we are.
However, this isn't a case of regular tourism.
The WC and the Olympics are global events and if you are going to open your plot of land up to host them, you need to be willing to do the duties of the host. Aside from delivering on the dates the events were supposed to be held, they need to meet the global football community half way. If you cannot tolerate standard behaviors of the rest of the world - be it drinking a beer or a gay couple holding hands - you probably shouldn't apply to be the host.
Well, that's quite possibly so, and you might ask questions as to whether they should have been selected to host the event, but are we really saying that a country's laws should be changed because western fans can't watch a game of football without drinking beer? They might justifiably look at all of the hooliganism problems that have plagued international tournaments over the years, most of which were fuelled by booze, and think that's not something it's worth changing their laws for.
As it is, I suspect it will be similar to the various motorsport events held in that neck of the woods, where there are bars serving drink in designated areas. Hardly a big imposition, and it's perhaps a reflection on western society that we're more bothered by a hike in price for booze than we are their attitudes towards homosexuality (or women for that matter). There's a frankly bizarre state at the moment where white men are acting all put upon that I really don't get.
Wow. Just wow
In my case here, it's just adding to the pile. It's a horrible country that is exploiting tens of thousands of foreign workers and holding them essentially hostage while hundreds are dying to build stadiums for an event it never should have even put in a bid for.
All I know is in my living in SA, these hombres y mujeres enjoy cerveza and various types of firewater. From my friends who have taught in Asia, they seem to dig it as well. It's a cultural norm far beyond just Whitey.
And I'm railing on the hike in booze prices because I've worn out keyboards pointing out their other flaws, weather incapable of holding the games when they said they would, the slave labor being forcibly held and dying to build stadiums, gay rights, woman's rights and all the other more serious stuff. I've already spent YEARS fuming about that.
Should never have been award the Cup and the moment stories about slave laborers dying came out combined with the reality of the games being in the (Northern Hemisphere) Winter should have pulled the plug.
Jacking up booze prices is just another log tossed into the dumpster fire.
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